Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-12-16
KODAK SHOW like !
MINIATURE WORLD
Exhibition Here Realizes Chan
celIor Days Famous Saying
About Photography.

Photography has brought the world
and the people who cannot travel face
to face" That was the terse way in
which Chancellor Day put it a few
weeks ago in letter which touched
upon photography from an educa-
tional standpoint
1t would almost seem that he must
have had in mind the kodak exhibi-
ton which is now showing at Wallace
Hall. Y M. C. A. building.
Five hundred feet of pictures, all OF
them enlargements appropriately
framed and beautifully lighted, are
shown upon panels of soft sage green
-or is 1t sage gray? Fluted columns
and a pleasing cornice behind which
the lights are -cunningly hidden add
to the effect And the pictures GER
tainly bring the visitors at the kodak
exhibition face to face with all the
world.
There are home pictures. and pic
lures of sports afield that might have
been made at some nearby summer
resort There are pictures of racing
horses and automobiles that might
have been made at the State fair,
pictures of Hans wagner and Ty
Cobb in action that delight the fans.
There are football pictures and aero
planes and airships. There are beau
tiful land and seaseapes galore, Cor--
geous sunsets and winter snow
storms, and travel pictures by the
hundreds. Indians in war paint on
the trail-Sioux and Hopi and Nav
ajo. 1t seems as If all Europe were
brought to the exhibition through the
lens of the kodak. Then. too, there
are dreary snow stretches beyond the
Arctic circle and scenes on the At
rican yeldt And among these latter
some most remarkable pictures of
big game In Africa from the collec-
ton of Mr.. Carl e. Akely. Proba-
bly, Colonel Roosevelt's trip to Africa
was inspired by Mr. Akely's descrip-
ton OF the hunting in that country.
At any rate, MIR. Akely was invited
10 become a member of the colonels
party. This invitation he could not
accept, but they agreed to meet in
Africa, and later they did meet IN
Uganda and hunted together for
month or so. Mr.. Akely's pictures
shown as enlargements, and also in
large size on the screen in one of
DR.. Stuchells lectures at the exhi-
bition, give a good idea of the thrills
that must accompany big game hunt
ing in Africa. A particularly start
ling picture is one showing a huge
and ferocious rhinoceros on the
charge and outlined against the sky.
l. h., va
poor eyesight and their charges are,
therefore, largely at what they hear
or SMELL This monster evidently be-
came aware of Mr.. Akely's presence
through one of these two senses and
charged by within ten yards of him,
Mr.. AkeIy standing perfectly still.
Another picture of compelling inter-
est which, in spite of the ferocity of
the animals, causes smile, is of hip
ropotami in the Tona river and was
made within few feet Of the spot
where the rhinoceros made his charge
In fact. Mr. Akely was watching
these great hippos when Mr.. Rhino
made his charge, and would, for
safety, have jumped in the river had
not the water beasts looked to him
as dangerous as the stupid mountain
of flesh that was charging him. 1t
was surely a case of being between
the devil and the deep sea.
In the Akely collection are also ele-
plants. both dead and alive: enor-
nous crocodiles basking in the sun,
and beautiful leopards speared by the
Mandy hunters.
There are other hunt pictures that
will attract the sportsman-mountain
sheep, elk, moose and deer-these lat
ter taken mostly by flash-light. There
are birds upon the wing and salmon
leaping up the falls of a rushing
Western river.
And there are scores of pictures of
the everyday kind, such as anyone
can take about home-Puss and Tow
ser, and grandma with her knitting,
and the children at play. It's a
comprehensive exhibition showing
photography in every phase that can
interest the amateur. certainly prov
ing. in its great scope, that 'photog-
raphy has brought the world and the
people who cannot travel face to
face"
One of the best equipped developing
plants for amateur photographers in
the country is that of the Sterling
Photo Company, 44s Broad street. this
city, where velox papers are used ex-
cluSively.
All the pictures in the exhibition
are printed upon velox and the Ster-
ling Company claims to be the only
one in the city which uses so high
prfAed paper.
The capacity of the Sterling plant is
extraordinary. 1t has machinery,
most of 1t specially designed by the
owner and manager, George l. Schrei-
ber, for developing 120 rolls of film in
twenty minutes, for making $50 prints
an hour, for turning out an enlarge
ment minute and for making en-
largements ten feet high. If necessary.
A large majority of agencies where
amateur developing is done send their
work to the Sterling company. The
tank system is used. and the entire
process is completed within forty
eight hours, including the washing
and drying of prints and films.
More cara is taken to filter the wa
Ter i1sed in the work that is Ordinar-