The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-13
A SchilIing & Company
San Francisco

grounds and a few pieces of furniture
make the necessary accessories for taking
portraits.
The operating room is Il feet long, 4
feet having been partitioned from one
end OF the car for a dark room. The
door leading into the dark room is in the
center OF the partition, with ruby win
dow at each side opening into the operat-
ing room A bracket under the window
holds lamp, so that the operator does
not have the heat of the lamp in the
dark room Under one of the windows in
the dark room is a wide shelf for de-
veioping trays, and under the other one
for the fixing trays. An ingenious con-
trivance- for water, with a pipe to con-
duct the waste out of doors, answers all
the purposes of running water.
The proprietor of this compact and
well equipped gallery said that his first
camera was ptnhole camera, which he
used for a while and then sold and
bought a Harvard outfit such as is Civ
en- with the Youths Companion for Sub
scriptions. With this camera he made
pictures at 81 per dozen until he had
earned enough to get a. 5xS camera AS
he lived in a small town where there was
no photograph gallery. people came to
him to have their pictures taken, and as
he was very painstaking and his pictures
good. he soon had all the work he could
do. His pictures were made out of doors
portraits in the shade Of the house and
groups on a vine-covered porch. His
father pleased with his success and see
Ing how faithfully he kept at work, had
the portable photograph gallery" built
for him. the cost of which, including the
fittings, and the wagon on which to move
it, was $50.
The photograph gallery which travels
by water is on the Erie canal A few
years ago a system of cable towing was
in operation between Lockport and BufTa-
10. A cable was laid at the bottom of
the canal and the canal boats were towed
by small boat fitted with a. fly wheel
over which loop of the cable ran and
propelled the boat. This method of tow
ing was not a success and the scheme was
abandoned The boats used for the cable
motor" were useless as canal boats and
were either sold at sacrifice or left to
fall to pieces.
Two bright young amateur photograph
ers happened to see one of these boats
which had been bought by a landscape
artist and fitted up as house-boat, which
he used IN summer to travel up and
down the canal IN search of subjects, and
they conceived the idea of renting one of
the boats and fitting II up as a photo
graph gallery. They sought out the owner
who gave them the use of the boat for
the GUNNER free of charge. They ex-
humed old furniture from its dusty sleep
in the attic, bought cheap cotton drap-
cries, plenty of mosquito netting, put
awnings over the forward deck, fitted up
dark ROOM swung a couple OF ham
mocks to sleep in. and started on their
novel business trip.
They called their gallery the Venetian
Travelling Photograph Studio" and is
sued most attractive business cards with
a tiny picture of their boat in one cor
ner They found the boatman ready to
toss them a line whenever they wished
to tow, and thus they journeyed up and
down the canal stopping whenever and
wherever there seemed TO be field for
work. When they stopped near a village
they distributed their business cards, and
people who visited them out of curiosity
usually remained to have their pictures
taken.
At the end of the season they reckoned
up their gains and found that they had
cleared $50 and all expenses. besides ha-v-
ing enjoyed most delightful summer.
There is no reason why the example of
these boys might not be followed by any
bright young amateur. Two boys with
a little ready money, might fit up a tray-
cling gallery and taking a trip through
villages off from the line of a railroad.
not only make a little money but have a
novel and interesting outing.