Wichita eagle., 1888-06-03

leave them for weeks or months before he
develops them. The process IS clean and
simple, and the outfits come at prices which
put them within the reach of the smallest
purse. Ladies have 'gone in for" photog
raphy and, being more careful, more pa
tient, and, having aqUicker perception of the
artistic, they frequently produce better re-
suits than men. BY actual count, out of
thirty-seven amateur photographers l saw
the last fine day [ was in Central Park SIX
teen were young women. Business men,
TOO. have yielded to the seductiOns of the
art and no less a parsonage in the financial
world than Jay Gould Is an expert with the
camera. ] am told that Grandpa Gould has
series of portraits of Baby Gould, which
he took himself, and which he values more
highly than any railroad he owns. Arnold,
of the great dry-goods concern of Arnold d
Constable is another enthusiastic amateur,
and was one Of the first to use the dry-plate
process. Henry Z. Pierrepont, Of Brook
lyn, is another who has been earnest and
successful in the work But it is impOssi-
BILE to mention names of amateur photOg-
raphers. There is hardly family in the
upper part of New York in which there is
not some member who dabbles in the art.
The improvements in the matter of the
rapidity of the plates have also done much
10 popularize amateur photography. When
i first went into it, about ten years ago,
a plate had to be exposed about minute,
and one never realizes how much moving
a horse or a dog will 10 in a minute until
they have the animal in front of an I'M
capped lens of a camera. / have among my
negatives beautiful picture of a horse
with four ears al two tails, an animal
could get the original as he looked in the
photograph. With the present RAPID plates,
which require an exposure of only frac-
ton of a second, these difficulties are avoid
ed. They have made the various styles of
so-called detective cameras" possible,
and matters have come TO such pass that
one is never certain that he is not having
his picture taken unawares. The most in
nocent hand sachel may conceal a camera,
and the inventors have even gone so far as
TO c0ntriVe machine, about the size of a
soup plate, which goes under the vest and
the lens comes out as button. 1t Is an in
genious affair and takes four pictures,
about two inches in diameter on a circular
plate. The string which releases the shut
ter TO make the exposure goes down into
The trousers pocket, so the operator can loaf
nlong carelessly with his hands in his peck
cts. sight his victim pull the string, and the
deed is done
Jacob Sharp's picture for H0rpc7.'S TVeeily
was taken in this way. II was impossible
TO obtain good photograph of the famous
maker of Doodle aldermen, so a bright
young man essayed the task. He armed
himself with one of the vest cameras and
Tor several days hung about the court
room awaiting his chance He ingr2tiated
himself with Sharps eoachman and one
day, just as the court was about to adjourn,
he sauntered out and remarked to the
coachman that the court seemed likely to
sit all day. Jehu decided TO drive around
the square while waiting and when Sharp
emerged from the courtroom his carriage
was block away. This was the photogra-
piers opportunity, and aiming the bogus
vest button at the old man ne pulled the
string four times in quick succession. The
result was four very characteristic por-
traits, from the best Of which Sharp's pict-
ure was made.
Next TO good digestion a Photographic
outfit IS the best aid 10 enjoyment one can
take on a summer vacation. The Young
man who plays tennis grows tiresome and
the young man who rows bliSters mis- hands,
but the young man who takes pictures IS in
constant demand. Take our photographs
in our tennis suits"
Won I YOU take me in the hammockr'
MAKE group of US on the porch. on the
lawn, in the boats and on horseback" are
the requests with which he is overwhelmed.
and at the end of the season ne finds him
self with photographs of all the prettest
girls in the neighborhood, photographs
which the less fortunate rowing and tennis
men would give their heads TO own. The
wonderful growth in popularity OF amateur
photography threatens. however, 10 put an
end 10 this soft snap which the anna
teurs enjoyed few years ago. And now
since girls have begun to practice the art
and are taking each other. the occupation Of
the average male amateur is, to large eN-
tent, gone. 1 saw lot Of negatives taken
by young society gnl the other dav of a
lot of her friends in her own set They
were posed with an eye 10 artistic effect
that Sarony might envy. and they were ii
costumes which we rarely see of the
stage. / do not mean that they were at all
immodest, they were simply classical
draperies which no woman except an
actress would wear with ease under the
gaze of male eye But they were charm
lngly pretty pictures. all the same. and
secured set Of the prints from the oblig-
ing professional who was printing and
mounting them.
The introduction Of the magnesium fash
hight IN connection with the rapid plates has
enabled the amateur to take pictures in the
-Honse a. nteht. As this method Is as nearlp