# Psmith, Journalist — Character guide

> Key figures in Psmith, Journalist by P. G. Wodehouse.

- [Psmith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_journalist_se/characters/psmith.md): Psmith arrives at the Cosy Moments office as an acting subeditor and promptly treats a delegation of outraged contributors like a mildly amusing social call, dusting the editorial chair before sinking into it. His langui
- [Billy Windsor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_journalist_se/characters/billy_windsor.md): Billy is a former cub reporter with a newspaperman's hard-won knowledge that there are two New Yorks, and his tenement series has put him on the wrong side of the second one. Wary of strangers and quick to bristle when t
- [Bat Jarvis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_journalist_se/characters/bat_jarvis.md): Bat Jarvis rules a corner of the New York underworld but spends his quieter hours exchanging tips on treating fits in kittens. When Parker tries to enlist him against the Cosy Moments men, the arrangement takes an unexpe
- [Pugsy Maloney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_journalist_se/characters/pugsy_maloney.md): Master Maloney runs errands and announces visitors, but his real vocation is spectating: he perches on a soapbox like a dramatic critic at a premiere, reluctant to leave when a rough house seems imminent. He is an earnes
- [Mr. J. Fillken Wilberfloss](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_journalist_se/characters/mr_wilberfloss.md): Wilberfloss presides over Cosy Moments with self-importance and a horror of anything that might ruin its genteel reputation. His absence lets Psmith and Billy transform the paper, and his return to find it ballyragging c
- [Kid Brady](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_journalist_se/characters/kid_brady.md): The Kid has a passion for seeing his name in print and a grievance against papers that rewrite his prose into Addisonian English, so Psmith's offer of page four wins him outright. His weekly installments, complete with m
- [Stewart Waring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_journalist_se/characters/stewart_waring.md): A slum landlord and political boss whose Pleasant Street tenements Psmith's paper means to expose, he arrives to shut the campaign down and finds his usual methods useless.
- [Comrade Parker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_journalist_se/characters/comrade_parker.md): Sleek in his dude suit and shiny shoes, this hired operator first carries Waring's warning to the Cosy Moments office, then returns with a revolver and a taxicab.
- [Mike](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_journalist_se/characters/mike.md): Psmith's old English friend, newly arrived in New York, whose easy intimacy lets him read the seriousness beneath Psmith's airy manner as the tenement fight turns dangerous.
- [B. Henderson Asher](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_journalist_se/characters/b_henderson_asher.md): A lawyer who advises Psmith on legal matters regarding the tenement campaign.
- [Gooch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_journalist_se/characters/gooch.md): The office boy at Cosy Moments who is replaced by Pugsy.
- [Mr. Robert Coston](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_journalist_se/characters/mr_coston.md): A boxer and friend of Kid Brady who helps in the fight against the gangs.
- [Comrade Repetto](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_journalist_se/characters/comrade_repetto.md): A member of the Groome Street gang who becomes a cat specialist ally.
- [Luella Granville Waterman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_journalist_se/characters/luella_granville_waterman.md): A society woman who is secretly involved with Waring's political schemes.
- [Spider Reilly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_journalist_se/characters/spider_reilly.md): Leader of the Table Hill gang who clashes with Bat Jarvis.
- [Wheeler](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_journalist_se/characters/wheeler.md): A reporter for a rival newspaper who covers the tenement story.
- [Dude Dawson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_journalist_se/characters/dude_dawson.md): A member of the Table Hill gang involved in the gang warfare.
- [Long Otto](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_journalist_se/characters/long_otto.md): A tall member of the Groome Street gang who becomes a cat specialist.
- [Mr. Wolmann](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_journalist_se/characters/mr_wolmann.md): A boxer and associate of Kid Brady who helps in the campaign.
- [Rev. Edwin T. Philpotts](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_journalist_se/characters/rev_philpotts.md): A clergyman who appears briefly in a social scene.

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