New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-28

camera and made ready. Every time
Funston saw me. Prompt and sharp
sounded his order: Forward. march!
It meant moving five thousand troops
each time, and to this day those troops
don't know why their rests were SO
short.
On marched the column. Funston
d;d mt know "movie man" was on
his trail. put my long-distance te'e.
nhoto lens on the camera and succeeded
in catching the general in retreat. In
the picture Funston's head ana
shoulders fill nearly the whole screen
He is so closely identified with Cen
eral Pershing in American minds that
/ naturally think of Marshal Jonres
mart in nv movie film when | recall
our American commander in France.
ground out pictures Of Jofre re-
ceiying the ovations at the Battery
and the golden statue at Central ParK'
but it was when / took him at the City
Hall that the great French general re-
sponded to my English.
He was posing in profile. and just as
I started to turn me crank he turned
his head away to speak to the man next
him. I hadn't time to remember thae
Joffre disclaimed any knowledge OF our
LANGUAGE and exclaimed in English;
General, will you kindly look TINS
way" u,;..
+ as though he understood. Marsnal
Joffre enjoys being in the MOVIES ana
takes a delight in acting MS part wen:
He doesn't pose" and every picture OF
him is the most unstilted, Hfeilke
thing YOU can imagine. Nothing that Is
formal or stiff is Ike Joffre. He Is the
essence Of soldierlv, genial democracy
NV first attempt at photographlng
generals was during the SPANISH meri-
can War. | am about the youngest vet
eran of that conflict, and was not sup
posed 10 snap my superior officers with
a camera. Movies on the march were
then unheard Of.
General Shafter was III command OF
the 5th Army Corps, and | was in the
ID United States Cavalry, under his
command, and one Of his orderlies.
There | learned something OF military
strategy IN my efforts to get picture
of Shafter without his knowledge.
His headquarters were in tent back
of the firing line. The general was not
we'll at the time. He had hammock
swung between two trees as most OF
them had in Cuba-and there he sat,
busily writing orders, and never knew
that an orderly had snapped his picture
IL was at this time also that | took
my first picture of General Wood, then
colonel in command of the Rough Rid
ers. Colonel Wood, Lieutenant Colonel
Roosevelt and two other officers were
standing near the body of Hamilton
Fish, who had jus. been killed. | was
making a picture of their group and OF
the body. They noticed what | was
about and did not like 1t, but got the
picture. One Of the newspapers after
ward used this picture In the Roosevelt
campaign, with a caption calling atten-
ton to "how lgh- hearted and jocular
, the group was in the presence OF
death"
Since then I have travelled with and
photographed Colonel Roosevelt in his
tours East, West and South.
In those Rough Rider days General
Wood was not the fine looking officer he
is now, although there was always a
precise neatness about him. He lacked
some of the gracious geniality that has
since characterized him. Unlike many
men as they rise in rank, General Wood
has become more approachable- and az.
fable, instead of less so.
Another good looking general who
makes a fine picture is General Miles.
got him up in Boston, when he was
commander in chief Of the Massachu-
sets State Guard. had to ask him TO
step away from the crowd. He did this
in an obliging but very serious man.
ner. On the screen he is dignified
and commanding figure.