The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-08

ITO was Awe Yesterday Morning n;
Guayaquil. Ecuador. where He Was
Consui.t'enerai Of the United States
Dead AMI buried before Sunset.
Special Cd,ie Despatch 10 The Sun. N
GuAYAcuIL, Ecuador. Dec. Thomas
Mast, United States Consult General here
died at noon to-day Of yellow fever. Mr..
Mast was i'll but three days. This afternoon
at o'clock he was buried. The services
were attended by the Governor, the Consul.
lar corps. and many Americans residing
here. The casket was wrapped in the
American flag. The British Consul read a
PRAYER az the grave. Mr.. Mast was APP
pointed last May and left for his post on
July from New York.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 7.-Secretary Hay said
Tonight that he had not received confirna-
lion 81 the report and he expressed the hope
that IL was not true
AR. Mast was appointed Consul-General
by President Roosevelt on May Is. of this
year, 10 succeed Perry NJ. DeLeon Of
Georgia. His appointment was credited to
Ne" Jersey. considerable surprise was
expressed when the announcement Of Mr.
Nasts selection was made, that a man of
his years should care 10 go To a tropical
country or 20 far away from home. When
ne was about TO sail from New York for
south America Mr. Mast sent the usual
notice Of departure TO the State Depart
ment IN the shape of a Caricatlire drawing
of himself in which he was represented
stepping from the shores of the United
States. IN his hand was suit case la b.led
tuayaqull The salaIy of tho post IL
5000. and there ar" fees which the Consul
l. privileged TO take amounting TO a few
hundred dollars more. The Vice Consul
GENERA at Guayaquil is Robert b Jones of
New Jersey, who was appointed in June
OF this year, on the nomination of Mr.. Mast.
Thomas Nasl was by long odds the mos,
famous cartoonist OF his time and from
his pencil came some OF the most effective
political arguments ever advanced in Ameri-
can politics Perhaps biz most noteworthy
conception was that of the Tammany tiger.
Mr Mast Was born at Landau. Bavaria
IN lsio and came to this country in lsi6
After snort preparation ia drawing and
painting. he went to work at the age OF
Is for Frank Leslie in an Office in Fra ukfort
street near 1HE Sun building, then Tam
many Hall. lie left Leslie four years later
TO work for the illustrated Ntrs, which
sent him right up 10 Canada to get pictures
Of the Morrssey-Heenan prize fight. He
afterward went to England for prize fight
pictures, but went soon to Italy TO follow
Garibaldi. He landed again in New York.
It is said, with just 5? II III his pocket and
went to work for Hdrpcr's Weekly He
was soon sent TO the Civil War bait lafields
and camps. After the war he found in
Andrew johnson an object for his carr
catures. Then he sailed into the Tweed
ring.
According to Mr.. Nast's statement, he
never had any trouble thinking of sub
jeCts On the other hand, one of his best
known cartoons was of himself, Our Artist
Trying TO Think of Something Funny"
II represented him seated az a table in
perspiring despair
Besides his work with the pencil he
painted In oil ard water Colors. One CT
bis pictures in oil was done for Sir Henry
Irving.
A. one time Mr.. Mast was fairly we'll
of, but be lost much of his ga wings In the
Grant 4 Ward failure After that he
went around the country lecturng ard
making rapid sketches for bis audiences.
In MAY he accepted the post of Consul
Ger eral AT GuayaQuil, Ecuador.
Mr.. Nsst's home is AZ Morrstown, y. j.
His wife, who il all invalid, lives there
with their son Cyril. Another son. Thomas
Mast, Jr.. IL now on the road sket ching
on the stage rs his father once did. Mr.
Mast leaves two daughters. one of whom
Is Mrs. Fi'z John Porter, Jr.. Of Montclair.