Jan. t4, 188&.J 



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FIXTURES. 



BENCH SHOWS. 



Jan. ]<), 20 ami 91. 1886.— Annual Exhibition and Beneli Show of the 

 Fi iieh Crrok Valley Poultry and Pet Stock Association. A. L, 



.run. X't;. -i',, 2'S. 39 and 30.— Fourth annual dog show of the Bou^hem 

 Max'-aehuseiis Poultry Association, at Fall Kiver, Mass. R, G. 

 M shei-. Secretary. 



Fell, f^, 9 and 10 —Fourth annual exhibition of the New York Fan- 

 cier.r' Club, at Madirioii Square Garden, New York. Ghas. Ilarker. 

 Seci-etary. Coitlandt .sireet. 



March 10. 17. 18 auil 19. i.SSli.— Western Pennsyli?ania Poultry Soci- 

 ety's L'ogr Slio-v, at Pitisburjih. Pa. C. B. Elben, Seeretarv. 



Ma7-cli 23. 24 and 25. 1t-fc6 - First Annual Dog Show of the New .Ter 

 sey Kenned aud i'ield Tnals Club, Newark, K. J. A. P. Vredenburgti 

 Secreiarv. Bcrgcu Point. K. J. 



Mardj .-W to April 2, 1881!.— Third Annual Dog Show of the New 

 ILavsii Kenuel Ciub. E S. Porter, Secretary, New Haven, Oomi. 



April 0, 7, 8 aad v), 188G.— Secou J Aunual O'ok Show of the New Eng- 

 land Kennel Club. E'lward A. Moaeley, Secretary. Boston, .Mass. 



April 14. 1.3 and 10. Fir.st Annual Doff Show of the Hartford Kennel 

 Ciub. A. C. Collins, Secretary, Hartford, Conn. 



A. K. R.-SPECIAL NOTICE. 



mHE 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. 

 Registration fee (50 cents) must accompany each enti-y. No entries 

 inserted unless paid in advance. Yearlv subscription $1.50. Address 

 '•American Kennel Register," P. O, Bo* 2832, New York. Number 

 of entries already printed 309 S> 



MASTIFFS. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I -wish to add a few notes on Mr. Mason's article in yom-s 

 of Dec. SI, and I am not going to pass any encomiums on it 

 either. The readers of the Fokest and Stream are not fools, 

 and furthei'more, some wise genius (a "Mrs Harris," I suspect) 

 has disoovared that Mr. Mason and I have constituted our- 

 selves a mutual admiration society, and I don't encourage any 

 such organization, 



Firet, a.s to Mr. Wyun's "History of the Mastiff." It ha.s 

 been published iu England, much enlarged from its appear- 

 ance in A. K. R., with more anecdotes, etc., and should be in 

 the hands of every mastiff man. 



As to Hodson and Vero Shaw, the dictum of the former 

 as to uuderehot dogs, has long been laughed out of existence, 

 and it is strange how many dogs are so formed of whom it 

 would never be suspected. My De Buch, with a long taper 

 muzzle, is undershot, and very few dogs with bltmt muzzles 

 are levcl-teethed. Of couise, hke everything else, it be- 

 comes a blemiish, but if the dog's lips have to be drawn back 

 to discover it, there is no sense in blathering about it. The 

 cowhocks was not so very bad, a badly cowhocked dog is 

 certainly not a good specimen, although ! would prefer mod- 

 erate eowhoeks to those nastN', straight ones that many dogs 

 have. With cowhocks a dog can spring, with sti-aight ones 

 he can only rear up and tumble forward, and if a mastiff can- 

 not spnu.g'what is he good for? 



Vero Shaw, howevei", makes a greater blunder than this 

 when, after damning the Lyme Hall strain with the faintest 

 of praise, he hedges by saying; "Tiiey have often been the 

 saving of a faiUng line." Tbis is the worst rot I ever came 

 across. The infei-ence from it is tJaat many closely bred lines 

 had begun to rvm out, when a cross of Lyme Hall blood re- 

 stored theii- vigor. 'Now the fact is that no such ci'oss was 

 ever made. Thompson aud Ltikey never used Lyme Hall 

 blood. Mr. Wynn got a dash of it once, from Kingdo'n's Alp, a 

 reputed Lyme Hall bitch, and was glad l o get out of it. Mr. 

 Han bury got a strong dose of it in his Peeress, who was by a 

 proved Lyme Hail dog out of his litter sister, but it will be 

 seen by a glance over the pedigree of what may be called 

 ''Hanbury" mastiffs, that he dropped the strain at once. Mr. 

 Nichols used it once or twice, but bred it out with better blood 

 as fast as he could. Kingdon was the onl3'" breeder that ever 

 relied on it, aud he produced a choice lot of long-legged, long- 

 faced, snipy brutes. He and WjTin nad a very sharp encounter 

 over this, aud Mr. Wynn so flattened Kingdon out, that when- 

 ever he began his interminable pi osings about "Lyme HaU," 

 the blood in King, etc., some bored listener would say: "It's 

 nearly Wyun's time to be here," when off would shoot Mr. 

 Kingdon. So, to sum up Mr. Vero Bhaw, he was Avriting 

 about something that he knew nothing of, and made a nice 

 mess of it in consequence. 



"Aper," in Siock-Keeper, thoroughly ventilated this Lyme 

 Hall business some months since, showing that they wei*e 

 simply a long-legged, ring-tailed lot of red boarhound-hlie 

 brutes. As to "the hat," Mr. Mason muot inquire of "Lilli- 

 bulero," he is the hat fancier of England. Mr. Mason is quite 

 right as to llford CromweU, it is tine that he was alwavs 

 shown low in flesh before Dr. Perry got him, but scill it was 

 ridiculous to put him vhe. in the classes he was shown in 

 The photo from which the head of Dachess was copied was 

 borrowed hy Billy Graham of Mr. Nichols as that of Hanbury's 

 Duchess, copied and copy sent me, but I have suspicions that it 

 really was Mr. Nichois's Duchess, but as Mr. Mason says, the 

 purpose of the illustration is fuUy served, be the bitch who 

 she may. 



The artist has given Governor a much better head than the 

 photo .shows. By the wa,y, it is cm-ious that Adam and Eve 

 the parents of Lion, sii-e of Governor, lived and died in this 

 country, having been brought heie by Lieut. Gamier, when 

 he was stationed at Montreal, One of tneu- progeny was 

 owned by a Mr. La Pontame of Charlestown, Mass., and 

 othei-s went to St. Louis ; I have several times tried to trace 

 them, but without success. 



The artist has completely ruined the likeness of Turk ; the 

 outline is excellent, but the fllhng in is dreadful— I cannot 'just 

 say what it is in, but t he marked characteristic of the photo it 

 was made from is a calm, gentle majesty, that I have never 

 seen so strongly marked in any other dog, in pictm'e or in 

 life, and I am niuch pleased to learn from Mr. Mason that the 

 dog liad the same expre.ssion as my photo of him shows. 



Colonel is a Lyme Hall dog, that is homeopathically. I 

 think it was Victor's great grand dam that was out of Han- 

 bury's Peeress referred to above; so it any one wants a pure 

 Lyme HaU dog get one of the progeny of Mr. Smieton's Zulu 

 or Mr. Morgan's Duchess of Connaught, or of Sahsbuiy, Hero 

 II. or Mr. Esloy's Venus, and they will get as near there as 

 there is any use iu coming. 



There is" a litt:e bit of history about Victor and Bosco. 

 Venus, the dam of Bosco, visited Victor in his extreme old age' 

 he was so feeble taat Mr. Exley feared the visit would be use-^ 

 less. At last, by great pams and trouble, it was effected 

 and the result Avas one pup, and that pup Bosco, way the best 

 Victor ever got. 



The prints of Elaine and Pontiff are exact likenesses of the 

 photos they are copied from, but I rather think Mr. Mason is 

 wrong as to Pontiff. He evidently refers to one of Mr. Han- 

 bury'a "PontiflV (ho had several), while I think this photo is 

 of Mr. Beaufoy's Pontiff", a son of Beau, ii my memory .serves 



Mr. Mason probably forgot to say that the picti^^^ Mr. A. J. Sewell, a vetei-marian whose immense 



robs nim ot the bright, earnest expression belonging to his ' ■ ■ 



face, the illustration iu A. K. R. a year or so since is better in 

 this respect. 



I agree with Mr. Mason as to his estimate of Prussian 



practice is largely with dog ailments, conHnned the warning, 

 and has repeated it from time to time. These warnings and 

 others from persons of le.ss importance went unheeded, unti 

 the constantly repeated cases revealed by coroners' inquests 

 confii-med by the great increase of rabid dogs taken to tb 

 'Home for Lost Dogs," amounting to over forty in the firs 



Princess, and I vigorously defended Mr. Dalziel in putting her 

 aliead of Kosalind, in spite of ' 'Porcupine's'' wrath, but for all of 

 that, if a perfect njastifl bitch head is wanted, take that of 

 Lady Gladys. It would .seem impo.ssible to produce a more 

 perfect one, and except her brother Orlando, I have never 

 seen a dog head to equal it. It will be a great loss to Ameri- 

 can mastiff's if she does not leave progeny by some such dog as 

 Nevison or Hero or Crom well. 



Mr. Mason's account of the love scenes with Colonel reminds 

 me of mine with llford Cromwell and that puppy Duke at 

 New York shows. Poor Crom. was badly down-hearted when 

 he first appeared there; he is an exceedingly affectionate dog,- 

 very solicitous of fond ing and attention, and his then o\vner, 

 Mr. Lee, was in extreme ' ' " ^ ' • ■ 



attpntion to the dog. As . 



English owner, I took notice _ 



what: this touched his "heart bowed^down'', and every time 

 I passed his box there was a demonstration, and I' had a 

 dozen holes in my coat sleeve, and a spoilt pair of gloves as 

 souvenirs of our acquaintance. The same was the case with 

 Duke last spring. In fact, mastiffs, as a rule, are exceedinglr 

 easy to make acquaintance with at a show, and pretty much 

 the reverse ac home — Cr( 

 on him at Mr. Lee's. Her 



show, but bristled up _ _ , 



farmer intimacy and went .straight up to him' at Ashmont. i t„toWa "oTri,i»nr.n t,„;^„ "S";!- - i' ~T "'^ir " ' ' "rT-il" 



Sometimes the reverse is the case. Turk growled at me at ^.^^'^hrrrtl?. „ ® o ^^''^'^^^ ^Iie case of the 



Boston show, and Mr. Lee, his owner, had^never heard him * I 'f ^'^'^^^ suspicion 



— ' ' ■ - - - " I Scores of men are floggmg away at the dead horse sponta- 



nine months of tlie year, roused the pubhc to the realitv of 

 the danger and stimulated the authorities to action. Action 

 in this matter means the piitting in force of certain clauses in 

 an act of Parhament called the doss act. which clauses ordi- 

 narily are in abeyance. This act enables the authorities 

 named in it to order all dogs in then- respective districts to be 

 muzzled or confined, and dogs not under the control defined 

 by the order may be seized and after three days, if not 

 claimed, destroyed. 

 The Chief Commissioner of Police in bondon has ordered 



ters. These officers are armed with strong leather leggings 

 and gauntlet gloves, aud a rod with loops of leather at the 

 end by which to lasso the dog aud at the same time keep 

 him at a respectful distance. 



The hitter cry of London dogdom rises in wails loud and 

 long in the daily press; every phase of the subject of rabies 



does is derived entirelv from their nhotos frorrriiYeTpx^pnt I '^^^^ cannot be satisfied with this wcrld without 



tho'se dogf tha? ai^'^Li •lMsTountiy)f^^^^^^^ m^r^ thrcSn^ W.^^ fb" .-""'S^'"'^^' 



he made for iuaccuracies. In a general way, I mav say that n,pve-^l,Pv dn not +,?Tf *^®^t'^*? not know how it got 

 the fault in tie pictures is the shadmg on W nose, makmg f^^f ^x^^^^^^^^^ 



them look like vvrinkles^ an appearancelhown by nope of th^ ^Lt'lZ'^ ^^^^^'^.±±^'^1^^^^^^^^ 



W. Wade. 



photos, except that of Pontiff. 



HoLTON, Pa, Jan. 4. 1886. 



[In my communication last week, for "I am sure that the 

 members of the A. K. C. are above, etc.," read, "I am sure 

 that three members, etc." — W. Wade.] 



ENGLISH KENNEL AFFAIRS. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



The bonds that unite om* countries rapidly grow larger, 

 firmer and more enduring as the threads of the web are com- 

 pacted by the weft of mutual interests and pleasures : and 

 sports, in which the dog figiu-es so largely, make no mean show 

 in the weaving. 



From what I see in Poeest and Stream I conclude that 



Tbpsy, have "growed" spontaneously, and if one turkey Vhy 

 not flocks of tiu-keys, argue this logical brotherhood of block- 

 heads. 



The gravest mistake made by the general public is the con- 

 fusion of mind which makes rabies a disease affecting the 

 brain— a brain disease in the same sense as lunacy. Scores of 

 people are every day writing that the irritation of the muzzle 

 and the confinement of the dog will drive him mad. 



Parallels are rh-awn between men violently insane and the 

 furious conduct of a mad dog as though they were the same 

 disease. This is doubly evil ; it causes dogs excited from tear 

 or ill-usage to be stfll further cruelly 'treated and done to 

 death, and frightens those who have been bitten into lUness, 

 m which the symptoms of hydrophobia are simulated, and 

 secondly it ignores the truth, one that every 6o^ owner should 

 know, that the early stages of rabies exhibit a benignant 

 disease- the dog may be unusually affectionate, and the fits 



the American Kennel Club has not been very successful in its of petulance ho indtdges in credited to anv but the right cause 



attempt to get a description of tne points of each breed ac- and it is dm-ing this stage when there is no suspicion of his 

 ceptable to a majority and by which these breeds should be . . . 



judged. 



Unaifected by the controversies on the subject, I think the 

 failure to be deplored, for it was evidently a step in the right 

 direction. 



Our Englisn Kennel Club took no such action, and the 

 consequence is that the style of dog that wins is ever varying, 

 as different judges give their decisions. To illustrate the 

 chaotic state of things, there are some who judge Gordon 

 setters that will throw' a dog out, however good, if ho has a 

 speck of white on him, and this at shows under Kennel Club 



real state that there is most danger to members of the 

 family that nourish the dog. Rabies is never initiated by a fit 

 of fury; and the fits, iu which there is involuntary muscular 

 action, champing of the jaws and frothing at the mouth, to 

 wliich dogs when teething or suffering from worms, or when 

 greatly excited on game, are so liable, and which are so often 

 accepted as evidence of madness, are in i eality clear proof 

 that the dog is not rabid, and on the contrary, perfectly 

 harmless. 



We cannot, however, hope to get rid of rabies in this coun- 

 try by stamping it out in a limited district such as the metro- 



■ules, although no edict of the club has ever been issued pdliian area, nor can we in that so long as do<^s are freelv 

 L2-ainst white on a snecimen of the breed. I brought into it, any one of which mav have the"rabific virus 



lying latent in him, and which on development will make him 

 a center from which the disease is distributed. 



Our rm-al magistrates and some urban ones regularly put 

 the restrictive clauses of om- dogs act into force during the 

 dog days, in the belief that the disease is generated in conse- 

 quence of the high temperature of that season; I presume " 

 your munici))al and other authorities are too intehigent to act 

 on such an effete superstition. 



The latest crank— but no, I am not happy in the use of 

 American words, I will say craze, is for Welsh terriers. Taffy 

 has discovered that Wales is the ho ne of a hard-coated black; 

 and tan terrier, with the distinctive marks of white on the 

 chest and white forefeet. It is a mystery to me that the dis- 

 covery should not have been made and published to the world 

 bef oi-e the year 188,5. 



The claim is disputed by some Englishmen who say the dog 

 IS not Wel^h, but the genuine and real old original Enghsh 

 terrier. This did not prevent the latter exhibiting at Birming- 

 ham show theu- English kennel terriers as Welsh. The class 

 was a veiy mixed lot, many being little cross-bred ciu's with 

 soft coats, and that is a very common feature and it is not 

 the great fault that fanciers with little or no experience with 

 working terriers make it out to be; a soft coat is not an index 

 of a soft heart, and many of the most courageous and endiu-- 

 '~g dogs are soft-coated. 



1 have have not in this letter said anything about the Bir- 

 mingham show, as you wlU have had a f idl report of it, and 

 for the same reason I will say but little about the St. Bernard 

 show which closed last Friday, Dec. 11. The St. Bernard 

 Club, having been safely towed through some very troubled 

 waters by the tugs Justice and Ability, is saihng along before 

 favoring breezes. This, their fom-th annual show, is admitted 



against white on a specimen of the breed. 



Again, a short time ago a poodle dog, admitted to be a very 

 fine specimen oi the black coi'ded variety, was ignored — that 

 is, practicaUy disqualitied — by a judge because there was a 

 little white on his chest. A short lime afterward a new 

 owner exhibited the same dog and took a first prize with 

 him, the white on his chest having disappeared! 



Now if there was a publicly recognized rule, sanctioned by 

 the kennel clubs, that no poodle with a white speck on him 

 could win in a class for blacks, no one could complain; but iu 

 the absence of that the dog wins or loses, at the whim of the 

 judge. 



The result is, men dye their dogs. The result of a clear rule 

 would be that as there are far more black dog-s whelped with 

 than without white on the chest, we shoidd soon have classes 

 for the former. It is childish, silly and utterly contemptible 

 to make the honor or condemnation of the philosopher of the 

 canine race depend on the presence or absence of a few white 

 hahs. 



But mark the absurdity and inconsistency of conduct of our 

 kennel i tilers. The man who got the kennel clubs to disqual- 

 ify this poodle for being dyed was the Rev. Greeuhill Bolton, 

 the owner of the poodle Styx, which a mouth previously the 

 Kennel Club had published an engraving of, in which the poor 

 beast is represented shaved in a most fantastic manner, and 

 writing of it the Kennel Club's organ tells us the reverend 

 gentleman had pui chased the dog at the Brussels show when 

 m a very ragged state, and that after "some hard 

 work" at the dog's coat the dog won at Brighton, and . "fresh 

 from the hands of Madame Felix," Styx took first at the 

 Crystal Palace. This clipped, shaved aud pomatmned animal 

 is in that state, says the .ffemieZ (?a^eite, "a thoroughly rep- 

 resentative specimen of his breed. " It would be as reasonable 



to say that a clown as he appears in a pantouume is "a thor- on all hands as the largest and best yet held, the young doss 



oughly representative specimen of humanity." To encourage (rough-coated) between twelve and eighteen months oldbein^ 



the removal of the natiu-al covering from tlie loins and other a class of marvehously lugh quality. The entries uumbereJ 



parts of a dog where it is so much needed, and that at the die- 303, divided into twenty-five classes. The eatalof^ues issuei 



tation of a vulgar and degraded fashion, is unworthy of a 

 national kennel ciub. In purely fancy articles, such as toy 

 dogs, no doubt considerable license Is to be allowed in the 

 value put on certaui arbitrary points, but when these are so 

 overvalued that natural features are effaced, and, as in some 

 breeds, the well-balanced physical development is sacrificed to 

 a craze for some non-essential point, it is evident the author- 

 ities should moderate such tendencies to prevent the evil re- 

 sults which follow them; but instead of doing so they prac- 

 tically encourage the hreeding of ill-formed and weak oonsti- 

 tutioned dogs; and the judges are bound and trammeled tjy 

 the canons of the fancy, most of the f ormulatoi-s being igno- 

 rant of the laws governing animal construction. 



by the club are models' worth copying, the pedigTee"of each 

 dog being displayed in tabulated form, rendering it clear even 

 to those people, not few iu number, who find genealogies puz- 

 zles hard to unravel. This renders these catalogues useful 

 stud books for after reference. A plan long ago advocated 

 by me as well as others, and occasionally adopted in years 

 gone by, that of giving to each person leading a dog in the 

 judging ring a card bearing in bold flg-ures the catalogue num- 

 ber of the dog, was adopted. This enables spectators to 

 identify the dogs, and is of very great assistance to them in 

 comparing merits and forming individual judgments. 

 Our spirited Httle doggy paper, the Stock-Keeper. caUs this 



— ■ o X uxiuiXL, a ouxi ui. ijceiu, u. luy memory .serves i It is about two years since Dr. Roy, of the Brown Institute 



Sunto-rwe^tSsTofR^^ Bardicea, m this nent veterinary surgeons gratis-published a warning of the; 



couaciy , were the. last ot ttajah get, I gj-eat increase of rabies m the southwestern district of Lon- ' 



„ , " - J.. " J ^ n -'-^-^ ,^ . , I '5^1^i'*'»^ely well devised, usefial and practical innovation " 



\our readers were mfoi-med fully concerning the "Brighton but the Stock-Keeper is iu some tnmgs like David Copnerfieid 

 incident" by "LiUibuUero," and doubtless he has also dilated I —very young. wp^ciuoiu. 

 on the enormity of the "Colley Club incident," which has a 

 far more serious significance than the chaff of one dog dealer 

 by another being turned into a grave charge of dishonestv. 



If "LilhbuUero" has not done so I will, and perhaps whetlier 

 or no, for it is not improbable my views of the case and his 

 may be very different except in the stern denunciation ol 

 making a charge against named members of a club anony- 

 mously. 



We have, metaphorically speaking, that which the doctors 

 of the early eighteenth century believed in as a physical fact 



-hyth'ophobia in the air. We have had mad dog scares be- , ... . ...._^„. ^ « y^,,,^. 



fore, but never one that had such a basis of fact to justify it. tion from the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle respecting a marvelous 

 The statistics of the death register are expected to show cne 'ox hunt lasting ten hoiu's and coverin'>- 130 niile^i How were 

 death per week duruigthe present year in London from hy- the sixty hounds bi ed? What hoi-ses^'did the Baker county 

 drophobia. ' -^-^ - _ , 



., young. 



The great success of the show is a credit to the manage- 

 ment, and the very large entry— many had to be refused— a 

 high compliment to the judges, Mr. L. C. R. Norris-Elye and 

 Mr. Frederick Graham. The latter gentleman is one of our 

 oldest breeders of St. Bernards, and admittedly one of the 

 best judges of them we have. 



I had something to say on the topic of special chibs and 

 special judges, but this letter has spun out more than I ex- 

 pected and I think the subject is quite hot enough to keep 

 warm for a month. 



In last copy of Forest and Stream to hand I find a quota- 



menridei or did they have a special train? How manf ti'f 

 them heard the moft sounded? And lastly. Who is the editor 

 of the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle? Has 'Anania.~ been resur- 

 rected? Coesinco:n^,, 

 London, Euk.. Dee U 



