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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Nov. 9, 1805. 



TRAILING CLASS. 



First, O. F. Joalin's Dan; second, Hagan & Walker's 

 Big Strive; third, White Oak Hill Kennels' Clay. 



SPEED CLASS. 



First, 0. F. Joslin's Dan; second, Hagan & Walker's 

 Big Strive; third, G. W. Pierce's Driver. 



ENDURANCE CLASS. 



First, O. F. Joslin's Dan; second, W. A. Bragdon's Dock; 

 third, Tracy & Hagan's Banjo. 



TONGOING CLASS. 



First, White Oak Hill Kennels' Clay; second, Geo. A. 

 Goddard's Joe J. ; third, Hagan & Walker's Big Strive. 



STYLE CLASS. 



First, Hagan & Walker's Big Strive; second, White 

 Oak Hill Kennels' Clay; third, 0. F. Joslin's Dan. 



SPECIAL PRIZES. 



American Field Cup, highest general average medal, O. 

 F. Joslin's speed medal, Dr. A. C. Heffenger's hunting 

 medal to Dan. 



H. A. P. Smith's tonguing medal to Clay. 



A. B. F. Kinney's $50 for fox killed by the hounds was 

 not awarded. 



On Friday evening a club meeting was held, President 

 Heffenger in the chair. R. D. Perry, O. F. Joslin and S. 

 Knight, Jr. , were empowered to select the place and date 

 of the winter meet. Solomon Bennett, Providence, R. I., 

 was elected a member of the club. The meeting then 

 adjourned and a fox- hunter's ball brought a week of good 

 sport to an end. J. A. F. 



Entries for the Beagle Trial. 



The field trial committee of the National Beagle Clubfif 

 America held a meeting at 55 Liberty street, Tuesday, 

 Oct. 22. The members present were Messrs. H. F. Schell- 

 hass, J. W. Appleton, A. D. Lewis, George Laick, N. A. 

 Baldwin and Geo. W. Rogers. The entries received num- 

 bered twenty-nine against seventeen in the same classes 

 last year. Among them are a number of dogs which will 

 compete in the New England Beagle Club trials at Ox- 

 ford, Mass., beginning Nov. 5, which have been* nomi- 

 nated by H. S. Joslin and W. S. Clark, the president and 

 secretary of the New England Beagle Club. Among the 

 other nominators are George F. Reed, who won the Derby 

 last year at Hempstead, L. I., with Nell R., and in 1893 at 

 Nanuet, N. Y., with Sport R. C. Staley Doub, who has 

 one of the finest packs in the South ; N. A. Baldwin, D. F. 

 Summers, William Saxby and the Somerset Kennels, all 

 frequent winners with their strains at beagle trials, have 

 made entries. The list is as follows: 



OPEN CLASS A. 



For dogs, all ages, 15in. and under, that have not been 

 placed first in any open class at field trials held in 

 America. 



Awashonk Kennels' black, white and tan dog Zeno 

 (Deacon Tidd — Daisy). 



H. S. Joslin's blue ticked dog Snyder III. (Snyder II. — 

 Nancy). 



A. C. Pickhardt's Jester II. 



George F. Reed's black, white and tan dog Spark R. 

 (Keannelly's Lee— Skip), 



OPEN CLASS B. 



For bitches, all ages, loin, and under, that have not 

 been placed first in any open class at field trials held in 

 America. 



Walter Randall's black, white and tan bitch Bell (Fitz- 

 hugh Lee — Baby Deane). 



W. S. Clark's white and tan bitch Sunbeam (Buckshot — 

 Nell R.). 



Waldingfield Beagle's black, white and tan bitch Lu- 

 fra (Imported Orator — Lonesome). 



N. A. Baldwin's black, white and tan bitch Ada B. 

 (champion Frank Forest — Zellah). 



C. Scaley Doub's black, white and tan bitch Triumph 

 (Imported Chimer — Welcome). 



William Saxby's black, white and tan bitch Dime 

 (Judge — Baby). 



D. F. Summer's black, white and tan bitch Lucy S. 

 (Frank — Jip). 



Somerset Kennels' black, white and tan bitch Marvel 

 (Bounce — Ferol). 



George F. Reed's black, white and tan ticked bitch 

 Nell R. (Ned— Haida). 



F. W. Chapman's Marguerite (Fitzhugh Lee — Sido). 

 OPEN CLASS c. 



For dogs and bitches, all ages, 13in. and under, that 

 have not been placed first in any open class at field trials 

 held in America. 



George F. Heed's black, white and tan bilch Skip II. 

 R, (Buckshot — Jute). 



Daniel F. Summer's black, white and tan bitch Sum- 

 mer's Kit (Trubble — Lucy). S., also tan and blue ticked 

 dog Talor (Royal Forest— Beauty C). 



F. H. Bolton's black, white and tan dog Young Royal 

 (champion Royal Krueger — Midge). 



Walter Randall's black, white and tan bitch Lola Lee 

 (Fitzhugh Lee — Parthenia). 



C. F. Prouty's black, white and tan bitch Becky Bates 

 (Fitzhugh Lee — Parthenia). 



William Saxby's black, white and tan bitch Bessie 

 (Judy— Baby). 



George Laick's black, white and tan dog Laick's Rattler 

 II. (Laick's Rattler— Flirt). 



DERBY— CLASS D. 



For dogs and bitches, 15in. and under, whelped on or 

 after Jan. 1, 1894. 



Awashonk Kennels' black, white and tan dog Baronet 

 Daunter— Rocklass). 



W. S. Clark's white and tan bitch Sunbeam (Buckshot 

 —Nell). 



Waldingfield Beagle's black, white and tan dog Phoebus 

 (Potomac — Belle of Woodbrook). 



C. Staley Doub's black, white and tan bitch Pisen 

 (Wanderer — Spinaway). 



George F. Reed's black, white and tan bitch Spinaway 

 (Laick's Rattler — Spot R.), 



J. Q. Bourne's black, tan and blue ticked bitch Jute II. 

 (Buckshot— Jute). 



William Saxby's black, white and tan bitch Dime's 

 Daisy (Clyde — Dime), 



James L. Keinochan has made entries for Class G, 

 Brace Stakes, and Class H, Pack Stakes. 



Geo. W, Rogers, Sec'y. 



U. S. F. T. C. All-Age Entries. 



Trenton, Tenn.— The entries for the AU-Age Stake of 

 the U. S, F. T. Club, Newton, N. C, number twenty- 

 nine: fourteen setters, thirteen pointers, 



ENGLISH SETTERS. 



Lady Mildred— Hobart Ames's b., w. and t. bitch 

 (Antonio— Ruby Girl). 



Rod's Top — P. M. Essig's b., w. and t. dog (Roderigo— 

 Topsy Avent). 



Tony's Gale— Fox & Seiler's b., w. and t. dog (Antonio 

 —Nelly G.). • 



Revenue— C. N. Powers's b., w. and t. dog (Antonio— 

 Nelly Hopr-). 



Minnie T.— W. W. Titus's b., w. and t. bitch (Dick 

 Bondhu— Betty B,). 



Sam T— W. W. Titus's b., w. and t. dog (Luke Roy- 

 Betty B.). 



Harrol Skijipole— W. H. Beazell's b., w. and t. dog 

 (Whyte B. — Nettie Bevan). 



Cynosure— N. T. Harris's b., w. and t. bitch (Roderigo 

 — Norah II.). 



Dixies Flag— N. T. Harris's b. and w. dog (Wun Lung 

 —White Wings). 



Tony Boy— N. T. Harris's b., w. and t. dog (Antonio- 

 Laundress) 



Tory Dotlet— F. R. Hitchcock's b., w. and t. bitch 

 (Count Gladstone IV.— Tory Delia). 



Gleam's Pink— Manchester Kennels' b., w. and t. dog 

 (Vanguard— Georgia Belle). 



Black Rock— T. P. Lewis's L. and w. dog (Ray O'Hope 

 — Lulie). 



Paloma— P. Lorillard's b,, w. and t. bitch (Eugene T.— 

 Lou). 



POINTERS. 



Ridgeview Regent— F. A. Hodgeman's liv. and w. dog 

 (Beppo III.— Bloomo II.). 



Elgin's Dash— F. W. Dunham's 1. and w. dog (Kent 

 Elgin — Mack's Juno), 



Lad's Lady— L W. Blankenbaker's liv. and w. bitch 

 (Lad of Rush — Lady Margaret). 



Tory Baron— Thomas Hitchcock's liv. and w. dog (Duke 

 of Hessen — Westminster Ina), 



Jingo— N. T. De Pauw's liv. and w. dog (Mainspring- 

 Queen II.). 



Von Gull— Ash ford & Odum's liv. and w. dog (Kent 

 Elgin— Fanny V. Croxteth). 



Tory Joe— F. R. Hitchcock's liv. and w. dog (Kent El- 

 gin — Fanny Heath). 



Tick Boy— Stoddard & Kidwell's b. and w. dog (King 

 of Kent — Bloom). 



Tamarack, Jr.— H. K. Devereux's liv. and w. dog 

 (Tamarack — Maud Graphic). 



Komus— G. Cnisholm's liv. and w. dog (Clip Graphic — 

 Mack's Juno). 



.Rex Fast— C. Coolidge's liv. and w. dog (Rex— Mosy). 



La Belle — Geo. F. Gray's liv. and w. bitch (Vander- 

 vort's Don — Winnie Tribulation). 



Rancocas Belle— P. Lorillard's liv. and w. bitch (Rip 

 Rap— Maud). W. B. Stafford, Sec'y. 



A Twice-Told Tale. 



The Stock-Keeper (England), in its issue of Oct. 18, pub- 

 lishes an open letter bearing the date of Sept. 27 and the 

 signatures of Messrs. Jas. Watson and A. P. Vredenburgh, 

 the committee appointed in accordance with the resolu- 

 tions passed at the September meeting, "That Messrs. 

 Watson and Vredenburgh be appointed a committee to 

 write an open letter for the purpose of refuting the pub- 

 lished statements of Mr. James Taylor, of England, 

 respecting the American kennel world." 



As the letter embodies, in the main, matter which has 

 been gone over to a wearisome extent several times 

 before, it is unnecessary to publish it verbatim. To show 

 the position of the A. K. C. in the matter, it will suffice 

 to publish the following excerpts from the letter men- 

 tioned : 



Undoubtedly, the awards in the classes in which the 

 Messrs. Woodiwiss exhibited were altered on Wednesday, 

 and without the slightest consultation with Mr. Taylor, 

 who had no more reason to be heard in the matter than 

 if he had never left England. 



The faots are these: The dogs belonging to Messrs. 

 Woodiwiss did not arrive at the show building till Wednes- 

 day, the second day of the show; Mr. Taylor had not 

 then judged these classes, but did so on that day. He 

 awarded certain prizes to these dogs, but an objection 

 was lodged because of late arrival. The show committee 

 had no option, under the rules, but to disqualify the 

 belated travelers; but, in order that their owners might 

 not feel aggrieved at the enforcement of the show rules, 

 Mr. Terry offered, on behalf of the club, to let the awards 

 stand as "extra prizes" and pay the amount won, irre- 

 spective of the dogs' disqualification in their classes, and 

 Messrs. Woodiwiss said they would prefer plate. The 

 amount won was $90 (equal to £18); but, not content with 

 voluntarily paying that amount twice over, the club pur- 

 chased plate to the value of £22, and forwarded it to 

 Messrs. Woodiwiss. Such are the facts as they are known 

 to us, and it is our appointed duty to place them before 

 your readers. * * * 



Finally, let us ask English readers whether they can 

 conceive a club committee disqualifying any dogs, and 

 then paying the prizes over again for the purpose of com- 

 mitting a fraud, or indeed can they, in the history of the 

 entire kennel world, find a duplicate to the generosity of 

 the Westminster Kennel Club in presenting to the Eng- 

 lish exhibitors £22 worth of plate to which they had no 

 legal right. Mr, Taylor is singularly silent on this point. 



You may depend that if there had been any truth in 

 the intent of Mr. Taylor's charges we should have heard 

 of them here. The intent of Mr. Taylor's charge has 

 been that a fraud was committed at our leading show, 

 and your readers would, therefore, be led to the belief 

 that it was a habit of our show managers to do so. 



To this letter the Stock-Keeper appended the following: 

 "A definite charge was distinctly made in our columns on 

 May 3 this year. Mr. Taylor stated that the executive 

 changed his dachshund awards, and that charge is ad- 

 mitted in the above letter. The explanation given is that 

 Mr. Woodiwiss's dogs which received prizes were ineli- 

 gible to compete, and were on that account disqualified, 

 and in the natural course of dog-3how events their disap- 

 pearance from the prize list should have allowed each of 

 their beaten competitors to move up a peg, that is to say, 

 a third dog take second prize, a reserve dog take third 



prize, and so on. We should not have called that alter- 

 ing the awards, but what we do call altering an award is 

 jumping up the bitch Weasel, which the judge only 

 highly commended, into the prize list. In a general move 

 up she should have been promoted to vhc, but the New 

 York executive skipped the vhc. , reserve and third prize 

 steps, and put her second. We contend that the executive 

 in this case exceeded their rights; they had no right to 

 decorate with the second prize card an animal that the 

 judge could appreciate no higher than he." 



The following appears in the Stock-Keeper of Oct. 25: 



Although hitherto I have refrained from making any 

 comment on the remarks which have appeared in print 

 about my brother and myself at the late Westminster 

 Kennel Club show at New York, I now feel it my duty to 

 state the real facts, which were as follows: 



On the morning of the first day of the show, the boat 

 carrying our dogs and kennelman bad neither arrived 

 nor been reported; however, in the evening I received a 

 telegram saying she would be in dock at 8 o'clock the 

 next morning, so I at once took this telegram to Mr. Mor- 

 timer, and he said if we could get the dogs in before their 

 classes were] judged they would be all right (I may here 

 mention the judging at this show was not finished until 

 the evening of the second day; all our dogs were benched 

 between 2 and 3 o'clock on that day, and the dachshunds 

 were not judged until about 5 o'clock); therefore, our sur- 

 prise was great when we were told later on that objections 

 had been lodged against the awards being given to our 

 dogs, that in consequence of the said objections they 

 would receive extra prizes instead. 



Now, to go to the subject of the plate, which we were 

 alleged to have asked for and received in preference to the 

 prize money. The whole of this is an utter fabrication. 

 My brother never applied at the office for his prize money 

 at all, but I went for mine and was offered checks 

 amounting in value to about £16 or £17, which I refused 

 to take, being much annoyed at the altering of the awards, 

 viz.: by inserting the word "extra," and moving up dogs 

 of inferior merit to the position mine by rights should 

 have occupied. I especially noticed that the special prize 

 for best team of dachshunds, which my dogs were 

 a%varded, remained unaltered in the catalogue; therefore, 

 in place of the $15 for this said special, I asked Mr. Terry 

 if he would send me a gold medal up to that value (or 

 less). 



This he agreed to do, and the word plate was never 

 mentioned, nor have we received any, much less the gold 

 medal; therefore what Messrs. James Watson and A. P. 

 Vredenburgh mean by the paragraph, "The dogs belong- 

 ing to Messrs. Woodiwiss did not arrive at the show build- 

 ing till Wednesday, the second day of the show. Mr. 

 Taylor had not then judged these classes, but did so on 

 that day. He awarded certain prizes to these dogs, but 

 an objection was raised because of late arrival. The 

 show committee had no option, under the rules, but to 

 disqualify the belated travelers; but, in order that their 

 owners might not feel aggrieved at the enforcement of 

 the show rules, Mr. Terry offered, on behalf of the club, 

 to let the awards stand as 'extra prizes,' and pay the 

 amount won, irrespective of the dogs' qualifications in 

 their classes, and Messrs. Woodiwiss said they would 

 prefer plate. The amount won was $90 (equal to £18); 

 but, not content with voluntarily paying that amount 

 twice over, the club purchased plate to the value of £22, 

 and forwarded it to the Messrs. Woodiwiss," which ap- 

 pears in your last issue, I am quite at a loss to understand. 



E, Sydney Woodiwiss. 



Continental Field Trials off. 



Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 4.— [Special to Forest and 

 Stream], On account of scarcity of birds at Newton the 

 governing committee at a meeting held in Chicago to-day 

 declared the Continental Club trials off. 



P. T. Madison, Secretary. 



In Manitoba. 



Winnipeg, Oct. 29. — Prairie fires are raging all over 

 the country, doing us no end of damage. The weather 

 remains delightful— no snow yet. G. B. Borradaile. 



POINTS AND FLUSHES. 



Mr. R. B. Morgan has left Akron, O., his home of so 

 many years, and settled permanently in Humboldt, Tenn. , 

 where he has stayed during the past three or four winters 

 training dogs. He has rented several thousand acres of 

 game preserve, and is very popular already, the local paper 

 bestowing most cordial praise and welcome to him. We 

 wish him every success. 



The field trial committee of the National Beagle Club 

 have extended the time for the closing of entries in Class 

 C, Brace Stakes, and Class H, Pack Stakes, until the even- 

 ing of Nov, 11. 



Mr. H. W. Lacy is now on the editorial staff of the 

 American Stock-Keeper, of Boston, an atmosphere more 

 congenial to his tastes than that of the West. In a card 

 Mr. Lacy explains that the failure of the Kennel News was 

 due solely to the failure of Mr. Anderson's personal busi- 

 ness of printer and publisher, and that at the time of the 

 failure the journal was prospering. 



The Muckross Kennels, Springfield, Vt., write us as 

 follows: "We have had a phenomenal demand for our 

 stock, and have sold everything in the way of a setter 

 that we have got to sell. Your excellent paper has had 

 its full share of credit for this. We have sent challenge 

 Henmore Shamrock to Billy Tallman to be^handled in the 

 coming Irish setter field trials," 



The following letter, says the Syracuse (N. Y.) Standard, 

 has been sent to every pastor in Syracuse, and favorable 

 answers have been received from several of the pastors, 

 and it is believed that all will comply with the request: 



"Dear Sib: Believing that every good work that is a 

 step toward spreading God's teaching and making it a 

 praotical influence should have the sanction and active 

 aid of the church, we, the ladies of the Woman's Auxil- 

 iary to the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Society, 

 come to you, the head of the church, for your sanction 

 and help. We believe that now in the formation period 

 of this society an urgent appeal from you will 

 awaken the minds of your people to the realization of the 



