Ann Arbor To The Front

Arm Arbor has long enjoyed the enviable reputation of getting to the front in everything she undertakes. Her people have so often competed at conventions, expo9tions, fairs, etc, with exhibits of their own make, and come home loaded down with honorg, that the people look upon it with an every-day expression. This time it is the photographers who have been away and come home loaded down with medals and prizes. At the annual convention of American photographers, held at the exposition building, Chicago, last week, atwhich exhibits were made by photographers f rom e 11 parts of the United States and Canada, Messrs. H. Randall and W. H. Gibson, of this city, both made exhibits, and each returned home with a medal. There were only 23 prizes offered for portrait photography, divided into four classes. Mr. Gibson competed in the class for the best collection of cabinet photographü, which barred him from competing in any other class; he received one of ten bronze medals; his name being the third on the list, and in which there were about 50 exhibitors. H. Randall exhibited a collection oí photographs, of all sizes, on which he received a silver medal for excellence of work, against a large number of competitors.