The Great Dane 545 



he is a very true-made dog, with a good head and foreface. Another very 

 good dog shown in 1904 was Arfman's Caesar, a fawn dog of a very attrac- 

 tive shade. This dog also was shown in the pink of condition at all times. 

 Among the bitches Miss C. Whitney's Portia was a standing dish at shows 

 within reasonable distance of New York and was very successful, con- 

 sidering the great difficulty in showing her in anything like condition. Her 

 place as metropolitan traveller has been well filled by Champion Guido of 

 Broughton who with age has filled out in body, her weak point a year or 

 more ago, and when fit is a hard bitch to beat. Last spring we noticed a 

 very large, symmetrical bitch at the Buffalo show, owned by Dr. Johnson 

 of that city. Signa is her name, and in mixed sex classes she won two firsts. 

 She is a light fawn and showed symmetry and character of a high order. 

 The same owner also has a dog fully as large as any dog we know of in the 

 East, and we are assured he measures 34 inches. This is Marco II. But 

 large as he is we believe that Duke of Wurtemberg now owned by the 

 Marco Polo Kennels of Cincinnati, is larger. This dog won at the St. 

 Louis Exposition, where he was shown by Mr. Bardes, and we formed the 

 opinion that he was the largest Great Dane we had ever seen. The same 

 owner had a bitch which we preferred to the dog, but she was out of shape 

 on that occasion. 



The fact is we have more good Great Danes in this country than almost 

 any other breed, but they cannot be transported like terriers and it is only by 

 visiting shows in the West as well as in the East that one realizes the hold the 

 breed has in the United States. Take the New York show of 1905, and the 

 catalogue shows not a single mastiff, but 47 St. Bernards and 77 Great Danes 

 placing the breed far ahead of all other large dogs. This position is likely to 

 be maintained because it is an open competition between a large number of 

 owners instead of being dominated by one kennel. As the breed is to-day, 

 it is doubtful whether any person could attain the position the Monte- 

 bello kennels held for a short time and still more doubtful whether any per- 

 son would care about going to the necessary expense of buying half a dozen 

 or more dogs capable of winning and paying the heavy expenses of their 

 transportation. The Great Dane seems a safe breed in that respect, and, 

 taking him as a dog, he has few equals in the way of size and symmetry. 



The combination which tells in this breed is as large a dog as possible 

 combined with symmetry. Not the heavy, bulky body of the mastiff, but 

 with an approach to the greyhound in depth of chest and cut up of loin. He 



