New-York tribune., 1901-01-21
THE PASSING THRONG.

A R. Frazer, OF San Francisco when seen at
the Hotel Manhattan, yesterday. told story OF
mistaken instructions. and how
MISTAKEN they resulted "Some years ago.
INSTRUC- said Mr.. Frazer Homer Daven-
IIONs- port, the cartoonist, then employed
in San Francisco. vas called up
on the telephone by his paper and told to go to
the Academy OF Sciences that evening and draw
earicatures or the Camera Club. which TO
hold its annual reception there The telephone
worked badly, and Davenport got only so much
or the message as told him to go to the Acad-
emys OF Sciences. but he supposed that was
the paper took great interest in the Camera Club
and wished to make great spread at IT'S annual
assignment and told to connect with Davenport.
went back to the office and Wrote his Story S OF
the meeting and turned Il in supposing that in the
way the latter was amply able to take care of his
the paper the following morning, without a soIi-
tary Illustration. but lecture geology had a
facile pencil The contretemps came aboHt ip his
gay: Davenport duly arrived at the Academy of
as he did not know what he was there for. he fol-
lecture on geology by Professor Joseph I Cogte
Of the University of California the great authority
worldwide. DR.. LIE Conte. 1T might incidentally
oe stated IS man OF the greatest dignity in both
Camera Club was held in the same building. but
on the top floor.
Davenport yawned through hour OF glaciers
stratihed rock, morains and sundry other things,
In which he took little interest and
CARTOONS then discovering that only DIR.
WITH lie Conte to speak concluded
GEOLOGY he had sufficient material for the
LECTURE matter and departed. As was his
custom he drew his sketches at
home and sent them TO his paper by messenger.
They took up the Darwinian theory and represented
the venerable DIR. lie Conte in the guse OF an ape
and swinging from a tree by the tail He was
placed In the stone age and, clad only In bearskn
and smile, represented knocking about
rocks with geological hammer. peculiarly
happy thought was a caricature of the professor
as the Cardiff Giant There six
o. K. OF the editor for his sketches Whatever
he drew was published of course. Consequently
the caricatures of lie COnte were duly printed and
the makeup man naturally put them in the geo.
logical lecture. The CONSERVATION OF the editor
when that issue of the paper our. well
the State, and one with whom the paper in Dues
tion particularly desired to stand well, held up
ridicule and for no apparent reason After cud-
Ceiling his brains to what best to do in
and all, and sent IL TO DR.. lie COnte together with
polite note, in which he said that he trusted
his paper had reported his lecture with accuracy
and il such not the case. the columns OF the
paper were open to the doctor to make any
rection he fit; that he (the EDITOR would be
article in question.
I'm reply. DIR. lie Conte advised the editor that
he had never been accurately reported and
ignored the cartoons entirely His friends say he
editor great that he took a day off. But
even il DR.. lie Conte did not look at the paper,
other people did, and that edition sold at a pre-
MUM in San Francisco before the day was OUT