584 The Dog Book 



time. She was not what we would now consider narrow at all, and her great 

 depth of face made her appear more so than she perhaps actually was. 



Mr. Hearn continued showing with great success until 1888, farming 

 the champion-class prizes at all important shows in the East. By this time 

 Mr. E. H. Moore of Melrose had joined the fancy, and among his good dogs 

 were Merchant Prince, Miranda, Ben Lomond and best of all Alton, who 

 unfortunately died before breeders had more than learned what an invalu- 

 able stud-dog he was. A remarkably good-headed dog shown at this time 

 was Otho, imported in utero by Mr. Rothera of Canada who sold him to Mr. 

 Hopf of Newark, who had a large kennel of smooth St. Bernards imported 

 from Switzerland, mainly from Herr Schumaker's kennels. His best dog 

 was Hector, but how far he was from high-class is to be seen from his photo- 

 graphs. Then we had at the same time Apollo, a houndy dog overdone 

 with dewlap, with a lot of odds and ends so much diversified in type as to 

 suggest a Swiss kennel bargain counter to get rid of all that was not wanted. 



The roughs were the favourite of the public, and when Mr. Sears added 

 Sir Bedivere to his kennel, and Colonel Ruppert and Mr. W. C. Reick got 

 together their kennels at the cost of thousands of dollars, St. Bernards were 

 at the top of the tide of success. Of all the dogs imported there is but one 

 that stands out pre-eminently as of benefit to the breeder, and that was Rem- 

 nant, brought over by Mr. Reick, and later transferred to Colonel Ruppert's 

 kennel. He was a son of County Member, and Leeds Barry was also by 

 that dog. The latter, with but little opportunity at stud before his accidental 

 death, sired a few exceptional dogs including Sir Waldorf, the best dog of 

 his day. Sir Waldorf was a failure at stud, but the get of Remnant have 

 been very successful, especially the lines of Marse Jeems and Uncle Remus. 

 At one of the New York shows a majority of the prizes were won by descen- 

 dants of Remnant, and that not in an off-year, but with good competition. 

 Since then the prevailing lines have been those of his two sons. 



In the bitch lines there has of course been more diversity, but a few have 

 made themselves conspicuous above the run of even good producers. Judith 

 was the first to do so, and her litter by Alton were remarkable for their uni- 

 form excellence. Another is the bitch Zantha, owned in Canada, who to 

 Uncle Remus threw the two champions, Mayor of Watford and Columbia's 

 Hope. Another of this litter was Columbia Gent, too small for the higher 

 competition, but for his inches the best of the litter, being exceedingly good 

 in head and type. Zantha also threw good ones to other dogs, but nothing 



