The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26
A NEW YORK ARTIST.
A Metropolitan Bohemian Makes a
Pleasant Stay Here.

Mr.. Chaplin, the New York artist, has
been spending few days in our city.
On his way from California east, he
dropped down on US and, meeting DR..
Prentice, with whom he had been &C
quainted in New Orleans, determined
10 rest here instead of at some point
east. It is needless to say he has not
been disappointed, as his heightened
stay bears witness. 1t is his first visit
aud he is both surprised and de-
lighted with the evidences of thrift and
industry and cultivation that surround
US.
He is one OF the pleasantest and most
entertaining of gentlemen Imaginable.
He is an old time habitue Of New York,
and it is like breath from olden days.
| or the things one has read about IN
| boyish hours, to listen as he sits and
! talks. He has world of personal re-
collections of artists, Journalists. actors
and opera singers who have
either blossomed into the per
| feet flower, or after the trials
and vicissitudes with which we are
won't to associate the labors of the
aspirants in the professions named,
have withered and come 10 an untlmely
eod. Personally acquainted with
nearly all The old timers and belonging
J to the same club-The Lotus-he has
heard the experience of their struggles
from their own lips. And yet Mr..
Chaplin is not an old man by
any means. One is Impressed
with his years from his familiarity with
those about whom we have read so
much, and not from himself. One Of
the organizers of 1.-The Lotus" CLUB,
the organization of actors, artists and
| journalists, he has naturally come
TO be familiar with those of the pro-
fession, though we incline to the
belief that he turns with a natural and
irrepressible sympathy to the Bohemian
element in New York.
sit was q rude awakening that 1 re-
ceived," said Mr.. Chaplin, when l
stated out in New York TO make my
mark. You can understand that q
young fellow in starting has no more
money than is necessary and l was
quite willing to make penny by en-
deavoring to sell a suggestion to one of
| the illustrated magazines there. SO l
sketehed what | called the 'Freedmap's
Dream 1t represented colored boy
sleeping with slate and arithmetic by
| his side and above him was a sugges-
| ton of the interior of the House of
| Representatives with negro addressing
! those assembled, and about whom were
crowding the listening members. |
took it to the man who had charge OF
| that department for Hdrper'S Weekly,
and submitted it to him. He said the
idea was good, but he doubted the wis
dom of using it. | could not under.
staCd him, but he said he would
submit it to the proprletors, and Tor me
to call again., did so, when [ was in
formed that, while my idea was excel
lent. 1t was not policy Tor them to use
| il. Said he: The idea Is very good, and
| I W no doubt that you and l will:liye
to see 1t REALIZED. a2d a negro msluuvr
OF Congress-, but pubic thought Is not
/ yet educated to point where 1t will
stand such a contemplation l had
thought that it was only necessary to
have a goo thing to have it admitted,
but it was not so, Then took
my idea to Frank L.slie's,
where I was again eomplimented
on the sugge stion, ''but, 4 said the man
there, .thisis not our style, That Is
just the thing for Harpers, but we are
on the other side! told him what had
occurred at Harper's office. Helaughed
ami remarked, Well, we must do what
will pay, and it lis not wisdom to do
something's at times But 1 was
thoroughly awakened, and 1 no longer
dreamed that a good thing On merit
would win its way in this world. There
were too many conditions that hung to
il, "and affected it,"
Continuing, he spoke of the enor-
nous amount of money which some
New York writer made. He said that
"Petrolum V. Nasty" Lock at one
time in Germany was accosted by man
who introduced himself as the one who
wrote all the New York detective
stories under the nom de plume of
"Stoke." "Does it pay you to write that
stuff" inquired Lock. II make about
$780, 900 a year said the author. :" "That's
all rot" said Nasty. Pm newspaper
man myself, and 1 could write that
stuff by the yard" 'Well, its fact, ;"
responded "Stoke.n perhaps you
could write it, but there are many who |
try to and fall" After some further |
talk Nasty agreed to write chapter |
after dinner. The time came, and |
Nasty returned and admitted he |
couldn't do it. So be paid the |
penalty in a bottle of wine. 1.-The |
trouble Isl" said the author of the |
detective stories, ''that if I had a |
building on fire and the hero W lnted to
escape, would think nothing of having |
him pick up the piano, throw it out of |
the window, smash it up by jumping |
on it, but he would save his life. You |
couldn't do that you know, but it is
what takes with my readers"
Our readers will become better &C
quainted with Mr.. Chaplin.
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