Bridgeton Boy Head Cartoonist in South

F. X. Reardon, Whose Pen Gave Evening News Many Cartoons,
Stands High in Richmond

Many will remember F. X. Reardon, Bridgeton boy whose clever cartoons made a distinct hit several years ago in the Evening News.

Reardon naturally found the field for his work here a bit limited and when the opportunity arose he went to Richmond, Va., and took a position on the Times-Dispatch. The young man was just 18 when he went south in 1923.

Today he is editorial cartoonist and art director on that daily which incidentally has increased its circulation by leaps and bounds until today it has 53,000 daily and 59,000 on Sunday. In the three years Reardon has forged ahead by the pay envelope route as well as to the top of the paper's art staff.

He has now added a Bridgeton boy to his staff, T. Challis Shimp having joined him in Richmond and he is reported as also making good on the paper.

In a letter to the Evening News Reardon adds, "I want to thank you for the interest you took in me and the encouragement you gave me in the days when ambition exceeded ability. You help

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