452 The Dog Book 



The first bull terriers of class shown in America were the pair Sir 

 William Verner sent over in 1880 for exhibition at New York. These were 

 Tarquin and his son Superbus. Tarquin was the best dog in England at 

 that time, or one of the best, and had won more prizes than any dog then 

 being shown. He was a large-sized all-white dog, and it was a long time 

 before we saw his equal in this country. Mr. Mortimer had two or three 

 that he was showing at that time, and he was the most successful of our 

 exhibitors till Mr. Frank Dole took up the breed, for whom we bought his 

 first bull terrier when in England in the winter of 1884. This dog he called 

 The Earl, and he won in New York the next year and was sold to Mr. C. A. 

 Stevens. Mr. Dole then went in for quite a series of purchases, his first 

 good dog being Count, with which he won a number of prizes; then came 

 Jubilee and White Violet, followed by the prominent English winning bitch 

 Maggie May, the dam of that wonderful bitch Starlight, who was able to 

 win even when she had hardly a front tooth left, taking first in winners at 

 New York, in 1899, when nearly twelve years old. 



A good many of the imported dogs of this period were by a dog called 

 Dutch, usually spoken of as Old Dutch. He was never shown, as he was 

 all wrong in front, but he was a remarkable good-headed dog, as is shown 

 in the photograph we reproduce. One of his best sons was Grand Duke, 

 imported by the Livingston Brothers, and this dog was the sire of Starlight. 

 There was no lack of competition at the time these dogs were being shown, 

 for Mr. W. F. Hobbie and the Retnor Kennels had some good ones, the 

 former showing Spotless Prince and Enterprise with success, the latter 

 having Diamond King and Dusty Miller. Diamond King was the first 

 of the get of the great sire Gully the Great to come to this country, and later 

 on Gully himself was imported by Mr. Dole. Mr. John Moorhead, Jr., 

 of Pittsburg, was the next new exhibitor to make a stir, as he won in the 

 open class and also took the breed special with Streatham Monarch in 1892, 

 but he failed to do anything with the puppies of his own breeding. 



Gully the Great made his first appearance at the New York show of 

 1893, and was placed second to the American-bred Young Marquis, which 

 was a Dole-bred dog, being by Bendigo out of Edgewood Fancy, who was 

 out of Starlight. Edgewood Fancy is the first with the prefix which Mr. 

 Dole has rendered very much akin to a hallmark, and the Edgewoods have 

 had a long and honourable record of wins since that time. Carney and 

 Cardona were the next two important arrivals from England, and both 



