Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-14

method were under consideration, might
well have been supposed 20 never arrive At
a unanimous conclusion.
The task which these artists found con-
fronting them was one of hcrculean pro-
portions Ten thousand prints were sub
mitted for the consideration of the jury.
OF these, owing to the limitation OF space
and difficulties Of shipment. only four hun
dred could be accepted, but fifteen hundred
others were declared TO be We'll up 20 he
highest salon standard"
To judge correctly and justly any such
number of pictures in limited time,
whether paintings or photographs, unless
the average of merit were very low, would
be utterly impossible it is, therefore, not
remarkable that, in spite OF the large num-
Der 20 choose from. some poor prints have
slipped in, but rather TO be wond cred at
that their number Is not greater
The patrons of the salon are no less dis
tinguished than the members of the jury.
The Secretary of State, Mr.. John Hay,
leads the list with Senator Platt Senator
Depew Governor O'Dell and Mayor McClel-
Ian, besides whom may be mentioned Mrs.
Vanderbilt. Mr.. William T. Evans Mr.. j.
Pierpont Morgan, Mr.. Louis Paul Dessar.
Mr.. Samuel Untermyer, Mr.. Alexander c.
Humphreys. Mr.. Henry w. Ranger and a
score or more of other prominent man of
affairs.
& Universal Exhibition.
The object of the salon is not only TO
set forth what has been done in the field
of photography, but to stimulate further
effort, and for this reason it will be shown
successfully in a number of the larger
cities, 1t was opened in New York last
month, and at it's conclusion here it will be
sent in turn to Chicago. Boston. Toronto,
San Francisco and Portland, Oregon.
In some respects il is no better than other
exhibitions held in this city by under
the auspices OF the Capital Camera Club
but account of its wider scope it is per-
haps both more interesting and more sig
nfcant. There is no section of the United
States which is not represented and al
most no country in Europe which does not
make some showing. One little picture has
come all the way from Riga, Russia. and
there are four exhibitors of Copenhagen.
Denmark. Nine English towns are repre-
scented and three French cities: Germany
and Belgium have both made contributions.
Genoa, Italy, shows worthy group. and
some of the best exhibits hail from Edin-
burgh and Glasgow. In the United States
honors seem TO be pretty well distributed
The west is largely and particularly well
represented, but some of the most notable
work will be found to have come from the
of six exhibitors and fourteen exhibits--a
fairly large percentage of the chosen few.
/ The exhibition is literally universal in char
acter, and affords ar opportunity to OBJ
serve the comparative merits of our own
and foreign work which in this instance
is unique.
Whether or not photography has a place
among the fine arts has been much dis
cussed during recent years. The admission
Of photographs to some of the leading
foreign fine arts exhibitions and the adj
mission of this and similar exhibitions TO
the halls of the Corcoran gallery go TO
show the strength of the affirmati :.
whereas it's exclusion from the current
American exhibitions and from the me
arts exhibit at St. Louis manifests that there