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FOREST AND STREAM, 



[Oct. 24, 188& 



• Bar Maid and Dick's Lfarling, divided first dad second,- 

 Lady Bartdu third, Trales fourth.' 



,. . AMERICAN SWEEPSTAKES. 



n pipen It) Americaiv;bred dogs only, $100 to first, $50 to sec- 

 ond, p8,-t6 third' £1"}' to fourth, entries free, but one-third of 

 winuings retained by the Association for general entrance 

 fee, • i, ,- - 0 .. 



Ariel beat Willb.nis and "Van Hummell's (Lexington, 

 Ky.) black and white bitch Melodrama. Kate M. beat Little 

 Katie. Williams and Van Hummell's (Lexington, Ky.) 

 white mid fawn bitch Minnehaha beat Holly. Beauty a 

 bye, Hand Maid beat Williams a nd Van Hummell's (Lex- 

 ington, Ky.) white and brindle bitch Miss Rare. Dr. 0. H. 

 Simpson's (Dodge City, Kan.) white and black dog Duke of 

 tiddge' beat Bdflde%Mn beat fi. T. Vernon's (Lamed. Kan.) 

 black dog Jack. Pearl Sidle beat Lfrike B. Bridget beat 

 Stonewall Jackson.. Don Pedro beat Bar Maid. Jessamine 

 be at .'dim -WaltQnjB .(Newton, Kan.) fawn bitch Newtoh 

 Belle; Stake $MK divided ' 



_ THE A. K. C. FINANCES. 



Editor Fared nmt). 8h:wwi \ J r » \ 



Replies to the open lecfera iff BWsftfti. Vredenl7.urg.h and Bel- 

 mont seem hardly necessary, but the atleh'Mc'rt tjf *he, flog 

 public may properly be called to the drift of affairs that wi'fl 

 be inevitable if these letters are not promptly censured in 

 the only practical way. The letter of Mr. Vredenburgh com- 

 pletely begs the question; he asks for a committee to inves- 

 tigate Whether his books are correct, and any practical bttsi- 

 fie.S^.maii knows ho'w hfjOM niay be COttect; and a statement 

 jpid£ front tbgtii that contains nri falseMdd, and yet is 

 atteflly derasite. "I" he point , is that Mr. , Peshall add Mr'. 

 Shotwell both say that appearances, indicate that the 

 A. K. C. will not have funds at the find of the year with 

 which to publish the Stud Book. As treasurer, Mr. Vreden- 

 burgh has received moneys in payment of entries in the Stud 

 Book not yet published: if he cannot show an unquestiona- 

 ble reserve fund, out of which the expense of publishing the 

 hfext volume of the Stud Book Will be borne, then all money 

 thus received ehduld, be classed as accounts payable. If 

 Messrs. Peshall and Shotwell arc correct; the A, K.(J. is un- 

 questionably insolvent. Any business u/an.w|ll admit this 

 on sight. Whether these gentlemen are correct I ani not 

 fully prepared to say, bnt that they have abundant ground 

 for their opinion is shown by the reports made bv the Stud 

 Book Committee. Now, I do not see wherein the use of a 

 {53u}niittce to explain (of state) what nobody has denied 

 etimes in. A- detailed report from Mr. Vredenburgb is asked 

 for by the circumstances' thefds.elves^and nobody has said 

 that Mr. Vreden burgh's report will not be a< cepted as 4 tnrth- 



Now as to the desirability of such a detailed statement 

 being made at this time, M& Belmont has a lot to say about 

 the ''regular tiirje; Usual cUsfdlH," and that Nucha de- 

 tailed ilep'dri will be, .furnished, \then Called for by proper 

 kiitlmiaty, etc.; etd; Whd Bad ftJeftj b§ ffial has abetter 

 Hght to a«k for this infdruuitiorrtlian tine tfeultdrfc tit the 

 V. K. C. those «dio have s advanced money on the pledge of 

 i-'ecieH'ing trie ghtriet' rtud ntud b'-ok5.ju return* I take it 

 that Mr. Shotwell is in this category, a£ ig M». Hopf. 

 Rightly or wrongly the solvency of the A. K. C. has been 

 questioned, and the doubts expressed are supported by fig- 

 ures that on their face conclusively support the charge of 

 insolvency-. Does not any business man, in such circum- 

 |'tdiio'e^, Wif.pt Sfld'etmuj* mfire tliail a toefe generalisation 

 j'tdm jiis debtor-- And wiled ltd ge'f/? rt ; i>emeut' what does 

 ije ,-tbiuk of the debtor, when the inventory of stocK fcdfcltains 

 Bhpaleable goods j valued at full prices? Mr. Vredeoburgh ; := 

 report shows stock oil hand F0 something like $1,840. Does 

 any man believe that the whole lot would be ebld for #140? 

 There are plenty of mercantile men among the delegate! of 

 the A. K. C. Ijjust ask them to apply the state of this case 

 to One of their debtors and what their impression would be 

 as to the Chance of their getting their money? So far. the 

 lesson of the fepoi'ts and letters thereon is that the A. K. C, 

 Jsiot|el$tely iiifioifeht.- 



, Now as, Id tnt ,sf)tfji of the letterS; the .prospect they 

 jiol.d out-, for future dignified and harmonious cpltr'Ses in 

 fcanine affairs. Honestly, J. am grieved alt Mr., Belmont's 

 letter, i I know nothing' whatever of the gentleman but 

 what i gather from his. public, expressions;' I never had a 

 particle of private expression tit o'pin'op as to him from 

 anybody, and I am sincerely sorry that any Man can be at 

 the head of American canine affairs and fail to realize the 

 shocking impropriety of his indulging in what appear to be 

 vindictive personalities, over his official signature and in 

 the official organ of the body he represents. This maybe 

 consistent with perfect uprightness, but it certainly shows 

 complete unfitness for the position. There is no use in mincing 

 words; the frank truth is the only thiugto save us, and I ask 

 all American dogdom how they relish the prospect of their 

 officers using their official signatures and the A.KC. official 

 organ to promulgate charges of " hypocrisy" against gentle- 

 men whodifferfromthem? Juststop audthink whatthiswill 

 inevitably lead to? Mr, Belmont would have aperfect right 

 to publish anything and everything he. has written, if he did 

 it m the public press and over his private signature; but to 

 throw the weight of his reprsentative character into the 

 scale against some one with whom he differs, or to use the 

 official organ of his club for this purpose, is simply destruc- 

 tive of every good purpose for which the club was instituted. 

 Remember that not a single particle of evidence was pro- 

 duced to support the wild charge, of hypocrisy against Mr. 

 Peshall, it being entirely an assumption of Mr. Belmont's. 



It would probably be impertinence in me to say to Mr. 

 Belmont that I have no personal feeling against him in this 

 matter, but to the public at large such a disclaimer may be 

 necessary as a preliminary to my saying that, under its 

 present management, nothing but wreck and ruin is in 

 store for the American Kennel Club. W. WADE. 



Hulton. Pa., Oct. 19. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



After reading the published correspondence between the 

 secretary and president of the A. K, C, which appeared in 

 your last issue, it is very evident that the management will 

 not permit a detailed statement to be made showing the ex- 

 act financial condition of the club, and the members must 

 be satisfied with the statement made by the secretary dur- 

 ing the last meeting, which showed for the first eight 

 months of the year that over §6,000 had been collected from 

 the breeders and dog men of this country, and about the 

 same amount had during the same time been expended by 

 the officials of the club; and that if the members are not 

 satisfied with this statement they must estimate for them- 

 selves and therefrom airive at their own conclusions. No 

 one for one moment has ever questioned the integrity, 

 honesty or ability of either the secretary or his assistant, 

 that the amount has been received and the amount disbursed, 

 no one has ever doubted, or in any way questioned, and all 

 the members of the club who have written on the subject 

 ever asked for is a detailed statement by the secretary show- 

 ing from what sources the income was derived and the items 

 of expense, or "from whence it cometh and whither it 

 goeth." The secretary has been asked in the most kindly, 

 and I might say almost in an affectionate manner for this 

 information. This is a voluntary association, and every 

 member of a local club is a member of tnis association, and 

 is entitled to this information when reasonably requested- 



What I claim is this, that under a reckless and extrava- 

 aUt Management thousands of dollars have been taken 



nanagement 

 members of 

 management 



is top vsaxui of an idiotic hobby, adopted by* ti .rhafflfity pf 

 the delegates, for ime.fssue .of the monthly publicatftfn;, tKe.' 

 Kennel Gazette, and the fasten r«g. An bo. the local clubs that 

 fungus, the associate membership. The K?:it:>iel Gazette, 

 with its expensive attendants, its costly attauntient^ and 

 m.a^nifif-<ent surroundings, worthless in itself, useless to the 

 breeder and a\£tap/ling menace to the. sporting press, is use- 

 ful only to hold within* ftsfforir'st the outpourings of venom, 

 and the aroma which arises from fh'". littrafy prod ltd. of an 

 illiterate, ignorant writer, directed against m* rubers of the 

 club, as will more fully appear from a personal pefmSatof 

 the September issue. The associate membership comesupof/ 

 Us from the same source in its wake, sapping the very foun- 

 dations and Vitals Of the local clubs. Under the old consti- 

 tution about forty clubs Wefe built Up and an interest 



' to 



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respect. 



Now let us take a look at 1889 ant? the pj'ftgpec.ts for 1890. 

 B/i. party desires kennel recognition now he fn*# beydmo 

 an .'i «M;'ate pjetube!', he must join the club throu 

 office door of ** Broadwa^- and While there is no compulsion 

 for him to either open Grf read ..the Oi'gatl Of the club, the 

 Kennel Gazette, he must receive it - dot onfily with Its un- 

 savory odor, but with its unpedigreed long iW, <?f rodOgl'el 

 curs therein contained as registered bv the A. K, C The 

 Ideal clubs ha-ve pOrtred into the coffers of the club, throUgH? 



tb 

 now 

 ,.„le to 



open their shows- next ye*r; and it if. not mil f thtt small 

 clubs, but. the Philadelphia Club' an'd t *hf clrib in the.gfeat 

 city of Boston ha^e ftbou't cpnclpded to succiimb; while,. the 

 New York show will perhaps be thednly successful one 61 the 

 season The Stud Book for 18S>.» 1 ag <>;! '<•-- 1 within i ts primitive 

 leaves in the kennel office, the fifty cents whic^'haH come down 

 fr did the hills and up from the vales to pay for the' 'eg'strA- 

 tio'n in the club's official book has long since been absorbed' 

 by th^infmifieeh't sftrrotfud-ings ftotti without, and according 

 to the Stud Bosk Opi'.dmrttee, the^'S is tt© money to that ac- 

 count to no m 

 by the offici 

 OUtfooks, h> 



the chai'med No, 44 Broadway, and that there' numbers 

 df the A. K-. C. who have been termed hypocritical bei .ti-s? 

 they bfffe' th'ti q&i&atfe to .express not only their views, but 

 who refuse to' fri^cRle" and bend the knee to the many wiles 

 growing out of this idiotfe' bobby, even if bolstered up by 

 the hearth of .a 1 Herchles; the wtsQiM W. a Soldmion,- or the 

 golden wealth of rfn rtss; - - . 



So the management of the At. K\ C. is not, a TMrnd- n'df'is 

 it controlled by a rabble. It is not So 1 elevated, for the facta 

 will convince any one that it has descended to' the control of 

 a eliUde, History teaches us that good govern me'St has at 

 times grown ddt of the actions of the rabble, but never an 

 instancy can we remember where good government has ever 

 resulted frdM tfie intriguing of a clique. The rabble can 

 exist without the assistance of the clique, and the clique 

 does not desire the advice, aid of assistance df the rabble, 

 excepting in this, that the clique will accept front the rabble 

 or any member thereof any contributions of money that 

 may be sent them, and which will be used by the Clique in 

 furtherance of their adopted motto, "Health, Wealth and 

 Wisdom.' Peshall. 



Jkksby City, Oct: iiJ 1 . 



the Irish setter fieL© tf?iaLs\ 



TTCTE publlsn' below the chm'mentg of the. toiid'on' Fldtt 

 W upon the recent field trials of the Irish Red J3ettef - 

 Club: ,., , 



"When we say that every one was hearrilj glad as" fbe last 

 course was being run on the evening of Thursday, Sept. W, 

 no disparagement of the gathering is intended; simply iht 

 meeting was a day too long, when the severe nature of the 

 grouud of er which the various trials were run is taken into 

 consideration. There were too many stakes, too many en- 

 tries, and greater interest would have been shown in all, 

 had fewer of the dogs beeu entered in more than one of the 

 competitions. Two or three good stakes, with the number 

 df entriesin each limited, would be quite as many a£ could be 

 satisfactorily concluded in a couple of days on any grouse 

 mountain in Ireland in the middle of September. Birds 

 then are wild and considerably scattered, and though they 

 lie much better to dogs there than they do in England and 

 the south of Scotland, still many of them are away from the 

 hill points and hillocks long before the dogs come within 

 scenting range. Grouse generally were found to be fairly 

 numerous after the first day; but on the terribly rough and 

 dangerous moor of Sir W, McMahon's, gone over on Tues- 

 day, they were by no means so plentiful as could have been 

 wished. Still they lay well under the tussocks of old 

 heather, and it was rather peculiar that on that day every 

 bird we saw was utilized in some way or other, either a 

 good or bad point being had from it. This was by no means 

 the case later on in the meeting, when far more birds were 

 found, but they were wilder. Mr. W. P. Black's mountain 

 is an exceedingly pretty one from every point of view; 

 heather in profusion, in all stages of growth, is to be found, 

 and with an abundance of grouse there is a fair sprinkling 

 of blue hares, with a snipe or two now and then. There are 

 a few sheep on the shootings, but not nearly so many as 

 would be found on the same extent in Scotland. 



"Taking all things into consideration, this last field trial 

 meeting of the Irish Setter Club must be set down as a great 

 success, inasmuch as, in addition to several well-known 

 celebrities, there also competed two or three brace of Irish 

 setters almost, if not quite, equal to anything of the kind 

 previously seen. Indeed, the work of the native red setter 

 throughout was of such a character as cannot fail to en- 

 hance the value of the variety in the opinion of sportsmen, 

 especially those whose shootings lie in wild and exposed 

 situations. Although the chief honor of the meeting did 

 not actually fall to an Irish setter, this may be said to have 

 arisen more through inadvertence than otherwise. To Mr. 

 Heywood Lonsdale's liver and white pointer bitch Mopsa 

 went the cup for the best pointer or setter in the competition , 

 a bad or mistaken rule, we think, allowing her, although 

 only one of an entry in the brace stakes, to compete against 

 the'dogs entered in the ordinary single competitions. Thus 

 Mopsa, when she met Devonshire Sail in the finals, had pre- 

 viously run only a single short trial of about twenty min- 

 utes, and so was comparatively fresh. She was well handled 

 by Brailsford, who, if not able to go quite so fast over his 

 ground as some of the more juvenile breakers, still was 

 always about the place when he was wanted, and he never 

 allows any of his animals to lose a point through want 

 of attention on his part. Devonshire Sail, the Derby 

 winner, run by Messrs. Bulled and Bruette (the latter 

 we believe an American partner of the Devonshire 

 man), and handled admirably by Turner, who proved 

 so successful with Mr, Ellis's Irish red setters last year 

 and the year before, is' a good-looking bitch, a prize 

 winner on the bench. She goes a rare pace, carries her 

 head well, and seemed to be an untiring worker; still, on 

 the trials she cau scarcely be brought into comparison with 



sotnfe of ihf r^d setter's 1 that had run so many rfl<Sfe tfnSeS 

 than she; bfit of thehr inore anon. Devonshire Jadk,het 

 brother (they arebyMolfon Baron— Tillage Star, and 20m&i. 

 old), is equally good, perhaps better,- and a thorough show 

 dog in appearance; he has likeW*e<e won prizes^ and is a good 

 Ofte to go. We were particularly pleased with the style in 

 jvhichhe carried hie head, and the showy idanner iin W'hidfo 

 be 1 gallopfed and S'food his game. The best English setter* at? 

 the meeting' was" tf-ndotibtedly that smart liver and white 



tell, went q'dfre as? fast over the rough heather as the red 



bfac^ Master Sam and Merry Dick, di4 not work so well «*» 

 we hare £3ett them, the first named espectaHf--Tperhaps at- 

 tributable to thC fact that neither has beeo m the moors' 

 this season; so they wefft somewhat tamely on gf'd«ste oVet 

 the mountains in comparison With what they might baYe 

 done after partridges in the low eVtfniry, Still, Dick Wmt> 

 excessively fast at times— aright merry gW,. that on a future 

 occasion! may be seen to better advantage. Tbrs- was Nich- 

 olson's first appearance at an Emerald Isle meeting/ and re-- 

 g/ets were expressed that he was not more sueeft'ssfui.. 

 Tfidmaw Armstrong, tod, -wm there for the first time, #adl 

 he pleasea all by the quiet way in which he worked his dogs 1 ', 

 and their non-succeM cannot be laid to' his door. 



"No doubt the honors 6t the meeting wefit to R. K. Arm- 

 istioft^i a sop of Edward Aimfttftnte,- Of Dauby Lodge< and 

 now engaged' as.trainer to Mr. W. tL C'ooper v -of Ashbourne, 

 who has got ti fennel of Irish setters together which,, with 

 a little further imprWemeUt, will be almost tta beatable, 

 Young Armstrong had hia 4ogs nicely broken, tya* he 

 worked them too quickly, himself miming over the grotmcfl 

 at a p'aee with which the judges failed to keep up. Meruit £• 

 who is hWwith Mr, C. C. Ellis, did likewise, and on thfe 

 account, whett *wmpeting together, the two tfaisers had to 

 be spoken to by thtl jwdgeS,- and cautioned as to their rate oi 

 procedure. No doubt both will in future bear this in mmd/ 

 lOf ttjM are excellent, steady fellows,' painstaking and hardi 

 travelers',- and their good sense will lead them to benefit by 

 thai}' experience* at this meeting in cotiflty Tyrone. Of the 

 new rfeu sfettersy precedence must be gi yen to* Mearn'oTe Sure 

 Death, a bi'tcb thdft was unfortunately entered in sill the 

 stakes. We should li&e i.O have «?en her and her half-fcisteE' 

 \Voamlne run by an Irish Sportsman; but there was the 

 next best th^ng. to this — they were bred by one, viz., Mr. J, 

 G. Hawks, of Kenmare, County Kerry.- Ttoey are fair-look- 

 ing hitches, both of ttiem are directly descended from the 

 blood of Captain Hutchins'6"»'« old celebrity Bbb,- and have 

 not a drop of anything but pu're Milesian blood ib their 

 \ v erusv 'to Bltfc Death would undoubtedly have gatm fehe> 

 chtHrifftoxt cup had she not been so hard fan;- bow she weftfe- 

 over the g+'o'dud, ey'en in the earlier part of her last course,- 

 after running drirfeg the last three days no fewer frban ten 

 trials, some of which Wefe' prolonged ones, must ha*^ been 

 3CCQ to be believed. Armstrong had taken great pains with 

 herV and she was a vast improvement on the form she had! 

 shown in the spring at the Kennel Club's trial, no doubt 

 bw'h£ to' fh£ fact Of her haviug had a fortnight immedi- 

 ately precMfiffg this meeting over some of the yongh- 

 n«t mountains in. Tyrone We fancy she is faster fh ant 

 Mai'/h's piffle Nell if both were down on similar ground:; 

 her style" Ssf smart aod clean; she knows where to' 

 look for game', possesses a find nose, and, if kept welll 

 under command and toade to back properly, will prove a 

 hard nut for the celebrities to crack in the spring of 1890. 

 W e do not expect to find such ti prodigy as a dog that can 

 gallop around her or take the outsids beat. Next to her of 

 the young Uukuown ones must come Wcpdbine, already 

 mentidthfld j she is extremely smart, and may even possess a. 

 more delicate nose than her half sister, and thcr'ir was little 

 to choose betweed her and* Mac's Little Nell when the latter 

 was given the trial in the' puppy stakes. We beMeve at 

 home Woodbine's reputation i£ as high as Sure Death's', .and! 

 here' she appeared to back better' fh'an 1 any Trish setter We 

 have yet seen— a duty in which most of the cracks of this 

 variety seem to fail. They, however, worked- the ground 

 scent 'less than is usual, and in most cases these red dogs 

 had an iigly,- houudlike habit of putting their noses' to fhs- 

 grouud- aod making cut the line in that manner, rather than? 

 by hdldiug high their heads and catching the tainted Mr; 

 When Irish setters will altogether ceise this low style ©£ 

 hunting and condescend to acknowledge a point of an oppo- 

 nent, they will have lost the two defects which have alone 

 prevented the taking that high rank they deserve at field 

 tidal meetings. Another good young dog is Heumore Shot- 

 over, a son of the bench winner, Mr. Perrin's Hector. Not. 

 a. iiad-lookiug dog, he too has pace on his side, and stamina 

 in ahtUldance; indeed, one-half of the work he and Sure 

 Death went through would, we fancy, have quite tired out 

 a moiety of the ordinary dogs we see runniug at the spring 

 trials, and after what we saw at Omagh last week, we are 

 sure that the Irish setter for rough land such as the trialsi 

 were run over cannot be excelled. One drawback he, how- 

 ever, possesses. This is his color, so difficult to see against 

 the dark background of the faded heather as it is in the^ 

 autumn. This was especially to be noticed when one of the 

 variety ran against a pointer or English setter, nor did we 

 find that birds lay better to the one than to the other. The 

 pointer certainly looks to best advantage on these high 

 ranges of mountains; but when the sharp rain stoftos came 

 on, they scraped a bed, crouched and shivered in the e«M, at 

 the same time that the native dogs appeared warm an.<l eoiv- 

 tented. 



"We have said the trials throughout were a great success, 

 so was the judging; and to Mr. J. H. Salter, Capt. Milner, 

 and Mr. T. H. Richardson, of Crumlin, the club is greatly 

 indebted for the excellent manner in which they performf d 

 their duties. They walked well and worked hard— the latter 

 as a steward, and also when he took Mr. Salter's place as 

 judge. The arrangement of the beats the first day was not 

 good ; but when they came under the superintendence of Capt. 

 Hugh Stewart there was no going over the same ground 

 backward and forward to get the wind, and so a fair amount 

 of work was done for no more than a maximum amount of 

 walking. 



"On the conclusion of the meeting, some surprise was ex- 

 pressed that the winners of the various stakes had not been 

 given separate and distinct trials for the champion cup, in 

 accordance with the rules. As a fact, the judges were not 

 aware of any such rule, and they would have been quite 

 within their rights, in the absence of such knowledge, in 

 awarding the cup tb any dog at the meeting without giving 

 any extra trial at all. However, they decided to run Hen- 

 more Sure Death, Mopsa, and Devonshire Sail, with the re- 

 sult published last week. Mac's Little Nell had won the 

 All-Aged Stake, and beaten Sure Death in the second round 

 of it; so her worker was clearly justified in his complaint 

 that Mr. Ellis's favorite and excellent bitch had not been; 

 given another run for the trophy. We hear that Mr. EUis. 

 has formally protested against the award, and a letter from 

 him appears in another column. Under the circumstances 

 no blame can attach to the judge in the matter; and Mr. 

 Giltrap's absence from the ground was owing to an accident 

 on the first day. This was the grumble at the meeting, and 

 the secretary (Mr, G-iltrap) may well feel delighted at the 

 result of his labors, and every one was full of praise to him 

 for his kindness and the welcome he gave to all. 



"Some of the members of the trish Setter Club intend, if 

 possible, to secure a mountain of their own, over which the 

 • field trial meetings may be held ; If they succeed, in doing 



