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CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE 

 COMING WEEK. 



Salurdup, April 19.— New York Athletlo Club Spring Handicap Meet- 

 ing atMptt Haven. Base Ball : Princeton va. Defiance, at Princeton 

 Yale vs. Worcester, at New Haven ; Albany vs. Utica, at Albany ; Na- 

 tional vs. Holyoke, at Washington ; Atlantic vb. Field, at Brooklyn ; 

 Nameless vs. Field, at Prospect Park ; Polytechnic vs. Field, at Ptob- 

 pect Park. Cricket : Manhattan Club Opening Day at Prospect Park. 



Obituary. — Mr. Alfred W. Craven, long connected with 

 the Croton Aqueduct Department, was huried at Greenwood 

 last Tuesday. Mr. Craven was an enthusiastic sportsman and 

 fisherman, and derived much pleasure from frequent excur- 

 sions, both in this country and abroad, in pursuit of large 

 game. His principal hunting-ground was Virginia for deer, 

 although many a noble buck, elk and buffalo bull succumbed 

 to his rifio on the plains and mountains. In England, Scot- 

 land and Ireland he also fished and hunted. Among other of 

 Ms reminiscences, he dwelt with great satisfaction on his visit 

 to the Duke of Sutherland's estate in Scotland, where he 

 earned the approval of Donald the "Gillie" by his success 

 with the salmon and also in deer-stalking. Mr. Craven's 

 funeral at Grace Church was largely attended by members of 

 the American Society of Engineers, Century Club, and promi- 

 nent citizens and former employees of the Croton Aqueduct 

 Department. 



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Obitt/aky. — By receipt of a single mail last week we were 

 simutaneously advised of the death of Chief of Police, T. W. 

 S. Fenton, of Montreal, J. L. Do Camp, of Bates & Co. of 

 this city, and Joseph L. Barker of Ann Arbor, Michigan, all 

 prominent persons and lofig time subscribers of Fobbst and 

 Stbbam. 



We regret also to learn of the death of a four-year-old 

 daughter of Dr. Elliott Coues, on the 8th of April. 



Oar friends may feel assured of our sympathy. 



—Among many distinguished visitors at our office since 

 last issue was Col. G. W. Bchofield, U. S. A., who, we re- 

 gret to state, is Buffering from an injury received from a fall 

 of his horse on January 4th. He was en route for West 

 Point. 



DOGS IN THE MANGER AND DOGS 

 ON THE BENCH. 



A REPORT of the third annual Bench Show of the West- 

 minster Kennel Club, held in this city, will be found in 

 the Kennel Department of this paper. The management have 

 every reason to congratulate themselves upon their success, 

 financially and festhelieally. Not only was the collection of 

 dogs superior in all its numerous classes, and full in its num- 

 bers and representation, but the social standing of the exhibi- 

 tors and visitors was notably eminent. At no public event 

 in this city has there ever before been gathered so many rep- 

 resentatives of its old and honored families, as well as of visi- 

 tors from other parts, near and remote. Never has there been 

 seen so large a congregation of private carriages and conspic- 

 uous liveries. The reports of the daily press have attested to 

 these facts, and with singular unanimity have accorded to the 

 exhibition an award of highest merit. Each paper seemed to 

 vie with the other in preparing the fullest reports and empha- 

 sising the most salient features of the show, dispensing its 

 praise or criticism with impartial candor, and evincing a con- 

 scious pleasure in the bestowal of approval. Doubtless a 

 large measure of the show's Buccess was due to their efforts in 

 placing its attractions before the public. For this reason, and 

 recognizing the press as a most potent factor in influencing 

 results, for good or evil, we are fain to express, at this oppor- 

 tunity, our regret that the management had not been more 

 liberal in its distribution of tickets to reporters, and in giving 

 them facilities to observe and work. We hope the hint will 

 be carefully put aside for future use. 



In marked contrast with the conscientious and truthful pre- 

 sentation of facts by the daily journals, are the petty malver- 

 sations of two envious sporting papers, which have taken 

 every pains to belittle the show and its promoters, and with 

 marked coincidence of purpose and expression, to battledore 

 their gross perversions from east to west, and resound the 

 echo from Chicago to New York. These twin dissentients, 

 like those who pointed to Nazareth in days of yore, can see 

 "nothing good" in anything outside of the Dog Ring. They 

 say the exhibit was meagre, and the attendance small ; that 

 the sporting classes were inferior in number and quality ; that 

 it was intrinsically a toy and parlor dog show, and financially 

 a failure j that the decisions were unjust and based on favorit- 

 ism ; that the Bench was incompetent— one of the judges in- 

 capable, the second an "aristocrat," and the third an affable 

 figure-head ! They credit to the demerit account the fact that 

 one-third of all the pointers and setters were decorated with a 

 V. H. C, instead of accepting the ribbons as indicative of the 

 average excellent quality of the dogs. They not only sneer- 

 ingly term white ribbons consolation prizes, but openly aver 

 that they are "an insult to exhibitors when every other dog 

 is so decorated." 



Of course the 20,000 people at the show are thoroughly 

 qualified to pass upon these charges and criticisms, and deter- 

 mine their value and truthfulness. If misrepresentations have 

 wilfully been made, Ihey must inevitably react upon their 

 fabricators. If they have been prompted by motives of envy 

 or disappointment at schemes defeated, the facts will appear-, 

 and the verdict will be rendered accarding to the facts, The 

 public at least is clear sighted, fair-minded and honest in its 

 expression of opinion. It is deplorable that honest efforts to 

 improve the breeds of dogs, and promote intelligence among 

 fanciers, cannot be permitted to stand upon their merits. 

 There seems to be an underhanded, unscrupulous attempt to 

 antoganize interests which should be harmonious. The only 

 rivalry which ought to exiBt among sportsmen should be an 

 honorable emulation to work for the common good ; to pro- 

 duce the best dogs for the work required, and to compare 

 notes and experiences, that all may profit by the interchange. 

 But what incentive or ambition to work has an association or 

 an individual, when all his honest endeavors are to be dispar- 

 aged in order to serve sinister purposes, or to gratify pique or 

 jealously ? How long will the tree produce if it is to be con- 

 stantly stripped and girdled? Sportsmen are natural born 

 friends. Their interests have always been mutual and their 

 courtesies reciprocal from east to west, and we deem it a sin to 

 attempt to set them at loggerheads. We wish no sectional feel- 

 ing anymore. The sentiment is unholy and unpopular ; and we 

 therefore appeal for the support of all friends of amity and good 

 fellowship to preserve the entente cordial, and to permit no 

 unscrupulous mischief makers to create schisms and class 

 prejudices among the Fraternity. As conscientious chroniclers 

 of events of the field, and disinterested works for the general 

 good, we deplore both their motives and their endeavors. Let 

 every attempt to belittle honest efforts or to detract from ben. 

 efits which might accrue therefrom, be decried. Moreover, 

 let no expression of belief in the integrity of any person eli- 

 gible for the office of judge be misconstrued to create a casus 

 belli, or to form a nucleus around which to rally hostile fac- 

 tions. 



Judges are not infallible; they are not omniscient. There 

 can be no bench decisions without some appeals, and no awards 

 without grumbling from the disappointed. But what is to de- 

 termine the qualifications of a judge, or of a bench of judges ? 

 The scale of points which constitute the formula of judging is 

 principally based upon the most careful study of canine anat- 

 omy and the specific characteristics of the various, breeds. In 

 applying this scale of points to practical use, successful judges 

 must not only be familiar themselves with the dog's anatomy, 

 but they must be gifted with a natural insight to perceive, and 

 a tact to determine quickly. Physiological analysis is a gift 



possessed but by few physicians or surgeons, be they ever so 

 learned or studious ; so when a judge at a Bhow of dogs has 

 once exhibited the requisite qualifications, exhibitors should 

 prize him as a phenomenon, and not carelessly run off to un- 

 tried men. It is easier to dismiss an incumbent than to find 

 an efficient substitute. Hence we have no patience with habit- 

 ual grumblers, of whom nine-tenths have never read the rules 

 for judging, or formed any conception of what constitutes a 

 scale of points. It is not for these to utter loud-rnouthed pro- 

 tests, because technical decisions do not agree with their pre- 

 conceived notions of what constitutes a good dog ; and by a 

 good dog, we mean one which is not only faultless in his anat- 

 omy, condition, and constitution, but one which has proved 

 the mettle of his breeding in the field. Just as doctors differ 

 so do judges and juries. Therefore we shall always be sus- 

 picious of the motives of those who cry " fraud," and sound 

 an onset when decisions provoke their displeasure. 



We hope for continued good fellowship throughout all the 

 land. We wish all Bench Shows the most eminent success, 

 and shall always bo ready to aid and promote them whenever 

 and wherever instituted. We are the friends of sporting and 

 non-sporting dogs alike: for the miscellaneous classes always 

 add very much to the attractions of an exhibition. But there 

 is one brute which we would ignominiously disqualify and ex- 

 pel from all future Benches, and that is, the "Dog in the 

 Manger." He is a pest of the vilest character. 



THE HYSLOP-ARCHER SYSTEM. 



THOUGH little or nothing has been done by us in America 

 in the way of furthering naval science during the past 

 twenty years, our maritime decay having apparently turned 

 all thought and investigation, as well as our inventive facul- 

 ties, into other channels, we are not quite willing to see our- 

 selves stripped of such credit in relation to progress in naval 

 science as America is legitimately entitled to. We therefore 

 desire to place prominently upon record the researches and 

 final results of the latest application of Scott Russell's wave- 

 line, made at least simultaneously if not antecedent to similar 

 experiments and deductions brought to light recently in Eng. 

 land. It is not detracting from the acknowledged services 

 which Mr. Collin Archer rendered through the publication of 

 his experiments and determinations leading up to the discov- 

 ery of the real value and true application of the wave-line to 

 systematic construction when we here claim for an American 

 a co-equal amoimt of credit in their development. 



We have had an opportunity of examining closely the 

 means taken for many years post by Mr. John Hyslop, of 

 New STork, for applying to the needs of practical naval des'ign 

 a system based upon the original "wave-fine" as first 

 announced in England in 1837 by Mr. Scott Russell. The 

 models, as well as the numerous drawings shown us, and tea- 

 timeny adduced from witnesses to the experiments of Mr 

 Hyslop, place the fact beyond question that he has for many 

 years been applying the "wave-line area" system to the design 

 of yachts and vessels, and that the results of such application 

 were of a character sufficiently striking and meritorious to in- 

 duce him to grant to the system his implicit confidence and 

 support long before the first article upon the subject by Mr 

 Collin Archer appeared in the London Field, a little over one 

 year ago. 



It has been commonly supposed that the series of papers 

 from the pen of Mr. Hyslop, which were published in the 

 New York Country last spring, were only an American adap- 

 tation of what had already been written on the subject in 

 England. This is far from being the case, however. Mr. 

 Hyslop had deferred the publication of his researches owing 

 to other business engagements, but upon being informed by a 

 friend of the appearance in the London Field of something 

 relating to wave-lines, immediately suspected that his own 

 thunder had been forestalled by another, and thereupon sent 

 his papers to the Country. Whatever credit has been meted 

 out to Mr. Archer must, in the face of the evidence we have 

 gathered, be shared with Mr. Hyslop. As far back as the 

 spring of 1874, Mr. Hyslop launched his yacht Petrel, the 

 first vessel of any kind built designedly upon the wave-line 

 area system, and ample evidence of the justice of onr claim 

 that he should receive a liberal share in the fame due to the 

 instigations of progress in naval architecture. 



It is pitiable evidence of the decay of our maritime affairs 

 that so significant a development in the theory of naval design 

 should have been allowed so long to remain in obscurity for 

 the want of a proper channel through which to make it public. 

 There is not to-day a Bingle journal in the United States, 

 Forbst and Steeam excepted, which is capable of dealing as 

 a critic with modern nautical science. It is indeed a sad 

 commentary upon the intelligence of our maritime classes 

 when we reflect that the only journal nominally devoted to 

 their interests is of a kind and character educated Americans 

 should feel heartily ashamed of. It is one which to the limit- 

 ed number of its readers forms a regular weekly budget of fun, 

 and which could not, to save its precarious existence, extract 

 a square-root or tell a compound engine from a rolling mill. 

 An interest or a community must indeed be in a bad way 

 when not equal to the support of something better than a 

 light-weight journal which, in its weekly issues of antidelu- 

 vian and Quixotic snarls over the question of Iron vs. Wood- 

 something settled in favor of iron twenty-five years ago — vio- 

 lates in the most flagrant manner the commonest laws of sta- 

 tics, and prattles about "pressure resistance," "two kinds 

 of stability," "flotative capacity," and the like, in blisefu 



