The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1883-05-12
OUR CARlCATURISTS.

morrow, and the millionaire Puck will
be at the mercy of Gillian, Graetz,
Opper and Bisbee for 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 we'll afford a
vacation in foreign lands, and the ca
! ricaturists of the country wish for him a
most magnificent reception abroad. If
poor Edward Jump, who killed him
self in Chicago the other day, could
stand at the gangway of the steamer
which is to carry Keppler across the
Atlantic, he would say, "A1y dear boy,
may peace and contentment go with
you" Jump was an erratic genius.
{ He was Frenchman who fondly
loved his wife. He enjoyed q good
dinner with wine, but was never a
drunkard, as might be inferred from
the comments made upon his career
by journalists-whO never saw him.
Like all Frenchmen he was merry
and frantic among the frantic. Tenn
perance folks will find no lecture in
Jumps death if they will take the
trouble to learn of his life and death.
The public generally has little know
ledge of the famous caricaturists of the
present day, and I propose to shed a
ray of light upon them.
| Thomas Mast, it may be said in all
| thrushfulness, has been retired by the
Harper Brothers upon pension. His
| work, whenever he performs any, is
for that firm, and he receives 10000 a
year for pledging himself not to do
anything for any other firm. The
time was when Mast was power in
the land. Like every other genius he
has been superseded by another. The
The Tweed ring was shaken, if not
shattered, through his caricatures, but
to-day his ideas are flat and unprofit-
able.
AS Keppler superseded Mast, so
Wales will superse1e Keppler. To-day
the colored drawings made by Keppler
stand in public estimation ns the best
of their kind, and Mast is almost for
gotten 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 other immigrants
to the thriving city of st. Louis. There
he suffered was is generally spoken Of
as 'precarious existence" He there
founded Puck, and it died an ignomi-
nious death. He came to New York
and brought a new Puck into the world.
For nearly two years this one chung
by its eyeliGs." Now it is great pro-
perty, and Keppler and his venture.
some partner, Schwartzman, are
wealthy. Indominable pluck won the
race, and Puck may live for all time.
After many vicissitudes The Judge
is at last upon a paying basis, and that
this is so, is owing mainly to the
efforts of Mr.. James A. Wales, a young
Ohioian, who founded it. Mr.. Wales
came to New York from the Western
Reserve full of ideas, and began a
career Of usefulness on Wild Oats,
weekly publication which placed a
large bank account 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.. Wales creation, and Mr.. Frank
came sponsor for it. Owing to the
in the publication of other periodicals
nc WIS NtldDlc " Will
, to himself, the publication of the Judge
and he sold it to several Philad elphia
capitalists, Mr.. Wales is not yet thirty.
three years of age. He has Il splendid
country seat at Rye, in Westchester
county, and is generous host. He is
looked upon as the rightful successor
Of Mr.. Keppler in the field of carica-
turc. Mr.. Wales has no difficulty in
drawing perfect likenesses from
memory, and performs work with
marvellous celebrity.
Thomas Worth is Il born caricaturist.
It is a pastime for him to draw rdi-
culous scenes: Opper style is of the
Chinese order, the caricatures on tea
chests being his study; Graetz wou Id
be funny in Germany, but in America
he is far from home; Gillian is hard
hitter, and is closer to Keppler on the
staff of Puck than any other artist
Ncm TOrk Journal.
The story of a New York clergyman
who was in the act of admiring $50
gold piece which he had received for a
marriage fee when q messenger from
the groom arrived to exchange il for a
smaller bill reminds n correspondent
Of an incident in the clerical experience
of the Rev. Christopher Corey, OF La
Grange county, Ind. Several years
ago, on very cold day, that excellent
man rode on horseback a distance Of