Evening star., 1902-08-30
THE CAMERA F|ENDS
Terror of Prominent Men
and Women.
NO ESCAPE FROM THEM
HOW ]. PIERPoNT MORGAN WAS
oUTWITTED.
New York's Rich Women Afflicted
With misunderstanding
About "Class Law"
NO ESCAPE FROM THEM
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

special Correspondence OF The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, August %. 1902.
The wise celebrities, domestic and for
eign, will learn In time the advantageous
ness Of calmly, If reluctantly, submitting
to the snapshots of the camera fiends at
tached to the New York sensational news
papers. A good many OF them have no
doubt, learned their little lesson In this
spect within the past couple of weeks
from the awful Photographic presentments
that have been made of them upon the
steamers and piers as they arrived here
from Europe. This is the period when the
famous personages are Hocking back from
Europe, and III consequence the incoming
steamers are clustered with newspaper
photographers. who board them at Quar-
antine, while the piers contain a reserve
guard of the persistent lens marksmen. A
great majority of the returning celebrities
have this year evinced a real or an af-
fected dtsinclir alton to having their per-
sonal pulchritude or the lack of The same
corralled by the newspaper photographers,
and the result has been something terri
flying.
The reason why is that the sensational
newspaper photographer, when he IS sent
to make snap shot of celebrity, is sim
ply bound to get the picture. willy nilly,
by fair means or foul. He knows that his
JOB depends upon his success in getting
quick portraits Of persons who do not or
pretend that they do not want to have
their pictures in the newspapers, and this
knowledge is sufficient to force him to any
extreme to gain his point He is fully
aware of the fact that If the photographer
of a rival paper succeeds in snap shooting
a celebrity while he himself fails in the at
tempt his position with his newspaper
isn't liable to be worth a cast-off motor
mans glove after his fiasco.
Reason for Their Persistence.
This is the reason why the much-decried
snap shooters are such persistent and abso-
lutely unsquelchable individuals. This is
likewise the reason that, in about ninety
nine cases out Of a hundred, they actually
succeed IN getting snap shots of the famous
side steppers." no matter how frantically
the latter strive, pretend to strive,
against the newspaper cameras.
j. Pierpont Morgan, a gentleman who,
since he achieved his vast prominence in
the world of finance, has unquestiDnably
become afflicted with that malady politely
termed the delirium of grandeur"-the
affiiction is described in less complimentary
phrases when applied to ordinary iIdivid-
uals-blusteringly announced on the deck
of the steamer that hauled him into New
York harbor the other day that he
wouldn't have his picture taken by news
paper photographer for five million dol
lars" That seemed like a pretty fairish
bagatelle for immunity from the besiege-
ments of the score or more of newspaper
and magazine photographers who hovered
about the extremely gruff boss Of the finan-
cial puddle, but Mr.. Morgan might just as
we'll have made his figure rounder by say
ing fifty millions. A very busy and self
important secretary of the fnancier kept
himself more or less in front of Mr.. Nor
gan during all of the time the latter was
on the deck of the steamer as 1t came up
the harbor, and when, in spite of this, one
of the photographers took a shot at the
trust organizer, the officious secretary ap-
peared to become real vexed, so he did. He !
advanced upon the photographer who had |
got the shot, raising a heavy cane as he !