The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-07-18

UCCu tdu(tCS CNCt Slu(G NdkuRGtt, q icarturist formerly on the Grabhic. once saw Mir. Tilden when he had sty on his eye. He immediately drew him for a cartoon, exaggeratipg the sty as a matter of course, because this impious touch added greatly te the disparagement of the subject Since then the other artists put the sty on Mir. Tilden when they made use of him, and the probability now is that he will never be cured of il. A. Wales gave Mir. Hidden his over shoes. He was walking near Union square one wintry evening and met "the sage of Gramercy park" whose feet were encased in a pair of comfortable arctics The next time Wales had occasion .o depict Mir. Tilden he put overshoes on him, taking care to make them particu- larly large and clumsy. The aim was to make him as feeble as possible, and to this end the overshoes contribu- ted. They were an additional embarrass- ment 10 him in walking, and besides were taken as authoritative evidence of the uncertainty of his health. Ever since, summer and winter, he wears overshoes in cartoons.
 MT. Conkling is known by the single curl on his forehead. This was given him by Matt Morgan. who was also the first to make him a pouter pigeon. This maligned curl is made to express all shades of exalted egotism and proud hate. Its language is never mistaken. It has thinned and straigh,ened somewhat with the years, and is now represented in a way to exaggerate the encroachments of time. k-ppler first sent Mir Conkling forth as a peacock, a form he is still com Delled to use occasionally.
 Hamilton, ot the Judge attached the horseshoe to Cleveland. It tells its own eloquent story of luck. Frank B:ard, of i Psck, put the corsets on Mir. Curtis. of 1 Haybey's-corsets which he invariably wears over his coat. The impish idea came from the prevalent belief that he was goody- goodyish, and also from the humiliating assumption that he was the fashion editor of the Bazar. Qaite ire. quently they emb-llish his clothes with ruff1es, give him snug feminine alters with h'gh heels and put lace and gllt braid on his coat. The oaricaturists even changed his christian name, in their real to make him fill the role they assigned him. They christened him Nancy The first time he appeared corrected in public was in the Judge in the cartoons entitled an inde- pendent movement"
 James Gordon Bennett IS never per mitted to appear without his nose deco rated with cour-plAster. This mark of individuality was given him by PHek, and dates back 10 the altercation bctWee MT. Bennett aad MT May several years ago By this ingenious stroke of humor- ous art neither the public nor Mir Ben nett is permitted to forget that Mir. Ben nett once came in contact with horse whip in full fury.
 The geniuses of the pencil sometimes avenge the politicians by caricaturins each other. For instance Hamilton drew Mast as the monkey tha, accom- panied Curtis hand-organ, and continued 1t through the late campaign. Hamilton is the artist who represented the demo- cratic ticket as kangaroo-all tail and no head. Bisbee, formerly of PHek now of the Judge has made many hit in his profession, though cannot now par ticGlarize them. Beard Hamilton and McC.ry are all on the Judge now.
 Arusts, like writers, forget what they have originated sometimes. Frank Bel lev, the oldest carcaturist in New York, as well as one of the most onginal and skillful, rem .rked 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 has created in his time.
 Gillian, of PHek, first brought out B aine as a tattooed man, in a cartoon representing dime museum, with all the republican candidates on exhibition. Somebody afterward asked him how such an ingenious idea came to him He laug ghingly declared ii was an accident. Yet accidents may be inspirations; in- deed, they sometimes prove SO. It will be remembered 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 labelling it B. Grau Brow That was an accident, but an inspired one The nominations had been. announced, the 1 figure of Cratz Brown. No photograph the weekly must go to press Mast over- came the difficulty at the last moment by attaching the tag to Greeley's coat. It made Init" and stuck all through the campaign s delighted were the people 1 Wtku oIOWu Ill tOfIn that Lnet wanted him in no other. So the tag represented him all through the contest.
 Rogers, of Life. IS responsible for con verting Whitelaw Reid into a small, but very asser;ive dog, with wooily collar and tail
 Mast has probably made more of these %hits in cai>ature than any other ar-ist. One WIS making Grant lion Turning men into animals and preserv- ing the likeness is by no means so diff cult of accomplishment as it looks, the artists say. Every human being suggests some animal, and il is but the work of a moment to exaggerate the suggestion, and with the exaggerssion cary the like ness Nearly every prominent politician has sAs ~cA> cs some animal assigned him, in oancature, occasionally, and al ways with diabolioal appropriateness | ~E