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at New York. Outside of these three the quality was not high. Drogheda 

 should perhaps be excepted from that remark, for he was a very useful dog, 

 with a keen expression somewhat lacking in Mrs. Kernochan's Inverness 

 Shamrock, who was not a good shower. The new comers of 1904 included 

 Selwonk Kudos and Red Hill's Doctor in dogs and a nice collection of bitches 

 shown by Mr. E. S. Woodward in the name of the Raynham Kennels. 

 His best bitches were better, we consider, than the dogs named, and he 

 won many prizes with them wherever shown. They included Olivette, 

 Radium, Surprise, all with the prefix of Raynham, and of these Olivette 

 was the best, for though smaller than we usually see, she has excellent 

 expression and for her inches shows much of the desirable racing outline. 

 In addition to Mr. L. Loring Brooks, who has been very prominent as 

 a breeder for many years, Mr. S. P. Martin of Philadelphia has for some 

 time been showing terriers of his own breeding, many of them very good 

 in outline but rather too pointed in face, a fault which he is breeding out in a 

 judicious manner, and as his entries show improvement he is and will 

 continue to be a dangerous factor in home-bred and American-bred 

 classes. 



In the fall of 1904 a much needed impetus was given to this breed 

 by the importation of a number of terriers by Mr. R. B. Adam of Buffalo, 

 but at that time our judges' ideas were very much astray as to the right 

 type of the Irish terrier and were of the opinion that the narrow Taneous 

 head with heavy fluffy whiskers were the proper thing. The result was 

 that as the new importations were flatter and wider in skull they were hardly 

 done justice to, and Celtic Bella, a bitch that had for the previous six 

 months defeated the pick of the dogs and bitches in England at every show 

 she was exhibited at in England and Ireland, and twice won the Graham 

 Cup, was roughly treated. To be sure of defeating the new comers other 

 exhibitors also imported at very heavy expense, and as the only dogs that 

 they could purchase as winners in England were similar in head to Mr. 

 Adam's dogs, he at least had the satisfaction of thus demonstrating that his 

 dogs were correct as to type of head. 



Mr. Adam also strengthened his kennel for the New York show, with 

 the result that when Mr. Jowett saw the turnout at Madison Square Garden 

 last February he made no hesitation in saying that it was the best all-round 

 exhibition of the breed he had seen anywhere for many years. On this 

 occasion the new Rowsley Kennels won with the recently imported dog 



