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THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. 33 HIGH RELIEF BLOCKS. In no department of photography has there been more striking progress in the last few years than in the produc tion of high relief blocks for printing along with letter press matter. We have numerous instances of this improvement in the commercial use of such blocks for illustrating current periodical literature, but it is probably more thoroughly and extensively carried out in Germany than elsewhere. We have before us the current number of the Hadfahr Chronik, a journal devoted to cycling, published at Munich, which is plentifully illustrated in this way. On the front page is a Meissenbach reproduc tion from a negative of a cyclists’ congress held at Liege, in the course of last year. The picture is about nine inches in length, and contains representations of about eighty cyclists with their machines grouped in front of a handsome building, and enlivened by trees. Not only is the foliage well defined and free from heaviness, but the faces, although each but little larger than the head of an ordinary pin, come out with so much distinctness that as portraits they must be easily recognised by persons acquainted with the originals. FIRE AT MESSRS. STONE & CO.’S. A most disastrous fire broke out on the night of the 5th inst. on the premises of Messrs. Stone and Co., photographic mount makers, of 7 and 8, Ful wood’s Rents, W.C. The flames were first noticed at about 12’30 shooting through the roof of No. 8, and the firemen at once received a call. It was some time before an adequate supply of water could be used, on account of the difficulty in approaching the building, and meantime the fire had spread to No. 7. The contents of the building were mostly papers, and these, especially in the upper floors, were very inflammable, as this portion of the premises is heated by steam, and the large sheets of paper are separated there for drying. It was not till four o’clock in the morning that the fire, after the united efforts of some sixty or seventy firemen and twelve steam engines, directed by Captain Shaw in person, was got under, and meantime it had spread to the adjoining premises, No. 6, Fulwood’s Rents, occupied by Sir Joseph Causton and Co., wholesale stationers, and also at the back to Waldack’s private hotel, of which the whole of the back portion was completely gutted. The wind was from the north and took the flames in a southerly direction ; had it been otherwise the adjoining premises on the north side, a large factory, occupying the space of three houses, Nos. 9, 10, 11, in the occupation of Messrs. Watson and Sons, as a photo graphic cabinet shop, and in which are stored immense piles of dry wood used by them for their cameras, would have caught fire, and in this case nothing could have prevented an enormous conflagration ; but, excepting a few charred beams, which were extinguished almost as soon as they lighted, the breakage of all the back windows and the skylights, and the flooding of the basement with water, Messrs. Watson and Sons have escaped. Messrs. Stone’s premises were reduced to a shell ; the mass of burning material in the basement was so hot that it was practically impossible to enter the building during the 6th inst., and the hose was kept playing on the ruins all day; late in the evening this was discontinued. About three o’clock in the morning, however, flames again broke out, and at four o’clock the fire was almost as bad as on the pre vious night. The hose was kept playing till a late hour on Wednesday, 7th. Messrs. Stone and Co. are well known to photographers for their mounts ; they have occupied these ptemises for twenty-six years, and this is their first experi ence of such a disaster. They were insured. PHOTOGRAPHIC Society of GREAT Britain. — An ordinary meeting will be held at 50, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, W.C., on Tuesday, 13th inst., at 8 p.m. A paper will be read by Mr. E. W. Maunder, F.R.A.S., on “Photography Applied to Astronomy.” patent Intelligence. Applications for Letters Patent. 20,852. J. U. Clarke, 3 College Road, Harrow, “Photo graphic Shutters.”—December 22nd. 20,876. R. Stirn, 55, Chancery Lane, London, “Camera.” —December 22nd. 20,931. K. F. Jekeli and J. Horner, 37, Chancery Lane, London, “Cameras.”—December 23rd. 21,012. G. G. Rockwood, Monument Chambers, King William Street, London, “Panoramic Cameras.”— December 26 th. 21,059. G. F. Redfern, 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, “Photographic Negatives” (J. M. Jordan, United States). —December 26th. 21,302. A. Evershed and B. Wild, 28, Hatton Garden, London, “Cameras.”—December 31st. 78. W. Nicol, Mason College, Birmingham, “ Dark Slides.”— January 2nd. Specifications Published. 1,715. February 1st, 1890.—“Exposing a Succession of Photographic Films.” Marshall Arthur Wibr, 3, Palace Grove, Upper Norwood, Surrey, Engineer. My invention relates to that class of photographic camera where a number of sensitised films are exposed one after the other without the use of dark slides. It consists of a rect angular receptacle or film-box for the purpose of holding the films. To change the films after exposure, I cause the exposed film to travel from the front of the receptacle to the rear thereof, and in order to cause this action to take place I employ rollers, which are suitably placed on the film-box or receptacle. The rollers may be placed thus : One on the front, one on the top, and one at the rear sides of the film-box. The front roller is a spring roller, on to which a band or ribbon of suit able material is wound a few times, the other end of the band being attached to the rear roller. On the front of the film-box is placed a movable or sliding frame, against which the edges of the films are caused to press by any suitable means. When the film, after exposure, is to be removed to the rear of the film-box, the front frame is first pushed up ; this action brings one edge of the film into position between the front roller, the band, and the middle or top roller, and, upon turn ing the rear roller by means of a suitable handle, the band is wound upon it and the film is drawn up, over the top roller, and down into the rear part of the film-box, the spring roller rewinding the band back again upon releasing the hold upon the handle. Instead of the top roller, a half round fixed piece may be employed. By means of the roller and band arrange ment, the exposed films may be drawn to any other place or position in the box by suitably adjusting their relative posi tions. The above arrangement may be fitted into a box to form a hand or detective camera, or it may be formed into a separate narrow box so that it may be used in a similar manner to the well known roller slide. 2,023. February 7lh, 1890.—“Improvements in Enlarging Cameras.” Walter Griffiths, Highgate Square, Birming ham, Manufacturer. My invention has for its object improvements in enlarging cameras, by means of which I am enabled to enlarge to any extent upon either glass or paper from an ordinary negative in a simple, quick, and effective manner by daylight, or with an ordinary lamp, and without the necessity of working the camera in a dark room. In carrying my invention into effect, I form the enlarging camera with an oblong body or box, preferably square and open at the ends, and formed of any such suitable material as wood, metal, stout mill-board, or straw-board ; but I prefer to form it of either of the two latter, the ends being in that case strengthened with wood bands. At the one end I fix the carrier in which the negative is placed, the lens being placed in the centre of the body, and is so constructed and framed in a sliding partition that it may be moved backwards and for wards within the body at the will of the operator. At the