New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-02

=, 4y,bpr Gleason 10 be published on
.gt4bg tic Century Company. II is a
...cl Of oc'usl facts. The only fiction rs
.t, name Of The photographer.
Tho man was an oldtime friend. In the
If our youth we had often worked
...bsr He was small and nervous,
- quick eye. He always wore me
~ after a few hours. because he was
-.i,ss and untiring. He was named
80, Ros.5ter-one Of those well born
..rss We had met in times before the
,-,r. Of the telescope lens. and he used
~, camera. tuned 10 a fiftieth Of sec
"A Together we snapped polo ponies,
ling AZ full tilt after the ball. riding
II ether of. while he would stand be
.rsen the goal posts as they zigzagged
100, on him. I had TO shove him out Of
:. vav az the last tick. when the hoofs
-.-s loud often wondered II those
,,,ies didn't look suddenly large and i'm
-;,spt on the little glass rectangle into
,bi,b he was peering. That was the kind
= nerson he was He was glued 70 his
rork He was curious man, because
hat nerve Of fear which is well developed
/, most Of Us was left out Of his makeup.
VI credit 10 him. It merely wasn't there
u was color blind to danger. lie had
.,s,, his life everywhere by bits. 50 he
had the languages. ] used TO admire that
F, him. the way he could career along
nth a Frenchman. and swallow gutturals
with German waiter: high speed and
Hni Of racy quality.
fused 10 write the text around his plct-
res captions underneath them, and then
words spilled out over the white paper be
tween his six by tens. We published IN
he country life magazines. They gave
generous big display pages. In those days
vovle used 70 read what | wrote, because
,hsy wanted to find out about the pictures,
and the pictures were fine. You must
rave seen ROSTERS work-caribou.
tssvers. Walter Travis coming through
with a stroke and Holcombe Ward giving
twist delivery. We had the field to our
elves for two or three years, before the
o.hcr fellows caught the idea, and broke
our partnership. l turned TO literature
and he began drifting around the world
for long shots. He'd be gone six months
and then turn up with big game night
PICTURES out Of Africa-a lion drinking
snder tropical moon. Two more years
and had lost him entirely. But | knew
se should meet. He was one Of those
maps, that once in your life, is like the
Motif in an opera, or like the high class
aory which starts with an Insignificant
loose brick on a coping and ends with that
'rck shifting the hero's head.
Il was London where I ran into him at
sst.
Happy days." I said, with rising in
'sction.
20, so, ne answered.
re was doing the free-lance game. He
TAD drifted over 70 England with his $3.50
roing picture machine 70 see what he
1gh harvest with a quiet eye, and they
TAD rung in the war on him. He wasn't
.1ing to he happy till he could get the
tsys in action Would | 20 10 Belgium
nth him? ! would.
Nen day We took the Channel ferry
ron Dover % Ostend, went by train To-
Chent ard trudged out on foot to the
attle Of Alost.
Those were the early days Of the war,
shca you could 20 anywhere if you did It
'icely. The Belgians are friendly peo-
e. They can't bear 20 say mo ard Il
hey saw hard-working man come along
9TH his eye on his job they didn't like TO
IN him back, even if he was mussing up
o. infantry formation or exposing a.
ssneh. They'd rather share the risk, as
trg as It brought him in returns.
When we footed IL out that morning we
ant know We we're in for one OF the
'rous days % history. You never can
II IN this war Sometimes you'll trot out
. 'he front, all keyed up, and then SIT
'''vrd among the "Set-Sanks' for "A.
r'r'h. playing pinochle and watching the
~ chase each other across the marina
40. And then a sultry dull day Will
'.'aenly show you things.
Ou, from The grand place Of Alost "a
'at narrow little streets that run down
. 'h' canal Ike spokes Of wheel. hach
III street had IT, earthworks and group
, defender. Out over the canal stretched
''p'oridges, and these were thickly sown
I'm barbed wire
Great luck." aid Roster. They're
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