| Show GREAT CARTOON ARTIST GREAT INTEREST IS BEING TAKEN IN HIS engagement TO APPEAR HERE davenport met with al most royal welcome in his native state great interest Is being taken in tho coming engagement of homer daveni port tho great american cartoonist who gives an illustrated talk on tho power of a cartoon at the tabernacle next monday evening from the sale of reserved scabs scats it Is very probable that thera will lie a large audience present to accord the great artist nn enthusiastic reception in his talk davenport gives some very graphic accounts of his meetings with some of the prominent statesmen and citizens of the country such as the lafe senator M A hanna admiral dewey and many of the public officers ot the united states an amusing incident Is related by him in his visit to the hon wm E gladstone of englard Engl aad one characteristic of sir davenporte davenports Daven ports lecture Is that be talks to audience as he would talk to an individual with that unassuming and unaffected way which is typical of the westerner on his tour the great cartoonist visit ed the small towns of oregon in tbt willamene Will amete valley where ho was born and raised the reception tendered him at those places was equal to that or even excelled the receptions given a returning conquering hero by the russians E A pond who Is accompanying compa nying mr davenport as manager stated that in little towns of fifteen hundred people about awen ty uve hundred would go and see and hear the oregon web footed cartoonist where all the people camo from and where they went mr pond says he could not tell but every one only wanted to welcome the cartoonist of tho town of silverton oregon and new on monday afternoon mr davenport will be the guest of lion and mrs william G wilson at a chicken and trout dinner at the hermitage allan L lovey the famous utah cartoonist of the salt lake herald an old and intimate friend of davenport will introduce him monday night with a cartoon |
