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RECREA TION. 



Dark Room Inspector — F. G. Boyden. 



Plate Scraper — Wallace Howard. 



Chief Mixer — Geo. Sorenson. 



Victim Chaser — Ed. Goldsmith. 



View Expert— Chas. Peterson. 



Supreme Retoucher — E. E. Battey. 



Negative Inspector — Fay Marple. 



Most High Button Pusher Sprague says 

 the object of the club is to protect members 

 from bodily injury, at the hands of irate 

 victims, and to resent attacks of the press. 

 Supreme Retoucher Battey says they will 

 take decisive action against the name 

 "*fiVnd," and would develop any form that 

 cha*~ d to use such name, and paste him 

 one Tor luck. Special attention will be 

 paid to the base ball team this summer, and 

 some elegant posing will doubtless result. 

 Negative Inspector Marple nearly precipi- 

 tated a riot when he spoke of his camera 

 refusing to take red hair; but Goldsmith 

 pointed his camera at Stapleton, and told 

 him to keep cool. F. G. B. 



Recreation thoroughly appreciates the 

 honor thus conferred on it, and here makes 

 its best bow. 



HOW TO INTENSIFY. 



A method of local intensification, which 

 gives opportunities for artistic treatment, 

 is as follows: First remove all hypo from 

 the film by thorough washing and immer- 

 sion, for 20 minutes, in a solution of 

 chrome alum and citric acid, each one 

 ounce in a pint of water. Then intensify 

 the whole negative with the usual uranium 

 intensifier, made as follows: i. Uranium 

 nitrate, 15 grains; water, 4 ounces. 2. Fer- 

 ricyanide of potassium, 15 grains; water, 

 4 ounces. Mix 1 and 2 in equal parts, and 

 to every 100 parts of the mixture add 10 

 parts of glacial acetic acid. As soon as the 

 required degree of intensification of the 

 given parts has been reached, wash the 

 negative well and remove all water from 

 the surface with blotting paper, so that the 

 film is only moist. Brush over the too 

 vigorous places with diluted ammonia (1 

 part ammonia of specific gravity 0.96 in 20 

 parts of water) with a soft hair pencil. The 

 intensification quite fades away in these 

 places. After treatment with ammonia the 

 negative is again well washed. — G. E. B. 

 in The Photographic News. 



! A NOVELTY IN LANTERN SLIDES. 



Magic pictures, which only become visi- 

 ble by gradual development on the lantern 

 screen, are made as follows: On a glass of 

 the desired size, perfectly clean, pour a so- 

 lution of india-rubber, in benzine, working 

 as you would with collodion, of a strength 

 analogous to that of collodion. This must 

 be allowed to dry, after which it is placed 

 on the design you wish to reproduce. This 

 may be a photograph. 



Then with a fine brush, dipped in a solu- 

 tion of bromide of copper, trace the design. 

 If the lines made are very heavy, the image 

 will be visible, and the effect will be want- 

 ing; it must therefore be done very deli- 

 cately. After having outlined the image, 

 carefully paint the trees, foliage, grass, in 

 a word, all the verdure; with bromide of 

 cobalt. The sky and water must be done 

 with a solution of acetate of cobalt, with 

 the aid of a soft, fine brush. Mount this as 

 you would an ordinary lantern slide. If 

 the work is well done, the image should 

 be entirely invisible; but, when placed in 

 the lantern, it will gradually appear, to per- 

 fection, under the influence of heat. 



By these means may be depicted winter 

 scenes, which under the action of the heat 

 of the fire are transformed into scenes of 

 summer. These return to their primitive 

 appearance, on cooling. With a little care 

 1 and ordinary skill it is possible to obtain 

 this pleasing and novel transformation with 

 photographs. — Post Express, Rochester, 

 N. Y. 



AS TO STEREOSCOPIC VIEWS. 



Referring to W. O. Lott's letter, on page 

 356 of' May Recreation, he is mistaken in 

 saying 2 prints from the same negative, 

 mounted side by side, will give a true 

 stereoscopic effect when viewed through a 

 stereoscope. The stereoscope magnifies 

 such pictures, but gives no solidity. If Mr. 

 Lott's views were correct, the stereoscope 

 would show the bicycle and the trees in 

 bold relief, which it does not. 



Stereoscopic views can be easily taken 

 with one lens, however, by having a slid- 

 ing-board on the tripod-head, so the 

 camera can be moved laterally about s T A 

 inches, and cover the same view in both 

 positions. Two plates may then be ex- 

 posed on the same view, from points 3^2 

 inches apart, and prints from the resultant 

 negatives, mounted in their proper posi- 

 tions, will be truly stereoscopic. 



You made an error in the title of the 

 pictures. You call them " stereopticon," 

 instead of stereoscopic. Probably a typo- 

 graphical error. 



N. E. Arnold, Grenoble, Pa. 



Your guess is correct. — Editor. 



I want the names of all the gun clubs in 

 the U. S. and Canada, and the names and 

 addresses of the Secretaries thereof. Read- 

 ers of Recreation will do me a valuable 

 service by kindly giving me such infor- 

 mation. 



A * Vaux " canoe, made by J. H. Rush- 

 ton, retail price $37.50, for 60 yearly sub- 

 scriptions to Recreation. Who will be 

 the first to earn it? 



