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NORTH WALES SANITARY INSPECTORS'…
NORTH WALES SANITARY INSPECTORS' ASSOCIATION. QUARTERLY MEETING. EARLY HISTORY OF PRESTATYN. THE QUESTION OF SEA OUTFALLS. The quarterly meeting of the North Wales dis- trict of the Sanitary Inspectors' Association waa held on Saturday in the Council Chamber at I rts- tatyn, where the members were welcomed by Councillor Inglefield (chairman of th& Prestat yn Health Committee). There were present: Mewrs R. H. Parry, Gwyrfai, chairman of the district; R. J. Hughes, Penmaenmawr, secretary; J. Rice Jones, Ruthin; R. Lowe, Rhyl; W. Little, Llan- dudno; H. Lee Jones, Denbigh; C. L. Roberts, Prestatyn; H. S. Jones, Penmaenmawr; W. Jones, Denbigh; E. Evans, Denbigh; M. Ro- berts, Llanrwst; J. Parry Humphreys, Flint; E. O. Evans, St. Asaph; and W. H. Worrall, Ban- gor. Mr Inglefield, in welcoming the members to Prestatyn, regretted the unavoidable absence of the chairman, of the Council. He said that in no branch of public work was more tact required than in that of the sanitary work of a district, as they had always to realise the fact that there were private as well as public interests to be considered. He was sure that the sanitary in- spectors had a difficult task, and he realised that they discharged their duties in an able manner. SANITARY DUST BINS. The Chairman of the Association then took the chair, and on the minutes of the Bangor meet- ing being read, Mr Worrall said that in conse- quence of the suggestions made at the last meet- ing as to the provision of sanitary dust bins there haa been a great increase in the number in use in Bangor. Mr Littler added that at Llandudno the Coun- cil supplied every house of a certain rateable value with sanitary bins free of cost. Mr Lowe did not quite agree with the cost of the bins being borne by the Councils. In Rhyl they had made the owners pay for their bins. THE NEXT MEETING. It was decided that the next meeting should be held at Carnarvon, when the question of the proposed defence fund will be dealt with. THE ELECTION OF A PRESIDENT. The Secretary suggested that they should ask a local M.P. to fill the office of president. Mr Worrall disagreed, and said they should keep politics out of the Association. Mr Lowe considered that a member of Parlia- ment would be the best president they could have, and pointed out that at present they had no one to voice the views of sanitary inspectors in the House of Commons, and it was realised that many of the Acts passed and Orders issued were unworkable from a sanitary inspector's point of view. If they had a president who would take an interest in the Association the public would in the long run benefit, as through him they could voice their opinions. It was decided to. ask a local M.P. to be pre- sident, the selection being left to the officials. A QUESTION FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES. When a welcome was extended to the hew mem- bers, reference was made to the fact that the attendance was not as large as the Association could wish, and it was urged that many sanitary inspectors, with their small salaries, realised that the cost of attending such conferences was no small matter, and it was urged that Councils should be asked to defray the travelling expenses of their inspectors, seeing that there were dis- cussed at the conferences matters of public in- terest. DR. LLOYD ROBERTS' EXPERIENCES. AN INTERESTING RETROSPECT. Dr. Lloyd Roberts, the medical officer of health for Prestatyn, St. Asaph, and Abergele, then read a paper, giving his experience as a medical officer of health for 30 years. He referred to the early history of Prestatyn, and stated that the coast line must not be regarded to be the same now as during historical years past. Pen- nant, in his "Tours in Wales," says of Gronant Moor (E. of Prestatyn) that its extent was so great that people on this side could hold con- versation with those of Cheshire. This was about the boundary of the Morfa Rhianedd, which extended to the Little Orme's Head, and which was leased for twenty marks a year-now in value about B250 to Llewelyn ap Madoc, Bishop of St. Asaph, by the Black Prince, in 1357. This rent was remitted to St. Asaph by Henry IV. in 1414 in consequence of the inunda- tion of this tract of land. Submergence and upheaval of the coast line had from time to time taken place. Personal recollections recalled spring tides breaking over the marshes and up to Victoria-terrace in the early 60's. The late Mr H. D. Pochin, the then owner, Lady Mac- Laren's father, built a sea wall of about a mile in length, from the end of Bastion-road to the west, that is towards Rhyl. This was now covered with sand, and the tides no longer invaded the marshes. Geologically, upheaval was evidently taking place here, as very clearly sub- mergence was taking place westwards of Presta- tyn and of the River Clwyd at Towyn, near Abergele. THE SEWERAGE OUTFALL. This submergence and upheaval had not been without a financial effect upon the district. In 1890-91 a sewerage scheme was being carried out by the Rural Sanitary Authority, and a deep- sea outfall was projected on the E. boundary. Upon a rateable value of something like L4000, a loan of £ 2700 was effected. In carrying out the works, much running sand had to be con- tended with in the outfall sewer; and in the outfall to the sea tides played such havoc that the works had to bo abandoned for the winter. On recommencing in the spring of 1891 the pipe line was found to be twisted into any gradients but those in which they were designed and laid. This necessitated abandonment of the deep-sea outfall, the adoption of the present outfall, and a further loan of £ 2000 to complete the worke. In the autumn of 1896 Prestatyn was constituted an urban district, and from then commenced a period of increase, development, and prosperity which was almost phenomenal. So great had the increase in the number of houses been that many parts of the existing sewers would require enlarging and relaying. Probably also a new outlet would be in the design. Some B469 of the original loan remained to be paid off by the Rural District Council. He would venture the suggestion that, when this time of reconstruction arrived, the sea should not be looked to as the common receptacle. Sewage water did not readily mix with sea water, as a consequence sewerage will be washed backwards and forwards with the tides. Shone's system of sewage-lifting should be employed in the lower parts, and the sewage raised to a con- venient spot, treated bacterially and the effluent subjected to broad irrigation, to find its outlet to the sea in any way and at any point. Thus the Council would widen their purview of the care of the foreshore—the present concern being in the safety of bathers from drowning or accident. Its further object would be to keep the sea clean, and to free this part of the coast at any rate from excessive work by the Ento- mostaca, the little crustaceans said to be the scavengers of the sea. WATER SUPPLY. The Urban Council recently expended £ 17,000 on their waterworks, the supply being from Ffynnon Asaph, in the hills above Prestatyn. VThis well is said to send up about seven tons of water per minute, and to be capable of supplying a water area of an infinitely larger population than it does at present. The pool of the well originally was enclosed with ma- sonry, a five sided well like the pool of Beth- esda. From which the inference is soon drawn that it was an old sacred well. The mission of the water given out was, during the last cen- tury, to wash the ores fcrom, the Talargtooh in some extensive mines fn Meliden par- iah, S.W. of Prestatyn. The mines are now dismantled, and the water supply is in part diverted to domestio uses. He (Dr. Roberts) was instructed by the then Rural Sanitary Authority of St. Asaph, to draw up a report upon the water supplies cS Dyserth, Meliden and Prestatyn, with that of Llanfairtalhaiarn,—»which is this year only be- ing accomplished after a fair annual discussion by the Authority for thirtiy-one years. In this report he suggested taking the Ffynnon Asaph water as a source of supply for the three parishes of Dyserth, Meliden, aid Prestatyn. on« ,r^her a big one and a bold Sn S,anit«-y Authority to enter- frXi il' solved a loan, dis^on was "■Om time to time adjourned. At one of thfsp> adjournments Mr Po4in's (the o^r cf the tT&th mSFber °f the Authority, ad- VKsed a further adjournment- At the further ^journment he announced that Mr P^hS had obtained a Provisional Order, and would oarry out these works himselt. So it was that he did ao, and it was after negotiations with his representative, lady MacLaren, that the town of Prestatyn acquired these worts, and £ 17 000. Authority m 1901> a total ooefc » GROWTH OF THE DISTRICT In Prestatyn at the 1871 census there were 113^ inhabited > houses with a population of 400 giving 3.5 residents to eaoh house. At the 1901 census ttere were 316 bouses, a population of 1261, and 4 {nearly) the average number of pawns per Souse. L«*i yw (19075 esti- mated population TOR 1627. A rery substantial. increase in both houses and in population was ing on in the other two parishes of the water area. Prestatyn had not yet got an Isolaticn Hospital, though many attempts had been made to gain one. The method adopted with in ec- tious diseases had been to convert the infected house temporarily into a hospital, and if ne- cessary to nurse the case and supply it with medical attendance. The unaifeoted members of the family had always been boarded out. And this means of dealing with cases of infec- tion had so far proved satisfactory, though probably mOTe expensive than by removal to a hospital. Enough has, perhaps, been said of Prestatyn and the very plucky effort that the Distnct Council have made, and may be relied upon to make, to oope with the various requirements of a remarkably quickly growing watering- place and health resort. Dr. Lloyd Roberts then proceeded to relate some of his experiences as Medical Officer of Health, extending over thirtv years. He in- vited comments upon the methods c-f dealing with infectious diseases in small and rural places—whether by permanent infections hos- pitals, or by converting infected houres into temporary hospitals; the question of the muta- tions of the "poisons" or germs of infectious diseases from one to another, and the question of disinfecting after deaths from phthisis. Mr R. Lowe referred to the question of sewe- rage outfalls into the sea, and pointed out that the tide ebbed and flowed around the coast twice daily, and as to the position of outfall sewers it depended more on the distanre they were carried out to sea than it did on the cut- fall itself. Undoubtedly it was proved that there could not be a better system than the sea outfall provided it was. not too near the shore. He disagreed entirely with the idea that tem- porarp- isolation in houses was as good as isola- tion hospitals, and urged that it would be bet- ter for Prestatyn—as well as cheaper in the 'ong run—to go in for an isolation hospital. Peal- ing with the question of the notification of disease, he urpk-d that it was against the inte- rests of the public that the notification of Diseases Act should be an adoptive Act: it should be made compulsory everywhere, as the district which adopted the Act might be side by side with a place where the Act was not ad- opted. As regards the question cf disinfe-ting in oases of phthisis he urged that it should be done during the illnesses, and not only after death. Mr Worrall and Mr Littler supported Mr Lowe as regards the disinfecting of houses during oases of phthisis. In the subsequent discussion, it was generally felt that there was strong evidence of the muta- tions of the sbrma of infectious disease frcm one to another. A vote of thanks was accorded Dr. Lloyd Ro- berts. CONCRETE BLOCK MAKING. The members afterwards paid a visit of in- speoticm to the works of the North Wales Con- crete Block Company, Prestatyn, and were shown over the works by Mr Evans, who ex- Elained the process of manufacturing the looks- Houses in the course of erection in which the blocks were used also examined, and many questions of a technical nature were ad- dressed to Mr Evans and Mr Roberts (tho Prestatyn surveyor). A PLEASANT GATHERING. An adjournment was then made to Hopwood's Cafe, where Councillor Inglefield entertained the company to tau. Mr Parrfc proposed a, vote of thanks to Coun- cillor Inglefield, and to Mr C. L. Roberts, the latter having carried through the local ar- rangements for the visit. Mr Parry observed that Prestatyn was losing a lirst-class servant in permitting- Mr C. L. Roberts to go to Pwll- heli, and he strongly advised the Prestatyn Council to retain his services at an increased salary. Mr Worrall seconded, and wished Mr Ro- berts all success. Mr R. J. Hughes also sup- ported the motion, which was carried- Mr Roberts said that the thanks of the mem- bers were due to Mr Inglefield. As regards the time he had been in Prestatyn, he could say that he had never spent a more happy 2! years. They had much to do at Prestatyn as there would have to be a new sewerage scheme, and in addition to an enlargement of the waterworks many road improvements, but by the policy they had adopted they w re building up a reserve. As regards the outfall sewer question he disagreed with the idea of a bacterial scheme and hoped that Prestatyn wculd not adopt it. Councillor Inglefield also returned thanks, and said they regretted very much losing Mr Roberts, an official whom it would be difficult to replace- As reg'ards the future of Presta- tyn he could assure the Association that they did not mean to stop at any expense to make their town healthy, and that in the future they would consider the public health before every- thing, believing1 that that was the right policy to pursue.
' FREEMASONRY AT BANGOR
FREEMASONRY AT BANGOR THE ROYAL LEEK LODGE. The annual installation in connection with the Royal Leek Lodge (No. 1349) of Freemasons, took place to-day week at Bangor, when W. Bro. Henry Steele was installed W.M. for the ensuing year, the installing master being W. Bro. R. W. Shepherd, W.M., Peace Lodge (No. 322), Cheshire. The W.M. appointed the following as his officers :-I.P.M., W. Bro. Frank Barlow, P.M., P.P.G.Org.; S.W., Bro. Corbet W. Owen; J.W., W. Bro. W. A. Foster, P.M., P.P.G.St.Br.; Chaplain, W. Bro. the Rev. Canon Thomas Ed- wards, P.M., P.P.G.S.W.; Treasurer, W. Bro. W. M. Preston, P.M., P.P.G.Reg.; Secretary, W. Bro. W. Price Smith, P.M., P.P.G.Reg.; S.D., Bro. Thomas H. Morgan; J.D., Bro. J. S. Edwards; D. of Cer., W. Bro. Alwyne Carter, P.M., P.P.G.Stwd.; J.G., Bro. F. D. Chantrey; and Tyler, Bro. Samuel Thomas Harris. The visitors included W. Bros. W. Guest, Holyhead; the Rev. W. D. Roberts, Bangor; Captain Brewster, R.A., C. M. Lees, R. G. Thomas, Menai Bridge; John Williams, organ- ist Carnarvon; and Bros. O. E. Thomas, W. Jones, W. Tegarty, B. Brodie Griffith, and J. R. Grierson. The banquet was served at the Castle Hotel, the following recherche menu being provided by Mrs Clarkson:- Soup: Ox tail. Fish: Boiled turbot, sauce ho- mard. Entrees: Creme de lappero, cutlettes de agneau, aux champignon. Joints: Roast turkey, ox tongue, roast beef. Game: Pheasants. Sweets: Fruit salad, trifle, creams. Dessert. A musical programme was provided under the direction of Bro. W. Jones, S.W. (384), who ren- dered songs, as also did W. Bro. W. M. Preston, and Messrs J. J. Cooke and A. W. McDermid, Bro. John Williams, Carnarvon, being the accom- panist. An enjoyable gramophone recital was also given under the direction of Bro. J. S. Edwards.
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THE CHURCH CONGRESS.
THE CHURCH CONGRESS. THE CASE FOR THE WELSH CHURCH. The Church Congress at Manchester, to- day week spent a very busy time, there being no fewer than thirty-three eek>eted speak- ers at eight different meetings, to say nothing of the crowd of volunteers who get five minuies apiece when the programmed papers have been read, or of the twenty odd unofficial ^aiherings elsewhere. Of all t'he meetings the most important, and in the light of the threatened legislation of the Government the most topical and popular, was that which dealt with the Church in Wales. An* enthusiastic crowd of clergy and their ladies massed in the Free Trade Hall to listen to the discussion—the English clergy being clearly alive to the fact that Welsh Disestablishment was a question which closely affected the Eng- lish Church as well. At the commencement of the proceedings, it was announced that next year's congress, on the invitation of the Bishop of St. David's', the Lord Lieutenant* of Glamorgan, and the Mayor and Corporation of Swansea, would be held at th. t great Welsh centre. The announcement was received with enthusiasm, it being imme- diately recognised- that no better selection could have been made, seeing that the Welsh Dises- tablishment Bill should by then have made its promised appearance- Dr. Knox then called upon the Bishop of St. David's to address the meeting. Dr. Owen is a typical Welshman To raven hair and large poetic eyes, he addig a rare sweet smile and much vivacity of manner. Moreover, he is an exoep- tional man. When the Congress was held at Rhyl some years ago, theArohbishps of Can- tcrbury that tihe Welsh Uhurch need have no fear as long as such men as John Owen lived. John Owen is very much cilivo to-day, and is in a position of still greater influence than he held then; while the sound scholarship he acquired at Oxford and imparted for so many years at Lampeter has enabled him to reach and maintain the place cf the champion of the Welsh Churdh. VITALITY OF WELSH CHURCH. Naturally, therefore, he had little difficulty in making out a good case for the Welsh Church, though, like all the subsequent speakers, he declared that the evidence given before the Royal Commission had done more to educate the general public on the vitality of the Church in Wales than all the efforts made by the sons of that Church. Dr. Owen quoted the statement of certain members of the Government that where there is a. clear rational decision tha.t disestablishment should take place, then it waa only right to dis- establish j but he pointed out, amid laughter, that while the Churchmen in Wales had repeat- edly expressed a, desire for a religious census, the Nonconformists had as often protested against it. ^That looks," said the bishop, "very much as if we were not afraid of the result and as if they were." As to the vitality of the Church in Wales, it was capable of being demonstrated to certainty. Although the oldest institution in the country, ignorant persons persisted in calling it an alien Church. Yet its growth showed that the people were supporting it in increasingly larger propor- tion. "In my own diocese of St. David's," he said, "while between 1877 and 1905 the popula- tion has only increased six per cent., the number of communicants has increased by 120 per cent.; the Sunday attendance has advanced 100 per cent.; and whereas in the three years beginning in 1897 the number of persons annually confirmed was 5900, in the three years beginning in 1905 confirmees reached an annual average of 10,800." So, too, with the money. The bishop showed that whereas in the three years commencing in 1890 the voluntary offerings averaged £66,000 annually, in the three years commencing in 1903 these offerings averaged £ 97,000 annually in his diocese alone. Remarkable figures were also given by the Bishop as to the number of Welsh-speakiag people. The census of 1901 showed that half the population of Wales did not speak a word of Welsh. As the knowledge of English advanced the seclusion of Wales broke down, and yet, so far from the Church in Wales not being a Welsh Church, in no fewer than 301 parishes the aver-, age number of communicants to the population was higher than it was in England. ENGLISH IN WALES. In a strong speech, with the paints all forcibly put and repeatedly cheered, Canon Beck, of Cardiff, showed that the English had out- stripped the Welsh in many parts of Wales, and that on that ground alone the frequent services in English were quite as necessary, and sometimes more necessary, than services in Welsh. At the census of 1891 those who spoke Welsh only numbered 500,000, while at that of 1901 they had decreased to 280,000. In the diocese of Llandaff, for which he spoke, there were 600,000 who only spoke English, as against 30,000 who only spoke Welsh. Cancn Beck vigorously protested against the absurdity of separately disestablishing the four Welsh Sees for their united population was only & little over 2,000,000, and 900,000 less than the popu- lation of the Manchester diocese. "Who in his senses," asked Canon Beck, "would talk of se- parately disestablishing the Manches'er dio- cese?" Subsequent speakers followed in the same strain Mr Griffith Boscawen causing g £ L lauglhter by describing the Government as hor- rified at the spectacle of the chairman o.f a ■7™ proving himself impartial, and Mr De Winton, an old Church Con-ress fa- vourite and a member of the Canterbury House of Laymen from its inception, showing by ex- amples drawn from his own experience how en- tirely different is the case of the Welsh Church from the onoe-established Church in Ireland. The audience throughout was most enthusiastic, and would-be disestablishes of the Church in Wales were promised a good fight.
DENBIGHSHIRE JOINT POLICE…
DENBIGHSHIRE JOINT POLICE COMMITTEE. A SUPERINTENDENT AND HIS RESIGNATSON. CHIEF CONSTABLE'S VIEWS OVER-RIDDEN. under the presidency of Mr Jelf Pettit Friday, Notice had been received from Sunt T T Lenbigh, of his intention to Jones has completed 38 years' service iiTthe Denh Jh shire Constabulary, and the amount 5? the suoerannuL uon allowance would be £ 108 9s Sd per annuST Mr A. 0. Evans, Denbigh, chairman of the Denbigh- shire County Council, asked Supt, Jones whether he » willing to withdraw his resignatiw 01 £ c/StSr""1"1,0 *"•" were ?o, *'ked wh-r> 1,111 Supt. Jones: I was instructed to resign Mr A. O. Evans: It was suggested to you that you should Supt. Jones: I was told to do so. c Mf w °; Eva,ls moved that permission be granted bupt. H. Jones to withdraw the notice of his intention to resign. Mr Edward Roberta, Brymbo, seconded. The Chief Constable said he thought it was a very serious thing for members of the committee to inter- fere with the administration of the force, which was en- Urely under his control. He did not wish to place himeair in opposition to those e-erntlemen who had come forward to support Supt. Hugh Jones. Mr Christmas Jones, Cefn, interrupting, said that was a. very unfair statement for the Chief Constable to make and he would ask him to withdraw it. The Chief Constable said he was going on to say that Supt. Hugh Jones was a most excellent officer, but he was suffering a little from what they would all suffer from, if they lived long enough—from old age. He had suggested to Supt. Hugh Jones, quite in a kind spirit, that he should retire and take his pension, and allow younger men to come on in the foroa. He thought what he did was the right thing in the interests of the force. In reply to Mr A. 0. Evans, Supt. Jones said he was 61 years of age. Mr Evans thought it was a serious matter to ask a superintendent to retire. The ratepayers ought to be considered. The Chairman reminded Mr Evans that the Chief Constable had absolute power to deal with the force, and oould dismiss any officer. Mr Evans: Let the Chief Constable take the extreme stop and dismiss Supt. Jones, if he thinks fit to do so. Colonel Mesham thought the discipline of the force would be destroyed if the committee did not trust the Chief Constable. Supt. Jones had been in the force for 38 years, and he thought they must allow that the Chief Constable was the man to judge whether he should re- main longer or whether younger men ought to come on. Mr Johnson suggested that the matter should be de- ferred for three months. The Chief Constable said that what he told Supt. Jones was that he thought it would be better if be were to retire. Mr J. Wilcoxon: And he has taken it as a command. The Chief Constable mid it was a suggestion, and he never had the slightest idea that Supt. Jones would ever contest it. There was no bad blood between Supt. Jones and himseU, and that- officer had done nothing wrong. On being put to the vote, Mr Evans' motion was car- ried by 9 to 6. APPOINTMENT OF INTERPRETERS. On the motion of Mr A. 0. Evans, it was decided to recommend the magistrates of the several petty sessional division of the county to appoint interpreters tfien the occasion arose, and to charge the expense to the county fund, such payment not to exceed 10e 6d per day.
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Arrangements have been completed whereby a commodious Conservative Clnb is to be built for the working men of the Cefh district, near Ruabon. The donora ol Ihe land and ihe new building ore Sir Watkfn Williams Wyim, Mr H. P. Grouser, Mr J. Coster Edwards, and Mr B. Lloyd Edwards,
PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES.
PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES. (By Veronica.") AN EXHIBITION OF REJECTEDS. Mr F. J, Mortimer has taken a bold step in arranging, at the little galleries of "The Amateur Photographer," an exhibition of rejected pictures. About 150 prints are hung, and of these probably 140 were rejected at the Salon, while the rest are selected from those refused at the Royal. Of course, there are different opimons about many of the individual pictures even in this "rejected" show, but I think that ev3n the most critical will agree that from them 40 or 50 might be selected which would greatly add to the strength and interest of the Photo- graphic Salon, if they were included with the pictures already hung there. Many would con- tend that the Salon would not be weakened even if a few of the pictures on its walls were obliged to be removed in order to make room for a few of those which have been refused. In the collection of rejecteds, the main room has a limit of not more than three prints by any one worker, and we find fine examples by Ward Muir, O. Wille, Harold Baker, Frederick H. Evans, Walter J. Clutterbuck, Mr and Miss Warburg, Basil Schon, Arthur Marshall, John H. Ander- son, Alexander Keighley, F. J. Mortimer, John M. Whitehead, William A. Stewart, Rudolf Duhrkoop, J. Cruwys Richards, J. Dudley John- ston, Cavendish Morton, Keith Dannatt, Otto Ehrhardt, Anny Heimann, C. H. Hewitt, Mrs G. A. Barton, Aubrey Harris, Charles Job, E. T. Holding, Rev. F. C. Lambert, M.A., Jamee A. Sinclair, E. O. Hoppe, William A. Clark, Fr. C. F. Grindrod, W. Thomas, Charles H. L. Emanuel, G. E. H. Rawlins, David Blount, Miss Hilda Stevenson, Oscar Hardee, and several others. It is scarcely necessary to say that such a collection is well worthy of a visit. The names are quite sufficient to assure any one who knows the photographic pictorial world. The exhibi- tion will remain open for a few weeks at 52, Long Acre, W.C., and admission is free. AUTOCHRONE LECTURES AT THE R.P.S. A great many provincial photographers seem to be unaware that the reduced-price tickets in the Red Book are available for the nights when the lectures on "The Thames from Source to Sea" are being given at the New Gallery. The fact is that when the Red Books were printed the ar- rangements had not been completed for these lectures; therefore, their dates could not be mentioned. The tickets are available for any day or evening at the exhibition, and there are lantern lectures every night. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Mr McIntosh deals with the Thames in autochrome, while Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday are devoted to lectures by various specialists. NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT GALLERY. Although I have devoted a good deal of space in this column to the R.P.S. Exhibition, I have not nearly exhausted the interesting items. In the Gallery around the Central Hall one wall is devoted to an impressive collection of portraits of eminent British subjects. This collection was suggested by Mr Frederick Hollyer a couple of years ago, and has been under the considera- tion of the Council of the Royal Photographic Society and of a Portrait Gallery Committee ap- pointed by the Council. The collection consists of permanent prints of portraits of distinguished persons, which may be accepted at any time, but which will not be added to the Gallery until at least twelve months after the death of the sub- ject. The selection shown at the exhibition con- sists of 120 pictures, of which roughly equal quantities are contributed by Mr Frederick Hohyer, ER.P.S, and Mr G. C. Whitfield, Jthree are from negatives by Mrs Julia Margaret Cameron, and one very fine portrait of the King comes from The Swan Electric Engraving Com- pany. The inclusion of the King's portrait is the only exception to the rule that the pictures must represent deceased celebrities. WHY NOT TRY IT? A story is told of a bashful lover who ex. pressed to his sweetheart a wonder whether she would seriously resent it if he should steal a (('0 this the maiden is said to have re- phed Just you try it," and the story goes to to effect that the bashful lover never did, for he was not quite sure as to the maiden's mean- ing. I am reminded of this failure to experi- men by some of the questions that come from my readers. For instance, some time back I gave a formula for bleaching out the image of a silver print, and a little while ago a reader took the trouble to write me a letter, to use a penny stamp for its postage, and to enclose another penny stamp for my reply, for the purpose of telling me that he had made up the solution according to the formula and wanted to know how long he should leave the print in the bleach. He might have saved himself the trouble of writing, and answered his question in about five seconds if he had simply put a little piece of print into the solution. One of the greatest hindrances to the progress of many amateurs is their ap- parent inability to suggest the most simple ex- periments for themselves. Probably half the questions which are addressed to photographic journalists could be answered by ten minutes de- voted to very simple tests which ought to be obvious to every one. LONG EXPOSURES FOR STREET SCENES Every suggestion which will tend to keep our cameras in use during the winter instead of being put way on dusty shelves is worth giving. As the light decreases many people think that street scenes are impossible, because an exposure sufficient to give the buildings satisfactorily will ° so,me of the moving figures, with the result that they will be blurred. If the photographer is willing to do without the figures, the possibilities of street photography Wt tl JexP°sures are most surprising. Many of the best street views shown by Captain Glad- stone ajid by Frederick H. Evans in the heyday of their lantern-slide activity were made by giving long exposures with the smallest possible stop, and with the result that the many moving figures left no impression whatever upon upon the plate. An example of this kind of thing is to be seen in one of Frederick H. Evans' pictures in the Salon des Refuses, and the same picture is reproduced in Ii PhotogIëUns of the Year 1908." It is a view of the house of Joan of Arc, and was made on market morning. An extremely small stop was used with an exposure of two or three minutes. The result was that although hundreds of people were passing to and fro in the field of the lens, noS of them has affected the picture at all. Photo- graphers often forget that a moving object which merely absorbs part of the light has. practically no effect on the plate. It is only when a rilliantly. lighted object passes across some per- tion that is otherwIse In shadow that the plate is affected. When an exposure of two or three e,ven the slowest sauntering people do not stay long enough in one position to make any impression.
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