July 6, 1895.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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one handler thought he had influence enough to carry 

 the whole matter easily across the boundary. From sev- 

 eral sources I have been advised that the customs regula- 

 tions will be enforced with a closer observance to the let- 

 ter of the law this year. According to the customs laws, 

 dogs can be brought in for exhibition purposes — that is, 

 field trials, bench shows, etc. — but the customs officers 

 claim that large numbers of dogs are brought in which 

 are not intended for exhibition purposes. The American 

 officials too complain that Canada is not keeping up to 

 the letter of the law. 



I have been informed, furthermore, that the stringency 

 of the customs officers, in respect to American dogs, is 

 largely the result of past abuses of their courtesy, abuses 

 which caused much annoyance to them and some ex- 

 pense. If any one feels guilty of having abused the spe- 

 cial courtesies and favors bestowed by the customs, such 

 one will now perceive the ill effects of it and the hard- 

 ship it works on all owners and handlers entering 

 Canada with dogs. It will require a lot of extra effort to 

 Becure concessions from the customs granted freely be- 

 fore, even if they can be secured at all, and in any case 

 the customs would probably feel painfully apprehensive 

 in granting much concession outside of the strict inter- 

 pretation of the law, without having most ample secur- 

 ity. They have been very kind and obliging heretofore. 

 For any care and precaution they now see fit to observe 

 they have good warrant. Those who go over with dogs 

 from this side have no cause of complaint if the letter of 

 the customs laws is enforced. A strict and conscientious 

 observance of the laws should now be uniformly observed 

 by the owners and handlers, as it should have been in the 

 past, and eventually their confidence, so badly shattered, 

 may be restored. 



Foreign Competition. 



Every sportsman will be glad to learn that it is definitely 

 settled that Mr. Brailsford will come to America this sea- 

 son. He intends to participate in the grouse trials in 

 Scotland on July 25, and will leave immediately for Mani- 

 toba after those trials are concluded. Mr. Heywood- 

 Lonsdale will send out Musa and Bonny Dan to compete 

 in the champion stake in the Northwestern Club's Cham- 

 pion stake, and will have a string to run in the other 

 Manitoba trials. B. Waters. 



DOG CHAT. 



Mr. John Davidson has a letter in the Breeder and 

 Sportsman of recent date, referring to the recent Pacific 

 Kennel Club's show and denying the published surmises 

 of Mr. Heffernan and explaining the impossibility of any 

 just grounds for such surmises. Mr. Davidson's character 

 and integrity are so well known that comment in that 

 relation is unnecessary; but the brethren on the Pacific 

 coast will learn in good time the harm such childish and 

 peevish disturbances produce. Many men value their good 

 nam e and peace of mind more than they value the ownership 

 of a dog or the possible honors to be gained by competition. 

 When the kennel world is largely made up of brawlings 

 and bickerings, it is not a very attractive one for gentle- 

 men and ladies to enter. If all that has been bandied to 

 and fro were true, what is the onlooker to think? 



Dog owners should be careful to observe the laws 

 governing dogs. Violations of the laws often result in 

 harm and a popular sentiment which is against all dogs, 

 good and bad. In Rochester, N. Y., the presence of dogs 

 in the parks seems to be a cause of much annoyance. Of 

 this the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle s&ya: "There 

 has been a great deal of trouble lately caused by dogs 

 running loose in the parks. Everybody who owns a dog 

 seems to be fond of taking the animal to the parks in spite 

 of the fact that there is a park ordinance prohibiting the 

 visitations of these dogs. In Genesee Valley Park dogs 

 have fallen into a habit of chasing the sheep, and this 

 became such a nuisance a short time ago that the shepherd 

 was ordered to shoot any dog that might annoy the flock. 

 He has already killed several dogs, and proposes to kill 

 quite a number more. The shepherd is armed with a shot 

 gun. Park Commissioner Maine said yesterday afternoon : 

 'It seems to me that it is quite as necessary to protect the 

 children in the parks as well as the sheep. In fact, it is a 

 good deal more necessary. The commissioners adopted a 

 humane policy as first, and provided that all dogs, except 

 those caught chasing the sheep, should be captured and 

 taken to the city pound, but this is rather an awkward 

 business. Last Sunday one of the park policemen while 

 trying to take a stray dog to the pound was severely 

 bitten. It may soon become necessary to have the park 

 policemen shoot all the dogs found in their territory. The 

 public parks are not the right places for dogs, and people 

 visiting them should leave their animals at home. The 

 commissioners have abundant authority to take active 

 steps to stop the nuisance, even to going so far as havin°- 

 the dogs shot.' " 



The following reprint from the New York Sun will be 

 of interest to married women who think they own dogs, 

 but do not. There seems to be a long felt want for a 

 genius who can make bona paraphernalia out of a dog: 



"The General Term of the Common Pleas handed down 

 a decision of interest to married women who own dogs. 

 Judges Bookstaver, Bischoff , and Prior have had under 

 consideration for some time the question who is the 

 owner of a black cocker spaniel bitch valued at $150. 

 The court hold, in an opinion written by Judge Bischoff,' 

 that, 'as between husband and wife, the possession of the 

 dag, which was not shown to be a chattel in the nature 

 of bona paraphernalia, imputed title in the husband, the 

 enabling acts in connection with married women not- 

 withstanding.' 



"This decision was rendered in a suit brought by Mrs. 

 Annie Reddin against James Lawlor before Judge Joseph' 

 H. Stiner in the Eighth Judicial Court to recover the dog. 

 Mrs. Reddin said that her husband took the dog away 

 from her and gave it either to the defendant or to some 

 one who did give it to the defendant. In his opinion, 

 which is concurred in by the other Judges, Judge Bischoff 

 says: 



" 'The evidence in support of the judgment established 

 the fact that the dog was in the possession of the 

 plaintiff's husband after she had temporarily left their 

 common home, and that in her absence he had presented 

 the animal to the defendant, who in turn made it a pres- 



ent to another person.' Then follows the decision quoted 

 above. 



"At the trial in the District Court Mrs. Reddin testified 

 that the dog was given to her as a Christmas present in 

 1893 by a Mr. Curtin, of Buffalo, and that she had cared 

 for it since it was six weeks old. The suit was decided in 

 favor of the defendant, and the General Term affirmed 

 that decision. 



"Bona paraphernalia are 'personal articles reserved to 

 a wife, over and above her dower or marriage portion, as 

 apparel or ornaments suitable to her rank and condition 

 in life.' " 



The field trial supporters of the Pacific coast are quite 

 pleased with their field trial prospects, and are confident 

 that their next trials will be a great success. 



Is it not rather conspicuous concerning dollars and 

 cents that all the contributions to the E. Bardoe Elliott 

 fund have been from residents of the United States and 

 Canada, notwithstanding that several of the Euglish ken- 

 nel papers commended the matter to the attention of their 

 readers? There is a cold indifference manifested which is 

 in sharp contrast to the good fellowship of empty words. 



The action of the Manitoba Field Trials Club in adopt- 

 ing the rules of the Continental Field Trials Club for the 

 government of its competitions is quite a compliment to 

 the new club's skill as law makers. 



Mr. R. B. Morgan, Akron, O., informs the public 

 through our business columns that he wants a brace of 

 dogs to teach retrieving. West Philadelphia kennels 

 offer terriers and collies. A. L, Bailey, Plymouth, Mass., 

 offers pointer puppies. J. Feulner," Cherry Valley, N. 

 Y., offers English setters. William Child, Glendale, Pa., 

 offers cocker. The Mere Kennels, Tarrytown, N. Y., 

 offer fox-terriers for sale and in stud. 



Mr. Fred Mansell, London, Eng., writes us that for a 

 friend he purchased the wire-haired fox-terrier Roper's 

 Nutcrack, a famous winner, for 121 guineas, at the auc- 

 tion sale of Sir Humphrey F. DeTrafford, Bart.'s, kennel 

 of wire-haired and smooth fox-terriers, retrievers, collies 

 and Irish water spaniels on June 21. 



We have been informed that Des Moines, la. , will give 

 a fall bench show this year. 



Mr. Ed. Warner, manager of Mi'. Geo. J. Gould's 

 kennels, will leave for Manitoba about July 8. He will 

 be accompanied by Mr. Armstrong, the trainer and 

 handler, who will prepare the dogs for the chicken trials. 

 The party will make the journey in a private car, a 

 pleasant manner of traveling. 



Of the special prize nuisance, the Stoclc-Keeper (Eng- 

 land) says: "It is not easy to foresee what will be the sol- 

 ution of the growing nuisance of special prizes. They have 

 become far the most difficult part of a judge's task, and 

 are attended with much ambiguity, and often also with 

 some heart-burning. It would be most desirable if gen- 

 erous givers would let their presents be added to the prize 

 fund to swell the number and the value of the ordinary 

 prizes. We know the drawback to this plan, the special 

 being divested of the personality of the donor; but, for 

 the general good of dog shows, we wish that the publica- 

 tion of the donors' names in the catalogue might suffice. " 



R. I. S. F. A. Dog Show. 



In the first place the bench show of the Rhode Island 

 State Fair Association is to be enlarged and rendered, if 

 possible, more attractive to fanciers and the public gener- 

 ally. This feature of our annual fair has proved a great 

 success. Last year the exhibition was of excellent 

 quality, a large percentage of the 500 dogs on the fair 

 grounds coming from the leading kennels of the country. 



The management has within a few days contracted with 

 the Spratts Patent people of New York, who will bench 

 with their metallic benching, and feed the canines this 

 year. Mr. E. M. Oldham, of New York city, has been en- 

 gaged as superintendent, and he will have entire charge 

 of the show, from the arrangement of the premium list to 

 the very smallest details. Mr. Oldham is at present at 

 work revising last year's premium list. Several important 

 changes will undoubtedly be made and a number of new 

 classes will be added. There is some talk of raising the 

 entrance fee from $2 to $3. The prize money allotted to 

 each class will be divided into three parts, so that the third 

 best dog will have a finger in the pie. 



It is the aim of the Association to have a much larger 

 exhibition this year than ever before. Accommodations 

 are being arranged for over 600 entries, and from present 

 indications all the room will be occupied. Owners from 

 all parts of the country have announced their intention 

 to compete, and everything looks bright for a successful 

 and excellent show. 



A. C. Ridee, Corresponding Secretary. 



Toronto Show. 



Toronto, Can. — From present prospects the seventh 

 annual dog show of the Industrial Exhibition Association, 

 to be held at Toronto, Sept. 10 to 14, promises to be the 

 best yet held. I am receiving applications from all over 

 the United States and Canada for premium lists, which 

 will be ready about Aug. 1. This year we have a Cana- 

 dian circuit consisting of Kingston, which will be held 

 the week previous to Toronto, and Montreal the following 

 week, which show draws a large American entry. 



C. A. Stone. 



Editing. 



It is hardly necessary to state that the Great Steam Yacht Race that 

 has been paraded before a defenseless public ever since last winter 

 was pn the same low level as all the previous contests. Three yachts 

 were present at New London on June 28 ; on the eve of the race one broke 

 down, or claimed to have done so, another sneaked away over night, 

 and the third, Vamoose, ran over the American Y. C. course alone; 

 her time for the 80 nautical miles to Milton Point being 4.11.00, or 

 23m. 35s. better than the record, an average speed of 19.13 knots, 

 Both the original and the present owner of the Vamoose have shown 

 a disposition to race, and have had the boat at the line on every occa- 

 sion when they have promised, and we believe that they have hon- 

 estly desired a fair trial, and taken reasonable trouble to bring their 

 boat to the start in .good season and in racing trim. The other alleged 



fast yachts for the past five years have made but a lamentable record 

 of backdowns, breakdowns, bad faith, and blunders so childishly 

 stupid as to seem inexcusable. 



So par as originality and distinctive meaning are concerned, there is 

 not much to brag about in the name Defender; but there are good 

 grounds for thankfulness that it was not even worse. One can write 

 it without affixing a string of Roman numerals, and there is no sug - 

 gestion of the Trilby craze about it— a disease to which untold num- 

 bers of owners of new boats have this year succumbed. 



Three of the four gentlemen who are paying for the defence of the 

 America's Oup this year have the doubtful honor of having been the 

 recipients of more virulent and unstinted abuse from American 

 newspapers than has ever been heaped npon any other American 

 yachtsman. Mr. W. K. Yanderbilt, who is paying the greater portion 

 of the cost of building and running the Defender, and who is likely to be 

 out of picket some $150,000 by the time that the final settlement of 

 the syndicate's account is made, has been for three years held up to 

 the public execration because he went to England for a steam yacht 

 after the best estimates of American builders had shown that it would 

 take nearly a year longer to build on the Delaware than on the Mer- 

 sey. Mr, E. D. Morgan, another of the three owners of the Defender , 

 who will also draw some large checks this season, getting no dividends 

 in return when the final account is settled, has long been known as a 

 spirited and patriotic yachtsman, but this did not save him when he 

 committed the unpardonable sin of bringing to this country such 

 model craft as May and Ituna instead of building something that 

 looked like a brass mounted tugboat, Mr, George Gould's experience 

 with the American press, and American yachtsmen too, is too recent 

 to be already forgotten: how he was charged with throwing away 

 races for the sake of toadying to royalty. This year Mr. Gould, of his 

 own volition and with very little encouragement, after being snubbed 

 for his first, generous offer to pay half the cost of a new defender, is 

 spending money in the most liberal rnannner in putting Vigilant into 

 the best condition as a trial boat to sail against Defender; and if nec- 

 essary through any mishap, to defend the Cup against the new 

 Valkyrie. There is no better means known of sinking good money 

 without hope of a return than in building a modern racing yacht, and 

 the contributions, volunlarily and generously made by the owners of 

 Defender and Vigilant, can bring them in no return other than the 

 knowledge that they have performed a patriotic duty that cannot be 

 too highly appreciated by the American people. 



The latest contribution to the interesting subject of steam yachting 

 is a syndicate article from the pen of Mr. Charles H. Cramp, who, as 

 the head of the concern which built Columbia, Peerless, Atalanta and 

 many other steam yachts, should certainly be qualified to discuss 

 them. The most important statement which which it contains is that 

 the firm has now an order for a steam yacht "bigger, faster and bet- 

 ter than the Giralda in everyway." If this order is filled, as Mr. 

 Cramp promises, it will be through the adoption of different methods 

 from those which have produced the three yachts named, or even the 

 St. Louis; there is absolutely nothing in the model of one of the four 

 to warrant the assertion that "perfection has been almost attained on 

 our own American shores." So far from this being the case, it is a 

 fact too painful plainly and patent to be hidden under any amount of 

 boasting and buncombe that this country has actually retrograded in 

 the important field of naval design within the past forty years; and 

 that it has nothing afloat to day that can show the superiority over 

 foreign craft of the American clipper ship3 and the old Collins Line 

 steamers in their day. 



In sailing yachts, America has, within the past ten years, come to 

 the front with such successful craft as Puritan, Mayflower, Volunteer, 

 Gloriana and Vigilant, and there is no fear that she will not hold the 

 first place in the future, now that all old traditions have been thrown 

 overboard. In steam yachts, save in the smaller class of cruising 

 craft, not even a beginning has yet been made, and owners are hardly 

 yet awake to the inferiority of their pet craft to such yachts as Rona 

 Giralda and Maria. On the high seas there is a fleet of serviceable 

 coastiDg steamers running to Cuba, South America and Southern 

 ports, good boats for their work, but showing no marked individuality 

 or superiority to similar craft of other naiions. In the trans-Atlantic 

 trade there is one ve3sel, as yet untried, but to the eye at least any- 

 thin? but a matter for pride and congratulation beside the foreign 

 vessels of her class. In the inland passenger service on the great 

 rivers and Long Island Sound, a flaet of very elegant and comfortable 

 vessels has grown up, but even in them the art of the decorator, the 

 cabinetmaker and the engine builder is years in advance of the model- 

 er of the hull. One remark of Mr Cramp we can agree with, "there 

 has been but little notable change in the model for fifty years." This 

 is, alas, but too true, and the time has come for a change in mercan- 

 tile models just as radical and extreme as that which has replaced the 

 old centerboard sloop by such yachts as Volunteer, Lasca, Iroquois, 

 Ariel and Emerald. 



One of the pleasant sights at Bristol on Saturday was that of Capt. 

 Haff about again in good health and spirits, though still feeling the 

 effects of the painful operation which he bore so bravely. He is im- 

 proving steadily, and will be ready to go into commission on the new 

 boat by the time she is ready. 



Just at this time, when so much is heard in connection with the 

 smaller classes of "stealing length" and "cheating the rules," by 

 means of freak distortions of lines, it is gratifying to see that the two 

 great designers, who are pitted against each other in the battle of the 

 America's Cup, have kept clear of all tricks and juggling, and have 

 been content with a legitimate use of the maasured length. We ncted 

 a short time since how in Valkyrie III. Mr. Watson had drawn a sheer 

 plan free from any downward distortion of either stem line or horn- 

 timber, the buttock and bowlines showing the same characteristics . 

 In Defender Mr. Herreshoff has done the same; neither in the bow nor 

 the stern is there any attempt to force an excessive amount of un- 

 measured length into the water; and further, the waterline, while of 

 course round and convex, as in all modern boats, shows none of the 

 excessive fullness that is thBmain characteristic of Wasp, Vigi Ian 

 and some of the smaller Has. In the fair sweep of all fore and aft 

 lines, and the absence of a heavy quarter, Defender is perhaps more 

 allied to the fln-keel Pilgrim than to any other American yacht. 



The Sinking of the Say When. 



The steam yacht Say When is the largest of the different yachts 

 built by the Herreshoffs for the late Norman L. Munro, a 

 finely built craft with double skin, the outer planking all of polished 

 mahogany, 138ft. overall, J 15ffc. l.w.l , 14ft. beam and fift. draft, with 

 quadruple expansion engines. For several years she has been owned 

 by W. J. White, of Cleveland, who has used her on all of the Great 

 Lakes, where sne is well known. On June 19 she was under way off 

 Cleveland, in charge of Capt. J. B. ToCd, wnh Mrs. White and her 

 children on board, with other ladies and children as guests, eighteen 

 in all. When near the breakwater the yacht struck a piece of wreck- 

 age or some floating obstruction and a hole was made in the star- 

 board bow. The engines w<;re reversed andtheyacbt quickly beached 

 stern first on the sand, the ladies and children, who benaved wiih re- 

 markable self-possession in spite ot the fact, that the forward part of 

 the yacht was flooded, being landed in boats, the schooner Priscilla 

 lending assistance. Efforts were made to keep the yacht on an even 

 keel, but as she sank she heeled to starboard. Some of her furniture 

 was removed, but the interior was ail damaged by water. She has 

 been raised and will be repaired at once. 



