The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-26


 I upon the grave between. Millions of copies of this cartoon were distributed, and President Lincoln is said to have declared that the Peace cartoon was the most effective recruiting agency" in the country.
 Mast next turned his attention to the Tammany ring. The entire country was familiar with his crushing attacks against Tweed and his colleagues. 1t Is related of Tweed that he often said, T don't care what they print about me, but those pictures hurt" It was by one of Nasts earicatures after Tweed had escaped to Cuba that he was arrested.
 Mast originated the Tammany Tiger, the donkey of the democracy, and the elephant of the republican party. His wonderful power could be expressed in slight personalities Horace Greeleys hat and coat, Oakley Halls eye glasses, the dollar mark for Tweed's face were as expressive as are President Roose- velt's smile, the familiar dollar mark clothes of Mark Hanna, the monocle of Joseph Chamberlain.
 The mantle of Mast may be said to have fallen on MT. Homer Davenport, who today occupies distinctive place In field of art in which so few gain distinction.
 MT Davenport was born on an Ore BOn IhTIn InlTIy-SlX years ago. HIS pro- | fesional career Is the fulfillment of des- tiny Before his birth Davenport's moth- | CT became greatly interested in Nasts cartoons which were appearing at that l time in Harpers Weekly. She studied the drawings closely, and often ex pressed the wish that she might be the mother of great cartoonist.
 Davenports mother died about three years after he was born and her wishes 1 nal ba ho al fn l, ,Iu in i clinations were carried out. This boy is to be a cartoonist' was the explana- ton the elder Davenport would frequent 1 ly make when his neighbors and rela- l tives expostulated about young Homer 8 lack of training and ocupaton. He was not sent to any of the art schools and the eventful life of the boy is all the more | interesting because Davenport became a national figure at very early age.
 Drawing a salary of fifteen thousand a year, with fame extending across two continents, it is difficult to realize the picture that the artist draws of himself in the role of joc-sey, railroad fireman, | cabman, waiter.
 MT Davenport received his first em- ployment on the San Francisco Exami- ner in 1892, where he received a salary of ten dollars per week. William Henry Smith, the founder of the Associated Press and a kinsman of the Davenports became interested in the young artist. A year later Davenport asked for a raise of two dollars and a half a week and was promptly informed that the Exan- iner could dispense with his services. He then went to Chicago. but returning n San Francisco accepted a position on td- l Chronicle. Mir. Davenport's connection | with the New York Journal began when MT. Hearst became its proprietor.
 Mir. Davenport is both cartoonist and caricaturist. It is well known that his pictures are drawn from principle. He originated the colossal figure of ,he trusts and the Mark Hanna mark suit of clothes. Only recently MT. Da- venport refused a salary of thirty thou sand a year from a New York newspa- per, because it's proprietors refused to insert claxse in the contract that he would not be expected to draw anything against his principles. Mir. Davenport s work caused an effort to be made in 1897 to pass anti-cartoon law in the state of New York.
 MT Davenports personality is very striking. He is six feet tall and has reddish hair He wears a short mus tache Those who see him never forg gst his very expressive eyes. It Is this vivid 1 Individuality that characteriZes his work, work that is analytical and log ical and that has taken a greater hold of the mass of American newspaper readers than any of his contemporaries.
 l MT. Davenport lives on his pheasant farm at Morris Plains, New Jersey. He | is widely known as an importer of pheasants, wild water fowls Angora goats, Persian sheep, and Jersey cattle. He Is another Ernest Seton-Thompson in his love for wild animals.
 A few years ago Mir. Davenport made short visit to Birmingham, in company | with Mr. Julian Hawthorne of the staff of the New York Journal. and found r- spiration outside of Southern politics. He had to attend club dinners. and go