Evening star., 1909-05-16

suit. 1t does not follow that she wants
sent down to posterity a permanent rec
ord of how she appeared. There are
styles in bathing suits as well as in
every other kind of garb, and the effect
that may be very chic one year is hope
lessly out of fashion the next. II the
photograph is her own or is in the pos
session of some friend it can be destroy
ed. But If 1t is in the hands Of
stranger it remains a permanent libel on
her good looks
Moreover. when a picture is taken with
out permission the subject does not get
the proper chance to look her prettieSt."
There Is even the chance that she may
be the rare exception who goes bathing
to actually get into the water. and that
tho waves may have taken the curl out
OF her hair and deranged her toilet gen
orally, just at the moment that the cam
era does its worst.
These are all matters Of grave moment
In the summer life of the most popular
Of American seacoast resorts, and Coun-
Gilman Bolte framed his bill with the idea
of taking even a shadow of care from
the fair visitor who is herself the great
est drawing card that Atlantic City could
possibly have.
Therefore. according to the new bill,
the man who would take a picture Of one
Of the bathing queens must first go to
her and make known his desire. He
must get an unmistakable permission.
Then he can go ahead and do his worst.
But let him fire without asking and she
has only to call to her aid one of the
numerous beach policemen, and 1t Is
quick trip to the jug for the offender.
This will undoubtedly make difference
in the number of photographs that will
come out of Atlantic City during the sea-
son just beginning. 1t is known that
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lures Of celebrities could be SO readily OBJ
tanned. Noted society leaders, who, at
Newport, for instance, would be abso-
lutely unapproachable, yielded to the pop
ular tone of Atlantic City, and were less
careful about chasing the photosra pher
who camped on their trail.
On the business street of the town
whole lineup of Photographic supply
houses and dark rooms told how con-
stantly the snapshooter was on the job.
and a number of New York, Philadel-
phia, Pittsburg and Washington news
papers kept staff photographers con-
stantly on the scene to land the right
kind OF summer beauty pictures for their
pages.
This activity is rudely interrupted by
the Bolte law. which takes no account.
Oh newspapers, gives no special privileges,
makes no distinctions between the pho
togra pher who is working for living and
the amateur who has only in mind the
artistic delight Of getting a photograph
of woman he particularly admires.
Many OF these amateurs have noted COL
lections
In one of the letters which Councilman
Bolte received from women protesting
against the practice was one which told
Of young man who had the walls of
his room completely covered with photo
graphs of beauties he had snapped on the
beach In the course of three seasons of
Industrious effort, and that at the cost
Of considerable trouble he had identified
them all and labeled each with the name
Of the fair original. The girl whe pro-
tested was one of those on the wall, and
she somewhat plaintively wrote that she
had no desire to be one of the ornaments
for the room OF this man or any other.