si pi L3, L888.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



129 



Uie Mmnel. 



a i 



,y„rr promy! ,01,-nlu, 



,-s-svr/ I., thr /-'ores' OUl .VI 



nrftVieZimZs, in whose, rm.vene 

 iortnneo nra liable to delay. 



./'■ 



'.cttMons should be ad- 



Publishing Co., "in' not to 

 n the Office matters of im 



FIXTURES. 



I1KSCII SIUIWS. 



• ii ii. Snringfield Bench si,..w. .sprit. ylleld, 

 ,1 v Kiitrii-- . ■ 1 < »- .- Sept. ■iiihcr 10. 



M.iiii.iiinu'mul Chenango Fair A--.- 

 n\ B Ii Sli.iw. Ynungstown. Ohi- I ". ■ 



•al ! 



Annual E.-t.'.-.l." show. Knlrii's elo-e September -W. II. ('relet. Pre* 

 delil. 1 >:' nl i.i l v ('.nun. 



.l.-.n 1 -J -:.'.l lS-f-1. Mende.n Poultry Association lieneh Show, Meri- 

 ■li-ii. ('..mi. .loshua Stnite, Secretary.' Meriiien. Conn. 

 HELD TRIALS, 



November 10. IHfS Eastern Weld Trials Club, Fifth Ami, n.-il Trials, 

 lit lh-h 1 '. .ii.i . N. i' Kniries fur the Derby close July 1: for tin; 

 Members' Sink- N'..v 17; I'-r tin- .AII-Ajr.-il Stake. Nov. I W. A. 

 c,, u i,.,..s. .■■.•(. r V riaii.ush, Lonelslaiid, N. v. 



. :-.;. i;.,i.i,r- island Club's Second Annual Field 

 Trials lit Rol.iii'x Island. I.. I., for me'.i>.,"rs only. Entries Close 

 Sem. 1. A. T. plmmier. S, ciliary 



ffdvember 20, 1883. Part tic ('•• ;-i field Trials Chili. First An"n:.l 

 Trial- nctl Sacramento. Cnl. J. M Hollz. Secretary. Sacramento, Cal. 



I),.,.,.,.,!, ■;■■■■. I-"-'l National \,i„r:.:,i. k.-imel .. lol.. Kill I, Annual 

 Trials, «l lira ml ■.Inn. -lion. Ten". !>■ t'ryson. Secretary, Memphis, 



1 'rV.". : .-iii».. r :j.-i;ili.-.v Rod and (inn ' JlUo'8 Tliir.l Annual Field Trials 



BENCH SHOWS AND FIELD TRIALS. 



ndih a 



Editor Forest mul Stream: 

 I :ii,i truly glad tfwH Col. Stuart Taylor ac 



witli Hi- in '» ang willing to hack on r doss to n 



li-h . ogs. but sorry after his frank and manly 



111. -ii- liih I otialUies. I'. -■■'(■ thai In- -til] adhere 



1., 



ally 



-ll.r 



Buts 

 ratio 



Which I brougbt •' 



aver I I'l-ar the Oi 

 grave one of h-in; 



.•in England 

 own phobia." 

 charge, how- 

 i the equally 



if n-il.her the 



l.l In 



nih- 



il able 



prove? 



seal in 



into 



the dovcl ,o:i (d form, p.^ii'-rer.'l vpc .'to., ha-' led them 

 Serious error. I bavenb Byoipalhy with tbui form of d 

 sion. so-eallled. that prompts every man who differs from 

 another on any practical matter thai is debatable or open to 

 two opinions, to fly back at Ids adversory with personal abuse. 



niti. 



- flw 



interest 

 ; bis 



■,.11 i 





niieh 



H'hv is this: t 

 elevate a purely i 

 of a fixed, exact 

 j for 



•Hip. 



alladvo- 



in-.; il.-i It. for bow -an two 

 i-t.-i.-ton result unless there. 

 lorilv to which tie- can ap 

 its? I -peak now with refer 

 that bench shows are good 



-tan. lard- ci topee to judge 

 nSsof dogs One man thinks 

 other damns the whole lot. 

 ; another thinks he is ineom 

 in their opinions, both have 



gentlemen, you are trying to 

 imental calling to the dignity 

 . were to call on a mathema- 



■ a sph. 



eon, he could tell ydu to a nicety, and could give von a plain 

 distinction bet. ween them all. Ask the naturalist "for the di- 

 tin-tive features "' am plain or other thing in nature, and he 

 will 'iv.. ii. to v. n ... that you -an recognize it wherever von 

 meet with it." Bui when you come down to judge dogs; 

 where Ml- authority on dogs that the world has agreed to 

 accept as law: There is no Court ol Appeals to which tile 

 question -..n l- finally remanded. It is left, to Ui-. fallible 

 individual fudge. Sow does he form Ms opinion* From what, 

 he has read! res, partly. From what he has seen in his ex- 

 perience, long or short., as the ease may ho? Yes. partly. 

 I'mm whal he has "picked up" from other-, and imbibed, 



one way and another, he can't tell you exactly how ... o hour 



Ye- mostly. That- the whole of it. Now. who are this 



jud-c's critics; Siniph interested and disinterest. ,| , pi,.. 



\vh..t.:iv. had iii-l the same opportunities of establishing a 

 "Htandard and a "type" that ih- iudgeiiaa, but who have a 

 . .it .me from his. as might be naturally expected; 

 ditTcrenre of opinion, with no competent an- 

 il,- the matter, then a wrangle and a squabble 

 parties— judge, exhibitors, critics, bystanders, 



Lhnrity 

 bet wee 

 and a n 

 How 

 tered ii 



edged i 



. t!:i 



■ bet 



ir views about 



ict as judges at 

 •niothing like a 

 ivhieh breeders 



led bj 



iL 

 settle, if Colonel Taylor 



of dogs are worthless. 

 pie present, with equal 

 and quite as disinter- 

 i)d lot : 



■On 



.vril.teii about.. Aniericf 

 Dogs'' takes up the 



Dogs 

 . a single 



S" NOW. 



ontradiet 



"head and tail up' ihar. to my eye and in my opinion, 

 ith horse and dog a gamy look'. 1 never saw a do- that 

 a low tail thai didn't hunt with a low head. Perhaps 

 Taylor's experience has lieeii diil'erenl ; if -o, I cannot 



Ci now i 



tor n, ...; 

 good I'oi 



l.d mult i 



ncd tin: 



or ih-ii 

 I dictum i 



dii-ioiiii-.l. 



ri-nee has sh 

 in be laid do. 



■it jockei e.n, ..-. 



id pick out tli 



,o held the rei 

 uld soon 



•^k'tir 



BCOJ. T: 



llusiraiion-, but 1 think I have 

 see all these matters at the 



i-h -how .pialiti—. depend so 

 ■ judire. which diet.i 



xp- 



Hd 



a.rlv all 



ody to 



■ ad- 



,1" 



oiptv 



'thing, it i 



mi. am thills or an 

 s dictum, that it 

 lis a standard by which a hunt- 



e world can be definitely and 



i. ilu-i-n,.i all. Wl,-. is it i lin 

 all and stable show-: Simply 

 that there is no t v| 

 i black and while, by which th 

 o a stablo of ten, or even tiv, 



■janend. If heii-h' show- ar 



d- 



. I didn't say I hadn't seen some bench show champions, for I 

 have. I know the "types" when. I see them: hut I pin tnv 

 faith hist to works, then if you can pur, in the '•tnmmin;,'5.'" 

 all right and good, I'll beiji' to decorate the house after it is 



1 built. 



I hope Col. Taylor will pardon me for continuing to use my 

 nondepHme [.amamodeal man(il 1 do say it ruySeif)', im 

 known to fame, merely a high private in the rear "rank, but 

 liuhtins lor what I '.■■!■■ v • to bo riuhl. I have t real ed the 

 C, .1... n-1 courteously, and would respect him or his ppioione 

 iii-t.a-iiiu.il anderau anonymous name a- under bis bap 

 li.-m-i one Some people don't like to thiu-t ' li-ir names into 

 in- papers, others don't, ear- whether they door not— ratheT 

 pr-f. r to do it. It. is a mere matter Of taste. 1 shall noteriti- 

 cise the Colonel for iisin-- his. bur I trust thai he will allow 

 th- Same privil--c of still calling myself VVhaOK, 



DOGS AND CRITICS. 



in/ Str.-om- 



of Anvils: 80, Mr. Nil 



l Mr 



■a have 

 ay that 



■■!!. 



I .-■ 



fits |if ,/.., 



e with you 

 ■n [that's good, too], and i£ you 

 id grand in bench show form, 

 ipose, thoush, he is good anil 

 1, but don't show up in bench 

 ping to do about it: 

 id. grand, gamy dog on game, 

 ligh, or because, his chest is not 

 hoi- is not so regular ami long, 

 n the right place as you and 

 obc? If you discard this dog. 

 i.at has all these .pialiii.s. and 

 dog on game you so eloquently 

 2 best bench show dogs, ac- 



cording to present types and standards, are notoriously the 



sorriest, doe.- in the'lield trials: And t-ll me, why i- it that. | 



of 



tii- only doglkn 



in'.. 



place on" the hen, 

 the field. He has proven 

 dog both on Ihe bench am 

 that frost-tli is "no p<: 

 m una 1- to think' We pi 

 he.n-li -how judge. He i 

 dogs, and comes t„ ;i,.- i.. 

 bench show crii ie I hat I 

 Taylor, a fair-minded and 

 is. indorses the critic. I . 

 tit to breed line pointer hi 



put do 



i are we Po< 



>r. blind 



hat lills the 



rye of a. 



the field wit 



ii crack 



re are told by 



.•mother 



• 111 



! Oh.uo. Sensation has been "placed'' 

 in both ring and field, too |1 forgot that), but some critic 

 ii think Mr. Mason) ridiculed Sensation, too. Does Mr. Taylor 

 indorse that criticism' 1 could name a dog that I saw at High 

 Poiut last fall in the lield trials that has sinco won distinction 

 on the bunch — several first honors— that was. in my opinion. 

 and I think in that of every sportsman there, as little to bo 

 desired to hunt or shoot over ay any dog that was put down 

 there. Now. tins dog may be, and doubtless is, everything 

 that the bench show- critics d.esire. but what good 'is he? 

 Wouldn't yon rather breed to .Sensation or Croxt-th than to 

 him: If von wouldn't. 1 would, and I fcrusl we will not "fall 

 put" about it either. But if not, why not? 



In mv humble judgment, the best way to promote the de- 

 mtof the sporting dog to the highest perfection, is to 

 e type from the solid foundation of field merit, and 

 not undertake to force, the merit into the bench show dog. In 

 other words, let, us have more field trials and fewer bench 

 shows. More workers in the cause and fewer critics. Sup- 

 pose we had, say, twelve or fifteen held trials in the United 

 States and Canada every fall and winter, beginning in Sep- 

 tember in the Jforth and Northwest and going 



velopmc 

 build th 



Florida: and then in the spring and s 

 :;iich show of the winners. Then Ie 

 hole lot and see wherein ihosewinn 

 lost conformed to the best settled 

 ie dogs that had the. most of those 

 dn't 



following a grand 

 ' .ok over the 



< 111- 



rd t 



i do 



hie -ha 



tha 



nothing but -g 



)od foi 



[f Colonel Tayloi 



agree- 



for this end. I 



et him 



ink and urge up 





i,-t. and let nasi 





the nature of the 





about. Wheny. 



in .-hoiv 



capable ';ii',d e'xp'i 





in the Held and w 



ho has 



an intelligent, a 



latomii 



' 10 



thei 



.had 



Tin 



hii: 



;il 



ud physi 

 .t's the c 

 —the her 



ustitut 

 will lill its proper sph.r 

 til this is don- I see nolhini. 

 .abiding, and our dogs peri-Inn, 



befo 



ood pupp> 



I Bitch wl 



• 1 tin 



irk together 

 il graceful per in the 

 or this desirable ob- 

 it i- impossible, from 

 tisfactory conclusion 

 uteror a s-i:-, thai 

 judgment of honest, 

 id nit all competitors 



critic, then vou can 

 . my friend, to breed 



and the field trials 

 •k in harmony. Uu- 

 i but wrangling and 



'I tf 



ol.'l'l'il 



chaff, 



In tin 



ilk it t 

 t who 



111. Tavl.ll 



vli, 



• dill. 



Id-he 



Opinion i- -> and .-.. and "i )ur Dog- " don't agree with him, a 

 that's th- end of ii. flow can you establish your opinio 

 How controvert hist Experience, intelligence and ot her I hi; 

 . nal. why have -..m a rUr, to Bay that jroiir standi 

 is the correct one, aud r Our Dogs' " staivlard incorrect; I feat- 

 it. wih c.me to tin- • ..mplcxion that the scclarLst was reduced 

 to in defining the difference between "orthodoxy" and ' het- 

 erodoxy." "Orthodoxy," said he. "is mv doxy, and hetero- 

 dox\ is'vourdosv."' 1 think no reflecting mind can lail to 

 perceive the difficulties in the wav of s.i—-.t.:i i.. ■..,■;, -i„,v. .. 

 and ot'-ati-taetoiv or [irohtalile disoussion oi what th- Colo- 

 nel style* Ihe ■It.rui ol do--. A..'aiu. the Colonel linds fault 



with il., « --. - our dogs carry their tails. He s-en.- to like the 

 tad earned straight out, or, in pointers, rather down than up. 

 My experience and mv taste, differs from hi- in this respect. 

 1 like to see a dog cany his tail woll up, uot curled, lrut that 



m our \ 



all. 



V 



t beeatno 



li -a: 







struct very rapidly a 



bridge. ; 



icrt 



.s 



a stream. 



There 



\i ; 



sin 1 



is command this chief 



quartet 



ma 



-t< 



r) a very 



plain a 



ad 



lined 



ucated but practical 





ho 



In 



id made 



a fortm 



e 



at ra 



lroad building. The 



Chief E 







11 in C.ipt 



ren orde 



Mason. 



th 



about 

 i quar 



if..- budge, and in- 

 termaster. to aid him 



Etrmted to 



■ ■; 



with a 



lor 





of negroc- 



s. Befo 



•e 



it wa 



3 fairly light in the. 



mornm 



_ ;! 



c 



:aptaiu h 



id his fo 



•-. 



in th 



e. woods and the tini- 



bers wc 







u ready f< 



r the hri 



lg 



:. 8o 



rapid were, his opera- 









hen the 



Engtnae 





who 



mil sat up all night 



•.'id'"!!? 



di 





:in- and ( 



ra wings 

 Major,' 1 



ol 



ipt 



theb 

 d beg 

 'aptai 



I't got 



ridge, appeared near 

 an to unfold his plans 



i. with nn impatient 

 glance at the plans, 



no time now to look 



al plcti 



res 





i ■ - i i : ai- 



•al Jacks 



oil 



heca 



u cross the bridge one 



bom- f i- 



OUl 



tJ 



ds time;' 



and th 



1 



ridge 



was doue in the ap- 



pointet 



time. 



Euginot 



rs are ve 



ry 



good 



and necessary people, 



ol tie Condon, Ontario, short of 1881, I need sot 

 this is untrue. I was neither the paid nor unpaid manager for 

 Mr. I'adelfordor any other man. but 1 did advise Mr. P. not, 

 to enter his dogs on thai o— asiou. as I felt sure that -om- 

 gruiublor with no more manners than brains, might ad- 

 vance some unfair inference, and possibly attempt soma slut- 

 on my character. Had Mr. Niveri. before his departure, con- 

 sulted Mr. Lincoln, he would, I think, have been informed of 

 the nature of a correspondence 1 had with that gentleman 

 before ihe show took place. Mr. Niven. you see, attacked 

 my reputation but carefully avoided giving us "h is" experience 

 with "dogs,' which is what 1 challenged him to do if he ex- 

 pected me to notice him. It. is the old slorv over again. No 

 esperien. a flo knowledge of the. .pie-t.ioifnt issue and there 

 fore abuse as the only exit. I was not diseu-siug mv honesty. 

 V was writing about "dogs" and ihe ability of two men to 

 understand them. My reputation never was, and never will 

 be placed in the hands of Messrs. Ivirk and Niven for indorse- 

 ment, it stands before a "somewhat" higher tribunal. What 

 has my character to do with their experience, or moral right 

 to have gone into a ring i o judge twenty or thirty breeds or 

 dogs, when neither the one nor the other could prove that he 

 possessed Ihe necessary .piahli.atious to judge one single 

 variety. 



It is untrue that 1 told Mr. Niveri that if he put a litttle oil 

 on a hard ball of cotton, and rubed it iuto Ids curly-coated 

 dogs, it would "straighten their jackets." How could it: Such 

 talk is worse than idle, it is sill v. Anvwav. what has this to 

 do wit.ii th-ir experience, beyond proving that r could make 

 them believe the mo-ii is made of cream-choose if I so wished! 

 Why did Mr/. Niv-n not cnl.-r into a discussion on the qualities 

 of the various ingredients pounded into pills, lor they have. 

 quite a- much bearing on this case as either "oil" or "cotton 

 balls." 



The next statement is a misconstruction of what I wrote. 

 Weare t.. Id. that I acknowledge, that all ttiv dogs judged 

 .mark ihe word) by Mr. Niven at the U". K.' C show. 1SS1, 

 were more .a- less faked. Why did not Mr. Niven advance 

 -oiuv.-ensii.lc argument in support of such a flagrant injustice 

 to myself? The old story— no knowledge: heaps of abuse. I 

 am here compelled to quote what I did write, on the question 

 of faking, aud the disinterested and impartial reader will 

 form hi- own opinion as to whether Mr. Niven has not mis- 

 represented my remarks. Here it is; 



Dr. Nix.:, tens u- that Mr. Kirk made a mistake in awarding a 

 prize to n dog whoso tail was shaved, hut this great discoverer ..f 

 -1..H ■•■! tails forgets thatat the Sew YorkPhoiv of l«tl, he awarded 

 tost prize, and seeondprlze also, In one class to dogs with shaved 



ability , ill.. ir ••! Mr Kirt or his friend to discover any ease of faking 



A word about Mr. Niven's bench show record. No! 1 do 

 "not" call it winning the highest honors at "our" chows to 

 secure a first prize at Cleveland with Mr. Kirk in the ring! 

 Certainly nut—most emphatically, uo! As for bhetwento 

 three first prizes won by Mr. Niven. dining his lifetime 1 inav 

 sav that 1 consider -uch a performance a sorrv on- inde-d. If 

 Mr. Niven had referred to the /V»-ov.." Chro)\Scle of August 

 1880, he would have found that I won forty-two first prizes at 

 -;x -ue< ,-s-ive-hows in hot competition (not at Cleveland) and 

 though it was considered a big thiug at the time, f never saw 

 anythingin ii to brag about. I mention thefact now, simply to 



-how Mr. Nive.n that twenty-three lii-st prizes for a "lit'eliiue" 

 was nothing— an insignificant nothing. Mr. Niven has admitted 

 his inability to reply to my letter (I knew it wa- too much for 

 him). 



stamp as those of his medical adviser. This man much nv 

 semhied the eel, he had a decided knack of twisting him- -If 

 t of the way of danger: slippery— very slippery— but, of 



finally 



ehl 



but when you want a bridg. 

 man to do it. Bench shows are ve 

 and. above all. ornamental thin 

 field dog get. one that, can do th( 

 n he don't quite come up to the 



•do. 



:id the Chi 



if you want a good 

 teetmium rutem, and 

 colored' -type" don't 



win wail and other 

 •th at him. but take 

 iead. and il \ on come. 



and get a puppj out 



ices arc that you will 

 live. That fins been 



Faking, Mr. Editor, I admit is dishonest, and when discov- 

 ered should be severely punished; but there are. mean con- 

 temptible actions fur biii-kci. and which outside the question 

 nl gio-s ignorance and thorough lack of experience, should 

 prevent a man ever being allowed to enter a judging ring, 

 even if the promoters of a -how are "hard up," aiidcaunot find 

 a qualified ma" No need under auv circumstances to estab- 

 lish and perpetuate bad precedenta 



In concluding his attack on the Mayor of Bingley, Mr. 

 K'irk. it will be remembered, wrote: 



V- to the -ixiy p: t/-- 1.. is -il I to have won, a gentleman who, I 



him. recently said to me: "I don't ear- that 



.-ii.inpn.g Ui> lnigei> ;,., |,, i/.., .■..■:, in Knglatid. [Ie .naming a eer- 



Now. no man possessed of his reason could mis-omtrue this 

 language. The writer, in order to carrv his point, informed 

 us that a gentleman who once owned the dog told him tins 

 In my reply I indirectly charged Mr. Kirk with concocting 

 this statement to cover'his own ignorance, aud make the pub- 

 lie believe that his Ideas about Newfoundlands were correct, 

 and those of all good judges wrong. I have no need to charge 

 hun indirectly now. He. proves himself also to have attempted 

 by foul means to damage my character and reputation, lor he 

 distinctly gave it out that I bribed our judges into awarding 

 prizes to Mayor of Bingley. He. was not aware at the time that 

 his blows would fall short on account of the dog being owned 

 hi Mr. Wildman, but the mean attempt remains, ueverthe- 

 less. My answer must be quoted in order to expose the tac- 

 tics— the unfair, contemptible means resorted to— in order to 

 get himself out of the difficulty. 1 replied as follws: 



Itii 

 hi Engl,! 



■ p i:. g bird, log.- ar, long 



my i-ule, and 1 And it works prert; 



Nowlamdone. 1 have had mv sav. t know 1 handicapped 

 myself by saying I had never seen ri bench show. But mind 



rv to allude o. Hi.- -..•■• r-sol |,iiz.- w,,n ie, the Mayor 

 uiau.r and Am«rica,mil I cannot ullow Mr Kirk's 

 unrmimy cnarge ag.u..-. .,:: ..in I rend lo pass unnoticed Mr Wild- 

 manresiileKl.nl siv.,r -even mil- trnm mj land We 



saw Cil-h ..t!;ci eoii-tanth . and nev.-i ,!;■■■ .• i a week to pass without 



liming a good tali i Newfoundlands. Ii woe a kennel Mr. Wild- 



man on i-n.-.t. n,-,-.. ;.,.., ..,,,.- ..,y„ r of 



Bingley. Leo. Lion iwiuuei- at the last Uii ■uiingliiiui shoe.'., lilaek 

 Prince. Pr. men, .. 'iyp.-.c and many olhers. l'he.\ formed thegrand- 

 estcoUeptlon -ver seen together, and bonrs havelspont studymjr 



