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Hanoveb International Doa Show.— A full report of 

 this show will reach us this week, but too late for the current 

 issue. We therefore print some, extracts from the Fonder* 

 Gazette correspondent's letter regarding the arrangements, etc 

 It will be remembered that the Messrs. Von LeDgerke^of this 

 city, have sent over some native setters to compete ; 



To begin with, all the English dogs under Mr. Douglas ar- 

 rived safely at half -past nine on Monday night ; they were 

 delayed by a fog at sea, but Beem none the worse for their 

 journey. Every effort has been made by the managing com- 

 mitl ee to ensure the dogs' comfort. Mr. Douglas and his 

 charges were met at Bremerbaven by the British Consul in 

 Hanover, and strict orders were given not to allow more than 

 twenty dogs in each van. Transport carls belonging to some 

 of the regiments quartered in the town met the dogs at the 

 station, and all the English owners and attendauts we have 

 seen are loud in their expressions of satisfaction at the treat- 

 ment they have received. Among our fellow countrymen 

 who are already on the spot, or who are expected shortly, 

 are : The Rev. J. Cumming Macdona, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. 

 Thomson, Mr. and Mrs. Humphries, Messrs. Hugh Dalziel, 

 Colin Ross, L. Clement, Hallam, Alfred George, Buraell and 

 Vero Shaw. 



The arrangements for the benching arc unique, for the 

 dogs are not quartered in any building, but on covered 

 benches all over the ground. Each large dog has a space four 

 feet and a half wide allowed him, abd is separated from his 

 neighbor by substantial wooden partitions. A large quantity 

 of straw, water and sawdust is available for the use of the 

 keepers— upon the present occasion soldiers selected from 

 regiments in the town. The advantage of this is obvious, as 

 the discipline is excellent, and in event of any contretemps 

 occurring, will help to preserve order. In the Bella Vista 

 Park, where the show is held, are really some very pretty 

 pleasure-grounds, something on the Cremorne or Belle Vue 

 style, and the lakes in it arc to be called into requisition in 

 case of fire. Two engines, filled and supplied with hose and 

 all the necessary apparatus, are ready for us 3 at a moment's 

 notice. 



Altogether, the show promises to be a grand success, but 

 until later on il is impossible to speak definitely on this sub- 

 ject. All classes of the community seem to be working to- 

 gethet to promote its welfare, and a list of the donors of the 

 special cups show the interest in dogs taken by the highest in 

 the land. Among the names nppear those of His Majesty 

 the Emperor of Germany, Prince Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 

 Prince Charles of Prussia, Prince Albert of Prussia, Prince 

 George of Prussia, Prince Alexander of Prussia, Prince Al- 

 bert Solms, whilst Messrs. Spratt, Barr and ClarKe also give 

 prizeB, that of the first-named being 1,000 maiks in money. 



The general committee is a small one, but works tremen- 

 dously hard. It consists of General Count Waldersee (Presi- 

 dent), Prince Albert Balms, Mons. V. Marais, and Herr Emil 

 Meyer, the secretary. All these gentlemen show that they 

 are determined to flinch at nothing in the shape of hard work 

 to make a success of the affair • and, unlike some committees 

 we could mention at home, sot the example by exerting them- 

 selves to their utmost. Messrs. Spratt & Co. undertake the 

 feeding, and have every convenience at their disposal ; so the 

 doga are sure to be well looked after. 



COCKER SPANIELS IN BUFFALO. 



Editor Forkbt and Stream : 



Will you please publish this, my last, In explanation to Mr. Harring- 

 ton, as I Una I Have raised a tempest in a tea-pot, where none was in- 

 tended. I am simply a "Heathen Chinee," childlike, but a lover of the 

 Bpantel in any breed, more particularly the cocker. I will begin with 

 letter No. 1. It " E. B. J." can And anything in my letter either unjust 

 or casting reflection en Mr. Harringtou or his dogs I am willing to 

 publloly apologize to Mr. H.; but I spoke the truth as I heard It, and 

 nothing more. 



I am an entire stranger in Buffalo, but on seeing Mr. H,'s letter I 

 asked Mr. J. C. Smith, agent ol the Amerioan Express Company, to 

 Bhow me around, also reading Mr. H.'a letter to him. We went, and 

 the result ot our visit I published. 



Letter No. 2 from " C. B." is very candid. I would like his acquaint- 

 ance, lor he speaks just what he thinks. 



Letter No. 3, J. B Harrington, looks very much like an advertising 

 medium. 



With respect to Mr. Nelll, he may be as dishonorable as your corres- 

 pondent paints him. He 1b comparatively a stranger to me ; 1 never 

 either Bold or bought a dog from him. If he Is what Mr. H. says I am 

 glad to hear it. I was Introduced to him when he produced what he 

 called the King Charles spaniel, and farther Bald Mr. H. wanted to 

 purchase one, and told me he had thirty-five, Hence my thinking 

 him the largest dog man East. 



With respect to Mr. Lincoln, he 1b a personal friend, also Mr. Nash, 

 and whoBe Bake is the sire of my Daisy— last litter Beven ; non 

 Bale. Mr. H. can at his leisure find me if he wishes ; but no slurs. 



I will now refer to "Honest Steve,' 1 as Mr. H. calls him, a worthy 

 name, I have no doubt. The mutual friend la Mr. Smith, whose charac- 

 ter 1b above reproach. 



Mr. Battey'B letter contains too much mud, and, for fear I might get 

 aome on my clothes, 1 will utop, for you know he that touches pitch 

 will be deaied. John Hammon, Cli/ttm. 

 p — ~», — • 



Cookers at New Tobk and Boston.— Our correspond 



ent, " Goshawk, " in his excellent review of the judging at 



the late New York, Philadelphia and Boston dog shows last 



week, was in error in saying that no New York cockers went 



to Boston. Gip, owned by D. P. Bosworth, of this city, 



winner of second prize in bitch class at New York show, was 



sent to Boston and was there awarded first prize in a mixed 



dog and bitch class. 



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Dogs vs. Telegraphing.— Our Buffalo, N. Y., correspond- 

 ent who is sadly annoyed by unfortunate owners of dogs, re- 

 quests us to relieve the pressure by by publishing the follow- 

 ing card, which we cheerfully pnnt : 



Mr J. B. Harrington begs to hereby acknowledge the com- 

 pliments tendered him by numerous correspondents, but is 

 compelled to respectfully decline all offers for the use of his 

 «• cockers" for stud purposes. 



The Rev. J. Cumming Macdona arrived in this city by 



the new steamer Arizona, of the Williams & Guion Line, on 

 Monday of this week. Mr. Macdona brings a number of 

 fine dogs with him, some of them being prize-winners at the 

 late International Dog Show at Hanover. Among the dogs 



are three St. Bernards. The first, Marco, is by Pasha out of 

 Minka. The next, Braunfels, was bred by Prince Solms, 

 and is the dam of Bertha, the dog given by Mr. Macdona to 

 the Princess Louise, and taken by her to Canada. The 

 other is Bernie, by Thor out of Gypsey Lass. Then there is 

 a very fine Irish setter, Rover II., two years old, by cham- 

 pion Rover out of Nina. The English setters are Ranger 

 Rival, fifteen months old, by champion Ranger out of Moll, 

 sister to Cora; and Push III. (Decimal), by Dash H. (Lle- 

 wellin's, late Brcwis') out of Duchess, by Pilkington's Dash 

 out of Queenie. Mr. Macdona has also brought with 

 him a very fine pointer, Croxteth, by Lowe's Young Bang 

 out of Macdona's Jane : 



Croxteth, through his ancesters, Sam, Hamlet, and Drake, 

 combines the best blood of Lord Sefton's, Mr. Whitehouse's 

 and Sir Richard Garth's strains, and is half-brother to Sir 

 Thomas Leonard's wonderful pointers, Priam and Scamp, 

 winners of first and second prizes at the Field Trial Derby, 

 1878, and is also grandson of champion Bang, winner of ten 

 field trials, and never beaten at a dog show ; thus combin- 

 ing good looks with good work in the field. Through his 

 ancestors, Cornwall Legh's Mars, Kewton's Ranger, and 

 Garth's Mile, he inherits the grand strain of blood that cul- 

 minated in Mr. Garth's extraordinary pointer Drake, who, 

 with Mr. Macdona's wonderful setter Ranger, ranks among 

 pointers as Ranger does among setters, as the fastest and 

 greatest champion field trial winner of this century. Croxteth 

 won fourth in* the Field Trial Derby, 1879, out of 120 entries, 

 and won second prize at the International Dog Show at 

 Hanover, May, 1879. 



Mr. Macdona starts for Texas to-morrow, to look at some 

 large tracts of land he has in that State. 



—Read the advertisement of "Diseases of the Dog," by 

 Silver Strain, which can be found in another column. 



Names Claimed.— Dr. R. I. Hampton, of Rome, Ga., 

 claims the name Kate Claxton- for his white-with-liver-ears 

 Guy-Flash puppy (f Laverack), whelped Jan. 10, 1879, and 

 bred by Charles H. Raymond, Esq., Fox Farm, N. J. 



— Mr. J. Olis Fellows, of Hornellsville, N. ¥., claims the 

 name Little Buttercup for his liver and white cocker gyp, 

 whelped Feb. 3, 1879, by P. P. Winn's Jack out of Mr. Fel- 

 lows' Fanme. 



— Mr, Leonard Ryan, of Medora, 111., claims the name of 

 Mollie Plunkett for his red Irish setter bitch pup by Cham- 

 pion Elcho out of Bridget Plunkett. Purchased of E. J. 

 Bobbins, of Wethersfield, Conn. 



—Mr. G. B. Inches, of Boston, claims the name of Polo 

 for his fox terrier dog by Paulo out of Maudie ; whelped 

 March, 1879. 



— Mr. W. W. Wicker, of East Saginaw, Mich., claims the 

 name of Honest John for his black, white and tan setter pup, 

 whelped Jan. 11, by Douglass out of Ailse. 



—The imported red Irish setter Dash, winner of 1st prize 

 at New York, and 3d at Boston, in 1878, owned by Messrs 

 Lincoln and Hellyar of Warren, Mass., is dead. 



—Messrs Lincoln and Hellyar's pointer bitch Gypsey 

 whelped on May 29th eight puppies, sired by Snapshot 



— Dr. Nevin's Moll whelped, on 27th inst., nine pups by 

 Toledo Kennel Club's Grouse— four dogs and five bitches, all 

 healthy and strong. 



—The imported pointer bitch, Miranda III., whelped, at 

 the kennels of J. W. Coffin, Esq., near Providence, R. I., 

 on the 1st inst., nine puppies, sired by Air. Coffin's Rake II. 

 Two have since died, leaving five dogs and two bitches liv- 

 ing. One is white, two are lemon and white and four liver 

 and white. 



gzchtwg mid Routing. 



COMING FIXTURES. 



June 12— Quaker City Y C Annual Kegatta. 



June 13— bay of Qainta Y C Spring Regatta. 



Jane 14— Beverly r C Special Regatta. 



June 14— Chicago Y O Annual Regatta. 



June U— No/a S:otia Y S Opening Cruise. 



June lu— Quaker City Y C Kegatta, Chester. 



June 16— Chester Y C Annual Kegatta. 



June 17— Eastt- n V C Opening Cruise. 



June 17— Lynn Y C Animal Regatta, 



June 17— Marblehead Sixth Annua: Kegatta. 



June 17— Newburyport Y C Annual Kegatta 



June 1!)— New Jersey Y C Annual Kegatta. 



June 19— New York Y C Annual Regatta. 



Juno 20— Eastern Y C Cruise. 



Joue 31— Boston Y C Union Kegatta. 



June 21— East Boston Y C Annual Kegatta. 



Jane 21— .Seawanhaka Y C Open Corinthian Koeatta 



June 21— Nova puna's y spring Kegatta. 



June 2S— Brenton'a Keef Cup Match. 



June 23— Colombia Y CI Annual Regatta. 



June 24— Long Island Y O Annual Kegatta. 



Jane 2S— West Brlgntou Y C Annual Regatta. 



June 28— Nova Scotia Y S llarhor Cruise. 



June 23— Dorchester Y C Championship Regatta. 



June 29— Quakei Q i rnwe. 



July S— Beverley Y C Special Regtata, Cotult 



July 4— Detroit Y C Kegatta. 



July 4— Salem Y Kegatta. 



July 4— Quaker City Y C Corinthian Kegatta 



July B— Seawanhaka Y C Corluthian Cruise. 



July 9— Eastern Y C Aunual Regatta, Marblehead. 



.Jul v 1-2— Beverley '■' a mpsoott. 



Julyl-2-t lilcaeo Y C Union Regatta. 



Jnly 12— Nova Scotia Y S Regatta. 



.Tuiy 12— Dorchester Y C Regatta. 



July 13— Quaker City Harbor Crnise. 



July Id— Nova Seotu Y S Harbor Crnise. 



Ju y 26— Dorchester Y C Kegatta. 



July 26— Atlantic Y C Cruise. 



ATLANTIC YACHT CLUB. 



A MOST propitious day was Saturday, June 7, when the 

 fourteenth annual regatta of the Atlantic "J aoht Club 

 brought to the line a list of starters seldom equaled in New 

 is for noted qiia] 



as well. This being the first formal meet among ' the fliers 

 after their winter alterations for better or for worse, it was a 

 hard matter to say what the upshot of the day might turn 

 out to be before the judges gave the gun from their steamer 

 ops. No wonder that in the result the knowing ones 

 even were somewhat nonplussed, for when Pegina passed 

 the line a winner by long odds from such jammers as Un- 

 dine and Sadie, and when Pea-less, after being led out to the 

 lightship bj f the Commodore's craft, with Triton not far in 

 her wake, fetched the finish with such a lead of the other 

 two-stickers that an exclamation of surprise went up from 

 all hands congregated about the mark-boats off Bay Ridge, 

 it might truly have been surmised that wonderful sailing 

 must have been done in bucking wind and tide on the long 

 beat home. To be sure some allowance must be made for 

 the so-called unexpected results, and it is just possible that 

 thete may be a somewhat modified appearance to affairs at 

 the next meet of the cracks. For so early in the season, 

 with some of them scarcely a fortnight off the ways, owners 

 and skippers may not have got the hang of their craft, nor 

 can it be presumed that the latter were all in their best form. 

 Bui after making all due allowances one way and the other, 

 the fact still remains that Begimt proved herself such a tough 

 customer and such a high pointer in a slashing breeze and 

 smooth sea that under like circumstances her colors may be 

 counted upon as the most troublesome to placeastern among 

 all the best sloops we can muster. She stood up to her sail 

 better than ever before, and doused her topsail only for a 

 few minutes all day. In this her wholesome thirteen 

 tons of lead were talking in a way not to be mis- 

 taken, and when it came to hardening in— her new head- 

 rig, staysail and jib having taken the place of the big baggy 

 jib of the orthodox sloop— told to such advantage that Sadie 

 and Undine, neither of them a slouch under the circumstances, 

 must have opened their eyes in wonder at the handsome style 

 in which the Keyport crack outpointed them on each and 

 every leg. There were other sloops in company and close 

 aboard, whose crews will bear testimony to Pegina' s perform- 

 ances, for they were so close to her on the first board inshore 

 after turning the lightship that there was no chance for a slaut 

 in favor of one or the other, but all had the same wind, and 

 Megina, screwed out on the weather of the lot and out-footed 

 them in a way which leaves no shadow of a doubt that she 

 must be counted about the best in the fleet for the kind of 

 work she had to do on that memorable day. Had the wind 

 been on the beach instead of from the prairies and a bobble 

 made sailing more troublesome to all, we think Undine might 

 have given a better account of herself in comparison; but that 

 remain* to be seen. Peerless owed her lift to windward to 

 three things besides a lucky slant of free wind off the Hook. 

 First, her owner, Mr. Maxwell, had the wheel, and it is ac- 

 knowledged that he is a walking Bay Pilot and Cyclopedia of 

 tides, eddies and the shortest way home ; second, the double- 

 sheeted boom foresail with a lug tailed on set as flat as a 

 board ; and third, a tidy little chunk of lead on her keel held 

 her up to business and made her forercach like a steamboat in 

 the short work along the beach outside. Sloops of class D, 

 35 to 45ft., had some fine sport as the list of entries was ex- 

 cellent ; but unfortunately for a fair test, the fleet split tacks, 

 got adrift from one another, and flukes in the way of puffs 

 and a veering wind did much to modify the value of the 

 tally at the end of the day's sail, for the first became the last 

 and the last first ; still on the whole no fault can be found, 

 for the prizes went to the Rear-Commodore's handsome sloop 

 with Schemer a good second on time allowance. Among the 

 smaller classes the rather limited entries seemed to detract 

 from the interests of their racing, especially as it was just 

 their day considering the very smooth sea. 



The Columbia steamer went over the course with a. large 

 party of members and guests on board, and the Cyclops took 

 out the judges, Messrs. Ed. Arnold, Thos. J. Northall and 

 Geo. M. McNulty, and the regatta committee, Messrs. J. L. 

 Marcellus and Geo. A. Weber. All yachts had their burgees 

 at half mast out of respect to Mr. C. T. Lippitt, of the re- 

 gatta committee, deceased. The wind was blowing fresh, 

 rather more than a topsail breeze, from N.N.W., and the tide 

 about high water. There was not enough sea on to disturb a 

 cockle, and if ever sloops had a day of their own, this was 

 the one. The raciug fleet hove up from the common club 

 anchorage at Gowanus, and ran down to the line, where they 

 stood off and on, waiting for the signal. Like last year, the 

 first signal, or whistle, was unobserved by the yachts, and it 

 was not until the third whistle that the schooners and Class 

 B sloops made for the line, followed rapidly by the rest. 

 The simultaneous lowering of a flag on the judges' boat 

 would obviate making a foul start ; for if the ear fail to catch 

 the whistle, the eye will certainly see the bare pole. Only 

 Lizzie L. and Schemer saved themselves from being handi- 

 capped, a3 they lead across the line inside of the ten minutes 

 allowed. The time of the others was reckoned from the ex- 

 piration of the ten minutes. The start was effected as under; 

 time allowance according to club scale : 



SCHOONERS— CLASS IS. 



Name. Owner. Mean Length, Actual Time, 



FT. IN. H. M. H. 



Peerless J H Maxwell 70 2^ U 14 25 



Agnea ComLAFlsh 5T hy: 11 10 ill) 



Triton GAThayer Hi i% 1115 24 



CABIN SLOOPS— CLASS C, 



Rcgina WAWStowart 48 on 11 IS 2S 



Sadie BECole & il is ;u 



Undine HBryant 52 3 1115 65 



Dolphin JW Cooper 49 ly± II is HO 



CABIN SLOOPS— CLASS D. 



Schemer CSmlthLee 88 Hi n 12 15 



Lizzie L Ill Johnson, >i D 43 OH 11 M 18 



Winsome Rear-Corn A Norton 43 VA, 1116 43 



Pirate TABowoll 45 112150 



fienia Tl'Fiske 40 ZH. 



Kuiscr WHFlelil 41 BM U 24 00 



CABIN SLOOPS— CLASS E. 



Alma WLoomis 21 I 11 IS on 



Nimbus LHBlglow 98 ! 1119 82 



OPEN SLOOPS— CLASS F. 



Pilot R8 Clmreh U B3f 11 30 40 



Oorinue WWBeabe- 23 Ui 1132 10 



CAI-BOATS— CLAB5 <i. 



Wind WmPeet 22 4 il 25 no 



Alcyone G D Mackay 20 7 Lll 21 10 



Schemer w T enl away with working topsail set over a reefed 

 mainsail, but Bhook out the latter before reaching the Nar- 

 rows, the sloops generally with small club topsails over 

 whole lower sail, and the schooners with light duds and big 

 maiutopmast staysails into the bargain. Off Bay Ridge the 

 wiiiil was brought well aft, arid bsUooi 

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