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November 16, 1883.] THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS 731 through the Customs. I have been frequently surprised at reading from time to time of gentlemen having to relate similar difficulties. Mr. Grant asks: “How do gentle men who go abroad manage with the Customs?” Well, I must confess I can only speak for myself, and having travelled a little, I think I can speak with some authority. I have travelled twice through France, and once through Switzerland, also to the United States and Canada ; and during the whole of my experience, I never had a single thing touched or meddled with in any way. When I have gone before the Custom officers, I treat them gentlemanly, and pleasantly explain to them my position as an amateur, and open my “ kit,” and inform them at once what I have, without waiting for them to ask questions ; and on no single occasion have I ever had the slightest difficulty in passing. Nowhere are courtesy and good humour better repaid than going through the Customs. The officers are only doing their duty, and they can make it very disagreeable in return for any hauteur or lack of courtesy. Frankness and politeness is a sine-qua- uon.—I am, faithfully yours, Joseph R. GREATOREX. Sir,—It seems to me that the examination of passengers’ luggage depends very much upon the disposition of the officials at the time of examining, and that Mr. Grant’s case is a mcst unfortunate one. Last June I went abroad accompanied by my wife, and our luggage consisted of a trunk for personal uses, and containing the bulk of my dry plates, packed in separate dozens, a small hand-bag, a satchel, and a changing-box containing my apparatus and a few dozen plates. At the German frontier the boxes were simply opened and shut again ; at Schaffhausen the officer just turned the larger box over and made his chalk mark, without noticing the smaller parcels; but at Pontarlier, on our return, the case was very different; there were but half a dozen passengers who had luggage, and we had two hours to wait ; boxes were all opened, and the contents thoroughly looked at, my packets of plates coming in for a good deal of attention. The official was several times on the point of tearing some of them open, and it was with the greatest difficulty that I could prevail upon him not to do so ; and after a lot of hesitation he made his chalk marks and left me, but only to commence on four or five portmanteaus all belonging to one gentleman, which amused him for about an hour; he turned everything out, and rntied every little packet he had, including note paper, letters, and photographs, and was quite delighted at finding a small packet of playing cards, which he took away from him. At Paris our box had again to be opened, and a partial examination made, and on landing at Newhaven the boxes were passed unopened, and I brought home about two hundred exposed plates in safety.—I am, sir, yours truly, 1’. H. Fincham. HOW THE CIIITTYWEE WAS TAKEN. Dear Sir,—I read Mr. West’s account of how the Chittywee was taken, and, like “Amateur,” was much inter- ested, not, however, in the same direction. I do not feelat allanxious to know if the camera was supported by boxes, or casks, &c., but should much like to know had the para graph—“ I was unable to say positively if there was more ■water than sky, or more sky than water, or, in fact, any thing at all . . . however, as I say, it turned out all right”—been appended to Mr. West’s exhibit, would the judges have looked upon it as a work of skill? —Faithfully yours, C. R. Y. PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION. Dear Sir,—In reference to your most just criticism re 1 Dress of Patience,” may I just say that the photograph was not specially got up for exhibition or to present any particular character, being only one of my ordinary sitters in a rather pretty fancy dress. As the most suitable name I called it “ Patience,” after, of course, [the heroine of Gilbert and Sullivan’s opera ; but it must not be taken as representing my idea of what a rustic milkmaid usually is. All the photographs I sent were of my ordinary type of sitters. Now I am writing, I would like to say that I entirely agree with Mr. Vernon Heath and others, that the present time of holding the Exhibition is exceedingly inconvenient to the professional photographer, who should have no time in the summer to devote to the production of negatives or prints for exhibition purposes. If the Exhibition were held (say) in March or April, photographers would have time to get up a few negatives. Now the majority are quite debarred from exhibiting.—I am, yours faithfully, N orman May. Dear Sir,—Your critic, in the Exhibition notices, says of the picture I sent, that he does not “ quite understand it, and that it is somewhat uncanny.” It is a photographic rendering of the well-known picture “ Tintoreto and his Daughter.” It is stated on the mount after—perhaps a long way—“ Tintoreto’” I don’t know that there is any thing in it, excepting the record of the fact that Tintoreto did paint a picture from liis daughter after death.—Yours truly, G. E. Alder, PHOTOGRAPHS OF CRIMINALS. Dear Sir,—I beg to draw your attention to one or two things regarding my letter of last week. In the first place, there is an error in one word on page 716, second column, line 60, in which the words “if con victed or without,” should read, “if convicted, not with out.” No photograph or former conviction is ever pro duced against a prisoner at his trial until he be found “ guilty ” on the current charge. In another part of my letter, I state that I printed ten off every prisoner’s negative; I omitted to state that photo graphs of prisoners who were acquitted were not sent to the police, but only placed in the prison albums, and never made use of, except a prisoner returned on another charge on some future occasion. In your note, appended to my letter, you say, “ The rule at all convict prisons is, that prisoners are never out of the charge of a warder; ” but Ionly wrnte regarding " Newgate,” which was not a convict prison, but a house of detention, and the photographer there, although an “ officer,” was not a “ warder,” and yet prisoners were sometimes in my charge alone, as they were also at times iu the charge of the cook, engineer, and schoolmaster, who were not warders, although officers ; but of the regulations of convict prisons I know very little.—I am, sir, yours obediently, R. F. BERTOLLE. PATENT PROCESSES. SIR,—My attention has been called to a letter in your issue of the 26th ult., wherein a Mr. C. Chesterman, of St. Petersburg, makes use of a certain process, devised and patented by me, as the text for a homily against the practice of our Patent Commissioners and patent authorities generally. With regard to this I have nothing to say ; but as the description your correspondent gives of the claims in my patent is erroneous and misleading, and calculated to injure me, I must ask your permission to contradict it. I have no desire to trespass upon valuable space by describing my process in detail—those of your readers to whom the matter is of sufficient interest may satisfy them selves by consulting my specification; but perhaps you will permit me to say that the process was only devised for the purpose to which it is especially adapted, after trying and rejecting all known and published methods. Mr. Chesterman states that my German patent was
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