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Show HOMER DAVENPORT IS ill DEATH Great Cartoonist Develops Pneumonia While Making Sketches of Disaster. Lx- International News Service). NEW YORK, May 2. Homer Calvin Davenport, one of Hie greatest cartoonists cartoon-ists of his generation and ranked in f ordefntuess as the Briccossor oil Tom x.:i. died today of pneumonia after a vlo.rl illness. .Ntr. Davenport's Inst works xvcre liis cartoons upon Mio Titanic disaster. ETo finished o:r n week ago, and i lieu bur-nod bur-nod to a ooaxby restanranl for dinner. He had an eogageinejit to lo tluj circus, and was i moot friends .it the home o( Mrs. Ncitb N. Gochran to z" to t he counl ry v, ith them. t dinner in Bttid ho foil he was on the verge of s nervous breakdown, when ho arrived Mrs. Cochran's friends had sono and be waited for their re-Mirn, re-Mirn, hut lalor he dci ided not. to 8C company thorn, and aOCOpted an i n vi latum to remain al f rrt. Cochran's homo. She had known him since boy; hood, and treated bim as one of hex own children. Ho refused fo have n physician and ?oni for i masseur. The maHFeur di covered that the cartoonist was very ill a ii.i physicians wore called. Dr. Bayner tooK' charge of him, Associated iiili li.ni were Dr Sill Wiley and Or. Brown, the latter a specialist in pneumonia. In tho delirium tliat ensued, t he cartoonist car-toonist xvorke.i on Titanic pictures, uFitui tho bedclothes a a drawing board. His condition1 became vrorno until lie lapsed into ancOttJBCiousUOBS and breathed l" last at 7 o'clock this evening. He leaves a widow and Ihrro chil-dren, chil-dren, Homer, dr., 17 years old, Mildred lo and ilori;i 10. Mr. :in.J Mrs. Davenport Daven-port separated a few years npo, retaining re-taining tho custodj of the chDdren. A stepmother and five listers reside in Oregon. Tho interment will prob abl;, be in. that stale. |