Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-21


the years, and now represented ia a way
to eXaRgerate the encroachment OF time.
keppler first sent Mr.. Conkling forth as
peacock, form he Is still comDelied TO
use occasionally.
Hamilton, OF the Judge, attached the
horseshoe TO Cleveland. II tells It's
own eloquent story of luck. Frank
Beard, of Puck, put the cor
sets on Mr.. Curtis of HGrper's-
corsets which he invariably wears over
his coat. The impish idea came from the
prevalent 0ellef that he was goody-good-
ish, and also from the Illuminating assump-
tiOn that he was fashion editor Of the IA
gar. Quite frequently they embellish his
clothes with rutfies, give him snug fem
mine CATERS with high heels, and put Lace
and gilt braid on his coat. The eaFiea-
turisJs even changed his christian name
in their zeal TO make him ill the role they
assigned him. They christened MIN
Nancy. The first time he appeared cor
seted in public was IN the ,jadge. in the
cartoon entitled IAN Independent Move
meut."
James Gordon Bennett is neter, per
mltted to appear without his nose deco
rated with court plaster This mark of
individuality was given him by Pack. and
dates back to the alteration between Mr..
Bennett and Mr.. May several years ago.
BIZ this ingenious stroke OF humorous art
neither the public nor Mr.. Bennett is per-
mitted to forget that MI. Bennett once
came in contact with horsewhip in full
fury. HlEtn"H
The geniuses of the pencil sometimes
aVenge the politicians by caFcaturing
each other. For instance, HamlltOndre
Mast as the monkey that accompanied
Curtis hand-organ, and continued it
through the late campaign. Hamilton is
the artist who represented the Democratic
ticket as kangarOO-all tail and no head.
Bisbee, formerly of Puck, now of the
Judge, has made many a hit in his pro-
fessi0n though | cannot now particular
lie them. Beard, Hamilton and McCarty
are all on the Jldge now.
Artists, like writers, forget what they
have originated sometimes. Frank Bel
lew, the oldest caricaturist in New York,
as well as one of the most original and
skillful, remarked, when speaking Of this,
that 1T would take him some time to hunt
back through the dark caverns of his
memory to fish out the monstrOsities he
had created in his time
Gillian, of Puck, first brought out Blaine
as tattOoed man, in a cartoon repre-
senting dime museum, with all the Re
publican candidates on exhibition. Some
body afterwards asked him how such an
ingenious idea came 10 him. He laugh
ingly declared it was an accident. Yet
accidents may be inspirations; indeed,
they sometimes prove so. 1t will be re-
membered by the admirers of comic art
that Mast made great hit during the
Greeley campaign by attaching a small
tag to Greeley's long, gray coat, and label
ing it ''B. Gratz Brown" This was an
accident, but an inspired one. The nomi-
n = MN "a
was drawn, all but the face and figure Of
Gratz Brown. No photograph or picture
of him could be found, and the WeeklU
must go to press. Mast oveTcame the
difficulty at the last moment by attaching
the tag to Greeley's coat. 1t made hit,
and stuck all through the campaign. So
delighted were the people with Mr.. Brown
in this form that they wanted him in no
other. So the tag represented him all
through the contest. tF
Rogers, of Life, is responsible for con-
verting Whitelaw Reid into a small, but
very asseTtive dog, with a wOOlly collar
and taIl. Mast has probably made more
of these ''hits'' in caricature than any
other artist. One was making Grant
lion. Turning men into animals and pre-
serving the likeness is by no means so
difficult to accomplish as it looks, the ar
lists say. Every human being suggests
some animal, and it is but the work of
moment to eXaggerate the suggestion,
and with the eXaggeratiOn carry the like
ness. Nearly every prominent politician
has the role of some animal assigned him,
IN carIcature occasionally, and always
with diabolical appropriateness. Disraeli
as a race horse, Butler as frog are we'll
known figures.
A. b. Frost, who makes such charming
character sketches in HarDerS Weekly
and BGzGr, was the first TO represent
Boston as the old woman Of Beacon Hill.
Peculiarities of a public mans face,
person or dress receive small cOnSdera-
ton at the hands OF cartoon builders.
There is Spinola. They have handed him
down to pOsterity as "Sbirt-COllar Spin
OLA" because he was addicted to wearing
Old-fashiOned high collars. His friends
of the pencil made his collar extremely
imposing. Quite frequently itresched bis
nose. hiding his ears entirely. Carl
Schurz's legs have been treated with the
same liberal spirit, Naturally somewhat
slender, they are heightened and attenu-
ated in the most eXtravagant manner.
Sitting or standing, they are brought INTO
unfiattering notice. They are the dis
tinctive mark by which the public rec0g-
nize Mr.. Schurz.
Such points of personality lend them
selves so readily to caTicature that the
artists can't resist the temptation to play
upon them. They have no malice in IT.
They are never actuated by spite or hatred.
They are merely giving expression 70 the
humOr that is in them. Ben Butler II one
of their pet figures. He seems TO nave
been made for caricature. He is funny,
and yet like himself IN any shape they
put him, and so easy to draw that he Is a
constant temptation to them. He can be
worked up as frog, n clown, widow,
aud blubbering boy with equal effect.
He doesn't mind it, either. He is, per-
haps, the only living human being VINO
can laugh at a caricature Of himself.
Mast, among his many remarkable ere
atoms, represented the Republican party
as white elephant. He made the dollar
mark on Tweed's face famous saw him
make one of those faces once. A whirl
of the pencil made the outline Of the big
coarse face; another whirl made the dol
lar mark, which answered for a nose and
mouth. The blazing diamond pin, with
radiating lines, representing vulgar ana
snowy wealth, was his creation. IL has
since been much used by Rl0leh and other
English journals. He made the United
States army skeleton, Invested the can
VASES bag in the Blaine campaign, con-
structed the iire-eatIng Southerner, made
John Kelly a wild Indian, lilden q spbinf
and also "A mummy, represented dead
beadism by a skull. labeled the 1ifdeh
campaign the "barrel campaign" de-
picted labor and capital as tue samese
twins, made Blaine u hippOpOtamus, ana
urn Fs no. %. la,