, 1885-01-31
PICTURE PAPERS,
AND THE MEN WHO DO THE DESIGN
ING FOR THEM.
A Process for Making Illustrations Les.
Expensive Than by Engraving
Leading CartoonIst- and sketch
Artists-Ths Prices Paid.


New York Correspondence
The New York Star claims the bad sm-
inenca Of having, In 1870, originated the sys-
TEN Of pictorial Illustrations in tho daily
journals now 50 much in vogue among tho
otherwise irreproachable and businoss-liks
papers on that metropolis Then the Good
sells introduced in The Daily Graphic the
Logo process for making Illustrations
quicker, simplar and less expensive han by
engraving. Tho Leggo procss5 was first used
IN column measure by The Democratic News
and when the lately defunct Truth newspaper
appeared under the management Of The
Dramatic News people, cartoons, comics. lit
tlo grotesques, ners sketches ind out
line portraits wore printed There was
a lull In the business OF sketches, 50 far as
most Of the daily newspapers were con
carnsd; but The Star continued to give pic
torial sketches In its @fan About. Town
columns. by means OF tho process, which 1t
had adopted as soon as 1t became known
When Joseph Pulitzer came TO New York
about n year and a half ago and bought The
World, he revived the craze for illustrated
daily journalism by printing a lot OF outline
portraits with written sketches OF the char
actsrs OF the men and women thus shown.
Then The Morning Journal followed suit
Old Bob Bonar and, later, Tom Mast, the
famous cartoonist, had furnished In the In
terim some sketches for Bennettis Even
ing Telegram. Do Grimm, an importa-
tion from Europe, continued the pictures in
Saturdays Telegram and occasionally in
The Herald, but no has not don anything
that has made HIS name famous like that Of
Mast Wales, Keppler, Gillian, Hamilton and
others. James A Wales, formerly OF Frank
Lsslieis, and who is now making sketches for
The News and Texas Siftings, and for a time
foe p.rL IL nanr laaffnr ehuu Nat H. ar
toon on the fifteen puzzle. representing Uncle
Sam looking for a presidential candidate,
four years ago, was 20 clever that 1t made
him a reputation He Is corpulent, wears
specs, Is an Ohio man, and has a weakness
for dramafic management
ID any Of the sketch artists combine Jour
nnlistic writing ability with thair pictorial
work. queried the reporter.
Eyes; ~Gribayedoffe, the Russian, or as
Capt Aleck Williams calls him. 'Grnbyour-
headoff.' he combines reportorial with ar
tistic ability and makes many Of those
clever portrait skstches you 500 In The
World. He is a partner Of Schultz Of
Frank Leslie's, and is n strong typo of the
young go-ahead Russian; Is well educated,
about 80 years old, with a colorless, saIlow
face and blonde hair. 1 think McDougnll
takes tho lead in the daily newspaper work.
He makes sketches for The World and The
Judge. Young Flanagan is bright and is
rising In the art. He has done some clever
work. / think that all the other fellows
have outgrown Ramsden. who Is, singulnrly
enough, too conventional in his work.
Theodore Butler, Grill and johnson
are finished portrait e~ngravers, and do those
splendid figures you see in Harper's and The
Century. Then there is Charley Kendrick,
who formerly had a land in Chic; he Is a ine
sketch artist, who Is noted for the accuracy
OF his outlines. He is an Englishman, about
30 years old, wears specs like mnst Of his
craft and is a decided blonde"
@What salaries are these sketch
artists paidF asked tho reporter.
Tho big sums reported to be made by
some OF thom arc a fable. Tom Mast, 1t Is
said, gets SIS, 900 a year, and Frank Leslie
brought Matt Morgan-who is a long way
ahead OF Mast as nm artist-over 10 this coun-
try from London and employed him at n sal
airy OF $4,000 q year. Morgan Is at Cincin-
natl, and still does clever work for the news.
papers, as well as painting theatrical cur
tains and scenery and pictures in oil and
water colors. But / tell you the best OF thesa
sketch artists do not get more than $50 a
week, and many Of them not more than e25
or $50. Tennlel, of London Punch, gets
about 5000 a year for furnishing a cartoon
each week, but no one else gets any such
large sum. Joe Keppler, the clever cartoon
list OF Puck, has an interest in that paper,
but l don't think Gillian and Opper get
$1,000 a minute for their very clever sketches
and cartoons. OF tho others on the funny
papers 'zim' Zimmerman on Puck, Hamil-
ron anil Dalrymple on Tho Judge, Nichols
and a few | cannot remember are good art
lists, but poorly paid"