FAKED PHOTOGRAPHS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1366, 17 February 1912, Page 16

FAKED PHOTOGRAPHS.

Visitors horo (says tho Washington correspondent of tho "Daily Telegraph") usually go avray with a portrait showing them shaking hands with President Taft is the Whito House parlour. This illusion was effected by means of a mechanical device, and did not require tho cooperation of tho President. Now tho offending photographer, who has done a roaring trado with provincials, more especially bridal couples, all anxious for a post card showing them on familiar terms with the Chief of tho Executive, has been warned by tho prosecutor to omit Mr. Taft from such pictures. Tho photographer appealed to tho White House, but tho President upheld tho public prosecutor. The Supremo Court of tho United States held recently that a pcreon's photograph. is his or her own prop&rty. that a girl's .pretty faco cannot bo used to ornament a cako of soap without her permittsion, or a man's oamfcomo, countcnanco decorate a breakfast-food package. So it is proboblo that the photographer will refrain henceforth delineating the President in any more pictures to glorify tourists. It is related hero that Mr. Theodore fioosevelt waa made to appear in li fake photograph talking to a negro driver of a ooal wagon. Mr. Roosevelt ili<l not object to being posed in a position that was truly democratic, but be insisted that tho incident never oooirrred, so the sale of tho photographs ended.