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arbitrary, and the image was adjusted to
them. Of course, there is quite a variation
in the distances between these two lines in
the human head; therefore the camera had
to be carefully adjusted after each exposure.
I then made a pendulum by a weight on
the end of a string about forty inches long,
practically giving one second to a motion
or oscillation. This I found more practic-
able than a watch. Starting my pendulum,
the impressions were made in quick succes-
sion. Of course, the slide was returned to
the holder after each exposure, and a new
focus or adjustment of the succeeding sitter
made. Recently I made one of these com-
posite pictures cf- nine young ladies, mem-
bers of a literary club. The result certain-
ly indicates a high average of intellectual
ability, if there is anything in the teachings
of physiognomy and phrenology.
Steinway's Contribution to the
Press Club.
T
H E Press Club, through its attorney,
has brought suit against a Mr. Lloyd
to compel him to make an accounting of
various sums of money which it is alleged
he received from various parties for that
organization. Among the sums which are
unaccounted for, and which it is said Mr.
Lloyd received, is a contribution of $1,000
from the firm of Steinway & Sons. Mr.
Lloyd denies that he failed to account for
all the money handled for the Press Club.
The suit will no doubt be a very interest-
ing one.
The Reimers Piano Co.
COM: osin-..
PIANO AND ORGAN MAKERS.
W. S. BOND.
HENRY MASON.
P. J. HFALY.
G. A . GIBSON.
A Composite Picture
OK I'l.ANO AND ORtlAN
MAK.KRS.
F
OR some years past it has been quite
popular with graduating classes at
the various colleges to have composite pic-
tures made of all the class members. The
A. N. Kellogg Newspaper Co., to whom we
are indebted for the above plate, have in-
cluded in "Kellogg's List for March, '95" a
composite picture of some well-known
piano and organ makers, which, through
their courtesy, we are enabled to reproduce.
The gentlemen who are included in the
above are W. S. Bond, Henry Mason, P. f.
Healy, C. A. Gibson, William Steinway,
Henry L. Mason and Jacob Estey. The
explanation of what composite photographs
are is carefully explained by Photographer
Rock wood, who prepared the photographs
for the Kellogg Co. He says:
"This means a succession of photographic
impressions imposed one upon the other
in the same plate, so as to produce in a
single picture the combined likenesses of
various persons. For instance, three or
more people are averaged, so to speak, upon
the sensitive plate. First, one is posed be-
fore the camera for such a fraction of the
WILLIAM
STEINWAY.
HENRY L. MASON.
J.
ESTEY.
time that would ordinarily be given to one
sitter as may represent the number of per-
sons to be photographed. If three persons
are to be represented, and the full time of
exposure woiild be six seconds, the ex-
posure for the first one of the three would
be exactly two seconds.
He now steps
aside, and the second one is adjusted to the
head-rest, and, when accurately placed, he
in turn gets a sitting of two seconds, and so
with the third. Each one who sits before
the camera represents his portion of the
full time required.
So, in the case of
twenty, the instrument must be so stopped
down and the light so arranged that, if used
upon a single sitter only, the exposure
would be twenty seconds. Of course, the
exposure to each one of the twenty would
be one second. In your series, it required
great care to superimpose exactly one
image upon another. It was accomplished
as follows: I first drew upon the ground
glass a fine perpendicular pencil-line, which
served as a central line to the head. Across,
and at right angles to this line, 1 drew two
others, an inch and a quarter apart, one of
which ran through the line of the mouth
and the other thiough the eye at the
caruncula, or at the joining of the upper
and lower cartilages.
These lines were
T
HE Reimers Piano Co., of Poughkeep-
sic, N. Y., previously reported as in
progress of organization, has been licensed
by the Secretary of the State of New York
to do business", with a capital stock of $100,-
000. Of this amount it is said something
over $25,000 has been actually paid in, and
the factory will be piit in operation with
this amount. The directors are Geo. E.
Caramer, W. T. Reynolds, Jacob Carlies,
Jeronimus Reimers, W. (). Bartlett and C.
L. Lamb, of Poughkeepsie, and Henry
Allen, of Arlington. The new company
contemplate manufacturing three hundred
pianos yearly. Mr. Reimers was formerly
in business in Toronto, P. (J.
Behr Bros. & Co.
THE receivers of the old Behr Bros. & Co.
house, Messrs. Henry Behr and Martin
Brett, are still awaiting the order of the
court before paying the final installment
which will settle up the affairs of that
house. This will be only a matter of a few
days, and will definitely close the existence
of the old firm.
The defunct concern should not be con-
founded with the new Behr Bros. & Co.,
which is sailing on a very prosperous career.
The members of the present house are
working energetically to that end, and they
cannot fail to win that degree of success
which is their due.