The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-07-20
KgpPLER, ~rAAD WALES.
Interesting Facts About the Men Who
Draw for the FnsDy Papers.
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Draw Tor tue Eu+uS ENptESs
"Ajar," in the Nep York journal.
Mr.. Joseph Keppler, the distinguished
caricaturist, has sailed for Europe, and
the millionaire Puck will be a! the mercy
of Gillian, Graelz, Opper aud Bisbee fol
four or five months. When Mr.. Keppler
created Puck he was so poor that he was
laughed at. Now he has become rich and
famous. He can well afford vacation in
foreign lands, and the caricaturisls OF the
country wish him most magnificent re
ception abroad. II poor Edward Jump.
who killed himself in Chicago the other
dry, could stand af the gateway OF the
steamer which is 10 carry keppler across
the Atlantic ocean he would say, My dear
boy, may peace and contentment 81 with
you" Jump was an cratic genius. lie
was FrenChman who tondly loved his
wife. He enjoyed good dinner with wine,
but was never drunkard, as might be in.
ferred from the comments made upon his
career by journalists who never saw him,
Like all Frenchmen he was merry among
the merry, and frantic among the frantic.
Temperance folks will find no lecture in
Jumps death Il they will lake the trouble
TO learn OF his life aud death. 81
The public generally has little knowledge
OF the famous carlcaturists OF the present
day, and propose to shed ray Of Light
upon them. .a..
Thomas Mast, it may be said in all
truthiulness, has been retired by Harper
Brothers upon q pension. HIS work,
whenever he performs any, is for that firm,
and he receives $40, 600 year for pledging
himself not to do anything for any other
firm. The time was when Mast was a
power in the land. Like every other ge-
MUS he was superseded by another. The
Tweed ring was shaken, II not shattered,
through his caricatures, but to-day his
ideas are flat and Improbable.
As keppIer superseded Mast, so Wales
will suptr1ede Keppler. To-day the
colored drawings made by Keppler stand
in public estimation ss the best Of their
kind, aud Mast is almost forgotten with his
"black and white" Caricatures. keppler's
entree into this country was peculiarly
dismal one. He had been an opera singer
in Europe, and when he arrived at Castle
Garden he was carried, with otherimmi-
grants, to the thriving city OF 81. Louis.
There he suffered what is generally spoken
OF as "precarious existence" lie there
founded Puck, and it died an iguominous
death. He came TO New York and brought
a new Puck into the world. For nearly
two years this one "huns by its eyelids."
Now it is great property, and keppler
and his venturesome partner, Schwalzman,
are wealthy. lndomllable pluck won the
race, and Puck may live iOr all time. #
After many viClssitudts the Judge is at
last upon a paying basis, and that tins is SO
is owing manly to the efforts Of Mr.. James
A. Wales, a youpg 0hioan, who founded
it. Mr.. Wales came TO New York from the
Western Reserve full OF ideas, and began a
career Of usefulness on Ivitd Oats, weekly
publication which placed large bank ac-
count to the credit Of Mr.. George G Small.
He was quickly taken into the employ OF
Mr.. Frank Leslie, and made the Illustrated
News famous for telling caricatures upon
public men and events. The Judge
was Mr.. WalGs's creation, and Mr.. Frank
Tousey, the irrepressible publisher, be-
came sponsor for it. Owing to the vast
increase in Mr.. Touseys business In the
publication Of other periodicals he was
unable to continne, with credit to himself
the publication OF the Jrdge, and he sold it
TO several Philadelphia capitalists, Mr..
Wales still retaining an interest in it. Mr..
Wales Is not yet t6irty.thres years Of age,
lie has splendid country seat at Rye, in
Westchester county, and is a generous
host. He is looked upon as the rightiul
successor OF Mr.. Keppler in the field OF
caricature. Mr.. Wales has no difficulty in
drawing perfect likenesses from memory
and performs work with marvellous celerl.
ty. 80,
Thomas Worth is born carricatnrist. II