Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-11
ALAN |. LOvEY
PASSES AWAY
Clever Cartoonist Dies in Reno,
New, After a Brief IIl-
ness There.
CAUSE. PNEUMONIA IA.
Fatal Illness Seized Film While oh the
Train Between ELY and Reno
Last Week,
Photo by Munroe.

Reno, New, March l1.---Alan LoveS.
the we'll known caitoonist, died here
at / O'Clock this morning of pnsu-
nonia- l1ovey has been employed on
the Salt Lake Herald for the past 10
years, except ior a short time when
nc wSs connected with the Ruess Inter
Mountain. He leaves Il wife and one
child.
Everyone in America has had a
laugh or two with Lovey in his day,
provided he has glanced through tho
leading magazines Occasionally Lovey
touched up she vital national pro blems
with his pen and pencil, and when
he did so thu whole nation had a
chance TO smile with him, for they
We're ccpiously copied.
Here In the west his cartoons have
been known for decade, and have
become household friends TO the COM
munity, In Salt Lake today the men
who knew him personally are telling
each other that Lovey is dead, and
it is much more than a mere passing
sympathy that Is expressed in their
concern over his untimeIy taking
away Lovey ought not to have passed
yet, for he was Just reaching his
prime, His cartoons We're gathering
fame each year, and II was only last
having them copied in large posters
and pasted up on the city's bill boards
He died when his future scanned
brightest and his prospects most sta
BILE.
WIFE AT BEDSIDE.
Behind the Immediate circumstances
OF LoVeys death, Is a comment on
present industrial conditions. At his
bedside was his wife. who had rushed
forward from Salt Lake when the
news came that no was taken III on
the train near Reno. and it WIS for
her and their child that Lovey had
sought other fields than that OF his
professional work in salt Lake, Lovey
found himself with n wife and child
facing the condition most of the peo-
pie In his class or labor are facing,
and he was forced to seek other re-
enumeration than a generous salary to
fnlhll his obligations as a father and
proNder, Nevada with It's ready
money. and it's opportunities appealed
10 him. and In the hope OF gaining Il
competence for his fmlly he left Salt
Lake few short months ago. fell
low artist, A. N. Dutton, went with
him. and together they began "a series
OF cartoons of Nevada life and people,
Their task was interrupted a week
ago, and Dutton found himself con-
fronted with the undertaking Of sit
ting by his friends bedside for week
while his life ran Its rapid course to the
end, His wife WILL return to Salt Lake
with the body They have a year-old
child here. where Mr.. 1Iovey's invalid
mother, and brother Edward Ioyey,
also reside.
AN IDEAL SON,
The fatal Illness seized Mr. Loyey on
train between Ely ana Reno last Mon
day He was taken or the train at
Rcno unconscious, and the case was d.
aenOsed as yphotd-pneumofia. Tues
day LOvey rallied, and seemed 10 have
good chance Ia recover until Satnr-
dag. when heart collapse started the
sinking spell which resulted Ia his
death this morning. 1do WAS conscious
10 the and. and died with the smile on
his lips which has always characterized
his expression. His invalid mother VIII
miss him He loved hor, and WAS frc-
oueutly seen on the streets wheeling
her In a specially constructed chair,
Al each Press club show he WAS sure
% bring her whsrltng her chair In
side door and leaving her sitting III an
| aisle while he watched her applaud his
efforts on the stage, with fellow Press
cub members
Mr. Lovey came 10 Salt Lake ovol
40 years ago from California. lie go,
his newspaper start Ia SAN Francisco
where he was given a chance 10 draw
rictures fnr advertisements such AZ
roproduc lions ~ articles offered for
| sale. ..,,,,,,,,
HOW HE ACHIEVED FAME.
I'm salt Lake ho started 10 attempt n
| hetter class Of drawings, and he first
| achieved fame on the PAT LIlnnan So
| rles whioE kept the whale town laugh
| mg II, 1885. Lannan took his meals In
| NE Vienna cafe and I.oyey has COM
| udea To friends that he used to spend
almost all OF his ueasre salary as a
,hst be could Hlt and study the facial
eharaefellstlcs Of his Arst subject. In
| 1901 Lovey wont 20 the national Demo-
| cratic con Nau1ss, ANA IN 1906 Was .