The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-06-26
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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 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
sachel, or some other unObtrusiye
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 have
named is that they are generally too
small to take a picture that is at all sat
sfactory. 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 l use camera
that takes a picture four by five
inches, which think is the smallest
size that is of any service to man, al
though some get along with what is
known as the lantern size, size of
plate that is large enough to take q
picture that will go into q stereopti-
con.
The other day l bought a brand new
yalise in which to conceal my pho
tOgraphing apparatus, and instead of
the long alpenstock tripod which l
have carried heretofore, / bought
what is known as "the daisy tripod
which folds up into very small COM
pass and can be packed away in a
valise that is about eighteen inches
long.
The whole outfit goes into very Or
binary sized valise and person
moves through the world like an ordi-
nary traveller who has few boiled
shirts and clean collars and cuffs with
him.
One very hot day found myself in
Cincinnati with the forenoon to spare.
had seen Cincinnati often enough but
aadnever had view of the suburbs.
Cnclnnati, as every body knows, is
down in q hole and is surrounded by
Hills. If you speak to Cincinnatian
eproachfully about the humiliating
position his city occupies, he will an
swer:
"0h. yes, but you ought to see the
suburbs; the suburbs in Cincinnati are
the grandest in the world"
Cincinnati suburbs are on the hill
Tops, as they are called, and extend
ior 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
Oh horses drive right on it and is watt
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
70 the hill-tops by following streets
that zig-zag their way up the eleva-
ton.
asked number of Cincinnati men
which the principal suburb was, and
~ seemed to be generally agreed that
clifton was the best for Il stranger to
SEEM The particular cable line I nat
ronized took me across Clifton ave-
nue., and there | got Off
Clifton is an aristocratic suburb that
Is conducted as q sort of suburban
club. No person is allowed to get a
lot there who is not acceptable as a
neighbor to the rest of the residents,
and when he does get a lot he must
Guild house that will cost over GER
ain amount and comply with lot of
rules and regulations all tending to
make the place very exclusive, and
I'll that.
Cilfton avenue is wide street, kept
perfect condition, and is bordered on
go side by fine trees. 1t runs straight
sung for bit, then drops down into
valley, rises on the other side unim-
e ssired' winds along for long distar y
wv tnen seems to come to an abrupt
way. 'N1 '-'''' o''is 'iio
l.u - each side are great park-like
,, as with here and there a palace
bas s4 " some aristocratic citizen who
Il SAGE his money On hogs or beer.
: 'ssa'e'a y! are these aristocrsts thai