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Comic Artists Who Earn
Big Incomes From Smiles

said. an additional ten or twelve
thousand dollars. Some of those who
are in position TO know what they
are talking about say that Bud Fisher,
who was glad to get a job at SIS per
week just seven years ago. now has
an income far exceeding 100000 per
annum-and. as has been mentioned,
this man is lnly 81 years Old.
or course the surprising financial
success Of men like Butcault and
Fisher means the existence OF some
thing which the ordinary artist or
humorist does not possess-and that
Is commercial instinct. the business
ability 10 develop an idea along re-
munerative line.. And To this asset
Mr.. Fisher ascribes his present condI-
ton.
How much Rudolph Dirks makes
out of his "Katzenjammer Kids" is
not known to a certainty by the out
side world or even by the insiders. but
current report is that he receives
regular salary of $4,000 a year. and
in all probability this is not far wrong
An interesting story about those same
Kids" by the way. is told along
newspaper row: that long ago Dirks
happened to pick up an old book pub
lished in Germany several generations
since and in one of the pages found
the idea which suggested the whole
tZenjammer" family. It Is by just
such accidental happenings that most
of the comic artists have made Their
most striking successes.
Eugene Gilmore Carr had an IN
usually inauspicous beginning in the
work for which he is now so we'll
known. He is a New York boy, born
here on Manhattan Island in 1881.
and all through high school he was
drawing pictures more often than
studying mathematics or physics.
When he left school he went straight
downtown TO the office OF the now
defunct Recorder and asked for a
job. He got il, but held it only a
short time. when he thought he saw
a better opening in photographic work.
He landed his second job in that field,
but quit in week because he didn't
like 10 have his hands continually
gummed up with paint and inks. Then
he went back to the Recorder and
made his first drawing on a certain
day. 1t appeared the next morning,
and when he reported for work that
noon he was filled with joy and pride.
As he was going up the steps into
the building he met one Of the editors
coming down, who said casually:
Say, Carr. it's lucky your first
drawing for the Recorder was printed
today"
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black as to the soles. Only her shoes
are not visible in the picture. because
she took them Off when diving. The
suit is in one piece. but will never for
that reason come under the restricting
clauses sometimes directed against
blthing suits of this kind. The collar,
skirt and sleeves are finished with deep
scallops. The hat is OF the same black
and white striped silk. with a back
bow with long POINTS to finish 1t of
The suit Is shirrcd about the waist.
1t was the spirit of '76 which
prompted Selma Mantell to select
costume which should call out the
finest feeling Of Colonial days. Miss
Mantell comes o. an old family that
has never for years departed far from
Plymouth Rock. Her ancestors had
n cabin de luxe on the Mayfower and
being Of such Old Colonial stock she is
usually influenced by that patriotic
spirit which led her to take red. white
blut as tllt 'osbTS lbI ItT uTtSS
There are scallops on the collar and
sleeves. and the skirt, which is of white
taffeta is finished with blue braid.
The Colonial hat turned up on one
side is made of pleated blue taffeta
and lined with white.
Marion Davies also p sd with four
other girls on teeter totter-which
shows her to be a well balanced young
woman. Selma Mantell. whose Col
NAL costume has been described. is
on the right. and on the left is Mar
jorie Bentley Miss Davies then had
on costume of green satin. Down
the front is row of gold buttonc.
The yoke and the sleeves are trimmed
in e Id braid. The hat. which looks
ike an old fashioned stovepipe. is also
in green satin.
Marjorie Bentiey's skirt Is fiounced
and purple braid edges all the ruf,le,
as we'll as sleeves and collar. Their
is a vestlike effect fin hcl wa satin
covered buttons. T. slrr.iC,n
young women who went down to hav
their pictures taken in these new
dresses in order that the models migat
go all through the country before tho
season opened decided that the suits
were so beautiful they did think /, a
shame that they ever should have -
be wet. But maybe they won't be
wet after all
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domestic life as shown in the daily
comings and Goings of the family -
fruitful field for the comic artist.
Grace Drayton, who draws "Dimples"
and other Riddles. has been making
pictures ever since her own pudGy
little hand was large enough to ho'd
n pencil. Yet the first opportunity
she obtained To do any work of the
kind that was remuncrativc came
through drawing an adv rtscment for
manufacturer OF canned soups. Be
fore that time. however. she had pub
lished several books of pictures about
children, and so was known to small
circle Of appreciative followers Since
that time. less than a decade ago, Mrs.
Drayton has seen her drawings be-
come familiar wherever peop'e buy
postcards, engravings, chromos and
etchings portraying child life.
She was born in Philadelphia thirty
years ago. the daughter of George
Gebbie. a publisher of books. At first
she signed her drawings with the
pseudonym "Grace Weiderseim." Four
years ago she married w. Hayward
Drayton, Wall Street man, and since
has lived in their Park avenue home.
which has no studio, In fact Mrs,
Drayton has no studio anywhere,
When she feels like making a picture
she sits down in whatever room shn
happens to be and commences t.
draw. For her earlier books verses
were written by sister of Mrs.
Drayton, but the latest volume OF pic
lures contains verses written by her
self
Homer was horn in seven cities,
and nobody 80 far interviewed knows
in how many Winsor McCay first
saw light Of day. According to one
story McCay was a country boy bred
In the atmosphere of Michigan. who
learned to draw in the normal school
at fpsilanti and got his first art
commission az job at designing
labels for tomato cans.
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COSTUMES TO BE SEEN ON THE BEACHES THIS SUMMER

a year, corralling a minimum of $780,
900 meanwhile. in all proba bility he
doesn't sigh-at least very much--for
the days Of yore and tomato cans.
Other comic artists have gone into
the work of making films for movies.
They are paid various prices-just as
low prices Of course as they can he
prevailed upon to accept. Sidney
Smith is said to have done one local
movie series out in Chicago at the
rate Of So cents a foot which is con-
sidered very moderate pay. In all
probability he wouldn't dream If doing
the same thing at the same price to-
day. Bray is said to receive $3.50 per
foot for film and to make one 500
foot reel each month. a tidy income at
the rate Of $4,000 or $4,000 per year.
according to the length Of vacations
he cares to take. In a general way it
is said that $3.50 per foot is very fair
payment to a comic artist who draws
a movie film and there is an i'm
mense amount of work in turning one
out.
Hy Mayer also is we'll known in the
better class of vaudeville houses for
his movie stunts and so Is Fred Nan
kivel. Other Of the popular humorous
artists are trying cut this newly
opened field from tim to time. The
average man, however, who Is sue
cessful with his drawings seems to he
contented to draw right along at
salary exceeding his present needs.
thus escaping the strain and worry OF
motion picture endeavor.
Such a one is Maurice Ketten, who
started out in life as a portrait painter.
1t was while sojourning in Denver
about fifteen years ago that he first
tried his hand at a newspaper comic
and submitted it TO a Denver paper.
The picture was snapped up, used i'm
mediately and Ketten had a steady job
and a regular salary on his hands be-
fore he knew 1t and without any in
tention on his part of acquiring either.
He settled down In the Colorado city
for three or four years. when a New
York paper called him East. and here
he has remained since then with that
same paper. lie makes a regular
number of drawings a week and of all
that he has done thus far The Day Of
Rest" has proved to be the most popu-
ar He has been running this idea
once a week for more than ten years;
he actually has hung more than 500
cartoons on that single hook-and he
has enough in the back OF his head
10 provide 500 more IL his public
shows no sign of WEAKNESS. Mr.. Ket-
ten is married, lives in the city and
keeps regular office hours. doing his
work steadily and methodically.
There is another and totally differ
ent class of artists who make humor-
Gus piCtures-men ike T. :. Sullivant.
J. K. Shaver W. O. Wilson. c. II.
Forhell, Percy Crosby. Alexander sass.
Drucki.eb and c. +. Peters. whose
drawings in line or wash are familiar
TO readers of the finest magazines and
weekly periodicals. Some Of these
men receive as high as $3.50 for
double page and $50 for a single page
layout.
The men who do these humorous IL
lustra;ior for the high c.ass period-
Gals have TO conform TO art standards
far more exacting of course than those
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4 picture # his attracted the
attention Of a New York newspaper
which brought him to this city at a
small salary on trial. He hadn't been
here long when other newspapers rec
o:nized his work and bid for it. Blu;
the paper at whose invitation he first
had come to New York raised his pay
time and again. until IL reached sl15
week. when the proprietor jammed
on the emergency brake and told the
art editor to quit the raising habit.
Luck continued to come Winsor Nc
Gays way. When told that SITS per
was about all he'd get for working
several hours a week he received an
offer from a rival paper to go on is
stan mt 5000 week, ii is said and
judged it was up to him to make a
move.
lie was Nne of the first comic ar
lists. II, indeed, not the very first. To
see possibilities in the motion picture
business for his particular brand Of
goods. without neGlecting tn We
enough To draw his salary every Sat
urday night, McCay started right ia
To study the teChNic of the NOV,
drama from start to finish. After he
had mastered it from protector to
screen and back to the box office he
sat him down to draw moving pic
ture reel.
Some idea of the size # this task
may be Comprehended when the reader
remembers that in order to have a
character merely bend his elbow and
scratch n shoulder REQUIRES the maxi
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young woman.

OF existence, vanished on the face OF
the earth After thinking over the
situation few minutes Carr decided
that If he really was a second Jonah
and of this he had little doubt-he
would make "A record as such. II he
was going to bust everything he came
in contact with he'd bust something
worth while. So he came back to New
York. picked out what was at that
time one of the largest and most pros
porous papers in the country, ana got
another job. But his luck had turned.
The paper didn't bust" and Gene
Carr just kept on climbing.
Fontane Fox, whose drawings are
Wei known to r,Atcrs of many bright
, wspapers was born in Louisville,
:. 20. in 1854. Fox relates that at the
age of seven he nearly completed a
mural decoration which caused con-
siderable comment at the time.
"Our parlor" he continues. had
just been repapered in a solid color. OF
a tint lght enough to make a very
good background for a drawing.
Starting al one corner Of the wal |
drew a double header freight train
consisting of more than zoo cars ami
six cabcoses. and extending around
three sides Of the room. I had lust
started 70 draw the clouds of smoke
naturallv mourning out of the locomo-
five when my father and mother un-
expectedly entered. Then to my sur
prise and sorrow I was hurried TO the
bathroom. where n promising artistic
career received its very greatest set
back.
.Of course I entered college-In-
diana University il was-and of course
I quit when | had the offer of a job
to draw pictures for a Louisville paper
at the unbelievable salary of fifteen
per. Later | worked for another
Louisville paper. and when | had the
chance To 20 to a Chicago paper I
iumped nj it,"
The drawn character OF 'Thomas
Edison. Jr.." with which Fox has been
identified. is the result of something
he saw a small boy do one day. This
small bows mother and another woman
were standing On the sidewalk trading
the latest choice morsels of neighbor-
hood scandal when the youngstcr
slipped away on a tour Of investiga-
ton. He went up an alley. and sud.
denly reappeared with the dirtiest
most dilapidated old derby hat any
body ever saw damned down over his
curls.
81 stood there watching the scene"
Mr.. Fox continues. "and when the
little chan came into view his mother
nearly threw a III. Then she hurried
him across the street to n barber shop
drawinp of this bit of actual life and
with much apprehension turned it in
TO the art department of the Chicago
paper where IL was used on the front
page The managing editor told me to
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-02
Young Women of the Chorus Afford
a Glimpse of Some of the Bathing
Novelties Fashion Has Decreed

-HE young ladies who are seen In
the smartest of the bathing
J. suits To he wopn during the
approaching summer are cou-
-oreous and have taken trouble t. let
choir sex have this advance view of
ub,i they w.N be expected to wear
IN the water during their summer swim
ming Bu, they really are not as he
-o,c rs they seem. They did not in
the chill spring days 60 down to Long
neach and stretch themselves In the
sand nor venture into the chill water.
Asa matter of fact their posing was
don, in a steam heated photograph
gallery
For they are the young ladies Of
"Chin Chin" and Fred Stone would not
be guilty Of any such imprudence as
10 allow them 20 venture into the cold
Atlantic So far in advance of the reg
Mir bathing season. They are his i'm
por,an: allies in the success of the
pay at the Globe Theatre, so when
they were eager to show their sisters
what the mode In bathing suits was
10 be Mr. stones iniul.;lons were
that they should hang their clothes on
a hick ny limb and not go near the
water
So they went To photograph gall
.ery. Think of an actor or an actress
in photograph gallery. What in the
world would he he expected to do
there When Wilton I.ackaye saw a
photograph Of william II. Crane sit
ting with his hand on his head porting
over some mighty weighty tome he
did a., his reading in photograph
gallery Bu; that was at the Lambs
When Evelyn Conway came TO
ordering her suit for the water she
selected one Of dark blue satin. 1t is
IN three founCes. which are finished
with a broad hem. There are klmono
sleeves and a detachable overjacket Of
red satin The hat is of dark blue
satin fnisaed in red.
Marion Davies has a simple little
checked bathing suit which will prob
ably attract less attention than the
awning over the clubhouse piazza.
For her checks are black and white.
So are her shoes. which are white as
20 the tops, edged with black satin, and
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Continued from sirth Page.

Little doub,ful!y, for he was wholly in
exp FENCED.
Put a border around this photo
graph" sad the hard hearted art
editor
F.sa finished the border with neat
ness a"l despatch. For year he was
kept ll.y on routine work and then
an ii O. struck him-whlch resulted
mex, c.. IN The first Of the Mutt and
JEFF PICTURES. That was in 1908,
when he was - years old The paper
printed the sketches and within few
hours san Francisco was chucklirg
over t-um. This first venture into
original work was a ten strike from
the be-nnng Fisher was taken OFF
ordinary work IN the art department
and told u devote himself to Mutt
and jeff lie did so, day after day,
and at III end Of thirty days another
san Francisco paper took him away
from his first employer by means of
an Increase n salary considerably be-
You'd the slj he had been receiving
per week.
A year later another offer OF in
creased pay brought him to New York
and he has remained here since 1909
with growing income. until OF recent
years he Is said to have been paid
d 'dIh'y ~ $4,000 per year for the
comes alone But that is by no means
all Of Bad Fishers income. In fact,
reports are 20 the effect that not long
ago he turned down an offer of 81. 900
per Week for the exclusive use of
M4't and jeff" as there was still
better offer in view. Be this as it
may the fact remains that the humOr
u the idea which struck him late
one night Hut in San Francisco seven
years ago, has proved to be a gold
nine
N"rH Mr. outcault had made BUS
YER brown famous various mercan-
"'e concerns AT once saw the ad-
l"fA.HS ya'l" latent in the charac-
"'s and lrrlngcd with Outcault to
pay '" a.. use Of the name. There
upon burst on the country Buster
Brown -'pck.ngs, Buster Brown"
suspended. and many other articles
u 4...i". us"-from every sale of
""''" ''.'ult received dividend.
L'Ne".-" Mr. Fisher reaped a har-
s''' 49," Mutt and Jeff" one
nav ~ .- Office desk is nearly
nae! '.'. tmp!"s Of Mutt and JEFF"
pp'- Mate Ind jeff" cigar lighters,
'N' MI ANDY bearing pictures IF
We st... sr,'osque figures, bottle
oP'"'. mo1r.cd after them, and other
t'". Each year is published a
u''N Mutt and jeff" cartoons,
VIZ" are distributed by newspapers
o. prom U"s and he gets a royalty
t''" every 70 py. In 1914 it is said
."'' '.'"'N ~ the books were so dis
p'N'I -, Hn' this is not all: an en-
l''.h1 manufacturer Of plaster
'''bHrrd for Mutt and Jeff''
''.''.''-, and up to date l5O. 900
nav" n'.H sold.
Last "' by no means least are
~, '~ localities. At present there
"', '.> theatrical companies through
O., ''H'ry playing a musical
"a Mutt and Jeff", m ton
81, ''..t bring in additional roy
n. .l' l'ul Fisher himself ap-
in ' 'N"n'y-s.X weeks per year
'.."' earning thereby. 1t is
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we'll as in the matters OF speed and
versatility; but tending to destroy
technic.
Tcchnlc. however. was not what
Sterrett was after. He was study.!;
human nature and at the same time
developing n technic OF his own.
Sterrett's idea was that the funnI. -
thing in the world is mankind-cX-
ccpting womankind-and that po?-
trayal of the little idiOsynCrasies ut
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LOCAL AFFAIRS.

Maryland Agricultural College Base
Ball Club IL scheduled for a game
with the Western Maryland College in
this city On May rs.
Until this spring skirts might have
been described as the straight and
narrow path; now they are going to
b. the broad highway.
Captain Weigle, Of Company H, had
5S men at drill practice on Monday
night, which shows that the new en-
listed men are taking an interest in
Thu company
Sometimes daughter goes to church
in the morning and mother goes TO
church in the evening because there
isn't enough hair i'm the house to per
nit both to go together.
ivan Ill. Hoff, assignee of mort
gagee, sold on March II, the Freder-
ick Harver home and the property
known as the Frey Harver home,
both near Frizellburg, to Mr.. George
WI Albaugh.
Rev. Paul D. Yoder, the pastor
elect Of the Union Bridge charge Of
the Reformed Church, will preach at
Union Bridge, Sunday at 1890 a. m.,
and at Baust, at 2.30 p. m. Y. p. So
ciety, 73O p. NJ.
Most OF the holidays this year are
near neighbors of Sunday. Wash
ingt0n's Birthday fell on Monday;
Memorial Day, Independence Day, and
Labor Day will BE- observed on Mon
day, and Christmas falls on Satur-
day.
Arrangements have been completed
for spelling bee and social to be held
Saturday night at Firemen's Hall, Ar
cadia, under the auspices of the
Ladies' Auxiliary Of the Arcadia Vol
unteer Fire Company, Of which Mrs.
Mary Benson il president.
Mr.. Charles A Runkles, of Mt
Airy, who for number Of years has
been one OF the vestrymen Of St
James Protestant Episcopal church
Mt Airy, attended the meeting OF
vestrymen held at the Bishop
house in Baltimore yesterday
The people of the United States are
the greatest coffee drinkers in The
world Last year we imported more
than billion pounds and used more
than ten pounds apiece. In 1894, the
per capita consumption was So
pounds; ia 1874, GIG pounds; and in
1864, 3.T6 pounds.
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Vehicles and Other Farm Ma
chinery and indictments.

The LION BUGGY, a high grade
buggy at MEDIUM PRICE. When
you buy the Lion Buggy you gel the
best for your money.
The FAMOUS MILBURN WAWON.
Durable and easy running. The best
built.
The ADRIANCE BINDERS and
MOWERS, known everywhere fer
their durability and light draft.
OLIVER, ROLAND and SYRACUSE
PLOWS and repairs.
The REED or KALAMAZOO RID
ING CULTIVATORS.
WOOD FRAME HARROWS, best
material, all oak frame lining, full
angle steel in one piece. Teeth "A
inches long, from to 9 inches long
II than in most other harrows; All
sizes. Price As cents per tooth.
Can furnish Guards, Sections, $751;
for all Binders and Mowers as per
orders.
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+. y. DIFFENDAL, Manager.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAR. l9, l9l!
Sale Register.

March 90 IL m. Stock and Farming Implements.
Chris o. Zepp on road from Hughes Shop to
Pleasant Valley
March 20, u m, horse. 2 cows, brood sow and
farming implements. Geo w. Cushing miles
north W. Taylorsville, on Westminster and Mount
Airy Road. F. A. Crawford. Auctioneer.
March e. 10 o'clock, a. m, Horses, 2 Mules, 10
Mad horned Cattle, all necessary Farming Imple-
ments Household and Kitchen Furniture. Levi
Id Hull, mile east of Markers Mill. J. N. o.
Smith. Auctioneer-
March %. 1915. at 10 a. M. ~ miles from New
Windsor and Va mile to Wakefield Station. David
w. Snader.
March Is, II M. horse, 2 cows. farming imple-
ments and farm of 20 acres Lola WI Jones. on
the Magin Mill Road. between Magin's Black
smith Shop and Washington Road. F. A. Craw-
ford. Auctioneer.
March D. | D. M, 3 acres Of land improved BY
large and comfortable dwelling house, barn and
other out-buildings, situated on Deer Park Road,
miles West Of FinksburE. g. Elmer Wampler.
March Is. at u NJ. sharp. horses, farming i'm
elements and household goods of the late a. TX.
Myers, near FrizeIlburg. Mrs. "a. TX. Myers and
H K Myers. Administrators. William Warner,
Auctioneer.
March a. Stock and Farming Implements.
Anna Mary Fisher. near New Windsor.
March 80. 8 a. m, Large sale Of horses, cows,
hogs, and farming implements j. Elmer Myers,
on road from Pleasant Valley to Fr1zellburg. about
midway between each y. M o. Smith, Auct-
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1920 EQUITY.
In the Circuit Court for Carroll County.

In the Circuit Court for Carroll County.
Westminster Deposit q Trust Company. body
corporate, Mortgage, Charles E. Fink, At
torney and Agent named in said Mortgage. w.
The Miller Bros Company. body corporate.
Mortgagor.
Ordered this 18th day Oh March, A. I'D. l9l5.
BY the Circuit Court for Carroll County. sitting Us
Court of Equity that the sale Of the real estate
torney and Agent named In the above mentioned
mortgage to make said sale be ratified and con-
firmed. unless cause TO the contrary thereof be
shown On or before the 18th day of April next.
provided copy of this order be inserted in some
newspaper printed in Carroll County, Maryland.
aforesaid once In each OF three successive weeks
before the 18th day of April, next
The report states the amount OF sale to be
seventeen thousand. three hundred dollars.
OSCAR d. GILBERT, Clerk
marc VI OSCAR ID. GILBERT Clerk
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Comptroller Emerson c. Harring-
ton has announced the quarterly dis
tribution OF funds for public edu-
cation throughout the State. Carroll
county receives total or $9,sSO.83,
divided as follows: Public school tax
$7,793-78, school book fund 81, 162.O5,
and approved high schools 1925.
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WANTED.
4 < x X = x x = x < = y NJ

WANTED Reliable white girl or
woman to cook and do general house
work State wages expected. Good
home to right party. Address J. L.
Gies, Reisterstown, Md. mar 52t