New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-14
THE REAL NAN OF COURAGE.

HOW THE CASE OF BRECKENs SHOWS IT
TO BE THE AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER
From The Chicago Record
1t is not the butcher the trolley-car motor
man or the bicycle scorcher. or any OF those
others who axe familiar with death. ana VINO
indeed bring 1t about. who is the man ui coui
age There is a disposition among some leaIlI'u
persons to believe that mans trade or pro
+, sson has great influence upon ms charac
ter. and they are doubtless right. AS we lnN-
mated. the man who ~ readiest To hght IS heltne'
the policeman nor the professional pusiliS'' lie
| is the amateur photographer
We repeat that the of Brcckens proves H.
or course the basic cause must he LETT 10 the
scientists Those learned gentlemen who are
able to go to the very roots of things ana TO
make a sausageman's wife out Of rag pohe
and a hank of hair, can probably tell why the
acids and other chemicals used in the photo
graphic art convey such degree of foolhardy
courage to those who handle them-the rest OF
us cannot do that. We can only take the factS
rs We find them and go along In doubt as to
whether ii Is collodon or hypo which causes a
camera snapper to lose all sense OF fear and to
perform most fabulous deeds Of daring.
Breckens Is newspaper correspondent living
In Cheyenne. Wyo. 1t is he who discovers fos-
SLICED giants and eocene wind caves and Indian
outbreaks and wires the Eastern papers about
them. He il one OF the best correspondents in
tho West. and he weighs about ninety-four
pounds. lie is good figure for jockey. but
Won would not expect IL to he just the one t.
make a man too self-relant in a country OF bad
men. Breckens. up To the time of the camera
episode IN fact, Just rs niue n n meek man
OF peace as his muscular display would suggest
one day in the fall Of 1895 Breckens discovered
an Indian uprising up In the Teton country, and
being commissioned by some of his New York
papers he hurried up there armed with a camera
purchased that day. He proposed TO send some
pictures as we'll as some dispatches
The nearer he came 10 the Teton basin the
wilder became the rumogs OF wholesale killing
scalping and burning. Terror was in the air
and ii affected Breckens somewhat. He began
10 get scared The outbreak. II appeared was
Id Inv a ucrcp hirsty
wine Of the Ross Fork agency. and Snowine
had already invented twenty-five new ways OF
torturng people Breckens would have gone
back only that he had already snapped his new
camera upon dozen interesting scenes" and
he had hopes OF getting chances at some more.
He went into camp with his guide in the Ho-
back Canon east of the place OF supposed car
mage and looking around to see that Snowlne
was nowhere near. lie prepared for the nights
rest First OF all, he wanted to tax" out the
exposed plates In his camera and insert some
fresh ones. TO do this would require dark
ROOM for the moon was out full ana brilliant
Breckens. therefore. assisted by ms guide, made
a sort OF tepee out OF overcoats ana blankets
and the two of them crawled inside and liz the
red lamp. 10, , 49,
derstand that the mere mention or the name OK
Sinowne would have set Breckens into sp9sm
The camera had not yet begun TO get In Its work
on him. ,,,,
With n Winchester over his shoulder came snoop-
ing around the hill out of the mouth OF the cam
Won The Indian advanced softly in the moon
i,yht until his ears were jerked up nj half-cock
by the sound OF human volces-a mutted sound
indeed but voices nevertheless he looked
about him. and caught sight OF Breckens's dark
room, OF old coats and blankets. lie had never
before seen a thing like that which could talk
over,oat The strong clear light Of the moon
fell upon these Two white men, and also upon
n stack OF plates. which Breckens had just
opened The guide. with cry OF frozen horror
began running while he was still sitting down.
and by the time he had risen to his rect he was
ten yards away. yelling. IT'S Sinow!ne.'
Breckens heard him. but he didn't care one
glance at his spoiled plates and he was after
the Indian. According to SinowiY.'S own story,
the little white man hit him in thirteen places al
once, and knocked him down and kicked nm
bitterly and every time he rose knocked MIN
down again and whipped him all over the neigh