St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-22
SEASIDE PHOTOGRAPHS.
Amateurs With Cameras Find
Highly Interesting Subjects on

Highly Interesting Subjects on
the Beaches.
St Louis Republic.
Not only do the photographers focus
the sights at Coney Island, where the
people are not apt to dodge the lens,
but they have made themselves terrors
to the more retiring jewellers at Man
haitian and Long beaches. From be-
hind clumps of trees, from hotel win
dOwS and from the seats of vehicles
they have been taking pho
tOgraphs with reckless imperti-
nence, until no young maiden or
dandy feels at all certain whether
her or his department out of doors is
made the subject of a picture or not.
Some of the amateurs with these cam
eraS are young men who do not know
enough TO keep their triumphS to them
selves or to their circles of close friends,
and the consequence is that their quick
as-a-wink pictures had been handed
around quite freely to the disturbance
of many young persons, who never SuS-
pected, when they were stealing kisses
on the beach or walking arm
arOund-waist in what looked like
lonely places, that their actions and
form on the negative of sly youth up
a tree or in wagon or hidden under
the board walk. On the other hand,
some of the views are interesting and
agreeable enough, by reason of the
prettinesS of the girls portraits and the
stylishneSS of their dresses.
The advantage these photographers
take of persons they have fancy for
phOtOgraphing is at times heartleSS and
cruel. The other night in the ball room
of gay hotel, close to the beach, one
of these youths had roll of
proof photographs with him and
was showing them to his friends, with
comments like this: "You see that
stately miss over there with the stout
mother by her side? You would not
think she would eat cherries without a
spoon, would you? Yet look at this
picture taken of her yesterday morning
in the grove near the elephant, when
she thought she and her beau were all
alone. See that little dimpled puss
over there? Erigid, isn't she? Nobody
would dare to kiss her, would they?
But somebody did dare all the same,
and here's picture of how it was done,
an umbrella. Who is that coming
in? Why that's the little Miss Perkins,
daughter of the big candlemaker in
Newark. She told me, when L squeezed
her hand yesterday, that if l ever did
such a thing again she would break
friends with me; that shenever allowed
any gentleman any liberties whatever.
Here is a picture | took of her two hours
later at the further end of the board
walk beyond the pavilion. 1t looks like
a Siamese twin brother and sister, they
are so thoroughly encircled with each
others arms. am going to show her
this picture and ask her if she would be
very angry if her companion in the
picture should squeeze her hand as l
did"
The worst of making these photo
graphs SO common is that the men who
see them are apt to speak of them
vaguely to friends of the persons photo.
graphed, and thus start whispered stOr-
ries that do very great damage to per-
sons who cannot defend themselves,
add who have really not been guilty of
anything more than OYer-cOnfidence in
being, as they think, out of sight. [
saw picture thus being made of a girl
in bathing suit, who had come out of
the surf to have rOmp with a couple
of pet dogs. She was as friSky as
they were, and seeminglN as heed
less of appearances, although her
costume was essentially the same as
that of hundreds of other bathers. and
she was certainly justified by superior
beauty in disclosing herself completely
on the sand as well as only partially in
the water. Now. while a photograph
resulting from that shot of the camera
may represent the young woman as
gamboling too unrestrainedly in public,
another piece of pOrtraiture on the spot
would have shown the solid and sedate
parents seated comfortably under an
umbrella and overlooking with protect
i've complacency the sp0rtiveness of the
daughter.