Page 336 - One Thousand Ways to Make $1000

In order to promote interest in the club, the boys ran a lottery for a season
ticket to the home football games and a separate lottery for the most
important out-of-town game of the season.

Taking Pictures in the Street Pays College Expenses

A

N AMATEUR interest in photography—a hobby with Harold Walker for
several years—became the means of making enough money during vacations
to pay expenses during his last two years in college. The new type camera
Walker uses operates on the motion picture principle taking clear, sharp
photographs at high speed. Walker straps on this camera so that it is held
rigidly against his chest, leaving both hands free. Its focus is fixed for any
distance, and its exposure limited to 1/250 of a second, eliminating the
danger of bad photographs from lack of exposure or wrong focus adjustment.
Thus any amateur can secure good results.

Getting some cards printed and numbered, Walker took his camera to a busy
street corner and snapped photographs of everyone entering the range of his
lens. To each he handed a coin card on which was printed: “Your photograph
has just been taken. Send this card and twenty-five cents to Harold Walker
and prints will be mailed to you.” Between ten o’clock in the morning and
four in the afternoon, Walker photographed about three hundred persons, and
within a few days received one hundred and fourteen cards with silver
quarters from these people. His average cost for each person photographed
was slightly over two cents. There is no reason why you could not do as well.

A simple system is used for determining the right photograph for each card.
The first three numbers of the card indicate the week of the month, the day of
the week, and the month in which the exposure was made. The last numbers
indicate the number of the photograph itself. The lowest number for each day
is the number for the first exposure; the next number represents the second
exposure, and so on. Thus, number 15637 would be the number of the thirty-
seventh person photographed on the fifth day of the first week in June. It is
easy to keep the exposures in rotation when cutting the film after the film is