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give, the reader is led to believe that Mr. 

 O'Keefe had taken the picture near or on 

 Holy Cross mountain, in February, and that 

 he had his horse up there. Surely that 

 must be a mistake. I have lived within a few 

 miles of Holy Cross mountain for 12 years 

 and have been a frequent visitor there dur- 

 ing that time. My home is in sight of it 

 now. I am curious to know how Mr. 

 O'Keefe got a horse up there at that time 

 of year, as there is from 6 to 12 feet of snow 

 there in winter. Snow slides are not very 

 numerous until in late spring, when it is 

 dangerous to disturb the snow at all. 



J. M. Dismant. 



ANSWER. 



Lieut. O'Keefe says, in the article accom- 

 panying the picture of the mountain sheep, 

 " I photographed him in many positions. 

 Then by the process known as double print- 

 ing I was able to produce pictures of him 

 apparently taken on his native heath." This 

 means that he took the photo of the sheep 

 on the range, cut out the figure carefully 

 and pasted it on another photo of the Mount 

 of the Holy Cross. Then he copied this and 

 by the " double printing " process produced 

 the picture as you saw it in the magazine. — 

 Editor. 



GUM PRINTING. 



Gum printing, which is all the rage in 

 continental Europe, and which is rapidly 

 gaining favor in Great Britain among the 

 higher pictorial photographers, has at last 

 been taken up by a few Americans, who are 

 seriously experimenting with it. If some 

 of the beautiful originals produced by such 

 workers as Henneberg, Watzek, Kuehn, all 

 of Vienna, the Hofmeisters, of Hamburg, 

 and Demachy, of Paris, could be seen on 

 this side of the water, this method of print- 

 ing would soon find many adherents in the 

 States. As it is, most of the reproductions 

 seen are crude and undoubtedly lack the 

 quality of the originals, and quality is every- 

 thing in the gum print. Those interested 

 in this most delightful of all printing proces- 

 ses will do well to read the articles occasion- 

 ally published in the Amateur Photographer 

 (London), that wide-awake weekly which 

 caters so well to the wants of the pictorial 

 photographers, whether beginners or ad- 

 vanced. 



AN EASY WAY TO CONVERT GRAMMES 

 . TO GRAINS OR GRAINS TO GRAMMES. 



100 grammes + 4 — 25 drams, which 

 equals 3 ounces, 1 dram and 43 grains. 



1 dram (60 grains) -^4 = 4 grammes. 

 This is near enough for general work, al- 

 though one gramme is nearer 15^ grains. 



NOTES. 

 An interesting and beneficial pastime is to 

 cut appropriate phrases from the news- 

 papers, trim them to size wished and scrape 



the reverse side till you have remaining but a 

 thin film of paper, the letters showing 

 through. Insert the clipping between the 

 negative and sensitized paper and print, the 

 letters showing white on the print. Of 

 course it is necessary to put the clipping in 

 with the printed side next to the film of the 

 negative. Another way is to cut the clip- 

 ping to the desired size, fasten to negative by 

 moisture, and then scrape. 



G. G. Morehouse, Chicago, 111. 



To print negatives which are under-ex- 

 posed in the foreground and over-exposed 

 in far distance, several expedients may be 

 used, such as printing slowly in the shade, 

 holding back portions with layers of tissue 

 paper, etc. The most efficient way I have 

 found is to spread a little Prussian blue, oil 

 color, by taps of the finger tips, over the 

 thin parts of the negative, on the glass side. 

 With care, fine results can be had from an 

 otherwise poor negative. 



Cloud Photography : An efficient color 

 screen, in fact as good a one as can be had, 

 is made by laying a piece of yellow or light 

 orange gelatine between 2 pieces of thin 

 crystal glass, and inserting this in rear of 

 lens. According to the shade of color, the 

 time of exposure must be extended from 3 

 to 8 times. A sheet of this gelatine, large 

 enough to make several dozen screens, can 

 be had for about 15 cents. 



If prints toned in a separate toning and 

 fixing bath fade, the principal cause is that 

 the prints have not been sufficiently washed 

 before toning. If toned and fixed in one 

 bath the cause is insufficient fixing, as often 

 prints tone faster than they will fix. Rem- 

 edy : After taking from the combined bath 

 put into hypo solution 1 to 20 for about 4 or 

 5 minutes. Then wash thoroughly. 



In October Recreation you mention a 

 " New Print Paper." The formula says 5 

 per cent, and explains by adding " 1 ounce 

 in 5 ounces of water." Which is right? 

 One-fifth is 20 per cent. One to 5 is 16 2-3 

 per cent, and 5 per cent, is 1-20. It seems to 

 me the formula should be revised. 



A. B. Dodge, Manchester, N. H. 



The immensity of the photographic busi- 

 ness is illustrated by the capitalization of the 

 2 largest firms. The Eastman Kodak Co., 

 of the United States and England, works on 

 a capital of $8,000,000, and the Ilford Co., of 

 England, on a capital of $1,900,000. 



Trim your prints before toning. It saves 

 trying, before mounting. Do not be afraid 

 to use the knife. Often a 4x5, or 3*4x4%, 

 cut out of a 5x7 plate will be a fine artistic 

 picture, when the whole will be flat and 

 poor. 



