Show A chica chicago 9 0 photographers proposition A chicago photographer is about to perpetrate a joke on his hia contemporaries which is worthy of the severest reprehension he is near nearing ilag the corn com of a collection of some ten thousand persons who are deemed celebrated by themore the more orless or less unanimous testimony of the american public in this day and generation and is s to commit aitto to a memorial safe which be has arranged to ide deposit e p omit in the city hall ball vaults and hay have e opened in ia 1976 the second centennial of the united states he proposes to emphasize this atrocity 4 by putting in with the pictures brief biographical sketches of their subjects to appreciate the hilarity which this is calculated to excite among our posterity let us suppose that it ic had bad been possible to deposit in a place of safety a thousand or two portraits of the men deemed celebrated in ia 1776 we vve should probably aply have had bad more of the cami familiar names of histo history but in what extraordinary company and in these days of newspaper notoriety think of an assemblage of 1 celebrated personages so nages whose fame is excreted to survive some ninety years I 1 it if it be good tb give posterity a laugh at our expense the plan has something to commend it but who would not pray to be delivered from preservation in this photographic cenotaph the epoch |