CHAPTER XV 



ELCHO AND FAUST 



Mr. Charles H. Turner of St. Louis deserves 

 a special chapter, even if it must be a short one, in 

 any history of American sporting dogs. He was 

 the force and substance of the old St. Louis 

 Kennel Club ; was, personally, the importer and 

 owner of the pointers, Faust, Keswick, and Spin- 

 away, and the Irish setters, Elcho and Loo H; 

 and was the breeder of the great Irish setter 

 bench winner, Berkeley. In the accurate sense 

 of the word he may be also called the breeder of 

 Joe Jr., the conqueror of Gladstone. Mr. Turner 

 has not shot a gun for twenty years and has fallen 

 out of the knowledge of the present generation 

 of sportsmen. In fact, he was never much known 

 in public prints. 



His importation of Elcho is an interesting 

 little story of itself. Being a young man of large 

 inherited wealth and a keen sportsman, he was 

 anxious to get something which might be classed 

 as the best. An Irishman in St. Louis had mar- 

 ried a young girl who had been the maid of Mr. 

 Turner's mother. Like most Irishmen, he was a 



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