The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1872-12-26
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Flrru ANENUE Hpru. Nov. -.
c Yesterday | spent the day with my
friend Thomas Mast, At his little brown
4 cottage ID Mornsiown, New Jersey.
+ have had a good deal TO DO with artist.
q lately, as Mr. Lumlcy Illustrated my Sa.
rafoga ia 1901 aud Mast and Worth, a
/. Young artist with tremendous future he.
fore him,arc now Illustrating life size car.
6 toons to illustrate my lecture
Sixty minutes from Christopher street
! ferry over the New Jersey salt meadows.
and through tile Morris and Essex tunnel
and We are At the home Of the great carl.
cmurist. Mast met lis al The depot, aud
bali mile walk brought us to his charm
Ing little cottage, filed with pietnres
home comforts, and four lovely little au.
, gel babies. Presiding over an this happi-
ness was a young blonde Yankee wife,
With brown hair, graceful form, aud deli.
cafe damask cheeks that would bring the
blush TO a Jersey peach, The children's
names are Mabel, the eldest; Thomas,
bright little boy Of eight, then Edith. and
Julia, little todding baby. Mrs. Mast,
nee Miss Sarah Edwards, was born IN
Philadelphia. She somewhat resembles
Mrs. T. Buchanan Read, tho wife of the
dead poet-painter.
Mast left ms in the parlor moment 10
go TO his studio, aud we were entertained
by little Edith, a prattling four-year-older
who talked about the horse 'sneezer' aud
Morristown statistics generally. Looking
out from her German cut hair, she wisely
informed rs, as she touched the piano
keys with her little hand that Morristown
was a nice place, and then, with an extra
wise look that papa had bought some
new furniture for the parlors.
After twelve O'Clock lunch, we went
up with Mast to his little cottage studio
the room where he had worked out all
those funny political cartoons for Harper's
, which have amused the public, killed Mr.. |
Greeley, and made Grant President. In
the room is a table where Mast draws
these pictures on wood. The table Is |
covered with newspapers and photo |
graphs and half finished cartoons, while
on the walls of the room are sketches and !
drawings by Etty, Leach, Dore and Tur- |
ner, but nothing suggesting the bold and
terrible satire which we see in his own
cartoons. After these cartoons are drawn |
they are sent to town, when they are d.
yided into several pieces, so that several
workmen can engraye on them at once.
1t would take one cngraver two weeks to
engrave picture the size of one page Of
liarpers Weekly, and cost, suppose 500.
To-day tho artist was making a sketch of
Mr,froude in the act Of kneeling 10 pluck
the nettle of Irish failure and dscontent-
ment from Irish soil, while in the FORE
ground, Columbia looks him straight in
the face, and with dreadful emphasis,
points to the burning OrphanAsyum and
to Priests expelIing the Bible from the
schools. This cartoon will appear in IIar-
per's next week.
Nasts very boldness--his terrible az.
gressiyeness--is what challenges admira-
tion and makes Ilarper's Weekly a sue
cess.
When asked him if he did not think It
a great undertaking to attack Mr.. Gree
ley, be said:
1es,but knew he was an old humbug.
! knew | was right, and | knew right
would win in the end | was almost
alone, too. The people were fooled with ,
Greeley, as they were fooled with Beech
Grand he will tumble worse than Greeley
yet
We had talk about Beechcr and Tllton =
and putting this with other conversation .
with personal friends Of Mr.. Titon, and /
with newspaper men Of New York | am +
satisfied that terrible downfall surely ?
awaits the one who has erred and con-
ceals IT,
Everybody knows how Geo. W. Curtis Y
.rembled in his boots when Mast COM h
making fan Of Greeley, Sumner, n
and Schurz-how he went to Sumner and II
ipologized, and how he fused around '
ike a confirmed sophomore generally. |
ieard from an outside party, but not b
rom Mr. Mast, that he went 10 the artist C
md told him to be careful-that a cartoon
was black and white, aud that You could L
mt take it back as you could an editorial. Il
This is good joke for It's, who know o
low the proper and Chesterfeldian Mr. e.
lurtis, who wears a swalow.tai coat
wen to take bath inflow be squirms
md qualities every statement, instead Of
tiiking straight from The shoulder like
pigrainmatie writers aud cartoonists Of
be period. II
People say you have made a good deal Al
# money ont Of the campaign, Mr.. Mast o
remarked.
Well, that is a great mistake. have
'ever made d cent outside Of my profess y
onal pay, aud that IL small enough It's =
o small that can't afford to live in town.
a fact, I'd like 10 visit Washington with
ny wife this winter, but I can't afford It: q
ben I'd like 10 10 70 Europe, bat can't. !"
Why, when we fret came to Morrist0wn.
which, as you know is Il very fashionable -
ummer resort, some Of the people askcd =
II II We should stay IN the country till !"
be winter fashionable season set in Ia
be city, told them we should, bat / ,
.idn'i tell them that we were poor, and ~