Deo. 7, 1895. 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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ford's b., w. and t. dog Joe Bowers (De Sota ), W. 



W. Titus, handler. 



Minnie T., the winner, is too well known now to need 

 extended description. She won first fairly in a poor 

 competition, not running in her beat form. 



Cynosure, winner of second, was a close competitor for 

 first, and after that of these two there was very little 

 definite work on which to make judgments. 



Tory Dotlet, third, did a little sharp work, and some 

 that was frivolous. 



Rod's Top, winner of fourth, ran a very poor race, in 

 my opinion much inferior to Tony Boy's. 



Gleam's Pink, fifth, made a fair, ordinary performance, 

 with little of a really competitive character in his work. 



Thursday. 



A white frost still clung insistently in the shady places 

 when the dogs were started and the morning was uncom- 

 fortably raw. As in the preceding days of the trials, as 

 the sun mounted higher the temperature rose, and after 

 the morning hours the day was uncomfortably warm. 

 Birds were not easily found. Nearly the same route had 

 been followed day "after day till the birds were drawn 

 out of their haunts or had become wild to a high degree. 

 The competition dragged at times, and was at best meager 

 and faulty. The placing of the winners was necessarily 

 on very narrow margins, for it seemed impossible to 

 establish the necessary data for definite judgment. It 

 was demonstrated that when two clubs hold their trials 

 on the same grounds, the one which runs last has much 

 the worst of the bargain. If the U. S. F. T. C. and the E. 

 F. T. C. run at Newton next year they need much more 

 grounds, or each, better yet, should have grounds of its 

 own. 



The first heat of this stake was run on Wednesday 

 evening. 



Tony Gale and Toby Dotlet were cast off at 4:40. 

 Both ran riot op a bevy. On scattered birds Dot pointed 

 a single, then broke in quickly and flushed. Dot next 

 pointed a single nicely. Gale flushed a single. Each 

 pointed next, nothing found. They ran about 30 minutes. 

 The heat was a poor one. 



Gleam's Pink and Revenue ran 39 minutes, beginning 

 at 8:50. Revenue appeared to be off his nose entirely, he 

 making two inexcusable flushes on bevies. Pink pointed 

 a single bird. His range was middling good. 



Harold Skimpole and Tony Boy were cast off at 9:37. 

 Harold's work was a disappointment, for while he ran 

 well as a mere matter of running he had no success in 

 finding. Tony made a flush and two points, the bird to 

 the last one being close-lying and was flushed after the 

 dog was sent on. He made a point to which nothing was 

 found. Tony's judgment in beating out the ground and 

 working on birds was far the better. 10:36. 



Minnie T. and Cynosure ran the best heat of the day, 

 beginning at 10:38. Minnie soon found and pointed a 

 bevy nicely. The birds were marked down on a steep 

 side hill in dense cover, where work was most difficult. 

 Several times the dogs pointed, but no bird was found, 

 though no doubt many of these points were true, as the 

 bird's had run and scattered. Minnie flushed once and 

 made three points, two of whiph were made on the side 

 hill, where they could be plainly seen by spectators in the 

 bottom, but it is/ioubtful if the judges saw them, as the 

 birds flushed wild. Cynpsure made three points, pegging 

 her birds accurately and with confidence, doing some 

 very gpod work. Minnie at times seemed over cautious 

 aud tqo painstaking in avoiding errors. Both ranged 

 well and were steady to shot, point and back. Up at 

 11:07. 



tlQD's Top and Joe Bowers began at U :14. Rod made 

 a good point up win4 of a bevy, jumping a fence to lo- 

 cate it the better. Next he pointed; nothing found. Both 

 ranged well. DpatlJ:48, 



Nine were retained in the running. 



Tory Dotlet and Gleam's Pink ran 53 minutes, begin- 

 ning at 12:25. Dotlet pointed a bevy and nicely pointed a 

 single and flushed one. Pink laboriously located a single. 

 He made two flushes. His work on birds was labored and 

 he pointed often on footscent. Dotlet was much sharper 

 jn her work. Up at 1;18. 



Tony Gale and MInnie T. began at 1:22. Minnie 

 pointed a bevy. Tony pointed in corn; nothing found. 

 Minnie dropped" a t the same moment a bird flushed. Min- 

 nie again dropped in dry leaves at the moment a bird 

 flushed. Of these points it was difficult to determine ex- 

 actly the merit, but as Minnie is very honest and accurate 

 there probably was no fault. Up at 2:11. 



Harold Skimpole and Cynosure began at 2:28 and ran 

 38 minutes, A bevy was geen to flush, but it was not 

 known which dog was guilty. Cynosure made two good 

 points on singles. Harold ran well, but accomplished 

 nothing as a finder. Cynosure had every advantage in 

 the heat save that of speed. 



Tony Boy and Joe Bowers were east off at 3:02, Down 

 45 minutes. The work was very ragged on birds. Both 

 dogs ran well, covering much ground. 



Rod's Top, the bye, began at 3:50. Down 15 minutes. 

 He'passed close by a beyy in the open which was flushed 

 by 1% handler a moment later. B^e made two points on 

 the scattered birds, and was heady and hard to manage. 



Tbe Irish Setter Club's Trials. 



A stanch band of the admirers of the Irish setter met 

 at High Point, N. 0., to hold their field trials, beginning 

 on Monday, Dec. 2. Still, with all their enthusiasm) the 

 field trial party had a feeling of disappointment at the 

 number which, for various reasons, could not start, thus 

 lowering the number in the competition. 



Monday morning was rainy and raw, the sky a mass of 

 solid black cloud, and underfoot was muddy. About the 

 middle of the forenoon there were signs of clearing up 

 and tneparty weathered forth to the contest. 



Mr. W. S. f£ell judged. Owing to the scarcity of birds 

 it was impossible to give the dogs a thorough test on them, 

 and therefore the judge could decide only upon such 

 qualities as he could test, 



The Derby. 



There were two starters in this stake, both rather 

 puppyish in their manner of working and both about 

 average in merit. They were run as follows; 



Alfred Von Cotzhausen's bitch Lady Finglas (Finglas— 

 Lady May Swiveller). W. Tallman, handler, with F. E^ 

 White's bitch Mollie Gibson (Dakin — Jessie Freemont), W3 

 G. Smith, handler. 



Lady Finglas and Mollie Gibson ran 56 minutes, be- 

 ginning at 10:31. The weather. was damp, part of the 

 time rain fell and it was a most unpromising morning for 

 birds. Nothing found. Range and pace moderate. 



Lady Finglas, first; Mollie Gibson, second. 



The All-Age Stake. 



There were three starters in this stake drawn in the 

 following order: 



Dr. G. G. Davis's bitch Currer Maud (Finglas— Currer 

 Belle IV.), E, O. Whittle, handler, with Lady Finglas. 



Dr. G. G. Davis's bitch Loo (Finglas— Currer Belle IV.), 

 a bye, E. O. Whittle, handler. 



Loo was run first to give Lady Finglas a rest, she hav- 

 ing run in the Derby. She ran 31 minutes. Nothing 

 found. 



Currer Maud and Lady Finglas began at 11:23. The 

 weather then was clearing up and the temperature was 

 growing warmer. A bevy of birds was seen to flush. 

 Their course could not be noted accurately. A diligent 

 search was made for them without success. Up at 2:07. 

 Currer Maud ranged fairly well. 



Loo and Maud ran from 12:08 to 12:30. Nothing found. 



First, Loo; second, Currer Maud; third, Lady Finglas. 



High Point, N. C— On the morning of Dec. 2 there 

 arrived a plucky band of Irish setter fanciers, enthusias- 

 tic in promoting their cause and neither deterred nor dis- 

 heartened by the meager entries. With but ten entries all 

 told, the expense of the trials and the scarcity of birds 

 were no obstacles to carrying to a conclusion what they 

 had advertised to begin. The party consisted of five 

 members of the Irish Setter Club and Philadelphia Ken- 

 nel Club, namely, Dr. G. G. Davis, whose faith, industry 

 and enthusiasm in the interests of the Irish setter never 

 lessen, and Messrs. Francis G. Taylor, J. H, Ogden, S. 

 Murray Mitchell, and George H. Thompson, Secretary of 

 the Irish Setter Club. Professor Edm. H. Osthaus and 

 Major J. M. Taylor are here also. From all reports, birds 

 are not plentiful nor easy to find. Mr. P. Lorillard, Jr. , 

 who has a preserve at this place, and who was shooting 

 on it last week, stated that, owing to atmospheric con- 



TONY HOY. 



ditions or other causes, it was very difficult for the dogs 

 to find birds or to work on them with precision when 

 found. The weather is delightfully clear and pleasant. 



This place was the chosen ground of the Eastern Field 

 Trial Club's competition for many years till local avarice 

 grew apace and extortion increased year by year till it be- 

 came an evil. With the arrival pf the field trial supporters, 

 the value of everything instantly increased to an extra- 

 ordinary degree. Hotel rates, which ordinarily were 

 offered at $1.5Q per day with few takers, jumped from 

 that in all degrees of the scale up to $3.50 per day, and 

 no weekly rate so long as a man owned a dog or gun. 

 This in no wise implied that a guest was well served. He 

 must do his own still-hunting for the porter, and fee him 

 to an extent which attained the dignity of a bribe — other- 

 wise no wood, no fire, no anything. Eternal vigilance 

 was necessary for comfort and security in retaining one's 

 own, else the small pile of green wood placed with unctuous 

 demonstration by the ebony-hued porter, whose every 

 movement had ulterior designs on the guest's generosity, 

 was in danger of being taken to some other more easily 

 gulled guest, by the same porter who brought it in or by 

 Bome other porter who had made a scientific study of the 

 economy of forces. I remember once devoting special 

 time to the task of interviewing the landlord concerning 

 wood for a fire. The order was turned over with true 

 official, though irresponsible, dignity to the porter after 

 he was laboriously sought and brought into communica- 

 tion, and by diligent supervision enough wood wassecured 

 at pnpe fpr ap evening's supply instead of being doled out 

 stick bystipk,as was the custom. The ease with which a bill 

 grew to rotundity was in striking contrast to the difficulty 

 of getting anything in return for it, Well, in regard to 

 the wood. I went into the office for a few moments, and 

 When X returned the wood was gone. The porter had re- 

 ceived a larger bribe or had been terrorised into rapid 

 action by a guest who would not submit to any imposi- 

 tion. The meals were largely served in a manner which 

 would cause the guest to deceive himself into believing 

 that he was fed reasonably well, for there were a number 

 of small dishes with a dab of something or other in each— 

 a spoonful of cheap canned tomatoes, a spoonful of rice, a 

 spoonful of hominy, etc., a lot of decoy dishes whiph^ 

 being uneaten, always would serve consecutive meals for 

 many weeks— the whole suggesting color and sub- 

 stanpe to the eye, yet on trial illusive to the 

 stomach— and all this mockery of keeping a hotel 

 was charged for at famine prices. The Btablernen were 

 neither slow nor backward in availing themselves of 

 their opportunities. The value of some rough-haired ag- 

 gregation of blemishes, an uncanny brute of a horse, 

 which was fed on washed-out corn fodder and water all 

 his life, rose from anything they could get before the trials 

 to an even $1.50 per day during the trials. The difficulty 

 of finding a porter to attend to his duties during the 



guest's stay was only equaled by the astonishing squad 

 which awaited to intercept him at the moment of his de- 

 parture, each and all claiming most importunately that 

 they had done material service, and all with a hollow ob- 

 sequiousness and reckless lying which gained more or 

 less reward according to the degree of the infliction on 

 the guest's credulity. 



But now there are lamentations that the club is gone 

 and regrets for the insatiable hunger which led to the 

 death of the goose which laid the golden egg. 



The Bellevue Hotel has undergone great changes. It is 

 now run on lines of equity, and the guest's privilege is to 

 eat a genuine meal, honestly made and served, as well as 

 to pay his bill; in the old days his only certain privilege 

 was the latter. 



The celebrated Irish setter Henmore Shamrock (Mus- 

 kerry— Avoca), owned by Muckross Kennels, died of 

 pneumonia at Thomasville, N. C. , where he was in train- 

 ing for the Irish setter trials. His loss is great to the 

 Irish setter interests of America, as he was strong in the 

 Muskerry blood which has won so much favor with many 

 breeders. b. Waters. 



The Philadelphia Kennel Club's Trials. 



Immediately after the Irish Setter Club's trials were 

 ended the party partook of lunch and the Philadelphia 

 Club's trials began. The drawing had taken place the 

 night before and there were nine starters. The club de- 

 cided to make this an All-Age Stake. Several new 

 arrivals on Monday occasioned another drawing, which 

 resulted in twelve starters, run as follows: 



S. Murray Mitchell's o. and w. setter dog Sandy Glad- 

 stone (Breeze Gladstone— Belle of Delaware), John Lewis, 

 handler, with Frank M. Fleer's liv. and w. pointer dog 

 Gamester (Duke of Hessen— Woolton Game), owner, 

 handler. 



Dr. G. G. Davis's Irish setter bitch Currer Maud with S. 

 Murray Mitchell's setter dog Popillon (Antonio— Lilly 

 Burgess), J. Lewis, handler. 



S. Murray Mitchell's setter dog Clarke (Antonio— Glad- 

 stone's Norah), J. Lawis, handler, with Francis G. Tay- 

 lor's b., w. and t. setter dog Ben Hur of Riverview (Ben 

 Hill— Zoe W.), owner, handler. 



Frank M. Fleer's b. and w. setter bitch Flora (Roi d'Or 

 —Diamond), J. Caesidy, handler, with J. H. Winslow's 

 b., w. and t. setter dog Breeze Bolton (Breeze Gladstone- 

 Nellie Belton), W. Tallman, handler. 



J. B. Baker's b., w. and t. setter bitch Lou with Geo. 

 H. Thompson's setter bitch Frills (Edgemark— Lucy II.). 



Dr. G. G. Davis's setter bitch Loo, E. O. Whittle, hand- 

 ler, with J. B. Baker's liv. and w. pointer bitch West- 

 minster Zoe (King of Kent— Westminster Ina), J. Lewis, 

 handler. 



Mr. W. S. Bell judged this stake and made the phe- 

 nomenal record of judging two field trials in one day. 



Sandy Gladstone and Gamester began at 1:07. Down 

 about 30 minutes. Gamester flushed a bevy. On the 

 scattered birds he showed a good nose and capabilities of 

 finding and pointing, but he was headstrong and unsteady 

 to shot ana wing. He made three points on singles; 

 Sandy made one. Sandy was careless and sloppy in his 

 point work. Neither ranged wide. 



Currer Maud and Popillon ran 41 minutes, beginning 

 at 1 :38. The latter was the wider ranger. He pointed at 

 the edge of woods, left his point— presumably to get a 

 better scent of the birds— and his handler walking into 

 the woods flushed the birds. He showed good judgment 

 in beating out his ground. Maud ranged well, though 

 not wide. 



Clarke and Ben Hur of Riverview started at 2:23. 

 Ben was laboriously making game when Clarke, passing 

 in front, flushed the bevy. Both were moderate rangers. 



Flora and Breeze Belton were cast off at 3:05. Both 

 made game. Nothing found. Breeze made an indecisive 

 point on a single, flushed one and made a point which 

 proved worthless. His speed was commonplace. Flora 

 ranged wide and fast, but as was proved in a later heat, 

 her work on birds was lawless. Down 36 minutes. 



Lou and Frills started at 8:45. Lou showed fairly 

 good speed and range. Frills made but an ordinary show- 

 ing. 



Loo and Zoe started at 4:02. Zoe pointed a bevy in the 

 edge of woods. Loo backed prettily. In moving up to 

 locate Loo joined in the work, but the credit of the find 

 was Zoe's. Up at 4:23. Both ranged well. 



Second Roimd. 



Six were retained in the running. 



Popillon and Ben Hur were started at 4:27. On scat- 

 tered birds Ben pointed and Popillon pressed by and for- 

 ward to a flush. Each pointed a single. Up at 4:32. 

 There was no ranging, all the work being in woods on 

 scattered birds. Ben Hur had the better bird work. 

 Popillon was headstrong and lacking very much in 

 stanchness. 



Flora and Zoe. began at 4:35. Down 6 minutes. Zoe 

 pointed a bevy in the open. Flora flushed it and was 

 riotous. In woods Flora flushed a single. Zoe pointed a 

 single. Flora backed. Zoe had much to spare in beating 

 Flora. 



Lou and Loo began at 4 :45. Loo pointed a bevy nicely ; 

 Lm backed. Lou a bit unsteady to shot. Up at 5:06. 



Zoe and Popillon ran a few minutes, more to obey the 

 law, wnich requires that first and second winners have 

 run together, than to make a competition. 



The judge announced the winners as follows: First, 

 Westminster Zoe; second, Popillon; third divided be- 

 tween Ben Hur of Riverview, Loo and Lou, 



On Monday evening the club held a meeting and de- 

 cided to run a members' stake on Tuesday. Prof. Edm. 

 H. Osthaus consented to judge it. 



U. S, F. T. C. Meeting. 



At a special meeting of the U. S. F. T. Club, on 

 Wednesday night, Nov. 27, it was the sense of the meeting 

 that the U. S. F. T. Club hold its trials at Newton, N. C, in 

 November, after the E. F, T. C. holds its meeting. A com- 

 mittee was appointed to act in conjunction with a similiar 

 committee of the E. F. T. C. in regard to protecting the 

 birds on the grounds between trials. The following 

 applicants were admitted to membership: Messrs. Hobart 

 Ames, North Easton, Mass.; S. C. Cummings, Pittsburgh- 

 W. W.Titus, Waverly, Miss.; J. C. Bradley, Greenfield, 

 Conn. A resolution was passed thanking and compli- 

 menting the judges. Finances reported in good con- 

 dition, 



