, THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 6, 1907.
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WEIRD LIGHTHOUSE VIG1LSC0L0R photograph progress
Two Frfarkaft Clalea to liar nie
cover Simple rroeeee for
Colored Print.
After forty year of experiments by th
scientists and inventor of two continent.
RUSH OF THE BIRDS BY NIGHT on ' the treat rewards of modern en-
I neavor the colored photograph eem
Experience, of Keepers on the. Coast
of France,
Insanity and Death In tke I.nnel.r
Tower MooralaaT ait Iiong Hf
dalclae or M arder
Low Par.
'A French writer, telling; of the life of
the lighthouse keepers alone the coast of
Brittany, thinks It Strang that any of
them escap Insanity. The system .of re
lief that prevails In this country has no
equivalent In the French service and with
short Intervals, months apart, a French
Hghthous keeper may spend forty years
of hla life tending- the lamps In one sta
tion, with a single companion, and that
station may be on a rock out in the chan
nel or the Bay of Biscay, which boats can
approach onfy In fin weather.
As a matter of, fact, the men often dd
become insane or at least develop mono
mania. Sometime it takes the form of
hatred of each other.
In one case, at Terenneo, one of two
men was found by a party who came off
from the shore In response to signals lying
dead In hla bed wHh a long, keen Waded
knife thtough his heart. His companion's
' story was that he had committed suicide
.after a long period of melancholia. There
was no proof to the contrary, but after
examining th -wound the authorities
doubted the truth of the story.
.'Father Kill HI Hon.
On another occasion, where father and
son tended an Isolated beacon together,
th young man was seised with an at
tack of acute mania. When the time came
to light up lie planted himself in front of
th stairway to the lantern and refused to
allow his father to ascend.
Th old man attacked his son, and find
ing he could subdue him In no other way,
so that the lights on which so many lives
depended might be kindled, strangled him
to death. The next day he signalled to
the shore for help and gave himself up to
th police, telling what he had done.
' Sickness and death are no strangers In
the lighthouses. There, Is, ninety -nine
times out of a hundred, no chanc of
medical aid' and the well man prescribes
about to be. realised. August and Ixuils
Lumlere of Paris have Just announced the
perfection of a process by which this re
sult can be attained with a greater degree
of simplicity than had previously been
thought possible. They have also carried
a step further the puxsllng problem of re
producing the pictures on white paper In
the tints Indicated on th colored nega
tives. Charles L. A. Brasseur, an Inventor,
now making New Tork his home, has also
elaborated th problem . of color pho
tography until glass plates reproducing
scenes and Images in all their original
brilliancy of color can be reproduced In
any desired number.
Th problem of printing from color neg
atives on paper has hot been solved to the
satisfaction of scientists, but the latest
Inventions carry the problem to a point
where the results are Immediate and sur
prising. They simplify th process of
color photography to such an extent that
almost any photographer may make col
ored negatives. Copies of paintings and
art objects may be preserved for years
In all the brilliancy of the original colors.
Americans may even see moving pictures
of transient events a chanc sunset, the
Inauguration of a president, or an after
noon on Broadway a if the scene, fully
colored, were passing before them. The
fact that the latest Inventions In color
photography enable artists and litho
graphers to preserve their models perma
nently, and in color, is by no means the
least Important of the recent results.
The Invention of Augusts and Louis
I.umrere, long known as expert photog
raphers In Paris, consists of nclf-coloring
or autocrome plates, that are equ.illy
i sensitive to all rays of all colors, and
are adapted to any ordinary Camera. As
all who have taken photographs know,
the relative values of colors In a :,ne
are destroyed when transferred to a plate.
Red becomes black, blue white, and no
on. The underlying principle of color
photography is to reproduce theae colors
in their rotative values, so that the pic
ture on the plate shall be relatively the
same as th Image In the eye. Hereto
fore this effect lias been obtained by
"filtering" the picture through screens of
colored glass Inserted in the camera la
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from the medicine chest for the sick one J froilt of th. plate The vnetam W(l, clab.
or a to, and success depended largely on
a best he can. He also does double duty
until hfs partner recovers or relief comes
by chance. 1
There are not Infrequent cases when the
urvivor has to sew up his dead comrade
In a hammock and launch Ms weighted
body from the rocks. Into the sett. Then
om long nights of lonely watching.
Work In the Winter.
In winter time the lamps must be tended
the scientific expertness of tho photog
rapher. The Lumlere Invention consltts
In plsclng a layer of colored grains In
front of the sensitive material on the
plate, thus making color photography as
simple, relatively, as taking an ordinary
picture. The grains not of the color of
the object photographed are masked by a
blackening of the sensitive material, and
and the clockwork kept going for fourteen , the grains remaining visible, therefore,
to fifteen ' hours. The lantern is unheated ! represent the color of the object,
except for U.lw of the lamps up In Its I The grains are made of potato flour
calling and the government allows the 1 ground up until the particles ure about
watcher no chair lest he falls asleep, j 4-l.OODih of an Inch In dlametir. Those
Then when day comes It brings no rest I re colored green, violet and orange, and
to the solitary man for the lamps must ! are thoroughly mixed and laid on the
b. replenished and glasses and reflectors
polished.
It la no wonder that weird fancies come
to th men. They hear voices calling
from the sea and see drowned men and
women looking, up at them from the
breaker. One of their horror 'is of the
bird that beat against the windows of
th lantern at night, attracted by the
glare.
Just as is the case with American light
bouses, the feathered armies that migrate
at night beat .against the walls and bal
. conies of the beacons with their wings
and dasb against the panes of the lantern,
sometimes breaking the glass with their
beaks. As their eyes shine In the gluro
they seem to express anger or bloodthlrstl
nssa to th men within.
Watched Hla Wife's Funeral.
One of the most pitiful stories of light
house life Is told of the keeper at Four
n Ftnlsterre, who kept all alone a sta
tion on an Isolated rock a couple of miles
out from th shore, but so surf beaten
that only one a month or so was a bout
sent out to It with supplies. The 'cabin
In which the keeper made his home was
on the shore opposite his lighthouse and
the rcreation he most enjoyed was watch
ing It through his telescope. He could see
th people go in and out and the children
playing in front of It.
On day he saw something fluttering
(rom tha doorjamb. He was pukzled.
Then It flashed on him that It was a crap
and that someone was dead In the house.
Was It his motherT he wondered. Or
bis wife or one of his brothers? He
counted the children later In the day anl
they were all right.
Th wind blew and th water raged.
No boat could com near him and he
watched th crowd of sympathizing
friend com and go. Then he saw the
funeral
U recognised th cur at th head of
tho procession by his white surplice and
th altar boys walking beside him. Vtvju
cam th coffin carried by six men.
Am tha mourners walked after It he
strained and strained his eyes trying to
identify aach and thus deterinlu th miss
ing on. But In vain; all walked with
bowed head; th women's faces were
burled In their handkerchiefs; th men
bald their bats befor theirs. II could
jnak out nothing characteristic
Th men who, eight days later, rlskod
their lives to row out to him and break
the news of bis wlfs's death, found htm
physical and mental wreck from sleep
less anxiety. But bs had kept the light
burning faithfully all th time.
Th French lighthouse keepers recelv
tram TOO to 169 franc a year 1149 to
111. When they are worn out they retire
on a pension of II. SO a month.
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plate. Then the minute spaces between
the grain are filled with an exceedingly
fine charcoal dust.
The green, violet and orange thus placed
on the plate are the complimentary
shades of the primary colors, which tire
red, yellow and orange. In the negative
tho red of nature appears as green, th
yellow as violet, and the blue as orange.
The grains are transparent, permitting the
light to pass through them to Inu sensi
tive plnte, but modifying It by their color,
and preserving the relative values of the
tints in the original scene.
It Is In th development of the plates,
however, that the Lumlere process Is con
sidered most Interesting by scientist.
The novelty of their Invention is their
method of convortlng the negative Into a
positive, and obtaining a single colored
photograph on glass. They do not de
stroy the silver bromide on the plate, as
Is usually the case, but place the plate
in a bath, destroy the negative, and de
velop the rest of the sliver salt Into a
positive.
The Lumlere process Is best understood
by following It from tho moment the
rays of light pass Into the camera until
the colored photograph Is shown on th
finished plate. The example selected for
the Frrnch accounts of the Invention la
the flag of that nation. In blue, white and
red.
As th rays from th blue part of the
flag pass to the plate, they are absorbed
by - the orange grains on the film, white
the green and violet rays permit the' light
to act on the I sensitive medium. In de
veloping, the bromide of silver' will
blacken under th green and violet grain,
which the medium will mask, and leave
transparent only the orange grains. Th
rays from the white In tha flag will not
be absorbed, and will blacken the jonal
tlve layer under all the colored grains.
The rays from th red will be absorbed
by the green grains, the latter remaining
transparent. Thess rays will Affect the
bromide of silver, under th violet and
orange grains, which will be hlddan, Ioav
Ing tho green visible. The plat than
gives the complimentary colors of the
original, and the flag seems to be thri
strips of orange, black and green, re
spectively. The reduced silver Is dissolved by th
permanganate of potash process, and then
the negative Is transformed to a positive,
in the sunlight, thus reproducing tho
colors of the orlglual with absolute ac
curacy. The reduced bromide of silver in th
section of orange, which .obscures th
violet and green grains, has bean dis
solved under the action of th perman
ganate of sliver, and. In ths second de
velopment, th bromide of silver not re
duced blackens under th orange grains.
These being masked, and th violet-groan
grain now being exposed, the two com
bined give the impression of blue.
The white will be formed by all th re
duced sliver being dissolved In th bUck
gene, thus reproducing th threi primary
elements orange, green and vlolot.
The third, or red, section of ths flag Is
represented at this stag In th develop
ment by what seems to be a block of
green. Th green grains are masked by
the second development, and th illusion
of fed Is reproduced by th mixture of
th violet and orange grains. St. l-oule
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ths neighborhood of Turner falls, near ths
town of Davis. I. T. This cave and th
many thrilllirg Incidents connected with Its
discovery was th product of an Imagina
tive newspaper writer who makes a living
writing that kind of stuff.
Ha had gona Into camp one day on a
small Island In a stresm below Turner
falls. He was equipped with a typewriter
and was seated In the doorway of his tent
recking his brain for ideas. At th base
of th falls he saw a small crevic In the
granil wU. That was enough. Th crev
tc grew Into an enormous cavern as rap-
'dly as he could pound th key of his
.ypawriter. Th interior of this cavern
aa a wondrous place, rich in geological
.peclmens, and traversed by a rushing
,-lver. In this river were strange fish, un
known to science.
Th story, of course, was about ths dis
covery and exploration of this cave. When
the faker had finished his romancing what
ha Vd written would fill a page of a neas
pr per. Th story was sent to (it. Louis,
here It was accepted by an enterprising
editor.
Letters of Inquiry began to pour In upon
th postmaster at Davis, Inquiring about
the cave. Many of these letters cams from
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were true. The faker dared not put him
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way' to Turner falls, and asked that the
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company Mm to ths cave.
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faw no way out of my trouble. As we
traveled toward Turner falls I was threat
ened several times with paresis. Finally, I
saw my escape. Arriving at th falls, I
was asked to point out ths entrance to
th cave. Immediately below th crevic
was a deep pool of swift water. To my
scientific friend 1 said: To enter th cavs
Is a dangerous and difficult task. First you
must dive for a distance of twenty feat
beneath this overhanging ledge. When you
come to the surface, you will find your
self at th mouth of the cave. After pull
Ing yourself out of. the swift water further
progress will be easy. Th danger, how
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after you have dived.' With a sigh of re
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afford to take such a risk and reluctantly
gave up his exploration. Llk Mont
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day without learning tb truth,"