Aug. 6. 1885.1 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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FISH FUNGUS.— AVilraingtoD, Del., Aug. 4.— Thousands of 

 dead iish are found floating in the streams about this place. 

 Thev are attacked by the parasitic fungus caDed by scientists 

 saprolegnia. They attack the fish, propagating on them and 

 kUling them by thousands. The saprolegnia are colorless 

 parasites found attached to animal or vegetable organisms m 

 water. Thev are found more especially on dead insects, fre- 

 quently forming dense radiating tufts. They anse originally 

 from decomposing matter, especially animal organism. J hey 

 throw off spores in great quantities, and these are earned 

 about in the currents and attach themselves to the fish, 

 where they germinate and send off more spores. They eat 

 into the fish, absorbing the animal matter of its body. 



Address all conimunicaUons to the Forest and bitream PubUHh- 

 ing Co. 



FIXTURES. 



RF.NCH SH0W8. 



Sept. 38, 23, S4 and 35.— Dog Show of the Milwaukee Exposition As- 

 sociatioD. ,Tohn D. Olcott, Superintendent. Milwaukee, Wis. 



Sept. S9, m and Oct. 1, 3.— Third Annual Dog Show of the Southern 

 Ohio Fair Association. H. Anderson, SecreLary, Dayton, O. 



Oct. 5, H and 7 — Second Annual Do^ Show of the Philadelphia Ken- 

 nel Club, in con.iuucfion with the Fenusylvania State AgriciUCural 

 Society. E, Ooniloit. .Secretarv. Pbilndelphia. Pa. 



Oct. O, r, H and !».— ii'om th Annnal Dog Show of the Danbury Agri- 

 cuUural Boi'iety. E. S. Ila-vJev. Secretary, Danbury, Conn. 



Oct 27, 2R and 39.— Twolfth Dor Show of the Western Pennsylvania 

 Poultry Society, Pittsbui'gli, Va. C. B. Elben, Secretavv. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



Nov 9 — Seoud Annual Field Trials of tho Fisher's Island Club, for 

 members only Max Wenzel, Secretary. Hoboken, N. J. 



Nov. 9.— I n st Annual Tri.ils of the Western Field Trials Associa- 

 tion, Bt Abilene. Kan. Entries close Oct. 15. A. A. Whipple, Secre- 

 tary, Kansas City, Mo. 



Nov. 16. 18S.n.— Seventh Annual Field Trials of the Eastern Field 

 Trials Club, High Point, N. C. Entries for Derby close May 1. W. 

 A, Co.ster, Secretary, Flatbush, L. I. 



Pec. 7.— Seventh Annual Field Trials of the National Field Trials 

 Club, Grand Junction, Tenn. Entries for Derby close April 1. B. M. 

 Stephenson, La Grange, Tenn., Secretary- 



A. K. R.-SPECIAL NOTICE. 



THE AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration of 

 pedigrees, etc. (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is pub- 

 lished every month. Entries close on the 1st. Should be in early. 

 Entry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope. 

 Eegistration fee (50 cents) miLSt accompany each entry. No entries 

 inserl,ed imless paid in advance. Yearly subscription $1,50. Address 

 "Ameiican Kennel Register," P. O. Box 3883, New York. Number 

 of entries already printed 3519. 



"WILDFOWLER'S" THIEVERY. 



Editor Foreat and Stream: 



"Wildfowler's" communication in Forest and Strham of 

 .July 23 is absolutely false in every partictUar, and written for 

 no other pixi-pose tliau that of misleading your readers. When 

 Tie tells you that I wrote him a friendly letter a fortnight ago 

 asking him if he could supply me with a bitch, he simply 

 writes that wliich he knows is false, and I challenge him to 

 produce the letter. He cannot do this, I know he cannot do 

 ifc, because I have not vrritten him aay such letter. Fiu'ther- 

 more, if I wrote him a "friendly" letter within the past three 

 months, then indeed I am totally incapable of expressing my 

 indignation. What I said about the bitch is this. Clement 

 wrote mo saying he had a "very nice bitch, and would let me 

 have her for £2S." After telling bun how 1 was put about in 

 the way he had treated me in the dog transaction, I s-aid : ' 'In 

 regai-d to the bitch you offer, I wdl be candid with you and 

 say to you as I said to your friend in Chicago a few days ago, 

 i. e., I would be afraid to send you any more money, for fear 

 that I should never hear from it again." If Clement can con- 

 BtiTie this into a "friendly" letter, he is welcome to do so. 



Again he tells you that he holds scores of letters in which I 

 told him I was in no hurry. I call for the proof. In my fli-.st 

 letter to him 1 told him I was in no particular hurry. By that 

 I did not mean that I was willing to wait months or years for 

 what I wanted, and no man with the semblance of honesty 

 about him would construe in that way, and in his answer he 

 led me to beheve he had the dog in his possession and could 

 send it at once, saying, "He is a wonder and I should like for 

 you to have this one." 



Then he tells you that Mr. Mason is at the bottom of the 

 trouble. This I most emphatically deny, masmuch as Mr. 

 Mason did not even know of my having sent to Clement for a 

 dog until after I had given Mr. McKinley an order on Clement 

 for the money and had fully determined to expose the whole 

 steal: and in domg this I required no assistance. I only wish 

 that Mr. Mason had known of my intentions of sending money 

 to the thieving scoundrel. I am confident that I would be 

 about £40 better off now. I will now prove to your enthe 

 satisfaction that C. did not pay carriage on this dog as he 

 agi-eed to do : 



London, March 'U, '85.— Mr. H. Muss; Sir— We beg to advise you 

 that one dog for you, received from Mr. L. Clement, is this day 

 shipped to care of R. F. Dovvniiig & Co., shipping agents. New York, 

 to whom please give early instructions as to forwarding' and claiming 

 same, and to whom please pay our charges, which are as follows: 

 Carriage and charges London to New York, £9, Yours ti'ul.y, Sut- 

 ton & Co, 



It will be seen from the above letter that he was trjing to 

 get back the £5 which he had paid to Mr. McKinley and make 

 me pay carriage besides. I ask you, Mr. Editor, and readers 

 of FoBEST AND Steeam, is this not a thieving transaction? 

 That he did not, at lirst, pay the importation duty I will also 

 prove, and by not having done that the dog was kept at the 

 bonded stables until a certificate could be got, and for wliich 

 he blames the consulate. Let us see about this: 



London, May 4, 1S85.— 2T. Mms: Dear Su'— I regret there should 

 have been any delay about the delivery of the dog, but my "man" 

 was told that no certificate was necessary, and so he did not take 

 any. I have sent for one to-day, and will forward it to agents, who 

 •will see about putting matters straight.— L Clement. 



The above letter will prove to you that the importation duty 

 was not paid by Clement, and the dog was kept at the bonded 

 stables where additional charges accnied, until a certificate 

 could be had. Now, I ask you again, must I pay these charges. 

 $74.75, in addition to the amount already paid by me? But he 

 tehs you Mr. Mason is to blame for the whole trouble. This 

 is indeed laughable. If Clement had told us that the Chicago 

 editor was to blame for the whole trouble, he wordd have 

 come nearer telling the truth, for it was he who advised 

 woidd-be importers to send then- money to Clement. Now let 

 us see what he said he could and would send me for £40, 

 after which we wiU take a look at what he actually did send. 



London, March 19, 1884.— il. Muss: Dear Sir— I could send you a tip 

 top black and tan terrier, fit to win aU over the world, for £40, and it 

 would be of Al pedigree, young, well-marked, whip-tailed, slrong- 

 loined, good-headed, and altogether first-rate.— L. Clkmknt. 



The dog he sent out weighs over thirty pounds, has very 

 heavy shoulders, poor head, light eyes, and his mouth is not 

 level, besides which he is entirely destitute of aU teri-ier char- 

 acter. The price I paid for this dog is high, and I should have 

 had a typical specimen. Has he fullfllled his bargain "to the 

 letter?" I have shown conclusively, I think, that he has in no 

 way fidtilled our bargain. I now rest my case with the jury — 

 the readers of the Forest and Stream— and will await their 

 yerdict. 



Jn cojielusion let rae say that I received a letter from 



Clement a few days ago in which he appears to be very angry 

 because I had seen fit to expose the steal. He has only himself 

 to blame for the exposure, since I gave him due and timely 

 notice of what I intended to do unless he made matters right 

 at once, without any further delay or expense to me, and to 

 all of which I only received an evasive answer. 



HbneyMuss. 



CaAMPAiGN. 111., July 37, 1885. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



In reply to Clement ("WUdfowler") I wish to state that the 

 Mr. Masou mentioned by him is an entire stranger to me. and 

 had nothing to do with me or my dealings with Clement. Is 

 it not enough for Clement to swindle mf out of $100, without 

 trying to draw in an innocent party, such as Mr. Mason? 

 ^ Chas. F.Kent. 



monticbllo, n. y. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



The fact of Messrs. Kent and Muss having sent money to L. 

 Clement, alias "Wildfowler" is in itself conclusive proof that 

 they never consulted my opinion. T know Clement. 



C. H. Mason. 



New York, Aug. H. 



Another of "Wildfowler's" trans-Atlantic swindles is given 

 as follows in the Sporting Life: 



Editor Sporting Lxfe: As'you ai-e showing up the swindler 

 "Wildfowier," and I have come across a case which it will be 

 impossible for him to explain, even in the transparent manner 

 he has attempted to brush aside the Kent and Muss cases, I 

 think it best to forward the documents. The person swindled 

 hi this case was my friend Cummings, of South Acworth, 

 N. H., and the amount he was done out of was £19. You will 

 obsei-ve that Mr. Cummings had no difficulty in getting letters 

 tin he sent the money, which was never acknowledged. I 

 suppose the receipt went astray like tho others. The first 

 mention about the money, which was sent in April, 1884, is in 

 the letter of May IS, 1S85, telling Mr. Cummings to draw on 

 him for tlie money. This Mr. Cummings did, but instead of 

 getting the money he only received the dishonored draft. 



The particulars" of the case not shown in the corresiJondence 

 are as follows; Before sending the money to "Wildfowlei'," 

 Mr. Cummings made inquiries of the editor of one of our 

 sportsmen's papers and was advised that Clement was per- 

 fectly reliable, and thereupon sent him £19 to pay for a span- 

 iel bitch bred to Obo and lauded in New \ ork. You will 

 notice Clement says in his letter of Feb. 19 that he has a bitch 

 and will ship her the following Saturday. Now if he had a 

 bitch on that date and she was to be shipped on the yatmxlay, 

 she must have been at Ipswich to be bred to Obo or else 

 Clement lied. If any one cares about asking Mr. Farrow, the 

 owner of Obo, he will find that Clement did "not breed a bitch 

 to his dog at all. In Clement's next letter no mention is made 

 of this bitch, so it is evident that the lie was told so as to put 

 off Mr. Cummings in view of the recent exposures. 



As "Wildfowier," in his letter which appeared in Forest 

 AND .Stream this week, gives Mr. Mason all the credit for 

 bringing his Kent and Muss swindles to the notice of Ameri- 

 can dog buyers, 1 send this communication to you over my 

 o-mx signature to show the Shooting Times editor that there 

 is but one feeling over here with regard to his way of dealing, 

 and that is thorough exposm-o of his thievery. 



Yours respectfully, G-eo. W. Leavitt. 



Boston, July a4. 



The letters received from Mr. Leavitt cover a period of 

 eighteen months. In the free "ad" "Wildfowier" has in the 

 in return for his services as English correspon- 

 dent of the official organ of the International Cocker Club, he 

 offers cockers at six guineas. Mr. Cummings sent a letter of 

 iuquky respecting spaniels and received the following reply: 



London, Dec. 89, 188a.— Dear Sir— I can get you the black slut you 

 want for ten guineas and get her lined by Obo, and I would have her 

 declai-ed for breening and pay her freight to a United States seaport 

 all for eighteen guineas, so that you would have no trouble iu the 

 matter. The cockers at six guineas are liver and white. The black 

 ones are much scarcer as doubtless you know.— L. Clement, W. P. 



The following is an extract from the next letter of Jan. 26, 

 1884: 



* * * You have given me your iustruciions, I therefore know ex- 

 actly what you want. Send along your remittance and I will send 

 you a bitch to fill your bill either from my own kennel or fi-om some 

 other breeder's kennel. I know perfectly well what .vou ought to 

 have, and I Avill lake care that you get it. The price is ninety-four 

 dollars. I could not do it for less considering all I have to disburse, 



* -A' * _L. CivEMENT, W. P. 



The next letter is written by the man who still holds the 

 money : 



Feb. 10, 1884— Dear Sii-— I have written to the man about bitch, but 

 have had no reply, so I conclude sheis sold. Besides one cannot get 

 a good-looking bitch for that price. I think jou had better do as I 

 suggested in ifiy former letter.— L. Clement. 



A month Later Wolf Polkingham signs L. Clement without 

 adding his own initials, to the following letter: 



March 8, 1884.— Dear Sir— Have you sent the check for eighteen 

 guineas? If so, I have not received it. I have three spaniel bitches 

 oflEered me, and one will suit you occasionally.— L. Clement. 



This is an extract from the next letter, signed as the fore- 

 going: 



March 32, 1884.— Dear Sir— I have put myself into communication 

 OTth the leading kennels, so as soon as I receive your check I will get 

 half a dozen bitches sent me to choose from. You may rely on getting 

 a good one. * * * i should advise you not to delay longer than 

 you can help.— L. Clement, 



The letter which follows was doubtless written before the 

 draft sent in April was received by the firm of "Tiger" Clem- 

 ent & "Wolf" Polkingham. The proposition reminds one 

 of the heads-I-win-tails'-you lose proposition of our youthful 

 days: 



May 5, 1884.— Dear Sir— I have had several good pedigree black 

 bitches offered me, but they are over the weight you require. Then 

 there is another one, very handsome and under twenty-three pounds, 

 which would do, but the owner can only give the sire's name. The 

 dam's name he does not know, but he can give tlie name of the ken- 

 nel she hails from. Now which would you rather have. One of the 

 lieavy pedigree ones or the last one? As soon as I hear from you I 

 will secure the one you prefei- and will arrange about the service of 

 Farrow's dog.-L. Clement. 



About this time the cash which "Wildfowier" had so indus- 

 triously been angling for arrived, and it was then a case of 

 "Wood-bye John," and the next letter we have is six months 

 later and the old Kent and Muss stories are repeated of plenty 

 of dogs before the money was sent and then a remarkable 

 shrinkage in the hitherto abundant supply. 



Nov. 1, 1884.— Dear Sir— I have been looking out for a bitch for you, 

 hut they are very hard to find. I have another one offered me and I 

 am going to have her sent to me to look at, and if right I will have 

 her bred to Obo. * * * You were written to before now telling 

 you that I M'as doing my best in the matter, so I .suppose the letter 

 miscarried. * * I shall hurry up as much as I can about your 

 hitch, but good ones are very scarce, except at prohibitory figures, 

 such as £150, etc.— L. Clement, Vf. P. 



Feb. 19, 1885.— Dear Sir- 1 have a very handsome black cocker 

 bitch for you and wUl send her on Saturday next with full details.— 

 L. Clement. 



Nothing was heard further from '"Wildfowier-" until it was 

 necessary to call upon Mr. Cummings to renew his subscrip- 

 tion to the Shooting Times, and he was wadtten to to that 

 effect under date of April 4, 1885. Perhaps this reminded 

 "Wildfowier" of his having received $90 from his correspon- 

 dent a year before, so he backed the subscriiition letter with 

 the following, signed by himself: 



The prices of black spaniels have risen enormously. Langdale sold 

 one for £70 lately. So you may see what difficulties I have to con- 

 tend with in getting you one. I had three young ones offered me 

 yesterday by a gamekeeper. I will see them and send you one if it 

 IS good enough. I have seeu at leftsfc forty for you, but they were 



either bad or else far too dear. However; I hope to eventually please 

 both you and myself in the choice. I mtend starting a kennel in 

 America, and probably will send your biixjh with ray (Irst batch of 

 dogs. I will write yoii again in a day or two if I secure one of the 

 three bitches I am mentioning above.— L. Clkment. 



Mr. Cumming,s next received the communication given be- 

 low, which is the last he has heard from the reliable "dog 

 broker" recommended by tho editor of one of our sportsmen's; 

 papers: 



May 18, 1885.— Dear Sir— I have put your name on our subscribers'' 

 list for a year and the paper shall ho duly sent. You will (=ee that I 

 state the impossibility 1 have experienced m getring a black cocker 

 bitch. There are riow none to be had imder £70 or £80 as they are 

 so fashionable, but if you had been willing to go have (.sic) a young 

 ditch I had one offered me which would have suited you admirably. 

 However, if you do not wish for one now will you please deduct 

 from the amtjimt the subscription fee and draw upon me at sight for 

 the balance, Or if you want to start bassets I can send you my dog 

 Flambeau II. at once. He ought to fetch a large price in America as 

 he is very handsome, and is a wonderfully good dog on all game. 

 You would be v«ry well pleased with him and could got a rattling 

 price for him. He can start on receipt of a cablegram, if you would 

 like to have him, at once.— L. Clement. • 



STUD FEES. 



Editor Forest and Stream : 



As Mr. Anthony desires my real name he can have it will- 

 ingly, with a few additional remarks. Imprimis, let me say, 

 that I simply chose Graphic as the example of the highest 

 stud fee asked, and from no deshe to affront his owner or in- 

 jure the dog's reputation. I never denied Mr. Anthony's right 

 to do as he pleased with his own property, and nothing in my 

 letter should have conveyed any such idea. But in what I 

 deem the interest of breeding and breeders, I have just as 

 much right to tiuestion the fees fixed as the owners have to 

 fix them. 1 cannot dictate to Mr. Anthony or any other 

 breeder what fee he shall fix, but I sm-ely can criticise his 

 action when I base my criticism on the broad pubhc grounds 

 on which I did. I consider Mr. Anthony utterly wrong in 

 thinking that a prohibitory fee will keep away all bitches of 

 doubtful pedigree, while it certainly will keep away good 

 bitches owned by gentlemen of veiy moderate means. A man 

 can own a good dog without being a millionaire, and though 

 we may not all own Graphics, we can at least possess blood as 

 pure. As to keeping a secretary to look up pedigrees, that's 

 mere talk. If Mr. Anthony does not keep in his head a cer- 

 tain run of pedigrees he ought not to go into pointer breed- 

 ing, and sm"ely, living as he does under the very shadow of 

 Forest and Stream's wing, he coidd easily unravel any 

 doubt without much strain on either his mind' or his time. "l 

 could not, of com-se, gather Mr. Anthony's hberal intentions 

 regarding the use of stua fees from the advertisement in your 

 columns, and even now, when I grasp the idea, it rather 

 stiikes me as a species of "robbing Peter to pay Paul." The 

 latter part of Mr. Anthony's letter seems a good deal about 

 his dog and very little about stud fees. As I am writing 

 about the last I shall certainly not question any of his state- 

 ments, though I am free to sa-v the one regarding GraiJhic's 

 progeny is a stiff jump to negotiate. Mi-. Anthony has evaded 

 the issue I made, and seems to want to put the matter on a 

 personal footing. This I absolutely decline, as I have no per- 

 sonal feeling or interest in the matter, and unless he can dis- 

 cuss stud fees in the abstract and a trifle more logically, I re- 

 tire from the field. T. B. Dorset ("fSurrey"). 



THE NEW SETTER STANDARD. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



It is many weeks since Mr. Osbom, secretary A. K. 0., 

 mailed the following instructions to the standard committees: 



American Kennel Club, Secretary's ofiQce, Birmingham, Conn., 

 May 27, 1885.— X>ear Sir— At a. meeting of the A. K. C, held in Phila- 

 delphia, May 19 and 20, you were appointed one of a committee of 



three on a standard, for judging . The other members of 



3'our committee are . Please confer with them on the 



subject. The instructions are to inform yourself as to the ideas of 

 the dijferent breeders and exhibitors, and agree, if possible, on a 

 standard, and report to me on or before Oct. 1, 1885. Kespectf ally 

 —Q. Edwaot) Osbobn, Sec. A. K. C. 



Some weeks later Mr. Osborn, in a letter to the Sporting 

 Life, said: "My instimctions at the Philadelphia meeting were 

 to request the committees to confer with the breeders and ex- 

 lubitors in the matter and get their views, and I have done 

 so." Mr. Osborn, no doubt, did as he says, but have Messrs. 

 Taylor and Bryson "conferred with the breeders and exhibi- 

 tors," and if so, which exhibitors and breeders have they con- 

 ferred with. These gentlemen say they have agreed upon a 

 standard and are ready to report. Halt! None out members 

 of a certain chque have been consulted, and it is only reason- 

 able to presume that an attempt will be made to juggle the 

 Tennessee standard through the next meeting of the A. K. C. 



Who are breeders and exhibitors of setters besides J. M. 

 Taylor, J. M. Avent, Bryson Bros., C. B. Whitfoi-d and his 

 august master? Have Messrs. Taylor and Bryson ever heard 

 of Messrs. Smith, of Strathroy, C. H. Raymond, John David- 

 son, Theodore Morford, B. F. Wdson, Ethan Allen, C. S. 

 Westcott, Dr. Fleet Speir, D. T. Charles, J. Otto Donner, 

 Luther Adams, T. G. Davey, E. Herzberg, Blackstone Ken- 

 nels, Goodsell Kennels, E. j. Martin, W. Tallman, F. Wind- 

 holz, Howard Hartley, J. M. Tracy, and a hundred or more 

 of others who have been snubbed because Taylor and Bryson 

 know they will have none of it? 



So bitter is the feeling against Major Taylor that several 

 prominent exhibitors have stated their intention of never 

 again submitting their exhibits to his judgment. He has not 

 only made a laughing stock of the A. K. C. , but has ended his 

 career as a judge at Eastern shows. His decisions in favor of 

 Paul Gladstone and Juno A. at the Pliiladelphia show were 

 duly noted, and in chem may be found the key to Taylor's in- 

 tentions in this standard business. At the rate he is ti'aveling 

 he will soon have dog shows to himself, and the only entries 

 will be those of Paid Gladstone, Juno A. , Gladstone, Glad - 

 stone's Boy, Sue, etc. 



If Major Taylor's intentions in this standard question are 

 sincere why did he not consult with those who have had con- 

 siderably more experience than himself ? If a standard is to 

 be framed to fit Paul Gladstone and Gladstone stock gener- 

 ally, what objection can be made to some quahfied persons 

 making a standard for setters? If snipe-faced weeds have a 

 claim to be called setters, why, may I ask, did Major Taylor 

 confer honors upon Thunder, Empei'or Fred, Plantagenet, 

 etc, ? He told us they were the best dogs iu the world , whereas 

 it now appears they were mongrels. Certainly they were not 

 setters if Paul Gladstone is a setter. Is it possible that all that 

 time Major Taylor didn't know what a setter should be, or 

 (what is now probable) is he giving us the second volume of 

 "Construction"? I have ignored Mr. Higgius's name on the 

 committee, for as "Porcupine" puts it in the Sporting Life, 

 ' 'Taylor and Bi-yson to outvote Higgins is much too thin." 



Let me offer a suggestion. It is tnat you, Mr. Editor, open 

 the pages of Forest and Stream to a list of names of all per- 

 sons in favor of and opposed to any change of the standard 

 unless indoi'sed by such w^ell-knovvn breeders as I have men- 

 tioned, for the English setter. Such action on your part 

 would insiu-e justice to all. In the event of Forest and Streajvi 

 refusing to gi-apple this question it will become the imperative 

 duty of exhibitors, breedere and owners to adopt Mr. Mason's 

 plan of framing a public protest. The Forest and Stream 

 has never been behind in defending the rights of dog lovers, 

 which makes me hopeful that my request wdi be favorably 

 considered. As I hate newspaper notoriety I will at present 

 sigTi myself Justitia. 



[We should be glad to have the views of om- readers on this 

 subject for publication. It is the duty of every breeder and 

 exhibitor to go on I'ecord in this matter. If this is done our 

 correspondent need have no fears that the American Kennel 

 Club will adopt a staadard that will nob be satisfactory,] 



