The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-05-29
BEATS The kENETO3CO2i.

w S'"'N-lh" requires ihfr-Sl1N,
AZ" Inventor u F0rmur WGs. Virginia
University Professor,
Tho following account OF tho nowcs,
Invention which ocltpsos tho kinu,o.
scope Is taken from tho Sunday Now
York World. tia OF special interest in
this state Tor tho reason that tho inycn.
tor, rroi, Latham, Mt ono timu occupied
lno chair Of chemistry In tho Wcat Viz.
ginIa University:
10 ihi9city lsa mGn who has lnkun
the kaleidoscope md gOno II many times
nSt'or-and no has only Just started In.
Ahoro doesn't soOm TO bp any doubt
that when ho aud hio Two energetic
soma got fairly under way thoy will DO
aolo TO play game or thing with any
other thrco or three hundred mon In
tho presentation. for tho enjoyment OF
spectators, OF actual movements Of per.
sons and things.
iiio'slzed presentations thcy AFRO and
VIII DO, aud you won't have to souln,
into little hoIO to SEQ them. You'll sit
comfortably and SEQ fighters hammer.
Inc each othor, circuscS, suicides, hang.
ihIs, eIeclrocnttons, shl pwrecks, scenes
on tho exchanges, stIect scenes, horse.
races, football games-aIn,ost ANYTHING.
IN iact, in which there 10 action, jus, as
II YOU were on tho spot during tho
actual events. You'll SEQ people and
things as they arc.
with photographic attachment tho
possibilities aro far greater. This Ia.
volvos tho reproduction Of court scenes,
plays. conventions, mass.mco,ings and
Conversations as natural rs life.
The scheme has namc. OF course
scientific name. 1t Is calod tho
Kaleidoscope" Operations wero begun
with 1t for tho delectaticn OF n curious
public OH Monday last in a store on
lower Broadway. The sparring contest
between Young Critic and Charley Bar.
nett on tho Madison Square Roof Gar.
den on May 4 has boon reproduced
daily since at intervals OF fifteen min.
utes. Each reproduction lasts twelve
minutes. Tho spectators sit In chairs
in darkness and observe tho actions OF
objects displayed on canvas OF good size.
They SEQ Critic aud Barnett advance
from their corners and shnke hands.
They see them moyo their hands back
aud forward and dance about warily.
They sec them counter. duck, swing,
upper.cut nnd-givo body blows. When
they clInch the oulookers laugh as
Reteree Charlie White parts them and
walks between them. They don't hear
him say Break. there, break" They
would. though, with tho phonograph at.
tachment.
Tho round enda and the mon 60 to
their corners and the seconds ate seen
wipint their faces aud tanning them
vigorously with towels. It is all realistic,
so realistic, indeed, ;hat cxc,able spec.
tators have forgot I'll emsclres and cried:
Mix up thoreiw Look out, Charlie:
you'll get punch" "Oh what do you
think OF that, Mr.. BARNETT" and other
expressions OF like character. 1t is
wonderful.
But tho man who ia responsible for il
should be considered. lie Is Woodville
Latham. lilo was Professor OF Chemis-
try in the University OF West Virginia.
Then he held the same position in Ok
ford, Miss, in the Mississippi Univer.
si.y. Then he went into the real estate
business in St. Louis, aud then to Chat.
tanooSa, where there was boom. He
wishes no had skipped the latter place.
Then he came to New York, where his
soma, Gray Latham and Otway Latham
had introduced tho kaleidoscope. lie
suggested reproductions on I screen.
lie experimental ior year with pho.
tographic machine. The results were
important. They were these: A process
BY which the reproduction could be
magniiied to life size. and a process by
which they could be projected on the
canvass. The secrets OF these processes
are his own.
More than this. lie 80 arranged the
instantaneous Photographic machine
tina. it will work for hours il necessary.
Edison's Photographic machine will
work but moment. The match be-
tween Critic and Barnett lasted twelve
minutes
Forty pictures n second can be taken.
The use OF the kaleidoscope with pho
nograph is to be attempted at the great
Couldock benefit. il the electric light in
the theatre can be perfected. rs it prob
ably eau. tits proposed to operate it
for about half an hour. when all the
prominent actors who arctic participate
are on the stage. With avicw OF hav-
ing 4 moving and speaking picture OF
his father in years to come, G. b. Je0er-
sou, son OF Joseph Jefferson, has been
in correspondence with the La,hams.
he desire TO have an act OF The Rivals"
or Grip Van Winkle" reproduced, with
the phonograph attachment. 1t can be
done easily, the Lathams say.
Even the slightest motion can DO re-
produced. The act Of swapping tho
finger can be photographed four times.
Otway Latham has scene in which IL
man is smoking pipe. Tho smoke
from 1t can BIO seen on the canvas A
photographer was out ono day recently
with street piano player for the pur-
pose of catching children dancing to the
music. That will be renrodured