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Show RISKING DEATH FOR A PERFECT PICTURE i In tho March American Mngazlno appears In the "Interesting Pooplo" department an article about Ellsworth Ells-worth and Emory Kolb, two brothers broth-ers who havo mado It their life to tell tho truth about the Grand Canon Can-on by means of tbe camera. To avoid tho least exaggeration of thd mighty dimensions of tho drnnd Canon, they lower themselves over precipices In order to tako pictures How they came to discover their Job I n to-mantle to-mantle story a part of which follows: "In Pittsburgh, where the)' lived as bos, tho brothers went through the usunl preliminaries to our Industrial Indus-trial system. Emery Kolb, tho younger, young-er, after a series ot small Jobs, finally final-ly landed In tho Wostlnghouso Electric Elec-tric company, whoro ho remained for two years. Ho would havo continued, contin-ued, perhaps, a small cog In a great machine If he hnd not bought his first camera. H0 wbb Immediately fascinated Photography drow him, and he resigned his placo to enter u photographic gallery Scenic work Interested hlni, nnd after soven months apprenticeship ho set up for htmue'f ns a 'low' photographer. "Ill the meanwhile, Ellsworth, the elder brother, had entered tho sheet steel mills, nnd he too wns well on the waj to hfi-ouie n cog In the machine ma-chine when the effects of an old In ury, together with im liiBatlablo do-slro do-slro to see the wort.) sent him In search or fortune Stealing rides ' when he. could, walking, paying his I way when he could, and working nt nil sorts of different trades, he cov- , ered most of tho great West; and finally in Snn Frnuclsco. when he wns considering a round the world trip, a sudden dcBlre cniuo over him to sen tho (Inuiil Canon I "Thither ho went then, with three I - dollars In his pocket, walking must H of the slt four mites between the railroad lino and the rough betel at if the end of the canon The inl'road H had Just reached the canon. 1 1 wns H a new country there might bit op- H portunltloe. Something in tho gian- H dcttr of the place, Its holghtt, and H colors and silence, held him as bad H nothing over before. Ho felt rntls- H (led to llvo thoro. And then hi) re- H momhered his brothc.'s Injunction to H look for nn opportunity for a menic H photographer. What more wonderful H than this! H "Hero was the wandering brother, H with n lovo ot scenery, nnd there the H Btny-at-honio brother, who hnd mlr- H nculously trained himself to express H very thlngl H "Ellsworth wont back to Pittsburgh H and persuaded his mother to allow H Emery to go to Arizona. H "They gavo thomsolvcs up liollj H and pnsslonatcly to expressing that H magnificent canon 'n pictures. H 'That has boon tholr work: to tell H the truth. They havo studied angles, H lights, shadow h, heights, perspect- H Ives; In thnt place ot falsa distances H and deceptive depthB they havo held H rigidly to reality, havo refused lo ex- H aggcrate, and so have magnificently H reproduced the Crind Canon, Tholr H work Ih the despair of other photo- H gruphcrH who have not mastered tho H philosophy of the thing. H "And like most people who havo H mastered It, tho Kolb brothers havo H found themselves, and nro happy." H |