Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-01-17
HEPPNER RLAGKMAN.
Oregon BOY Is Making Good on New
york Newspapers.
Sunday Oregonjan.l

way, is cutting ice here in New York.
haven't discovered him. He is dis
covering himself He drew this cartoon
for me to put in The Oregonian. 1t i
good for our feelings to know that an
other man from Oregon is pushing OIL
and up and we'll to the front in the rank
of artists and writer's in this maelstron
were name and fame are fought for.
Homer Davenport, who loves hi
birthplace, Silverton. Or, better thar
any other spot on the face of the earth
has name that is known as far al
civilization goes He used to draw for
| The Oregonian. He now works on the
Daily Mail here at fabulous salary
and only really enjoys himself at bis
New Jersey farm. J, J. Montague, who
a few years ago was on the editorial
staff OF The Oregonan, another Oregon
boy, now has full charge of the Even
ing journal, one OF w. Il. Hearst =
most important issues.
They are beginning to think in New
York that Oregon breeds good stuff in
the man line. Here is another one of
Oregon's sons, young Heppner Black.
man, born in Heppner, son of Henry
Blackman (once Internal Revenue Col
lector at Portland, and now Commls-
sioner from Oregon TO the jamestown
Exposton.) Hep" rs his friends
cali him. is nephew of Henry Hepp-
ner, for whom the town of Heppner
was named. Hep" was born there "a
years ago. He has been here only
three months and already his work is
commanding attention in some Of the
most sagacsus editorial sanctums, Mr..
Cham berlan, head of the Hraret
editorial departments, sent for "Hep"
the other day, but that is another story
By the time this letter is published
there will be something more to say on
that topic.
1t was going to tell YOU what "Hep"
has accomplished during the little
while he has been IN New York-how
he is successfully butting his artistic
way into the newspaper field. He has
the talent. He has the spunk. he has
the grit. He has the energy. They are
looking for such fellows all the time.
They are just as anxious to get them as
the fellows are to get placed. His ex-
perience tells volumes to all the ambi
tious Young men and young women who
have their eyes set on coming to great
city to seek their future Success is
ahead of every one of them who will
begin right and who is made of the right
kind of stuff. 1t is no chance matter.
It is straight road. and hope 1 can
point a moral and transcribe a rule
worth remembering by recounting the
'tory of Hep" Blackman's rise IN
Gotham.
Hep" was the first white boy born
n Heppner after the town Was incorpo.
ated. That occurred in 1882. His dad
vas Mayor OF the town at the moment,
10 "Hep" WAS ushered into this world
He graduated at the
1eppner High School in 1899, and
.fterward attended the Portland High
school; and subsequently took a course
n Armstrong; Business College. Next
le studied law at Heppner in the Office
# G. + Redfeld, and WAS ready to take
is law examination, but had not yet
cached the age limit for eligibility.
lie worked as typo on the Heppner
iazette under Colonel John Water
nelon Reddington, and in that publica-
ion appeared his first drawings. Then
70 went to San Francisco, where he
'orked as private secretary for Judge
p. G. Cambel for five years. and during
he same time studied art under the
'artingtons, and, at length, he worked
lghts in the art-room of the San Fran
isco Call. Here is where he really got
is first important start and began to
how cleverness that counted in his
omic cartoons and ideas generally.
.ast February he started on his bril-
ant series of 'epitaphs" on well-Bnown
haracters in the San Francisco BulIe-
10, and just three weeks before the
the first of these fine, tell
ng, strong and irresistably droll
tombstones" was published in the
'ulletin. They were running when the
robbed the boy of ali he had {
nd all his chance in the Golden Gate
ity. Artist Cahill, also of the fated
ity, came to New York, and "Hep"
anne here, too, just three months ago.
He 'lugged around cowboy pictures,
mericks and comics of all sorts, and
egan to get few things published,
hen the World seemed to like him,
ut it did not give his pictures enough s
pace to show them up well. Other {