FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Mat 20, 1880. 



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Twentt-eight Pages.— The pressure upon our 

 columns this week, caused by the very full report of the 

 Dog Show, obliges us to add four extra pages to our 

 regular number, twenty-four. By doing this we are 

 enabled to do full justice to the show, and at the same 

 tiruo to give the other departments of the paper their 

 usual amount of space. 



— Under the heading " Pedestrianism " a western paper 

 notes Col. Bodine's selection as Captain of the American 

 Rifle Team to visit Ireland. The editor probably means 

 to intimate that our boys will have a walk over and walk 

 away with the prize. 



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— Two prize fighters, with their crowds of hangers-on, 

 have been skulking about for more than a week trying to 

 find a spot on the Canadian border where they may in- 

 dulge in a bout. The authorities have so far proved too 

 alert, and the probability is that the contemplated fight 

 will, in consequence, be frustrated. All of which is to 

 the credit of th e Canadian authorities. 



—The list of prizes to be given at the Seneca Falls Con- 

 vention nest week is large and attractive. The prospect 

 is that the convention will be largely attended, and 

 marked by some close competitions. Wo bespeak for all 

 attending sportsmen an enjoyable visit at Seneca Falls, 

 and for the convention harmony and the best of feeling. 

 Next year the Fobest and Stream hopes to welcome the 

 clubs to the eastern part of the State. 



— Yesterday was the one hundredth anniversary of the 

 Now England " dark day," The Connecticut Legisla- 

 ture was in session at the time, discussing the laws regu- 

 lating the shad and alewife fisheries. One of the number, 

 thinking that the Day of Judgment had come, moved an 

 adjournment, but Abraham Davenport, who would be 

 ready and at Ma post of duty when the Lord called, di- 

 rected the candles to be brought in, and then, amid the 

 thunders of the tempest, discussed the bill. No more 

 picturesque incident ever occurred in the history of 

 game and fish legislation. 



— Every member of the Long Island Sportsman's As- 

 sociation should be present at the meeting to-morrow 

 night. All who may desire to attend the Convention will 

 then be furnished reduced excursion tickets. 



THE NEW YORK DOG SHOW. 



THE brilliant display of dogs which, during the past 

 week, drew thousands of delighted admirers to 

 the Madison Square Garden, adds another to the many 

 claims which the Westminster Kennel Club have to the 

 gratitude of the citizens of this city in paiticular and 

 the country in general. In a thousand or more stalls 

 were gathered sample animals, illustrating the perfection 

 of canine breeding, and showing to what a fine result an 

 intelligent selection of sires may reach. An analysis of 

 the list of entries shows that there is enough of fine dog- 

 stock owned and bred in the city of New York to make 

 a creditable display, for beyond the dog dealers of the 

 country and the kennels whose interest it is that repre- 

 sentation should be made at every important bench 

 show, the bulk of the entries came from the metropolis. 

 This is the more noteworthy in the classes of hunting 

 dogs, enough pointers and setters being owned in the city 

 to supply a small army of gunners. 



When the assertion is made by critics of narrow view 

 that the desire for field sports of a legitimate sort is wan- 

 ing, and that the segregation of people in cities crushes 

 out the desire for a run over the stubble in search of 

 game, reply may be pointed at the dog show. The true 

 sporting idea is strong in New York, and the number of 

 fine guns owned in this city is in good proportion to 

 the number of fine dogs, while the rash that takes place 

 at the opening of the trout season, and the steady stream 

 of anglers who go out from the city to the Long Island 

 ponds, to the Pennsylvania brooks, or even to the rivers 

 of Canada, testify that this branch of the sportsman's 

 guild has its many votaries. The dog show goes to dem- 

 onstrate in another way what the subscription books of 

 the Forest and Stream may furnish documentary evi- 

 dence of — that the great cities of this country are full of 

 men who are sportsmen in spirit, of skill in woodcraft, 

 and able to hold their own in the field, able to cast a fly 

 or send a long, killing shot after duck or woodcock, while 

 to the superficial observer they are the busy men of the 

 counting room or the shop. Bench bIiows may aid to 

 swell this class by inculcating a love of the dog where it 

 may not now exist, for it seems to us that no one could 

 pass up and down the long aisles of the show last week 

 and not be possessed with a desire to own one or another 

 of the fine specimens there on exhibition. 



The show had, besides, a missionary effect in another 

 way — in teaching dog owners and dog lovers what is 

 really good in their specialty. There are in this city to- 

 day thousands of dogs whose only claim to an existence 

 is that they exist, and their only Balvation from the de- 

 struction of the dog pound is the fact that they have 

 owners who have not yet been brought up to the point of 

 noting the good from the bad in a dog way, There 

 should be a grand clearing out of the mongrel curs that 

 infest our streets and bring bad repute on man's best 

 friend by becoming man's nearest enemy. Bench shows, 

 properly conducted, will demonstrate that there are dogs 

 worth even the seemingly fabulous prices of the fanciers' 

 catalogue, while there are others to whom a speedy termi- 

 nation of their existence would be a godsend indeed. 

 Every properly constituted person is a natural dog lover ; 

 false teaching or erroneous early impressions may leave, 

 through fife, antipathies to the animal, but these cases 

 are rare and abnormal. While this fact of a general love 

 between dog and man holds, it does not follow that the 

 ability to distinguish the good from the bad in dogdom 

 is equally wide, One may learn to love even a "yaller 

 dorg," but such affection is misplaced, when there is the 

 possibility of owning animals so intelligent and so 

 near the speaking level as were to be seen on the Madison 

 Square Garden benches. With them we should have 

 none of this hydrophobia excitement, which now and then 

 sweeps over the community when 8ome snappish Spitz 

 or still more ignoble cur shows its bad blood by inserting 

 its poison-laden fangs into friend and foe indifferently. 

 The condemnation is general, while the real blame and 

 danger is very circumscribed. We want sharp, clear and 

 well-enforced dog laws, rooting out the sheep-killing, 

 manger-occupying, howling brutes that are a curse alike 

 to city and country. But we want with them a clear ap- 

 preciation of the fact that a dog, per se, is not an animal 

 to be hunted after or treated with neglect. " Love me 

 love my dog" is a good motto where the dog is worth the 

 loving, and where it is not it is pretty certain that tin? 

 owner, too, lacks some lovable qualities. "While every 

 one may not own dogs, it is but just that every one should 

 have a clear appreciation of the important place which 

 the animal fills, and have an intelligent comprehension 

 of his good and bad points, as shown in the various 

 classes. This is the mission of the bench show. Field 

 trials are well in their way, and as the necessary comple- 

 ment of the bench show their importance is beyond ques- 

 tion. There is no antagonism between them, and the 

 tests by one set of rules are to be completed by tests 

 under the other set ; but there are a hundred points of 

 importance to be reached by a bench 'show which the 

 field trial fails entirely to touch. Thousands who should 

 become intelligent champions of the dog may be drawn 

 to a bench show, where one may attend a dog trial in the 

 open ; hence, the importance of an earnest support of 



the one class of show without making any disparagement 

 of the other. Herein lies the mission of theWestinin- 

 ster Kennel Club in this city. 



There are points against which criticism may fairly be 

 launched in connection with such displays, and where 

 the element of competition is brought so prominently* 

 forward there are always certain to be heart burnings, deep! 

 and many, where there are forty eager and expectant 

 owners, each seeing all perfection in his particular favcw' 

 rite, and only one blue ribbon to be awarded. The paetl 

 show has, however, been fairly above the suspicion! 

 of a grumble on this ground. No one doubts but that the 

 judging was fearlessly, ably and impartially conducted; 

 each dog got his due, or very nearly it, and while the 

 blue ribbon dog may not have been, in each class, a per- 

 fect model of that particular breed, still, in that particu« 

 lar collection of dogs brought before the judge there is ndf 

 room to doubt that it was the best. There are diil'er-.i 

 ences in the classes of dogs shown, and there is yet much 

 to be done in developing a higher standard and a nearer 

 approach to the model dog in many of the classes. Still, 

 this remark does not apply to the most, important class 

 of the show, if it is proper to place the setters in that po- 

 sition, and the judges who came over and so kindly gay 

 New York and the Westminster Kennel Club the bene; 

 of their experience and special knowledge, were indei 

 within bounds when they used such adjectives as "s 

 perb," "grand," and "magnificent,'' in speakiug of < 

 pointer and setter classes. The club has done good servi 

 at home, and it has done more ; this show just closet 

 is bound to produce good results abroad. We have 

 cured the best that English kennels can furnish ;an<lsoo 

 our Parole exploits on the turf will be followed by equal 

 signal victories on the bench and in the field trial. There 

 are many to-day who w r ould not exchange their Amer 

 can breech-loader for any of the vaunted English make 

 of guns, and to-day any one in search of a fine sportin 

 dog need look no further than the advertising column 

 the Forest and Stream to find the proper place to bu 

 He will secure the very best by staying on this side i 

 ocean, and there never yet, at any bench show, was ( 

 lected a finer lot of animals ; and the quality of the li 

 show may best be judged when the numbers in < 

 class is taken into account. 



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Lessons from Another Log. — As will be seen I 

 our Bpecial correspondence from the Pacific, yachting 

 the Western shores has taken a boom. This is due in 

 small measure to the untiring energy and zeal display 

 by the officers of the San Francisco Yacht Club. 

 stuff they are made of appears from the following < 

 tract from their gallant Commodore's annual repot 

 and we only regret that want of space prevents c 

 printing his remarks in full :— 



"I point to our fleet of yachts with pride, for althouj 

 inferior in number to some of the Eastern chilis, it v 

 compare with them very favorably in all that pertains 

 seamanship, outfit, maintenance, comfort, sea-goin 

 qualities and speed ; and it is with pleasure that I eongi 

 ulate you upon the marked improvement in the style au( 

 mannerin which youryachts are now kept. ... Yo 

 Commodore certainly set you a good example last ye 

 for out of 192 days that the Frolic was in coi 

 she wa3 cruising 104 days, and I sincerely hope to 

 able to do quite as well this season. . . ." 



Eastern men who keep their yachts rotting at i 

 moorings seven days a week can well follow the exampl 

 of the Frolic, and if the " fixtures" of some of our clu 

 exhibited the spirit shown on the Pacific the sense! 

 cry about handicapping to bring enough yachts to 

 line to make up a race would never have original 

 What our large clubs need is to take a lesson from 

 smaller ones, to wake up from their somnolent sloth, a 

 to put a little more life into club existence. We h 

 taken several wrinkles already from the Pacific ; we ha 

 learned from them to offer prizes for seamanship, a 

 we have learned that the yawl is well adapted for our 

 waters, and we can learn from them just a little more 

 how to arrange a series of matches and cruises that \ 

 keep the club alive and before the public and theinselva 

 a little oftener than one solitary, broiling-hot day 

 June, coupled with a lazy drift and a paucity of e 

 and perhaps a noisy "excursion" down a mill-pont 

 mid-summer— the same stale old "programme" w° 

 out one iota of progress or development since the < 

 of the last generation. Have our great clubs no leaded 

 who can see deeper into the sport than the bottom of 4 

 wine glass? Why do they not speak out ; why let a club 

 drift to leeward like a crab when slight effort on their 

 part can readily overcome the drag of the lubber element 

 ever present in a country where, the sport is new? 



The Team to Ikeland.— The exchanges from Ireland 

 and England come laden with notes of the preparation 

 and hospitality which the hosts on the other sid< 

 paring for our team. Major Leech is actively at work 

 gathering together bis team, in a rather iniscella 

 way, to be sure, but one which in the Major's | 

 seems to be as effective as any other, There is a c 

 a rush to practice, and while not much of team 



