Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-02
SHOW OF THE CAMERA CLUB,
Some of the Good Things Contributed by Its
Members This Week.

Members This Week.
The palm at the exhibition Of photographs
made this week at the Cosmos Club by the
Washington Camera Club has unquestionably
been carried off by the only lady member of
this picturesque organization-Miss Frances
Benjamin Johnston. Most remarkable of the
specimens of her work shown are portraits
Of Private Secretary Halford, Secretary
Noble and Secretary Window, taken in their
Offices at work. These are not instantaneous
views but each one was given in the neighbor-
hood Of quarter minutes exposure. Never
theless, they are admirably sharp; the lighting
ia especially fine. Secretary WINDOWS like
ness is lfelike. and, in view of his death re-
Gently, it is much to be priced. There are
other most excellent genre pictures on a
large scale, by Miss Johnston. Among them a
Swiss milkman with his cart and dog and lazy
negro taking lis ease in the sunlight. Wonder
fully effective interiors, representing apart
ments in the Hearst, Wanamaker and Morton
houses, complete this artists display.
PRESIDENT RAusMANN's WORK
Next after Miss Johnston the most successful
exhibitor this year is Mr.. Max Hausmann of
the light house board, president Of the club.
He places on view a considerable number of
works of his own, the best OF them carbon
prints. which represent a method that is said
to produce the only really permanent pho
tographs. One scene, showing a lake with
brooding clouds reflected in the water is par
ticularly striking, though others may vie with
1t fairly-among them a picture of the Wash
ington monument reflected in the water of one
OF the carp ponds near by, mill dam also. a
village street and lake with water lilies in the
foreground. A night-blooming cereus, taken
by Mr.. Hausmann, is rendered with surprising
delicacy and tenderness.
Mr.. Waite makes an excellent showing with
several picturesque canal-boat scenes, with
bridges and picturesque buildings by the
water Also vistas of stream and woodland
and steamboat plying by moonlight on the
silvered waters Of the Potomac.
REMARKABLE TRANSPARENCY
One very remarkable transparency is shown
by Dan Fraser-a view from beyond the ar
senal looking toward the Capitol in the distance,
with the Potomac winding along in the fore
ground and two cows standing up to their
shoulders In the water. The whole scene from
the nearest point to the farthest, miles away
Is as clear as daylight could make it to the eve,
anc no more beautiful prospect can be mag
ined. 1t is really a work of art in the highest
sense Mr.. Fraser also shows a number of very
good platinotypes, re presenting the Smithsonian
Institution by moonlight in winter a mountain
stream, null race and q lake on the agricul-
| tural grounds.
By MR.. Z. .. WIGHT.
Another transparency Of very unusual excel
lence, by Mr.. E. b. Wight, is from an en-
graved steel portrait of George Washington.
There is a snake lying on a rock, by Henry
Tablet, that Is curiosity, and the same artist
exhibits . number of other good things-a por-
TRAIT OF a pretty woman in q long coat with Q
fur collar full length; colored newsboy. a
dog holding milk can in its mouth by the ham
dies and giving paw for permission to drink
the contents, &c. Some good landscapes are
rem has few striking pictures of the Capitol,
State Department and Treasury. Fred Perry
Powers shows q frst-class likeness of himself.
! by fiashlight without assistance: also funny
| picture of Our steamed contemporary. the
Rhode Island clambaker." Philip II. Ward has
cunning child, with 9 leafy branch in its
hands.
There are some admirable works in this exhi-
bition, but the general impression seems to be
mat on the whole, the Camera Club did better
last year.