Daily Tribune, Volume 17, Number 77, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 15 February 1903 — Page 15

BEFORE THE CAMERA

HOW FAMOUS M.&N ACT WHEN THEY ARE GETTING "TOOK"

SOME^AWUSING INCIDENTS '$£4/'

General Corbln and Admiral. Dewey— A Story on PrincS ^Wy^^

II Waylayi ng Schwab.

As the celebrity closed the door after him on the way outLthe photographer sighed a sigh of relief. "These big men," he said, with a touch of pity, mingled with some scorn, "are harder to photograph than spoiled'babies who won't listen to the birdie, and bashful country birdies, who persist ii* making eyes at their Jhiisbands when it's high time to presB the bulb. "There's President Roosevelt, for instance. He is one of the hardest men to photograph satisfactorily that I've ever tackled, and, as I'm distinctly a celebrity photographer, t'raxr.eljng the world over search of proper- subjects, that's saying a good deal. "The president is a /bad sufejeCt for the /simple reason that he. doesn't seem to be able to keep still twenty seconds consecutively. You'll get him posed to your own and' his satisfaction, lie submit&hg good ns^turedly to it «UJ, $iid are just ready to do the busfojesfctyhen,. suddenly, an arm or a leg will,'begin to move energetically and it's bfegin aH over again. fW4-'w "I've photographed the president at as a do an a had much trouble, but one experience with him stands out more ciearly than all the others lumped together. "Shortly after he had. succeeded to the

presidential chair, I got him to assent to sit for me in th&vchief executive's office. My appointmejp was for 10 o'clock and sharply jUtf& hour I was ushered into the presirent» presence and was greeted with the cheery remark: "Delighted to see you and I'll promise to keep still for you, so we'll get through quickly, for I've much to do today. "As I p.ut the camera together he recalled several previous^ .tiroes'. when I had photographed hintf'afM lie worried me half to death by his constant wriggling. When I began posing him he again said earnestly: "Yes, I'll keep still for you this time sure. "Did he?" The celebrity chaser glanced scornfully at his questioner. "Say, I dav?»y he tried hie "best, but he kept me two houfs, and out of the twenty

length picture of Adjutant General -Cox*bin, framed,^aud hangiag^on the waH. "Army and navy men also make you wish that you hadn't tackled them before you've been working with, them for five minutes," he said. "I'*ve got to pTiotograph an officer who isn't fussy about the lay of the gold ornaments across bis chest, or of the angle his sword, hangs at his side. But the most amusing experience I've had with any officer occurred when I got General- Corbin's permission to photograph hici in his office in the war department. "Everything went smoothly with the posing until I was all but ready to let well enough alone and press the bulb. Then it was that one of the general's aides walked into the office. He looked at his superior for a second, then said, in an almost horror-stricken tone: '.Excuse me, general, but there's something wrong with the way your coat sets.' "The general smiled. 'Please fix it for me,', he requested. "The aide did so, but as he was backing away a nil as I was just starting to snap the camera, he rushed in front of me, '"Hold on!' he shouted, 'the general's sword belt is up a little too high at the right.' "He put it in place while "the general smiled broadly at me oyer the man's head. Then the intrusive gentleman backed off again, took a critical .glance at his commander, and was starting for his side for the third -time, when the general commanded!: •'*'Captain, halt! Tenshun! 'Bout face! Forward march! And go out of ihat door and' don't come bavk until I ring for you!' "Then he turned to me.*' "Now,' he said, and lib eyes*twinkled mightily, 'we'll have peace. Bring qut the birdie and! let it sing.' 'Then there's Admiral Dewey," the man of pictures continued. "The adjniral's all right, and he's as shy as a week-old bride who hss come to be taken in her wedding gown. From the fact that he persists in getting himself into ball .shape when, before the camera, I take it' that he want* to be in evidence in a photograph as little as possible. I said to him once, after he had rolled about the fifteenth time at the same •"sitting: "'Adlrairal, if you don't keep straight I'll have to prop you up.' 'All right,' he said, meekly, Trat just now I feel as if I need an entirely^different sort of strengthener.' "I'm not saying whether or not the ..admiral got what he -thought he need fed, but I did finally succeed in getting a splendid negative and io date I've made -*over $5,000 selling copies of it through--tout the country. I'ts astonishing how "swell the phbtographs of celebrities sell. She demaft^ for them ia constant, even ^though they vary from $1 to $5 apiece. Und queer thing, the Europeans are Steady buyers of likenesses of America's ^Jbig men. Only the other day I gdT an border from a St. Petersburg photographer lijfor copies of my negative of President JjRoosevelt, several members of his cab: If net, and our leading army and navy iloflicers. fAnd that reminds roc of the time

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One of the most interesting matches of English society is the engagement of Lady Marjorie Greville, daughter of the famous Countess of Warwick to Lord Dalmeny, eldest son of the Earl of Roseberry. The young man is only twenty one years of age while the bride to be has just xtirned eighteen. Dalmeny has an inheritance from his mother of $10,000,000. The young couple are anxious to wed immediately,

that I invaded the Russian embassy at Washington in order to get Count Cassini to sit for ,me. The count sat quietly enough—after he had asked advice of the countess, his secretaries, the military and naval attaches and who not Around the legation. Every one had a different-suggestion to make, and would you believe it, the count actually changed his clothing four times in asH effort to suit himself aad the host that he had called in to give advice. I dare say that he'd been changing clothes yet if the countess hadn't finally shoved him into the chair and said: 'Now, sit %£rer—do—to please me.' "And the count piopfced the perspiration from his brow, smiled sweetly into the camera, and it was all over in a second' after a two hours' fuss that had ilpset the legation from cellar to garret. "Prince Henry? I should say 1 have —about 500 times. I have no hesitation in saying that he is the mosi^plioto-

graphed man of his day and the prince also feels sure of this distinction, judging from the conversation that I had with hira while the special train was coming east, for I was on the train during the entire trip. "It was after the prinqe's experience in Chicago, when every man, woman and child in sight seemed to have a camera and where the prince literally had to make his way at all times through a veritable lane of black-boxed clicking instruments. The priiice walked up to me and said: 'How many times do you .think that you've photpgiaphed me?' 'On a rbiigli guess I should say five hundlred,' I replied. •'The prjnce pulled out a note book and busied himself writing something for a few minutes. Then he turned to me and said, and there was much weariness in his voice: 'Using your figures and my Chicago

IMPORTANT DIPLOMATIC WEDDING TO BE AT RUSSIAN EMBASSY.

An important Greek wedding will take place in Washington during the latter part of February, probably the 1»th or 20th (date not yet fixed). Mile de Planques, close friend of Countess Cassini and guest of the Russian bassador, will wed Alexander Pavloff, French minister to Corea. The ceremony will take place in the library Of the Russian ambassador. Ccunt Cassini will give away the. bride. Countess Cassjni will be one of the bridesmaids. The wedding will be observed-wiih all tjie quaint ceremonies of the Greek church.

THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE, TERR£ HAUTE, 1N0., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY IS, 1903.

experience as a starting point I've hastily calculated that, since' Fve been in America I've had four million, six hundred thousand and 'fifteen cameras pointed at me, with a grand total of somewhere between fen and fifteen million photographs taicen. And "despite this fact you'll be insisting on photographing me at the next stopping placei?"

The photographer fchuckled. "I'm reminded at this juncture of the time I got ahead of Charles M. Schwab. It happened last summer* "I was sent to Loretto, the little Pennsylvania mountain town where Schwab spent his boyhood and where he has built himself a magnificently appointed! country home. It was easy enough to secure Mr. Schwab's permission to photograph his residence, and, in fact, everything that belonged to him in Loretto, except himself afid Mrs, Schwab. •. He was pleasant enough about it, but exceedingly firm in his refusal. In the hope of catching him unawares I loafed around the town for a couple of days^ but he turned the tables ofi me and left town for the east one, morning before I'd got up. "Before taking the stage for Cresson, the nearest railroad station, six miles away, I found out^jhat Mr. Schwab would return in a w^Ps time. Then I went to Pittsburg, where I had some work to do." ''4 "Oil the day appointed for Mi1. Schwab's return to Loretto I arrived in Cresson, and, hiring a buggy, I drove along the stage road until I reached the high hill just a mile beyond the village limit. Here I hitched my horse at the side of the road and seated myself on the ten-foot embankment overlooking the hill at nearly its summit. It was 2 o'clock in the afternoon when I took up my stand, and it was two hours later when I beheld a splendidly accoutered part of horses begin slowly to' ascend the hill. I knew them for Schwab's because I'd seen the turnout before and because no one pise in that region had blooded horses. Slowly the horses came forward and pretty soon I saw who were in the trap—none other than Charles M. Schwab, himself handling the reins, and Mrs. Schwab at his side. "For some reason or other they did not see me until they were right undel me, and then it was too late to do anything. I smiled as I saw Mr. Schwab throw up a shielding arm full ten seconds after the camera had clicked. Then, as he realized the futility of it all, he turned toward me and said: "'Say, if there'd been t\v roads into this town- I'd have kept you guessing, all right.' S||| "The easiest of the big men for the photographer? William McKinley. without exception. He Was accommodating, polite, affable and thoroughly patient at all times. I never had any trouble posing him, and. the way he cut through a lot of red tape that had been bothering "me for a week I shall not soon forget. "At the time that he and! Mrs. Mc-

Kinl^v and several of his advirors were recreating on Lake Champlain several years ago I was commissioned by a big New York publication to secure a new photograph of Mrs. McKinley. I went to the resort and ftied to get the president to intercede fokme with Mrs. McKinley, but the men*surrounding the president kept me from him and refused to deliver my messages. I had about givert up hope, when one day that party left the resort, I managed! to reach the president's side before' his guards were aware of my presence. The president

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recognized me at once, and, as he gave me a hearty hankshake, I explained my mission. 'Why, certainly, I'll 1: ./ vou all that I can/ he replied. liy you come to me "before "I told him. He laughftl.' 'Ah, they're very zealous and jealous over me,' he said. "Then he beheld' Mrs. McKinley just about to step on the boat's gangplank. He called to her, asked her to face him and to stand still, adding: 'A friend of mine wants io photograph you.'

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DOUG. JERROLD'S CENTENARY

Many Bright and Witty Sayings pf That Master of Repartee Recalled.

Hja centenary of Douglas Jerrold is the occasion of 'a revival of interest in that master of repartee, whose wit, un like that of Sydney Smith, was founded on ill-nature. Lewis Melville, writing in th« February "Bookman," says truly that if Jerrold's name be handed down to posterity it will not be on account of his books. Neither" will it be cm account of his piaya, though some Old playgoers may remember "Black Eyed Susan." His claim to fame will rest on his conversational powers. ,,

He had *, genius for repartee. Many of the heat things he said are too well known to h«f repetition. Perhaps the most famous'^ was his feply^to ^Jbert

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Friend, of'Miss Clara Barton, head of the National Red Cross Society say that a faction feud is responsible for the trouble between Miss Barton and President Roosevelt. Miss Barton's supporters declare that^a Red Cross clique, who would put Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey In Misi^Barton

poisoned the ear of President Roosevelt against the latter. president's sister is in the clique.

"Mrs. McKinley turned full toward me, smiled, and click, went the camera. 'Now,' said the president, as he held out his handi in goodby, 'all I ask in return for my services is a print of the negative.' "I lost no time in sending it to him and in due season I received a note from him thanking me for the photograph and praising it as one of the best ever taken of his wife."

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Smith, whom lie disliked and frequently abused. Smith grew tired of being made the butt of the others wit. and one diay plaintively remarked: "After all, Jerrold, we row in the same boat." "Yes," answered the "wasp," like with

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lightning, "but not skulls." It was not of Albert Smith, but of a vary much overrated author whose works were being praised to him, that he said, "I quit-1 agree witli you tha,t he should have an itch, in the Temple of Fame." It may have been this author who said to him: "I hear you sayir:—

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was the worst book I ever wrote?' "No, I flidn't."' Jerrold assured liiro "I said it was the worst book that anybody ever wrote."

Jerrold did not even disdain the pun in conversation, though it does not o(ka figure in his writings. "Well, Talfouj-d," he said to the author of "Ion," "hitfe you any more 'Ions' in the fire?"

It was lie who suggested that the most fitting epitaph for Charles Knight, the publisher, would be "Good Night**

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abroad: "a man who is away from hi» family and never sends them a farthing! Call that kindness?" "Certainly," said JerroKli, "Unremitting kindness."

He hated snobbishness, if nd when Samuel Warren one day complained that at a ducal house where he had ditusd he could get no fish, "I suppose," said Jerrold. "they had eaten it all upstairs,*^4.v

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CURIOSitTliCS OF SOUND.

Everything Heard Can Be Place Its Proper Musical Note. In very high or mountainous re^if sounds become diminished in loodne^^a^' that a conversation cannot be carried WK in an ordinary tone of voice. Iti minrts ot in a diving jbeJl the reverse of this Is the case. Speech "becomes so startling that it must be carried on in whispers to be at an endurable to the ear1. Sounds of all kinds become musical if the vibrations of aftr are uniform and rapid enough. It Is said that the puff of an engine would make a tremendoir ?rg&n peal of music if they could be mWk to attaiu the rapidity of fifty o.- sixty a second. Everything nature has its keynote, as it were, and attuned to one particular musical sound! This fact can be very easily verified In. every day life. Stand near an open piano and apeak in an ordinary tone yhiljr gpeaifrtg yon wfff suddenly hear a String within reverberate to your voice. The tiCK of a watch, the sound of every human voice, the bark ef a dog. the mew 6f a cat, the noise ef a wagon, the roll of thunder, the fall of rain, the running of water In Act, everything about us can easily be placed by an attentive ear ou its proper musical note—one of the sounds of the scale. Th.s is the most interesting experiment and easily verified. ^. it is said that the ear can distinguish: eleven octaves of sound, but as a rule those made by quick, short vibrations arf more easily conveyed. For instance, th4 whirr of a locust makes more distinct? impression than the sighing of the wind, through tlfft trees. A Whirlwtnd in its pt proach is noiseless It Is only wh#n- *t strikes some obstacle that the volume of. sound becomes terlflc to us. Then we recelve the secondary shorter waves ttnm the destruction of this obstacle. Tyftdall says all friction is rhythic. Flames are notoriously sensitive to sound. They will bend and flicker, and even respond wltft leap of julverttig llgbt to a lilgh, shrfH sound. This is another interesting -exlperiment. If we use a small tube with a small jet of gas, by lowering or raising ft-to certain points, we can cause ft to shriek out shrilly or to answer sympathetically to its own keynote when sung or spoken by the voice.

If we could only hoar tl» roll Of thS vast oceans in harmony all around us in our every day life we would say with truth indeed what the poet only imagined. "There's not the smallest orb thou beholdest but in its orbit »k4« angel sings still qyiring to the yewsf* eyed cherubim." '5^'

The Kaiaer ait Forty-feur. tf the question were put to tlie ^rtwfr of this generati$n,' "Whom of all lt?tsff DM would you most like to meet»^4i talk to," it is likely that a plurality* of votes Would be cast for the aovefeigil *fco ceD^rated his forty-fourth birtMay last wee"j. Wilhehn is undoubtedly th*. most interesting of monarchs and certainly one of the most interesting of me* What ifthe mainspring that gives hte personal character consistency, throygfeall the bewU^erin^ mamfiesUtfone ot his quality as a man and a moaateh, ani that makes it eqqfclly attractive, likeable or interesting ty his uatitlad fello#

His quarrels with actors during the years of his dramatic activity were incessant he complained that they wottW give their ideas of the characters rather than his. Once he complained of the inferior company that was performing jo#*, whether its eoura^i dielan the»* 5 one of his plays at the Haymarket Thea- giSrot amid admiration, opposition «xxru*T ihavd'a

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ter. "Why, therms V- ___ manager, protesting, "he was bred «n these boardfc" "He looks as if lie had been cut out pf them," growled playwright

speaking of aa acquaintance who was letters patent.

titg 1« problem whfeh BBt«h Europe has offered a of soi In our opiriott the secret

Wilhela^s pef^nis% and Kef to »I *eta and words ars to he toond hr

Jerrold was always ve*y nervous on a aasemmoq. sen«e of duty fljfed hH "first night." Another dfamatist, pop .,.ti £a itularly supposed to "lift" hi# "plots and situations from' the French assured him that he did not know the meaning of nervousness on such an Occasion. "I can quite understand that," the wit said pleasantly, "your pieces been tried before." ". 'Call that a kind man." said an actor,

wfeefeliearted tftjralty to IV

V»dor"l^t.ra Fdtant.

Hi* highness Mnhanuitad Mtuttnais Ali, prince of Arcot, who died nUdW at Delhi while attending the gnat

have always bar. enjoyed the distinction of hsiaf^ with the exception of the prince of Wawi the only prince of the empire

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