Show A NEW YORK ARTIST A Metropolitan Bohemian Makes a Pleasant Stay Here Mr Chapin the New York artist has been spending a few days in our city On his way from California east he dropped down on us and meeting Dr Prentice with whom he had been acquainted ac-quainted in New Orleans determined to rett here instead of at some point east It is needless to say he has not been disappointed as his lengthened stay witness It is his first visit and he is both surprised and delighted de-lighted with the evidences of thrift and industry and cultivation that surround usHe is one of the pleasantest and most entertaining of gentlemen imaginable He is an old time habitue of New York and it is like a breath from olden days or the things one has read about in boyish hours to listen as he sits and talks He has a world of personal recollections re-collections of artists journalists actors and opera singers who have either blossomed into the perfect per-fect flower or after the trials and vicissitudes with which we are wont to associate the labors of the aspirants in the professions named have withered and come to an untimely end Personally acquainted with nearly all the old timers and belonging to the same clubThe Lotushe has heard the experience of their struggles from their own lips And yet Mr Chapin is not an old man by any mean One is impressed with his years from his familiarity with those about whom we have read so much and not from himself One of tneorganizers of The Lotus Clan the organisation of actors artists and journalist he has naturally come to be familiar with those of the profession pro-fession though we incline to the belief that he turns with a natural and irrepressible sympathy to the Bohemian element in New York It was a rude awakening that I received re-ceived said Mr Chapin when I stalled out in New York to make my mark You can understand that a young fellow in starting has nOmore money than is necessary and I was quite willing to make a penny by endeavoring en-deavoring to sell suggestion to one of the illustrated magazines there So I sketched hat I called the Freedmans Dream It represented a colored boy sleeping with a slate and arithmetic by his side and above him was a suggestion sugges-tion of the interior of the House of Representatives with a negro addressing tnose assembled and about whom were crowding the listening members I took it to the man who had charge of that department for Harpers Weekly and submitted it to him He said the idea was good but he doubted the wisdom wis-dom of using it I could not understand under-stand him but he said he would submit it to the proprietors and for me to call again I did so when I was informed in-formed that while my idea was excellent excel-lent it was not policy for them to use it Said he The idea is very good and TVJ no doubt that you and I wllljlive to as e it realized 1 a i1 a negro msiubw of Cd mgf63 but publc thought is not jet educated to a point where it will stand such a contemplation I had thought that it was only neces ° ary to have a goo thing to have it admitted but it was not so Then I took my idea to Frank Lslies where I was again complimented on the suggestion butJ said the man there talk is not our style That is just the thing for Harpers but we are on the other side I I told him what had occured at Harpers office Helaughed and remarked Well we must do what will pay and it is not wisdom to do somethings at times But I was thoroughly awakened and I no longer dreamed that a good thing on merit would win its way in this world There were too many conditions that hung to it and afrVcted it Continuing bespoke of the enormous enor-mous amount of money which some New York Writer made He said that Petrolum V Nasby Lock ac onetime I one-time in Germany wa < accosted by a man i who introduced himself as the one who wrote all the New York detective stories under the nom de plume of Stoke II Does it pay you to write that stuff inquired LOCK I make about 130000 a year said the author Thats all rot said Nasby Im a newspaperman newspaper-man myself and I could write that stuff by the yard Well its a fact responded Stoke Perhaps you could write it but there are many who try to and fail After some further talk Nasby agreed to write a chapter after dinner The time came and Nasby returned and admitted he couldnt do it So he paid the penalty in a bottle of wine The trouble is1t said the author of the detective stories that if I had a building on fire and the hero wanted to scape I would think nothing of having him pick up the piano throw it out of the window smash it up by jumping on it but he would save his life You couldnt do that you know but it is what takes with my readers Our readers will become better acquainted ac-quainted with Mr Chapin |