The Washington times., 1902-07-13
NEWS AND GOSSIP IN CApTN CAMEPH CIRCLES

city for short sojourn at Lynn, Mass,
where she will occupy her time in max
ing studies of factory life for illustra-
tive purposes. The subject is a fruit
full one. and the many types of factory
girls. many of whom are of French
Canadian parentage, will furnish ma
terial both valuable for pictorial studies
AS well as for studies of sociological
conditions found in the large mauufac-
turing centers
Mr. w. F. Peabody has recently re-
turned from a short visit at Charlottes-
Vile. Va, and as usual his camera form
ed part of his travelling baggage. and
while he reports that he was unable to
find much of pictorial interest il will be
safe to presume that in the coming
fall exhibition Of the camera club we
will find on the wall some records of
this brief "trip.
The explosive nature OF Photographic
films when celluloid is used as base
has been strongly emphasized in one
family, in which the husband is strong
ly addicted to film photography. In this
instance lot of films which had proved
defective had been thrown in the waste
box with a lot of other refuse. which
naturally accumulates in a dark room.
and the careful housewife, in her sum-
mer house cleaning. preparatory to leav-
ing the city, improved the opportunity
afforded by the absence of the photog-
rapher of the household to give the dark
room much needed renovating. The
shelves were all thoroughly washed. and
ranged. the trays and other utensils
carefully cleaned. and the overfiowing
box of rubbish removed and consigned
to the kitchen range. Fortunately at
the time of the combustion of the films
and the resulting explosion Swhich lifted
the covers from the range and covered
the floor with scraps of half burned pa
per, there was no one in the kitchen.
and the only harm done was to terrify
the occupants of the house, who were
eA0D4N " uNtci lue cause OE Ile eN-
plosion until the return of the photog-
rapher, VINO readily solved the mystery.
The moral of this experience is that the
dark room is good place to leave alone
when the house-cleaning fever is at its
height
Camera club historical articles are
now becoming features of the photo
graphic magazines. This departure was
started by the professional and ANA
teur Photographer" (Buffalo), and now
the Photographic Times Bulletin" New
York; will follow out this scheme with
series of articles. embracing the rep
resentative camera clubs of the coun-
try. with pictures of the officers of the
clubs. and illustrations showing the club
rooms of each society The move is q
good one, and will result in a closer ac-
quaintance between the different clubs,
and good-natured rivalry to keep the
accommodations of the different clubs up
to the highest possible standard.
The Athens, Pa, Camera Club. which
was organized after a visit of one of
the members to the Capital Camera
Club, is now preparing to move into
quarters of Its own. which will be es-
peeially remodeled to suit the purposes
OF camera club. In recent letter
one OF the members states that largo
proportion OF the funds raised for club
extension came from the proceeds of a
lantern slide entertainment prepared
by one of our local amateurs from slides
made en- the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.