The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-22

ROCHELLE REMINGTON.
jury among temperance societies and
weakened hisinfaence with them where
otherwise he could have done them much
good. A mining naboh Of San Francisco,
for whom Visscher had done a great
favor, as he is mighty apt to do for most
anybody, once gave him pointer by
which he was able TO make several thou
send dollars. Mr.. Vissrher had long de-
sired to astonish southern California
with meritorious drama and thorough
~ great company. So he bought fine
team or two, and getting some nice new
scenery painted he started due south
from San Francisco as the crow flies. In
seeking to elevate the stage of southern
California, however, the pry seemed to
slip out and catch the enterprising ele-
vator by the fingers. So, gradually he
sold one diamond stud after another,
and instead Of driving them tandem he
drove them single, and finally had moth
ing left but his other team.
First he sold his scenery,
Then his thunder and lightning machinery.
And SO, finally, as autumn stole down
from her great laboratory and paint
shop and began to decorate the woods
with her beautiful dyes, Mr.. Visscher's
leading man secured a job in barber
shop, his leading lady began to wait on
the table at the Hem house, in southern
California; the low comedian got job
"off bearing" in brick yard, and Mr..
Visscher thoughtfully felt his way back
to San Francisco as phrenologist.
He is now rapidly becoming very
wealthy as one Of the principal owners
of Fairhaven, beautiful and booming
town on the coast, where they blow out
dozen or so pine trees today and to-
morrow there is an opera house on the
ground.
Everybody who knows anything about
western life, and even those who do not,
have admired and praised the spirited
pictures Of the plains by Frederick Rem
ington. Naturally you would expect to
find the talented artist man about so
years Of age, but he lis apparently under
80, with round, Jolly face and gen.
eral boyish look. He is the first cowboy
and bronco and Texas steer artist who
has put vitality into those wild denzens
of the plains and eliminated that paste
board, Noah's ark style Of animal which,
as Emerson used to so tersely put it,
tends toward giving one pain. Rem
ington lives at New Rochelle, where the
Rochelle salts are made, and regards
himself as one of the Rochelle salts of
the earth, no doubt For brain fag he
comes down to New York and fishes off
the dock.
Walter Hoboken McDougall, who has
earned a world wide reputation by draw
ing terse but grossly ibelous carica-
ture of the writer is slight blonde with
a white flannel suit. He has the air of
man about town, and though openly
abusing the English toady he frequent
ly rolls up his flannel panties at the bot
tom as he reads the London weather re-
ports. He dresses very beautifully and
may be seen tripping gayly to his work
at half-past six in the morning, trudglng
up to The World Office with an armful of
choice sketches and bright new dinner
pail containing homemade bread and
doughnuts with apertures in
them and q small flask of milk. He at
tributes much of his success to his wise
choice of good subjects for illustration,
industry, patience and the use Of fine cut
tobacco as a gentle tonic.
Frederick BuriingaIne Opper, the brill
liant and versatile artist of Puck, is a
Young man, and also small blonde. who
parts his pleasant hair in the middle
and pokes fun at people in profitable
manner He also writes funny letter
when he tries. On pleasant day, when
the toll of the morning is over, one may
meet the evangelical Bun
ner, Opper and Taylor at a drug store up
near Houston and Broadway, where
they are drinking favored wind and
conversing freely with the tradespeople
who pass in and cut, giving them pleas
ant nod of recognition ever and anon
kemble, who makes the characteristic
jays and coons of The Century, is
young and good looking. with a dark
muStache and a bright Pan-American
look of keen observation and the air OF
one who isn't going to let any point get |
away.
De Grimm is older and moro disEngue,
with a slight mustache and a quick, !
way. He makes a very clear,
good portrait and works very rapidly. |
But didn't intend to dwell so long on
he artists.
When l first came to New York q
friend of mine who is in the furniture |
business asked me if l had ever met /
Bob Ingerson. l said had not, though |
had read quite number of his pieces
n the paper, from which I had gath |
red that he was httle bit inclined to |
iberalty in religious matters and quite |
IN iconoclast in regards to q seff-sup- |
porting he'll.
l had never heard him lecture or even
seen him IN my life, so was anxious TO |
zee him and hear him talk. Ny friend |
aid he would take pleasure in intro |
iucing me some time, for Bob would |
ike real well TO see me also, as he had |
30 expressed himself
So one day, on street car. my friend /
,ese up suddenly and said, There he IS
low, and be is going 10 get aboardT''
Sure enough the man ge5on our ear, and |
Z was but the weTk Of mnnent 10 IN !