FOREST AND STREAM. 



27 



THE TULE BELLE, OR MUD HEN. 



W'E print herewith a diagram of tlie San Francisco shoot- 

 ing scow which should have accompanied the written 

 descfiptuu in our issue of Jan. 23, which see. 



—See Bohemian Glass Company's advertisement. 



Jpfu Uttmql 



THE MINNESOTA. FIELD TRIALS. 



WITH two letters published in this issue the correspon- 

 dence regarding the Minnesota Field Trials must 

 close as far as our columns are concerned. We have already 

 given more space to the discussiou than justice to our readers 

 iu general would warrant. Mr. Lincoln's letter we consider 

 important as definitely placing the responsibility of Tempest's 

 score, and it occurs to us that the after cry of " fraud " was 

 totally unwarranted, and to be attributed entirely to causes 

 alluded to in Mr. Hallock's letter published last week. We 

 have just received letters from Mr. D. C. Sanborn and Mr. 

 Davidson, but cannot see that their publication would do more 

 than to add fuel to the flame of animosity and bitter feeling 

 which now prevails. We would say that Mr. Whitman's and 

 Mr. Lincoln's letters have been in type for some days, and 

 i but for an accident would have appeared in our last issue : 

 Mb. Linooln heard fkom. 



Detroit, Mich., Feb. 1, 1879. 

 'Editor Forest and Stream: 



Messrs. Davidson and Whitford having called upon me for 

 an explanation of the facts connected with the awards in the 

 "Nursery Stakes," I append a brief statement, having no 

 personal interest in the matter beyond a truthful representa- 

 tion. The Ptbneer-Prtga, of St. Paul, sent out a special 

 reporter to get the results of the running of the first day. He 

 ■cauie to me, and asked me to get them for him as early as I 

 ■could, as he wished to telegraph them to St. Paul. I went 

 into the judges' tent and said : " Gentlemen, can you give me 

 the score," Both Mr. Davidson and Mr. Whitford replied 

 ■that it was not ready : they were at that lime discussing the 

 points. I went in two or three times again, and still found 

 them debating. Finally, Mr. Whitford said, " Get me a clean 

 score-blank, and I will give you the score." I procured him 

 ■ one, and then informed the reporter of this, and said I had no 

 doubt he would get it in a very few minutes. Mr. Whitford 

 came out of the tent very shortly afterward, and gave me the 

 score, which I gave the results of to the reporter ; Mr. Hal- 

 lock promising him at the time to send the results of the other 

 stakes by telegraph as soon as he reached Sauk Centre. This 

 was the score I gave to the sporting papers and paid the 

 money from. Chas. Lincoln. 



Chicago, Feb. 3, 1879. 

 Editor Forest and Stream : 



I was in hopes not to be called on to say another word re- 

 garding the Minnesota Field Trials, but Mr. Whitford desires 

 me to give the contents of his letter regarding Jennie, etc. 

 This I do with pleasure, as I have no desire in any way to in- 

 jure him by a wrong construction of it. The extract is from 

 his letter dated Nov. 7, '78, dated at Pembroke, Ky., and is 

 as follows: " When Jennie was running I called the atten- 

 tion of the judges that she was not as fast as she appeared to 

 be, and I was opposed to allowing the credit others were dis- 

 posed to give her for a long point, saying to Mr. D. that she 

 evidently wheeled on the scent the birds had left in their trail, 

 and I did not consider that act — which was much applauded 

 —as a criterion of her nose." (In this I think Mr. Whitford 

 was correct, judging by her subsequent work, as the next day 

 she got four hushes and no points, and, I have heard, at Nash- 

 ville, five flushes and no point.) "All these objections 1 

 raised against her while others were so carried away by her 

 peculiar style that they were disposed to credit her with 

 more than she deserved. I censured Mr. D. for the flush 

 Prairie Belle got, and would gladly have given her another 

 opportunity. To you there is no blame until it can be proven 

 —a thing I feel cannot be done." I now propose to review 

 these trials. The charges were that by collusion with a 

 judge, or judges, the dogs owned or bred in one kennel were 

 to be run to the front, right or wrong. The charge pointed so 

 directly to me and Mr. Davidson that I felt compelled to 

 notice it, and by the certificate of the judges proved the 

 charge of collusion false. Now, as regards Mr. D.'s efforts to 

 run my dogs, or those bred by me, to the front : Both Mr. 

 Morgan aDd Mr. Whitford claim that Prairie Belle— bred by 



me, or out of my Prairie -Hanger bitch Pearl— did not receive 

 fair treatment at the hands of Mr. D. , which disproves the 

 second charge so far as she is concerned ; and your contem- 

 porary says the others that were placed won on their merits, 

 except Tempest, and that she w T on by fraud. To satisfy my- 

 self as to the truth or falsity of this charge, I wrote to" seve- 

 ral parties inquiring if they had heard any fraud charged prior 

 to the night I left. I cannot learn that any of themhad. It 

 appears singular to me that as I roomed with Mr. Whitford 

 the night the award was made, that he should not have at 

 least intimated to me if there was any truth in it. After the 

 trials were over and Mr. D, had returned home, I wrote and 

 asked him if there was any truth in the charge, and received 

 his reply that there was not a particle of foundation for any 

 such charge, sending me the score or memoranda kept by 

 ]\Ir. Whitford in the field. This showed no signs of altera- 

 tion, and corroborated his statement. It was for a long time 

 denied that this document was Mr. Whitford's score, but in 

 last week's Field he virtually admits it was, but calls it a 

 memoranda. I presume the same document will appear iu 

 your paper. He says: "It is as near as I can recollect its 

 appearance at night after stakes were run;" as printed it 

 looks enough like a score to call it one. He further says : 

 " I was the only judge that kept a memoranda of the dogs' 

 general points in the field." Admit all this to be true, does it 

 not look a little singular that if Air. D. was desirous of giving 

 Tempest the second prize, right or wrong, he^should not have 

 accepted the figures Mr. Whitford's memoranda shows with- 

 out discussion ? It will be noticed his memoranda gives her, 

 when correctly added, 46 to credit and 2 to debit, or a net 

 total of 44. In this respect it differs k point from the one I had 

 in my possession. Mr. Whitford says: " They acknowledge 

 having made some alterations, and inform the public that I 

 endeavor to ignore it." If when he says they he includes me 

 I have only to say the assertion is easily made but not suscep- 

 tible of proof. Regarding the coat he has prepared, and so 

 kindly offers me if it fits, I must decline, as it does not fit, 

 and the material is too thin for my use if it did. I regret 

 that in discussing this matter my opponents have shown so 

 much feeling, even going so far as to insinuate many things 

 that have no foundation in truth, and even descended so low 

 as not only to use personal abuse against the parlies, but have 

 classed dogs as well bred as any they own amongst the curs 

 of the country, thereby showing a desire to injure the parties 

 charged more than to prove the charges made. With these 

 remarks I close my articles on the Minnesota Field Trials, 

 hoping it will be a long time before I shall again be called 

 upon to defend myself against such unfounded charges. 



J. H. Whitman. 



The Louisiana Officials Craojc the Nut. — Last week, 

 under the heading " A Nut for the New Orleans Authorities 

 to Crack," we mentioned the fact that one Jennings, of this 

 city, had gone to New Orleans with a number^of bull-dogsfor 

 the "Grand National Dog Fight" which it was proposed to 

 hold there this month. It affords us much gratification to re- 

 cord that the Governor of Louisiana has signed the bill for the 

 prevention of cruelty to animals, under which provision it is 

 hoped that the New Orleans authorities will be able to suppress 

 the proposed encounter. 



Bench Show Points of Dogs.— Our Kennel Editor has 

 compiled from " Stonehenge's " latest edition of " Dogs of 

 the British Islands" the scales of points for judging all varie- 

 ties of dogs at bench shows. As these scales have been 

 adopted by all the kennel clubs in the country to be used at 

 their shows, the book, which is a neat pamphlet of 52 pages, 

 becomes particularly valuable to intending exhibitors. The 

 " points" are analyzed and described in detail. 



Influence of Previous Sires.— We have had brought to 

 our notice recently a number of interesting cases illustrating 

 the influence cf previous sires in dog breeding. A majority 

 of them carry out our recently expressed theory that this in- 

 fluence is confined more to color than to characteristics. One 

 of the most peculiar cases is that of a Spitz bitch owned by 

 the night watchman of the Christian Weekly building in Nas- 

 sau street, this city. The bitch, a white Spitz, has had three 

 litters by three different dogs. The first sire was an Esqui- 

 maux dog, the second was a pure black Spitz, and the third a 

 red and while Irish setter. This last litter was marked as 

 follows : Two puppies are almost all black, two are marked 

 with black and white spots, two are red and white, and one 

 red with white blaze on face. We must say that in general 

 appearance the puppies resemble setters more than they do a 

 Spitz. 



Death op Spring.— Below is a neatly written bit of obitu- 

 ary poetry which commemorates the good qualities of a fine 

 old setter dog, Spring by name, the property of A. L. Emer- 

 son, Esq., of York, Maine. Spring was the last of a strain of 

 setters quite noted about Portsmouth, N. H., their progenitors 

 having been imported by a Komau Catholic priest residing in 

 that town. Spring had perhaps hunted a greater variety of 

 game than any living dog, his owner having shot over him in 

 England, China, California and South America. Although 

 he was getting old, Mr. Emerson shot over him, this past fall 

 eighty-eight ruffed grouse, besides woodcock, snipe, etc. 

 A marble monument is being erected to his memory : 



IN MEMOKIAM, 



ON TOE DEATH OP "SPBINe." 



Through many years of calm and storm, 



In every kind of weather, 

 Have you and I, my good dog, "Spiing," 



Sulled o'er the seas together. 

 And thirteen times around Cape Horn 



We've steered without disaster ; 

 In foreign lands, on distant seas, 



You've claimed Die frieud and master. 



Serener times have come since then ; 



Our sailing days well over, 

 I fondly hoped, my faithful " Spring," 



That we might live in clover. 



But " best laid schemes of mice and men " 



Are cut upun the bias ; 

 They seldom can be straightened out; 



'Tis meant, no doubt, to try us. 



Still we have had our share of sport ; 



You pointed and I brought 'em. 

 We've besn a terror to the biids 



Through all the golden autumn. 



What noisy greetings ailed the air, 



And what a joyful racket 

 Whene'er you saw me take my guu 



And don my shooting lacker.. 



We've traveled many a weary mile 



In quest of duck and plover ; 

 Through Berwick woods, both North and Soutu, 



From Battery Point to Dover. 



We've shaied our mess in sportsniau'a style, 



The green grass for our table ; 

 Not waiting for a bill of fare 



Like gunners famed iu fable. 

 We never had a bone to pick- 



I mean one c f contention— 

 And only two or three small fife, 



But these 1 needn't mention. 



And now, farewell ! Your race IsJranJ; 



No name in canine story 

 Can boast a nobler pedigree, 



Or a life more fraught with glory. 



Then weave a shroud, Oh, falling snow! 



His lonely grave encumber; 

 And sing your dirge, ye winter winas, 



Around his place of slumber! 



— Tbe Kennel Editor returns thanks for the ^unexpected 

 honor done him by the Palisade Gun Club, of West Hoboken, 

 N. J., in electing him an honorary member of their organi- 

 zation. 



Measurement of Celebrated Dogs. — Our English con- 

 temporary, the Country, is publishing the measurements of 

 celebrated dogs, mostly prize winners. This is a capital idea, 

 as it affords breeders and others the opportunity of comparing 

 the measuremeats of their owu dogs with others. We reprint 

 a number of those as being of value to our own readers. We 

 have been struck more particularly with the size of some of 

 the deerhounds. Surely there have been none exhibited in 

 this country, unless it might ba Mr. Paul Dana's Bran, that 

 would measure thirty inches at the shoulders. 



Mastiffs.— Bv. J. Lamond tlemmiug's His Lordship (cham- 

 pion): Age, lyr. and lOmos.; weight, I80lbs.; height at 

 shoulders, 33in.; length from nose to set on of tail, 53in. ; 

 length of tail, 32m.; girth of chest, 44in.; girth of loin, 3Gin!'; 

 girth of forearm, lHin.; length of head from occiput to tip of 

 nose, 12in.; girth of muzzle midway between eyes and tip of 

 nose, 15Mn.; girth of head, 38A-iu. 



81. Bernards. — Mr. J. C. Tinker's bitch Mab : Age, 3yra. 

 and 8mos. ; weight, about 138lbs.; height at shoulder, 29iin.; 

 length from nose to set on of tail, 53^in.; length of tail, 20in.' 

 girth of chest, 37Ain.; girth ofloin, 29£In.; girth of head, 25in.- 

 girth of forearm, 10in.; length of head from occiput to tip of 

 nose, 10 Jin.; girth of muzzle midway between eyes and tip of 

 nose, 14|in. 



Spaniels. — Mr. A. II. Eastern's black spaniel Brush : Age, 

 2Ayrs.; weight 401bs. ; height at shoulders, loin ; length from 

 nose to set on of tail, 38it>.; length of tail, Sin.; girth of 

 chest, 26in.; girth of loin, !!4Ain.; girth of head, lGin.; girth 

 of forearm, Yin.; length of head from occiput to tip of nose, 

 9|in.; girth of muzzle midway between eyes and tip of nose, 

 9in. Same owner's black spaniel Bona: Age, 2.1 yrs.; weight, 

 331bs.; height at shoulder, loin.; length from nose to set on of 

 tail, 35m.; length of tail, 4in.; girth of chest, 24Mn. ; girth of 

 loin, 22iu. ; girlh of head, Hjin. ; girth of forearm, C^in.; 

 length of head from occiput to tip of nose, Sin.,- girth of 

 muzzle midway between eyes and tip of nose, 7iin. 



Deerlioumls. — Dr. J. Ls.mond llemming's Doctor : Age, 

 8£yrs.; weight, 981bs ; height at shoulder, obtt-iu. ; length 

 from nose to set on of tail, fiUiu.; length of tail, 27m. ; girth of 

 chest, 33in.; girth of loin, iJSin.j girth of head, 18iu.; girth of 

 forearm, 8iu.; length of head from occiput to tip ol nose, 

 13in. ; girth of muzzle mid way bet ween eyes and tip of uuse, 

 lOin. Dr. J. Lamond llemming's Linda : Age, 5.'. yrs.; weight, 

 901bs.; height at shoulder, 29iin.; length from nose to set on 

 of tail,48in.; length of tail, 34m.; girth of chest, 31m.; girth of 

 loin, 25in.j girth of hea3, 17£in.; girth of forearm, 8£in.; 

 length of bead from occiput to tip of nose, 11 in.; girth of 

 muzzle midway between eyes and tip of nose, 9.1-in. Mr, H. 

 Fitts' Bruce: Age, 6yrs.; weight, 83lbs. ; height at shoulder, 

 30in.; length from nose to set on of tail, 45in.; length offtaU 



