Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-04-20
DAN DE DULLES GREAT PAINTING.
HOW HE REPRESENTED THE DESTRUCTION OF
CARTHAGE USING UP TWO HUNDRED
POUNDS OF PAINT AND ESTABLISHING
ANEW SCHOOL OF ARIA NIGHTS
WORK THAT DROVE c. B. NC
CLELLAN INTO BANK
RUPTCY

For years past the reporter OF the APPEAL
has been subjected to the jeers and Ilbes OF
his unthinking professional associates OF Cal
ifornia and Nevada, on account OF has capae-
ity as ID gourmand. The last attack Games from
the constituencies pen of Dan DE Qullle III
the shape of an avalanche of falsiications IN
the Territorial Enterprise. To be thus attack
cd by man whom the writer has twice saved
from drowning, three times started on lucra-
tive commercial pursuits and thousand times
watched in sickness, is indeed hard to bear
Nothing but mrOther's careful training III
early youth, and sublime confidence in our
own innocence enables as to face the horrible
yarn which Dan launched upon in last
Sundays Enterprise. There was time when
Dan CLEANED few stray straws of fact from
The field over which he moved in quest of
material for his paper. When he first began to
lie, he put the sickle gingerly t" the inviting
ing ap his sheaves Now he sallies forth with a
Mccormick reaper aud mower and cuts down
swarth after swarth of the weeds and tares OF
Justification, the brambies of SANDER and the
dark and matted vines of defamation and
abuse, which are only the hiding places of
sweltering toads and venomous reptiles.
These he gamers into his capacious brain,
slowing them away for winter use while he
let's the ripe aud golden grain of truth rot neg
lected upon the earth. 1t is more in pity
than in anger that we draw this sad picture
of our cid friends present state of depravity.
A WORD FOR WELLS DRURY.
Wells Drury, young man well known in
connection with the Gold Hill Nc'cs and Vir-
city, was the first to start the vile slar er re-
gardng our appetite 1t was a case eff jealousy
about girl, and by artfully circulating these
stories he prevented us from spreading our
legs under the parental mahogany and man
aged to board with the misguided man, whom |!
he expected to make his faJher-in-aw during |
he greater part of hard Winter. The end !
Of the matter was that the ather drifted into |
the courts of bankruptcy like peanut shell |
sucked into the relentles vortex of the m;el
strom, and the girl had the good luck to die of
few days after receiving plated
ing from Wells But this is only side
diversion, and we return to Dan, who is eur
mutton on this occasion. 1t is not
It all necessary tor US to prospect the fields of
iction for tough stories regarding his career,
he solid lodges of fact furnish plenty of ex-
silent milling ore. No man shall call US a
'gargantua" with impunity.
BANS HISTORICAL PAINTING.
About fifteen years ago Mcclellan, the
rtist, was located in Virginia City and doing {
n excellent business. He had six elegantly
furnished rooms in building where the |
'ers located and they were well stocked s
18th the very best quality of painting material. t
lac had ust furnished these rooms in the /
lost luxurious style. Brussels carpet, oriental t
pholstery, big chandeliers, ottoman sofas and t
magnificent side board STOCKED with the y
lrest and best of liquors. Dan seeing this O
debeard suddenly began to be possessed of c
yearHing for art He enrolled himself as t
lpil Of Mcclellan, and as a blind to co~4r a
lie advance upen the side board, gave ont '
lat he about to begin work on great Il
storical painting. One night Dan found a
ls suite unoccupied, and accordingly began c.
make preparations for the work of present "
g to the world the scene of the burning of 70
arthage. He found a canvass nine feet by +.
'elve, on which Mac had begun life sized n
,rtrait of Washington taking command of Il
10 army of the Delaware, and with few
APPS of the brush he biotted out the design
ID begun to roughly lay On his great histor-
al painting in charcoal. Having modled the &c
ineipal buildings of Carthage after rear N
ew of the International Hotel and thrown ii
a few soldiers and hr en-, he retired 10 the a
le board to give the sketch an opportunity d
drying and let the charcoal work well into a
e back ground. He next tackled the can at
IS with about dozen tubes of yermilon W
d costing at that time dollar and half la
oe and threw in the flames of the burning to
wn. After another retirement to the side ST
ard to allow the paint to run down over the in
,ture like lava, he suddenly conceived he
e idea of throwing in some snow capped ia
,untains, and in few minutes he had trans dl
red the Alps to the rear of Carthage and
pped on the snow China white) with f.,
lette knife. Then came more side board III
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