BOOK OF DRAWINGS By FRED RICHARDSON BEING A SELECTION FROM THOSE DONE FOR THE CHICAGO DAILY NEWS BOOK OF DRAWINGS BY FRED RICHARDSON BEING A SELECTION EROM THOSE DONE FOR THE CHICAGO DAILY NEWS CHICAGO PRINTED AT THE LAKESIDE PRESS MDCCCXCIX This selection of cartoons, posters, and other drawings, which have appeared in The Chicago Daily News Saturdays during the last J'ezv years, is now reduced in size and put in book form. Permission to use these drawings is by courtesy of Mr. Victor F. Lawson. CONTENTS The Virgin Year - A Calendar - Verses by W. G. Jackson "And to Think I Swore Off" The Town Clock - Verses by W. G. Jackson For Ground- Hog Dav - - . A Valentine - Those New Postage Stamps The Knave of Hearts - Verses by W. G. Jackson An Alphabet - - - - Verses by W. G. Jackson Easter - The Scoop of the Spring Poet Verses by W. G. Jackson House Renting Time - Springtime and Opening of Navigation For the Home Garden - High Times on the Desplaines The Cartoonist's Property Room Mother Goose Melodies (Goose island Edition Verses by W. G. Jackson In April and For the Spring Seed Catalogue - The Little Boy who Played Hookev An Interview with the Planetary System The Picnic in the Wild woods How to Speak a Piece - Dawn - - - The Call to War - The Desolation of War A Shade of Difference A [line Campaign - - The Peace Quest - The Tramp's Dream - Grand Fourth ot July Celebration New Pictorial Guide to Chicago To the Heroes of Santiago - December 31, 1 897 (anuarv 8, 1 898 lanuarv 7, I 899 November 6, 1 897 |anuarv 28, 1899 February 11,1 899 [anuarv 1 I , I 898 February 1 2, i 898 October 16, 1897 April 9, 1 898 March 5, 1898 April 1 5-, 1899 April 16, 1898 April 23, 1898 March z6, 1898 lanuarv 14, 1899 ) December 18, 1897 and March 19, 1898 April 2, 1898 May 13, 1899 November 13, 1897 May 20, 1899 May 27, 1899 May 7, 1898 April 30, 1 898 fune 1 8, i 898 September 11,1 897 June 4, 1 898 July 30, 1 898 June 26, 1 897 Unpublished July 10 and 1 7, 1 897 July 9, 1898 T The Peace Congress - In Sweet Preserving Time - End ot a Boy's Vacation One Day of Mother's Rest in the Country The Jilt .... ' ' Here' s to the Illinois " and Chicago Visits th Omaha Exposition - Not at the Exhibition - Books fur the Fall Trade From the Summer Resorts - Blowing Bubbles - When School Began Strictly Fresh - Diana in September The Ten Little Council Boys Verses by W. G. Jackson The Ail-Night Saloon For the Anti-Crueltv Society Her First Hallowe'en Party The Cat Show Bird's Eve Views - Opening of Fall Trade - rhe image Vendor and The Grip The Old Man who Lived in a Hat From the "Tempest" Their First Thanksgiving The Reign ot the Chrvsanthemum Circe - - - . March 11, 1 899 September 17, 1898 September 4, 1897 July 1 5, 1S99 March 5, 1898 October 1, 1898 Februarv 5, 1 898 October 9, 1 897 July 22, 1899 March 12, 1898 September I o, 1898 September 18 and 25, 1897 September 24, 1898 January 29, 1898 The Lion Hunt Verses by S. K. Kiser June Rondeau by W. H. A. Moore The Same Old Fairy Story - Transporting Cold Weather to Chicago In the Christmas Country The Three Fates The Three Magi 'ailpiece September 3, [898 April 22, 1 899 October 29, i 898 October 15, 1 898 March 20 and 27, [ 897 October 22, 1 898 February 19, 1 898 March 4, 1 899 - June 5, l 897 November 12, 1 898 November 5, 1898 April 24, 1897 Februarv 25, I 899 June 5, 1897 December 10, 1 898 January 30, 1 897 December 24, 1897 March 12, 1898 December 24, 1898 THE VIRGIN YEAR MARCH All in □ wild March morn- ing I heard the breezes And saw my hat go scud- ding sod in a puddle Fall; Men's mouths began to began to roll, And on that wild March morning I fear I warped my soul. APRIL In ihe balmy April days Bardlets wake and lilt their lay., Write their odelets, soft To the grasslets 'neath their feet. To the flowerlels, to the bndlets. To the calflets chewing Streamlets, frogltts, cloud- lets, birdlets Are extolled in pretty But the people hunting Keep on reading to-let The town 'i a clock where he who rubber! reads The passing hour in people and their deeds. VII o'clock: with tool-kit, hod and spade The toilers' squadrons pass in dress-parade. VIII o'clock: the dapper down-town clerk A hot-foot doth to heat his boss to work. IX o'clock: majestic, stately, slow, Our city-hall employes hall ward go. X o'clock: forth come the sprightly shoppers To price a storeful and expend some coppers XI o'clock: the chipper hull and hear Attune their pipes and claw the frenzied air. XII o'clock: the sounds of toil are hushed, While o'er the lea the jocund can is rushed. I o'clock: the free-lunch tiend doth stray, Toothpick in face, hard by some swell cafe. II o'clock: the maid of thrills and gushes To matinee from bonbon counter rushes. III o'clock: frail chappies, trim and pretty, I.ike ghosts of clothing dummies, haunt the city. * II II o'clock: the hour of girls and boys, When school-doors yawn and books g» V o'clock: the meek suburbanite Unto the depot takes his ei eniug rligh VI o'clock: the shop girls homeward hie Their souls abrim with thoughts of apple pie. NOVEMBER Ah, distinctly 1 remember, it was in the bleak November, And each separate (reeling member of the house- hold went below ; Eagetly we shook die fur- nace, vainly did we twist and turn us, Vainly tried to make it burn as it had burned 'Twas pay-day before through the stores Tired creatures were hus- tling by dozens and Mamma choosing neck- ties; papa pricing Young men getting hat- pins; fair maids buy- Eor 'twas just before Christmas when peo- And examine and buy what they know least THE SCOOP OF THE SPRING POET Up, Pegasus! Up, Pegasus! *Tis Spring and we must spring it, And stoop the weather and the bards Who into verse would sling it. Get up and dust, for you must trot Full fourteen laps of sonnet. And many a kite-shaped roundelay- Must have your hoof-marks on it. 'Tis true, a frosty, icy blast We meet where'er we turn us, But we tan catch the proper glow By g.iring in the furnace. Where birds should flit about the wold, The icicles are clinging, But there are pet canary birds To glad us with their singing. Ot flowers in field and woodland now There's not the slightest rumor, But in the florist's shop they bloom, At fifty cents a bloomer. The mossy banks are banked with snuw, Their ancient verdure wilting, But there are banks with long green bills That we may cull by lilting. So up, my nimble Pegasus! Get up and hump and show 'em How we can scoop all others with A springy, spring-sprung poem. PERHAPS THOSE ENTERPRISING LANDLORDS WILL HAVE TO RESORT TO SOMETHING LIKE THIS: L's a high railroad Running by our lop case- But its stock never gets Quite as high as the base- M is for Mangier, And also for Mud ; Just think it over— You'll drop with a thud. N is for Nellie, The lioness, who Is making a name Lionizing the zoo O is for Owl car, Whose conductor's a And _ whose patrons are In love or in liquor. HIGH TIMES ON THE DESPLAI NES THE PROPERTY ROOM OF THE CLEVER CARTOONIST MOTHER GOOSE MELODIES ( From the Goose Island Edition ) The tiger and the blind pig were lighting for the town; The coppers came and helped them, and did the thing up brown Some buy while chips, some buy reds. And some buy sodas and wink and nod their heads. There was a little man, and he had a little drag - But Oh ! it was strong and stout, stout, stout ; He went to the polls, and he scattered little rolls, And before he got through he won out, out, out. IN APRTL, BETWEEN SUN AND SHOWER FOR THE SPRING SEED CATALOGUE (the superannuated vegetable in the chair) " Now don't make my eyes too prominent, or show too many wrinkles " THE DREADFUL FATE OF THE LITTLE BOY WHO PLAYED -HOOKEY' This is my eye And this is my nose. And (his is the way Tiie alderman goes. And with his crooked money ran a crooked gambling-den. Paddy-cake, paddy-cake, Raker man, Make ns indictments as last as you can; Make them and mark them with " W. T." And tire them at Dudley and Hempy and me. — Adolf Kraus. Little Joe Leher Had a wheat comer tighter Than the finance of those who were shy, Then he put in his fist, Gave the bear's tail a twist. And said; " How is this for high? " He who would thrive must rise at five; He who has thriven may lie till seven ; He who in politics would land Will have to lie (o beat the band. DAWN Mugty-Wumpty sat on the fence And ktrpt politicians in suspense; But a!) the ward heelers and all the ward toughs Could never scare Mugty- Wumpty with bluffs. Dicker and bicker in stock ; I ran against a clock. I bought calls; down stock falls; Dicker and bicker in stock. THE CALL TO WAR The north wind doth blow. And we shall have snow. And what will the gripman do then? Poor thing ! With no vestibule He'll simply keep cool, While magnates to nickels do cling— Good thing ! i, 2, 3, 4, 5- I caught a thief aliv 6.7, 8, 9, 10, I let him go again. Hark! hark! The ward heelers bark, And candidates are seen; Some with drags, And some with jags, And some with the lengthy green. Little Boy Boodle, come blow in your coin ; There are votes in the council that yon can purloin; And 'twill do no harm, for our Little Boy Mayor With his veto can throw all your schemes in the air. THE TRAMP'S IDEA OF MR. DEBS' UTOPIAN PLAN NEW PICTORIAL GUIDE TO CHICAGO Pointing Out Many Sights and Places ot' Interest to the Stranger Within Our Gates A "GAMBLING HELL" h'ROM POLICE DESCRIPTIONS VISITING THE MUNICIPAL SLAUGHTER-HOUSE IN SWEET PRESERVING TIME N. B. — It is nearly half after eight and no supper in sight THE SIROCCO IN MADISON STREET WHY. WHEN A BOY IS SO HAPPY, LIKE THIS: THE FAMOUS BATH-HOUSE (RESTORED) GOING TO SEE THE PLACE WHERE THE TUNNEL CAVED IN ONE DAY OF MOTHER'S REST IN THE COUNTRY DRAWING FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH NOT AT THE EXHIBITION BY ARTISTS OF CHICAGO AN ANCIENT WINDMILL William Lorimer STILL LIFE Miss Jane Addams HELD UP. BILLY HASON'S |<[PLEV OM GAMES Appended To Which Are Suits lor Blind Pig, Open and Shut and Other Pjrtor Games. FALL OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. HERD. PECK, AUTHOR OF "THE AUDITORIUM AND OTHER ANNEXES - ALLEYS «•> STREETS. 100 Picturesque and Beautiful Views, of. Chicago. BOOKS FOR THE FALL TRADE BY CHICAGO AUTHORS A YARD OF PEACHES Geo. E. Cole WHEN SCHOOL BEGAN — AS WE REMEMBER IT HELPING PAPA Fitst Girl—'; I don't see how your staying In town all summer helped your father." Second Girl — "Why, I became engaged didn't I?" DIVINE PROOF He — " Are yon sure y e mc, sweetheart? " le — " Do you know s Sweeter? e-" I don't quite W. What does she look "Then I don't know DIANA IN SEPTEMBER " Dear, dear! I wonder if there can be anything the matter with my decoys ? NOT SO OLD AS SHE LOOKS Helen "That horrid Gilletl girl smokes cigarettes with her men friends." Margaret—'" Indeed ! Why, she's younger than I thought she was." THE TEN LITTLE COUNCIL BOYS THEN SHE WENT TO MOTHER'S Young Wife — " Aren't those Utile round biscuits cute, dear?" I made them all myself." Young Husband (golliac) — " Yes, they are just what I need. too. I lost three golf balls yesterday and they cost quite a bit." AT LAST " And now. Lord Anglais, you behold the boundless prairie. " Yes, by George— big enough for golf links." NOT A SUICIDE Second man | in horror) — " Heavens ! What are you doing? " First Man "Just getting in training for the Welsh rarebit season." AT THE WEDDING " Whal makes the bride limp so? I didn't know she was lame." " She's wearing yellow garters for her bridesmaids — and there are ten of them." ON THE LINKS He — " I've just been watching Miss De Belle's game. She had such a heautiful lie." Miss De Belle's Rival -" She usually does." AN IMPOSSIBLE CRIME Hied Anion (reading) — " Say, Chimmie, I tends dat dey licked B teller fei bringing whisky inier de Klondike. Wot d'ye tink o' dai?" Chimmie — " I I'ink dey 'd never h' give us de stripes." T. A.— "W'y?" Chimmie (with a sigh) — " We wouldn't h' got half-way dere wid dnt kind o' baggage along." NOT SO BAD Tattered Tompkins (with sobs) — "Trncky Rider has disgraced the profesh an* gone to work." Woeful Wiggins (reassuringly* — " Naw he ain'i, neider; he's got one o' deni city hall jobs." MEMBERS OF THE CHICAGO CAT CLUB THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER ( from Bird's Eye View of Events of the Week) INDICATIONS FOR THE OPENING OF AUTUMN TRADE I From Bird's Eye View of Events of the Week) GERMANY'S BIRTHDAY FETE ( From Bird's Eye View of Events of the Week) THE TEMPEST Ariel and Caliban (Miss Haswcll and Mr. Powers) : whi he found a garbage box thai 'erflowing with garbage. The gar- of the box, so she went and found a NCK upon a time the was sweeping her hoi was hump-backed and i bage refused to get oui ■Hector and she said : ollector, garbage collector, empty my garbage box; garbage won't get out, and I can't get my house clean to-day." But the garbage collector would not. So the old woman went a little farther and she found a ward inspector, and she said: " Ward inspector, ward inspector, kick garbage collector; garbage col- lector won't empty garbage box, garbage won't get out, and I can't get mv clean to-day." t the ward inspector would not. So the old woman went a little farther and she came to a superintendent of streets and alleys, and she said: "Superintendent of streets and alleys, superintendent of streets and alleys, throw out ward inspector; ward inspector won't kick garbage col- lector; garbage collector won't empty garbage box; garbage won't get out, and I can't get my house clean to-day." t the superintendent of streets and alleys would not. So the old went a little farther and she found a commissioner of public works, and she said: " Commissioner of public works, commissioner of public works, poke up superintendent of streets and alleys; superintendent of streets and alleys won't throw out ward inspector; ward inspector won't kick garbage col- lector; garbage collector won't empty garbage box; garbage won't get out, and I can't get mv house clean to-day." But the commissioner of public works would not. So the old woman went a little farther and she found a mayor, and she said: " Mayor, mayor, nudge commissioner of public works; commissioner of public works won't poke up superintendent of streets and alleys; super- intendent of streets and alleys won't throw out ward inspector; ward inspector won't kick garbage collector; garbage collector won't empty gar- box; garbage won't get out, and I can't get my huuse clean to day. " But the mayor would not. So the old woman went a little farther and ! (bund some people and she said: " People, people, jump on the mayor; mayor won't nudge commis- works; commissioner of public works won't poke up super- intendent of Street* and alleys; superintendent of streets and alleys won't throw out ward inspector; ward inspector won't kick garbage collector; collector won't empty garbage box; garbage won't get out, and I can't get mv house clean to-day." So the people began to jump on the mayor; the mayor began to nudge ir of public works ; the commissioner of public works began to poke up the superintendent of streets and alleys; the superintendent of streets and alleys began to throw out the ward inspector; the ward in- spector began to kick the garbage collector; the garbage collector began to sling garbage; the garbage began to get out of the garbage box, and the old now stands some show of having a clean house some dav in the nd by. J K THE THREE MAGI