The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-15
gHE SALT LAKE HERALD: MONDAY. OCTOBER Is.
Davenport, TIE Great Gartoonist II tie Crtl$ts

IRE in the world Of caricature-
Davenport's ability to see under the
mask of sham and his sincere and en-
ergetic hatred of everything deceitful
gives him addition II power in his field.
An idea of his reckless and enviable
power to grasp the humor of a situa-
ton was given the world the day
after he met Hanna, the meeting being
arranged by the Journal. Just what
thoughts coUrsed through the minds of
the two men as they shook hands per
mornings Journal contained what Dav-
export prizes as one of his most orig
inal ordinations. 1t showed Hanna
with e grim smile on his heavy fea-
lures, and Davenport with mouth
spread from ear to ear, suggesting that
each might have been vieing wah the
other to see which could bring down
the greatest shower of pleaSantrieS and
compliments. Hanna. with one hand
behind him, held a stiletto. Davenport
grasped huge axe. But Hanna is not
the only unfortunate who has felt the
cut of DavenpOrts pen. Mckinley,
Roosevelt, Dingley, Reed, Plat, Croker,
Quay, HaVemeyer, the late Coils P.
Huntington, Cleveland-and a hundred
others all have furnished material for
this mans upbuilding, and incidentally
the best obtainable suggestions for
most of the cartOoniStS in the nation
It was Davenport who discovered Nc
Kiniey'S Roman nose; it was he who
saw the beauty of those Roosevelt
teeth and the spoon-eye that, when
seen as Davenport saw it. has made
Senator Quay squirm like an angle
worm. And it may be stated right here
that few of Davenports unwilling sub
jects are bold enough TO attempt in
difference at the daily caricature. It
is something no man becomes used to.
It's effect is much deeper and more
lasting than mud singing from an edi-
toriai chair.
An interesting story attaches 20 the
first meeting of Davenport and Quay
The cartooniSt was sent out to sketch
the senator from Pennsylvania, finding
him in the senate lobby. Davenport
chose a profile view and set about q
work not at all reluctantly, seeing at
once "a good mark But before he
had made a half dozen lines upon his
paper he noticed that Quay was watch
ing him out of the corner of his left
eye. Making a circuit of the diStin-
guiShed figure, he was about to begin
on the right side when he observed the
right eye of his subject trained in the
same direction. Davenport moved this
time to a position directly in front of
the senator, and discovered to his
amazement that Quay was peering in
both directions at once From that
time on Davenport's caricature of this
particular victim" was incomplete
without the Wall-eyeS, and 1t is I'M
doubtedly true TO life.
Lest we forget the title of the car
toon made by Davenport at the time
the country was agog over the Dewey
home transaction, won a warm place
for the cartooniSt in the hearts of the
admiral and his wife. 1t was just after
Dewey had transferred his home, the
gift of the people, to his bride and pub
lie criticism was becoming unbeara ole.
Davenport pictured the admiral on the
bridge OF the Olympia with the battle
| figure of Uncle Sam behind the adj
miral, with Indignation expressed in
every line of his face, pointing to the
mist of the battle. The three simple
words, Lest we forget" gave the
drawing a tone that Silenced more
I than one harping mouth and precipi-
tated a veritable hurricane of cOngrat-
ulations from all parts of the country
upon the authors head. Shortly after
this Davenport visited Admiral and
Mrs. Dewey at their Washington home,
and no prodigaI son was ever made
more welcome. 1t was a higher honor
than ever was bestowed upon a news
paper artist. One of DavenDort's large
drawings, framed, hung in the drawing
room of the mansion, and before the
visit was over the admiral had pre-
scented him with a large autograph
portrait of himself in. full uniform, at
the suggestion of the equally appre-
ciative Mrs. Dewey.
ALAN L. LOVEY.