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9T [E past few years has witnessed the de-Sj
- H' velopment of a unique activity, the pur Q
pose of which Is to satisfy public curios-„
ity regarding men and women who are ?
IHK j prominent in one or another of the con-;
V J spicuous walks of life. This particularly
up-to-date vocation might be denorriinat
m "snap-shotting" of celebrities, which means
He making of instantaneous photographs of the
Hople who are temporarily or permanently in the
public eye and whose personal appearance is conse
quently a matter of Interest to the people of all parts
of the country.
Few newspaper readers who take delight in the
mass of pictures spread nowadays over evqry print
ed page, ever stop to reflect what a comparatively
short time ago it was that first saw such embellish
ment of the chronicle of the day’s happenings. Most
of our readers can doubtless remember distinctly
the time when pictures were unknown in their favor
ite newspaper, and even after crude cuts began to
make their appearance In the advertising columns of
the weeklies, and later in the dailies, it was a long
lapse ere the pictures were to be found In the read
ing columns and a yet longer time before the reader
came to expect not mere scenic subjects but graphic
pictures of the current happenings of the busy world.
The vocation of snap-shotting celebrities has
been the outgrowth—the very latest outgrowth, it
might bo termed —of the practise of recording in pic
ture as well as in story tho doings of all the world.
When the newspaper-reading public caffio to expect
tho quick reflection in picture form of great happen-
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■1 over the world It speedily progressed from
places and things to curiosity regarding
appearance of the people regarding whose
had much to say. It was not
should print as a
of this or that public man a
■Hat portrait, touched up to show the
to appear rattier than as
appear. Newspaper readers with
gHvnu.it e Information came to demand
ss Hp would show the subjects as they
f ' ■■ Moreover, they wanted not a
HRcc bust photo, but a full length ptc
ould represent Its object as he would
one who met him on tho street and
unit as to hts distinctive characteristics
Vdress. etc. From this demand was born the
"snap shot."
the snap-shot Is to a large extent
Hiplacing the stereotyped visage In tho public
Brlnts. Almost everybody who achieves fame
'em notoriety must must needs fall victims to the
sharpshooters of the camera. The snap-shotter Is
no respecter or callings so long as "hu
man Interest” Is present, and everybody, from
preachers to pugilists and from statesmen to
suffragists, Is the quarry of the camera scout at
one time or another. Some of the people w r ho are
snap-shotted manifestly relish It; a great number
accept It as a matter of course and, a minority
wriggle and squirm and even fight at sight of
a camera. Conspicuous among the latter are
Harry Lehr, the Newport society pet of monkey
dinner fame, and J. Plerpont Morgan, the finan
cier. It must be admitted that the father of
trusts does not make a pretty picture when taken
unawares and he evidently realizes this, for he Is
usually guarded by several private detectives
when he appears in public and carries a cane
which he is quick to use on any offending camera
that he can reach.
Public officials, headed by the president of the
United States, are usually the most satisfactory
subjects for snap-shots because, whatever may
be their natural Inclination In the matter, they
quickly learn to submit gracefully to this sort
of attention. A leading statesman or army or
navy official who realizes that at public functions
he Is liable to be continually In the camera eye
Is likely to Instinctively avoid those awkward
attitudes and facial grimaces that sometimes spoil
things in the case of a celebrity who Is new to
the game and self-conscious In consequence. From
the standpoint of the snap-shotters perhaps the
most satisfactory subjects in this country are the
diplomats at Washington—that is, the alien offi
cials who are stationed at our seat of government
as the ambassadors or ministers of foreign pow
ers. For one thing, these titled foreigners are
possessed of gorgeous uniforms that show up
well in unconventional pictures, and then again
they are accustomed to being constantly on dress
parade.
The snap-shotter must “quick on the trigger”
and he cultivates ability in this direction almost
as earnestly as the gun fighter of the west did
in the old days. The newspaper snap-shots are
made by means of special cameras made specially
for the purpose, and costing as much as $250
apiece. Only a fraction of a second is required,
of course, to make a snap-shot, once the lens is
focused upon a celebrity in a desired position, but
the uncertainty lies in the fact that the celebrity
is seldom actually posing for his picture. More
than likely he may not realize that he is being
caught by the camera or mayhan may be trying
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to dodge the glass eye pointed toward him. In
any event quick action is necessary at the crit
ical moment if the subject sought is to be caught
ere he moves away, turns his head or otherwise
spoils the picture. Indeed the snap-shotter who
would "catch on the wing” such restless spirits
as Colonel Roosevelt must develop a sort of sixth
sense that will enable him to anticipate with rea
sonable certainty the future moves of his subject
No other American of the day is so much pho
tographed as is Colonel Roosevelt, and yet he
Is by no means an easy subject for good pictures.
It is not that he objects to the operation; Indeed, *
he seems to utterly ignore the cameras that are
pointed at him a dozen times a day. But the
colonel is one of the most active and sudden of
men, and the snap-shotter must be on the alert
every minute of the time or he loses the golden
opportunity to catch the ex-president at the “psy
chological moment.” This was admirably illus-
ENTERTAINING THE BLIND.
"In these days of specialists you can’t Just
step out and help your fellow humans lu haphaz
ard fashion,” said the matron on an Institution
for the blind. "You have to take a course of
training before you can even do good in the world.
In this position the task that requires most di
plomacy is declining the services of people who
offer to entertain the blind. All sorts of Incom
petents volunteer. Their intentions are good, but
their achievements are deplorable. Poor readers
are most numerous and are hardest to manage.
They have had no practise In reading aloud since
they left the lower grades in the grammar school,
yet when the fires of benevolence break out that
is the first thing they want to do.
“The blind are particularly sensitive to the
quality of a voice. A harsh, high pitched voice
that rambles on without rhyme or reason gets
on their nerves, and it is our duty to shut out
all such readers. They have to be handled with
care because their hearts are in the right place,
and with tact their good intentions may be de
flected into some useful channel.”
KING'S BEARD MODEL FOR ENGLISHMEN.
Beards are at present the order of the day
among London's fashionable "men-about-town.”
In remarking about the prevalence of facial hir
sute adornments, a prominent hairdresser said:
“One would not have thought that the coming
of King George to the throne would have made
much difference to the fashion of current hair
dressing, in view of the fact that his father wore
a beard for so many years, but I can assure you
it has, and a very great difference at that.
“In all probability the present fashion of the
point beard is due in a great measure to so young
a man affecting one. I have been told that there
was a great rage for beards among ‘men-about
town’ when King Edward first grew a beard many
years ago.
“In my opinion the average Englishman is
tremendously imitative. The style of beard
King George wears is appropriately named the
‘torpedo’ in the navy, and since the king's ac
cession many of the younger men in the service
have started to grow them.”
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trated many a time during the
colonel’s trip through the
west. Several . professional
photographers accompanied
him, and a number of the
press correspondents also car
ried cameras, and often It was
a wild race for them to keep
up with Mr. Roosevelt and be
on hand at the time when the
good "human Interest" plo
tures were to be had.
Whenever Colonel Roose
velt appeared, unless the po
'««4ice arrangements prevented,
he was at once surrounded by
a cheering crowd, every man,
woman and child of which was
trying to get close enough to
grasp his hand or at least to
say “Hello, Teddy.” At such
tlm s a snap-shot usually
yielded only a mass of heads
and backs surrounding a set oi
gleaming teeth. If Mr. Roose
velt was carefully guarded by
police or soldiers, as was the
case in some cities, the task
of the photographer was al
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the western towns seemed to have much more self
importance than common sense. In Denver two
of the camera men were left behind when the
colonel and his party went to the auditorium and
arrived to find that building packed to the doors
and surrounded by a ring of mounted police. To
one of these they appealed In vain. “But we are
supposed to be with Mr. Roosevelt's party,” said
one of them finally. "Well,” was the chilly re
sponse, "If you are supposed to be with them, why
aren’t you?” And the officer’s horse scornfully
switched his tail in their faces.
It was In Denver, too, that one of the most
amusing scenes of the trip was witnessed. The
Press club gave a "chuck-wagon” luncheon to the
colonel in a park. "Here,” said the camera men,
“Is our chance for some good stuff.” So they put
In fresh films or plates and hustled out there by
the dozen. The colonel, in the midst of a throng
of self-invited Colorado deputy sheriffs, stood at
the rough board table and -every time he reached
for a bit of meat or put a morsel of food into his
mouth there was a perfect fusillade of clicks from
the cameras that surrounded him. The photog
raphers were ranged in a triple ring about the
chuck wagon, those with little cameras in front,
stooping low; next, the men with the larger hand
cameras, and in the rear the local artists, who
had big machines on high tripods. It was in truth
a comical sight, but the colonel did not seem to
mind it a bit, and went on eating and talking with
the utmost enthusiasm.
The visit to Cheyenne, of course, gave the snap
shotters their best chances for picturesque views,
for there the colonel could be caught almost any
time shaking hands with the cowboys, cowgirls and
gaudily painted Indians, or applauding the -work
of the broncho-busters.
There is a Chicago newspaper man who once
had the unique experience of being the only person
with a camera present at the coronation of a king.
The monarch in question was Mataafa, who had
been elected king of Samoa by a majority of the
inhabitants of those delectable islands in 1898. His
reign, to be sure, lasted but a few months, for after
a gallant struggle he was most unjustly deposed
by the Americans and British, who thereupon parti
tioned the islands with Germany. The perform
ance took place in the open, but the king and
the chiefs who anointed him were not to be ap
proached within some fifty yards. So rigid is Sa
moan etiquette that the one man with the camera
did not dare to break through the surrounding ring
of natives, and had perforce to be content with
such views as could be had from a distance.
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