The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-30
PROMINENT MEN HERE
An unrivalled Collection of Pictures
Will be Exhibited.
ALL THESE CAN BE SEEN BY THE PUBLIC
Three Days Session in Which Busin. IS. Award
ing OF Prizes, Exhibitions Of Pictures
and Social Pleasures all Have
lima and Place.

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At 10 O'Clock this morning the Fifth
Annual Convention of the Photograph
ers Association of Virginia and North
! Carolina will be called to order in the
Senate chamber at the capitol and the
meetings will continue through Thurs
day.
This organization meets for the first
time in North Carolina. Last year a
great meeting was held in Richmond,
but the outlook for the Raleigh meet
ing is that 1T will eclipse all past re-
cords. The prime object of the assoc
citation is to foster a feeling of social
intercourse among its membership,
composed of the photographers of Vir-
ginia and North Carolina, to establish
fraternal relations and good fellowship,
to improve the science and art of pho
Biography and to inaugurate exhibitions
of Photographic productions on a scale
consummate with the progress of the
art.
The officers of the association are:
M. l.. Clark, of Richmond, president
c. p. Wharton, of Raleigh, first vice
president; G. f. Cheyne, Hampton.
Va, second vice president; S. L. Alder
man, Greensboro, N. c., third vice presi-
dent; Waller Holiday, Durham, secre-
tary; r. W. Holsinger, Charlottesville,
Va, treasurer.
Among the photographers who have
already arrived in the city are Messrs.
A. H. Pleclxer, of Lynchburg; c. E.
Cheyne, of Hampton, Va; William
Of Nnrfnlk. Mnora nf
Atlanta Fl. H. Hoffman, of Savannah;
c. M. Coble, of Trenton, N. c.; A. A.
Miller, of Goldsboro; O. W. Cole, of
Durham; Walter Holiday, of Durham:
A. w. Franklin of Petersburg. In the
list of manufactures representatives
there are Messrs. H. M. Fell, of James
town. n WV. A. Slater, of the AM
erican Aristotype Company; T. A. Sc
lecman, of the Sprague & Hathaway
Company, of Boston; t. E. Tompkins.
Southern Photo Company, of Atlanta
w. r. Hemferly, Cranes Dry Plate
Company, of St Louis; w. w. Kerst. of
w. +. Buchanan, Philadelphia; VIM.
Nye, of the Hammer Dry Plate Com
pany, of st. Louis; Frank Pickerel of
the Glenn Photo Company. of Atlanta,
and T. T.. Mccain of the NJ A. Seed
Dry Plate Company of ST. Louis
The organization is growing one and
has now about one hundred members,
representing the leading towns in Vir-
ginia and North Carolina. At this
meeting a number of new members are
to be received. The meetings are not
dull, dry affairs, but the photographers
compare notes, award prizes and criti-
cize the work of each other There is
now arranged in handsome style in the
Senate chamber some of the best speci
ments of Photographic art in the
South, and with these there is an elab-
crate display of the best things for
photographers.
The general meetings of the associa
ton are to be private, but on Wednes-
day, from to s, the exhibition will be
open to the public and it is chance
which all who enjoy seeing good pictures
should embrace.
The badge of the association is a typi-
cal one. On it in colors there is the
flags of Virginia and North Carolina,
crossed above a kodak and clasped
hands, these hands coming above the
letters Va. and N. c., signifying that
the photographers of these two States
are hand in hand
At the opening session this morning
at 10 o'clock an address of welcome will
be made by Mr.. w. B. Snow, repre-
senting Mayor Powell. This will be re-
piled to by President Clark, and then
the business session will begin.
The order of exercises Of the associa
ton is as follows, these taking place in
the Senate chamber:
TUESDAY-10 a. M, opening exer-
cises, business session lasting until L
o'clock. 2 p. IN. to 2:S0 p. M, demon
stration at Wharton's gallery. $3.50 to 6
p. M, business session. p. m. to ad-
tournament, business session.
WEDNESDAYS a. M, business ses-
sion and election of officers. 10:45 a. m.
to 1 p. M, demonstration by Slater &
Fell, representing American Aristotype
Company. 2 to 6 p. M, public invited
to exhibition. o'clock, opera party,
followed by refreshments and music.
THURSDAYS a. M, business ses-
sion. 1870 to / p. M, demonstration at
Watson's gallery p. M, distribution
of medals award of prizes, selection of
place of next meeting. Adjournment.
During the session there will be
awarded seven gold medals and seven
silver medals. These will be for excel
lencies in classes as follows: One or
more pictures, any size, with title; three
pictures, figure portraits and above thir-
teen inches; six portraits, heads or fig
ures, above six inches; twelve portraits,
cabinet size; twelve portraits open to
photographers never in a competitive
contest; six pictures, landscapes. ma
rines or interior, Sx10; six pictures,
commercial work, any size; one photo,
for photographers outside Of Virginia
and North Carolina; employees prize on
instructive work; special amateur prize
for six pictures, any size, from anna
teums, the prizes for this being a AXIS
camera and Bansch & Lomb Ray Fill
err. The committee on prizes is Messrs.
w. w. Hoffman, of Savannah, and f.
r. Moore, of Atlanta.