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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Jan. 58, 1886. 



voting upon a club's application which belongs to the com- 

 mittee. 



As I told Mr. Child personally, the A. K. C. is chipping away 

 at its platform until it is a little upturned box on which 



is seen the sorry spectacle of a few clubs trying to find stand- 

 ing room, and holding on to one another as people do on the 

 rear platform of a crowded car. By and by some of them 

 will get tired and drop off. just such a dropping off will be 

 seen when the sixty days' grace for paying the now pending 

 $10 assessment expires. 



No, that is not the kind of club we want, but a strong, 

 liberal organization, limited in its actual membership if you 

 please, but not in its control, which should embrace every 

 show held under its rules with but one proviso, and that the 

 number of entries. The management and the judges have 

 nothing to do with shows of the future. Exhibitors " are wide 

 awake now and have nearly all the shows necessary. These 

 and all future ones to succeed and obtain entries must be well 

 managed and have good judges. The entries will testify to 

 the management and judges. 



The "Sensation amendment" is of no account compared with 

 the problem of future show recognition which the A. K. C 

 must face and that promptly. Jambs Watson. 



THE NEWARK DOG SHOW. 



FOLLOWING is the classification and prize list of the New- 

 ark dog show, to be held at Newark, N. J., March 33 24 

 and 25: ' 



Champion mastiffs, dogs or bitches, $20. Open dogs $15 

 §10 and 85; bitches the same; puppies, $10 and S5. Champion 

 rough-coated St. Bernards, dogs and bitches, $20; smooth- 

 coated, the same; open classes, same as mastiffs. Newfound- 

 lands, $10 and $5. Great Banes, the same. Champion grev- 

 hounds, dogs or bitches, $10, open dogs, $10 and $o; bitches 

 the same ; puppies, thesame. Deerhounds, same as greyhounds' 

 except there is no puppy class. Champion pointer dogs, over 

 551bs., $20; bitches, over GOlbs., the same; open dogs over 

 551bs., $15, $10 and $5; bitches, the same; champion 'dogs 

 under 551bs„ $20; bitches, the same; open, same as large class- 

 puppies, dogs, $10 and $5; bitches, the same. English 3 setters 1 

 same as pointers. Champion black and tan setters dogs or 

 bitches, $20; open dogs, $15, $10 and $5; puppies, $10 and $5 

 Irish setters, same as English setters. Chesapeake Bay dogs 

 or bitches, $10 and $5. Irish water spaniels, the same. Cham- 

 pion field spaniels, any color, dogs or bitches, $20; open dogs or 

 bitches, $15, $10 and So. Champion cocker spaniels.'any color 

 dogs or bitches, $20; open dogs (liver or black), $15, $10 and $5- 

 bitches, the same; any other color, dogs or bitches, $15, $ld 

 and $7 ; puppies, field or cocker, $10 and $5. Clumber spaniels 

 dogs or bitches, $10 and $5. Champion foxhounds, $15; open 

 dogs, $10 and $5; bitches, the same; puppies, $10. Champion 

 collies, dogs or bitches, $20; open dogs, $15, .$10 and So- bitches 



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dogs or bitches, $10 and $5. Uachshunde, the same. Cham- 

 pion fox-terrier dogs, $15; bitches, the same; open dogs, $15 

 $10 and $5: bitches, the same. Wire-haired dogs and bitches' 

 $10 and $5; puppies, dogs, $10; bitches, the same. Champion 

 bulls, dogs or bitches, $15; open dogs, $10 and $5; bitches the 

 same. Bull- terriers, same as bulldogs; puppies, $10. Black 

 and tan terriers, over 71bs., dogs or bitches, $10 and $5. Irish 

 or rough-haired terriers, the same. Dandie Dinmonts, the 

 same. Bedlingtons, the same. Skyes, the same. Champion 

 pugs, dogs or bitches, $10; open dogs, $10 and $5; bitches, the 

 same; puppies, $10. Yorkshire terriers, over olbs., dogs or 

 bitches. $10 and $5; under 51bs., the same. Toy terriers, the 

 same. King Charles spaniels, the same. Blenheim spaniels 

 thesame. Italian greyhounds, the same. Poodles (black), the 

 same ; other than black, the same. Miscellaneous, three prizes 

 of $5 each. 



ANCIENT AND MODERN SETTERS. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



As I write i have before me a photograph from a picture by 

 Francois Desportes, a French artist who was the greatest de- 

 lineator of sporting dogs of his time. I have not my books of 

 reference at hand to give the exact date of his death, but it 

 was before the middle of the last century. 



The picture in question is a portrait of three setters all 

 pointing. They are in every respect like our best WeweiTyns 

 and might pass for a group from any of our best kennels only 

 that the tails are curiously trimmed, the feather being closely 

 cropped save at the tip where a short paint brush shaped tuft 

 is left, just as is commonly done with mules' tails. To those 

 who think that setters were spaniels only a short time back 

 and that our crack field trial winners are triumphs of modern 

 invention in breeding, this picture is, to say the least, instruc- 

 tive. 



The uniform lesson of old pictures is that our best types of 

 setters existed as long ago as any record can be traced. Here 

 is one painted when guns had not been ,'perfected so as to en- 

 tirely supersede the net in field work with setters. Yet the 

 dogs are just as we see them now. One pec uliarity in the prin- 

 cipal dog of the group is of great interest to me. The fore leg 

 which is lifted in pointing is not bent at the pastern joint, but 

 the foot is pointed straight out at the birds. This seems un- 

 natural, yet the first setter I ever saw in my life would do just 

 that way. I was but a little boy at the time 9 years old. I 

 lived at what was then called Western New York, now 

 Dwight, Illinois, and there were very few people besides our 

 own family living a,ny where within twenty miles of there. I 

 remember that there were on a beautiful map of our '"city" 

 (exhibited in Chicago by the land agents) avenues, parks, city 

 hall fountains and even zoological gardens, all laid out in most 

 enticing colors. But the city at the time I speak of consisted 

 of a stake with a rag tied to its top, and there wasn't a single 

 house in sight unless the slowly rising frame of our own 

 might be counted as one. 



An Englishman connected with the survey of the Chicago 

 and Alton Kailroad, brought to our house a setter bitch and 

 left her for some time in our charge. She was a smart little 

 thing, looking very much like Juno A., and capital ia the 

 field. I remember seeing her point with her foot held straight 

 out to the front, and I believed she was showing us the birds 

 just as a man would point with his finger. 1 remember dis- 

 tinctly to have seen her do so twice, and my general impres • 

 sion is that she did so quite often, i have seen nothing ofthe 

 kmd since and should distrust my youthful memory, but the 

 evidence of the work before me, every line of which shows 



ENGLISH KENNEL NOTES. 



knowledge, care, and exactitude, convinces me that there 

 was no mistake about it. I note also in Desnortes' setters that 

 the ears show little disposition to prick and are set on quite 

 low, and well baek. .Altogether, this picture strengthens my 

 faith in the antiquity of the good qualities of the setter, and 

 my belief that the worst defects are those resulting from out- 

 crossing to other breeds. Surely if every ornamental point, as 

 well as every useful point in the breed, is a heritage from the 

 distant past, we ought to so frame our standard as to guard all 

 of them from change or innovation. 



I am about to go South for an outing. For six weeks to 

 come my headquarters will be in Ocean Springs, Miss. If 

 there is any sport going on down there you will be likely to 

 hear from me. John M. Tract. 



Geken-wich, Jan, 22, 18S6. 



THE NEW YORK DOG SHOW.— Editor Forest and 

 Stream: The Westminster Kennel Grab will hold then* tenth 

 annual bench show of dogs at Madison Square Garden, May 

 4, 5, 6 and 7; Premium lists and entry blanks may be 

 obtained at 48 Broad street, room 14. Post-office bo?t 1812.— 

 Jar, Morthvieb, Supt • ™ 



xxxrv. 



U T I J jLIii '^LEBO died at Brighton," so say the great unin- 

 ±J formed. Alas, poor Langdale! I knew him. Ah! "where 

 be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of 

 merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar ?" He was a 

 man popular with the crowd who love your free and easy fel- 

 lows that never attempt to set aught straight inaverywrv 

 world "TheCapting* "the gallant Capting" as he dearly 

 loved to be styled, was everybody's friend and he only excep- 

 ted himseie to prove the rule. No man could more significant!? 

 have sighed, 'Life would be tolerable were it not for its pleas- 

 ures.' The last time we met was at Edinburgh, and we 

 gravely discussed the identity of LiUibulero. Our unanimity 

 was wonderful, we held it an uncommonly awkward posi- 

 tion never to know when we were in his 'presence "Hane- 

 me, the beggar may be listening now." said the Capting as 

 waiter entered with two mere ' 'gos" of Irish. We guelsed 

 Lilhbulero up and down the dog directory, but least of all we 

 suspected ourselves. The last time I saw him he was off for 

 the races, bent on "busting the bookies." a performance I am 

 afraid that no amount of rehearsal could have made him per- 

 fect m. Langdale was a very old member of the kennel world. 

 * ears ago, in Sand ell's time, he was an exhibitor and a suc- 

 cessful one. For a short time he was hidden behind a cloud 

 but he emerged with a smile on his face and the "past had 

 buried its dead " He was a very fair judge and a most zealous 

 reporter. The last news I had of him was that he had given 

 instructions to proceed against an Englith kennel organ for 

 hbel. He had been charged in its columns with dishonest 

 judging, but the hand of death has robbed the gibemouches 

 of the dog world of a cause cmbre. 



Our Collie Club is in danger of being split up by a scandal 

 born of pique and bitterness. Private animosities founded in 

 disappointment are the greatest danger the specialist clubs 

 run. It was always believed that the Collie Club had nothing 

 to fear in that direction, but this confidence has been rudely 

 dispelled by the appearance of a wickedly malicious, and rif 

 course, unsigned hbel. It was put into the form of a circular 

 and posted broadcast. I give it in its impudent entirety : 



TO COLLIE EXHIBITORS. , 



Those who are fond of coincidences will find it curious to observe 

 the following; 



That Messrs. Boddington. Thomson and Pirie, collie judges, and Mr 

 iu-ehl, collie exhibitor, are all members of a club called the "Crich' 

 ton. 



That the last named three should be proprietors of the Stock-Keener 

 a weekly paper chiefly devoted co dogs. 1 

 That two of the four (Thomson and Pirie) form a majority of the 

 prize committee of the Collie Club, thu-i increasing their strength 



That when one judges the others generally exhibit, and verv sup 

 cessfully. • *- - w 



The Result.— That at Sheffield show, where the prwes are good 

 there should only have been eighteen entries of collies at the time Of 

 closing entries, Sept. 30. 

 Verbum sap. 



This circular contains a criminally ingenious blending of 

 truth and falsehood. Mr. Boddington is a shrewd and clever 

 fancier, he exhibits the best dogs, in consequence he wins 

 with them and sells them right and left all over the country 

 This must naturally make less successful breeders envious; 

 but with so many jaundiced eyes upon him that nothing has 

 been discovered against his character is proof positive that 

 nothing exists. If he makes money out of his kennel, many 

 hundreds a year, it is said, then he succeeds in doing what 

 everybody else tries to do. 



As for the other three— Thomson, Pirie and Krehl— well all 

 I can say is, they are public characters in the kennel world 

 and their names have never been associated with a dishonor- 

 able action. It is only pen and ink curs of gangrened imagi- 

 nations and besmirched reputations who would try to drai 

 down into the gutters of filth that public opinion has kickec 

 them into, the men who can face the light of day and walk in 

 the middle of the road. I regret to understand that Mr 

 Thomson intends to resign the club, and 1 hope his two 

 friends may not be influenced by his example. Their duty is 

 to stand by their club until the honorable majority have had 

 an opportunity of purging from their midst a cowardly few. 

 "The result" mentioned in the circular was a lying forecast, 

 as the Sheffield show opened with fifty-two cohios on the 

 bench. 



The only public notice taken of this outrage was in a rigma- 

 role epistle from a boisterous member of the Collie Club com- 

 mittee. It reminded me of a line in "Hudibras," so I turned 

 over the leaves of Mr. Samuel Butler and smiled whenl came 

 upon the couplet: • 



"Quoth Hudibras, 'I smell a rat ; 

 italpho, thou dost prevaricate.' " 

 The Birmingham people were quite elated at the return of 

 Dame Fortune this year. It was vexing to me that I could 

 only get there the last day of the show. Although the total 

 entry proved a complete recovery, I somehow wandered 

 through the benches with the feeling that things were not 

 quite what the old days knew. I had a good look at the white 

 collie bitch and her pups which were honored with the Prince 

 of Wales' attention. He bought one for ten guineas, and I am 

 told he went to the show for that purpose. What the pups 

 will be heaven only knows, but the dam is a lop-eared, sleepy- 

 faced, light-boned, soft-coated, white English setter, and 

 when I saw her she was suffering badly from chorea. 



The St. Bernard Club show adds to its renown year by year. 

 The vitality in this club is most remarkable and commendable. 

 Three hundred entries and many refused is something to be 

 proud of. The public bowed down to Plinlimmon, but the 

 success of his kennel mate was received with mutterings. 



Writing of St. Bernards brings up a subject I should be glad to 

 be able to leave alone. Under the slow-witted mismana°e- 

 ment of its present kennel editors, the Live Slock Journal- is 

 fast going from the dogs to the dogs. The Stock-Keeper scored 

 a cruel triumph over it in the St. Bernard show week. The 

 two-penny paper presented its readers with a brilliant lifelike 



portrait of the talk of the hour, Plinlimmon, and a speaking 

 likeness of Mr. dimming Macdona. The whole paper seemed 

 to be given up to dogs that week, and the report by "An Ex- 

 pert" (Mr. Crawford, I believe) was good technical reading. 

 The poor old Line Stock was starved with a few columns and 

 a report as dry as a drought. The numerous proprietors of 

 the Stock-Keeper took care that no bushel should obscure 

 their fight from the public. They have adopted a style and 

 policy that goes down with the public, and may pay if it lasts. 



The great firm of Spratts Patent has been turned into a 

 limited liability company. It is considered the most 

 genuine business offered ito investors and speculators since 

 Bryant & Mays underwent the same transformation. It is 

 stated that the capital has been subscribed over and over 

 again. This was to be expected because every grocer who 

 deals ,in the goods would feel anxious to have even a little 

 finger in this very juicy pie. 



When the senior partner, Mr. Wylam, purchased the patent 

 for a few hundreds, neither he nor his friends could have 

 dreamed of the colossal firm that was to grow up out of the 

 profits on dogs' food. The smart business abilities of the pur- 

 chaser pushed it to the position it now occupies. £183,000 are 

 a large figure to pocket for a property consisting of the sale 

 of biscuits and pheasants' meal. 



The turning of this huge private firm into a public property 

 will be a great blow to needy and shifty dog show reporters 

 who look to augmenting their incomes by the sale of " prom- 

 ising puppies" and eleemosynary presents obtained by hanging 

 about the office-door in Bermondsey^kennel perquisites. 



Before the allotment of the shares has been made the £5 

 shares are selling at a premium of £3. This price is not likely 

 to be sustained. However, the business stands upon such a, 

 solid basis and their goods are so first-class that the future of 

 the company is assured, - • - - - . , . 



f} U J^ Sp f °^ ing - Life toi Wta6ed. to me through my editors I 



J?*A d the fo]lowiil g paragraph marked ■ 

 fn £ fn . end a? ks me to mention that the gift of I* LiUibulero 1 

 to the American-English Beagle Club which consisted of t 

 ^engraving of *— 

 lat it now ~i 

 street. Nex 

 Porcupine." 



ariL^ff^ 6 ^ 6 ^ S b £ eu in toe Stock-Keeper, 



arising out of Mr. F. Adcock's challenge to show his bull bitcli 

 Acme against Mr. Sellon's Queen Mab, for £100 aside is 

 wh^tEi ms,8t f d u P°n naming the three judges, from 

 n^n d8 4 .°Pi P « neDt ^x. t0 choose two ' tne matter 'rather 

 ?™™«vT ^.through. The discussion that began in the above 

 manner is finishing up with an attack upon the judges named, 

 fHp^l 0n * n Bl ^ mart l s ' s merifcs and a bogus inquiry into the 

 S /L °i Gandlt ^ ^oui some half-witted groundings have 

 sagely endeavored to connect with the writer! of these notes, 

 to reveal"' sbark naked truth of that business is not difficult 



««Sw e M h, ^ es, iS. vebee ? hTOVi Sht before the Kennel Club 

 dhf f ?J*i Ver ^ S ^ 1 , should be loth t0 P* blisli ^is fact 

 did 1 not know that it has been allowed to openly court the 

 notice of the members in the club, they have can-fed the news 

 now everybody's property that Mr. Shaw has 



™Jt aC 5i U - sed 0f A 1 **! that and the othe1 ' Ifc & more than 

 weeks, it is months since this first bfcame known, and I trust 

 my noticing it will induce the committee to disclose what has 

 oeen done in the matter. 



nrJ^T 6 ^5T 6 - beeD rumors tQ at Mr. S. W. Smith's St. Bernard 

 tt^ ^ rince . was being nibbled at by an American buyer, 

 l hear the bargain is struck. 



roi£. ear ^ r Lond ° n dogs are in great distress over the police 

 order and I am afraid these notes will dash the only drop of 

 consolation from the hps of their owners who have snugly 

 been assuring themselves that among the muzzled was yours 

 to command, with a happy new year all round. 



LlIiLIBULERO. 



EASTERN FIELD TRIALS CLUB. 



T?^i r i an ^ al ^ ee T ting °l T tbe -Eastern Field Trials Club was 

 J- held at the St. James Hotel, New York, on Tuesday even- 

 £&™iv*;w /he following named gentlemen were unani- 

 SM-,* b ° T ard . £ f governors for the ensuing year: 

 fc\ p ' ^l lso V' O- Doniier . Elliot Smith, W. A. Coster. 



G Tl H gcksher, R. C. Cornell, D. C. Bergundthal, Luther 

 f± am A S ' ^ S n ^ e i 01 ^ J %> 2d , F R. Hitchcock, H. E Hamii- 

 BaVd Thaye? 6 ^' * °^ Grant ' Ge ° r S e T - Leacn and 

 A letter from Messrs, Heath & Anthony was received 

 requesting that a committee be appointed to investigate the 

 withdrawal of Graphic at the last field trials. The letter was 

 referred to the board of governors, who ordered it placed on file 

 Mr. Alex. Taylor, Jr., who had presented the letter, thereupon 

 used some unparliamentary language, for which he apologized 

 and tendered his resignation as a member of the club, which 

 was unanimously accepted. Notice was given of a proposed 

 amendment to the by-laws to be acted upon at the next 

 quarterly meeting. The amendment abolishes the initia- 

 tion fee of J$5, leaving the annual dues $25, as at present 

 i he meeting then adjourned and the board of governors at 

 once convened and elected officers for the ensuing year as 

 follows: President, B. F. Wilson, Pittsburg, Pa. : First Vice- 

 w^^J'iP' ^gnner, New York; Second Vice-President, 

 •fcwot Smith, New York; Secretary and Treasurer, Washington 

 a si^T' F Jatbush, L. I. It was decided that the public 

 field trials of the Club for this year should be held at High 

 Point, N. C., commencing Nov. 22 with the Derby, to be fol- 

 d , ttie , A11 -Aged Pointer Stake, then the All- Aged 

 better Stake, closing with the Champion Stake, the Members' 

 btake to commence Nov. 18. A letter from W. T Mitchell 

 to the editor of the Sporting Life was placed before the board, 

 and arter reading it, Mitchell was by unanimous vote de- 

 barred from running or handling dogs at future meetings of 

 the Club. Messrs. Donner, Hitchcock and Gregory were 

 appointed a committee to revise the field trial rules. 



FIELD AND COCKER SPANIELS. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Hear, hear! "Let us know where we stand," as "Raven" says 

 m your last issue. 1 am glad to see my letter, written a few 

 months ago to you on this subject, has at last elicited an 

 answer, or rather another interrogation on the part of 

 Raven," who we all know is a judge of what a spaniel should 

 be His remarks anent Pluto at Philadelphia fall show are 

 well taken, and only strengthens what I said in my last letter 

 that practically, to all intents and purposes, there is abso- 

 lutely no difference between a cocker and a field spaniel- 

 except the weight. Now the question is, who is to decide 

 this matter? I had hoped that it would have been decided 

 ere this by the American Spaniel Club acting on my letter to 

 you in some way, or at least to have publicly heard from one 

 or more prominent members of the club their views on the 

 subject. But my "conundrum" did not apparently have any 

 interest to them in any shape or form. 



Most of the coming "bench shows have their premium li«ts 

 printed by this time, so it is almost too late to make the alter- 

 ation I suggested. But (I think I may say) the principal 

 bench show of the country has not had a date fixed, and I 

 would like to see the manages of said show take the initiative in 

 this matter and I feel sure the other kennel clubs would with- 

 out doubt follow suit at their future shows. 



I therefore, as a breeder and exhibitor, respectfully ask the 

 Westminister Kennel Club of New York to expunge" the word 

 ' cocker" from their future premium lists and make classes 

 for field spaniels as follows : 



Champion Field Spaniels under 231bs. (any color), "dogs or 

 bitches. 



Field Spaniels under 2Slbs. (black), dogs. 

 Field Spaniels under 281bs. (black), bitches. 

 Field Spaniels under 281bs. (any other color), dogs or 

 bitches. 



Champion Field Spaniels over 281bs. (any color), dogs or 

 bitches. 



Field Spaniels over 281bs. (black), dogs or bitches. 



Field Spaniels over 281bs. (any other color), dogs or bitches. 



Field Spaniel Puppies (any color), dogs or bitches. 



Another argument in favor of the change, viz. : If cockers 

 and field spaniels are not practically the same breed, whv do 

 all the bench show premium lists put cocker and field spaniel 

 nippies in the same class? They might put as well English, 

 rish and Gordon setter puppies in one class. In fact it would 

 be a great deal more sensible, as the puppies mentioned are 

 all setters, while in the other case some are cockers and some 

 are field spaniels, as some out and out cocker men claim. 



Why, one of our most respected spaniel breeders imported 

 a certain spaniel bitch from the other side as a cocker, and 

 when he got her he found she exceeded the limit that a cocker 

 should be, and consequently the bitch alluded to has been 

 shown in the field spaniel class and won prizes. 



1 repeat my "conundrum" given in my former letter, viz. ; 

 H a champian cocker happens to grow fat in spite of the best 

 efforts to keep him below the limit weight, what is he? We 

 will say he gets to be oOlbs. Can he be shown in the field 

 spaniel class, and if so, does he scale the ladder again, or does 

 he take his place in the champion class? 



I would really like to hear what the American Spaniel Clnb 

 have to say on the matter. Cave Canem. 



THE "AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER" ENTRIES n»w 

 number 3,185. The current number is the first of the fourth 

 volume. The Begiater is published njq^thly at, $L3Q per 



