Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-08-09

spends all his time from one years end to
the other travelling about the world in pursuit
of his business. In Europe he journeys from
city to city, taking photographs of everything
interesting he finds. All buildings of historic
interest are subjects for his camera. likewise
historical interiors such as the boudoir once
occupied by this queen Of tragic memory, or
the room in which that famous prince was
murdered. Scenes from real life as it
is found in far away countries, glimpses
OF streets in London and Paris, castles on the
Rhine, cemeteries. churches, typical rural bits,
anything, in short, that is pretty picturesque
or otherwise profitable is available for his pur-
pose. So In other countries and from CONT
nent to continent the photographer gathers on
negatives OF celluloid film imperishabe i'm
pressions OF everything he sees worth
noting. The camera he employs Is
surprisingly small one, considering the
work 1t accomplishes, with everything in it,
including the lenses arranged double. so that two
pictures side by side are taken of each object.
You see, the impression of solidity given to the
sight OF an object IL due to the fact that your
two eyes look at it from slightly different view
points-that IS, so far as its hree-dimensioned
effect is concerned. Therefore. the stereoscope.
by giving two photographs of the same object
one for erch eye, as that eye would see the OBJ
jet itself, makes the picture stand right out
wildly, instead of looking fiat The word
stereoscope comes from two Greek words, one
meaning solid and the other ito see." In
the camera used by the photographer. which is
equipped with an lnstantaHe GUS drop shutter.
Is a roll OF sensitive celluloid film that holds
enough for fifty such doubled pictures When
the roll is full it Is readily taken out and a
fresh roll substituted for it. The rolls take up
very little room, that il is readily possible to
collect many thousands of negatives without
renewing ones equipment of supplies.
The rolls of celluloid negatives gathered in
this way are sent to the photograph factory in
Washington, where they are developed" and
prints are made from them for sale. After the
sun prints have been made from the negatives,
in glass frames like any other photographs. they
are taken down stairs and washed in tanks of
clean water. Next they pass to a table where
they are cut apart-they have previously been
separated into pairs-and mounted Oh the long
one of whom pastes the backs. while
the other sticks them Oh. Next the
cards with the photographs them
are rubbed after drying with dry CASTLE soap
on a towel after which they are put through
between heated rollers like a small mangle to
FURNISH the pictures and make them smooth
and bright Last of all, they are sorted in
piles and the titles printed on them with
an ordinary hand printing press. Some of the
photographs are subsequently colored with the
brush. These cost twice as much as the ordi-
nary sort, OF which the wholesale price is SO a
gross and the retail price SlS.
Naturally, some of the photographs sell very
much better than others. The best seller"
as the business phrase is, ever turned out by
this factory Is simply picture of the dining
room al the White House, with tables set ready
for young ladies' lunch, given by Mrs. Hayes
during her husbands administration. or this
picture between ten and twelve millions have
been sold, and it ls selling yet ac lively, although
1t has nothing i'll it but tables chairs and ct Get
eras, not one of the guests nor even a waiter
being visible. The next best seller is the east
room at the White House, with not soul in it,
| Next to that such favorites London Bridge,
Ludgate Hill, st. Mary's Church, Ireland the
| Giant Causeway, the market place in Cologne
| and tie interior Of Westminster Abbey. Comic
stereoscoplc views are great favorites, repre-
| senting such scenes as a husband with a bottle
of whisky in the bed room being iectured by
his spouse. Dutch courtshp, pillow fight,
| and so forth.