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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Jan. 19, 1888. 



no way interfered with, and on this account they have been 

 received with peculiar favor by mill owners and others in- 

 terested in water power. 



1 trust, if the matter of fishways is one in which you are 

 interested either in a private or public capacity, you will 

 give this one your favorable consideration, arid I will be 

 pleased, personally, to give you any desired information on 

 the subject. , 



I feel you would be amply repaid by a visit to Noya Scotia, 

 or to Columbia, Pa., to see some of them in operation. 



In cases where a bona-, fide interest is mnoi tested, lam pre- 

 pared to visit the localities where the erection of fishways is 

 proposed, furnish estimates of the cost and take contracts 

 for the work, or otherwise, either personally or through com- 

 petent engineers acquainted with the details of the business, 

 give the work so far as maybe possible the benefit of my 

 long experience— a matter of no small importance in prac- 

 tical undertakings of this kind. W. H. Rogers. 



THE TJ. S. COMMISSION. — The bill has just been passed 

 by Congress giving the Fish Commissioner a salary of five 

 thousand dollars per year, and provides that he shall hold 

 no other office under the Government as an amendment to 

 the act of Feb. 9, 1871. It is certain that the present Com- 

 missioner, Prof. G. Brown Goode, has no desire to retain 

 the place and he will no doubt resign, if he has not already 

 done so. His great work of organizing and arranging the 

 National Museum, of which he is justly proud, is preferred 

 by him. The prominent candidates whom we have seen 

 publicly named are: Col. Marshall McDonald, the present 

 chief of the department of fishculture; Dr. Jerome H, Kid- 

 der, the Assistant Commissioner, acting as Commissioner 

 at present during Prof. Goode's leave of absence; and Maj. 

 Thomas B. Ferguson, late Assistant Commissioner and 

 Acting Commissioner during the last illness of the late 

 Prof. Baird. The appointing power lies in the President, 

 who will no doubt make the choice within a few days. 



special clubs that are being formed are doing good work in 

 correcting this, but I do not believe their labors will be 

 helped by compelling registration and accepting everything 

 that is sent as gospel— if it has fifty cents with it. 



MlC MAG. 



Boston, Jan. 15, 1888. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



1 am very much surprised that you would permit the state- 

 ment to be made in your paper that the American Kennel 

 Club was indebted on account of the stnd book, when the 

 fact is that the club has paid all bills aud.now has $800 and 

 over to its credit in the bank. Again, it is not true that any 

 money has ever been contributed by individuals. The stud 

 book has more than paid its way, and the only money 

 received has been for registration fees, advertisements and 

 for the book. I believe that next year we can pay all 

 expenses at 25 cents per dog. 



Please also permit me to say that all this howl about 

 "bulldozing" is mere bosh. You might as well say that it 

 is "bulldozing" to have a bench show committee require an 

 exhibitor to pay an entry fee of $3 for each dog. The 

 registration of dogs is to preserve the pedigree. The giving 

 of bench shows is not for the purpose of making money— the 

 object is to encourage and improve the breeding of dogs. 

 Just look at the contest now going on in Your own paper 

 over the breeding of the beagle Kino. If this Rule 3 had 

 been in force when this dog was first exhibited the breeding 

 would have then been settled. 



I hope in the next issue of your paper that you will correct 

 the statement you have made in regard to the financial 

 condition of the club; and I will say that if you doubt my 

 statement of the same, if you will send Mr. Hammond or an 

 accredited reporter for your paper to the office of the 

 A. K. C, No. 14 Broadway, I will take pleasure in showing 

 him expense account, bank account, and all of the accounts 

 of every name and nature, vouchers, etc., of the stud book 

 committee. 



I do not charge that you have knowingly made this mis- 

 statement, but believe that you have been imposed upon. 



C. J. Peshall, Chairman of Stud Book Committee. 

 New York, Jan. 7. 



Mr. Peshall tells us that the stud book has been run so as 

 to pay expenses. This we willingly concede; an examination 

 of the account of the American Kent el Club with the stud 

 book shows that the book has been so managed as to leave a 

 balance in the club's favor. Nevertheless it is presumably 

 true that our explanation of the feverish anxiety shown by 

 the stud book clique to compel registration , was in substance 

 correct, namely, that their real purpose is to bring in more 

 funds than can be collected by voluntary registration. The 

 stud book may have paid for itself as far as the club is con- 

 cerned; to the uninitiated it may even show a profit, and still 

 it may have been an expensive luxury, the burden of which 

 those now supporting it are devising a way to unload on 

 others. That is to say, the entire expense of the book is not 

 paid by the club, but a portion of it is paid by individuals. 

 If the present secretary is a gentleman of the brilliant parts 

 claimed for him by his friends, it is^quite clear that he can- 

 not afford to give his talents and valuable time to the stud 

 book for the paltry wages paid him by the club, namely, $100. 

 or less than m a week. One of two suppositions will account 

 for his sticking to the place. His ostensible wages of §400 

 have been supplemented by assessments on the individuals 

 who were induced by discreditable motives to guarantee him 

 a living salary in order that the book might be put through, 

 and are now willing to let the public do the supporting by 

 means of this tax; or else Mr. Vredenburgh has hung on at 

 his $7.69 a week, in anticipation of something better when a 

 hocus-pocus measure like compulsory Rule No. 2 should be 

 put into operation for his benefit. We still adhere to the 

 opinion that the rule was adopted far the sake of the money 

 there was thought to be in it. Nobody will believe that Mr. 

 Peshall and those with him are doing this out of any public 

 spirited desire to preserve the pedigrees of dogs. Thousands 

 of pedigrees worth preserving were taken care of long before 

 the American Kennel Club came into possession of its stud 

 book; the tendency of the times is toward more universal 

 and careful pedigree records, and dog owners girted with a 

 normal degree of common sense will look out for their own 

 interests without the intervention of any such gag law as 

 Rule. 2. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I am opposed to A. K. C. Rule 2 through principle, not 

 that I am in favor of dispensing with astud book altogether, 

 but do not waut any gag law in mine. I want the privilege 

 to say what stud book 1 register in, or whether I register at 

 all or not. There is one thing certain, a dog being registered 

 in A.K.C.S.B. will not make that dog pure ibred, fori could 

 drive a carriage and pair through many dogs' pedigrees 

 which are registered in public stud books, and I think Rule 

 2 of the A. K. C. will assist greatly in this respect. For in- 

 stance: All dogs exhibited must be registered; well, now, 

 what about all the mongrels that can be seen at all bench 

 shows? I suppose an entiy in A.K.C.S.B. will elevate these 

 same dogs and make them blue bloods. Their owners will 

 advertise the stock registered m A.K.C.S.B., and henceforth 

 and forever more this stock will be par excellence. I have 

 entered dogs in this stud book, and perhaps might again, 

 but I do not want any pulling by the ear. The kennel in- 

 terests of this country are in their infancy, and any arbitrary 

 laws will not help them to mature; nor be tolerated by the 

 American public. I have, or should have, the privilege of 

 registering in any reputable stud book. For instance, the 

 South of Scotland Dandie Dinmont Society publish a stud 

 book, or make entry of all pure bred Dandies and their off- 

 spring, and any member can enter his dogs free of charge. 

 Should this not be sufficient for any man or breeder of these 

 dogs? 1 have devoted time for years in hunting up private 

 records, and have compiled them in my " Breeder's Kennel 

 Record and Account Book," which I procured from Forest 

 And Stream, and I am willing to swear to the correctness of 

 the same. But I do not feel like being taken by the nose 

 and compelled to make public property out of what has 

 taken roe years to accumulate and what any breeder would 

 be pleased to have, especially when procured without much 

 trouble. To sum up, I most emphatically say that when I 

 feel disposed to enter any dog in a public stud book, I will do 

 so of my own free will and accord. My kennels of dogs rarely 

 number less than thirty, and 1 feel as much interest in this 

 matter as any other person, anil 1 also say the New England 

 Kennel Club can count upon some from my kennel (that 

 will not be registered in A.K.C.S.B.) at their coming show. 



John H. Naylor. 



Chicago, 111., Jan, 11. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Mr. Wade writes me, "May I ask if you would write 

 Forest and Stream, authorizing them to republish the ex- 

 tract (herewith inclosed) over your name ?" 



If you think it worth while to do so, I give you authority, 

 though had I intended my remarks for publication I should 

 have couched them in little different language, though no 

 language could better express my opinion. J. W. Aslop. 



Middletowk, Oonn., Jan. 11. 



The extract referred to above is the one given in. the fol- 

 lowing note, which was printed in our issue of Dec. 29: 

 "Editor Forest and Stream: The following is an extract 

 from a note of an old friend, long a dog lover and exhibitor, 

 but one who has never engaged in any controversy as to the 

 A. K. C, its stud book, or anything connected with it, He 



TRIBUTES TO BAIRD. 



VTTASHINGTON, Jan. 13.— Editor Forest and Stream: I 

 V > inclose a brief report of the services held last Wednes- 

 day evening in the lecture room of the Columbian Univer- 

 sity, in commemoration of the life and services bo science of 

 the late Prof. Spencer F. Baird, whom we all have so much 

 loved and esteemed during a third of a century. He was 

 secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Director of the 

 National Museum and United States CornniicMouer of Fish 

 and Fisheries at one and the same tame, and the work now 

 done or progressing in each or all of these divisions seems 

 inseparable from his name. The Philosophical, Biological, 

 and Anthropological societies of Washington united to do 

 him honor, and it would have warmed your heart to see the 

 spontaneous fervor which stirred the audience in response 

 to the sincere and glowing tributes paid to him by Hk- 

 speakers. The lecture room was filled to its fullest com- 

 fortable capacity with a distinguished assemblage of schol- 

 ars and men of science. Many ladies were present. 



Col. Garrick Mallory, president of the Philosophical Soci- 

 ety, presided. Seated on the platform were Chief Justice 

 Waite, Senitors Edmunds and Dawes, Prof. Marsh, of 

 Yale; Prof. Cuppe, of Leigh University; Prof. Aagell,of Ann 

 Arbor; Prof. Gillman, of Johns Hopkins University; Justice 

 Strong; Prof. Lan {ley. Secr.-tary or* the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, Prof. G. Brown Goode, U. S. Fisii Commissioner; 

 Prof. Alexander G. Bell, Dr. Yarrow, Dr. Fletcher,- director 

 cf thf Mint Kimball; Dr. J. C. Welling, president of Colum- 

 bian University; Prof. Dallj Dr. Taylor, Maj. J. W. Powell 

 and others. On each side of the platform hung a life-sized 

 portrait of the iate Prof. Baird. 



Col. Mallory opened the meeting with a fitting eulogy. 

 W. B. Taylor, of the Smithsonian Institution, reviewed his 

 work in his capacity as administrator, outlining his methods 

 in detail, and pointing to examples of the Tabors in new 

 fields of science which he illumined to the world by his 

 genius. 



Prof. W. H. Dalk president of the Biographical Society, 

 spoke of "Prof, Baird in Science." He ranked highest 

 among all the students of the mysteries of science. He had 

 done directly, he said, more than any other man to acquaint 

 the world with the birds and the mammals of America. What 

 he had done indirectly was incalculable. Other scientists 

 had been inspired to work by his publications, and had been 

 assisted by his personal advice and instruction. His works 

 were the most complete and valuable upon the subjects of 

 which they treated. 



Major J. W. Powell, president of the Anthropological 

 Society, spoke of the personal characteristics of Prof. Baird; 

 of his great learning and modesty, his simplicity and power. 

 His explorations for science, he said, extended, to the frozen 

 snows of the Arctics as well as to the tropics; into the seas 

 as well as across the broad plains of the West. If there was 

 an expedition seekiug glory in the explorations of the frozen 

 North, Prof. Baird got his scientific workers a place in the 

 expedition. If parties of surveyors were going across the 

 plains to mark out the line of a .great railroad, Prof. Baird's 

 workers went along to gather up the rich deposits along the 

 route. If the e was war, gome of the scholarly military men 

 were interested to serve Prof. Baird and science. Generals 

 Scott, Marey, Thomas, MeClellan and many others had been 

 laborers in the field to collect specimens for him. He said 

 Prof. Baird was familiar with all nature, and as simple as a 

 child, with all his work into deep science, he loved to read 

 St. Nicholas. "Expecting death," said Major Powell, "and 

 having become enervated by over-exercion, Prof. Baird 

 calmly and philosophically awaited the great time of 

 times." 



He died at Wood's Holl in the midst of the many ingeni- 

 ous mechanical appliances which he had established there 

 for the prosecution of the work of the Fisheries Commis- 

 sion, and was there unconsciously relieved of his labors. 

 Two days before he died he was trundled about the wharf 

 and the laboratory for a final inspectioiTUnd last adieus to 

 his assistants, and meeting a little child rolling along in its 

 perambulat r in charge of its nurse, he said to it feebly, 

 with perceptible effort. "I am more of a baby than you are." 

 He realized that his magnificent power was gone— iike Sam- 

 son bereft. With touching reference to his natural modesty, 

 gentleness and goodness, Major Powell aptly concluded with 

 the comfortable aphorism, "Blessed are the pure in spirit, 

 for they shall see God." 



In recounting the stupendous, manifold and various ser- 

 vices of Baird's valuable life, it was impossible wholly to 

 segregate thorn from the cooperative labors for fifteen years 

 past of his indefatigable assistant, Prof. G. Brown Goode, 

 who has since succeeded to the honored place which he left 

 vacant; and all the speakers joined with alacrity in paying 

 a full meed ot tribute to a gentleman who, I am free to say 

 possesses in a conspicuous degree many of the most notable 

 and valued characteristics of his honored predecessor. Sel- 

 dom does it fall to the lot of a public man to hear the eulo- 

 gies of his superior reflected back in such a degree upon 

 hmiselt. Seldom does one so young receive or merit so full 

 a meed of praise as was to him accorded. 



The work of the Smithsonian Institution, even as now 

 subdivided, is onerous, and those who value useful lives will 

 pray that Prof. Goode will not overtask his energies as Prof 

 Baird has done. This warning 1 believe to be timely and 

 necessary. Charles Hallock. 



THE NEW YORK COMMISSION.-The new hatchery at 

 Cold Spring Harbor is so far completed that the water was 

 turned in the hatching room last Saturday, and the eg! 

 were moved in on Tuesday. The hatching flo6r is completed, 

 but the workshop and dwelling rooms for the foreman are 

 ?« L y o^l ni !-^ d -i The batching room is65x36ft., andcontains 

 18 troughs 2aft. long, and two McDonald hatching tables 

 for both fresh anoT salt water, a tidal hatcher for floatin a 

 eggs, and tables tor aquaria. The room isceiied with narrow 

 yellow pine, "filled" and oiled, and is lift, high. The dis- 



=»t w" g ^ gh 13 witb brass S ates > wh ^h can be shut 

 so that not a drop ot water passes them. The dwelling for 



JUlt +l™l a S 18 ^?? e J h * b "tchery, and » telephone will eon. 

 nect the latter with the house of the superintendent The 

 water supplyis at ahejght which will allow it to be brought 

 £^L UPI T St T y f0 ! famil * use ' Ifc i53 ' without doubt? the 

 ?A Q £ S °T St n aad m °st complete hatchery in the State, and it 

 is exceedinglycreditable to the Commission, itwas planned 

 by the superintendent, Mr. Fred Mather, and the designs 



h^vfh^fe l^wengme house for the salt water pump 

 built by the employees of the station. y ' 



THE PENNSYLVANIA COMMISSION.— The Anglers' 

 Association of Eastern Pennsylvania will hold a reception 

 in honor of the Commissioners of Fisheries of the State at 8 

 P. M., to-night, Jan. 19, at their rooms, No. 1020 Arch street, 

 Philadelphia. 



Dogs: Tlxcir Management and Treatment in Disease. By 

 Aslnnont. Price $2. Kennel Beeord and Account Book, 

 trice S3. Training vs. Breaking. By S. T. Hammond. 

 Price $1. First Lessons in Dog Training, xoith Points of 

 all Breeds. Price 85 cents. 



FIXTURES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Jan. 21. to 29.— Augusta, Ga., Richmond County Poultry and Pet 

 Stock. . 



Feb. 13 to 17. -First show Fort Schuyler Kennel Club, Utica, N. 

 Y. E. J Spencer, Sec. 



Feb. 21 to 24, 1888— Twelfth Ann'ini Show of the Westminster Ken- 

 nel CI uh, Madison Square Garden, New York. James Mortimer, 

 Superiti tendeut. 



Feb. 28 to March 2.— Show of Philadelphia Kennel Club. W. H. 

 Child. Sec. 



March 27 to SO.— Fourth Annual Show of the New Haven Kennel 

 Club, New Haven, Conn. E. Sheffield Porter. Secretary. 



Ai r:i 3 to (!.— Fourth Annual Dok Show of the New England 

 Kennel Club, at Boston, Mass. J. W. Newman, Secretary. 



A. K. R.-SPECIAL NOTICE. 

 -pHE AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration 

 * ol pedigrees, etc. (with prize lists of all shows and trialsi, is 

 published 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 entry. 

 No entries inserted unless paid in advance. Yearly subscription 

 $1.50. Address "American Kennel Register," P. O. Box 2832, New 

 York. Number ol entries already printed 5708. 



RULE NUMBER 2 = 



Editor Forest and Stream- 

 As everybody who takes any interest in dogs seems to be 

 having a hack at Rule 2, on one side or the other, although 

 I have always tried to avoid getting mixed up in dog 

 politics, I feel inclined to say a few words as an owner, 

 breeder and occasional exhibitor of setters and Chesapeake 

 Bay dogs. When I say an owner and breeder, I mean that 

 I have for sixteen years owned and bred a few dogs for my 

 own use, although I have sold a puppy once in a while to 

 reduce my expenses for board and training. It seems to me 

 that the opponents of Rule 2 are making altogether too 

 much of an outcry about that half dollar, and that those 

 who are in favor of it, more especially those whose opinions 

 on this subject should carry great weight with it, such as 

 Mr. Belmont, Arnold Burges, etc., are really begging the 

 Question, and simply arguing that registration is advisable. 

 That I also believe this, is proved iy the fact that the few 

 dogs I owu are registered in both the A.K.R. and the 

 A. K.C.S.B. In 1879 the first volume of the National Ameri- 

 can Kennel Club Stud Book was issued. After that I sent 

 four dogs to be registered, and it was not until 1885 that the 

 second volume made its appearance. Meantime the Ameri- 

 can Kenmel BcgMer was started, and for three years was 

 the only stnd book we had, and it certainly did good service. 

 Among other good accomplished by it, I remember its ex- 

 posure of a kennel here in Boston, the owner of which, by 

 means of false pedigrees, was doing a thriving business in 

 selling his stook all over the country. Although not 

 "official," I know that the entries were examined before 

 being printed, and appearing every month it afforded an 

 opportunity, which was several times availed of, to anybody 

 interested in that special breed to call attention to any mis- 

 takes or misstatements. In looking at my copy of the 

 A.K.C.S.B. to see the number of entries, I find the last one 

 in Vol. III., part 4, American Kennel Club Stud Book, 

 which is the last one I have, as follows under Yorkshire 

 terriers: "5397. Daisy (bitch), Charles Audrews Bloomington, 

 Ill. ; whelped 1881; sky blue and tan." I would ask in all 

 seriousness what that registration amounts to, even if it is 

 in the "official" stud book? 



With the premium list of the Westminster Kennel Club 

 just received comes besides the entry blank, a form to fill 

 out for registration, to be sent with the entries in order to 

 make them eligible. What is to hinder my making out any 

 pedigree I choose? As long as fifty cents goes with it it will 

 be accepted. I think that this is going to be the great 

 trouble, not that the entries in the bench shows will be so 

 much diminished, although they certainly will be some- 

 what, as if anybody cares to pay S3 to show a dog he prob- 

 ably will not stick at fifty cents, sure, but that a mass of 

 pedigrees, of a character approaching the above, will be 

 forced into the "official" stud book. 



It must be admitted that the only possible good that can 

 result from such registrations will be that the financial con- 

 dition of the A. K. C. will be benefited to the extent of fifty 

 cents for each one. I must confess that it goes against my 

 idea of fair play to have the A. K. C. take advantage of its 

 so-called official position to force a distasteful rule on the 

 dog owners of the whole country, the only object of which 

 seems to me to be to get the better of the A.K.B., more 

 especially as in my humble estimation the latter has really 

 been of more use to dog owners than the former. This 

 however, is of course only my personal opinion and proves 

 nothing, but is it advisable that registration should be com- 

 pulsory? 



If Daisy, No. 5397, is a good specimen of the Yorkshire 

 terrier, there is no possible reason why her owner should not 

 sbovv her and let her be judged on her merits, but to com- 

 pel him before doing so to pay fiftv cents for having her 

 name, age and color registered is absurd, and the registra- 

 tion of a large number of similar "pedigrees" which must 

 of necessity take place if Rule 2 is enforced will really stul- 

 tify the object for which the stud book is compile'd. In 

 some breeds there are many fine specimens, of whose breed- 

 ing their owners have no idea, or what is still worse, have 

 been given by the irresponsible dealer from whom thev 

 were purchased, an entirely fictitious one. The various 



