The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-19
He SHOWS
A MARVEL
Color Photography Is
a Reality.
IOR, A. P PECK'S PICTURES
/ Distinguished Medical Missionary o.
China Explains the
Phenomena.

Province and for twenty years resi- -
dent of the Celestial Empire, is carry sa
ing back with him to China process OF II,
color photography which will enable
him TO take photographs in any part
of the world. send them back to Chica- 81
go TO be mounted and have the $arnY y
'Corors f1ich he saw reproduced exactly II
In the prints
Startling developments have been L
made in color photography in the past
few years and IL has now become So
simple of manipulation that the anna
teur photographer is enabled TO take .
photographs by the process which Dr.
Peck has and reproduce the colors OF
trees. persons and the ever
fchanging hues of the ocean exactly as
they are to the naked eye.
Or Peck last evening displayed 10
an Advertiser representative many OF
the photographs he had taken by TINS
process. showing colors with vividness
(which is startling when 1t is known
lt1,at neither the brush of an artist nor
the paints upon his palette have had
l'anvthing TO do in bringing them out So
J clearly. A photograph which DR.. Peek .
Ia Few days since took of the judiciary J
lbuildinr IS n fine specimen of this new
art The positive is itself like any other !
= lpIate-merely showing black and white.
with a color screen placed over 1t ana
'adiusted to n nicely every hue IN the
lbuildinR the grass plots. the gll' on
the statue of the martial Kamehameha
are clearly brought out
1T am only an amateur photoSra-
lpber." said Dr. Peck. This process
was discovered In Chicago by a gentle
man named Mcdonald. He was not
professional photographer-only an am
steur He accumulated a fortune in
lhnsiness and he spent his last years
land considerable of his fortune In ex-
10 perimenting on this process. II was
not an accidental discovery.
..,Tbere IS but a single exposure. Neg
atives are taken I'm an ordinary camera
through glass screens which are
.-rooved with lines not entirely visible
to the eve. There are 300 to the inch
lor about / 200 To a plate. The lines are
To- made by machines. automatically ad-
,n, iusted. The ruling is done with dell
w. oaey hardly to be explained. The lines
yes are made by lines OF agate ana carnf-
a., inar. There Is no space between th'
ow ,,,ling 40 that no white light can get IN
no The machine is enclosed In a glass cas-
or and does its work automatically.
''The primary colors are TO De seer
as in rainboWs on tne-e screens II P
IN the light properly. These are red
res blue and green yellow used 10
Thought one Of the primary colors. bu
ith lit IL not
800. - camera Is htted Win am
o+b s,caan which IS fixture. benin
which any number OF photographs ca
9th he taken. The plateholders are slippe
IN behind the screen and an exposur
ass Is made for fifteen seconds. The hgf
is anaIyzed by this screen as the pm
ares tcgraph Is taken in on the negativ
when the positive is taken from u
9o'rcrative the primary colors are In u
i,,sek and white reproduction. but n
as. vtsible. OF course. Now take one
these screens and adjust II over q
as- picture and you have the colors repr
duced. The adjustment of the scree
and over the pcsitives Is matter OF nj
lmanipulation and prefer to send 7
and lposltives to Chicago.
Dr. Peck irlustrated his meaning
r'acing a screen over many posiuN
, no rad. The rainbow colors fiared
urer. became small stresks. and finally
sirrilated themselves with those of
!. positive and the color scheme was co
piete.
These photographs car be reprcd
\ ed In color half tones as we'll" said
Peck. zone OF the most beaut
feature. of this discovery will be the
production OF photographs for ma
Il zines and books. Here. for instance
" "a photograph Of a piece OF embroid
v-ork-rowers An ordinary cor
uiate was made for this. The mega
urlT lis -sten on the copper plate and {
llhhlt ctchcd with acid. Then in press "
with a single impression Of black
every color IN that embroidery v
~ vas brought out. In Chicago they
now constructing n four-cylinder p
ror color work the printing Of whic
a., Han Gone with black ink.
order ne scfh''hc -, :
shares me discovery ss ,.l.,,,o, =,
Steam cry can % h'aue ~ 60. -, 80.
500, colors' WIN 'n -, - ~ :.
res Of astronomlcai WorS VIZ y ' -,
and by this process the colors OF
spectrum can be reproduced exacu
rtr It's value 70 pictorial magazines
be easily understood when by
lcameras adjusted with the
!. screens the positives can he sen
from any part Of the world and =
m duced upon their pages in the same
. W. ors which the photographer saV
takine the negative.
A reproduction was shown OF
a tograph Of n Mexican boy. In
!. sornbrero and cape. with all the
W y" " hich the Mexican loves.
Issessa- a scene in Egypt Is shown. o
become colors and the other plain blacl
Castle white. The use OF the screen owe
"a DE- black and white produces the san
eoo feet as that brought out in the
~ reproduction. 4 photograph 81
,~-'f ofatorss residence in 1T
raj Co. -. ~ -.d bua of the stor
oosV green OF the grass and trees an
blue Of the sky above. chicago
scene shows the colors OF the n
flowers and grass plots perfectl
sEsUM- Dr peck has for twenty years
W occu- q, char,unp Province. He left
Once ;" - 81, ,,aca,i,n and the
lephone. ias' ye.i .'aa.a,o -. an che trvir
ssl DID not par,s'Pa'e :" 90 va