AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY.
AT a meeting of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia, held recently, the executive committee of the Interchange reported that it had selected from the slides of 1886-’87 two hundred specimens to be sent to England in exchange for the same number to be sent to this country.
DURING the past year the Chicago Lantern Slide Club has added materially to its numbers. The following new members were admitted some time since: C. E. Bradbury, J. L. Atwater, E. H. Reed, G. H. Daggett, Charles Stadler, F. S. Osborn, B. D. Washington, and Wallace Fairbank. Three members were added to the executive committee: Dr. C. F. Matteson, E. J. Wagner, and G. A. Douglas.
THE Society of Amateur Photographers of New York gave a Smoking Concert, November 18, which proved a very enjoyable affair. There was some good vocal and instrumental music, and after the concert was over, the audience had a “German-American tea”—the tea having been brewed in a keg, after the manner of the German. Strange to say, on the conclusion of the repast there were several “kegs full,” after the manner of the American.
THE New Orleans Camera Club has recently taken a number of sketches of an “outing” along the line of the Northeastern railroad. Some pretty bits of scenery and quaint negro characters were taken during the trip. The following gentlemen headed the excursion party: President William Mandeville, Vice-President Joseph A. Hincks, Secretary Charles E. Fermer, Treasurer Harry T. Howard.
ATHLETICS.
THE fall handicap meeting of the Harvard Athletic Association was held November 5, on Holmes’ Field, Cambridge, Mass. The events were as follows:
100-yards run—First heat, O. K. Hawes, ’92 (2 yds.), first. Time, 101⁄2s. Second heat, E. C. Moen, ’91 (scratch), first. Time, 10 2-5s. Final heat, O. K. Hawes, ’92 (2 yds.), first. Time, 10 2-5s.
Running broad jump—G. R. White (scratch), first. Distance, 20 ft. 21⁄2 in.
One-mile walk—C. T. R. Bates, ’92 (30 sec.), first. Time, 8m. 11⁄2s. J. E. Howe, ’91 (scratch), second.