The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-12-13
QUEE. AND GIFTED.
AN ARTIST WHO PAINTS MONEY LIKE
THE REAL THING.
4 Soldier, Socialist, Artist and .Jou. aali.t.
and He Has a Hobby-His Great Regard
For Rabelais-SOme of His Remarkab1
Paintings Described.

Poor Victor Dubreuil, who lives in
Forty-fourth street. paints United States
currency so that it looks real. and vet he
rarely has in his pocket two coins TO
jingle together.
Over the bar of a Seventh avenue sa.
loon hang several of his pictures. One is
called Barrels o Money" The barrels.
or kegs. are of good. stout oak. set in a
row three deep. and from their yawning
mouths 81. s.. $40. $50, Sa5 and $50 and
flW. 200 and 500 bank notes. apparent
ly fresh from the United States treasury.
are escaping by hundreds. The bills in
some of the barrels are weighted down
with heaplng snovelfuls of gold coin of
the larger denominations. These seem
TO glitter i'll the light. and 50 do the dia-
monds and t~lrquoiSes which have fallen
from the kegs and lie sparkling beside
them on the floor. With them are large
bank note sandwiches done IN in paper
wrappers. over the edges of which crisp
new edge. Of the bills curl temptinciv.
To the left of TIL, PAINTING hangs an
other of about the same size. which. as
it not only tells "A story of its own, but is
the key 10 the life. struggles and aims of
the man who produced it. is the most i'm. !
porfant nj Interest NJ IN the place. The
Spectator appears = be standing inside
the railing Of Il ha1i or large mercantile
counting house. Before him is the tell
ers or bookkeeper's desk, upon which. |
cieverly foreshortened and painted, lies a |
ledger. the ruling and writing on the f,
pages of which are we'll simulated. To
the left of the book is a bottle of ink,
from which IA pen protrudes. Under the
desk lies an overturned stool. The cash
drawer. with its brazen handles. is open. :
and IA desperate looking man. with uu-
kemrt, taw1y brown hair and long
beard. squints along the glistening barrel
OF a loaded seven shooter on the other
side of the grating around the desk. +,
while an aged crone in IA red cloak stands
beside him. and with her skinny arm
thrust through the open window in fae
grating transfers. with ii greedy anal =.
umphant leer. hulky packages of rtat.
nc bank notes from tiIe Icawarfnaf ..43
OF her skirt.
Stand III what part g tie s"sal
VIII. yon are compelled 10 es.,r
the barrel of liz revolver. w.licl g.s
The spectator at all points. nftI IL $50
der AT the hungry lrnr # tie ,eogu
WHICH. strange Ia say. l. nmHi>st1,4
seen TO lltiger upon her f,5,,
although htr eyes. those windows Il H..
soul, are hidden by her blood red claak
TIL woman Is tine artists ex-wa.acr
woman. now gathered to her fafhers.
Her desperate looking a~rcomplica with ;
the pistol i the artist himself. and tho
entire picture is tire key 10 the as1dla +,
tions. disarppintments. JOYS and sorrows |
nF l1rfnp iE1ly.,iI - E-.
journalist, organizer. porter and stable |
man. ana at present artist. author and +.
socialist agitator. i
ms VIII be better understood whenit
is explained that the title Of the picture
is "A Prediction For 1909; or. IA Warnin.
TO Capitalists" !
i am vat You peeps call vairsateel," c
said the artist. Il paint ze steel life. re Q
genre re landscape, ze portrait-any- a
zlng yateFare. gone to Amerique.
nave no monnaie. | go TO Theophile
keeck, re bankaire on Clinton place. Y
! work zere as stapleboy d~wendy-two
hours a day for four mons. get dwell s.
a non By my economic | safe a
forty-fire dollaire. Zen | say: 'Dubreuil,
sou owe mo,maie. You must paw heem, d
lou cannor get reech as a stapleboy.
Vat, zen, will yeu do? salt, 4 will pc la
,ooln one a~rteesr.' So do So" te
Besides being an artist. NJ. Dubreuil "
las been a soldier, serving with the al
army in Mexico. He was clerk -
n a banking house and then went into
he business on his own account. He
'ecame interested i'll the formation of n
company which should do for France
Africa what the East India company W
lid for England and India. with the diff is
erence that through Dubreuil's company
he working,nan, not the capitalist. was ke
o reap the reward. To further this -
cheme. he became a newspaper man, -
nd for six months published La Polit-
lue dActioI. Judging by his own state
lents, this journal was SO searchingly
nd caustically truthful as to arouse
rst the ire and then the fear of capital
SITS, who. according to his story, ruined
:.
During his good fortune and his bad
here has been one occupation that has T.
lways engrossed this soldier banker OF
1t has been the study Of al
with the intention of explain M
ng him to his fellow countrymen and "
world. m
In the quiet retirement of his studio, "
u West Forty-fourth street, the self CO
artist tolls day and night to fin ca
sh the annotations on Rabelais' works. n
which are nearly done. and at which he E.
been laboring for IS long years. N
these, he declares, will open wide the m
yes of the entire world, and with in at
at which he has been toiling co
will bring him IN by next year sufficient
means to return 10 France, liguidate his .
cpntime for centime. crush