The Arizona sentinel., 1889-06-29
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The Woes of an Amateur in Search
 of the Picturesque.

There is nothing criminal about be- ing an amateur photographer. No civilized country has law against amateur photography, although in France and Germany and other semi barbarous countries they arrest man if he photographs too near to their Notifications. Still the general ten dency of modern cameras is toward concealment There is a camera made which a person can put under his vest and the lens take the place of a vest button. Other cameras are done up like parcels, or take the form of a sachel, or some other unObtrusive shape, so that the general passer-by may not know that the man he meets is an amateur photographer. The trouble with the cameras that 1 have named is that they are generally too small to take picture that is at all sat isfactory. Some of them have no focus ing-glass and no arrangement for let ting a person know what sort of pict- ure he is taking. Now Iuse a camera that takes a picture four by five inches, which 1 think is the smallest size that is of any service to a man, al- though some get along with what is known as the lantern size, a size of plate that is large enough to take a picture that will go into stereopti- con.
 The other day bought brand new valise in which to conceal my pho tographing apparatus, and instead of the long alpenstock tripod which I have carried heretofore, I bought what is known as ''the- daisy tripod, which folds up into very small com pass and can be packed away in valise that is about eighteen inches long.
 The whole outfit goes into very or dinary sized valise and a person moves through the world like an ordi- nary traveller who has a few boiled shirts and clean collars and cuffs with him.
 One very hot day found myself in Cincinnati with the forenoon to spare. l had seen Cincinnati often enough but had never had a view of the suburbs Cincinnati, as every body knows, is down in a hole and is surrounded by hills. If you speak to Cincinnatian responsibility about the humiliating position his city occupies, he will an- swer:
 ''Oh, yes, but you ought to see the suburbs; the suburbs in Cincinnati are the grandest in the world.n
 Cincinnati suburbs are on the hill tops, as they are called, and extend for miles around the city. There are ways of getting up on the hill-tops: One is an ordinary incline railway, the platforms of some of which are so large that @ street car and couple of horses drive right on it and is wait ed to the skies. and when the car gets up there it goes along for eight or ten miles out in the country. Another way of reaching the suburbs is by the ordinary cable car, which winds up to the hill-tops by following streets that zig-zag their way up the eleva- tion.
 I asked number of Cincinnati men which the principal suburb was, and it seemed to be generally agreed that Clifton was the best for stranger to seen. The particular cable line I pat ronized took me across Clifton ave- nue, and there I got off
 Clifton is an aristocratic suburb that is conducted as a sort of suburban club. No person is allowed to get a lot there who is not acceptable as q neighbor to the rest of the residenls, and when he does get lot he must build house that will cost over cer- tain amount and comply with a lot of rules and regulations all tending to make the place very exclusive, and all that. &
 Clifton avenue is a wide street, kept in perfect condition, and is bordered on each side by fine trees. It runs straight along for bit, then drops down into a valley, rises on the other side unim- paired, winds along for long distar e and then seems to come to an abrupt conclusion at a fine house that bars the way.
 On each side are great park-like lawns with here and there palace owned by some aristocratic citizen who has made his money on hogs or beer. So ungrateful are these aristocrats thet