The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-08-18
BARRE'S BIG INDUSTRY
IN MOVING PICTURES
Representative Of Film Concern Is Get
ting Motion Pictures From Quarry
to Car Loaded With Finished
Product.

BARRE has been visited BY the moving
picture man. and in few weeks, doubt
lesa thousands Of people, psrhap, if
every corner Of the country viii have
witnessed through the medium a ths
niclae theatres. The evolution Of Barre
gINnite from the quarry to finished
monument loaded on Nat bottom ears u
be shipped 10 almost every city IN The
United States.
J. j. Fawley. a representative Of the
Lubiu Manufacturing Co., Of Philadeh
phia. arrived IN the city yesterday ana
Immediately set out for Granitevillc
there 20 secure the first views for the
iilm entitled. THE Granite Indus Iy In
Barre, Vermont Mr. Fmwley selected
the H. L. Smith quarries as being suit.
abe for showing the method Of obtain.
ing the stone in it, crude state. lie be.
gan by taking a panoramic view of the
entire quarry, showing the granite as
II "a lilted ont OF the quarry hole in
blocks. Views followed Of the various
mechanical devices. which enter into the
quauing Of the stone IN operation. such
as drins and tripods. derficks and cleo
trically operated stone spatters.
The pictures are taken BY camera
ike machine called the cineorlaph which,
IN the nature Of It's mechanism Is very
intricate. Il is operated BY a crank,
while the speed Is glmged IN such a man
ncr. rs to leave the number and rapidity
with which the pictures viii be shown,
entirely az the discretion Of the opeFu-
tor Worked TO its fullest capacity. the
cinoograph is apacble OF turning on. as
many as lI5 pictures per second.
From the quarries, Nh Frawley re-
turned this morning TO Barre. where Ne
completed the films BY establishing his
machine IN some OF the granite sheds.
Here the stone was shown as entering
the shed in its crude state, coming out
a finished monument and loadcd on the
car. In eyeW inSiancer, the wolkmen,
even though they are senible 81 being
took" continue with their labor. a.
tbough entirely obliyious to the fact
shown throughout the length and
breadth Of the land Il ia an interest
ing fact in connection with the making
OF the films. that there is no previous
between the operator and
the laboren and that any attempt at
posing i at once discouraged
Mr. Frawley came to this city from
Maine, where in Portland and Booth.
hav Harbor. he has been engaged in
taking motion pictures Of the lobster
and sardine canning industry. Only re-
centlp he has returned from California
and the Yellowstone Narioaal Park He
says that the film made IN this city, -
one OF the most interesting ne has Yet
secured, and believes that they will prove
popular with the pictre.loying po,aic
Tie will 90 from Barre directly to Phila-
delphia to have the negatives deYel-
oped and prints manufactured They
viii be sent East on their completion,
aud there is possibility Of their being
shown in tAis cry sometime within the
next four weeks
The Lubin CO. Is one Of the oldest
concerns OF its kind In the country. ana
is member Of the comhinati0n Of
twelve companies controlling tie entire
ilm business OF the world Mr.. Fraw-
ey thinks that he Is one Of the pioneers
n his line. as he has operated motion
machines for many years
Although the views taken yeste,esay
md today constitute simple business
proposition for the company, which sends
,ut men all over the world to secure new
.razy pubic, Barre's little contribution
yAl be the means Of presenting before
housands of people some idea Of the
magnitude Of its granite irdussry. Onl
he Introductory plate Of the film will
- Inscribed in large letters, "-rhe Gran.
te Industry in Barre, Vermont with |
he Vt. spelled oit"l.