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FOREST AND STREAM 



[Aug. 23, 1888. 



THE TWO DOG CLUBS. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I atn glad to see the good seed sown by the National Dog 

 'Club is now bearing its fruit. This club was "organized for 

 the improvement of dogs, dog shows and dog competitions," 

 mid one grand stride has already been made in that direc- 

 tion. I have reference to Rule 16 of the A. K. C. regarding 

 the transfer of dogs from the open class to the champion 

 class when he wins a third first prize between the time of 

 closing the entries and the opening of a show. When the 

 rule was formulated it was strongly opposed, as it was 

 believed it would cause no end of trouble, which belief has 

 since been confirmed by facts. At the Boston show of 1S87 a 

 dog was disqualified for not having been transferred to the 

 champion class (where it belonged according to Rule 16), and 

 harsh words were indulged in, the natural result of the A. 

 K. C.'s stubbornness in enforcing this rule contrary to the 

 objections of the great army of exhibitors. Time after time 

 the executive committee of the A. K. C. has met, yet tools no 

 action regarding this rule, and it would not now be under 

 consideration and discussion by them, after three years of 

 its life, had not the National Dog Club omitted it from their 

 rules. It has been a thorn in the side of exhibitors for about 

 three years, and it is sincerely hoped that the A. K. C. will 

 rescind it. The National Dog Club is to be heartily con- 

 gratulated upon having been the means of at least one reform- 

 viz. : in opening the eyes of the A. K. C. to the fact that this, 

 rule is all wrong and should cease to exist. 



There was a large meeting of the A. K. C. on July 23 at 

 their office, No. 44 Broadway. Thirteen clubs were repre- 

 sented, yet, excepting the Maryland, Philadelphia and Mass- 

 achusetts clubs, the proxies were all held by the "little 

 clique." After the example made of Mr. Watson, what out- 

 side delegate would have the temerity to object to any of the 

 "cut and dried" proceedings? Yet this is the great club 

 which Mr. Belmont claims to have been intrusted "a field" 

 by the "immense majority of the dog interests of the 

 country." A club that has never, as yet, corrected an abuse. 

 A club' whose presidents, with the honorable exception of 

 Mr. Child, have invariably "constructed" rules to suit their 

 purposes. A retrogressive club with a president represent- 

 ing "Taylorism" in its worst form. 



Mr. Belmont in his puerile communication to Dr. Perry 

 wrote "the American Kennel Club is by the most unmistak- 

 able implication unfit and incapable for the proper discharge 

 of its duties." Just so: what we have been asking for years 

 is that the A. K. C. should punish offending clubs and not 

 obscure individuals only. "Discord is not what the breeders 

 and exhibitors nor the public want." Certainly not, but as 

 they support the kennel clubs they should be given, at 

 least, proper legislation and an equitable executive. Give 

 exhibitors, breeders and the public an honest return for 

 their money. 



Objectors to frauds have been called "kickers." The 

 National Dog Club now stands ready to see that justice be 

 shown to all alike, inasmuch as the American Kennel Club 

 has, after years of trial, signally failed, and by its repeated 

 1 'hindering justly earned the contempt of the kennel world. 



Victor M. Haldeman 



Milford, Del., Aug-. 13. 



the head of an organization, with reputable names that 

 have been obtained by disreputable methods, by the last 

 fraud by which you seek to gain converts by omitting the 

 very pith of the matter, namely the fact that your eluh 

 through J. Otis Fellows and C. W. "Robinson began the 

 fight, that you are fraudulently to-day parading names on 

 your executive committee and as members that are not 

 either one or the other, in order to catch the support of un- 

 suspecting gentlemen— I say to you privately, what I shall 

 say publicly, that a man of your years and discretion ought 

 to be in better business than found supporting and inti- 

 mately associating with men whose only ambition has 

 been to destroy the A. K. C. by using your name, and the 

 names of reputable associates to accomplish under cover 

 what t hey as individuals could never undertake with any 

 hope of success. I am, &c, 



(Signed) Jas. L. Anthony. 



NETHEKWOon, N. J., August 16, 1888. 



The following correspondence explains itself: 

 Dr. J. F. Perry, President National Dog Club of America: 

 Sib— 1 am this day in receipt of a pamphlet, indorsed 

 '■Statement, etc., by the National Dog Club, in the interest 

 of fair play," and addressed to the breeders of the country. 

 1 have read with some amazement your letter at the begin- 

 ning of the pamphlet, and I have glanced over the names 

 of your executive committee and members with feelings of 

 contempt; aina?:cment that your letter of introduction 

 should contain an absolute and unqualified misstatement, for 

 there is no other word to express it , and contempt that you, as 

 the president of this club, should fraudulently use the names 

 as members of the executive committee, and also of your 

 club, of well-known breeders, who have not only privately, 

 but publicly withdrawn from all connection with your club. 

 The statement I refer to, is that the "A. K. C. had already 

 declined to permit them to do so unless they formed a 

 paper corporation, a course which they rightly assumed 

 to be a dishonorable subterfuge." The facts in the case 

 known not only to Dr. Perry, but to every one who 

 can read, are simply these: On the 9th of March, 1888, 

 Mr. Robinson wrote the secretary of the A. K. C. that it was 

 the intention of certain parties in Buffalo to organize a cor- 

 poration for the purpose of giving a fair, etc., and that as a 

 part of said fair, they proposed to give a bench show of dogs, 

 and asking how they could do so, under A. K. C. rules. The 

 secretary very properly referred them to Rule 3, the same rule 

 under which all clubs must organize to become members of 

 the A. K. C, and it was a very simple matter to have made 

 the A. K. C. rules a part of their present organization, and 

 thus gained admittance to the club. This was no more a 

 paper organization than the one the Buffalo show now 

 have; it nierely added owe more feature, and an interesting 

 one. About this time, Mr. J. Otis Fellows, a warm friend 

 of James Watson, and a man who has made himself obnox- 

 ious to every breeder of repute in the country by his ill- 

 advised conduct in connection with his club and the A.K.C., 

 was engaged as superintendent for the doggy part of the 

 Buffalo show. From that moment the plotting began, not 

 to see how the show could be held under the A. K. C. rules, 

 but to see how Buffalo eoxdd, be used by J. Otis Fellows, 

 James Watson and others of like reputations, to strike 

 a blow at the A. K. C. and thus gratify personal malign- 

 ity and spite. Mr. Busby, the editor of the Turf, Field 

 and Farm, hearing of this, naturally wrote Mr. Hamlin 

 a kindly letter and a very proper one, as he wished the show 

 to be a success. What was the result? On July 3 Mr. C. 

 W. Robinson (who was heretofore intimately associated 

 with J. Otis Fellows in the management of the Hornellsville 

 exposition) writes and sends broadcast a letter inclosing 

 copy of Mr. Busby's letter to Mr. Hamlin saying: "Yon will 

 see that the fight is begun , and as Mr. Fello ws ana. myself 

 have gotten the International Fair Association to indorse 

 the National, we trust you will do everything in your power 

 to prove Mr. Busby mistaken." Now, Dr. J. Frank Perry, 

 how dare you or any member of the National Dog Club say 

 over your signature that the A. K. C. began the fight, and 

 that their '^methods are cowardly?" Do you expect inde- 

 pendent breeders, men who have reputations, to allow 

 you or your club to parade their names as decoys 

 for the venting of the personal spite of J. Otis Fellows 

 and James Watson? You may claim, and perhaps hon- 

 estly, that when you asked myself and others to join at 

 Boston that you truthfully thought the National Dog Club 

 would not be antagonistic to the A. K. C, but can you do so 

 now? Every name that you have secured has been by 

 fraudulent representations, unintentionally so perhaps at 

 first, or are breeders who are willing to make a fight against 

 the A. K. C, and you yourself at first an unwilling cats- 

 paw, must now either be confronted with the fact that you 

 are either the willing tool of designing men, in that you 

 train in the same company, and have the same axes to 

 grind, or that your pretended friendship for the A. K. C. 

 was only a sham— which horn will you take ? I am_ entirely 

 independent — I am not a member of any club that is even a 

 member of the A. K. C. 1 have opposed in the past many of 

 the methods in vogue under the maladministration of Elliot 

 Smith. I am opposed to cliquism of all kinds, but I am also 

 opposed to all that savors of blackguardism and blackmail 

 in doggy affairs. I am opposed, and always shall be, to 

 the methods of such men as James Watson and J. Otis 



James L. Anthony, Esq.: 



Sir— Yours of the 16th I find on my return to the city after 

 a brief absence. Although it was evidently written on the 

 impulse of the moment, and contains many personal ex- 

 pressions which X am sure your second thought will tell you 

 had better have been left unsaid, there are yet some points 

 in it which I desire to set you right upon. 



In regard to the appearance of Mr. Harrison's name on 

 the executive committee, that is a mistake for which I am 

 not responsible. As soon at my attention was called to the 

 errors m the list of officers and members, I notified the sec- 

 retary by telegraph to at once correct the same through the 

 sporting press. 



As for your remarks in regard to the Buffalo management 

 and the American Kennel Club, permit me to remind you 

 that according to your own statement you are not a mem ber 

 of said club. Hence your information must be unofficial. 

 You weigh what you have been told as facts, with the 

 statements made by me, and draw your conclusions, no one 

 disputing your right to do so. But on reflection you must 

 have felt that the expression of your verdict to me, unsup- 

 ported by any evidence other than the mere statement of op- 

 posing parties, is a deliberate insult, which was, I think, far 

 from your intentions. By a careful perusal of the editorial 

 in the Turf, Field, and, Farm, July 30, you will see that the 

 writer plainly suggested a "paper corporation," and even 

 indicated its officers. That that method of proceeding was 

 necessary to comply with Rule 3 of course all will admit, 

 but many will also'agree that no such rule should ever have 

 been adopted. It certainly 7 encourages "gauzy corporations," 

 which, I am sure, you will never advocate. 



Your statements as to the plotting, etc., indulged in by 

 various persons to injure the American Kennel Club, being 

 unsupported by the slightest proof, places you in the light 

 of a, "special pleader" tor that club, and deprives, therefore, 

 your letter of its weight. The constitution of the National 

 Dog Club provides that the affairs of the club are to be man- 

 aged by an executive committee of fifteen. Upon the one at 

 present in existence the men of whom you speak so slurr- 

 mgly have no place. Any intimation that they are "run- 

 ning the club" is wholly gratuitous, and being, like all your 

 other charges, mere assertion, conveys to every thoughtful 

 man its own refutation. Those whom you mention are very 

 likely able to defend themselves if necessary. As far as 

 their connection with the National Dog Club is concerned, 

 pray let me make it plain, in as forcible language as Ihave at 

 command. They have never attempted in any way to influ- 

 ence its action in any degree, however slight. If you have 

 anything to say publicly against them, the only manly 

 course for you is to aim your attacks directly at them and so 

 give them an opportunity to defend themselves. 



It has been frequently said by its assailants— privately, by 

 word of mouth and by letter— that the National Dog Club is 

 composed of traders, and that it is controlled by a certain 

 clique of disgruntled individuals, who are using it to work 

 out their own ends. Here, again, are more assertions which 

 it is sufficient to meet with the counter assertion that they 

 are unqualifiedly false. When something like evidence is 

 offered to substantiate such charges, it will then be time for 

 us to meet them. 



A word, merely, in reference to your invidious criticism 

 of my own conduct. As I have already said, your evident 

 position as special pleader robs it of any force which it 

 might otherwise have had. I think my course in ignoring it 

 is one you would take in like instance. 



As either horn of a dilemma leads to the same bad result, it 

 has always been a practice with me, when so entangled, to 

 openly confess my error and meet the consequences. You 

 may he certain that if I find myself in such a plight with 

 regard to the National Dog Club, I shall take the same 

 course. At present, I assure you that I believe in it and its 

 methods thoroughly, and until convinced by proof that I 

 am wrong, I shall do all in my power to persuade the breed- 

 ers of America of the necessity for such an organization to 

 protect their rights. Very truly, J. Frank Perry. 



Boston, Mass., Aug. 20. 



NATIONAL DOG CLUB OF AMERICA. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Through printer's error the following names appeared in 

 our circular list of members: Messrs. Harrison, Hopf , Saun- 

 ders, Cook, Sawyer, Nash, and Mr. and Mrs. Hughes. They 

 have withdrawn. Please note this in your paper. 



H. W. Huntington, Secretary Treasurer. 



New York, August 20. 



AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER. 



FOLLOWING are the numbers of the dogs entered in 

 the August number of the American Kennel Register: 



BEAGLES. 



6436. Coriscana,Coriscana Hunt- 6438. Navarro, Corsicana Hunt- 



ing Club. ing Club. 



6437. Frances Cleveland, T. C. 



White. 



COLLIES. 



6139. Bessie Clark, H. M. Clark. 6441. Duchess, J. C. Hutchinson. 

 6440. Brownie, Donald McLean. 



ITALIAN GREYHOUNDS. 

 6442. Clio, W.H. Caldwell. 6443. Flossie, Henry Eiehler. 



MASTIFFS. 



6444. Beech Grove Annette, F. 6451. Helen Caution, J. Hellen. 



L. Calkins. 6452. Juno VIII., G.B.Robertson. 



6445. Ben Hur, Dr. Roland B. 6453. Medusa, Geo. J. Rupprecht. 



Whitridge. 6454. Minting, Jr., J. Hellen, 



6440. Beulab, Geo. L. Phippen. 6455. Omar, Edward A. Bobbins. 

 0447. Chester II., C. H. Paine. 6456. Perieles,Geo. J. Rupprecht. 



6448. Cleopatra K„ Geo. J. Rup- 6457. Ranger, R. O. Oxnard. 



precht. 6458. Bay, R. R Ulmer. 



6449. Dharra, Miss Anna F.Han- 6459. Sellman, W. W. Robert- 



kins, son. 

 0450. Duke Caution, Dr. Piper. 6460. Take Caution, R.R. Ulmer. 

 POINTERS. 



6461. American Romp, Fred A. 6464. Duke Beaufort, Frank M. 



Hodgnian. Hager. 



6462. Bonanza, Fred F. Harris. 6465. Jim V., A. H. Mason. 

 0463. Dick of Pelphos, J. W. M. B466, Katisha, Fred F. Harris. 



Cardeza. 6467. Mike, Jas. P. Swain, Jr. 



PUGS. 



6468. Bradford Ruby II., Eber- 6470. Ky Ky, Eberhart Pug Ken- 



hart Pug Kennels. nels. 

 6169. Joe II., Henrv Eiehler, 0471. Royal Bradford, H. Eiehler 

 6472. Viola, Henry Eiehler. 

 ST. BERNARDS. — Rough-Coated. 



6473. Abbe, Robt. M. Riddle. 6478. Lady Valentine, Otto W. 



6474. Barry IV., J. W. Stewart. Volger. 



Mi:,. Bernie. M. Boylan. 6479. Odin, Otto W. Volger. 



6470. Bonivard, Jr., Weimer & 6480. Queen, Mrs. J. B. Carson. 



Lincoln. 6481. Ranger, W. H. Gibbs. 



6477. Cadess, Weimer & Lincoln. 6482. Volunteer, Weimer & Lin- 

 coln. 

 Smooth-Coated. 



6483. Geoffrey the Prior, W. H. Perry. 



SETTERS.— English Setters. 



6484. Chautauqua Prince, F. T. 6488. Lady Brighton, F. T. Wea- 



Woatherill. therill. 

 6485: Daisy Gladstone, W. Stall. 6489. Trim, W. n. Men ill. 



6486. Duke Noble, A. J. Oskamp. 6490. Vic-Vic, E. F. Garland. 



6487. Killbnck Prince, A. Os- 



kamp. 



Gordon Setters. 



6491. Beatdah, Chas. T. Brownell. 



Irish Setters. 



6492. Foote's Yum, E. O.Damon. 6495. Rob II., E. N. Foote. 



0493. Meg Glencbo, E. N. Foote. 6496. Ted Sarstleld, E. N. Foote. 

 6194. Ned II., Lyman W. Clute. 6497. Twig Sarsfield,E. O. Damon 



SPANIELS.— Field and Cocker Spaniels. 

 6498. Black Bess V., O. Gilman. 6503. Nona. Waterford Kennel 

 0499. Fannie Obo n., O. B. Gil- Club. 



man. 0504. Phyllis II., Miss Marguer- 



6500. L jra, O. B. Gilman. ite H. Langley. 



6501. Lulu Obo, William Sbiloh. 6505. Obo Ret a. Geo. H. Carr. 



6502. Mv Bess, Waterford Kon- 6506. Sancho, O. B. Gilman. 



nel Club. &507. Shot, Wm. L. Nailor. 



6508. Von Obo, Wm. Very. 

 Japanese Spaniels. 

 6509. YokoII., Geo. E. Blabon. 



TERRI ERS.— Bull-Terriers. 

 0510. Lilly, F. G. Tripp. 



Scotch Terriers. 



6511. Snap, J. J. Nu8sbaumer. 

 Yorkshire Terriers. 



6512. Brunette, Chas. York. 



COONS. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



In reply to the inquiries of "J. L. B." regarding the habits 

 of coons, coons mate in February, and on May 5 I saw a 

 litter that were evidently about five days old— they had not 

 got their eyes opened. They bring forth from four to six. 

 My opinion is that they breed every season, but some be- 

 lieve they only breed every other year. 



In regard to its affecting the scent of dogs to get scented 

 by skunk, there is no question, but still it does hot always 

 prevent a dog from following a strong scent, but that it 

 affects his scent so much that he cannot work up a cold 

 trail requiring delicate scent is my experience. 



In regard to their emitting a cry at night there are differ- 

 ent opinions. Most hunters say that they do, and two 

 parties that had kept pet coons told that they had heard 

 them holler. 



Joint B. Clark, editor of the Mirror and Farmer, Man- 

 chester, N. H., has a long and interesing article on coon 

 hunting in a little book called "Mirror Hand Book," which 

 can be had of him for 10 cents. 



Forest AND Si REAM of June 19, 1884, has an article on 

 coons, read by John Foster before the Game and Fish Com- 

 missioners of New Hampshire in June, 1884, and it contains 

 many interesting notes relatiug to coons. 



I hope that "J. L. B." will report through Forest and 

 Stream some of his hunts in Windham. N. Elmore. 



Granry, Conn., Aug. 20. 



SYRACUSE DOG- SHOW.— Syracuse, N. Y., Aug. 18.— 

 Editor Forest and Stream: The following express compa- 

 nies will return all dogs from the show held here Sept. 18 to 

 21. free: The American, the National and the United States 

 express companies. The club will register all dogs free in 

 the A.K.C.S.B. that are exhibited at their show that have 

 not been previously registered, and registration blanks cau 

 be had by applying to the secretary. The premium lists are 

 being mailed to-day, and the. secretary will be glad to 

 send the same to any address. We have changed the date 

 of closing entries from Sept. 3 to Sept. 10. The special prize 

 committee report great success, and the list will be published 

 in the next issue of the Forest and Stream.— Howard B. 

 Fellows, and when such men are masquerading, with you at I Rathbone, Sec'y Syracuse Kennel Club. 



AMERICAN PET DOG CLUB. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



The Forest and Stream and other kindred papers have 

 recently published the constitution, etc., of the American 

 Pet Dog Club, together with the breeds and classes of breeds 

 recognized by the club as house or pet dogs. Neither 

 Forest AND Stream nor any other paper has made a single 

 note of exception to the list. We now find two gentlemen, 

 the president of the American English Beagle Club, and the 

 secretary of the American Spaniel Club assuming the right 

 to dictate what dogs the Pet Dog Club shall and shall not 

 recognize as pets, and also what particular breeds ladies and 

 gentlemen shall be permitted to have or not have in their 

 houses as pets. 



The readers of the Forest and Stream must not be sur- 

 prised nor alarmed if in the next issue they should read a 

 manifesto similar to the following: "We, the president of 

 the American English Beagle Club, and the secretary of the 

 American Spaniel Club, do hereby declare that no lady or 

 gentleman in America shall be permitted to call her or his 

 dwarf beagle or spaniel a pet, or to allow either to enter the 

 hall or parlor; but shall keep the same closely confined 

 within a kennel until such time as we may feel disposed to 

 order them released for use in the field." 



The Americau Pet Dog Club never had and has not now 

 the remotest idea of interfering with any of the rights or 

 prerogatives of the Beagle or Spaniel Club. On the con- 

 trary, the club and its individual members have repeatedly 

 declared their intention to aid and abet not only the Beagle 

 and Spaniel clubs, but all other clubs. On the other hand, 

 it can hardly be expected that the American Pet Dog Club 

 will consent to be dictated to by Messrs. Schellhass and Wil- 

 nierding as to what dogs it shall or shall not recognize as 

 pets. It may not be amiss to inform those gentlemen that 

 more beagles and spaniels are kept in this country (over 

 which they claim dominion) as house or pet dogs than for 

 use in the field. These two gentlemen are innocently sensi- 

 tive. A Member of the A. P. D. C. 



"A BIT OF KENNEL HISTORY." 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Your editorial, "A Bit of Kennel History," and my sub- 

 sequent letter under the same heading are positively true in 

 one and every particular. If the unscrupulous management 

 of a kennel club or any other body of men engage a lawyer 

 and remunerate him for falsifying facts, the perverted state- 

 ments cannot be fairly charged as falsehoods to the lawyer's 

 account; for a lawyer has the privilege of saying what he 

 knows to be untrue when he is paid for it. I am waiting for 

 a straightforward reply to my letter of two weeks ago, but 

 fear I can hardly expect one until Mr. C. J. Peshall shall 

 have severed all connection with the pecu-liar individuals 

 in the Broadway office. Evil communications corrupt good 

 manners, as is clearly shown when a man like Mr. Peshall 

 bends to their influence. Chas. H. Mason. ' 



