Show I Before the Camera = = = How Our Pamous Statostnoni ConornlJ and Judaos Aro I Photog aphodTho Vanity or Public Won President grnphers Clevolat In tho Photograph Cnllory Tnlks With Photo 8tIol CO < rt prndmea sF50 Nn Vnnlir of vanities all liv mly ullli the preacher The prophet of Hit Bible could not look Jon from the preii galleries of CongrtM without repeating thh len tence Half of tht public men of today are packed lull of ell conceit A baker dozen 01 the Senators do little more than pose lor the enllerlt Senator Sen-ator Vaunted Lecpihh eyes upon them while hell l nuking iris speech Senator Gorman looking M though he had come out of a band box perceptibly poses a great part of each teuton and Senator it Matt Ransom of North Carolina would CO Into a ft If ids culls did not go At least an Inch Mow Im licet el When Senator Ingalli was Congress heaped I much time In arranging the red hamlke chief which always peeped out of hlA left coat pocket and old Senator Morilll though he I hal written a book on the vanity of ititetmen ii I proud I of Iris position ai the oldest man In the Senate Senator Wolcott Im the dmtlnctlun of wearing more new clothe than any man In the chamber and It uwtl to make Vice resident t Motion angry to have It I linlnuattJ that hit wig wat not mAil ol natural hair Uur pubic men of today are very particular onto what the new tapers My about them The most of them keep scrap books In whkh they pails all clippings concerning them jelven and the volumes ol this kind rabid belong to I real lent Cleveland I s would snake a library A cuiluus CM ilencc of the vanity of great men U I found In their hotugrapln I The most extensively photogrupl I mm today it I the Emperor of Germany He has hll picture taken every week and pots could paper a room wills Iris ttkrrreirse which lire camera has taken frolll Iris I boyl ood up to the present lime Next to him lerhaps conies Ilkmark soil alter llteinark Oladitone Ai to Amerl can statesmen nearly every member of Congress has i is photograph on side at J sine or another of tire k lertes here lie reaps no profits through the sales but Ilht1o are usually told with I hit a consent con-sent Congressmen boys great many ulintocraphs E They me much like a let ol college r students and they exchange with ono another The result U that wainlmton I Ii a dly of pholorai hen We have sires ol the trout artiste In the Ui Ited J Siatei here and C M Hell who died a shoit time ago took ai many photo t gra hi of the lamoui mm of today m I any irologra lice In the United States He had a gallery on the road to the Capitol anu for the pail twenty years he hat photographed the leading men of the country Ills chief operator Mr Dodge itlll reiides over tire gallery Helm bright toungman of r forty winos ft U I much noted or ul Iris l attlitlc I at Ihty I as a ottr Ills long slender fingers have I f Uaiped the heads of tIre I lettltst of our joclety women antI I the mol lamoui < fur f-ur statesmen for the host fifteen years stud hll stories as to how time great people look and act before the camera are very Interesting I chatted with him toe an hour yesterdiv Sail I he The C biggest t J ol the United States are by liu means nervous when In Iron ol the I camera They are generally plain I radical I common lento people They S 4 come Into Ii hjea gallery post lor I their jlctures and leave and we have much f more trouble with the little fivecent fellow than with street I trace loiecl resilient Cleveland a number of times Ifcterbody acted as well ni he does ee JIol idwsyn take giod pictures I lie has no siueslionsto nuke leave himself I almost entirely In I the hands of Ibo operator ami Is what we call a very good lubject borne of the Icturei which hate been sold of him throughout the United States have been taken here Ills pictures have had a great sale and there Is I a good l demind for Ihcm stilt What other 1 reildqili have you taken takenQuite a number ttas the rep y I brave I made a number of pUiures of Incident Hayes He was a nleaiant man to meet and i common In hit ways He never notified us that he u ai coml IK ft but would walk Into the goiter and wy Wflt tr r lo ai rs 1 want my photograph t taken He was t AI clay In the hands of thin potter and 1I0w1 Oslo puss I Im aiwe wtshel I IrttMcnt I Hates had 1 a face with a lull loud and this kind of a face always I gites a good likeness He ordered many pictures AlIII 1 both his and Mrs HaOB pictures sold well Mrs hayes ttas next to Mrs Cleveland tie best setting subject wetiave I ever trail Tell II me lomcthlni I I about Mrs Cleve land aia poser isis not d flicult to take Mil Llete lands holograph trite nut milt liem to the photographer and allows trios I to II Choose her poses I I lemcmber lIre t hist C time she came here was with Mrs Vila It was one afternoon about 2 oclo k 4 She ordinary came person right Into and the she gallery and Mrs like tilos any I went Into the dressing room and a I moment later sire i 11Oo1re1 1 ready lo I have I her picture taken I took thirty I odd negatives of her that day she wore a number of different costume ml we got many goat I pictures A number of plates were destroyed at I tier request and tome were reserved tar her 3 own ritste use Sgme of ho bent pictureof Mrs Clevebid L hate never teen told und I start think any one bin herself and fain ly hate entries of ui e or It luo of our negative bhoilty alter she omo back from her ttoldnt lour I 2 took a picture of J her In II a conservatory Irg t attire W hite I 1 louse One of rune was nsunding picture and think I lIaIOI Veekly published It I Another was n Uireefourlhi view which l was sent all f over tie count Mrs hayes was on easy to take us hits Cleveland I She I tart very tine t face and she allowed us to choose her I t oies Sire had I a great miny picture taken but the one In which tie looked but wai a lull dreis I Inure sith the hair combed down I over she ears You may have en II Mrs r i Hates I r Handj with I her elbow leaning on ATIIUR AND thAttItOLti 1 How about President Arthur I 1 took 1 resident Arthur picture one Jr IritI afternoon I remember hat I it was Sun day and Secretary I olger came her tilth him and I made a numl er ol silting mi took the last picture thnt Has rver made of resident 1 Garfield It was just two days before he Has In in icurated Ho came In because they wanted a tlnlype of him for the bureau o ° engraving and rlMinf m order thai hit face might be ngravnl for Ihe banknote bank-note I had no rnttmtnti lor takIng tak-Ing llnlu e and Iliad to tend out for niHerUI I blle we were aYIof 1 took a number of photographs and these i were the lash that nuse readeni him Mrs Garfield was with him at the time snri 11 I nikol her lo ill She r < piled that I t she was not dressed I sultahly but that she would comt In agaIn She never canl coarse AND I1MPSON In ipeklnt eAt many Congressmen whoa he Iwi pond Mr Oixlur nays lh t look plnetnsgraph of Senator el I eltei nd Jerry Simrxon the other day Sees Ve toy Teller look 1 like a quiet I nun and he Is I His long wlilskei add a sort of plctufesqucnm In hll fare leery Simpson t1 has I jovial i whole souled fellow berore hire camera lie cracked token all the time I ws taklnt his picture Ills lace Is angular and expressive and you hate to ralrh It at jiut Ihe rlglu hose Tom Waln Is the opposite ul Smiison In his manner He u rather reserved and talks but lltlli lohn Mien ol Mlsslsilpi 11 isa daily lIe I In i as Islam M an old chip and taken a plcti le as though he en land it He and ellow I > ol Nsw York tactic In IDItlhe to hive I their pictures taken the other day They spent Ihe whole ol the line In joking each other and telling > lone U e have a just of I T llarniini which was mode by Clark Mill Plows looks fur all Ihe well I like llarnuin and John Allen pointed this bust out lo his friends as llut of I til > wi Duck t Klhtore I llmugli I he kicked live door of f line I louc own when Reed mao iraker lou Vy quiet man I have taken his pit lure MI oral lime and inch U very iiood ituhlrtt Hi Is sin heel f l hlith I ndef I pholuur Ih Inn whit his halon He makes s very ulk Ing hikenus I and a great man iirai ger ask t > see al InS picture i I have also taken Roger g Mills with his hat ni n 110 I wean a Iuch ansI Is I over six bees tall hate I Senator Mahone under Ills sombrero lie make also a very Ktrlklng p cturc TUB CABINET AND THE castes I suppose you have taken a number af tIme cotrint ethcesp V es but II Is lurd to gel a cabinet minister lIme I cabint arc public char otters and as their I klure rrm soul I ihay like to appear m well HI possible U o have cot is number nf Uirm h lending for them Jotas they were ilxxit lo co out to entertainments and I I suppose we have In reality Uken the abtnels ol nearly nil nIne Presidents Ailhlit lIre last decade U e had a cry toad picture of Cleveland t first cabinet taken In lire While HUUM Ue would he hail one ol Iresllent Atlhur cAbinet but Attorney General llrewiler objected snub I Shin inline fell rough Ii reins lee woo very seutlnte about hwy Inl his pcltue taken Yuu remember IhJ he fell Into hire fire when a baby IIl1d I timed his lace out of hao III I Inshore were horrible and he tlld not like to hitve them photographed lie I came to us huvtever jiut before he left Washington I and ue not n snlciidl I negative tilld rJ y Carlisle has pictures taken now and then Me Is at plln j at an old l shoe In hit manners and Ihoiich i he his no obj rd always lakes n guod intctue He I has line face and Hi blue eyes shine out ol you ac toil lords at it through lime camera look I ottmastcr I General I Illssell about Inca months ago nII I le Is a bigger man Hum Cleveland and ann limit weigh neatly I too ounds lIe 1 had it dozen ililferent antI rigs and the results were very lair It U the some whit loke I bmith lie came over from line department and wInnIe walling walked around slug rooms anl f looked at our photographs of fanromns men from Ihe south He t Mopped for riuile a lima before Hen Hills ktute arid 1 talked about him As lo I Secretary teoa oa Lamonl we took him while he Has tl Iv I r rate secretary to Clevclan I but have uade no pictures of him since then He h I 11 Irtito stouter now than when we made his picture I understand IAHOUBCENKHALS Ono 01 the hardest pictures ue ever got tl e photographer went on was hat of Gen Sherman U aked him a gain and again to hate a holograph aJilo aJiloaf J tJ aken He promised to come In but sal1 t that he scantIest hll I picture mule whllo his uniform uai on anl 1 he luted to wear hll uniform when he coul I help IL lIe alII creman you know tu RO to wed Unit They s1y he liked I to kIss the I rides Well one slay Jut be fore going to a Ming he came down and gave us a sitniug lie talke I moit nteteillnkly about his battles during tire sitting I His face lithled up as he de scribed of hit Jr twine wonderful 1 tsar es wrlences and ue gal a cool picture i J f IOiltlr lie moos lien nt the heart I of lie army and had an office In the War Uepan nieiil I look a number 01 p ctures of Ihllhlierdan He neter sill word during tile kilting and win as sober as a Judla Gen Kowcrans acts muro like a boy than an old general vilien he Is I I fal1 pklure taken He laughed 11 and chatled with me otiS r I teeme t 1 tu en toy the taking of Ihe holograph 1 look Gen lojim shortly twfore his death tie 1 was as plain n clllien as any nut Cfnl I nk for His I face was Iron lId hotugraplilng him sons like taking a picture ol a statue His face was very Ink I and I aluays gave him more than lire unnah time in taking ll bherldan over moved n muicle ilunng one of iris IUliiji and I took the picture from which tIre otbt worked who made the Artmmugluu monuinenl I Will surprised al lire slni licity of these penerali None of them put on alms onul 1 it wai the santa with Gen Joiephl JohnIon the noted confederate general He came In and iminnh a sitting I i no day ant 1 I stirS I not laroal wall it uas until he al 11I soil I I nl he aid My name ll Jo eph F John ton bOHK 01 liKAUVS IIIOIOIKAIIII Speaking of the simplicity ol these real generals recalls some talks I ho had with M 11 llrady lime rimmed war iholpgropher II I In has a gallery at ashinxton and ultiuonrgh he U I meanly eighty years old still ikes pictures lIe 1 once told me lint Um Grant once Hood m Ills Caller wh1I aim hate 01 f1 Ins limy enough to hate killed a horse fell 1 o ol tire skylight an I was shattered t In Imiecesot 1 I his feet Oral did not Inn urea musck but dllII M Stmton nIna had com down with Grant hoard the picture l taken grew as wl lie usa r eet Ha Kiabbed fitadv by I lie am mid said hOIl1 say n mcml abiul this or the newspaper will 1 nay that it wan i a 5mlanr to ass isslnala Gri it llrady took hire last picture of Gen ackuII 11 was at me nermu lIe Iack Ink I p rl III irri of All ert I 5 iii lIn nl hash imiuru John L Cailuun lie he wa pholographed liy llrad IIrllly I > told me that ho I called upon Calhoun In hit rooms near the Capllol He woo surprised lo And that Calhoun knew ijulte as much about the science of Iho tofraphy as he did He took resident I Incoln I set before he trail cIrclet I bt I the presidency I Incoln s collar was large 1 r and ItS long neck looked serge y Ilnidy weol up I 10 him and nulled up hit ihlrt collar and Abraham Lllcoln said Ah I KC tomb want to shorten my neck now IAMOU AUTIIUKII AU pitoro nKAriiED Mr llrady say tint when Edfsr Mien Ioehad 1 bis picture taken by him In I doubted whether lOiI I had on a shirt Ills coal was buttnnexl 1 up tllhtly almost mIs high stock cravat and If looked seedy and sad There was no sign ol a collar and the necktie In the picture Is a man of wrInkles I When toe was asked to 5 give a lining he shook his wild loose locks and refused Brady then told h m that there would be no charge and finally prevailed pen I him to have hii picture taken foe had a fine face and llrad lelli me that hit large I round black eye had an almost Inline look In them Another one of Drady literary sub jectswai tenimore Cooper He I was a rnJ great friend of Coopers and Cooper intel 1 him that he Intended 10 make him one of the characters In a future note I bill l he died before he carried out his Idea Cooper was at this lime In I the inidt of irrl libel suit with the newspaper news-paper nmh I one sitting was spoiled try I t tfd this I lurjeclcomlngupdurlng 1 It Cooper got angry at a remark made by a vli liar and left I the Eallery Brady hat alw taken pictures of llryant and Uaih legIon Irving and he had John Quinry Anlaos sit lor his lUguerteolynt He phologrsphed MM Alexander Iiamllton I when rite was ninety three and at about thl time Dolly 1 Mailison irave him 1 llinmrf sluing tie I has wlllioui doubt t the f nest collection of photographs of prominent men and women in th United Slates and his gallery I urIne of the most Inter estlnjc nl places In U Ington l 10 visit lie n the most remarkable photographer I photo-grapher this country Im ever seen and now when he has long parsed i I his three core an1 I ten he in I one of the most charming con verullonallttsamong men lie I has also 1 holographed nearly All attire at-tire leading IK lor > and ictresscs In the country as well ni the leading singers He will tell ton diodes about jenny g lind I John U like llooth I Harriet I lane and hundreds of others of Ihe fsmous people of tin past and he can illustrate I nis I remarks showing you the picture h I a hai liken of them I Speaking lt of photographs one of the best r hutunrapherB I in l ishmtton I t was the lair Siiiutnr Kenna Sims memorial has just bean published and the picture Mlkli forms the frontispiece as mode in m a tsinolmtgulmln I taken by tile camera I1 look picture of many 01 the ton creumen and hid a great deal ol pleas lire In so doing All of Sine pklure he has taken areas fnely finisht I a 1 any one could wh for and he showed decided talent In tInS direUion lie took thousands of pictures unit I hart I negatives ol a great many of his Senator 7r1 II rlII II V rl = friend and I publlnheit not long ago a pklure of Senator Heck and Iris Urge log which was taken by Keima He kept his negative In good order 01 I they t are now a cherfoned possession ol his family THANK G CAHIKNTVU |