AMBELSA PHOTOGRAPHIC TWEEKLYT 'Entered as second-class matter June 10, 1909, at the Post Office at Cleveland, O., under the Act of March 3, 1879' SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1918 Price Five Cents This issue of Abel's goes to 2334 interested subscribers-all owners of studios Combat the shortening days by use of HAMMER PLATES They give results where others fail Hammer's Special Extra Fast (red label) and Extra Fast (blue label) Plates for field and studio work and Hammer's Extra Fast Orthochromatic and D. C. Orthochromatic HAMMER DRY PLATE CO REG. TOADE MARK Hammer's little book, "A Short Talk on Negative Making," mailed free Hammer Dry-Plate Company Washington In Stormy Weather In rain or shine, at noon or in the dusk, you can depend upon Bausch lomb Tessar Ic, F: 4.5 Master of Speed and Light The dark days of Winter demand a lens with speed. With the Tessar you can photograph a baby indoors. or the little family gatherings, or those intimate home portraits which are so valued in later years. If you will write us for the little booklet "What Lens Shall I Buy?" you will have an insight into the possibilities of the Tessar and our other lenses. Our photographic departments are always at your service, if you have any photographic lens questions. Booklets sent free on application. Bausch & Lomb Optical @. Chicago San Francisco 631 ST. PAUL STREET ROCHESTER, N.Y. Published Weekly at 401 Caxton Building, Cleveland, Ohio, by The Abel Publishing Company VOL. XXI. No. 523 SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1917 Terms: Two dollars a year in advance. Post- FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS: Canada, $2.50; PRICE FIVE CENTS $2.00 A YEAR other countries, $3.00 per year in advance. ΤΟ PREVENT loss or delay by mail, all communications and photographs should be addressed to Abel's Photographic Weekly, 401 Caxton Building, Cleveland, Ohio. In Passing By THE TEMPORARY PASSING OF AN INSTITUTION We don't hesitate to call it an Institution, for any activity which through a long series of years has shown an actual educational value and which has grown with each succeeding year until it has come to fill a place so distinctly its own that even its temporary disappearance causes, not inconvenience, in this case, but a feeling of some necessary thing missing, can rightfully be termed an Institution. The Eastman School of Professional Photography is to be abandoned this year. That is the word sent out from Rochester. It has not been done away with or put into the category of activities which have served their purpose, but is withdrawn for the period of the war and for these reasons. An enormous amount of apparatus, five or six tons this last year, had to be moved promptly from city to city each week. Every square foot of transportation space is needed for the Government to keep food, supplies and munitions moving. The railroads have been taxed to their limit and beyond these past few months and it is only the right thing to do to curtail absolutely unnecessary freight shipments. In the same spirit the board of officers of the National Association were persuaded last year to abandon the National Convention. America is at war. The war has got to be won. Everyone must give way to the Government's needs in a successful prosecution of the war. And the School gives way in its turn. Photographers everywhere will miss the School and its splendid opportunities but it will be all the more welcome when it again makes its rounds, for the Eastman Company says that "After we win this war, the work of the School will be resumed." MORE GREETINGS. Cards of good wishes and greetings are still coming to our desk. Since we wrote the last acknowledgments, we have received cards from-Mr. and Mrs. Frank Scott Clark of Detroit; Peter Hauenstein and Chas. C Kastenholz, heads of the Northern Photo. Supply Co. of Minneapolis, Minn.; Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Taylor with the |