Ai-iui, 30, 1885. 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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ners were Hero IT., Dolly Varden, Prince "Waldemar, Ilford 

 Cromwell and £al Gal. '.Second prize in the bitch class with- 

 held for want of merit. It is easy to see the mastiffs were 

 better at New Haven than at Boston. Where is the man of 

 honor who is willing to support, such unprincipled work as 

 that? The malice and prejudice to be found hi the New Haven 

 report was equaled only by the reporters supreme ignorance 

 and the inconsistency of his statements. By your courtesy I 

 will Rive examples 0? each, for surely it is in the interest of 

 our dogs to purge the canine world of such thorough rot. 



Nm Ifai'iv R&pnri. Doslov J.Vjmrf. 



March 28. 18s;< — Gordon bifceh April IS, 1MM5. — Gordon hitch 

 class- "TheM iviTi' no Vary good class: 'The winner, Heather Lass, 

 ones among tlte lot. and the judge is it) all respects a good bitch.'' 

 placed fchefti e — ■ lug to their 

 merit in giving first to Heather 

 Lass." 



SPANIELS. SPANIKI.S. 



•'Fb-st went to a good all round "The winner, Newton Abbot 

 liver and tan dog.'' [This was a Lady, would be improved if she 

 bitch, Newton Abbot Lady]. was cleaner in neck and better in 



muzzle." 



"In the cdaBS for dogs and hitches "la the cocker spaniel class for 

 other than hver or black, Spot, a other than blacks, first in the 

 little high on the legs, hut other- dogs was given to Sport, a black 

 wise good, won." " ami white cocker of the old style. 



rather high on the legs and bad 



in coat." 



''In the bitch class, Belle, a "Firs'" in the bitch class went to 

 very pretiv bitch, a trille leggy, Belle, plain looking with a very 

 received first, ' weak head." 



FOX-TERRIERS. FOX*TERRIER8. 



"In the fox terrier classes the "Babv Tyrant and Richmond 



good dues ^ptp conspicuously Olive had no competitors in the 



absent." RabyTvrant. Richmond Champion 3SS6S. It would take 



Olive, Searsdate, Lancelot. Tyra. aLmost, perfect onesto beat them." 

 Clover- Belle, Nannie, etc., were 

 shown. 



"He. was given to Gay Lad. a "There was little to admire in 



puppy with a light body and Gay Lad, given second. If he had 



badly-carried ears. He did not been given he. he would have got 



deserve any mention." all he deserved." 



DUIiLDOOS. BULLDOGS. 



"The club might have had the "Britomartis, the crack English 

 crack bulldog - Britoniurtis on their bitch, purchased hv the Messrs. 

 bench * * * He [Mr, Livintr- Livingston, was expected to have 

 ston i would not exhibit under the i cached this country some time 

 judges selected by the club." aeo, but has not yet arrived." 



(Neither has the apology to the 

 New Haven Club.) 



BULL-TERRIERS. BULL TERRIERS. 



"Americans are not up in a "If Victoria had better trimmed 

 great many things, and faking is ears she would be difficult to 

 one of theui" beat, ' ' 



t'UGS. PUGS. 



Poby was decidedly the "Punch and Young Toby each 

 deserved his award." got vhc. The latter is badly un- 



dershot and did not deserve his 

 award." 



The savory gentleman who penned the a,bove for the edi- 

 fication of the people, wishing to still further enlighten the 

 world, gave the readers of the independent (?) journal a rare 

 example of his marvellous ability to judge and criticise dogs. 

 In the Boston report he says, "He (Count Waldemar) is very 

 much like his sire, Crown Prince, but not quite so large." The 

 individual never saw Crown Prince in his life, and couldn't 

 pick him out of a class of smooth-eoated St. Bernards. He 

 proceeds, "His (Prince Waldemar's) head is almost perfection; 

 if it has any fault, his ears are a trine too small." Perhaps 

 Crown Prince came over to Boston through the Mackay- 

 Bennett cable and returned to London in time for his supper. 

 Dogs do travel like that sometimes. He's a great dog that 

 Crown Prince. I wonder if his cars are too small. Mr. Wyim, 

 3 r ou are. respectfully requested not to laugh. "His tail is a 

 trifle short." How is that? Hero's tail was too long a few 

 days ago. Exhibitors are requested to take their hats off be- 

 fore reading the following: "Although Ilford Caution has a 

 great many strong' points he was entitled to his place." The 

 inference to be drawn from this is that, from a Chicago point 

 of view, a dog to win prizes should not have many strong 

 points. Of course the reporter may have intended to say that, 

 although the owner of Hford Caution is not a member of any 

 little 'ring" or "clique," his dog- has a sufficient number of 

 good points to carry him through on his merits. Messrs. Han- 

 bury and Wynn will please unbutton their vests, and Mr. 

 Nichols (who is rather stout) his shirt collar, before I make 

 known to them that the Chicago reporter doas not advise 

 people to breed bitches to Ilford Caution on account of his 

 short face. That statement crumbles into dust before this 

 very intelligible criticism. Ilford Caution "was entitled to 

 his place. * * * His faults are objectionable to look at or 

 breed to. * * * He should have been placed behind Bosco." 



Newfonndlaud men are not forgotten, and rjoor Sam gets 

 the following report: "Third is about the position the winner 

 is entitled to, for a good big dog is better than a good little 

 one." Pool- Sam, a good little dog at Boston, but what was he 

 at New Haven, when the reporter was instructed to "kill 

 Watson" ? He was ' 'coarse in chest, weak in back and straight 

 behind." "Will Mr. Parquharson or some other authority 

 kindly define a "coarse chest"; and will the Chicago reporter 

 please explain how a dog can be "coarse in chest, weak in 

 back and straight behind," and at the same time he a "good 

 little one"? The pointer report, too, was brilliant, very bril- 

 liant. Here is a description of Bang Bang: "The latter is, to 

 be critical, a little straight behind and rather coarse in tail." 

 Very critical, isn't it? Go back to the same little man's report 

 of the Clev eland show (April 5, 1884), and you will find : "Bang 

 Bang is not perfect in the quarters either; on the contrary, 

 therein lies his greatest fault. He is like King, light in the 

 stifle ; but the bend is better. "We would like Bang Bang bet- 

 ter if he were straight on the back and hips." What is the 

 public to make of such clap-trap? When the reporter is "crit- 

 ical" Bang Bang has a good back and straight stifles, whereas 

 when the reporter is not critical the dog has well-bent stifles 

 and faulty back and hips. 



At Boston, Raby Tyrant and Richmond Olive were wonder- 

 ful specimens. "It would take almost perfect ones to beat 

 them." The same paper's report of the New York show (May 

 17, 1884) contains this: "Third went to Raby Tyrant, a recent 

 importation, whose prestige from abroad was not equal to the 

 quality he met in this class. " Almost perfect, and yet was 

 not equal to beating Belgrave Primrose and Scarsdaie. Mr. 

 George Raper will please not go off in hysterics when he hears 

 that our judges (?) are indorsed when they commit such out- 

 rageous blunders. Mr. Poster of Bradford and other exhibi- 

 tors and breeders of pugs will kindly note that wide-chested 

 dogs are of no use in this country. The little man from Chi- 

 cago said in his Boston report that one of the pugs exhibited 

 there was "wide in front." Would it not pay the Chicago 

 editor to keep his little man at home tor the express purpose 

 of writing anonymous letters? I was forgetting the spaniel 

 men, and it would not be considerate to deprive them of any- 

 tlung that is instructive and which is calculated to improve 

 our field spaniels. ' 'She [Newton Abbott Lady] is not a model, 

 but she is good enough to beat one so good as Cutie. * * * 

 Cutie won first at New York, Lowell and Taunton. It should 

 take a good bitch to make such a record as that." This is 

 another Aaron case. Cutie is a misprint for Critic, and 

 although the little man has criticised the latter half a dozen 

 times he didn't know the bitch when entered as Cutie. Any 

 more would, as the alderman's wife remarked, be "super- 

 fluffus." Charles H. Mason. 



New York, April 2T, 1885. 



ENGLISH KENNEL NOTES. 



THE secretarial excitement is quite allayed, and I hear 

 that things are again going smoothly with the Kennel 

 Club. The chairman has returned to Ireland, and Mr, Percy 

 Reid has gone "to Africa to shoot," as we are officially in- 

 formed. This gentleman— we call everybody a gentleman 

 here — Ah! that reminds me of the incident that put that 

 thought in my head. The last time I was in London I went 

 to tlie Globe Theater, which is not situated in a very choice 

 quarter of the city. On leaving the theater I walked a little 

 way down the street, and saw a common-looking fellow de- 

 liberately charge an old man and an accomplice rash up and 

 grab the old boy's watch. "Stop thief !" I shouted, as the 

 rascals fled iu opposite directions. They were both caught, and 

 on being led before the inspectorj one of the captors, a police- 

 man, said he recognized the bumping ruffian, and had ob- 

 served liim hanging about the theater doors the previous night. 

 "Why that's a lie," quoth No. 1 thief, "cos I wasn't in London 

 at all last night; ask that gentleman there," and he pointed to 

 his pal, No. V, who didn'o look a bit. flattered by the descrip- 

 tion. This is why I shall often in these columns refer fco any 

 highly respectable person as a man. I am getting sick of the 

 gentleman. 



Well, let's return to our lost sheep, Mr. Reid, who is missed 

 because he used to edit that pompous little periodical. The 

 l^ox-l'crricr Clinnuclc. The. magnitude of this branch of the 

 dog fancy can be appreciated when one knows that in point 

 of numbers their club almost equals the Kennel Club, to which 

 they are, however, quite content to play second tiddle, or 

 rktner tambourine. Their paper is hardly ever seen outside 

 then own circle, so I should imagine that it shows no profit, 

 and yet Messrs. Astley and Gibbon have agreed to pay the 

 club an annual rent of £10 (!) for the privilege of publishing 

 it. Perhaps, though, it is not the only paper that is kept going 

 by the sympathetic support of the great advertising firms, 

 Spratt's Patent, Renbow's mixture and Hudson's soap. 



Another paper that puzzles me is the Scottish Fancier, I 

 suppose it pays its way or it would not be continued. It only 

 appears monthly it is true, but it gives good value for the 

 price, four pence. 



The dog talk is chatty and not too local. They publish this 

 month an article by Hugh Dalziel on training doprs. I am sure 

 they don't get that copy for nothing. Somebody who calls 

 himself "C umbrae" gossips about Scotch terriers and their re- 

 ports on Scotch shows are quite the best of their kind. I 

 don't know who is the author of a very jaundiced paper on 

 special prizes, one "Blackhall." I agree With his condemnation 

 of such trumpery additions to the prize lists as "silver- 

 mounted meerehamn pipes, new hats, handsome oil paintings, 

 etc.," but how is it he makes no reference to the. equally 

 frivolous "one year's subscription to our paper" prize; the value 

 of which would hardly purchase one of the above shop window 

 articles. 



"Blackhall" then proceeds to attack the specialists clubs. 

 He charges their promoters with being actuated by personal 

 and selfish ends, and can allow them no credit whatever for 

 the time and trouble they devote to then- hobby breeds. He 

 appears to believe that the members only subscribe so much a 

 year, to afterward distribute these funds in prizes that may 

 like chickens come back home to roost. As, however, many 

 of the prizes presented by the specialists clubs are given for 

 open competition some of the funds must find their way into 

 the pockets of those who have not subscribed to them. "Black- 

 ball" errs grossly in attempting to weaken the position of 

 those bodies that have done so much for their breeds, and 

 which are likely, later on, to form the breeders bulwark 

 against the domineering Kennel Club and its humble fol- 

 lowers. The channels for doing good are limited. Extra 

 prizes undoubtedly call up more numerous competition, the 

 clubs by their official codes of points fix the type of their 

 dogs; they cau, if they don't, bring their influence to bear 

 upon committees to select suitable judges, and I repeat what 

 everybody knows, that the officers and committees of specialist 

 clubs are in their characters above envious suspicion, and that 

 they freely give up time from then work or amusement to 

 their hobby as only animal-loving members of the Anglo- 

 Saxon race will do. 



I must admit that too often specialist clubs have not suf- 

 ficient consciousness of their own power and influence. They 

 generally remain satisfied to be placidly milked for extra 

 prizes by the zealous honorary secretaries. There is a latent 

 force iii these bodies that only requires occasion to show it- 

 self. 



The Irish Terrier Club's coattails have been trodden upon by 

 the Dublin Dog Show which, while coolly accepting the club's 

 special prizes, has ignored their request for one of their own 

 judges, and has even gone so far as to insult the breed and the 

 club by appointing Mr. F. Gresham, Avho with unparalleled 

 impudence, accepted the post that he knows he is unable to 

 fulfill. 



"Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart 

 Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart." 



Mr. Geo. Krettl, the Irish Terrier Club's secretary, has 

 quickly sprung forward to shield his club fiom the degrading 

 blow. By his spirited and scathing letter to the Shooting 

 Times, he has covered Mr. Gresham with obloquy, and con- 

 stituted himself one of the champions of the specialist clubs. 

 It seems that the Dublin show firmly declined to appoint one 

 of the club's judges, and in spite of the general discontent, Mr. 

 Gresham insolently refuses to resign. A resolution was there- 

 fore put to the Irish Terrier Committee to withdraw their 

 prizes, and 1 have no doubt that it will pass. Mr. Krehl has 

 made it the opportunity to attack the whole system of all- 

 round judging, and in stirring language that is certain to ex- 

 cite approval and support, falls foul of the men whom he hap- 

 pily terms "bagman" judges, "who career about the country 

 palming off on the easy-going or uninitiated committees their 

 damaged stock of mental wares. " 



In holding Mr. Gresham up to public opprobrium as the 

 most conspicuous block to the progress of dog-show morality, 

 he has made known the evil and the cause of it. Now that 

 they have got the "lead" over, it will be then- own fault if tho 

 exhibitors do not follow in a body. They have grumbled 

 long enough, they have now been shown how to act. Their 

 eyes are now thoroughly opened to the fact that we have 

 among us men who for the sake of notoriety will undertake 

 to do that which they have no capacity for, heedless of the 

 hann they do to those breeds by their misleading awards, and 

 possessing no concern for the ensuing confusion in breeders' 

 minds. Is this not veritably dishonest, and is not the offender 

 as guilty of a fraud upon the public as a five-shilling-a-week 

 super who would attempt a leading role? Where is the differ- 

 ence in the deception? The similarity continues to the extra 

 pay for the hungry super, and the eleemosynary remuneration 

 to the judge — "and expenses," which Mr. Gresham, like the 

 rest of his class, may look upon as the best paying part of the 

 job. The exhibitors would even profit by subscribing among 

 themselves the "fiver" that blinds Mr. Gresbam's principles, and 

 which he would otherwise lose when they succeed in ousting 

 him from the judging. I hope that the alarm which has been 

 sounded will not abate until the judging rings have been 

 cleared of those unscrupulous interlopers who have taken for 

 their guidance the maxim of the perjured guardians satirized 

 by Juvenal j 



"Wouldst thou to honor and preferment climb, 

 Be bold in mischief." 



"Look here, upon that picture and on this." Both judges- 

 Mr. Hugh Dalziel and Mr. Gresham— but of what a different 

 kidney. The one assuming knowledge that brings down ridi- 

 cule and contempt upon his head,theother born with the "eye 

 for an animal." No man among us all knows so many breeds 



and so much of each of them as the man you have honored 

 yourselves by inviting to judge at American shows. Mr. Hugh 

 Dalziel's connection with the kennel world is a long and hon- 

 orable one. The only fduse pas that can be laid to his charge 

 are those of a hasty, rugged temperament, unable to restrain 

 from expression the angry thoughts born of real wrongs. He 

 swings the flail all day long in the barn oC the kennel world. 

 He beats the corn out, uumiudful of the discomfort to the 

 husks. Sometimes the Hail hits a friend on the head, but the 

 bump goes down and the accident is forgotten. It is not re- 

 membered by some of my young friends that he was once 

 kennel editor of the Field. How he. came to give way to his 

 successor. Mr. Louis Clement (who in his turn was succeeded 

 by Mr. Vero Shaw), I don't know, but confidently guess that 

 it was due to his calamitous habit of "speaking his mind." 

 He next appeared at the helm of the Country, bub that little 

 craft earned too many big guns for its structure, and one day 

 it went down with all hands. Mr. Dalziel now replies to cor- 

 respondents in the Bazaar, and edits that most beautiful little 

 sheet, The Kennel Chronicle. His general books and medical 

 works on the canine race are the best of their kind, though he 

 has been consistently unfortunate with the artistic part of his 

 books. The illustrations in "British Dogs" are very poor. 



I hear that Mr. Dalziel sails for your shores on the 14th in- 

 stant, and that his friends hope the trip will benefit his health. 

 I indorse, that wish in niddiug him "Godspeed." Take care 

 of him, my American friends; he is one of the old-fashioned, 

 Straightforward sort, that we so highly prize for its present 

 rarity. I don't know whether he will take his hat with him. 

 It would be safer to deposit it at home with his bankers, for 

 the ship mignt sink and the hat be picked up days after, by the 

 seamen of a wonder-stricken crew, and so find its way into a 

 foreign museum. Well, if he should venture and arrive safely, 

 be careful with this relic. If you do take its owner to look 

 "upon the wine when it is red," — and be sure he is too good a 

 judge to wait till it turns to vinegar— bid Delmonico's janitor 

 guard the sacred tile from the machinations of the practical 

 jokist, the friendly "bash" and the guilty covetousness of the 

 virtuoso. Let us have it back again, and the guid honest body 

 it covers. We cannot spare for long that genuine and robust 

 character which has so often supplied the thunder to clear the 

 atmosphere of the doggy world. 



I have been thinking 6f a plan to place in Mr. Dalziel's hands 

 a packet for America. It is not easy though, to do this with- 

 out being f ound out, still 1 must scheme to get it to Clapham 

 somehow. The parcel is an old engraving of a couple of 

 beagles, which 1 desire to offer to the American English Beagle 

 Club, aad with it to express the great interest I take in the 

 club's object. The members of the club have my most cordial 

 good wishes in their efforts to preserve an old English breed 

 that by the fatal neglect of my countrymen threatens to be- 

 come in a few years a stranger in its own home. The picture 

 was given to me by a doggy crony like myself, who knows 

 my weakness for the unaffected sport afforded by the little 

 beagles. He has many a time and oft steamed out of the murky 

 Down, leaving his parchments to join me in an off day with my 

 modest though merry ' 'cry." He soon forgot the duty he left 

 behind for the pleasure he found when Cowslip owned to the 

 quest directly after the first cast off, and the rest of the busy 

 little beggars crowded up to answer "with dwelling deep- 

 toned melody." Eheu! fugaces, those were tranquil times. 

 We never counted the pleasure of the sport by the number of 

 kills, but rather by the varying incidents of the run and the 

 staunchness of our pack. It mattered little to us if, when we 

 returned home to "change" and dine, that we were in the 

 position of those "Three Jovial Huntsman," who 



" , hunted, and they hollo'd, till the setting of the sun, 



An' they'd nought to bring away at last, when the huntin' day was 

 done. 



Look ye there!" 



But, dear me, I was going to tell you about the picture. 

 Well, my friend found it in one of his rambles through old 

 London. He is fond of rummagiug in tubsf ul of second-hand 

 books and looking over the trays of old prints, and now and 

 then he gets a ' 'kill . " He learned from the print seller him self, 

 a snuffy little gentleman, clad in a threadbare dressing gown 

 and wearing a greasy smoking cap, and who seemed quite 

 offended at the intrusion of a customer, that this picture is one 

 of a series printed by a man well known in the trade years 

 ago, one Robert Jenning, in the year 1835. It was Jenning's in- 

 tention to publish a book on the dog, for which this plate and 

 several others were engraved as illustrations; but the plates 

 cost so much money— £50 apiece— that Jenning became un- 

 easy about bhe expense, and never completed them nor pub- 

 lished any letter-press. Some years after Jenning's stock in 

 trade was sold under the hammer and the prints went any- 

 where and ever} 7 where. 



I have received positive confirmation of the news I have 

 been the only one to mention. It is a fact that Mr. Bissell has 

 raised the stud fee of his collie Charlemagne from ten to 

 twenty guineas! Dog breeding has quite risen to a level with 

 the breeding of other thoroughbred stock, but we still wait for 

 the candid man who will publish a year's balance sheet of a 

 large kennel. There is a strange reluctance on the part of 

 doggy men to admit that their hobby pays them, and in many 

 cases very handsomely. If any of my English readers will, for 

 public information, oblige with a copy of his accounts, he can 

 rely upon their being printed discreetly and his identity being 

 as carefully preserved as that of LiltjbeLero. 



April 8, 1885. 



Notice. — Letters for "Lillibulero'" from American corre- 

 spondents can be directed to the New ¥ork office, letters from 

 English correspondents should be directed to " 'Lillibulero,'' of 

 Forest and Stream," care of Messrs. Davies & Co., 1 Finch 

 Lane, Comhill, London. 



THE ST. LOUIS DOG SHOW. 



TIM-IE St. Louis Dog Show opened last Tuesday and closed 

 J_ on tbefollowing Friday night. It was nominally the second 

 which has been held under the auspices of the St. Louis Gun 

 Club and the fourth genuine affair of the kind which has taken 

 place in the city. The word nominally is used advisedly, as 

 the only connection between the Gun Club and the dog 

 show, as far, at least, as the outer world can gather, is that 

 Mr. W. A. Albright, the very popular secretary of the Gun 

 Club, has allowed entries to be received at bis gun store as a 

 down town office of the show. The predecessors of the show 

 have been held: In 1878, at the skating rink; in 1880, at the 

 Fair Grounds, and last year at the Natatorium. The one under 

 notice took place at the new Exposition Building, in quarters 

 which could not be surpassed for the purpose. For some rea- 

 son or another last year's show left a bitter taste behind it in 

 the mouths of a majority of local dog men, ana the effect of 

 the feeling was very perceptible this year when the count of 

 the canine rank and tile was taken. There were plenty of 

 be-ribboned and previously decorated top sawyers on the 

 benches, but the stuffing which it had been expected would be 

 furnished by local owners was sadly wanting. Under such 

 circumstances it is impossible to expect a great financial suc- 

 cess anywhere, and it is very doubtful if expenses were made 

 at the show. 



St. Louis is a very funny city when it comes down to weigh 

 and calculate on the figures it should put upon its amusements. 

 It has one great artery, Page avenue, for its driving com- 

 munity, every one who wishes to take the air of a summer 

 evening being forced by the east and west arrangement of the 

 streets to patronize this boulevard if he goes out driving. The 

 river cuts liim off on the east, and neither north nor south nor 

 other thoroughfares of the west allow him to make any use of 

 his stepper. Hence, Page avenue is a necessity to him. Neces- 

 sary as it is, however, to the driving community, its wives and 

 oth'er feminine affinities, it remains a fact that until this 



