Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-17
THE LAST PICTURE
ARTHUR NEWTON BOYDS FINAL SKETCH WAS DRAWN TO MAKE THE
READERS OF THIS NEWSPAPER LAUGH.

About six years ago there came to New
York a young southerner with gentle
manly tanners and what is called a
winning way He wanted to draw pic
lures for the newspapers, and to the edi-
tors whom he visited in the first days, he
introduced himself as "a. N. Boyd, one
Of the South Carolina Boyds."
The Boyd family, identified in the pres
emit generation with prominent railroad
interests in the south, was known in New
York. and for this reason, and on account
of his Willingness to try, Arthur Newton
Boyd was given a chance.
He brought into the editorial rooms,
day by day, big, handsome sketches. full
of life and color, but nobody wanted
them! They were fine scenes of western
life and studies of southern landscapes,
where the soft waters wash over the
green grass. Boyd liked to sketch the
beauties of his southern home, but, some
how, when the pictures We're completed.
though they We're perfect in every detail,
showing the hand of real talent, they
were mot just suitable Now and then
he sold one, but there was not a living in
that kind Of drawing. Had Boyd at this
time been possessed of independent
means he would undoubtedly nave be-
come a master; but he wanted to support
himself, like any proud young southerner
on northern soil, and the fine work would
not support him.
One day the editor said to him:
viii you sell us the drawing that is
on the back of your picture?'
"Why, yes" said Boyd, in a surprised
tone, IF you wan it,"
1T is a comic" said the editor, land
we will pay you Sc for it,
From that sketch Boyd drifted into
caricature and comics. He found he
could write a joke in half a minute and
could illustrate it in an hour. AS fast as
he lvnr 4h~ Nr,s~ H. --z.1 III A..
n soon the large newspapers and maya
zines began writing to him for funny
drawings. His animals We're so ridicu-
lous, they said, so lifelike, yet so funny,
that the public wanted them.
Boyd was the originator Of the animal
Joke. He made the elephant talk to the
lion in the desert; and he showed himself
a grandmaster Of mule dialogue. His
dogs We're the funniest dogs that ever
crossed the threshold of the big comic
Weeklies.
In a year Boyd was on a salary Of $40
a week, which is a good deal of money,
and he was earning a great deal outside.
Then the New York World took him into
it's comic art department and he illus
trated the comic supplements in that
newspaper every Sunday.
a U man earning $40 a week in
New York city can afford to marry. 50
Boys thought, and his parents in South
SaTC-lIla suggested various southern girls
for him, but they We're "'Way Down in
Dixie and Boyd was in New York. 50
one day he found a pretty girl for him
self, one OF a gay set of oun people,;
and they were married in March, two
years ago.
But alas, for the plans of mice and
artists. The $40 a week tina had been
sufficient for Boyd in his bachelorhood
was barely enough for Mr.. and Mrs.
Boyd. The money ran short, and there
was trouble at home.
A year ago Boyd came into the New
York office Of this newspaper and said
to our comic art representative in the
east:
Say, old a you've got to help me