The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-26

creasing:
"No photograph ever quite did him jus
tice. All In all, he had the most remarkable
pair OF eyes ! ever saw in q mans head.
They were literally like the eyes OF an ante
lope-brooding, darkly luminous. suffused
with pity; and yet they were strong and
wholly masculine eyes. too.
1T was hard for q photographer 70 catch
him without that expression Of almost
ineradicable melancholy in his face. His
smiles were rare and fine. but they passed
very quickly.
"He was often compared with Napoleon
for facial resemblance, His face was much
finer thar Napoleon's. 1t was as strong.
but lacked the hardness Of the Corsican's.
For a handsome man. a man with q really
noble head, he was the least vain parsonage
/ ever leyelled q camera at.
Mr.. Cleveland had an aversion to the
camera, and 1t took wild horses to get him
infront of one whenhe was President. Then
he'd usually come to us in q sulky frame Of
mind. for he no doubt regarded us as very
great nuisanoR. Had 1t not been for his
admirable wife we might never have got
him at all for abe always assisted us in our
efforts to force sittings upon him.
ihO Oub AuBBOA hOtACD = NV ~ soy
the stubbornness OF the man. was illustrated
by the fact that he despised a photograph
Of himself the negative OF W ioh had been
it had been taken.
Now, Mr.. Cleveland's fac was always
deeply m rked and the defects Of his facial
cuticle were brought out exaggeratedly
in the negatives. 1t would never rave done
to finish his pictures without thoroughly
retouching the negatives. yet this always
displessed him. He wanted the photo
graphs to be just like the proofs.
HE rarely or never ha | this preference
obeyed by photographers fer whom he
Sat, which per APPS was on Of tie reasons
why he hadn't much use for our tribe.
He was a rigid to-, and very hard to
pose. He inclined to ~ronderosity in the
poses he struck for himself and he just
naturally hated TO be smoothed out of these
poses by the operator.
HI liked. fop example, to stick his left
hand beneath the flap OF his fFock coat
In the conventional statesman pose. But
that sort Of thing went out Of date with
Webster and Clay and Calhoun. AMI was
being made ridiculous by black faced
stump speakers OF the minstrel stage when
Mr.. Cleveland was a boy. Yet VIC had all
kinds OF a time preventing him from strik-
ing that outworn attitude every time we
wanted a full length or t~hree-quarters
Of him.
Il think Mr.. Cleveland never possessed
much sense OF humor. One day he was
booked to come TO me for a sitting, and
his barber knowing this gave his exceed
ingly straggly and homely mustache a
natty b%rilliantine twist at the ends. Mr..
Cleveland didn't notice this till he reached
the studio. and then just as he was about
to take the chair he caught sight Of him
self In q glass. He w a snort and pulled
and tugged at bis mustache till he ihad
got It all stringy and straggly again. and
then he appeared to be satisfied.
"Mr. Harrison didn't care for photog-
raphers either. He said to me once that
he thought It foolish for a man to have his
photograph taken after he'd reached the
age OF 10. We had to set all manner OF
traps to get him. and he was the least pho
| tographed Of all the Presidents Of my Pc
Rod as a Washington photographer.
He was keenly sensitive as TO his lack
Of height. He had a long body. and very
short legs, and once when l posed him
in a chair for a Dust picture the chair was
80 high for him-though just right for
a man Of average stature-that his feet
didn't touch the floor.
Noticing this I put a hassock under
his feet. He must have been inwardly
Tuning over the fact that his feet didn't
touch the floor. for when l placed the
footstool for them he kicked it away with
some sort OF mumbling the essence OF
urhtoh I didn't rotnh Tho nanotiyoc thai
I got OF him at that sitting were mighty
scowling ones.
'He was sensitive, too, about his somewha,
snubby, upturned nose. He knew just the
position Of his read in which the nose showeo
of best. and il was all but impossible to get
him to give any other view Of his face. II
the photographer would pull his head
around 10 get another view Mr.. Harrison
would promptly pull It back again to give
what he considered the least trying view OF
his nose. and there was often no other way
for it except for the photographer to give
his Gamers a big yank to one side or the other
for the purpose Of getting the view desired,
for, once set in what he considered the proper
pose, Mr.. Harrison wasn't any easy man to
twist about.
mir. Arthur, being the grandee in all OF
his movements, was a perfect photograph
subject. albeit his poses inclined somewhat
to the theatrical and had, in consequence, to
be modified by the operator. Mr.. Hayes,
though affable enough, was a veritable ram
rod for stiffness when he found himself in a
Photographic studio. and had to be unbent
and made mallesble by main strength.
Gen. Grant would do anything the pho
tographer told him, 80 long as he was per-
mitted to smoke UP to the very minute before
the exposure Of the negative was TO occur.
He had no idea whatever Of pictorial effect,
would collapse all OF a heap in a chair when
requested TO sit down and then would sit
and puff away at his strong, black, acrid
cigars while the operator smoothed the
wrinkles out Of him and assembled him into
some sort OF shape. The last thing the pho.
~tographer did before opening the exposing
shutter on Gen. Grant was gently TO remove
his cigar from his hand and place it out Of
focus range
AT THE AQUARIUM'S HATCHERY.
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