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FIXTU RES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Sept. 1 to 3— Inaugural Dog Show of the Pacific Kennel Club, at 

 San Francisco, Cal. J. B. Watson, Secretary, 516 Sacramento 

 street. San Francisco, Cal. 



Sept. VZ to 17.— First Show St. Paul and Minnesota Kennel Club, 

 St. Paul, Minn. W. G. Whitehead. Secretary. 



Oct. 12 and 13.— Stafford Kennel Club Show, Stafford Springs, 

 Conn. 11. S. Hicks, Secretary. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



Sept. 8.— Manitoba Field Trials Club Field Trials. Derby entries 

 will close July 1; all-aged entries Aug. 1. Secretary, Hubert Gait, 

 Winnipeg, Manitoba. 



Nov. 7.— Third Annual Field Trials of the Western Field Trials 

 Association. R. C. Van Horn, Secretary, Kansas City, M.o. 



Nov, 21.— Ninth Annual Field Trials of the Eastern Field Trials 

 Club, at High Point, N. C. W. A. Coster, Secretary, Flatbush, 

 Kings County, N. Y. , 



December.— First Annual Field Trials of the American L<ield 

 Trials Club, at Florence, Ala. C. W. Paris, Secretary, Cincinnati, 

 O. 



A. K. R.-SPECIAL NOTICE. 



THE AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration 

 of pedigrees, etc. (with prize lists of all shows and trials), 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. 0. Box 2832, New 

 York. Number of entries already printed 5036. 



That was returned to me with the following letter, dated 

 May 14: 



"Dear Sir— At the meeting of the A. K. C, held 5th inst., 

 I waa directed to return to your club the inclosed letter, 

 with the information that the Buffalo Club is not a member 

 of this association. Respectfully, etc., A. P. VRKDUN BURGH, 

 Secretary. " 



The question which will naturally arise in any man's mind 

 IS, what has the Buffalo club to do with a charge of theft at 

 the Homell Club's show? Further than that, does not the 

 A. K. C. rule, with regard to dishonorable conduct in con- 

 nection with dogs._dog shows Or field trials, apply to any- 

 thing beyond A. K. C. shows? Is Mitchell, disqualified by 

 Eastern Field Trials Club, to be allowed to show at A. K. C. 

 shows because the Eastern Club is not a member of the A. 

 K. C? The clause with regard to dishonorable conduct m 

 connection with dogs must of necessity apply to transactions 

 outside of an A. K. C. member's show. What is the A.K.C. 

 for if it is not to carry out its own rules? I should like to 

 hear from Mr. Peshall on this case, as he perhaps can throw 

 a side light on the Manner by which the unaccountable de- 

 cision was arrived at. 



With your permission, I. will in another letter show the 

 manner in which the rules of the A. K. C. have been violated 

 by the members of the association and how the mandate of 

 the association has been completely ignored by those in- 

 structed to see that the rules are carried out. 



J AS. WAtsox. 



AMERICAN KENNEL CLUB METHODS. 



Editor Forest and Stream- 

 No person seems very anxious to undertake the duty of 

 defending the actions of the American Kennel Club, to which 

 attention has been drawn by Messrs. Wade and Peshall and 

 in my previous letter under the above caption. Surely, if 

 there wore any defense to make it would be given publicity, 

 hence we must assume that there is no argument to be ad- 

 vanced. 



The next subject to which I will direct attention is the 

 case of the disqualification of Brahmin at Providence show. 

 The judge at that show threw out Brahmin for being over- 

 weight, and the owner, Mr, Rendle, appealed from that de- 

 cision. Every man is at liberty to present or conduct his 

 case as he sees fit, of course, within parliamentary limits; 

 but I think Mr. Rendle weakened his case very much by sur- 

 rounding it with totally irrelevant matter. There was but 

 one point for him to make, and that was the way in wdiich 

 the dog had been weighed. Mr. Mason, it appeared, used a 

 spring scale which was his own property, while the club had 

 provided a pair of scales for that purpose. What was done 

 at Boston, or whether other dogs at Providence were over- 

 weight was altogether outside of the question at issue. 

 Neither was it competent testimony for Mr. Rendle to pro- 

 duce a scale he had that day purchased for 35 cents, and pro- 

 ceed to illustrate the defects of this machine aud how it 

 could be altered. All that was not evidence, yet when I 

 rose to a point of order, I was incontinently sat upon by the 

 president. A base ball writer would say, "he jumped on my 

 neck with both feet," so fiercely did he order me to resume 

 my seat. When Mr. Rendle's case was all in, the fire of 

 resolutions leveled at the president was brisk. Finally I got 

 the floor, and briefly drew attention to the central fact that 

 official scales had been provided and it was not competent 

 for the judge to decide by any other. The reception awarded 

 my remark was decidedly flattering, and I was asked to sub- 

 mit a resolution, which I did to that effect, adding thereto 

 that it was not competent for the American Kennel Club to 

 alter the award. "No, no," resounded all over the room and 

 that settled my motion. Again were we treated to all sorts 

 of extraneous' talk, until finally Mr. Munhall proposed a 

 resolution to the effect that it was the dutv of the judge to 

 use the official scales. This was carried and a motion to ad- 

 journ at once followed. Your report has it that "the R. I. 

 Club was ordered to pay prize." This was not so, as a mat- 

 ter of fact, neither could it be so in point of law. 



If Brahmin, the dog in question, had been awarded a 

 prize and subsequently disqualified for being over weight, 

 then he would unquestionably have been eligible for the 

 prize taken from him by an illegal transaction. Such, how- 

 ever, w r as not the case, and the American Kennel Club has 

 no right whatever to assume the position of a judge and 

 award a prize in the manner suggested by the wording of 

 your report. 



The Patti M. case has been pretty well thrashed out by 

 Messrs. Wade and Peshall. It was brought forward on the 

 second day, when I was not present; but it is not a question 

 of what was said, but of well-known facts, with a monumen- 

 tal annex in the way of one of the strangest of decisions ever 

 yet given by President Smith. Mr. Peshall's statement has 

 not been contradicted, and it is, therefore, unquestioned that 

 he permitted a person who was not a delegate nor the holder 

 of a proxy to assume the rights of the floor and make a 

 motion. That of itself would seem to me the place to attack 

 the whole subsequent miscarriage of justice. As to the facts, 

 they are that a dog was entered at the Waverly show "not 

 for competition." That subsequent to the closing of entries 

 a sweepstake under special conditions as to entry was opened 

 under the jurisdiction of the club, and that dog was entered 

 and won. The sole question at issue is. can you make an 

 owner's declaration on July 1 apply to ah event which was 

 not announced at that time and for which the entries do not 

 close for two weeks later. The answer is, most decidedly 

 not. Under the conditions of the sweepstake, had Beaufort 

 not been entered at the show at all he would have been eligi- 

 ble; the appellant could not deny that, and yet we are asked 

 to agree with him that he was not eligible simply because he 

 was not a competitor in the regular classes. I quite agree 

 with Mr. Peshall that Messrs. Craig and Newberry, the two 

 new delegates, could not have understood the vital point of 

 the case; but I must, at the same time, disagree with him as 

 to the manner in which they can rectify their mistake. He 

 suggests that they have the secretary send out a circular 

 resolution for the delegates to vote upon. This cannot be 

 done under the new constitution, which, happily, put an end 

 to the transaction of business in this manner. We had 

 enough of that in the Perry case. 



Your report contains the" following enigmatical sentence: 

 "Communication from J. O. Fellows, referred to Ilornell 

 Kennel Club, with information that Buffalo is not a mem- 

 ber of A, K. C." Mr. Fellows is the secretary of the Homell 

 Kennel Club, and was also superintendent of the Buffalo 

 show, and he asked me as his club's delegate to submit the 

 following letter to the A. K. C: 



"I charge C. J. Farley, of Albany, N. Y., with stealing 

 from the Homell Kennel Club one four-gallon tin sprinkler 

 and two dozen two-quart feeding tins, also with telling bare- 

 faced falsehoods, Sept. 11, 1886. 



"At Buffalo, March % I charge him with concealing five 

 seven-pound cans of food. March 10, with concealing, with 

 the intention to steal, one sprinkler, one dozen feed tins and 

 one claw hammer, all of which I took from his crate, where 

 he had them iu meal bags aud under the straw.— J . Otis 

 Fellows." 



A CHASE WITH THE DOG STAR. 



I AWOKE one spring morning to find that it was the open- 

 ing of a beautiful day; a light snow had fallen during 

 the early part of the night and I saw it was going to be a 

 nice day ,(| r a fox hunt. So I had a early breakfast, fed my 

 two young thorough bred foxhounds Star and Sport, brothers 

 about 18 months old, and shouldering my l3-boj?e muzzle- 

 loader loaded with very small buckshot, and with my dogs 

 put out, prepared for a good day's sport all alone. Foxes in- 

 habit the fields and woods around my farmer's home, as well 

 as do speckled trout the famous Caledonia Creek and springs 

 only three miles to the south of me. 



I went east, but only for a hal f mile looking for signs, 

 when I heard my young dog Star give tongue a little to the 

 south in a small piece of woods with underbrush. I, of nim- 

 ble 18 years, was not long in getting there, aud found the 

 dogs had struck the tracks of two foxes, evidently made 

 about the middle of the night, and running side by side about 

 five feet apart. The dogs ran on the tracks south for about 

 three-quarters of a mile, when all at once Star stopped per- 

 fectly still, put his nose up in the air, snuffed, and then 

 started at full speed at a right angle due east, with Sport at 

 his heels. I knew they had scented a fox somewhere, but 

 far out of sight, so I ran to a road at about the place 1 thought 

 the fox miglit come out, and had no sooner got there than 

 I heard the dogs at full cry, taking a rapid circuit of the 

 woods, and the very next moment, his brush flying, out came 

 reynard headed a little to the south of me, running at full 

 speed with no discount at that. I now ran down the stone 

 wall fence, keeping well under its cover, to within five rods 

 of the place where I thought he would cross it and the road. 

 I had stopped only a moment and hastily cocked my gun, 

 when up he jumped upon the wall at the very place I thought 

 he would. Could I desist? Not well. I fired my left barrel 

 in an instant, when down tumbled poor reynard stone dead, 

 with eleven buck or turkey shot sent through his body. Said 

 I to myself, "No more robbing of hen roosts by you, nor mid- 

 night rovings." 



Only one dog. Star, came up on his track, and after he had 

 had the exquisite fun of shaking the fox ; much to my as- 

 tonishment I heard Sport running on a trail at full cry some 

 distance west of me. I now looked on the top of the hills 

 way west of him, and there I saw the other fox going over 

 its brow, as if sent for and in great haste to be sure. He 

 headed westward, as if bound for California. Star must 

 have known there was another fox in this case, for when I 

 looked around near by for him, behold he had slipped 

 away and was already far out of sight, and bound for the 

 track that Sport was on. It did not take him long to catch 

 up with Sport, as he is a very- swift runner indeed. (Query. 

 Is it not possible the hound sense of these two young dogs 

 dictated to each other to take a separate trail at the time the 

 two foxes had parted? It certainly looks so to me, and as if 

 reason, not instinct, controlled them. They are very saga- 

 cious animals.) 



Both dogs being now on the trail and in full tongue, I saw r 

 more sport ahead. I slung the dead fox across my shoulder, 

 and hastened for home not more than a mile away. Arriving 

 there I hitched my hunter Mabel to a light craft, and started 

 out at long strides to follow the dogs. They had gone far to 

 the north, where I soon learned that another party of htmters 

 living in Churchville or near there, and about seven miles 

 from where I started the fox, on hearing the cry of my dogs, 

 had hastened to the spot where they had crossed the country 

 and put their hounds on the trail a little behind mine. The 

 northern half of Monroe county was now fairly alive with 

 the. sweet music of the hounds. Old men and old women, 

 and young maidens, too, as they faintly heard it, rushed out 

 of doors to catch the joyful sounds and to witness the excit- 

 ing scene of the flying cavalcade of bold riders. They ran 

 that fox from nine in the morning sharp, till 1 o'clock in the 

 afternoon, my hounds making not less than 30 to 40 miles I 

 judge, when at 1 o'clock it was shot on the long lope by one 

 of the Churchville party just east of Beulah Corner, and 

 within less than a mile of my home, and very near where, it 

 was first started. Star, just behind the fox when killed, was 

 leading the other dogs by a good mile, so he had the pleasure 

 of seeing the other four fine dogs come up but not till after 

 he had shaken bis second fox in this day's run. This is his 

 first year's hunting. This ended the chase for that day, as 

 the snow had now melted away and destroyed all the other 

 tracks, but w T e all thought w r e had had very good luck and 

 had enjoyed much sport. 



I have more than once seen Star with nose up as if scent- 

 ing something, go a mile and then suddenly start a fox, 

 and on one occasion I saw him evidently scent a fox at a dis- 

 tance (as I w T as told by one professing to know) of miles. 

 He never utters a cry, but goes with his nose up in the air 

 until he strikes a track or winds the game, then he makes 

 up for lost time both in cry and speed. There is no dog 

 around here that can keep in sight of him on a long chase. 

 He indeed runs almost too fast, aud sometimes drives the fox 

 way out of the country, and may not succeed in bringing it 

 back again till late iu the afternoon and perhaps uot at all. 



How do the two snowy owls that I got last winter and sent 

 on to the Central Park museum for exhibition get along 

 wdthout an ice-house to keep them cool? When I had them 

 it was cold weather, with snow on the ground, and they 

 would then loll like hens on a hot summer's day. I think 

 they miss the polar regions greatly. Jay L. Merrill. 

 Mumkob-d, N. Y. 



[When recently seen the owls appeared to be doing very 

 well, but were lolling with tongues out as described.] 



HIGH POINT.— Mr. Ceo. T. Leach, of this city, has 

 received the following note, dated High Point, N. C, May 

 28: "Dear Sir — I am reminded of the field trials by seeing 

 to-day a partridge's nest filled with eggs. The season has 

 been very late, and the birds have been late in pairing off. 

 But I have never seen more than there are around this 

 season. There is a large area of small grain planted, so that 

 the young ones will fare well. There will be more birds on 

 ' the field trial grounds than ever before.— David P. White." 



BUCK. 



Editor Forest a-nd- Stream: 



As rather an old timer, I have for many years looked in 

 vain for some dog like the old mastiff of my boyhood near 

 fifty years ago. I remember one, a perfe"ct watch dog, 

 belonging to the storekeeper of the country village where I 

 lived. Off duty Buck was kindly and genial, at least to 

 those who attended to their own business; but a meddler 

 would see his teeth and hear his warning growl if be tried to 

 go behind the counter. A tramp — for there were tramps as 

 long ago as 1837 — could only get entrance into the store doors 

 upon the assurance of some one in whom the dog had confi- 

 dence that, it was all right. But no matter who tried the 

 doors after they were closed for the night or at noon, except 

 the owner or some member of the family, the dog was alert 

 and fierce. Buck was my friend and frequent companion in 

 the woods and fields and when I had pole and line (rods were 

 then unknown) along the waters. But after the doors of the 

 store, were fastened and he was left on watch, he was as fierce 

 on my approach as on a stranger's. I never feared he would 

 injure me, but I took care not to invade his prerogatives. I 

 waited outside the door many a morning for Buck, and we. 

 had many a tramp before breakfast together. But with his 

 love of sport he never forgot his duty. My clothes were safe 

 ou the bank of the river where I went swimming with my 

 mates when I put them in Buck's care; and yet, with all our 

 friendliness for each other, he was as savage at my shaking 

 the door, even when he could see me through the glass, as if 

 he had never known me. 



Buck was a large brindle-colored dog, the head somewhat 

 of the bulldog character, but not nearly so pronounced, and 

 as I recollect him very much of the appearance of the mastiff 

 w T hose portrait is in your last issue, copied from "Bingley's 

 Memoirs." In one respect there was a difference, the head 

 was shorter in proportion to the size of the dog. 



Of course I know nothing of the dog's breeding. He was 

 called a mastiff, but there was little in common with the 

 present type of dog known by that name. 



I shall never forget a school incident in which Buck 

 figured. We had for a teacher a man bated by the boys as 

 sincerely as ever a teacher was hated by any boys. It was 

 not an ordinary dislike, for, so far as I have ever learned, the 

 lapse of fifty years has not availed to soften our feelings. 

 Well, Sim C. was brother of the owner of Buck, and had 

 been promised a thorough drubbing after the close of school 

 for the day. Sim slipped out when school was dismissed, 

 and soon returned with Buck. I was detained after school, 

 probably for the same purpose that Sim had been told to 

 stay. Sim, perhaps because he was the worse offender, was 

 called out first, and he went to the front with Buck at his 

 heels. The "master's" hand was raised, and with it went 

 up Buck's upper lip and the note of warning was sounded. 

 Suffice it to say there were no whippings that night. We 

 all escaped, and I dare say not one of those present on that 

 occasion has ever forgotten Buck. H. 



June i. 



TOY DOG CLUB. 



Editor Forest and. Stream: 



The owners aud breeders of various classes of toy clogs 

 have been for some time under the impression, and perhaps 

 justly so, that their favorites have been regarded as only of 

 secondary consideration at the New York, and other great 

 bench shows. the sporting and great watch dogs having the 

 monopoly. In order that the proverb, "Every dog has his 

 day," may be verified, a large number of ladies and gentlemen 

 are now enthusiastically interested in the subject, and are 

 about to organize a club to be known as The American Toy 

 Dog Club. Under the auspices of this club the dwarf pug, 

 with his dwarf compeers of other breeds, will have the right 

 to bark as loud— if he can — as his giant prototype the mas- 

 tiff. To this end it is proposed to hold a meeting of owners 

 aud breeders in New York at an early day. Of the time and 

 place due notice will appear in the Forest and Stream and 

 other papers so that all who so desire may be present. Those 

 who by reason of distance or other causes cannot be present 

 are requested to communicate their views and wishes 

 in the meantime to Mr. W. Robinson, 221 West Thirty- 

 eighth street, New York,who has consented to act as secretary 

 pro tem. The breeds to be included are all those properly 

 coming under the title of toy dog. A s all the toy breeds will 

 be equally represented in this club, none will have cause to 

 be pugnaciously disposed toward, or jealous of the other; 

 neither will the owners have any cause, for jealousy as to 

 the rank of their respectative favorites. And although the 

 most aristocratic canine families are to be here represented, 

 it will be seen that whenever and wherever they meet it will 

 be on democratic principles, perfect equality. The title 

 "Toy Dog Club" will at once remove the opposition and ob- 

 jection so generally and strongly urged agaiust the name of 

 one particular breed, such as pug dog or King Charles club. 

 That this club will exceed in number and excel in interest 

 any dog club now in existence there can be little if any 

 doubt, owing to the rapid increasing numbers of the little 

 household pets and their increasing popularity. It may be 

 even now suggested that one of the objects proposed by those 

 already interested in the formation of the club is the holding 

 of an annual fall bench show of toy dogs in New York or 

 Brooklyn and others of the large cities. This, however, to 

 be determined by the general executive committee. Tor. 



MANITOBA FIELD TRIALS. 



WINNIPEG, Man., May 2Q.— Editor Forest and Stream: 

 The Manitoba Field Trials Club will hold their trials 

 this year commencing on Sept. 6, to be run on prairie chick- 

 ens under the Eastern Field Trials rules, except that in the 

 Derby retrieving will not be counted. Entries for Derby 

 close July 1, and for All-Aged Stake Aug. 1. Open to all. 

 Three prizes will be given in each stake. There is a splendid 

 opening for a handler here, if any person who would charge 

 reasonable rates, and not want the stakes, dog and a fee be- 

 sides, came up, he could get quite a number of dogs to han- 

 dle. These trials are not run to make a reputation for any 

 particular strain, but will combine a shooting excursion 

 with the trials. The club have secured this year about 20,- 

 000 acres of land to run on. Full particulars and fOTms of 

 entry can bo had by making application to the secretary, 

 Hubert Galt, Winnipeg, Manitoba. 



OUR PRIZE DOGS. — Mr. C. H, Maason is hard at work 

 preparing the material for his book ; which will contain a 

 full description of all the prize-winning dogs of this season 

 at Buffalo, Newark, Providence, Boston, Pittsburgh, Phila- 

 delphia, Hartford and New York. The list coniprii.es nearly 

 one thousand dogs and the compilation of the book entails a 

 vast amount of labor. Iu addition to the description of the 

 animals, there, will be added a full list of the winnings of 

 many of them, and lifelike pictures of twenty-five or more 

 typical specimens of the the different breeds. The pictures 

 w T UT be photographs taken from life by competent artists 

 and reproduced by the artotype process. These alone will 

 be worth more than the price of the book. Mr. Mason in- 

 forms us that he has already received orders enough to in- 

 sure the success of the venture. 



AN OLD DOG HINT. — The quickest, surest and best way 

 to break an old dog of bad tricks is to trade him off right 

 away for a young puppy, and begin right by teaching him 

 according to the system of Hammond as set forth in "Train- 

 ing vs. Breaking." 



DONUIL DIIU, Mr. A. C. Wilmerding's lost black spaniel, 

 has been returned to his owner. 



