Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-01-31

"Apropos of the recent death of
homas Mast. the cartoonist." said the
Doctor, Il am reminded that l have
Al home Nast's double page picture rep
reSenting the grief of the nation over
the death of Lincoln. II was a mag
niiicent emblamatic picture, Published
without title or line of explanation.
In the center was the coffin, marked
Lincoln, and bending over ii the fig
ure of Columbia. To the right. In the
upper corner, was the figure of sol
dier, with head bowed and face half
hidden. and in the left corner the fig
ure OF an army officer who had thrown
himself down in utter despair,
Il kept the picture because of that
officers figure. The dropping of the
arms, the dropping head, and nerve
less body, expressed so truly my own
feeling when Iheard of Lincoln'S death
that ii seemed TO me Mast had put him
self IN the soldiers place and have the
picture now, as well as the ones that
came later, emblematic of the victory
won by the army and navy and the
dawn of peace. 1t Is a mistake to say
that Mast waited until his later years
TO give his idea OF Lees surrender.
He gave ii at the time of the surren-
der.
In his double-page picture Blessed
Are the PeAcemakers, he drew on one
side Christ's entry into Jerusalem on
Palm Sunday and on the other the
surrender of Lee. IN the latter Grant
dominated the scene, and standing in
the center of the picture seemed taller
than Lee and the more stately figure.
| know that Mast chung tenaciously to
this idea. even when talking to Con
federate officers. and that in his large
painting he followed the lines marked
out in the cartoon of April 1865.
BLESSED Arc the Peacemakers.'
Il have one of Nasts pictures" said
the Sergeant, "a little one published
early in 1860. when Lincoln was at
City Point. The President Is seated
on stump, with his long legs stretch
ed out to their full length and support
inS a drum, on which the President Is
writing note to Stanton. saying: All
seems well with us Under the pic
ture was the line From Our Regular
Correspondent The picture was the
more timely because at that time the
War Department was publishing for
the information of the people the Pres
dents brief notes from the front The
cdf'toon was very satisfying to the
boys in the army, for just then things
were indeed going very well with MS.
Mast never made war scene as any
other artist would have made II. and
he always wanted to be first with an
idea Several times he was fretted
because the slow work ON Harpers
Weekly made It appear that some of
his cartoons, prepared days before,
were not unlike those appearing about
the same time in the daily newspapers.
In 1872 lie prepa ed cartoon In which
Horace Greeley was represented as go
ing down into pit crowded with the
Democratic issues he had opposed and
leaders he had abused. On the day
that the cartoon was published, u.
r. Locke, published in the Toledo
Blade Nasty letter celebrating the
same idea
"Nasby took Greeley down among
the ghosts of his old political affilia-
tons and described in his way the
scene which Mast pictured. There
were two greatly disturbed men that
day-Nast, fearing that the public
would jump to the conclusion that he
bad stolen his idea from Nasty and
the latter fearing that Mast and the
public would believe he had borrowed
his idea from the cartoonist. A com
parison of notes and dates, however.
showed the two men had been work
ing on the idea for two weeks and
that the suggestion came to each about
the same time. But as Nasty was
wont TO remark, neither one Of them
could prove ii TO the satisfactio ion of the
public"
Il was present." said the Colonel
AT the meeting in 1879, at which Cen
eral Thomas l.. CTittenden of our old
corps presented to Mast. in the name
Of $500 army and naval officers. as
testimonial of their regard. a loving
cup shaped like a cautecn. Al that
meeting it was clear that not few
Confederatcs bad liking for Mast.
one Of Moshy'S men saying to me that
Nast's pictures Of rebel guerrillas were
the real boys, and they forgive him
his bitterness because Of the fine
spirit he put into men and horses"
THAT reminds me- said the Cap
tain. "of ~ unusual experience with
some Of Mosbys men. / was I'm hos
pItal In Washington July 1864. when
Jubal Early made bis raid on the cap
itaI and little later ! started TO re-
turn 10 my command in the Shcnan-
doah valley, When we reached the
end Of the railroad from Ifarper's fer
ry to Winchester we had 10 take am
balances and horses to reach the front.
] was a little slow IN leaving the car
and as there was 10 room for me IN