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FIXTURES. 



BP/NCH SHOWS. 



March 5. 1H85.— World's Exposition Dog Show, New Orleans, La. 

 Entries close Feb. 33, L, F. Whitinau, Superintendent. 



March 18, 19 and BIT. 1SS5.— Second Annual Show of the New Haven 

 Kennel Club. E. S. Porter, Secretary, New Haven, Conn. 



April 7 to 10. 1885.— First Annual Dor Show N. E. Kennel Club, 

 Music Hall, Boston. J. A. N ickerson, .secretary. 159A Tremont street. 



April 21. 29 and 33.— Annual Dog Show of the St. Louis Gun Club. 

 W. A. Albright. Secretary. St. Louis, Mo. 



April 28. 29, 30 and May 1.— Nmth Annual Dog Show of the West- 

 minster Kennel Club at Madison Square Garden. Entries close April 

 14. James Mortimer. Superintendent, 48 Broad street, New York. 



May 5, 8. 7 and 8. 1885.— Second Annual Pog Show of the Cincin- 

 nati Sportsman's Club. Cincinnati, O. \V. A. Coster, Superintendent. 



May i 3, Hand 15.— Third An Dual Dog Show of the Toronto Dog 

 Show Association. W. S. Jackson, Secretary, Toronto. Ont. 



June 2, 3, 4 and 5.— First Annual Dog Show of the Illinois Kennel 

 Club. John H. Savior, Secretary. 3,182 Archer avenue, Chicago, HI. 



THE DOG SHOW RULES. 



IT is satisfactory to observe that the common sense way of 

 looking at the championship rules of the A. K. C. is pre- 

 vailing. The Westminster Kennel Club have had the good 

 judgment to adopt the rule as originally advanced, ignoring 

 the Cincinnati construction. With the. influence of two such 

 important shows as New York and New Haven on the right 

 side, it may be taken for granted that the others will adopt 

 the same ruling, and that we shall have no more blundering 

 about this rule and no further attempts to follow the absurd- 

 ities of the supposed Cincinnati meeting. 



NEW HAVEN DOG SHOW. 



THE entries for this show will close next Saturday, March 7. 

 "We understand that the entiles already received are suffi- 

 cient to insure an exhibition of high character. Many of the 

 cracks will be there. A large number of valuable special prizes 

 have been offered, and nearly every class will receive one or 

 more of them. Many of the specials are cash, and range in 

 value f ro m $5 to $25. 



The secretary's address is Mr, E. S. Porter, P. O, Box 657, 

 New Haven, Conn. 



NEW YORK DOG SHOW. 



THE premium list of the ninth annual dog show of the 

 Westminster Kennel Club is now ready for distribution. 

 The premiums offered are the same as last year. There have 

 been some changes in the classification; the berghund classes 

 have wisely been omitted, the blaefc and tan setter puppies 

 have but one class instead of two. A class has been added for 

 English retrievers, and the champion Irish water spaniel class 

 is omitted. Tho second prize for wire-haired fox-terriers is 

 a medal instead of So. and in the two fox-terrier puppy classes 

 there are two prizes, WO and medal, instead of only a medal, 

 The same change is also made in collie puppy classes. There 

 is a class for champion bull bitches added and one for bull 

 puppies, with medal for prize. The bull-terriers have two 

 more classes than last year, a champion and open class for 

 bitches over 25 pounds. The Bedlington and Skye terriers 

 have separate classes for bitches. The jioodles have two 

 classes for black and one class for other than black. The total 

 number of classes is 135, against 1 10 last year. The show will 

 be held under the rules of the A. K. C., which have been 

 added to, modified and altered to suit the occasion. The club 

 has shown good sense in omitting the extra champion class 

 and ignoring the "construction" of the champion rule. 



BOSTON DOG SHOW. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



As we have no miscellaneous classes in our premium lists, 

 we have decided that when we receive two or more entries of 

 dogs of a recognized breed not provided for in our premium 

 list, we will make a separate class for them. 



In addition to our regular prizes, we shall give special prizes 

 to the value of at least $1,000. These special prizes are being 

 donated by friends of the club, and as soon as the list is com- 

 pleted, probably next week, will advise you. Entries are com- 

 ing in, and judging from letters received from many exhibitors, 

 our selection of judges has proved a lucky hit. With the per- 

 mission oC Mr. J. P. Kirk, we have transferred the black and 

 tan terrier a.d Chesapeake Bay classes to Mr. James Watson. 

 Judges will be appointed for classes not provided for when the 

 entries are all in. 



The dies for our medals are in the hands of the engraver, and 

 we feel safe in saying that these medals will be the finest ever 

 given in this country, both in design and workmanship. Our 

 diplomas will stand on a par with the medals, the design being- 

 unique, and the engraving being done by one of the best 

 artists. 



I would particularly request exhibitors when making en- 

 tries, to state their preference for money prize or medal; in the 

 event of then - dogs winning, this will enable us to promptly 

 settle with exhibitors, and will prevent faultfinding at the 

 prizes awarded. J. A. Nickerson, Sec'y. 



THE SIZE OF BEAGLES. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Assuming that all hounds, whether fox, harrier, basset or 

 beagle, are strictly dogs of the chase. That those who do their 

 special work in the most satisfactory manner are the ones we 

 seek. That the purpose and object of this discussion in the 

 Porest and Steeam is to show which dog is best suited for 

 the work. i. e. rabbit hunting, and that the question is one to 

 be considered solely from the hunting standpoint. All senti- 

 ment, hobby or fancy bench show attributes being an outside 

 issue. 



Having thus stated the case, I am in full accord with 

 "Houndry"in his last article on "Size of Beagles." After a 

 patient trial of the small beagles, extending through several 

 years, I have given him up as being entirely unfit for hunting 

 our American hare or rabbit. Their first defect is that they 

 are not true runners as a rule, have too many checks, and 

 when they make a loss, are too much inclined to puzzle and 

 tongue in the same spot. Even if they make the run straight 

 away, tbey do not drive fast enough for our extensive covers, 

 causing the sport to become tedious, affording few shots, or if 

 hunted without the gun, rarely running in on their game. 



Another drawback is then - want of stamina both in held and 

 kennel. In distemper the whelps seem to have no powers of 

 resistance, and fade away and die apparently from sheer 

 inanition. I have come to the conclusion that for rabbit hunt- 

 ing in our extensive woods and branches with all the natural 

 difficulties of hills, rocks, brambles, bushes and what not, our 

 American beagle (?), a dog of harrier appearance and of 

 dubious origin, but with a strong suspicion of foxhound in his 

 ancestry (judging from, his size and other departures from 

 beagle character) is the dog after all. Many are the times I 

 have seen such a dog pick up a trail when the little beagles 

 were hopelessly out on a loss, hit it off full cry, leaving the 

 pack in the lurch, aud driving the hare to a double, bring it 

 back to the gun. 



Dwarf beagles look very x>retty in a pack and make nice 

 pets, but there their mission ends. ' Sportsmen can respect and 

 love the dog that meets all tho requirements of the hunting 

 field, even if only ordinary in looks, but the pretty, useless 

 one is a nuisance and a disappointment. If, like "Houndry," 

 our hound men wtuld tell us through the columns of the Porest 

 and Stream of their honest experience on the beagle question 



without fear of treading on the toes of beagle breeders and 

 speculators (many of whom never hunted a hound in their 

 lives), they would truly serve the interests of sportsmen. 



Sedge. 

 Delaware County, Pa. 



JUDGING AT NEW HAVEN. 



Editor Forest and. Stream: 



I am sorry that I cannot bear Mr. Mortimer out in his asser- 

 tion in yotJT issue of last week. On the 20th of January 1 

 wrote Mr. Mortimer, asking if he would continue judging, 

 and intimating, as he states, that he probably could select his 

 own classes, but the letter was not an official one in any sense, 

 and I had no idea but that the classes eventually assigned him 

 would be his choice. In answer, Mr. Mortimer wrote that, 

 "In regard to judging, of course, I shall not judge again at 

 New York, but will superintend shows given by the W. K. C. 

 At the same time, there is nothing that I know of to prevent 

 my judging at other shows outside of New York." Not a 

 word about the Westminster dogs. I telegraphed Mr. Mor- 

 timer, asking if he would take the deerhounds, greyhounds, 

 terriers, etc, when we had the lease of the Armory assured. 

 Mr. Mortimer replied by letter declining the classes, and stat- 

 ing in this letter that the "W. K. C. intended showing, in 

 which case he would prefer not to judge at all." A little 

 further on in the same letter he says, "In judging at shows 

 like yours when there would be other judges, I would only 

 undertake the following classes: Mastiffs, St. Bernards, col- 

 lies, fox-terriers, bull-terriers, had I these classes, I would be 

 willing to take greyhounds or any other classes the committee 

 might wish." 



Since Mr. Mortimer has asked me to explain I have done so, 

 E. S. Porter, Secretary N. H. K. C. 



New Haven, Conn., Feb. 26. 



BENCH SHOW RULES. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



The bench show committee of the New England Kennel 

 Club, while willing to credit you with all kindly feeling 

 toward tho club and good wishes for the success of the coming 

 show, feel that you have strangely misrepresented them in 

 your remarks about Rule 8. 



In the first place, the committee have made no construction 

 of the rule, but have simply inserted the rule, verbatim, as 

 adopted at the Cincinnati meeting. At the same meeting it 

 was decided that a club might use its own judgment about 

 having an extra champion class; the committee decided not 

 to. You will therefore see that all your remarks about the 

 New England version, construction, interpretation, etc., were 

 not only uncalled for, but decidedly at fault. 



The committee have no sympathy whatever with the so 

 called Major Taylor construction of Rule 8, nor can they see 

 how any man or body of men in their senses could so construe 

 It, er for a moment doubt as to the original intention of the 

 adopters of that ride, but believing in the majority rule, 

 and having no evidence that the meeting at Cincinnati was 

 not legally held, and all the. parties represented at that meet- 

 ing who were claimed to have been, could not see any other 

 course for them to pursue than to insert the rule as it appears 

 in the premium list, and have seen no reason thus far for mak- 

 ing any change. 



If the Porest and Stream can prove to the committee that 

 there was anything done at the above meeting which was not 

 strictly legal or regular, Ihe proper alteration will be only too 

 gladly made. T. C. Faxon, 



For the Bench Show Committee, New England K. C. 



Boston. March 2. 



[Rule 8 of the New England Kennel Club rules as published 

 is a portion of Rule 8 as constructed by Major Taylor, but it is 

 not the rule verbatim at all. A part cannot be the whole. It 

 is not the business of Forest and Stream to hunt up evidence 

 for the New England Committee. They must manage then' 

 own affairs, and we must comment on matters as we find them 

 The committee of the New England show will have seen by 

 this time that they stand quite alone in their following out of 

 Major Taylor's interpretation ot Rule 8, and feeling as they 

 do about this "construction," we do not quite see why they 

 should cling to it longer. We think that they had much better 

 even now fall in fine with the other clubs and repudiate the 

 Cincinnati meeting. . The New Haven Club and the 

 Westminster Kennel Club have come practically to 

 the conclusion which we recommend. We know that 

 the New England Club is made up of gentlemen who 

 are enthusiastic lovers of the dog, and who are anxious 

 to do everything within power to raise dog shows to 

 their proper'place in the minds of the public. That they have 

 made an error of judgment seems clear, and ws are convinced 

 that if they believe this, they will have no hesitancy about 

 acknowledging it and dotng~ what they can to repair it. It 

 scarcely seems necessary to allude to the committee's remarks 

 about our feelings toward them and our wishes for the coming 

 show. If they have as good a show as we hope lor, then there 

 will be no complaints at 150 Tremont street the week after 

 the exhibition closes.] 



CLUBS AND SHOWS. 



Editor Forest and Stream : 



Look at the men who constitute the W. K. C. ; do they not 

 represent wealth, influence aud honor? If we cannot place 

 confidence in these people, then in the name of common sense 

 whom can we trust? Perfect institutions and perfect people 

 (except in their own estimation) are scarce, if not entirely ab- 

 sent in this world. And to show Mr, Mason that even he is 

 not free from inconsistency, I will here relate some facts. The 

 first time 1 ever saw the now most familial- signature of C. H. 

 Mason, was under a criticism of "Dogs at the New York 

 Show," in Forest and Stream about four years ago. Talking 

 of the pointers shown there, he said: "A weedier, seedier lot 

 it was never my misfortune to behold;" and Gregory's Belle, 

 unplaced (I bred her), was one of that same lot. Since this 

 opinion of Mr. Mason's was published, he gave that same Belle 

 first prize. I believe it was at Washing-ton; and from his let- 

 ter in Forest and Stream of Jan. 29, 1885, I quote as follows: 

 "Vision (Croxteth— Vinnie), though by no means a bad bitch, 

 did not deserve second, and was clearly beaten by Gregory's 

 Belle." 



There is nothing improper in criticising the rules of any show, 

 and I know the managers of the New York dog show are 

 anxious to get their rules as near perfection as possible ; but I 

 hate abuse or slander, particularly when personally applied, and 

 I fail to see the absurdity of Rule 12 of the W. K. 0. If charges 

 cannot be brought forward during the show, how can the 

 managers, who are all professional and business men, be ex- 

 pected to be forever ready to devote time and attention to the 

 settling of real or imaginary troubles? The well-known rule 

 adopted by all the clubs in the country, which excludes from 

 running or showing dogs, all persons who have been proved 

 to have acted dishonorably in any way in connection with 

 dogs, dog shows or field trials, I think should suffice to meet 

 all difficulties as far as can be expected, that might originate 

 from fraudulent entries, etc. The readers of the Forest 

 and Stream are tired of hearing .charges and insinuations 

 against the W. K. C, and as one of your readers, 1 respect- 

 fully ask for an editorial comment on the subject. I think 

 such is due your readers, due to tho members of the much- 

 abused club, and due to justice. 



If Mr. Mason has been 'badly treated, is there not a paper in 

 the country fearless enough to defend him in an editorial? If 

 he has not been unfairly dealt with, then why allow so much 

 abuse, and such serious insinuations against not only the 

 W. K. C, but against private individuals, to pass through 

 your columns without a comment? Does the Forest and 

 Stream by its silence indorse all that Mr. Mason has advanced? 



This question has occurred to my mind forcibly, as it probably 

 has to many others, and there is no doubt but an editorial re- 

 mark frorn the Forest and Stream on the subject, will be of 

 interest to all its readers. I have no personal dislike to Mr. 

 Ma-:on nor prejudice against his dog Beaufort, and am sorry 

 that he has made it impossible for me to remain silent by his 

 persistent and unjustifiable attacks on those whom I know to 

 be honorable and above board. Luke W, White. 



Thomasvjm.e, N. p., February, 1885. 



[Mr, White is evidently sincere and his mOuMes therefore 

 merit attention. 1. No insinuations against the private char- 

 acter of any members of the Westminster Kennel Club have 

 ever been made in these columns. When persons have been 

 mentioned by name it has only been when reference was made 

 to them hi their official capacity. 2. The actions of the club 

 and of its officers in connection with public shows have been 

 criticised; and these are perfectly legitimate and proper sub- 

 jects of criticism, no matter how dazzling the wealth, pio- 

 digious the influence and exalted the honor of the individuals 

 wiio compose the club. 3. In regard to Rule 12— no persons 

 have any business to voluntarily incur responsibilities that 

 they cannot afford to discharge. In the particular case hi 

 question it is charged that at a public dog show a certain fraud 

 was perpetrated. Having provided the occasion for such 

 alleged fraud, the club managers are bound to inquire into it 

 and determine justice. They can decently shirk this respons- 

 ibility neither on the business and professional plea made for 

 them by Mr. Wln'te, nor by such an Owlegla ss stratagem as was 

 the club secretary's written reply to the individual who charged 

 the fraud and called for the investigation. 4. The Forest and 

 Stream has not editorially defended Mr. Mason because it has 

 not presumed him to be in need of any defense. He is not the 

 defendant in the case, he is the plaintiff.] 



WHO IS "LILLIBULERO"?— Time is a mighty breeder of 

 mysteries, sh^ is constantly giving birth to "burning ques- 

 tions," and still in embryo she hides her dread children of 

 the future that make us rather bear the ills we have, etc. 

 No, dear reader, I have not made a mistake in gender. It is 

 not Old Father Time I refer to, "the ill-natured loon," as the 

 song calls him, but Mrs. Time, still more meddlesome, mis- 

 chievous, and provoking. "Were things never sae rightly, 

 she'll not let them be," and with her confounded clack is 

 always proposing fresh conundrums to poor humanity, and 

 giving the world new nuts to crack, which, after crippling 

 curiosity's jaws, are left in the mouth like Dead Sea apples. 

 Just think how our grandfathers racked their brains, and our 

 grandams wagged their tireless tongues, to answer the simple 

 question, "Who was Junius?'' Compare— nay, contrast— such 

 a trifling, paltry, insignificant issue as that question raises 

 with the pregnant one: Who is "Lillibulero"? Verily, when I 

 have answered for you, oh reader, you will see and feel the 

 full significance of it. All sorts of guesses have been made 

 as to who "Lillibulero" is and who he is not; and I feel it is 

 quite time the mystery was unraveled, so here goes. I have 

 been informed on high authority that the "Lillibulero" letters 

 are the joint efforts of "W. K. T.," "Franco-American," and 

 "F. G ," the diction touched up by "Sprint." High authorities 

 are so generally wrong, I cannot accept the above opinion. 

 Far nearer the mark was the quidnunc who suggested the 

 Rev. Charles Spurgeon ; but that cannot be right, for ' 'Lilli- 

 bulero" does not make weekly collections, and was never 

 known to have the gout. From the pithiness and lucidity ot 

 style, the sparkling piquancy of expression, the marvellous 

 causticity of his wit. the biting bitterness of his sarcasm, and 

 the dogged, determined way in which he "blocks" nincom- 

 poops who pretend to know.it has been with a show of reason 

 assumed that Mr. Warton, M.P. for Bridport, is the true and 

 only genuine "Lillibulero." "Porcupine," in the American 

 Sporting Life, says Dalziel is not "Lillibulero," for the latter 

 cannot write Scotch. Bahl Mr. "Porcupine," can you say 

 Auchtumuchty, giving it the true Scotch flavor? I know you, 

 Mi - . "Porcupine," although you use tho strange oaths of your 

 adopted country, and they tell me you are now "bearded like 

 the Pard." At a stance I attended the niediuin declared for 

 the spirit of "Lillibulero," and a well-known voice from the 

 vasty deep replied, "I am the m m." "Get out," said 1, "you 

 are too modest to be 'Lillibulero,' " and the spirit that killed 

 nineteen lurcher dogs at one shot vanished, and from the dim 

 unknown we could hear a chorus of laughter, and I— divinely 

 favored — caught a glimpse of a natty little hand twirling the 

 end of a charming mustache with a remarkably self-com- 

 plaisant air which I remember to have seen before. "Lilli- 

 bulero" is not a "chucker out," he is a "knocker down." He 

 knocks down lies setup by doggy men ; he does not knock 

 them down auctioneer fashion, he. knocks them down and 

 squelches them ; and it is fortunate he is a Hercules, for the 

 cleansing of the Augean stable was nothing to the present 

 task he has undertaken— more power to him. 



So give each knave the whipping your wit well affords, 

 Lillibulero, bulleu, a la! 



And in place of smooth phrases, the truth in man's w r ords; 

 Lero. lero, bulleu, a la! 



Make each dotard and dastard beware of your sword, 

 Lillibulero, bulleu, a la! 



Whether snealt from the alley or malapert lord, 

 Lero, lero, bulleu, a la! 

 But who is "Lillibulero"? you ask impatiently. We are just 



coming to it. He is Oh, confound that P. D., who has 



come, to tell me, "Please, sir, clicker says he can't take no 

 more o' your stuff this week."— Gorsincon in Stock- Keeper. 

 "Corsincbu" has been making guesses in the Stock-Keeper as 

 to who "Lillibulero" may be. No, Mr. "Gorsincon," it won't 

 do. You know quite well who he is and so do I, so don't put 

 any one on the wrong track. — Scottish Fancier. 



MALICIOUS FABRICATIONS.— As an example of the ex- 

 traordinary and baseless slanders which are being used against 

 several of the judges at New Haven is the following, which 

 alludes to the "pointer protest" lodged last spring" by Mr. 

 Mason. The individual who has attempted to "break clown" 

 Mr. Davidson, Mr. Watson and Mr. Mason, wrote: "The club 

 [New Haven], iu the press, publicly repudiated Mr. Mason's 

 use of its name, and stated that he had signed its name with- 

 out authority." When the pointer protest was printed Mr. 

 Porter, secretary of the New Haven Kennel Club, was in 

 Europe, and theassistant manager, Mr. G, E. Osborne, sent a 

 letter to the Forest and Stream, in which he said: "By Mr. 

 Mason's explaining how and where he obtained the signature 

 of the club he would greatly oblige." The reply from Mr*. 

 Mason to Mr, Osborne's request was as follows: "Mr. t£. S. 

 Porter, secretary of the New Haven Kennel Club, told me 

 that he would, in the namo of his club, sign a protest against 

 the judging, which he said was infamous. I did not think it 

 necessary to send the protest on to New Haven for indorse- 

 ment after getting the word of a gentlemen in Mr Porter's 

 Sosition." This explanation was neither questioned by the 

 r. H. C. nor contradicted by Mr. Porter. We have within a 

 day or two seen a letter from Mr. Porter, in which he says: 

 "I never did deny having given the use of my name to the 

 protest, or that I thought the judging anything but 'way 

 off.'" In view of this, - the question may be fairly asked, 

 Whither are we drifting? 



A CARD PROM MR. PIERCE.-Peekskill, Feb. 28.- Edi- 

 tor Forest and Stream: I notice resolutions passed by the 

 Philadelphia Kennel Club, published in your issue of this week. 

 With your kind permission I will reply to the same through 

 your columns in your issue of March 12. — W. H. Pierce. 



EASTERN FIELD TRIALS CLUB,— There will be a meet- 

 ing of the board of governors of the Eastern Field Trials Club 

 at the St. James Hotel, New York, on Tuesday evening, March 

 10. A full attendance is desired. 



