Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-04-17

anything that crawls, croeps.
crouches or files in the Afri-
can jungles this year. About
tho time that Theodore Roosevelt and
bis caravan train their guns In the
greatest hunt Of modern times another
viii be there with his cameras and
guns 10 add interest to the invasion.
This one IS James Riceltou of south
Orange, N j.. who Is the dean OF the
camera kingdom OF the world. This
reads like an extract from Colonel
Tody Hamilton's circus posters but
no ordinary phrases or sentences can
give an adequate description Of Real
toms exploits
Professor Ricalton has been IN Al
rica before He has been everywhere
where there was anything doing. He
has met and taken nearly every po-
tcntate ruler, general and admiral Of
earth and the file OF an nations He
has been on the firing line of great
contests. Ga the midst Of the carnage.
inside and outside OF the breastworks
on the mountain tops. I'm the valleys
and on the sea.
An interesting characte- Is this ut
lie, wiry Jerscyman--sixty years OF
age. slender iu physique. modest IN
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through gold trimmed spectacles. speak
ing. 20 quote HIS own words. mo Lam
guage but English. and very little OF
that All distances are alike 20 him
He tramps as many miles I'm a day as
a horse walks, carrying a thirty pound
camera and tripod. for he scorns the
snapshot apparatus on the march ne
wears out young soldiers He takes
his place with the gunners In perilous
artillery positions, lounges with the
reserves waiting for battle and is I'm
the dash Of the onslaught when he IS
allowed. When the positions have been
carried he sits down with the living
and the dead with as much insouciance
as he would sit at a sinner in his Jer-
sey home
When Edison wanted the right vege-
table hber TO serve as a flament for
his perfected incandescent Iamp Inc
sent Ncalton around the world to find
H. The search took ricalton into the
remotest parts Of Burma. China and
india, and on this tour he experimental
with more than 40 varieties OF tho
bamboo These travels made him ia.
wonderful photographer that ne Isl II
was Relation who made the pictures
for the Stoddard lectures They told
the story when Stoddard's DESCRIPTIVE
vocabulary gave out
Relation sailed from Australia March
II for Africa. He took his camera
and gun. for as a hunter Doc is I'm tbe
same category as Roosevelt. and in th.
opinion Of some he is the moro expert
OF the two. one object OF Ricaltou's
mission Is 90 stalk the ay which In-
oculatcs those whom 90 bites with tbo
fatal sleeping sickness He has a
camera with lens especially ar
ranged Tor photographinu tho ay I'm
action Hcaltou IS a fauull naturalist
as wei aa AN entomologist THE
stalking OF This ny is "a feat well call
culated TO test the hurters skU and
endurance IN anybody can do it Ri
Gallon can While in the dark CONT
rent Riralton will bo within reach of
roosevelt, and when not catching tho
t5ejse Gy ON Tho wing le will t8Ile "a
aand IN the hunt for game and train
his camera ON any brought down as
wen oa ou much that WIN gee away.
Hcalton was ut the front ana ON
the TANKS and iu the rear during the
B1er war; and ho ls familiar with the
geography and topography of the
country There WIN De new stories
and strange experience and wonder
.ul pictures whom Rlg3ltou has 6a-
ished bic desh Into Africa on tls heels
Uf Roosevelt
Every reader VIVA rlau the rrest
Delhi durhar GIc8Ito uas thors
lndazl.ea by it p9mD and unscI. ha
erected sc1ro'd On tho center of tha
throng OF loNaIcd princes and barbaric
warriors and calmly took hls pictures
Of the bewilduuuE pageant The Bto-
ries written of that event may have
been oyerco'0red. but inc pictures Of
NIcalton were from llfe People who
saw these pictures know exactly what
the durhar was The lens War mighucr
Than the pen.
'lc was the FIRST foreigner t1 travel
Iu foot through northern Russia he
alked 1900 miIeH from Ar.hHnEel 20
80 Petersburg lu all hIs travels. ln
10 countries he estimate tHat Dee has
opposed $4,000 negatives HD believes
.Ht Dr.. haH photographed oytry celeb
o' nIs generation
hH photographer war Relation
NIfn tHe lone what NuHkacEy ala
Mo- fh0 brush ln che Philippines no
thr only one foo his business t0 get
."Hs actually nr.ug on the enemy Az
battle of Caloocan "a soldier near
$500 shot down tcalt1n seized
u1e picked nap thf cartridge bolt
nd iointd the HhmlHhers Al the
nirgr of Ticntsiu DEE stood on che wallis
ana photographed Americans who we're
dropped by Chinese bullets
I'm the war between Russia and Ja
pan hicaion became well known