Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-09-25


In the Mecbanics' Institute, South Quecn
street, which occupied the site ON which Geo.
u Schaum's furniture rooms INV stand.
Johnston boarded at tho Fountain Inn. Ito
had hardly got himself lixBd until john w.
Bear, tho Buckeye blacksmith, WHO hal Also
learned the art, came along and sol up an op-
position gallery near by.
These mon were bittor political opponents,
tho ono u Democrat the other wing poln
were stump speakers oil some coicoiHy, hnu
they had mover lot AN opportunity SIP "
yilllfyiDg each other. But
"a fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind"
Roth our "artls,s" got suck they
couldn't tsko n picture "iho chemicals
wouid' work /" neither oi thoti know any
thing about chem istry, or the delicate chothi-
calls they had TO manipulate, and Whenever
ANYTHING went wrong it was because T" tho
chonicais wouldn't work" Auer worrying
for some days Bear called on Johnston and
proposed to him that they should iorm a
partnership--pool their issuos--ihrow to.
gethor thoir combined wisdom, wage re-
len,less war upon the refractory ''chemicals,"
and triumph or ial together Johnston
readily assentod tho two orator artists
locked themselves up In tho old Institute,
read over tho formulas, pra3tisOd upon each
other, and In n day or two tho chemicals I"
came To terms they could tako good pie
lures; they throw opon their doors hung
out "A little frame OF specimens" aud watod
Tor customers. Nobody called thu TOW poo
NOVEL NODE OF ADVERTISING.
Something had to bo done another ooun.
Gil of war WAS called 1t was resolved to add
eloquonce 10 art aud force business by stump
speeches Johnston borrowed tho Fountain
Iun dinner bell aud Bear borrowed old Matt
Ishm's auction bell Thus equipped thoy
sailed forth, and moving In opposite diroc-
tons, they stopped Mt every intersection of
the streets, rang their bells vigorously for n
GlN 4.
yes J" made flaming stunpspeoches on poPu-
lar topics, always winding up with glowing
descriptions OF tho wonderfully liiolNe Ia
guerrooiypos takon ut Johnston Bear =
famous picture gallery. Crowds ot mon aud
boys followed them from cOrnUr To corner
aud back to- tho Fountain Inn.
The day following thoy took several pic
lures aud the same evening the hellring-
ing aud spooch-Inaking was repeated
TRADE roCRs ~.
Tho next day aud the next aud Tor some
months afterwards, trade poured IN upon
them Van Loan capituatod aud won't back
To philadelphia soon afterwards the part
nership oI Hear a Johnston was dissolved.
Each OF the partners felt sufficiently strong
To stand alone the " Blacksmith y pulled
up stakes ard lett tor pastures n@w the
"Shoemaker resolved to CLEAN Lancaster
u little while longer he removed to tho do
serted Van Loan gallery, Tut not liking his
little sky-lIght, had 1t boarded ur aud took
pictures 10y tho light OF AN ordinary winduw.
lie continued business thuS for about year,
when he turned u over on tho shares to
his brother, J. NJ. Johnston, aud made tour
ol the county and some other parts oil tho
state, continuing tho business "a an Inherent
DaguorreJtypist for many years. When the
war broke out IN 1851, though 81 years OF
age, no enlisted as private soldier in Co.
+. pth Pa cavalry, was hurt badly ln charge
In ShelbyVlle, Ky, was discharged tor disa,
bnity Nov. -, ls62 returned To his homo
and died Sept. 1864.
On the pth of January, 1850, }, NJ. Johnston
bought the gallery OF his brother Charles,
corner North Queon aud Orange Two
months later he was burned out, all OF his IN
strumouts, stock aud fixtures being de-
stroyod. iIs rCturnshCd hs rooms, en-
largod his establishment, built n largo sky
light and continued in business until 1851,
when leaving his business In charge of
John u. Rupiey he entered the army a. lst
lieutenant Co. X, 79th regiment, and for three
years served in kentucky, 1onno-see aud
Georgia under Gems Buell., ROsccrans,
Grant and sherman. On returning from the
army no sold hls gallery 10 Mr.. Kupiey,
leased tho old Swan hOtol III Centre square,
this city, in iSG1, aud after keeping It tor four
years, entered the lNTELLIUENCER Office in
l>sil, whore lac has continued Tor the past
seventeen years "a a scribbler ol misceila-
nepus items.
Mr.. Johnston Il the oldest living photo.
grapher in Lsuca-ter-the first who s9t up
la the business with a Wow OF staying He
practised every branch ol the art, except tho
recent gelotin process; made the trst sterco'
cope pictures aud the FIRST paper photographs
taken in this city, and has them yet IN his
possession.