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FOKEST ATSI> STREAM. 



OoereU-ami-jellow macaw, Ara chroloplera , one barn owl, Klrrx flain- 

 um amerivana; one broail-wingeJ UawS., Luleo pennsylvaiiictta ; one 

 Wiilcu-irontad parrot, Qkri/wttti Uiuwphalun, and one blae-lrouied 

 parrot, CUrynolin cyanorhyuai— all purchased. One zebu, Bos hiSfora ; 

 one Maeaquo monkey, Macacux immestrinun — botU uoru in the Garden. 

 Airmen E. Buown, Superintendent. 



THE NEW YORK DOG SHOW. 



THE third annual dog show of toe Westminster Kennel 

 Ulub was brought to a close on Friday evening last. In 

 most respects it was more successful than either of its prede- 

 cessors. True, there was not the dash and crowding which 

 attended the hrst, as the novelty had worn off, but the gen- 

 eral quality of the dogs exhibited was far superior to that of 

 last year or even the yet'.r before. As some one remarked, if 

 all the crack champions together were not there, there was 

 plenty ot the start of which champions are made. Financial- 

 ly, the success was far ahead of last year and but little behind 

 1S77. The total receipts exceeded $13,000. As we remarked 

 last week, the entries in the sporting classes amounted to a 

 number quite unexpected. Five hundred and sixteen pointers 

 and setters is au immemjo number to get together, particular- 

 ly when the quality is considered. Mr. Davidson has again 

 demonstrated his eminent fitness for the position of judge, 

 and everything between his associates and himself was most 

 harmonious. Mr. John 6. Wise, of Virginia, gave very great 

 satisfaction. He evidently has given the subject very close 

 attention, and is thoroughly posted on canine matters. He 

 made many liieuds. Mr. Geo. C. Colburu is well known 

 throughout the country as an owner and breeder of fine dogs. 

 Tne cowardly and contemptible action ot certain sporting 

 papers in printing false reports as to the attendance, quality ol 

 IQh dogs, etc., excited general disgust, and as there were 

 spoilsmen irom every portion of the country present to carry 

 home proof of the lalaity of the statements, they will only 

 convict the utterers ot meanness and mendacity, 

 i There was, of course, some grumbling on the part of disap- 

 pointed exhibitors, as there always is, but less than we re- 

 meuiuer to have heard before. The .Board of Appeals, which 

 •was composed ot Messis. Joseph T. Bailey, J. \v. Fassitt .and 

 li. vV. liiehards, ol the Fmladelphia Kennel Club, and 

 Messrs. W. F. Morgan, G. Dubois Wagstalf and H. Walter 

 Webo, of the W ealuunsler Kennel Cluu, sat on Friday and 

 heard all the cases brougul before them. These were mostly 

 appeals Irom the decisions of the judges, based on the owner 

 having satisfied himtelf that his dog was better than the 

 winner, or else that his dog had not been looked at. or handled 

 quite as much as the other. These were quickly disposed ol 

 under the rule which says that " the decision of the judges 

 will be nnai in all cases except where mistake, fraud, misrep- 

 resentation or collusion tan oe shown, in any such case the 

 (Jouuuittee ol Appeal must decide all questions except those 

 ol merit, and the dog may be rejudged." 'there were, how- 

 ever, torn- protests that were serious uud had to be gone into. 

 Tuese were as lotto ws : " From Mr. 11. iiedeman, of Brook- 

 lyn, J6J. X., m relerenee to class 53. After heating Mr. Hedc- 

 mau and examining the puppy JSell, INo. till (entered by K. 

 T. Hewitt, oouth ' Wetheihhcld, (John.), it was unanimously 

 resolved that iNell had been improperly entered as a red and 

 ■white setter, when she should liave been entered as a red 

 Irish setter. That she be ruled out of class 55, and under the 

 rules she cannot now compete in any class, arid that the com- 

 imttee recommend tnat in class 55 tne hist prize go to entry 

 010(11. fledeman's 1' 'lirtj, and the second prize to entry GOU 

 (James T. Miller's Kit)." Well is by ifilcbo out of Nell, and 

 is a very handsome ted Irish puppy, and should clearly have 

 heen in that class. Tne reason tor making a red and white 

 class was in order to give dogs bred irom icd Irish and Eng- 

 lish setter patents, ol which there are an immense number, a 

 cnauce to compete, which they would not have in the red 

 lush class when all red is tne standard for color. There 

 was so much complaint made last year that the 

 judges would not notice a dog with much white, 

 luiaolass was made. The next protest considered was irom 

 Mr. W. F. Mercellioit, of Mew Xbrkp in reference to entry 

 250 in'elass »S, and entry auil, in class 29. After hearing Mr. 

 Meicelloitt it was moved and carried that the allegations of 

 favoritism on the part ot the judges were not sustained. The 

 next was from Mr. John (Mil, Orange, H. Y., in reference to 

 the pointer flash, class 20. Messrs. Gdl and Lindsley being 

 heard it was resolved that entry lo'J was made through error, 

 and trial Mr. uui and his agents have completely and entirely 

 exonerated themselves Irom any charges that may have been 

 made ab to liauduleut intention in inakmg such entry, but 

 that inasmuch as the entry was made subject to the rules and 

 regulations of this show, and as these rules required that the 

 rW should have been entered in class 18, the dog was rightly 

 debarred Irom competing in class 20. in tins case a protest 

 Was entered against Dash on the ground that he had won first 

 prize in Boston in 1S7S, and had also competed m last year's 

 champion class here. The last was from Mr. William \Y alsou 

 in relerenee to class 8G, in which Mrs. Haines' Yorkshire ter- 

 rier Charlie won first. After one consideration it was resolved 

 that the award in the case be approved of aud confirmed, as 

 it appears that the dog complained of at the time of entry and 

 three days before the commencement of the show weighed 3 

 ozs less than 5 lbs., and no evidence has been offered to show 

 that the dog during tne time of judging weighed more than 



'f lie parade of prize winning dogs on the afternoon and 

 eveiimq ol the last day, and which was an inspiration ol Mr. 

 Line* ail's, was a great success. The prizes were as usual paid 

 I rom the stand in gold coin on Friday. The best attendance 

 •was on Wednesday, when there were over 8,000 people pres- 

 eur. The loliowiug day it would probably have been greater, 

 hut unfortunately it commenced raining bard in the morning 

 aud continued all day. One remarkable thing about this show 

 ■was the harmony which prevailed. Considering the magni- 

 tude of the affair, the absence ot confusion was remarkable. 

 The attendants were nearly all "dog men " selected in the 

 country, and we heard no complaints ot them. 

 Palter Bros, made a very handsome display of their celebrated 

 guns. The G irondin disinfectant was used and many remarks 

 made upon the entire absence of any unnleasant odors. The 

 health of the dogs appeared to be very ood. Dr. Coleman, 



V. B-, examined the dogs as they came in and rejected a few 

 having mange or symptoms of distemper. Many were washed 

 on their arrival with " Sapanule," which was kindly furnished 

 by the proprietors, who also had a handsome exhibit. Thomp- 

 son & Sons, leather goods : Messrs. Conroy, Bissett & Mallu- 

 son, fishing tackle ; F. O. DeLuze, Bpratt's biscuit— all made 

 a fine display. 



THE DOGS. 



It so happened that four of the bitches of the Westminster 

 Kennel Club were about due to whelp and one or two others 



were out of condition, which reduced the number of pointers 

 usually exhibited by the club. Sensation, however, was 

 present and, as usual, much admired. This dog has been shot 

 over at the South during the fall and winter, and is pronounced 

 a splendid field dog. The success of his get at this show was 

 remarkable. Probably such a collection of handsome pointer 

 puppies never was seen before. In champion pointers (over 

 55 lbs.) Snapshot won over Till, Fete, Bounce and Sleaford. 

 The old dog was looking as fine as a fiddle, and notwithstand- 

 ing his many years was as frisky as a puppy. We have 

 always had faith in Snapshot, and notwithstanding the efforts 

 of interested parties to injure him, were satisfied that he 

 would be placed where he belonged. lie had no more mange 

 about him at the time of the first N, Y. show, when he wsb 

 so severely slandered, than he had last week. At the sugges- 

 tion of Mr. Macdona, the writer took Snapshot home (after 

 he had been once to the steamer) to await the result of an 

 offer, which was afterward accepted, to his then owner, Mr. 

 J, Lloyd Price. The dog, who had come from the ship to 

 the show,, was immediately washed, and after the tar and to- 

 bacco juice had been removed his skin and coat were found 

 to be perfectly healthy. In the heavy bitch class, Psyche, 

 whose chance was looked upon as first-rate, had to succumb 

 to the Columbus Kennel Club's Fan, a magnificent black 

 bitch whose acquaintance we made two years ago at Balti- 

 more. Mr. OrgilFs Komp was in this class, but was not 

 quite up to the mark. In fact it struck us that none 

 of Mr. Orgill's dogs were in that condition in which he 

 usually exhibits them, the result, we believe, of sickness 

 in his kennel. The winner in the open class for large 

 dogs was Hex, a black and white dog, owned by Mr. Fisher 

 Howe, and one of the first dogs bred by the Westminster 

 Kennel Club, being by Captain Grafton's Jim out of Whisky. 

 Hex is a good-sized dog, with a great deal of bone, rather one 

 of the old-faahioned Bort. He was broken by Gfadston, and is 

 said to be an excellent field dog. We liked Mr. Coffin's Hake 

 if. in this class ; he was shown with some very handsome 

 puppies. The immediate ancestors of this dog were bought 

 by the late Mr. Taf I, of San Francisco, in London, at one of 

 the shows there many years ago. The bitch was Venus, one 

 of Mr. Lang's, we believe, and quite a celebrity. There were 

 but three bitches in this class, all good. The Becond prize- 

 winner, Flash, belonging to Dave Hartt, of Northport, L. I., 

 is by Sensation out of Lady Francis, the latter a very fine 

 bitch, lately dead, and owned by the Rev. Mr. Hamilton, of 

 Hart's Falls. The four small champion pointer dogs were all 

 good ; bulSefton, lately owned by Mr. Addison;Smith, and by 

 Sensation out of Lilly, was the best. Bush, however, was not 

 in his usual form. Mr. Orgill was more successful in the next 

 class, as his bitch liose won. Mr. Weighell (pronounce it 

 Weal, please) won with Bob, whose good qualities must have 

 been superabundant, as he had evidently not been prepared 

 for the show. We confess that we could not see Bob's excel- 

 lence, not because he wanted soap and water, but because we 

 thought there were one or two better. The dog which took 

 second in this class was disqualified, as having won first in 

 Boston, and haviog competed in the champion class here last 

 year. This moved Mr. Strong's Ben (one of Pete's get) to 

 second place, and the two "ties" on V. 11. C. were judged 

 again for third. It fell to Chiswick, given as eleven months 

 old, and by Flake out of Lilfy ; but there must be a mistake 

 here. In the bitches there was no question about first haviog 

 been rightly placed when it went to Duchess ( Sensation- 

 Wbisky); it would be difficult to find a handsomer pointer 

 bitch. ' The second prize-winner, however, was not very far 

 behind her. She (Princess) was the handsomest puppy, we 

 thought, we had ever seen when Lincoln had her at the first 

 New York Show, and au infatuated individual, not very far 

 from the writer just now, gave him the rather long price of 

 $110 for her. She is jet black, and by Dilley's Ranger out of 

 Gillespie's Fan (winner in champion class). Another of Sen- 

 sation's get took third. The pointer puppies, of iwhich there 

 were forty-two over six months old, were a grand lot. Lemon 

 and white seemed to be thcprevailiue color, and most of them 

 the get of Snapshot, Bake II. (Coffin's), Sensation, Rush, and 

 Flake II. An own brother and sister won in dog and bitch 

 class, they being by Sensation out of Mr. Schieffelin's Juno. 

 J uno is the dam of poor Flake, now dead, and Whisky — so 

 these puppies came honestly by their beauty. The lemon and 

 whites did not have it all their own way, however, as Mr. 

 Strong captured second prize in the bitch class with one of his 

 blacks, by Pete. We shall suggest that next year there be 

 classes for lemon and white, pointers by themselves. There 

 was no pretiier sight in the show than a litter of lemon and 

 white pointer puppies about three, inonths old, exhibited by 

 Mr. Wagstalf, and by his 'Till out of Minnie. 



The judging of the champion English setters, as may be sup- 

 posed, attracted a great deal of interest. The question lay 

 between Royal Ben (Carlo witz-Lucy), Lark, and Jersey Duke. 

 There was very little doubt that one ot the natives would get 

 it, and the Jerseyman was the one. Our friend, Von Len- 

 gerke, will now have the words, " Pure native," inscribed on 

 bis banner in letters of gold. Mr. Charles, of Albany, was 

 successful in the bitch class with Rose, a beautiful black aud 

 white bitch, winner at Boston last year. The dogs this year 

 were judged inside of a large ring, surrounded by board fenc- 

 ing. Outside of this fence, and going all around, were set- 

 tees, upon which spectators could sit and watch the judging. 

 When the sixty-six dogs, composing the open English setter 

 dog class, were brought iulo the ring, the exclamations of ad- 

 miration were innumerable. Surely, such a number of fine 

 flogs were never congregated together. There seemed so 

 little trash. When Banger If., who looked fifty per cent, bet- 

 ter than he did last year, did not even receive a commenda- 

 tion (which we believe he was entitled to), the quality of the 

 class can be imagined. By the bye, we are credibly in- 

 formed that the puppies by this dog are turning out very good 

 in the field, as they have also done in England. The judges 

 were a very long time in making a choice, and it finally fell to 

 St. Elmo. Dr^ Speir was warmly congratulated on his well- 

 earned victory, and we have no more staunch supporter of both 

 bench shows and field trials. St. Elmo has had a varied 

 career. He was shown first in this city in 1877, when he took 

 first in the puppy class. He has run in the Nashville field 

 trials, and took one of the prizes at Hampton. He is a black, 

 white and tan dog, now in his prime, and is by Pride of the 

 Border out of Heizberg's Jessie. Mr. Charles' Bum, a brother 



of Nina's, was second, and Mr. Leavelt's Sir Launcefet, bv 

 Morris' Pete out of Northrup's Dell IX, was third. A very- 

 beautiful brace of dogs was shown in this class by T. D 

 Gladstone, of Boonton, N. J., Royal and Baxe, bred the same 

 as Sum and Nina, just mentioned. There were twenty-five 

 bitches in competition, but in quality they were not up to the 

 dogs. Lincoln & Hellyar's Minlo (Dash H. -Doll) was first, 

 and Mr. LaMontagne's Abbey (Toiing Laverack-D 

 the same position she did last year — second. Meg, the third 

 prize-winner, came from Rhode Island. The puppies over 

 six months were very good, Mr. Charles again winning in 

 both dogs and bitches with two of his black and whites, 

 Pride of the Border puppies being second in both classes. In 

 the puppies under six months, the get of Mr. Morris' Lark 

 won in both classes. 



In champion black and tans, Mr. Pond's Trump (Dash- 

 Belle) was first, with only one competitor, aud in the bitches, 

 When there were six competing entries, Rodman's (late Cope- 

 land's) Nellie, last year's winner, was first. This bitch class 

 was a remarkably fine one, In it were ; Belle, winner here in 

 IS'/'?; Mr. Godeffroy's Beauty, winner at Boston; Mr. Weigh- 

 ell'sBetle, winner at Baltimore ; Nell, a St. Louis winner, and 

 others. Weighell's Bell, although now very old, is a beautiful 

 bitch. She is said to have been bred by the Prince of Wales, 

 and was taken to Canada, whence she was brought to this 

 State. Lou was on exhibition, but did not compete. The 

 open dog class was a very fine one, and so was the class for 

 bitches. In the puppy classes over six months, there were 

 some very promising youngsters exhibited. The first prize- 

 winners in both bitch and dog classes were puppies, the get 

 of Marble's Grouse out of Lou. in the dog class, Mr. T. T. 

 Sawyer, Jr., of the Massachusetts Kennel Club, took second 

 with a puppy from the hitch Nellie, one of the two brought 

 to this country by Mr. Scott last year. The puppy was sired 

 by Beuben (Allison's), a famous sire on the other side. 



The red Irish setter classes were simply superb. Rory 

 O'Moore proved to be again a champion, and the Aldine 

 Kennel Club, of Chicago, won with Red Rival in the cham- 

 pion bitch class. The ring would scarcely hold the thirty- 

 eight competitors in the open dog class, some of them were 

 SO pugnacious. As usual, Of the many called but few were 

 chosen, and in the thinning out process it was evident that 

 Derg, a dog imported by the Baltimore Kennel Club, by 

 Going's Bob otitof Mali's Fan, was a little the best. Derg 

 is a splendid specimen of a dog. At first sight a little leggy, 

 which really is an appearance caused by the shortness of his 

 coat, which, except where it should and does feather, is al- 

 most a3 close as a pointer's. His head we regard as the true 

 type of an Irish setter's — rather Hat on the head, deep stop and 

 rather long, but square-cut jaws. His coat is remarkably 

 e^n in color ; not very dark on his back and light every- 

 where else, but even throughout. A large price was offered 

 for him by one of the members of the Westminster Kennel 

 Club. The winner of the second prize was Grouse, whose 

 pedigree was not given, owned by Mr. Alfred Biddle, of 

 Philadelphia. Mr. J. White Sprong, of Albany, took third 

 with Smuggler, by Rufus II. out of Colleen. The bitches 

 were a remarkably fine lot, far better than have ever been 

 seen at a show In this country. Out of seventeen ten were 

 noticed. Lincoln & Hellyar furnished the winner in Phan- 

 tom, only ten months old. by their Dush out of Flora. Nora 

 Eilcho-Fire Fly) was second, and Mr. Basstord's Gipsey third. 

 The puppies were a remarkably fine lot, first in dogs over six 

 months going to another Dash-Flora puppy, and the Balti- 

 more Kennel Club winning with an Elcho-Florence puppy. 



The red and while setter class naturally filled well. Mr. 

 Douuer was first with a very well made dog, cross bred. This 

 flog | Duke) was red, with white blaze, breast and feel. He 

 was objected to by some exhibitors as being a red Irish dog 

 until they were shown in the next kennel but one his litter 

 brother, who was nearly all white. The winner of the second 

 prize, however, as far as breeding goes, really belonged in the 

 Irish class. W T c allude to Messrs. DeRonge and Inmon's 

 Montague, by Salter's Dash out of Ltll Iff. Mr. Fassitt, of 

 Philadelphia, was third with Dash (Dash- June), and he also 

 walked over for the champion prize with Jim Kielry, one of 

 his beautiful red roans. In the bitch class Mr. Weighell, of 

 Rochester, was again to the front with Bird, whose pedigree 

 was not given, while Mr. Lohman took second with Quail HI., 

 by Red Gauntlet out of his recently imported Quail if. Third 

 went to Bonnie, a bitch out of our old friend Bonnie Carrie. 

 The puppies were good, particularly a brace shown by Mr. 

 James Bryce, of Madison, N. J. 



There were no Chesapeake Bay dogs entered, and of the 

 Irish water spaniels, Mack and Judy, winners here, we think, 

 last year, were the best, and were placed first and second. 

 There were five Clumber i paniels entered, but two of them 

 were liver and white, and so had no chance. Of the remain- 

 ing three Mr. Austin's Nap was a splendid specimen but 

 rather too old to beat Trimbush, who was in the pink of con- 

 dition. Fairy is a pretty little bitch, but rather inclined to be 

 snipey about the nose. The cocker and field spaniels were so 

 mixed up that the judges concluded to divide them (the dogs) 

 into two classes and/give additional prizes. This was done, 

 and the result shown in the list below. The spaniel classes 

 are very much mixed. Feathers was the best of the biiches. 

 The fox-hound class brought out one of if hot the finest 

 couple of fox-hounds ever seen in this country— Mr. A. Bel- 

 mont Purdy's Life-Guard and Favorite, recently imported. 

 They are perfect studies, and said by good judges to be way 

 beyond anything seen at our shows. Mr. Gillman, of Detroit, 

 walked off with two prizes for beagles, andthe Alontolair Hunt 

 with the third. Mr. Wm. L. Bradbury, with commendable 

 enterprise, exhibited six animals in this class, and sent them 

 all the way from Nason, Orange Co., Va. There were eight 

 dachshunde shown, some being very fine specimens. Our 

 space will aM permit us to review the non-sporting classes 

 until next week. We print the premium list in full, includ- 

 ing those printed last week: 



THE AWAltDS. 



Mastiffs— Dogs— 1st, King Olaf, W F Morgan ; 'il, U Broward, 

 Mas 8C Hewitt; 3d, Uato, I Van Winkle; V h o, Major, V N 

 Owen. Bitohea— lat, Leah, H Cooper , 2d, Bab, H Harley; 3d, 

 Juno, F B Appleton; V h c, Carrie, J Mom-ey, H o. Dido, C D 

 Arthur. Puppies— 1st, Rory, D Arthur ; 2d, Juno, Wm Wat- 

 son: C, Duke, F Barlow. 



Bough-coated 81 Bernard Dogs— 1st, Alp,L Z Oollioe; 2d, Turk, 

 D P Foster, 3d, Turk, H II Baxter V I. o, Barry, H Clausen. 



Smooth-coated St Bernard Doga-lat, Don, J P Uaine ; 2d; 

 Harold, same owner; 3d, Bernard, Ma J Thorno, Jr; Bitches— 

 1st, Judy, J P Haines ; 2d, Bermo, samo owner. Puppies— 1st, 

 Uno, J P Haines; 2d, luo, aarne owner : V h u, Martin and Mac- 

 ron, aamo owner, and Bernard, D Z Collins, 



Newfoundlands -Dogs and Bitches-lst, Keeper, Hooks 2d, 

 Jack, W B HeppeDheimer; V h a, Don, T8 Hamilton; II c, Floss, 

 Dr E F Drayton; Search, F Keller, aud Died, 1 D Burke. Pup- 

 pies— 1st, Presto, 8 Whittemore j B c, Bruno, J F Ferguson ; O, 

 Toby H V Allien. 



Siberi*n or Bun Doga or Bitohes— 1st, Alex, D W Luhring : 3d, 



