The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-10-23
STUDIO
IN THE
WOODS
Two Maine Boys Conduct a
Snug Business That Pays
Them Well.

oreenvilIs, Me-. Oct. s3.-There is prob
ably no other enterprise In the whole
wide world just like the snug business
eopdseted by pair Of live Yankee boys.
named williams. at their small. odd camp
at the foot OF LATHE 6agsw mountain.
The Williams brothers are photogra-
phers, and their present novel business
was the direct outcome Of start IA a
ansu way OF tramp!ng through the game
region and taking pictures OF sroups In
The Thought occurred to them that 81
would be great deal more convenient II
the hunters should come 70 them Instead
that they s sstaSlished - i ss thelr noSsl S stu,
do" which 10 proving Dig source Of
who are IN the woods for the first sea :
son. like very much to have u photo
graph OF themselves In their hunting
camp for a background. TO take home 70
show and expatiate upon TO their less
fortunate friends.
ALL THE GAME NECESSARY.
They can, 20. to the Williams place and
asVs uHSy ahy sne Of picture tSoo.s taken wrh
order.
The boys have built a structure In the
shape of hunting camp but nave made
or, rather. the fronts on three sides are
All different. These fronts are the back
ss9Sn Then ros game they s1ass hay'
a moose or two, strings OF stuffed birds
and several full equipments or hunting
costumes.
They can take party OF the most cal
low tyros, dress them up. put guns In
their hands and pose them In front OF
the sSS camp with % big string Ing. OF deer vSaG and
the photograph Is taken and finished II
appears 10 be one OF the most successful
parties that ever went into the Maine
There are always "supers" enough
within call to pose as guides. and 50 the
picture can be made complete. Even the
s'gn over the camp door Is matter OF
but few moments work with ready
brush, and II can be Camp Chesunco1k
or "Nimrod's Home" or any old kind OF
There are many so-called hunters who
never get nearer the big woods than The
equipment finish their work nicely, and
many OF their pictures have been repro
duced in high-class periodicals as thu
real thing.
SITTING ON A DUMMY.
There is another class of popular views
and many a picture Is taken OF hunte
sitting upon a fallen forest monarch witt
his smoking rifle in his hand. The sait
! forest monarch has the hair all worl
\ Off from one side from dragging back an
| and repairs are frequently needed TO kee
| the hay from coming out from his well
! dried hide. ii costs 90 cents extra for
| picture on a fallen forest monarch.
The Williamses recently filled an orde
| for twenty-five hunting scenes for rail-
! road guide book. They propped up TN
| old stuffed moose In half a dozen posi-
| tions I'm the woods and took snaps OF him
| they arranged the deer In groups. an
| singly they grouped all the Idle loafer
about the place In guides togs, In man!
| poses and worked the paraphernalia o
the place in all sorts OF combinations.
So ingenious were the results that whei
the pictures were made in half-tones ans
artistically brought out, no one could de
tect the fact that they were not wha
they purported TO be-actual studies from
! life.
This spring the Williams brother
added a line OF fish TO their properties
and took number OF fishing parties
BY means OF a large collection of cley
erly whitfield wooden fish they could II
out a fisherman or group with strings o
bio amos inst 10 their order.