The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-09

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speculation. 1t pays, though. know .
man who makes forty dollars . day wan
dering around the city in this way. He en-
ploys an assistant who prints and mounts
the pictures, and a third man delivers
them and collects the money. The pur-
chaser pays about twenty-five cents
apiece for his photographs. Some of the
pictures are not worth cent. That oc-
ours when the photographer faces the
sun when he takes the impression, for
then the shadows fall toward the OBJ
server. But the itinerant does not care
for that; his object is gained, when it's
dwelling, if he gets the whole family
on the piazza, or, when its q store. if he
gets an impression of the sign and of
shopkeeper standing in the doorway.
Queer things happen to these itinerants.
In London once one of the craft took q
picture of hotel. The windows were
open. and clock on the wall was distinct
ly seen in the picture. Not long afterward
q gentleman who was sitting on the
piazza at the time the picture was taken
was arrested for passing forged check
at bank. At the trial the bank clerks
united in testifying positively that the
prisoner was at the bank at two p. m.
The photographer, who had got word of
the case through the newspapers. en-
tered the court room, climbed to the
witness stand and exhibited the photo
graph. The face of the prisoner was
distinctly recognized, and the clocks
hands pointed at two o'clock. The
hotel was seven miles from the bank.
The jury acquitted the prisoner after the
photographer had testified that he was
at the hotel on the day when the forged
check was cashed.
"Another incident I know of which
mad not 80 pleasant an ending. An itin-
Grant in an English village, and he was
q splritualist in belief, had set his cam
era in front of house and focused it.
While he had his head hidden in his
darkened tent preparing his negative a
practical joker came along and stuck
piece of paper on the lens, so that it was
entirely covered. The photographer put
his plate in the camera. and was about
to expose it to the building. when the
wag offered to bet him any amount of
money that there would be no picture on
the plate. The photographer bet every
cent he had, and then took his picture, as
he supposed. When he developed the plate
it showed nothing. In his chagrin he
shot himself dead. The story was re-
ported in the London newspapers some
time since.
i" Most of these itinerants are prosper
GUS, but some of the tin-typers who take
your picture on the street for ten cents
are Bohemians. One of them OCCASION
ally drops in here and asks me TO sell
him ten cents worth of cOllOdion, or ten
cents worth of nitrate of silver. OF.
course 1 give him twenty-five cents
worth for nothing, as ten cents worth is
almost nothing. They are the tramps of
the profession"
"Do amateur photographers do any
creditable out-of-door work?'
''By the invention of the dry plate
process a field has been opened to anna
teurs never before dreamed of. For
merly it was necessary to cart around a
bulky apparatus, with bottles of chemi-
Gals in solution, bath holders, etc. but
now the lens is carried on the back in
compact little knapsack, while the tripod
shuts up like an umbrella, and can be
used as cane. Twenty-Five pictures
can be made in day by tyro. He re-
turns to his hotel at night, wraps up his
negatives, and sends them home by ex-
press. In three months he has four hum
dred plates, and amuses himself all win
ter in developing them. Both before
and after the picture is taken the dry
plate looks like q piece of glass with a
piece of bladder pasted on it. You can
not conceive the pleasure the amateur
has in seeing scenes and events he has
long forgotten reproduced like magic.
Artists in oil or in water color take
tramps of this kind and obtain valuable
hints for ambitious paintings. It's an
easy way of sketching. Captain Abney,
of England, is an amateur, and he stands
at the head of the photographing bust
ness, as far as the theory of it is con-
cerned. He is wealthy, and has high
position socially, but he has given to
photography the best part of his life out |
of love for it. He has delivered lectures
on the art and has printed books on the |
subject, so that those who have disputes
on a point in photography appeal to
Abney as the highest authority. Speak
ing Of photographers and their disputes
and jealousies, there is to be convention
in indianapolis, Ind, in August next-a
of photographers from all
parts of the world for the purpose of
starting an International Society of Pho
tographers.''
"Do you ever photograph dead per-
sons?"
parents whose children die before
their pictures are taken often ask pho
tographer to come to the house. and they
want the picture to look as natural as
life. Skill is required, of course. Once
when was called in saved mans
life. When I pulled up the eyelid to
lrop in little collodion to keep the eye
ids firm there was q tremOr and re-
,istance. The man was in trance, and
ne soon came out of it."
''Do you know of any peculiar uses to
which out-of-door photographing may be
out?''
swell, suppose picture is obtained
If church or other public building, and
t is burned down. By consulting the
second building precisely
ike the first can be built. Photographers
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