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Sept. 18 to 21.— First Annual Dog Show of the Syracuse Kennel 

 Olub, at Syracuse, N. T. Howard B. Rathbone, Secretary. 



Sept. 24 to 27— Filth Dog Show at London, Ont. C.A.Stone 

 Superintendent. 



Sept. 25 to 28.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Bristol Park 

 Agricultural Society, Bristol, Conn. Entries close Sept. 22. C. 

 F. Barnes, Secretary. 



Oct. 9 to 12.— First Dog Show of the Virginia Field Sports Asso- 

 ciation, at Richmond, Ya. B. H. Grundy, Secretary, Room 26, 

 Shafer Buildine. Entries close Oct. 1. 



Oct. 38 to 20.— Second Annual Show of the St. Paul and Minne- 

 sota Kennel Club, at St. Paul, Minn. J. E. Stryker, Secretary, 

 Room 09 Globe Building. 



Nov. to 10.— Dog Show of the Richmond County Poultry and 

 Pet Stock Association, in connection with Augusta National Ex- 

 position at Augusta, Ga. H. Madden. Superintendent. 



Jan. 15 to 10, 1880.— Seventh Annual Dog Show of the Southern 

 Massachusetts Poultry Association, at Now Bedford, Mass. h\ 

 W. Dean, Secretary. 



Fob. 13 to ir>, 1881). Fifth Dog Show of the New Jersey Kennel 

 Club, at Jersey City, N. J. Geo. L. "Wilms, Secretary, H2 Monti- 

 cello avenue, Jersey City, N. J. 



Feb. 10 to 22, 1880. -Thirteenth Annual Show of the Westminster 

 Kennel Club, New York. James Mortimer, Superintendent. 



bV.b. 26 to March 1, 1880.— Second Annual Show of theRcnssalaer 

 Kennel Club, Troy, N. Y. Alba M. Ide. Secretary. 



March 5 to 8, 1880.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Albany 

 Kennel Club, at Albany, N. Y. Geo. B. Gallup, Secretary. 



March 12 To 15, 1880.— Second Annual Show of the Fort Schuyler 

 Kennel Club, Ultra, N. Y. James YV. Dinilop. President. 



March 10 to 23, 1880.— First Annual Dog Show of the Maryland 

 Kernel Club, at Baltimore, Md. W. S. I'M llonderff or, Secretary. 



March 26 to 20, 1880.— First Annual Dog Show of the Massachu- 

 setts Kennel Club, at Lynn, Mass. D. A. Williams, Secretary. 



April 2 to 5, 1880.— First Annual Show of the Rochester Kennel 

 Club, at Rochester, N. Y. Harry Yates, Secretary. 



April to 12, 1880.— First: Annual Dog Show of the Mascoutah 

 Kennel Club, at Chicago, 111. John L. Lincoln, Jr., Secretary. 

 FIELD TRIALS. 



Sept. 11— Third Annual Field Trials of tho Manitoba Field 

 Trials Club. Derby entries close July 1. All- Aged entries Aug. 1. 

 Thos. Johnson, Secretary, Winnipeg, Manitoba. 



Nov. 1.— Second Annual Field Trials of the Indiana Kennel 

 Club, at Bicknell, ind. P. T. Madison, Secretary. Indianapolis, 

 Did. 



Nov. 10.— Tenth Annual Field Trials of the Eastern Field Trials 

 Club, at High Point, N. 0. (Members' Stake, Nov. 15.) W. A. 

 Coster, Secretary, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 



Dec. 3.— First Annual Field Trials of the Southern Field Trial 

 Club, at Amory, Miss. T. M. Brumbv, Secretary, Chattanooga, 

 Tenn. 



Dec. 10.— Second Annual Field Trials of tho American Field 

 Trials Club, at West Point, Miss. C. W. Paris, Secretary, Cincin- 

 nati. O. 



Jan. 14, 1889.— Sixth Annual Field Trials of the Pacific Coast 

 Field Trial Club, at Bakerslield, Cal. N. P. Sheldon, Secretary, 

 320 Sansome street, San Francisco, Cal. 



COURSING. 



Oct. 15.— Third Annual Meeting of tho American Coursing Club 

 at Great Bend, Kan. F. K. Doan, Secretary, 1210 Olive street, St 

 Louis, Mo. 



A. K. R.-SPECIAL NOTICE. 

 rpHE AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration 

 ■*- of pedigrees, etc. (with prize lists of aU 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. O. Box 2832, New 

 York. Number of entries already printed 6512. 



"DISGRUNTLED ASSOCIATES." 



Editor Forest and, Stream: 



The statement of Mr. Wm. Re wait, Jr., In yours 2tl inst., 

 that a member of the Hornell Club exposed both the. 

 "Chicago special" and "pewter medal" scandals, is correct. 

 I prosecuted both, but "both were brought to my attention, 

 and the evidence furnished me, by a member of that club. 

 Mr. Belmont excels the cuttle fish this time. Mr. Rewalt 

 said "exposed," aud Mr. Belmont sets forth what was 

 brought before the A. K. C! Surely Mr. Belmont should 

 know that both scandals were exposed in your columns long 

 before they were brought before the A. K." CP Or is nothing 

 but arraignment before that tribunal "exposure ?" 



1 verily believe that Mr. Belmont has been deceived as to 

 the action of the A. K. C. in these scandals, and that only 

 such records have been shown him as suit the purposes of 

 his informants, and he evidently has not informed himself 

 on what the outside histories of these cases are. The holy 

 of holies of the A. K. C. is probably deemed by him sufficient 

 to establish the status of anything, just the danger of new 

 hands at the bellows that I pointed out in a previous article. 



I have no wish to drag Mr. Whitman into the affair again, 

 particularly as I have always said that I did not charge him 

 with personal dishonesty, but with a flagrant disregard of the 

 sacred obligation of a 'trust. But Mr. Belmont's triumph- 

 ant production of Mr. Whitman's letter, as a positive vindi- 

 cation of both the A. K. C. and Mr. Whitman, leaves no 

 other course open. Mr. Whitman says that the special was 

 donated "through me" [him], implying that he had a hand 

 in procuring it, and was in a measure at liberty to do what 

 he pleased with it. Now, amoug the "records" that Mr. 

 Belmont emotes with such a whirl, is, or should be, a copy 

 of the letter of the donor of the special to Mr. Whitman, 

 saying that he had just learned that the special he donated 

 had never been paid the winner, and that he was justly in- 

 dignant at such treatment. This is not. strikingly like 

 "through me." 



Furthermore, it was an open secret that the special was 

 donated especially for Mr. Fellows to win, that the adoption 

 of that wonderful "International Cocker Spaniel Associa- 

 tion" standard shut "Uncle Dick" out of a chance of win- 

 ning, and this special was to make it up. 



Mr. Whitman raises the presumption that the check was 

 not used until some considerable time after its receipt, yet 

 the check itself was among "the records," and it showed 

 that it was cashed the day of its date. As to Mr. Whitman's 

 advising "the club" of the receipt of the check at the next 

 meeting, I hold the letter of the treasurer of the club that 

 he never heard of the special until after the close of the 

 show, and I am almost certain that Mr. Child read his letter 

 stating that same thing at the meeting of the A. K. C. 

 which letter is also in the "record." The money was sent 

 Mr. Fellows the day after I advised Mr. B. F. Wi'lson that I 

 proposed to bring charges before the A. K. C; and Mr. 

 Whitman was then at Pittsburgh superintending the pre- 

 liminaries of the show, certainly during his connection with 

 the Pittsburgh show, and thus constructively "during the 

 show." I don't recollect that I ever advised Mr. Fellows 

 not to accept the money, and if I did do so it must have 

 been in view of seeing that he was reimbursed in some way, 

 for I distinctly remember that he wrote me something to 

 this effect; "I need the money very badly, but by gum, I 

 don't need it so badly but that I will return it if you say it 

 will prevent your doing justice to my brother fanciers by 

 stamping out this kind of biz." "Uncle Dick's" friends will 

 recognize him in this at sight-. 



The whole case was unquestionably proved what might be 

 called an embezzlement without criminal intent, aud the 

 condonation of it by the A. K. C established a most ruinous 

 precedent, which is made ten fold worse by Mr. Belmont's 

 presentation of the case in the light that the A. K. C. tried 

 the case and aquitted the defendant without even an ex- 

 pression of disapproval ! 



The bogus medal case was fully as bad. It was publicly 

 confessed that bogus medals had been given exhibitors, and 

 the A. K. C. aquitted on the wonderful ground of the state- 

 ment of the accused that exhibitors all knew of the charac- 



ter of the medals ! Remember, not a single exhibitor was 

 named who was said to have such knowledge, but the. mere, 

 statement was accepted as proof of connivance of the ex- 

 hibitors. Now, I would ask for the name of one exhibitor 

 who had this knowledge, and I will give the names of 

 Messrs. Chubb, Dole, Craig and Thayer who won such 

 medals supposing they were genuine. 



Mr. Belmont has succeeded in converting a case of shame- 

 ful neglect of duty on the part of the A. K. C. into one of 

 approval of wrongs, and I hope he relishes the result of his 

 work. 



Mr. Belmont reserves the most complete, unlimited mis- 

 statement for the Farley case. He says, "This association 

 has always adhered to the principle that the club under 

 whose jurisdiction the offense was committed must first 

 act, the. A. K. 0. only taking the case on appeal, and it only 

 assumes original jurisdiction over the acts of its own mem- 

 bers" ("over its own members" is richness). 



This roads like a deliverance of some Supreme Court, 

 somebody whose decisions are not to be questioned; yet the 

 facts known to every reader of the sporting press who 

 cares to remember what he reads, are directly the reverse of 

 the solemn opinion of the president of tho" A. K. C. The 

 rule has invariably been just the opposite. In the Sans 

 Souci Kennel ease, Mr, Elliot Smith, in delivering his decid- 

 ing vote, in the soundest, clearest opinion ever submit ted to 

 the A. K, 0., took the express ground that one club might 

 disqualify for an act committed at the show of another, and 

 cast his deciding vote to sustain the disqualification, on 

 this ground alone. In the Chicago special, pewter medal 

 aud lialdeman cases (the latter that one that was so unctu- 

 ously read to the A. K. C.) Mr. Peshall urged his view of the 

 case, just as Mr. Belmont says theA.K.C. has always held, and 

 the vote was practically unanimous against him. Worse and 

 more of it, at the very meeting where Mr. Belmont got off 

 that "special" official idea, Mr. A. C. Collins protested Mr. 

 Campbell for an offense committed at the W. K. C. show, 

 and in spite of Mr. Peshall's "invariable" the meeting re- 

 ferred it to some committee. Now, here we have the presi- 

 dent announcing the law of the. A, K. C. to be just what the 

 delegates have invariably voted against. I well remember 

 in the Haldeman case that Mr. Winslow most conclusively 

 disposed of Mr. Peshall's argument by saying to the effect 

 that a gentleman had been accused of grave offenses, and 

 that as he knew the accused to be straight he knew there 

 was another side to the story and he insisted that the ac- 

 cused be allowed to present it. 



I can conceive of no other explanation of Mr. Belmont's 

 remarkable mistakes than that somebody else has supplied 

 him with "the facts" aud so much of "the record" to suit the 

 case, for it is not to be believed that Mr. Belmont wilfully 

 made the astounding misstatements that garnish nearly 

 every article he. writes. Truly the gross incompetency of 

 Major Taylor, aud the several mistakes of Mr. Smith, have 

 not presented the A. K. C. in the pitiable, light that Mr. 

 Belmont always shows it in. W. WADE. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



It seems a hopeless task to obtain from Mr. Belmont a re- 

 traction of what must now be called his wilful misstate- 

 ment that I worked in an underhand manner toward the 

 establishment of the National Dog Club, for had it been an 

 inadvertent error I cannot conceive what would prompt him 

 to neglect the first duty due his own character as a gentle- 

 man to withdraw it. Any person who of his own volition 

 says that 1 had anything to do with the establishment of 

 the National Dog Club, or with the holding of the meeting 

 at Boston, is guilty of deliberate falsehood. The first 1 

 knew of the Boston meeting was in a paper I got at Denver, 

 if I recollect rightly, and that was one which referred to 

 what had been published in the previous issue. I am not 

 clear in my mind as to what it was, but I know that it was 

 not until i reached Chicago that I was in possession of the 

 facts of the case. 



I hoped to see some one draw attention in your last issue 

 to the numerous errors made by Mr. Belmont in his reply 

 to Mr. Rewalt, president of the Hornellsville club, and I can 

 only account for this unusual silence by the supposition 

 that what was everybody's business turned out to be no- 

 body's. For the present I will content myself to calling at- 

 tention to the most glaring errors. Mr. Belmont in the 

 most specious manner seeks to controvert Mr. Rewalt's 

 statement that it was through a member of the Hornells- 

 ville club the Chicago special prize business was exposed. 

 What is supposed to be a denial of this is the statement that 

 Mr. Wade of Pittsburgh made it public. What if he did? 

 He got his information from Mr. Fellows, the secretary of 

 the Hornellsville club. 



Then in Mr. Belmont's defense of the second miscarriage 

 of justice— the charge of theft at the Buffalo show by Farley- 

 he says the Buffalo club was directed to first take action. 

 The absurdity of this resolution on the part of the A. K. C. 

 is apparent since the Buffalo Club was not a member of the 

 A. K. C, which body cannot recognize any action taken by 

 clubs non-members. That is an impossibility. Even Mr. 

 Peshall, and that is going a long way, must admit that. 

 But Mr. Belmont bolsters up his weak case by a most ridi- 

 culous error. He says that it has always been the principle 

 of the A. K. C. to call upon the club at whose show the fraud 

 took place to take action, and that no other person had any 

 right to interfere. That will be news to Mr. Elliott Smith for 

 instance, who made the decision in the San Souci Kennel 

 case that Bostou could disqualify H. M. Perry for his conduct 

 at the Philadelphia show. Mr. Smith read an "opinion" on 

 the case in which the sense of the argument was not at all 

 in unison with the decision which followed, 



Mr. Belmont's account of how the Atlanta awards came 

 to be recognized by the A. K. C. clubs is not in keeping with 

 the story as told me by Mr. Peshall. The resolution requir- 

 ing registration of all dogs exhibited at a show given by an 

 A. K. C. member was to take effect on Jan. 1, 1887. Atlanta 

 was held after that, but there was no enforced registration. 

 The secretary of the Philadelphia Kennel Club, Mr. W. H, 

 Child, had asked me to take hold of the show catalogue and 

 relieve him of a duty he did not care about wasting time 

 over. It was my business to see that the entries were made 

 in the proper classes and correct all blunders I could detect. 

 One of Mr. Belmont's entries was placed in the champion 

 class by him with a credit of a first at Atlanta. I drew 

 Mr. Child's attention to this as an error, Atlanta having re- 

 pudiated the registration rule. Mr. Child was of my opinion, 

 and in order to have the matter decided in proper form, 

 wrote to the secretary of the A. K. C, asking whether At- 

 lanta wins were to count. Were this any ordinary secretary he 

 would with the knowledge that his duties are purely clerical 

 have referred the matter to the president for decision, and 

 thus it would have come before Mr. Child in proper form. 

 But Mr. Vredenburg is not an ordinary secretary by any 

 means, so he paid the president the curt courtesy of simply 

 writing across the. letter of inquiry that Atlanta wins did 

 count. Thus Mr. Child's authority as president was 

 thwarted, and he could not, as secretary of the Philadelphia 

 Kennel Club, take any action. Now. to come back to 

 Peshall versus Belmont. 



Mr. Peshall was on to the Philadelphia show, and meet- 

 ing him on Chestnut street he tried to talk me over and ex- . 

 plain his action in arguing for my rejection, as the Hor- 

 nellsville Kennel Club was all right, and we must be good 

 friends and all that flummery. I then said that no sooner 

 did I leave than the A. K. C. got at the old game of wild cat 

 legislation, and among other things brought up this Bel- 

 mont case. Mr. Peshall then explicity told me that they 

 had talked the case over at the meeting and that they had 

 decided after he had explained that he never meant the 



compulsory registration rule to begin at any such little 

 show, and woiild not have put in January 1, 1888, had he, 

 known of Atlanta, that Atlauta was not to be a compulsory 

 registration show, but that the wins were to count. What 

 other meeting than the A. K. C. meeting Mr. Peshall re- 

 ferred to I leave for him to specify. We were talking of no 

 other meeting, and the case he said was decided with refer- 

 ence to Mr. Belmont's dogs. If it was not so, pray explain 

 the authoritative reply of the A. K. O. secretary . 



Mi\ Child also had some conversation with Mr. Peshall, 

 but I am not a competent witness as to what passed b e- 

 tween. I only know that Mr. Child and I had, and 1 suspect 

 still have, the opinion from what, we were told that applica- 

 tion of some sort was made by or on behalf of Mr. Belmont 

 to have Atlanta counted so as to favor his dogs shown there. 



Just one word to Mr. Peshall, plea,se don't deny we bad 

 any such conversation as related. Get out of it in some 

 other way if you must shield your president, but don't tell 

 me I have not told what took place, otherwise my ans wer 

 will be very short and to the point. J As. W a :i It) Pi 



OUR BOSTON SHOW REPORT. 



AT a meeting of the American Kennel Club, July 33, its 

 president, Mr. August Relmont, Jr., publicly .stated 

 that the Forest and Stream's report of the Boston bench 

 show was falsified. When Mr. S. T. Hammond, the writer 

 of that report, asked Mr. Belmont to specify wherein the 

 report justified this charge of untruthfulness, Mr. Belmont 

 added to his original assertion a further one, that the whole 

 intention of the report was to mislead readers of the paper 

 as to the successful character of the show. In a footnote to 

 the two letters as printed in our issue of Aug. 8, we pointed 

 out to Mr. Belmont that his original statement as to the 

 accuracy of our Boston show report and his second state- 

 ment as to the purpose of the report were alike impertinent 

 and void of truth. 



In the next issue, Aug. 9, was printed another letter frrtm 

 Mr. Belmont, in which he averred that his charge was based 

 on "very satisfactory written proofs given to me by the best 

 authorities of each special breed;" and he "reiterated all he 

 had said publicly and privately." Commenting on this we 

 advanced as a reason for Mr. Belmont's extraordinary 

 charge, that having threatened to boycott Buffalo, as he 

 had boycotted Boston, Mr. Belmont recognized the necessi- 

 ty of bamboozling Buffalo into believing that a Belmont 

 boycott would burst the show; hence his desire to make it 

 appear that the Boston show had been injured by his boy- 

 cott, despite the Forest and Stream's report to the contrary. 

 We suggested that having made bis false charge about our 

 report, Mr. Belmont was persisting in it, on t he politician's 

 principle that a lie well stuck to will do effective campaign 

 work. But, in our desire to be perfectly fair in this thing 

 with Mr. Belmont, and to grant him every possible excuse 

 for having taken the course he did, we also said: 



Mr. Belmont does not need to be f old that, if be has any such 

 "satisfactory written proofs given to him by the best authorities 

 of each special breed," the very best possible use ho can make of 

 them iB to put them into print. If he can show that ho has such 

 "proofs," and was misled by them into making his charge at the 

 A. K. C. meeting, the fact of his having been misled would be 

 accepted in mitigation of the impertinence of the charge, though 

 it would not affect its untruthfulness. 



Summed up briefly, the case stands thus: Mr. Belmont, 

 Jr., made a false statement with respect to the Forest And 

 Stream. Taxed with it, he adds a second false statement. 

 We have given him an opportunity to show that he was 

 deceived into making these false statements. This oppor- 

 tunity he has not cared to improve. A person who, having 

 uttered_ an untruth, has an opportunity to excuse himsel f 

 for having done so, and refuses to improve that opportunity, 

 evidently does not care about his reputation for truthfulness. 



The business of Mr. August Belmont, Jr., as set forth in 

 the Directory, is that of a banker. He is, Ave believe, con- 

 nected with the banking house of his father, Mr. August. 

 Belmont, agents of the Rothschilds, dealing in securities, 

 bills of exchange, etc. To carry on a business of that nature 

 there must exist between the banker and his clients confi- 

 dence in the banker's integrity and fair and square business 

 dealings. Now let us suppose a case: At a meeting, say at 

 No. 44 Broadway, an in dated ignoramus, who differs from 

 Mr. Belmont on some point, for argument's sake publicly 

 asserts that Belmont & Co. on one occasion defrauded their 

 customers. Mr. Belmont demands the ground for the charge. 

 For answer he is told that not only did Belmont & Co", 

 defraud their customers, but they did it deliberately and 

 purposely. Mr. Belmont characterizes the charge as false. 

 The retort i s that he who preferred it has written proof of 

 its truth. Mr. Belmont tells him that, if he has what he 

 thinks are proofs, the production of them will relieve the 

 charge of its malice but not of its untruthfulness. Now, 

 will Mr, Belmont tell himself what the results would be? 

 They would be these. First, the lying statement of the in- 

 flated ignoramus would not injure' the credit of Messrs. Bel- 

 mont & Co. Second, if the inflated ignoramus persisted in 

 his charges, but refused to show that'll e had been imposed 

 on and so led honestly into making them, those knowing to 

 the affair would be apt to look oh the inflated ignoramus 

 with the contempt usually and quite rightly bestowed on 

 that person who having lied about another person stubbornly 

 sticks to it. And that, too, is just the way Mr. Belmont 

 would look on him. 



It requires a reputation for integrity to conduct a banking 

 business; none the less is such a reputation essential to the 

 conduct of a journal like the Forest and Stream. We take, 

 pride in the public estimation of the fairness aud fidelity to 

 truth which mark the reports of dog shows published in these 

 columns. Our reputation in this is established. In all the 

 twelve years during which we have been engaged in this 

 work, no man other than Mr. August Belmont, Jr., has 

 charged us with writing reports to mislead the public. Mr. 

 Belmont's charge cannot affect us one iota. It must hurt 

 him, for it puts him in a position which no man with self- 

 respect would care to occupy. For his own sake, not ours, 

 Mr. Belmont should either withdraw his charge or else show 

 that he was deceived by others into making them, believing 

 them to be true. 



BOYCOTTING BUFFALO. 



Editor Forest and. St/ream: 



Mr. Mitchell Harrison has advised Buffalo that unless A. 

 K. C. rules are adopted he will not show there. On Aug. 2 

 this same Mr. Harrison wrote to the Turf, Field, and Farm, 

 "I most certainly do not approve of the American Kennel 

 Club or its members doing anything that will unnecessarily 

 antagonize any member of the National Dog Club or auy 

 other organization." This same Mr. Harrison patronized 

 the Baltimore show and is to exhibit at Toledo and London, 

 which are not A. K. C. shows. It looks a little inconsistent, 

 to say the least of it; but Buffalo doesn't seem to weaken, 

 and I hope the collie men, bad as the season is for them, will 

 show the public that the Chestnut Hill Kennels is not all 

 the world of sheepdogs. Jas. Watson. 



LONDON DOG SHOW.— London, Out., Aug., 10.— Editor 

 Forest and Stream: The London Kennel Club at their show 

 to be held in this city in September will give prizes for 

 classes of dogs not named in the premium list where the 

 entries will justify them in doing so. We wish to thank, 

 through your paper, J. W. Scan! on (comedian) for donating 

 a handsome silver cup valued at $25, to be known as the 

 Peek-a-Boo cup, for the best kennel of English setters at 

 the show; also Peter Glen, Esq. (artist), for an oil painting 

 of a dog, valued at $25, to be given to the best looking 

 exhibitor at the show.— C. A. Stone, Manager. 



