The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-13
WITH THE CAMERA
Some of the Female DevOteeS OF
Amateur Photography.
HOW THE MANIA COMES On
Mrs. Plat and Her Observation-Disclosures Weed
Barnes Twenty-Six Cameras
Artisans Who Take Pictures.

For TIE SUNDAY neutrality-suspicious.
1t is impossible to tell over night who
may beattacked by the Photographic mania
You may so to sleep meditating peacefully
on the prospect Of cool wave and wake up
with thoughts of film rolls and snap shots
and developers and the alleged ease of pres
sing the button while a benefcent provi-
5ence does all the rest, scurrying like so
many microbes through your brain.
THE VIRUS WORKS
with unbelievable rapidly. In ten min
ntes you see an iceman who would make
capital character study for a villain. In
two hours you are listening eagerly to in
structions about focus and exposure. In
Six hours you are training confidently on
Brighton beach belle emerging from the
water in wet bathing suit. In twelve
hours you are fitting the pan hopefully in
an improvised dark room, most likely the
bathroom with blankets pinned over the
windows. In twelve hours and five min
utes you are examining your first plate
neryously by the light of your red lantern.
In twelve hours and six minutes you are
eXclaiming: "FoggedI'' in accents of wild
despair. In twelve hours and ten minutes
you are drinking lime Juice and water, a la
Beau Brummel, and explaining to your in
terested family that ITS curious what an
amount of interest some people will take in
such thingsn
Such is the run OF an ordinary attack of
the disease, acute but brief Some people
have it harder. Mrs. Thomas G. Platt has
had it very hard indeed. This lady was one
OF the first victims of the camera epidemic.
1t was four yeast ago or Whereabouts that
she began to use her husband as a model
and immortaliZed the ex Senator in all sorts
of dignihed and undignitied positions and
occupations. When she got fine series of
views of him loading stones on barrow,
wheeling the barrow and laying walk
somebody suggested, Labor vote trans
parencies, use in campaigni"
''LoADs ARE TOO SMALL
said Tom Plat, astutely, ''make the work
ingman grim
Tie pictures of immigrants that Mrs
PiatJ took at the Barge office and on the
Bureundia month or so ago and other
steamers more recently have turned out
very nicely. She has been down the bay
with labor inspector and interpreter half
a oCZen times. and has now collection of
ture3neG Syrians and chunky little Italian
girls in long earrings, and tall stalwart Irish
girls. and weather-beatea old women from
the Welsh mines and picturesque Norwe-
evecy nation mat SENDS its surplus popula-
ton 10 Or shores THAI is surpassed only by
the photographic arr gSiiary Of hrs. Bruce
1s!itay. The iEtin.S:sn5 IS nave shown them
selves wiling Ia pose Tor her, once satisfied
she was net aiming 1t them any new sort
of ayasC'ue gun, but on her last visit a
Russian jew in a long cloak OF tie hue of
his long gray beard insisted 'si:h so much
dignity that t2zt dis face Should not be
stoien.n that Mrs. Platt gave Ter ORD that
she would destroy the negative. The
leonine old Russian may have been looking
forward to the day when us Descendants
Should be the Vanastorbiits II the twentieth
cenIlcy and colect to any record of teen
origin.
MRS. BRUCE ISMAY PHOTOGRAPHS
ship5oarc life, as name connected so init
maueiv with the lnmal line wound suggest
and has perpetuated groups tcat would
make the fortune or an ar5is5 If be could re
produce in color the faces of Some OF thest
new citizens of our new land. l am told
that the Battery under the Old regime al
Castle Garden fascinated her, and TIA,
many CT her unique pictures were cbtainet
by snap shafts al tae "lately landed, u issu
ing single file Upon the aschalt pavement
locking about trem cprioasiy and IN won
derment, seated on the park benches lop6.
ing over the water or volubly greeting half
AInecIcaDizsd relatives.
Ths women who Photograph do so viii
all sorts of cameras, from that which ].
solo Tor % cents and takes a single picture
before the exhaustion Of lis usefulness
through pin hole instead Of q lens, I'D {,
outfits costing hundreds of dollars. Their,
is one young woman, and a very gracefG
and dainty one, whose father has man,
shekels, and who, when she gees of on
Photographic excursion is followed by
negro servant, who carries her tripod AM
adjusts it with great flourish Of elbows ant
conspicuousness of teeth when she ha!
chosen her point of view. When the ex
posure has been made, with Il tink w
got 'er dat time, suah, missy,'' he picks u
the impedimenta and journeys on. 1t ma
be well to add that the young woman l.
spite of this pomp and circumstance o
photography, takes artistically compose
pictures.
MOST WOMEN BITTEN WITH THE CRAZE
use the handy little portable cameras, O
detectives, but even without the service
of colored porter there are a number VIII
manage the tripod variety. Last summe
at one of the Seidl society's meetings a
Brighton beach there was a pretty seen
when Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton con
scented to be placed in position and wa
photographed by a daughter of DIV
Thorne Miller. Mrs Miller's family seem
TO be Photographic for she has two daugh
tiers who are given to shutting themselVe
up in dark rooms, but who cannot with al
their snapshot work. get very clos
views Of the Sky feathered songsters tina
are their mothers especial study.
One of the most successful women phC
tographers left America for Russia
month ago. Mrs. Sergiws Schewitsck
who was the beautiful Helene Won Race
vita and whose career has been as roman
tic as that of any living woman, had tn
face of one 10 whom life had brought cor
tentment, but showed a restless energ
that did not disdain an outlet IN half
dozen fads, photography being the mos
zealously followed. Her speciality was tn
portraiture of children, and / remembe
chatting with her one bright morning i
the park, when white-capped nurse cam
along with a Kate Greenaway urchin tina
could just toddle. ".Till you lend me tina
babyln The sristocratic nurse looked up q
the tall bue-eyed blonde woman and stared
81 only want TO take its picture" Tn
stare began to spell itself glare. ''ComC
little one,n and Mrs. Schewitsch conquere
the baby's heart with smile and an ou-
stretched hand. The nurse had TO folio,
w;IIy.nisly. and for half an hour the woma
who gaged SO strange part in the histor
- OF German socialism sat on a rock a littl
way from the track of promenaders, an
studied the baby as it tumbled on the gras
catching it in all sorts of fatarmed an
chubby kneed attitudes.
A SCIENTIFIC PHOTOGRAPHER
is the little dark skinned Nine Alice I
Plongeon, who spent so many years
Yucatan with her husband, studying h
relics of lost races. 1t is common enoug
thing with amateurs to call themselvt
photographers though they do nothing MOI
than make the exposure, sending plates c
film rolls to the studios OF professionals