AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



RECREATION'S THIRD ANNUAL COMPETI- 

 TION. 



Recreation has conducted 2 amateur 

 photographic competitions, both of which 

 have been eminently successful. A third 

 will be held, which it is believed will be far 

 more fruitful than either of the others. This 

 one will open January 1 '98, and close April 

 30, '98. 



Following is the list of prizes as thus far 

 arranged. Others may be added later: 



First Prize — A Folding Kodak, made by the East- 

 man Kodak Company, of Rochester, N. Y., and valued 

 at $75. 



Second Prize — $25 in cash. 



Third Prize — A Cycle Korona Camera, made by the 

 Gundlach Optical Co., Rochester, N. Y., and valued at 

 $22.50. 



Fourth Prize — An Adlake Camera, made by the 

 Adams andWestlake Co., Chicago, and valued at $12. 



Fifth Prize — An Amateur Rotary Burnisher, made 

 by the Acme Burnisher Co., Fulton, N. Y., and valued 

 at $10. 



Sixth Prize — A Baby Hawkeye Camera, made by 

 the Blair Camera Co., of Boston, and valued at $6. 



Seventh Prize — 1 Gross Blue Label photo print paper. 



Eighth Prize — 1 Gross Aristo Jr. photo print paper. 



Ninth Prize — 1 Gross Aristo Plalino photo print pa- 

 per, made by American Aristotype Company, James- 

 town, N. Y. 



The makers of the 15 next best pictures 

 will each be awarded a yearly subscription 

 to Recreation. 



The contest will close April 30, '98. 



Subjects are limited to wild animals, 

 birds, fishes, camp scenes, and to figures 

 or groups of persons, or domestic animals, 

 representing, in a truthful manner, shoot- 

 ing, fishing, amateur photography, bicy- 

 cling, sailing, or other form of outdoor 

 sport or recreation. Cychng pictures es- 

 pecially desired. Awards to be made by 3 

 judges, none of whom shall be competitors. 



Conditions: — Contestants must submit 2 

 mounted silver, bromide, platinum, or car- 

 bon prints, of each subject, which shall be- 

 come the property of Recreation. The 

 name and address of the sender, and title 

 of picture, to be plainly written on back of 

 each print. Daylight, flashlight, or electric 

 light pictures admissible. Prize winning 

 photographs to be published in Recrea- 

 tion, full credit being given in all cases. 



Pictures that have been published else- 

 where, or that have been entered in any 

 other competition, not available. No entry 

 fee charged. 



Don't let people who pose for you look at the 

 camera. Occupy them in some other way. 

 Many otherwise fine pictures failed to win 

 in the last competition, because the makers 

 did not heed this warning. 



ABOUT THAT FIRST PRIZE. 



It will be remembered that Mrs. Myra 

 Wiggins, of Eugene, Ore., was awarded 



first prize, in Recreation's Second An- 

 nual Photo Competition; that after the 

 prize was shipped her, and after her pict- 

 ures were published in Recreation, it 

 was discovered they had already been pub- 

 lished, elsewhere, before being submitted 

 in this competition. I stated these facts in 

 November Recreation, and meantime 

 wrote Mrs. Wiggins, personally,' request- 

 ing her to return the camera which she had 

 thus unfairly obtained. This, she has, up 

 to this time, refused to do. Mr. Wiggins 

 wrote Mr. Hornaday, Mr. Daniels and Mr. 

 Thompson, who acted as judges in the 

 Photo competition, appealing to them for a 

 decision as to whether or not his wife had 

 acted unfairly in submitting pictures, in a 

 prize competition, that had already been 

 published in other magazines. 



Following is Mr. Hornaday's reply to 

 Mr. Wiggins. Mr. Daniels and Mr. 

 Thompson advise me they have replied to 

 him substantially on similar lines. It is 

 hoped this review of the case, by the 

 judges, will be satisfactory to Mrs. Wig- 

 gins and that she will now return the prize 

 which was awarded her under a misappre- 

 hension of facts. 



Mr. Hornaday's letter is as follows: 



New York, December 12, 1897. 



Mr. F. A. Wiggins, 



Salem, Oregon. 



Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your letter 

 of December 3d, and enclosures, all of 

 which I have gone over twice. Since you 

 ask my unprejudiced judgment on the mat- 

 ter of the photographic competition, and 

 its results, I will offer it. In doing so, 

 however, I must ask you to believe that in 

 taking up the subject, I have tried to con- 

 sider it as dispassionately as if Mrs. Wig- 

 gins and Mr. Shields were both entire 

 strangers to me. There is but one person 

 in the world whom I stand by, " right or 

 wrong," and that is my wife. This is what, 

 in my opinion, every husband should do. 

 My friendship for Mr. Shields is quite off- 

 set by my natural inclination to take the 

 side of the woman, in every disagreement 

 with a man. In this case, I have tried to 

 put myself into the place of each party, in 

 turn; and this is how it all looks to me: 



I believe it to be universally understood 

 that whenever a publisher or a patron of 

 the arts, in any branch, puts up b. list of 

 prizes to be competed for, the objects en- 

 tered, whether stories, poems, paintings, 

 sculptures or photographs, must not only 

 be original, but also never before publicly 

 exhibited or published. I think I am with- 

 in bounds in saying that amongst literary 

 people and artists the understanding on 

 these 2 points is world-wide. The value 



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