“Do Not Disturb” (“Puck,” May 10, 1892) Part 1 of 3
by Louis Dalrymple (1866-1905)
9 x 12 in., ink on board
Coppola Collection

Dalrymple was known for his caricatures in publications such as Puck, Judge, and the New York Daily Graphic. Born in Cambridge, Illinois, he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Art Students League of New York, and in 1885 became the chief cartoonist of the Daily Graphic. He died in 1905 in a New York sanitarium.

November 25, 1905 (“The Evening World”)

Cartoonist Dalrymple Goes Insane.
Exiled from New York by Alimony Tangle, His Health Breaks Down.

Louis Dalrymple, one of the most famous cartoonists in America, was taken to-day from his lodgings, No. 138 East Twenty-ninth street, to a sanitarium on Long Island. He is insane, probably hopelessly.

For weeks the artist’s condition had been a source of grief to his friends. Early this week he became violent. Yesterday afternoon he was found in a frenzy, chasing children about the streets of the neighborhood.

Those who knew Louis Dalrymple’s story are convinced that marital trouble’s affected his mind. Alimony demands were made on his income through a divorce suit and he brooded over an enforced exile from New York and an ever-growing desire to return here.

About fifteen years ago Dalrymple, then forging to the front as a cartoonist for Puck, married Miss Letia Carpenter, a pretty brunette of Brooklyn. Their life together was not happy. The wife obtained a divorce on statutory grounds. By the terms of the decree she was awarded their handsome home on Madison street, Brooklyn, where she still lives.

The court denied the husband the right to marry again in this state, and ordered him to pay his wife $75 a month in weekly installments

Note: $75 1890s dollars is $2240 in 2019 dollars.

The Dalrymple story continues in Part 2 of this 3-part cartoon.