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All communications must be addressed to tbe Philadelphia 

 Kennel Club, us above, or P. O. Box No. 1811, Philadelphia. 



CLASSIFICATION OF DOGS AND PRIZE LIST. 

 -—(See Kule fi). 

 Class 1— Champion Pointers.— Dogs, 1st, 140. 



mpion English Setters.- Doge, 1st, $48. 



:>ion Keu-lish Setters.— bitches, let. 810. 

 •ion Irish Setters 

 iiipioc Irish Batters.— Bitches, Ul 

 w ?— Champion Black and Tan and Black. White and Tan 



is 8-Champion Black and Tan and Black, White and Tan 

 Batters.— Bit chesj 



orasN classes— (8eo Rule 6). 



a 9— Pointers exceeding 65 lbs Do™, lat. $40 s 2d, 3120 : 



3d, silver medal. 



weeding 50 lbs.-Bitches, 1st, ig4b ; 2d, $20 ; 



■-11 — Pointers not exceeding 55 lbs.— Dogs, 1st, 340; 2d. 

 silver medal. 



' iinters not exceeding 50 lbs.— Bitches, 1st, $40 : 2d. 

 I --ih^r medal. 

 Ck-a 13— Pointer Puppies over 8 months.— Dogs and Bitches, 

 iBt. $10: 2d, silver medal. 

 Imports.! English Betters, and their Descendants of any Gen e- 

 ithnut Admixture of anv other Blood.— Class 14— Dogs. 

 "'! ; Hd, silver medal. Class 15— Bitches, 1st, iW ; 

 '; 3d. silver medal, (lass 1C— Puppies over 8 months— 

 10 : 2d silver medal. 

 Class 17— Native Kugliah Setters. -Dogs, 1st. $40 ; 2d, £20 • 3d, 



» 18— Native English Setters.— Bitches, 1st, $40 ; 2d, $20 : 

 3d, silver medal. 



Class 1!)— Native English Setter Puppies over H months.— Dorrs 

 and hit. ■:■■ L silver medal. 



I Irish Setters.— Dogs, 1st, 540 ; 2d, £20; 3d, silver 

 medal. 



■ 21— Bed Irish Setters.— BitcheB. 1st, S40: 2d, £20; 3d. sil- 

 ver medal. 



22— Red Irish Setter Puppies over 8 months.— Dogs and 

 * medal 

 1 White Irish Setters.— Doge, 1st, $40; 3d, £20: 



- 1 AVhite Irish Setters.— Bitches, 1st, £10; 2d, 

 Id, -Uver medal. .*.»«. 



! White Irish Setter Pnppiea over 8 months.— 

 Dogs and bitches. 1st. £10; 2d, silver medal. 



Class 26-. , and Black, White and Tan Betters.— 



Doers. 1st, ?40; 2d. £20; 3d, silver medal. 

 Class 87— Black and Tan. and Black, White and Tan Setters — 

 3d, silver medal. 



I nd Blaekj White and Tan Setter Pnp- 

 laonths.— Dogs and bitches, 1st. £10, -jd. silver medal, 

 i ocker Spaniels exceeding 20 lbs.— Dogs and bitches' 



! not exceeding 20 lbs. (Puppies are ex- 

 cluded from this class— Dogs and bitches, 1st. £20; 2d, £10. 



Class 81 imp 30 lbs., excluding I 



Irish Water Spaniels.— Dogs and bitches, 1st, £20; 2d. $10. 



Irish Water Spaniels.— Dogs and bitches, 1st, £20 



~ Class 



a 



'oodles exceeding 25 lbs.— Dogs and bitches, 1st 

 $10. 



[ hes, 1st. £20: 2d, £10. 

 Class 80— Greyhounds,.— Dogs and birches. ]-;, >:2(J: 2d'. £10 

 !d, silver medal 

 -Foxhounds.— Bitcl.es. 1st, -20: 2d, silver medal. 

 ClaeB 30— Foxhounds.— In couples (.without regard to sex) 1st 



18 -lO-Foxhound Puppies over 8 months.— In couples (whil- 

 st, -10: 2d, silver medal. 

 II— Beagles. — Dogs, 1st. $15; 2d, silver medal. 



2 - -Beagles. —Bitches, 1st, £15; 2d, silver medal. 



■ ■,.],,, .■ without regard to sex), lat, £''0- 



Class 14— Beagle Puppies over 8 months.— In couples (without 

 recard to sex), 1st, silver medal. 



OU-- - .—Dogs and bitches, 1st. £15; 2d, £10. 



i ■-:.— Dogs and bitches, 1st S25- 2d 



Class 47— Sheepdogs or Collie Puppies.— Dogs and bitches, let 



silver mei 



oids, all black.— Dogs and bitches 1st 

 , a , 



e.vfoundlands, black and white.— Dogs and bitches 



50— Mount St. Bernards, rough-coated Dogs aud bitches 



51— Mount St. Bernards, smooth-coated.— Dogs and 



ii-.— Dogs and bitches, 1st, £25; 2d, £15. 

 Class 53— Great Danes or Siberians.— Dogs ;.:i,J bitches 1st S20- 

 2d. £10. ' * 



'oga — Doge and bl ■ .- 2d, 810. 



id bil j: 2d, -10 



ClaaH 56— Fox Terriers.— Dogs and bitei .■■■2d m 



Class 57— Fox Terrier Puppie, a Dogs aud bitohes 



1st. silver medal. 



i elf aud Tan Terriers exceeding 10 lbs.— Does and 

 bitches, 1st. S10: 2d. $10. 



Class 59— Wire-hatred (Dish and Scotch) Terriers excoeding 10 

 lbs.— Dogs ami latches, 1st, ■ le; 2d, silver medal. 



: ugh and Broken-haired Terriers exceeding 10 lbs 

 excluding Wire-haired (Irish and Scotch:. Skvo and foi 

 (Bilk haired) Terriers.— Dogs and bitches, 1st, Sltjj 2d, S10. 

 Class 61— Skye Terriers exceeding 10 lbs.— Dogs and bitches 



Class 6S— Yorkshire < silk-haired) TerrierB.— Dogs and bitches 



Claas 63— PugH.— Doge, 1st, --15; 2d. $10. 



I '■:', £10. 



ippiea over 8 months.— Dogs aud bitches 1st 

 silver mi 



-Italian Greyhounds.— Dogs and bitches, 1st, £15- 2d 



- 67— Kiag Charles and Blenheim Spaniels.— Dot's aud 

 medal. 

 j iianeai • 



Black and Tan Terriers not exceeding 10 lbs. (PuppieB 



a I his class!.— Dogs and I h 



. - , - , 



"I, en-haired Terriers not exceeding 10 

 ■ PuppiSB ate excluded from tl 

 ' , r medal. 

 Pot which no class has been 



urbitol ent breeds 



I -iroedogsor 



be awarded or Wil 



hs of age ana 

 Emulation 



Ab only 7U5 dogs can be received, owing to limited apace 



■when that number is entered, no more entries can be made ' 



Apply us the north-east corner of loth and Chestnut Sts 



second floor, entrance on 13l.li St., or address the Philadelphia 

 Kennel Club, P. O. Box No. 1811, Philadelphia. 



Entries close April 5th. 



. — •♦_ 



THE PHILADELPHIA DOG SHOW. 



Pbcladklpiiia, March 17, 1879. 

 Editor Fobest and Stbkam: 



Since distributing our circulars and prize list and the publi- 

 cation ol the latter in your valuable paper, applications for 

 entries have been coming in quite fast, and from appearances 

 we will have our full complement of entries, to wit : seven 

 hundred and thirty-five. We have just completed arrange- 

 ments for the use of a large lot adjoining our building, and 

 accessible only from the interior, for exercising our dogs, 

 •which, together with the large lot we already have, will give 

 icilities for that purpose. Our committee have 

 paid great attention to this matter, and they are desirous of 

 giving the exhibitors personally, or their attendants, every fa- 

 cility for exercising their dogs. 



From re; . from the West and East we will 



have many valuable animals on exhibition, among them Mr. 

 Arnold Burgess' kennel with Hob Roy, Druid and Rufus; 

 Mr. Luther Adams, of Boston, with Drake and others ; also 

 tbe well known kennels of Mr. C. W. Gause, of Wilmington, 

 Delaware; Mr John C. Higgins, of Delaware; Mr. Wm. 

 Magraw, of Maryland, owner of Royal Duke; the Nassau and 

 St, Louis Kennel Clubs, aud also the Massachusetts Kennel 

 Club. Our natives will be strongly represented and will be 

 quite a feature in our show. As we have no " blue bloods " 

 here, and are strong in our natives:, we have made a class for 

 them; for, although no doubt the day will come when the 

 two will have to compete together all over the country, we 

 are of the opinion that as yet, in this city at least, we must 

 give our natives a chance in a class by themselves. 



We -expect to have a grand list of foxhound entries, and 

 we think that in this class we can compete with any section of 

 the country. Among the numerous packs we hope to get 

 entries from are the Hose Tree, Gulf, West Chester, Marshall- 

 town aud Leopard packs. These packs number from twenty- 

 five to eighty dogs in each pack, and should we have from 

 six to ten of the best couples from each pack, the display will 

 be truly a grand one. Our committees are all working hard, 

 and our arrangements completed, and when our special prize 

 classification is all filled up, there will be nothing left to be 

 done but to abide the time of the opening of the show. We 

 will notify you from time to time as to our entries, etc. 



Very truly yours, A Member. 



u " IVANHOE" TO THE RESCUE. 



Janesviblk, Wis., March 8, 1879. 

 Editor Poeebt and Stekam : 



I have long thought of advertising my kennel of dogs, but 

 my natural timidity has deterred me. But I am at last de- 

 termined to brave the flings of ignorant persons who have 

 heretofore considered themselves sportsmen, my sudden 

 accession of courage being derived from the communication 

 of " Ivanhoe-' in a recent number of Forest .\tsd Stream, 

 giving his experience willr his " keen-nosed (?) brush broken 

 dogs" on our Western prairies. Please insert the following : 

 Jed mongrel dog, parentage uncer- 

 tain, but supposed to be a cress between a bulldog and a win- 

 i ; thoroughly broken on prairie chickens, but not 

 on ' brush ;' also, one half-blooded coach-dog: having been 

 childhood, the coach-dog's spine is 

 . : be carries his tail well curled over 

 and, barring his crook, is the leau ideal ot a bird 

 dog. Price for either, 4 bits. Young stock constantly on 

 hand. Address Wisconsin Kennel Club, Janesville, Wis." 



" Ivanho man who has dared to tell the truth. 



He is the man "I long have sought," etc. 



When any of us out here start oft for a few hours' shooting, 

 we simply blow a whistle anywhere on the street, and in two 

 minutes we have dogs enough tor a regiment ; bulldogs, fox- 

 hounds, collies, Newfoundlands, Spitz, yaller dogs, anything 

 you Choose, and all first-rate on chickens, but good for nothing 

 on " brush." What the hush is the use of Keeping dogs when 

 other people will do it lor you. Right hero I want to ask for 

 information from " Ivanhoe." I haven't dared to ask it be- 

 fore for fear of being laughed at. I have a dog — that is, I 

 mean a female dog— that puzzled me for along time. I can't 

 make out what breed she is. She is black and white ticked; 

 has long silky ears, a long slender head and nose, muscular 

 body and legs, the latter being covered to the back of each 

 with long silky hair, a straight tail fringed with long hair. 

 Her father aud mother, I have heard, were of the same gene- 

 ral build, and would hunt and stand birds as well as any bull- 

 dog or collie in the country. Now, what the dickens kind of 

 a dog is si i rued of her that I keep her chained 



up, and never allow her to go with my bulldog-window- 

 shutters, for fear she will contaminate them, but always take 

 her out alone. The strangest part of it is that whenever she 

 crosses a field in which there are birds she always stops as if 

 she was afraid of stepping on them, and she acts the same on 

 a snipe marsh or in the thickets. In fact I have often taken 

 advantage ol this peculiarity to flush up and shoot the birds 

 Bhe was afraid of. Now, " Ivanhoe," can you tell me what 

 she is :•' I shall anxiously await your reply, as against your 

 profound wisdom the pretended knowledge of Morford, 

 Horace Smith, Seitzinger, and others siuksinto insignificance. 

 To be sure they come out West year after year and pretend 

 to hunt with their " brush " dogs, but we know well enough 

 that they are arrant humbugs, aud that as soon as they are 

 out of sight their " brush " dogs are tied to the wagon, and 

 they take the first farmer's dog they can find. I have taxed 

 them with this deception, but "they wouldn't admit it. You 

 are the ffrst man "who has dared to tell the truth. And yet 

 Uy Morford and Smith, are constantly sell- 

 ing dogs to unsophisticated gentlemen for big prices. I 

 reckon, however, my advertisement will stop all that. 



You must be the same fellow whose fish always jump nine 

 feet in the air, who never kill a bird under forty-five yardB, 

 !■ second bird" at lull sixty 

 yards dead, without u kick. 



1 1 tie sportsman should wish you godspeed in your 



. onst the false id( ; a the East rcgard- 



• I them, as you say, are 



, why 1 never saw a setter, and I 



a Wisconsin I now what a 



Minnesota, it is too ridiculous to suppose 



there is such a thing in th< Badger. 



P. U.—TI I pull the long hail uutof my dog's tail and legs 

 do you suppose it will grow again i I am very anxious to 

 make her took like a bird dog. 1 am told she now resembles 

 one of your '' brush " dogs. B. 



WHO IS " DRACO ?" 



Editob Fobest'and Stream : 



A friend of mine has inclosed me an article clipped from a 

 recent number of tbe " Great Unconsolidated," asking if 

 "Draco" is bilious. Now, to use the language of our dear 

 Western friend, I have not the remotest idea of who "Draco" 

 may be, but will credit him with being something of a literary 

 hawk, who soars about, watching each article as it appears in 

 print until the proper time comes, when he swoops down 

 upon and tears it all to pieces. In answer to my friend's 

 question, I should say that, judging from " Draco's" article, 

 he must be somewhat bilious, or otherwise out of order. 



He has torn me into so many pieces that I hardly know 

 where to begin to put myself in shape again. The day we 

 started out from Worthington, among the friends who ac- 

 companied us was one who owned an English bitch, which 

 was highly prized by her master. This master asked per- 

 mission to work our dogs that day, as we, being green, would 

 not do so well by ourselves. This we agreed to. My dogs, 

 when hunted at home, at no time ranged more than 100 or 150 

 feet from me. This our friend laughed at, and in company 

 with his bitch, sent them off ranging half a mile over the 

 prairie. " That," he said, "was the way to have a dog range 

 in the West," and to that one afternoon lesson I attribute a 

 big share of my misfortunes while on that trip. My dogs be- 

 came wild, and although the breaker waB a man in whom I 

 had every confidence, after that lesson his breaking seemed to 

 have to begin over again. How far "Draco" agrees with me 

 I do not know, but as I have asked for information I am 

 anxious to get it from most any source. The above may in a 

 measure explain why they ran in, etc., for I confess I never 

 saw them do it before. I now find that I must explain that 

 when my friend referred to the cross between a " bull-bitch 

 and a window-shutter," he simply meant a mongrel dog. I 

 make this explanation because "Draco" seems to think either 

 that such a cross is possible, or else that we thought so. It 

 makes no difference which is correct. There are some men in 

 the West who have had almost as much experience in hunting, 

 etc., as " Draco " (though, of course, he will deny it), and 

 from a number of these 1 received the information that mine 

 was no unusual experience ; that it was a common thing for 

 Eastern brush broken dogs to act so. I had no reason to doubt 

 it then, nor have I now, when my own experience rather con- 

 firms it. I think I admitted (for none but a fool would deny 

 it) that there are many fine dogs out in that country; hut I 

 said then, and say now, that the vast majority of thedogs we 

 saw used were mongrels. I hunted one whole morning with 

 a shepherd dog. Another day a hound was used. The old 

 lop-sided, etc., was admitted by bis owner to be a cross be- 

 tween a Newfoundland dog and a setter bitch. Of the "setter," 

 he showed nothing whatever. We used the "droppers" often, 

 but our bags were no larger than those got over the mongrels 

 of whom I spoke. Our hunting was not confined to Worth- 

 ington's district. We passed over a great deal of prairie in 

 other localities, so don't thing Worthington produced all the 

 "droppers" nor " long-eared." Of course " Draco " knows 

 beat whether I saw what I say I saw, but it is awful 

 hard work to convince a man that he don't see what he is 

 looking at. If " Ivanhoe" had been acquainted with "Draco" 

 before writing his (Ivanhoe's) article, and the suggestion had 

 been made soon enough, he might have been induced to a?k 

 Mr. Hallock his silly questions and have been answered pri- 

 vately. It would have been a good thing in one sense, if no 

 more, for it would have saved "Draco" an awful lot of gas, 

 though heing so well supplied I presume he won't miss it any. 

 Next fall when I go West perhaps I may meet "Draco," and 

 then I shall be pleased to show him, what he does not believe 

 to exist anywhere, right in hia own beloved Western country. 

 As to the libel on Western sportsmen, I have simply to Bay 

 that there is nothing in the article in question which can pos- 

 sibly be construed into one ; add to that the fact of an ab- 

 sence of such intention, and your libel vanishi 



I am glad to learn that the West has just five times the 

 fine-blooded dogs which tbe East has, and shall try to remem- 

 ber it always. As to the Western kennels sweeping the prizes 

 at the bench shows and field trials of the present day, 1 have 

 been led to suppose a great deal depended upon how much or 

 how little a certain editor and his friends had to do with 

 them in the capture of prizes ; though of that I am not cer- 

 tain. Perhaps " Draco" can inform me. 



Is it possible " Draco" has lived in this country so long 

 and does not know that Mr. Hallock can doubtless inform him 

 of many interesting things of his own Western country. 

 Why, my friend, Mr. Hallock has visited your country a 

 number of times, has written about you, and found you 

 (as we all do) a most hospitable people. In conclusion, let me 

 say that because "Draco" never has seen dogs act as mine did 

 is no proof whatever that other dogs have not acted so, and 

 that while no doubt he has seen many things, yet still there 

 are many things he has not seen. His article is worthy of 

 the sheet in which it appears. And now, " Mr. Draco," be- 

 fore flying into a passion over "libels" which do not exist, 

 let me advise you to pause. I never libeled anybody. I 

 like your country— I like your people. They have ever 

 treated me well, and I am always ready and anxious to re- 

 turn that hospitality. I don't deny you have fine dogs, and 

 many of them, nor must you deny that there are on your 

 prairies many dogs in whom it is hard, if possible at all, to 

 trace either the pointer or the setter. 



IVAMHOB. 



BLUE vs. NATIVE. 



Editor Eorbst asb Stream : 



Sir—l do not wish to enter into any controversy in regard 

 to the merits of blue blood or native, nor do I handle the pen 

 in a manner that would warrant my doing so, yet being a 

 practical sportsman, and desiring only the best working dogs 

 for the field, I wish to say something on this matter of "Na- 

 tive versus Blue," showing, if possible, to make myself clear, j 

 why I have taken up the " blue " in preference to the " na- 1 

 five," and why, as I understood it, many other sportsmen j 

 have done the same thing. 



"A Plea for the Native," by H., in your last issue, aud par- 

 ticularly an article by the kennel editor ol a con 

 sheet, are calculated, in my opinion, to give erroneous impres- 

 sions. 1 fail to see where any injustice has been or is being 

 done to the natives, while on the other hand great i 

 done to the imported dog by such articles as those referred to. 

 No doubt the kennel editor has many fine 

 also they are nearly if not fully as good as imported dogs. In 

 many instances, perhaps, being superior to the recently im- 

 Lish broken dog, yet he lias been very unfortunate 

 with those he has imported and is not to be blamed for ;hi 

 big disgust in regard to them. His experience is not aim la J 



