Jan. 17, 1889.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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all too numerous in this fair land of ours— that turns 

 up its trousers here when it rains iu London. I would dare 

 risk one of Dunlap's "extra quality" that if fox hunting to 

 the gun were practiced by the English "aristocracy" as bird 

 hunting to the gun is, he would not look down upon it with 

 such majestic scorn. 



But stay, there is another possible explaination. "Tally- 

 bo" says he has participated m the "sport (?)," as he witber- 

 ingly puts it. Perchance he is not much of a pedestrian , 

 and the long tramps necessary in genuine fox hunting have 

 wearied his iimbs and irritated his spirit. If so, let us draw 

 the mantle of charity over his uncalled-for and unjustifiable 

 attack on one of the oldest and sportsmanlike of American 

 pastimes. CONNECTICUT. 



New York. 



Editor For cat and Stream: 



Six of us have joiued ourselves together for the pleasure 

 of fox hunting, and to help to protect game out of season, as 

 Well as song birds at all times. We have quite a number of 

 dogs that we think are good workers. We think the fox is as 

 gamy as anything the sportsman can find in the State. We 

 should like to hear from any who love the sport and live in 

 other States whether a fast or slow dog is the best, and large 

 Or small dogs to be preferred. 



A little experience with dog and gun of soine of our 

 brothers in other States would be very pleasant to read some 

 of the cold nights of the coming winter. FRANK. 



Boston* Mass. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Will "Tallybo" tell us honestly whether he ever rode to 

 the hounds ? Some of us Yankee fox hunters have a suspi- 

 cion that he really knows as little of that kind of huntingas 

 his last communication shows that hedoes of the kind which 

 he pretends to abhor. Yankee. 



RESPONSIBILITY FOR ENTRIES AT SHOWS. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



"One of our journals published last week aletter from Mr. 

 W. Wade, of Hulton, Pa., on some recent decisions of our 

 Kennel Club, and especially on the disqualification of dogs, 

 after winning, because they were not registered. He seems 

 to think that show committees should verify registrations 

 before they accept entries, but this is utterly impossible. 

 Registrations already fill (more or less) some fifty bulky 

 volumes, which belong, of course, to the Kennel Club, and 

 are accessible only to its servants, through whom informa- 

 tion as to such registration is to be obta ined. A complete 

 set of Kennel Gazette volumes would of course give similar 

 information to any one who thought proper to search 

 through them all. It is obvious that a show secretary receiv- 

 ing from five hundred to a thousand entries during a week 

 or ten days, has no means of verifying the particulars con- 

 rained in the forms. He is probably taxed to the utmost to 

 get his entries classified in time for the printer. Many ex- 

 hibitors are exceedingly careless about their entries, putting 

 them, off till the. last moment, and then sending entry form 

 to the show secretary, and registration form to the Kennel 

 Club, by the same post. The show secretary squeezes in his 

 late entries, and the catalogues are ready for sale when the 

 show opens. Meantime half the 'late' registration forms 

 are returned to the writers, with an indorsement to the 

 effeet that the name chosen is already registered and is not 

 available for the dog in question. So a new one is selected 

 and registered, but as that is not the one in the catalogue 

 the dog is, of course, disqualified. Mr. Wade suggests that 

 committees should be made to refund entry fees in such 

 cases and that this would make them careful. As I have 

 pointed out they are simply powerless in the matter. The 

 odd thing is that exhibitors should be so careless, knowing, 

 as they do, that they forfeit entry fees if the registration is 

 not right." 



The above is from the English correspondence of a West ern 

 paper of Jan. 5, and I could ask for no better illustration of 

 the totally wrong view that show committees take of their 

 duty to exhibitors than this gives: first I may say that I 

 never proposed that committees should make an elaborate 

 investigation of entries sent them, but as a majority of 

 disqualifications are because of non-registration, I do insist 

 that a committee has no moral right to accept an entry that 

 does not state whether essentials to exhibiting are complied 

 with; whether the dog is registered or not is none of their 

 business as far as I can see, but it is their business to see 

 whether the party making the entry says the animal is 

 registered or not, and if they take an exhibitor's money 

 when it is as plain as the nose on the secretary's face that 

 the entry is totally void from fatal omission, what are they 

 doing but simply swindling the exhibitor? If the exhibitor 

 says the dog is registered when it is not, he is presumptively 

 lying and should be disqualified for that. I know it is the 

 case here that very, very many exhibitors are novices a nd 

 shows would be in a nice fix if these very novices did not 

 make their entries, yet they are loaded down with the 

 maximum of exact responsibility and the committee is 

 held to none! This is justice, sure enough! But just look 

 at the closing part of the above extract; the Kennel Club 

 makes very exact and positive requirements as to registra- 

 tion; to comply with these requirements takes a search so 

 laborious that no show committee could be expected to 

 make it, yet when an intending exhibitor sends in a regis- 

 tration, having no possible means of determining whether 

 the name he gives will be accepted (on account of previous 

 registiation of the name stopping him), then he is to be did- 

 dled out of a prize won because he didn't know what nobody 

 but the trained expert of the Kennel Club could know! 



"Here is richness," and truly Squeers himself is the proper 

 party to ladle it out. Of course no such construction 

 could continue here, the fighting propensities of the aver- 

 age American "get him on his ear" instanter, and even the 

 Plutocrat-worshipping A. K. C. could not face the music 

 that would be raised. I really believe that the English 

 Kennel Club is not swayed by favoritism (although the 

 case of the greyhound Libanius has a very ancient smell), 

 and do not believe for a minute that it will eat its own 

 words to please a gentleman of wealth as the A. K. C. has 

 done. But I am astonished at the fatuity of expecting 

 novices to make entries at shows when the path is made so 

 slippery for inexperienced feet to travel. 



An exhibitor sends an entry late (as he has an undoubted 

 right to do), complies with all the requirements, and yet 

 because he didn't know what nobody knows until the club 

 official makes a lengthy search through the records, he is 

 "beat" "out of any prize he may win. The commonest, 

 simplest sense of justice shows that although the exhibitor 

 may be required to choose another name, he should not be 

 swindled out of his plain rights. 



The thing the most to the credit of the A. K. C. that I 

 know of is that it has never adhered to the doctrine some- 

 times pushed on them, that the exhibitor must be held to 

 the strictest accountability for every error, but has, in this 

 at least, generally taken the side of simple right, and 

 although its arrogant and exclusiveness strongly tends to 

 lead it to this point it is certain that the American dog 

 public will never tolerate any such shines. W. Wade. 



Hulton, Pa., San. 9. 



CONNECTICUT STATE KENNEL CLUB.— Bridgeport, 

 Conn., Jan. 14.— Editor Forest and Stream: The annual 

 meeting of the Connecticut State Kennel Club ■will be held 

 at the Atlantic Hotel, this city, on Tuesday evening, Feb. 

 22.--DR. J AS. E. Haie, Sec. 



THE ST. BERNARD CUPS. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



The action of the governors of the St. Bernard Club in 

 making dogs awarded vhc. in their respective classes eligible 

 to compete for the club cups will no doubt commend itself 

 alike to members having the best interests of the club at 

 heart, exhibitors in general and all who admire this noble 

 breed. That it will be an incentive to breeders goes without 

 saying. Nor need there be any fear that the placing of such 

 dogs on the eligible list will pave the way to inferior animals 

 receiving the trophies. When it is taken into consideration 

 that the prizes are offered for competition at our leading 

 shows only, where the classes will he numerically large, 

 comprising the best home bred dogs in conjunction with 

 those which have already won their spurs on the other side 

 of the water, it will be patent to the most casual observer 

 that a specimen awarded a vhc. must necessarily be above 

 the average. 



I for one am willing to a,ccord all due encouragement and 

 praise to such of our breeders as have at no little outlay of 

 labor and expense imported choice specimens of the breed, 

 but the fact must not be lost sight of that it is the home- 

 bred animal that needs most careful nursing. American 

 lovers of the breed have accomplished something, but that 

 we cannot as yet compete favorably with our English 

 cousins need be no cause for chagrin, for comparatively 

 speaking we form but a corporal's guard. An incentive is 

 needed, and the St. Bernard Club bids fair to supply a long 

 felt want. 



The club is still in its infancy, and if the pole star of ex- 

 perience but guide our craft that we may avcid the shoals 

 and quicksands that so often beset infant organizations, we 

 may look forward to a sturdy and useful manhood. There 

 are good men and true at the helm, and with the magic 

 talisman fair play inscribed on its pennant, there is every 

 reason to believe that the club will become in reality what 

 its name implies, the St. Bernard Club of America. 



John Keevan. 



Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



It is with pleasure that I note in this week's issue of your 

 paper the receut action of the Board of Governors of the St. 

 Bernard Club. This is a move in the right direction, and 

 will be appreciated by the American breeders generally. I 

 have had communications from several in regard to the 

 matter, and I know this last action will recommend itself to 

 them. If the club will be true to its principles (to further 

 the interests of "American-bred St. Bernards"), it will be a 

 great success, and receive the support of large and small 

 breeders. Essex. 



Andover, Mass. 



SALISBURY'S PEDIGREE. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Mr. Mason's reference to the Dundee show of 1879 reminds 

 me. of a piece of evidence on the above subject that has much 

 weight. The charge of the London correspondent was that 

 while Mr. Carr owned Leo (afterward Salisbury) he uni- 

 formly said that the dog had no pedigree. Now, at Dundee 

 in 1879, Salisbury was given his stud book pedigree, and 

 competed against Mr. Taunton's Cardinal; Mr. Taunton 

 certainly knew Mr. Carr, and must have known of any such 

 declarations of Mr. Carr's as are alleged. The judges of 

 mastiffs were Hugh Dalziel and. I think, Rawdou B. Lee; 

 Dalziel held for Salisbury and the other judge for Cardinal, 

 and a third judge was called in who gave it to Salisbury. 

 Now, is it to be supposed that so close an award as this, re- 

 quiring the calling in of a third judge, would pass unchal- 

 lenged when the victor was entered and shown with a notori- 

 ously bogus pedigree? I believe that Mr. Taunton is not 

 much of a "kicKer," but would he, or any man, stand being 

 beaten under such circumstances? Remember that it is 

 alleged that it was common talk, known to everybody, that 

 Carr, the breeder of the dog, always said he had no pedigree. 

 Reconcile that with the inaction in the above case if you 

 can. 



I have done considerable investigation of suspicious pedi- 

 grees, and may claim that I started the investigation that 

 demolished the stud book pedigree of Crown Prince (in 

 spite of its indorsement by "The Official Stud Book of the 

 American Kennel Club, Sir! "), and the more I learn on the 

 matter, the more I am impressed with the necessity of ab- 

 staining from all personal charges until every crack and 

 cranny has been explored. The disagreeableness of assum- 

 ing that Tom Collins is the party guilty of something and 

 finding out that Pete Jones is the real criminal is evident 

 enough, but how is it if it be shown that not only are Col- 

 lins and Jones innocent, but the mountain discovered is 

 really a hole in the plain? 



Parenthetically, how curious it is that the perversion of 

 "Bonnie Dundee" should stick to the city of that name? 

 The phrase is the burden of an old Scotch song, applied to 

 the gallant John Graeme, of Claverhouse, Marquis of Dun- 

 dee. I think it runs "We'll cock up our bonnets wi' bonnie 

 Dundee." I am told that the city is one of the least attractive 

 of Scotland's cities; how is this, "Porcupine?" W. Wade, 



Hulton, Pa., Jan. 13. 



INDIANA FIELD TRIALS. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I desire to announce that the Indiana Kennel Club will 

 hold field trials this year, beginning Nov. 1 with the Mem- 

 bers' Stake, to be followed Nov. 4 with the Derby for setters. 

 Then the Derby for pointers. Entries close June 1 ; $5 for- 

 feit. $15 tq All. Three moneys— 50 per cent, to first, 30 per 

 cent, to second and 20 per cent, to third. These stakes will 

 be followed with the All- Age Setter Stake, then the All-Age 

 Pointer Stake. Entries close Oct. 1; §10 forfeit and $15 to 

 fill. Four moneys— 40 per cent, to first, 30 per cent, to sec- 

 ond, 30 per cent, to third and 10 per cent, to fourth. 



The trials will wind up with the Champion Stake; $25 en- 

 trance; one money. Three to start. The sweepstakes plan 

 will again be adhered to this year. An entirely new set of 

 rules are now being framed, which, we are satisfied, will 

 work a revolution in field trials. 



P. T. Madison, Secretary. 



Inuianapolis, Jan. 5. 



THE CANADIAN KENNEL CLUB OF CANADA. 



THIS association, which was inaugurated at the bench 

 show in London in September last by the election of 

 officers and in passing of certain resolutions, has at length 

 issued from its seeming dormant state. But it has not been 

 asleep, as its energetic secretary has been corresponding all 

 over the Dominion to the prominent dog owners, and when 

 it is considered the extent of ground to be covered from 

 Halifax to Vancouver, it is no small undertaking. 



A meeting of the executive committee was held Dec. 7, 

 and the constitution and by-laws governing the club were 

 submitted by the sub-committees appointed at the first 

 meeting and passed with a few alterations. A circular was 

 ordered to be mailed to each owner of dogs as far as possible, 

 and a copy of the constitution and by-laws to be forwarded 

 to the papers which take an interest in kennel matters. 



A number of names of prominent dog owners, who had 

 signified the desire to become members, were submitted to 

 the Executive Committee and accepted. 



The Secretary has opened a kennel register for the regis- 

 tration of pedigrees, which will be free to all members and 

 we hope the new undertaking in the "doggy" interests of 



Canada will receive the hearty indorsement of all owners, 

 breeders and exhibitors in the Great Dominion. 



The names which stand at the head of it are a sufficient 

 guarantee that it will be run on a proper basis. We under- 

 stand that the club is in communication with the American 

 Kennel Club, with the object of promoting a friendly and 

 close intimacy between the two clubs. The necessary blanks, 

 for registering can be had by applying to the secretary, C. 

 A. Stone, 421 Richmond street, London, Ont. 



CONSTITUTION. 



1. This club shall be known as the Canadian Kennel Club. 



3. The object of tbe club shall be to promote the breeding of 

 thoroughbred dogs in Canada, to protect the interests of owners 

 as well as breeders, to formulate rules for the government of dog 

 shows and competitions, and to recommend suitable judges for 

 the same. 



3. The officers of the club shall consist of honorary president, 

 first vice-president, four vice-presidents, secretary, treasurer 

 and an executive committee of eight members, to be elected at 

 the annual meeting. 



i. The annual meeting shall be held at such a time and place as 

 shall be decided at the previous meeting. A special meeting shall 

 be called at the request of ten members of tbe. club, or may at any 

 time be called by order of the Executive Committee. 



5. Application for membership shall be proposed and seconded 

 in writing to the secretary and passed by the executive com- 

 mittee; one black ball to suspend the election until the next 

 meeting of the Executive Committee. 



6. The executive committee shall have power to till vacancies 

 on the committee until the. next annual meeting. 



7. The annual dues to be $3, payable in advance. 



8. No alteration can be made in the constitution or in the 

 governing rules, as adopted by the club, except by a two-thirds 

 majority of the vote cast at the annual meeting or special meet- 

 ing of the club, and notice of any such proposed change must be 

 given at the previous meeting. 



9. The Executive Committee shall have tall power, by a two- 

 thirds vote, to suspend or expel any members, and the members 

 so suspended or expelled shall have no claim against the club, or 

 be allowed to enter into any competition held under the rules of 

 this club. Such members shall have tbe rights of appeal to the 

 club from the action of the Executive Committee at the annual 

 meeting or at any special meeting, provided notice of appeal has 

 been given. 



BY-LAWS. 



Article. I.— Duties of Officers. Sec. 1. The President shall pre- 

 side at all meetings of the Executive Committee, audit and ap- 

 prove all bills and shall order all meetings of the Executive 

 Committee whenever in his judgment he may deem it neces- 

 sary. He shall submit a report of the work done during the past 

 year at. the annual meeting. 



See. 2 The first Vice-President shall perform all the duties of 

 the President in his absence. 



Sec. 3. The Secretary-Treasurer shall keep the minutes of each 

 meeting of the Executive Committee and of the Club; conduct 

 the correspondence, and have charge of, and be responsible for, 

 all the books and papers of the Executive Committee. He shall 

 collect and have charge of all moneys belonging to the Club, 

 shall pay all bills when properly approved, and submit a report 

 thereof to the Executive Committee at every meeting. He shall 

 keep a book containing a list of the members in good standing. 



Article II.— Sec. 1. The meetings of the Executive Committee 

 shall be called by the Secretary at the request of three members 

 of the Committee or by order of the President, and two weeks' 

 notice of such meeting shall be given to every member of the 

 Committee. 



Sec. 3. At all meetings of the Executive Committee four mem- 

 bers shall constitute a quorum. 



Article I II.— All bills shall be presented to the President, oi- 

 First Vice-President when acting as President, and shall be 

 audited by him; in case of approval, he shall affix his signature 

 and date of approval. After such approval the Secretary- 

 Treasurer shall pay said bills. 



Artice IV— Order of Business. 1. Roll call. 2. Reading of min- 

 utes. 3. Reports and communications. 4. Unfinished business. 

 5. New business. 6. Election of officers. 7. Adjournment. 



Article V— Amendments, etc. These by-laws may be altered, 

 amended or suspended at any meeting of the executive commit- 

 tee by a single majority vote, provided two weeks' notice shall 

 have been given to every member of the executive committee of 

 the proposed alteration, amendment or suspension. In the ab- 

 sence of such notice, a two-thirds vote of the members present 

 shall be required. 



Following is a list of the officers of the club: President, Richard 

 Gibson, Delaware, Ont. Vice-Presidents: J, U. Gregory, Esq., 

 Quebec; Thos. Johnson, Winnipeg; Samuel Coulson, Montreal; W, 

 J. Jackson, Toronto. Executive Committee: C. M. Nelles, Brant- 

 ford; Dr. J. S. Niven, London; Wm Hendrie. Hamilton; J. L. 

 Campbell, Simcoe; W. W. Welles, Chatham; F. H. F. Mercer, 

 Otiawa; YV. H. Scully, Toronto: T. G. Davey. London; C. A. Stone, 

 Sec, London: F. C. Wheeler, Treas., London. C. A. Stone. 



OMAHA DOG SHOW. 



BLAIR, Neb., Jan. 8.— Editor Forest and Stream: We 

 have had a bench show in Omaha. It was held Jan. 1, 

 2 and 3. There were over 100 entries. The managers did 

 everything they could to make it a success. The judging in 

 the mastiff class was an outrage. Major, who took first, is 

 a huge, ungainly, misshapen brute of the "yaller dog" 

 color, hollow-backed and weak in loins, while Gerald, who 

 took third, was a splendid animal, both as regards size, shape 

 and color. He took second at the Indianapolis show, and was 

 clearly entitled to first at Omaha. Sutton, who took second, 

 was a fine dog, but a little under-sized. The Chesapeake 

 Bay dogs were a curiosity to most of the visitors, as but 

 few had ever seen any of that breed, and the reporter per- 

 sisted in calling them Chesapeake spaniels. Inclosed is a 

 list of the awards clipped from the Omaha .Daily Bee of 

 Jan. 3: 



AWARDS. 



MASTIFFS . —1st , Rev. Father Colaneri's Major; 2d, W. V. 

 Morse's Sultan; 3d, W. H, Alexander's Gerald. 



GREYHOUNDS— 1st, C. Roster's Clothesline; 2d, N. Brown's 

 unnamed. 



SETTERS.— 1st, A. White's Rolla; 2d, G. Richardson's Laverack; 

 3d, J. Smith's Gordon. 



POIN f ERS.— 1st, J. Bingle's unnamed; 2d, J. Kerr's Rapp. 



SPANIELS— Equal 1st, W. Magner's Sport and W. Ruther- 

 ford's Leo; 2d, J. Hoye's Shot; 3d, J. Rutherford's Daisy. 



CHESAPEAKE BAY DOGS.-Dogs: 1st, E. Cook's Blucher: 2d, 

 J. E. Merriman's Dan; 3d, G. Richardson's unnamed. Bttfihesi 1st, 

 Dr. E. A. Palmer's Chesapeake; 2d, E. Cook's Kate. 



BULL-TERRIERS.— 1st, G. W. Bond's Fly; 2d, E. C. Miller's 

 Nell; 3d, VY. J. Turner's Betsy Baker. 



FOX-TERRIERS. —1st, W. Wright's Rags; 2d and 3d, W. Mair's 

 Omaha and Peggie. 



PUGS.-lst and 2d, W. S. Helprey's Colonel and Topsey; 3d, J. 

 S. Barnes's unnamed. 



SK YE TERRIERS.— 1st and 2d, T. Chalmer's Vic and Mac. 



BLACK AND TAN TERRIERS.— 1st, W. Turner's — ; 2d, C. 

 Carlson's — ; 3d, A. Rose's — . Hematite. 



BAY" CITY DOG SHOW.— The Michigan State Poultry 

 and Pet Stock Association will hold their first bench show 

 of dogs in connection with their tenth annual exhibition at 

 Bay City, Mich., Jan. 26 to 30. Thirty-three classes are 

 provided, the prizes being 40 per cent., 24 per cent, and 16 

 per cent, of entrance money. In addition the association 

 offers $25 for the largest number of entries, and gold lined 

 silver cups, value 810, to best mastiff, rough-coated St. 

 Bernard, smooth-coated St. Bernard, Newfoundland, Great 

 Dane, Llewellyn setter dog and bitch, and black cocker 

 spaniel. There will also be offered numerous special prizes 

 for the different breeds. Mr, John Davidson will judge all 

 classes. Entries close Jan. 20. The address of the super- 

 intendent is H. Gate, Bay City, Mich. 



NEWBURGH DOG SHOW.— There will be a dog show 

 in connection with tbe first annual exhibition of the Hud- 

 son River Poultry, Dog and Pet Stock Association, to be 

 held at Newburgh, N. Y., Feb. 7 to 12. The prizes will be 

 $4 and $2 in each class. Mr. H. C. Glover will be the judge. 

 Entries close Jan. 20 and should be made to H. M. Waring, 

 Newburgh, N. Y. 



