April 10, 1890.1 



FISHCULTURE BY TUXEDO CLUB. — The report of 

 the Fish Committee of the Tuxedo Club shows gratifying 

 progress in its establishments. An improved water supply- 

 has secured water of a nearly uniform temperature summer 

 and winter. The club has a hatching house, in which eggs 

 of brook trout and brown trout are developed. Carp are 

 bred in large numbers as food for the young trout. Suckers 

 are used in the same way. Crawfish and frogs have been 

 placed in the lake to feed the black bass, which are pur- 

 chased from the Caledonia hatchery. The Wee Waw, now 

 in course of construction, will have an area of about 110 

 acres, and over 2V> miles of brooks and a pond are thoroughly 

 stocked with trout. 



FIXTURES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



April 15 to 18.— Show of the Buffalo Kennel Club, Buffalo, 

 N. Y. A . W. Smith, Secretary. 



April 23 to 20— First Doc Show of the Schenectady Kennel Olub, 

 at Schenectady, JST. Y. G. A. Rosa, Secretary. 



May 6 to 9.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Southern Cali- 

 fornia Kennel Club, at Los Angeles, Cal. H. W. Wilson, Super- 

 intendent. 



Sept. 0 to 12 —Second Annual Dog Show of the Toledo Kennel 

 Company, at Toledo, O. C. E. Rowland, Secretary. 



Sept. 23 to 26.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Central Canada 

 Exhibition Association, at Ottawa. Alfred Geddes, Chairman 

 Committee. 



Oct. 6 to 11.— Ninth Annual Dog Show of the Danbnry Agricul- 

 tural Society, at Danbnry, Conn. B. C. Dynes, Secretary. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



Nov, 17.— Twelfth Annual Field Trials of the Eastern Field 

 Trials Club, at Otterburu Springs, Va. W. A. Coster, Saratogo 

 Springs, N. Y., Secretary. 



Dec. 1.— Second Annual Field Trials of the Central Field Trials 

 Club, at Lexington, N. C. C. II. Odell, Mills Building, New York, 

 Secretary. 



1891. 



Jan. 19.— Eighth Annual Field Trials of the Pacific Kennel Club, 

 at Bakersfield, Cal. H, H. Bri^s, Secretary. 



Feb. 2.— Third Annual Field Trials of the Southern Field Trials 

 Club. T. M. Brunby, Secretary, Marietta, Ga. 



BOSTON DOG SHOW. 



THE seventh annual show of the New England Kennel 

 Club was held at Mechanis' Hall, Boston, on the first 

 four days of the month, and four more charming days could 

 hardly be made to order. The weather was more like typi- 

 cal May than the opening of changeable April. But even 

 that inducement Cor visiting and the attraction of the best 

 collection of dogs ever brought together by the club failed 

 to attract visitors to Mechanics' Hall as should have been 

 the case. The attendance was not what it should have been 

 on the first two days, but on Thursday, Fast Day, there was 

 a crowded hall in the afternoon and evening, and the man- 

 agers informed us that on Thursday noon the gate receipts 

 were, sufficient to meet the expenses. The balance, there- 

 fore , must have been a handsome one. 



The club this year decided to do its own benching and re- 

 verted to the old wooden partitions. The benches were con- 

 veniently arranged with good wide aisles and plenty of room 

 for the dogs as well. Messrs. Austin & Graves attended to 

 the feeding and John Reed was superintendent. One par- 

 ticular word of commend am on is due the officials and that 

 is for the scrupulous cleanliness of the show and the manner 

 in which the dogs were looked after. The attendants were 

 attentive and unobtrusive, and Supt. Reed had no trouble 

 to satisfy exhibitors on that score. The show was disin- 

 fected by Ozouos, and the work was most effectually done. 

 While the test was not a severe one, owing to the clear and 

 dry state of the atmosphere and the good ventilation of the 

 hall, the results obtained were most satisfactory, as this 

 disinfectant appeared to do its work very thoroughly and, 

 unlike all others with which we are familiar at dog shows, 

 there was no bad smell of its own. 



Though not as large an entry as Boston has obtained dur- 

 ing its career as a dog show town, yet it is not always num- 

 bers that tell as to merit, Boston was away at the tail 

 end this year, the dogs had all been sifted very thoroughly, 

 and winners could be predicted beforehand with almost 

 absolute certainty povided the expected dogs were entered. 

 This of course acted to reduce the number, but at the same 

 time it only left out the hopeless cases and the quality re- 

 mained. To a great degree it was New York over again 

 without the unnoticed dogs. Take for instance mastiffs. 

 The winners were Sears' Monarch, Beaufort, Ilford Chan- 

 cellor, Melrose Caution, Orion, Cambrian Princess, Count- 

 ess of Dunsmore, Lady Phillis and Lady Beatrice. What a 

 splendid collection. And so it was all along the rows of 

 clean pine benching. Previous winners galore, and only a 

 few new aspirants to fame here and there. The judging 

 was generally good. Differences of opinion there were, of 

 course, and also will be, but with a few exceptions no fault 

 could be found. 



Having said so many deservedly good things of Boston 

 dogs we are going to make our kick; it is a mild one. The 

 dogs were not benched by catalogue, but by ownership, and 

 as we have repeatedly said that ought not to be allowed. It 

 is convenient only to a few exhibitors, while it is puzzling 

 to everybody else. We find, for instance, on our return 

 from Boston that here and there in our catalogue is a 

 hiatus, no comments respecting a dog we should have seen. 

 Simply because when we had got down to the last dog's 

 number we proceeded to some other class, supposing that 

 the previous one was completed. 



On Wednesday, by invitation of the club, the blind child- 

 ren from the Perkins Institute visited the show, and it was 

 a most interesting sight to watch them as by the sense of 

 touch they examined the dogs of the different breeds that 

 were brought before them. Helen Keller, the little blind 

 mute of whom a short sketch was published in our issue of 

 Dec. 19, was the center of attraction. She examined and 

 fondled the different animals with evident delight; finally 

 selecting a beagle puppy she spelled on her nimble fingers 

 that this was the best dog in the show, and she held it and 

 petted it for a long time. One little fellow was inadvert- 

 ently introduced to one of the dogs for the second time, 

 and as soon as his sensitive fingers were placed on him he 

 exclaimed, "I have already seen this dog." 



Following is a list of the judges: Mr. Jas. Mortimer, mas- 

 tiffs, St. Bernards, bloodhounds and poodles: Mr. John 

 Davidson, English, Irish and Gordon setters, deerhound.s, 

 greyhounds beagles and foxhounds: Mr. J. H. Winslow, 

 pointers; Mr. Wm. West, spaniels, except toys; Mr. Martin 

 Dennis, collies; Mr, J. E. Thayer, bulldogs; Mr. Geo. B. 

 Inches, Chesapeake Bay dogs; Mr. N. Seabury, round- 

 headed terriers and schipperkes: Mr. R. F. Mayhew, fox- 

 terriers: Mr. H. W. Lacy, theremaining classes. All of the 

 judging was finished before dark on the first day. 



MASTIFF8— (MR. MORTIMER). 



The show of mastiffs was not as good as we expected 

 to see in point of numbers, but the quality was ex- 

 cellent. All of the winners are well known and have 

 been often described. Sears' Monarch was alone in 

 the challenge dog class and there was no entry in the 

 bitch class. Beaufort was an easy winner in the open dog 

 class. There has been considerable talk about this dog, 

 and he has been represented to be blind, a cripple and to 

 have other serious faults, almost without number. How 

 any one with a little bit of knowledge of dogs can pro- 



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uounce him other than one of the grandest specimens of 

 the breed we cannot understand. He is not perfect, being 

 a little light of bone, but his faults are few, and the more 

 one studies him the less inclined is he to criticise. When 

 we have more such dogs and the critics have on opportunity 

 to become better acquainted with really good ones, we shall 

 probably hear less of imaginary faults and more of mastiffs. 

 Ilford Chancellor, second; Melrose Caution, third; Orion, 

 fourth, and Ilford Caution, vhc, were all that remained in 

 the ciass that are worthy especial mention. The winners in 

 the bitch class are all well known. Only one puppy was 

 shown, not a good specimen, and the prizes were properly 

 withheld. The novice class was not a good one. First was 

 withheld and second given to Greenwood Juno, that was 

 vhc. in the bitch class. Gyp, placed third, is of fair size, 

 but off in head and legs and not right in back. 



ST. BERNARDS— (MR. MORTIMER). 



There were 65 entries in the St. Bernard classes, 8 of which 

 were duplicates, aud there were 7 absentees, leaving 50 to 

 face the judge. In the challenge dog class for rough-coats, 

 Ben Lomond, looking iwell, won, with Plinlimmon, Jr., 

 second. Tn the bitch class Lady Wellington repeated her 

 recent victories over Miranda. In the open dog class Hesper 

 was placed at the head of affairs with Scotch Bonivard 

 second, Roland third, Pilgrim fourth, and Home Ruler, a 

 new face, vhc. Scotch Bonivard is a very catchy-looking 

 dog, but is not good enough to wiu over Roland or Home 

 Ruler. The latter is a very symmetrical, well-made dog, 

 rather under size, lacking so'mewhat in black face markings 

 and not right in one hiudleg; he is very good at other 

 points, and should have been placed third, with Roland 

 second and Scotch Bonivard fourth. The last two have 

 been often described. Tn the bitch class first wont to 

 Manou, the New York winner. Zara, placed second, was 

 looking well. Recluse, the winner of third, we failed to 

 find in her stall when we called upon her. Berlin, placed 

 fourth, is not a show bitch. She has a fairish head and 

 shows some character, but she is too low on her legs, and is 

 sway-backed, but as there was nothing behind her nearly as 

 good as she. no great harm was done. The puppies were not 

 a good lot. Nero Bernard, the winner in the dog class, is 

 but little better than Wieland, placed second, that was 

 he. at New York, Lady Eleanor, the winning bitch, is well 

 marked, and she may grow into a fair specimen. 



The challenge class for smooth dogs contained a very nice 

 trio in Hector, Beauchamp and Victor Joseph, placed in the 

 order written. All were looking well. Thisbe was alone in 

 the bitch class. The open dog class introduced to us the 

 magnificent Watch. His head is something wonderful. We 

 expected from the pictures we had seen of him to find his 

 head something of the bulldog type, but on the contrary it 

 is more of a houndy character, immence in size, with the 

 true St. Bernard expression, a study for the artist aud a rev- 

 elation to all with an eye to the beauties of this magnificent 

 breed. He was shown quite thin, as was to be expected after 

 his recent ocean voyage and the knocking about across coun- 

 try he has had since his arrival, and we are not sure but his 

 condition, displaying as it did his immense frame, was a 

 more satisfactory exhibition to the breeder and fancier than 

 it would have been had he been shown oOlbs, heavier. His 

 immense size and beautiful proportions command the ad- 

 miration of every one, and all fanciers of the breed who have 

 seen him are enthusiastic in praise of his many excellent 

 qualities. His ears are a trifle heavy, and although he 

 moves better than nine-tenths of the breed, his gait behind 

 could be improved. He is not yet quite %% years old and is 

 not fully developed. With his magnificent frame and four 

 good legs to carry it he should show up next year at not, 

 less than 2501bs.. If nothing happens him there is a bril- 

 liant future before him, and we neartily congratulate the 

 breeders of this variety upon the aquisition of so valuable 

 and useful a specimen as he promises to become. His owner 

 will no doubt receive, the hearty support his plucky venture 

 deserves. The other winners in the class are well known 

 and no special comment is necessary. In bitches Cleopatra, 

 the New York winner, shown a trifle thin, was placed at the 

 head of affairs, Avith Regina. winner of third at New York, 

 next, and Lady Bernard third. Empress of Contoocook, 

 placed fourth, looks well enough to be higher on the list, 

 but her ring-tail is much against her. She was first in bitch 

 puppies and first in the novice class. The puppies were not 

 an extra lot. Champ, the winning dog, just a fair specimen, 

 was the best of the lot. 



BLOODHOUNDS — (MK. MORTIMER). 



Only three bloodhounds were shown. Burgho, Jr., the 

 only dog shown, is a puppy less than nine months old. He 

 is of immense size, with lots of bone, and has fair head and 

 ears. He is almost destitute of wrinkle, but will probably 

 improve somewhat in this respect with age. Duchess of 

 Ripple, winner in the bitch class, was uncomfortably 

 pressed by Pembroke Star. She is not so good in wrinkle 

 as Duchess, but is better in ear and much better in legs and 

 feet. Mr. Brough, the part owner of Duchess, has sent for 

 her to go back to England, as she is more valuable there as 

 a brood bitch than she will be here. She is the dam of 

 Bono, the sensational puppy that won all before him at 

 Birmingham last year, as well as other good ones. 



GREAT DANES— (MR. LACY). 

 The Great Dane classes were well up to the standard of 

 this year in both number and quality. The open dog class 

 of~ thirteen led off with Mr. Leihbacher's Pascha, the New 

 York winner, a dog of good proportions and strong on his 

 legs. His head is a little heavy for the present fancy. Sec- 

 ond went to Great Ca?sar, a dog we spoke well of at New 

 York. His stilty hindlegs will always keep Mm back in 

 good company^ Hector fails in size and quality compared 

 with the two in front of him. Cards were pretty liberally 

 distributed and well deserved. In the bitch class those two 

 good ones, Irene and Bella, met again, and Irene was once 

 more placed in front. They were first and third respectively 

 at New Y"ork. 



NEWFOUNDLANDS— (MR. LACY). 



There was but one Newfoundland shown, Bruno, and the 

 judge was a little hard on him, for although his coat is not 

 quite right, yet as Newfoundlands go here he might have 

 been given second in place of third. 



DEERHOUNDS— (MR. DAVIDSON). 



Mr. Thayer sent fourteen deerhounds from Hillside and 

 they made a grand showing. Chieftain, looking wonder- 

 fully well for a dog in his ninth year^was first in challenge 

 dogs, with Robber Chieftain second. We are glad to see Mr. 

 Davidson recognize the superiority of this dog over Clans- 

 man. A year ago he thought otherwise. Ramona over 

 Wanda in bitches is right. Both are grand ones. There was 

 nothing new until the puppy class was reached. We did 

 not see these dogs judged, but can hardly imagine that they 

 were put through their paces, otherwise such a stickler for 

 practical purposes as Mr. Davidson would have recognized 

 that Alfred the Great cannotjgallop, owing to being straight 

 and weak behind. He is an immense puppy and grand in 

 front. Were he as good all over he could probably beat 

 anything shown. Hillside Harold is younger and smaller, 

 but truly made all over and should have got the ribbon. 



GREYHOUNDS— (MR. DAVIDSON). 

 Balkis was the only one in the challenge class. In open 

 dogs Master Rich beat Conspirator. We doubt if ho will 

 ever do it again, for the black dog has come on wonder- 

 fully fast. It was a pity to show him until he was in shape, 

 for it is not so easy to turn the tables after a succession of 

 defeats. A new dog should always be shown right to b?gin 

 With, Miss Rare was not in her usual condition, one or two 



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raws marring her appearance. Still she won fairly from 

 Drytime, a well made bitch, light fawn in color and a little 

 weak in jaw. The puppies were anything but promising. 

 CHESAPEAKE BAY DOGS— (MR. INCHES). 



The only entry in this class was Rex, said to be a dog of 

 good size, excellent coat and quite a good specimen of the 

 breed, but unfortunately he was left at home and so failed 

 to secure the prize. 



POINTERS— (MR. WINSLOW), 



The quality of the pointer classes was the best that we 

 have seen this year. The judge evidently was not loaded for 

 pointers and some of his shots were wide of the mark. This 

 was the more notable as he generally handles his classes 

 very well. In the challenge class for large dogs Graphic 

 won, with Lad of Bow second. Graphic is growing old and 

 he must soon give place to a younger dog; indeed, some 

 thought Lad should have beaten him on this occasion, but 

 the latter is not quite good enough and the decision was 

 correct. Robert le Diablo, the only other entry in the class, 

 was absent. Revel III. was alone in the bitch class, Lass of 

 Bow not putting in an appearance. Duke of Vernon, look- 

 ing well, was given the pride of place in the open dog class, 

 a position he well deserves, as he was many points ahead of 

 anything in the class. Placing Graphite second was a mis- 

 take, although he was in the best of condition, his very bad 

 head and ears, to say nothing of his other faults, should 

 have kept him back in this company. Dare-go, placed 

 third, is a better dog than Graphite, and he was in his proper 

 place. Ponset, vhc, was the second choice of the lot. He 

 is the best looking Bang Bang that we remember to have 

 seen, He is a large upstanding dog, with a fairly good 

 head, capital chest, loin and quarters, and a nice set 

 of legs and feet. His worst faults are a short, thick 

 neck and heavy shoulders; he and Graphite should 

 have exchanged places. Beaufort H., looking well, was 

 placed fourth. The others in the class all received cards. 

 A number of them were quite fair animals and none of 

 them were really bad. It was a lucky day for Luckystone. 

 winner in the bitch class. She has improved somewhat in 

 body with age, but her shoulders were still bad and she is 

 light in bone and has not improved in head and ears. Sally 

 Brass II., placed second, was the best in the class, and next 

 to her in point of merit was Belle Randolph, notwithstand- 

 ing her lack of condition. Luna T., vhc, should have been 

 third. She is a very nicely put together bitch, a bit strong 

 in head, full in eye and has open feet. She has excellent 

 shoulders, good chest, loin and quarters and good legs. 

 Boski, placed fourth, also a new face, was shown much too 

 fat. She is a nicely made bitch, good all round except that 

 she is off in muzzle and was throaty. Westminster Sal, 

 third, is well known. She should have 'had the reserve card. 

 In the challenge class for small dogs Duke of Hessen was 

 placed over Naso of Kippen. This was a mistake. Naso 

 was looking well, except that he has not shed his coat, and 

 in consequence looked somewhat rusty, but he was in better 

 form than Duke, who was not in good condition, and even 

 at h is best he is not good enough to beat Naso. In the bitch 

 class Meally, Glauca and Stella B. competed, Queen Fan 

 being absent. All are well known. Meally, the best of the 

 trio, was unnoticed. Glauca, the next in order of merit, was 

 placed second, and Stella, the worst of the ciass, was given 

 the pride of place. She was in the best condition, however, 

 a.ud this probably won her the place. In the open dog class 

 first went to Launcelot and second to Ossining, who should 

 have exchanged places with Naso Peshall, placed third 

 Sir Anthony came next with the well-known Spot Dash re- 

 serve and the equally well-known Don Quixote vhc. Pom- 

 rnery Sec and Tory Dick were absent. In the bitch class Fan 

 N., the winner at Chicago, was placed at the head of affairs, 

 with May B. second. Mam'zelle, placed fourth, we failed to 

 find in her stall. Naso's Bell, winner of fourth, is a very 

 pretty bitch, a bit short in body, slightly undershot, and 

 not quite straight in front. Miss Fredom, reserve, we liked 

 better for fourth place. Stella, vhc, was not in good con- 

 dition, having canker in one ear very badly. Buttercup, 

 also vhc, is a nice little bitch, much too cobby built, but 

 with good chest, loin, quarters, legs and feet. Lassie Jean 

 Beaufort, he, deserved at least another letter. She is a 

 well-made bitch with considerable quality; she is too fine in 

 muzzle and a trifle light in bone. The puppies were a much 

 better average lot than we generally see. The three dogs 

 shown by the Westminster Kennel Club are very promising, 

 the winner, Westminster Glitter, especially so, although he 

 is too young to show, as he is but six mouths old. We also 

 liked the winning bitch. If she goes all right she will do to 

 show next year. The winner in the novice class, Nadjy of 

 Naso, is just a fair bitch, a trifle snipy and too shallow in 

 chest; she was not in first-class condition. Luna T., vhc. 

 in the open class, was the best in the class. She beat Lassie 

 Jean Beaufort in the open class, but in this class Lassie was 

 placed third while Luna was unnoticed. 



ENGLISH SETTERS— (MR. DAVIDSON). 



The English setters were not so numerous as last year, 

 neither was the average quality quite so good. Mr. David- 

 son handled the classes very well indeed and we heard no 

 fault found with his decisions. Count Howard was alone 

 m the challenge dog class and Daisy Foreman also had a 

 walkover in th e bitch class. In the open dog class, first and 

 third went to the Cohannet Kennels' Kent II. and Royal 

 Kent, that were respectively vhc. and reserve here last year. 

 We then said of these two dogs, ''Reserve went to Royal 

 Kent that was commended here last year. It will be re- 

 membered that we had a good word to say for him then and 

 thought him badly treated. He has just returned from a 

 winter's hunt in the South and was not in show condition. 

 His good head, chest, legs and feet won him the place in 

 spite of his ragged coat and lack of flesh. His kennel com- 

 panion, Kent II., in even worse condition, was given vhc. 

 This dbg is not yet two years old, and if he comes out next 

 year in good form he will undoubtedly be higher up. " Second 

 went to Gus Bondhu who was looking very well indeed 

 for his years. Don Quixote, placed fourth, was second in 

 the novice class at New York this year. Reserve went to 

 Foreman's Nepaul. He was in excellent condition. Bow 

 Bondhu, also looking well, was vhc, the same position he 

 occupied here last year. Burr, he, looks a workman, but is 

 off in head and coat, and is a bit light in quarters. Ghylle, 

 commended, is not a show dog. All of the bitches are well 

 known, except the winner of third, Blink Bounie, wrongly 

 printed in the catalogue Blunt Barnie. She is a well- formed 

 bitch, with good body, legs and feet. She is a trifle coarse, 

 her expression is a bit sour, and her coat is inclined to curl 

 about her ears and on her quarters. The winning dog and 

 bitch puppies are a very nice pair. The dog, Domingo, is a 

 very symmetrical, well-built animal, with a good head and 

 a better muzzle than we often see. His litter sister, Domin- 

 ion, while not quite his equal in head, is fully up to him in 

 shoulders and quarters and better than him in front legs. 

 The winners in the novice class were all entered in the open 

 classes. 



IRISH SETTERS— (MR. DAVIDSON). 

 The Irish setters were a good even lot, and the open 

 classes were better than we have seen this year. Mr. David- 

 son does not like a large dog, and when he has small ones 

 enough to go round it is hard for a large one to get into the 

 money, unless he is considerably better than his smaller 

 competitors. The challenge dog class brought out Elcho, 

 Jr., and Blarney, and they were placed in the order named. 

 Dr. Jarvis informed us that Elcho, Jr. will make his last 

 appearance for competition at Buffalo next week. Laura 

 B. was alone in the bitch class. In the open dog class the 

 judge selected for the money four that were very similar in 

 appearance, N one of them are world-beaters, but all, i?o 



