Evening star., 1902-08-30
Secretary Became Truculent.


Did you photograph Mr.. Morgan?" the
secretary demanded with much fierce
ness as he could assume.
81 sure made as much of crack at the
same as 1 could with portions Of your car
cass in the way" dryIy replied the pho
tographer.
How dare You photograph Mr.. Morgan?''
ferociously inquired the secretary, raising
his club as If to smash the camera, and
mentioning the tinancier's name IN tone
of awe, as If the juggler of millions were
of celestial origin.
It's part of my graft" calmly replied
the photographer. becoming q bit angry
himself. individually, l don't care any
more for Mr.. Morgan than l do for Paddy
the Pig or Grand Central Pete, but l drift
ed on board this craft for the purpose OF
getting a view or of his frame. I've
got one, and I'm going to get some others
before he gets off the boat. AS for you I'd
recommend you to fetch that club of yours
to a parade rest real quick, or I'll just
take you by the slack of your waistcoat
and toss you over the side. even If you
were the secretary to four Morgans and a
couple of AhkOunds of Swat besides-that' S
what I'll do with you, WILLIE
The important secretary subsided prompt
ly, and Mr.. Morgan rushed to the purser' s
room to get away from the camera They
all caught him with their lenses as he
started on his dog-trOt. and. with one leg
in the air and his yachting cap pulled down
over one ear, the eminent t1nancier in these
pictureS-whiCh were published the IeXt
day-only needed a cutlass between his
teeth to resemble a glass-eating and sui
phur-burning pirate of the Spanish Main
as depicted by Howard Pyle.
Then they all went down in body to the
purser's room, where Mr.. Morgan had
taken refuge. They found him seated IN a
corner of the room, which, nevert heIesS
was in strong light, and very well adapt
ed for Photographic purposes. The great
money man was tilted back in a chair
growing angrily, with a cigar clapped into
his countenance at the precise angle affect
ed by Chuck Connors. One-eyed Connolly
and others of that tribe-which is a little
eccentricity of the eminent financiers
Got Good Pictures This Time.
One by one the photographers passed De-
fore the door of the purser's room. shoot
ing away at the wrathfuI looking organizer
of everything, and the portraits that they
thus secured made Mr.. Morgan look for
all the world like a sullen mastif lust
about to make final effort to chew his
tethering rope. Before Mr.. Morgan became
aware of what they were doing and kicked
the purserS door TO all of them had taken
these horrible negatives of him.
The notable women who. arriving from
Europe during the past fortnight, ineffec-
tually stroVe to escape the cameras We're
rewarded for these efforts by having snap
shots of themselves published in the vel
lows that made them look like composites
of Washerwomen, gypsies and chorus girls
me vanderbilt party tried to keep news
papers, handkerchiefs, parcels and all sorts
OF things before their faces as they stood
upon the pier upon the morning of their
arrival, but the photographers, not to be
thwarted buzZed around them like humble
bees, and all succeeded in snap-shooting
the women of the party in the most gro
tesque and absurd attitudes.
The Duchess of Marlborough was in par
ucular the victim of the newspaper cam
eras. Now, the Duchess of Marlborough is
not pretty woman. She is very far from
that, and all of the idealized portraits of
her made by French painters and published
in the Sunday supplements of the New York
yellows will never make her q pretty
woman. But she is at least presentabIe
albeit her figure is slender TO the point of
emaciation and her countenance is in no
wise interesting. But the snapshots that
were taken of the unfortunate American
duchess by the newspaper camera-clickers
simply made her out a fright of the most
frightful description, and if she saw them
she must have wept bitterly over them.
The lineaments and figure of her trim
mother, Mrs. Belmont. were likewise most
wretchedly rendered by the newspaper
camera folk. and all because they wriggled
about and made such determined efforts