The Chesapeake Bay Dog 329 
Millbank bred several generations of Chesapeakes, and was for several 
years the most successful exhibitor of these dogs at the New York show. 
We have not much knowledge of Chesapeakes in Maryland, other. 
than having seen such dogs as were shown at the various Baltimore shows. 
Some years ago there was far less uniformity in the benched specimens 
than has been the case of late, and we remember our old friend, Mr. Mallory, 
showing two dogs at a Philadelphia show which were of very. different 
type. One was of the short, close-coated sort and the other decidedly 
curly. We told him we could not stand the curly as the proper type, and 
he fully agreed with us and said he only entered the latter to help fill the 
class. 
When at Seattle and Portland shows in the spring of 1904 we were 
agreeably surprised at the number of good Chesapeakes in that section of 
the country. Well grown dogs with excellent coats were at both shows and 
the winners at Seattle were as good if not better than any dog or pach we 
have seen in the East. 
There is a mistaken idea that dogs such as the Chesapeake Bay dog 
call for expert knowledge of the breed in order to judge.them. Such a 
claim is only true of dogs that have been specialised and improved to a high 
state of perfection, which is not the case with the Chesapeake, and we 
venture to state that those who are best acquainted: with them as working 
dogs are not so competent to judge symmetry and an approach to quality as 
is an all-round judge of dogs. Give a man who is accustomed to ring work 
a class of Chesapeakes to judge, and all he needs to be told is what they 
are used for and the preferred colour. From him you will probably get 
far better selections than from those who may have had plenty of experience 
with the breed as workers but have little knowledge of dogs in general and 
do not possess the judging eye. 
We have stated what in our opinion should be the guide for judging 
this breed, and it will be seen by what we give below that it differs in several 
essentials from what was presented to the American Kennel Club, as the 
work of a committee appointed in 1885 to submit a standard. ‘The club 
did not adopt any of the standards so submitted, and this one remains but 
the expression of the opinion of Messrs. Pearson, Norris and Malcolm, who 
formed the committee. We believe there was a Chesapeake Bay Dog Club 
before that, and that this was the standard of that club, with the exception 
that in the scale of points each of the four properties for which a value of 
