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loss, and he is reported to have saved the lives of forty-two 

 persons in the mountains of Switzerland. 



It is from this celebrated dog that Schumacher's Barry I. 

 traces his pedigree, and from the unipn of this dog with a 

 bitch at the Hospice that Sultan I. was produced. Favorita 

 I. and Toni I. were bred from Sultan, out of Diana I. , and 

 to these dogs and their litter brothers and sisters is as far 

 back as any authentic St. Bernard pedigree can be traced. 

 Herr Schumacher, of Holligen, Switzerland, is the man 

 to whom we are indebted for the introduction of the breed 

 into England, and from thence into this country. It was 

 from his kennels that the Rev. J. C. Macdona and Mr. 

 Dillon (who are considered the first to import St. Bernards) 

 secured their stock. Mr. Macdona' s Champion Tell was 

 considered for many years the best smooth-coated dog in 

 existence. He was thirty and one -half inches high at the 

 shoulder, and weighed only one hundred and fifty pounds 

 in his best condition. His skull measurement was but 

 twenty-two inches. By comparing these measurements 

 with those of the largest dogs of to- day, we may obtain a 

 good idea of the great improvement that has been made, 

 within a comparatively few years, not only in size, but in 

 type, if we are to judge from the paintings of the famous 

 dogs of eighteen and twenty years ago. A few years later, 

 Mr. Macdona imported into England Thor, afterward a 

 champion, and Jura, two grand rough-coated specimens, and 

 achieved great success with them on the bench. 



It might be well to note here, that although bench shows 

 have been held for the past eighty years, yet it was not 

 until at a show held in Cremorne, in March, 1863, that a 

 class was made for St. Bernards. Prizes were won at this 

 show by Bates' Monk and Stone's Monk, both having been 

 imported from the Hospice when puppies. From this time 

 on the breed grew in favor and in popularity, and grad- 

 ually came to occupy the conspicuous place in which we 

 now find it at our shows. 



No standard of points, color, or markings was adopted 

 to guide the breeder or exhibitor until 1886, when the Swiss 



