May 29, 1800.1 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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given credit for the gradual improvement which has been 

 obs^ved, when the other streams in the region which have 

 been restocked have given still better results. In one case 

 the streams have been overstocked; in the other, the increase 

 has been natural. 



There is another matter not generally understood, except 

 by those who make the subject a life study, and that is the 

 constant fluctuations in the yield of fish iu all waters, irom 

 sea to the most iusiguilicant pond, from the largest river to 

 the smallest, trout, sti earn. Wtiters with no practical knowl- 

 edge or experience upon the subject Hre continually divining 

 the most absurd reasons for this fluctuation, I could, if 

 necessity, give pages of this visionary and misleading mat- 

 ter by si mply selecting from communications in past volumes 

 of Forest and Stream. I have for >ears maintained and 

 in some cases marie plaus whereby trout streams could he 

 made to give improved yields, but not by artificial restock- 

 ing, which has been thoroughly tested 'in this country for 

 the past thirty-five years and found wanting. 



MlLTOX P. PEIRCE. 



ConujiBus, Ohio. 



J|7b» Rennet. 



FIXTU RES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



June 3 to 6.— The Cincinnati Kennel Club's Fourth Annual 

 Show at Cincinnati. O. Geo. H. Hill, Superintendent.. 



Sept. 2 to 5.— Tin rd Annual Dot* Slow of the Michigan Kennel 

 Club, at Detroit,, Mich. M. V. B, launders, Secretary. 



!?>pi. 15 to I s .— Interna ionai D"g Show of tJi* Dominion of 

 Canada K'nnel Club, in connection with the Industrial Exhi- 

 bition a*- Toronto. Cantda. H. J. ttill, Secrecrv 



u ert. 23 to 26.— Second Annual Dog rShow of tin- Central Canada 

 E^oibitiru Association, at Ottawa. Alfred Geddes, Chairman 

 Com nn i tee. 



Oct. 6 to 11.— Ninth Vnnual Dog Show of t,h» Danhury Agricul- 

 tural Society, at Danhury Conn. B. C. Lynes, Secretary. 

 FIELD TBIALh. 



Novemhpr.— Second Annual Field Trials of the Brunswick Fur 

 Club, at Brunswick, Me. J. H. Baird, Secretary, Auburndale. 

 Mass. 



Nov. M— Twelfth Annual Field Trials of the Eastern Field 

 Trials CJuo, at Octerburn Springs, Va. W. A. Coster, tfaratogo 

 Springs, N. Y., secretary. 



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

 Club, at Lexingion, N. C. C. H. Odell, Mills Building, New York. 

 Secretary- 



1801. 



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

 at Bakersfield, Cat. H. H. Briggs, Secretary. 



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

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



AMERICAN KENNEL CLUB. 



SPECIAL meeting of the American Kennel Club, held 

 May 22, 189U. President A. Belmont, Jr., in the chair. 

 Present : Associate Members, J. L. Anthony ; A. P. Vre- 

 denburgh ; American Beagle Club, II. F. Scbellhass; 

 American Pet Dog Club, Dr. M. H. Cryer ; American 

 Spaniel Club, J. Watson ; Massachusetts Kennel Cluh, R. 

 Leslie; Mascoutah Kennel Club, J. Mortimer; Pointer Club 

 of America, G. W. LaRue; Virginia Field Sports Ass'n, 

 J. S. Wise; Westminster Kennel Club, T. H. Terry; St. 

 Bernard Club of America, J. Lohman; Collie Club of 

 America, H. B. Cromwell. 



Mr Peshall: I desire to move that no quorum appearing, 

 this Club do now adjourn. 



The President: 1 rule the motion out of order as Mr. 

 Peshall has not been admitted as a delegate, and is not now 

 a delegate of the Club. 



Mr. Peshall: lam here representing the Maryland Ken- 

 nel Club. This is a meeting of the Club. I rise as repre- 

 senting the Maryland Kennel Club, and I move you now 

 that the meeting be adjourned. 

 The President: I refuse to entertain the motion. 

 Mr. Watson: I move that the Club adjourn in order to 

 call a meeting of the Executive Committee to take action 

 upon the credentials presented to the American Kennel 

 Club. 



Mr. Peshall: Mr. President — 



The President: I cannot recognize you as a delegate. 

 Mr. Watson's motion seconded and carried. 



MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



President Belmont, Jr., in the chair. Same clubs repre- 

 sented as recorded at special meeting. 



The President : The Chair rules that the delegates of the 

 associate membership do not come under Section II. of the 

 Constitution, Article IV., and recognizes Mr. Anthony as a 

 delegate. 



The minutes of the last meeting of the executive com- 

 mittee read and approved. 



The secretary's quarterly report was read as follows : 

 MAT 21, 1890. Gentlemen : I have to submit applications 

 for admission to the American Kennel Club from the fol- 

 lowing clubs and associations : Youngstown Kennel Club, 

 of Youngstowu, Ohio ; the Louisiana Poultry and Pet 

 Stock Association of New Orleans, Lh.; Northern Illinois 

 Poultry and Pet Stock Association, of Rockford, 111.; Wil- 

 miugton Agricultural and Industrial Association, of Wil- 

 mington, Del.; the Chesapeake Bay Dog Club, of Baltimore, 

 Md.; the Eastern Greyhound and Coursing Club, of New 

 York. The applications of these clubs were received in clue 

 form and time, as provided for in our Constitution, and 

 action at this meeting is desired. The application of the 

 Eastern Greyhound attd Coursing Club was withdrawn, 

 and an application from the National Greyhound Club has 

 been sunstituted. 



The application of the California Kennel Club, which has 

 been in abeyance, since August 15, 1SS9, has been renewed, 

 and action at this meeting is urged. The facts in this mat- 

 ter can be briefly stated as follows: At the Septeml er 

 meeting of this club, the application was laid over until 

 the next meeting, with instructions that your secretary 

 should put himself in correspondence with the Pacific Ken- 

 nel Club, one of the members of the American Kennel Club, 

 requesting it to advise this club, its opinion as to the expedi- 

 ency of two clubs from the same city being admitted to 

 membership. The reply from the Pacific Kennel Club was 

 that negotiations were pt-nding towards a consolidation of 

 the two cluos, and asked that action might be delayed, until 

 the matter should tie finally settled. In this the California 

 Kennel Club acquiesced. February 27, 1890, notice was given 

 your secretary that the Pacific Kennel Cluo would consoli- 

 date only upon the following terms: 



First— The name Pacific Kennel Club should be retained. 



Second— That the moneys now iu the California Kennel 

 Clun (about §100; should be placed to the c redit, of the Pacific 

 Kennel Club, and used tor tne purpose of pacing off a por- 

 tion of their debt. 



Third— That the members of the California Kennel Club, 

 upon entering the Pacific Kennel Club, should assume their 

 pro rata of the de t of the Pacific Kennel Club. These 

 terms were rej-cted, and the application for admission was 

 renewed. Your secretary advised the California Kennel 

 Club that he would notify the Pacific Kennel Club of the 

 renewal of the application, and thus afford it an opportu- 

 nity to lodge an obj-ction. This he did, and received a re- 

 ply protesting the admission of another club from San Fran- 

 cisco. A copy of this protest was duly mailed to the appli- 

 cant, and a reply to the protest signed individually by the 



five officers and twelve members of the Executive Com- 

 mittee of the California Kennel Club has been received, in 

 which they state that they have fifty members in good 

 standing; they desire to hold annual bench shows, and 

 earnestly ask for admission. All the correspondence iu 

 this matter is here on file, and will be read if desired. The 

 Southern California Kennel Cluh of Los Angeles, Cal., has 

 he'd its second bench show, and promptly complied with 

 all the requirements of the American Kennel Club, by send- 

 ing marked catalogue and registrations, with fef>s to cover 

 same, within ten days of the close (if the show. Under date 

 of March 12. 1890. the president of this club informed your 

 secretary, for the first time, that the letter and rules sent 

 at the time of its first show, did not arrive until two days 

 after the show had been open, otherwise there would have 

 been no misunderstanding, and the show would have been 

 strictly under American Kennel Club rules. Under these 

 circumstances, and also iu view ot the prompt business-like 

 way that they have conducted the second show, your sec- 

 retary would respectfully recommend that the wins of the 

 show of 1889 be recognized by this club. 



TheAmericau English Beagle Club notifies this elnb of 

 its change of name to the American Beagle Club; the Cin- 

 cinnati Sportsman's Club of its change of name to the Cin- 

 cinnati Kennel Club, with req tests to make such changes 

 upon our records As such changes are made by resolution, 

 such action is solicited at this meeting. 



A communication was rec ived dated March 11, 1890, from 

 Mr. Robert Leslie, calling attention to a violation of Rule 

 31, by the New England Kennel Club, in netrlecting to pub- 

 lish m its premium list, the list of recognized shows, and 

 asking immediate action by the American Kennel Club to 

 have such a serious error rectified. A copy of this letter 

 was forwarded to the Bench Show Committee of the New 

 England Kennel Club, asking an explanation, which was 

 complied with bv Mr. E. H. Moore, he assuming all blame 

 in the matter, and satisfactorily explaining the omission, 

 hy stating that upon receipt of the electrotype plates ot the 

 rules from this office, they were taken to the printers, he 

 supposing that said list of recognized shows were included 

 in the plates, and he did not discover the error until after 

 the premium lists had been priuted and mailed, when his 

 attention was called to it by the president of his club. As 

 the plan of the American Kennel Club supplying the rules 

 in plates whs something entirely new, the oversight on the 

 part of the New England Keunel Club was natural. The 

 catalogue was published correctly iu this respect. 



Your attention is called to au entry in the catalogue of the 

 Maseoutah Kennel Club, of Mr. C Hudson's Kenmore (Irish 

 setter). Your secretary asked said club to explain why it 

 had accepted the entry of a disqualified man, and received 

 a reply tbat their entries closed F*>b. IT, and that alter the 

 catalogue had been printed Mr. Hudson wired the superin- 

 tendent of his disqualification and asked tor the return of 

 his entries and fees. This was done, and the dogs consequently 

 did not compete, but it was too late to change the catalogue. 

 The entry inthe judge's book was marked disqualified. The 

 matter being thus satisfactorily explained, there was' no 

 blame whatever attached to the Mascoutah Kennel Club, and 

 this reference to the matter was simply to explain what may 

 have been considered by some as a direct violation of the 

 rules. By the action of the advisory committee at its meet- 

 ing April 7, the case of Graham vs. Daniels«was settled, and 

 your secretary was directed to forward to Mr. Graham 

 the amount of his claim, $50.10, held by this club since Jan. 

 18, '90. A bill of exchange was mailed to Graham April 8, 

 and Mr. Daniels was notified, to which he replied that he 

 desired to be put on record as "considering the action of 

 your committee an injustice, and a shield to dishonest, and 

 sharp dog dealers." 



The Albany Kennel Clnb had not paid Mr. A. V. Smith 

 the prize awarded his black and tan terrier Buffalo General 

 up to the 20th inst. Said club has been notified of this ar- 

 rearage, to which no reply has yet come to hand. No other 

 claim has been filed against the club. 



Mr. W. T. Levering of Baltimore, Md., filed a claim for 

 the use of the prefix "Dundee" for his Chesapeake Bay dogs; 

 the same was published in the April Gazette, and a protest 

 had been filed by Mr. H. T. Drake of St. Paul, Minn., 

 against allowing said prefix. This correspondence will be. 

 read, and your action at this meeting is requested. At the 

 Westminster Kennel Club show, a special prize of fifty 

 dollars was offered for the best setter with a field trial record, 

 which was awarded to Mr. L. Gardner's English setter dog 

 Roger. The award was protested by Mr. Max WenzeC 

 he claiming that bis Irish setter dog Tim was eligible to 

 compete. This protest was allowed, and the prize was 

 awarded to Tim. Mr. Gardner appealed from this decis- 

 ion to this club, under date of February 18, 1890, and de- 

 posited ten dollars, as required by the rules'. The case is 

 now before you to decide. It is suggested that this club 

 should adopt a list of "recognized field trials," a win at any 

 one of which shall be considered and accepted as a field trial 

 record. The Buffalo Kennel Club has served this club with 

 a notice of the suspension by it, of Mj*. Edwin H. Morris, 

 under Rule XXV,, for the following reasons: Said Morris 

 entered four dogs at said Buffalo Kennel Club show, send- 

 ing his check tor twelve dollars to cover entry fees: said 

 check was protested, and returned with §1.41 charges. 

 The amount has never been made good by Morris. 

 The suspension has been confirmed, pending your action, by 

 President Belmont, -Jr., and notice to tbat effect has been, 

 sen t to Morris's address. A, P. Vredenbtjrgh, Secretary. 



Adopted. 



Mr. Wise : I move we go into this matter of credentials 

 of delegates. 



Motion seconded and carried. The secretary stated that 

 credentials were presented by Mr. Lohman, of the St. Ber- 

 nard Kennel Club ; by Mr. Watson, of the Southern Califor- 

 nia Kennel Club, and Mr. Peshall, of the Maryland Kennel 

 Club. The credentials presented by Mr. Watson to repre- 

 sent the Southern California Kennel Club were then read, 

 and Mr. Wise moved that Mr. Watson be accepted as repre- 

 sentative of the Southern California Kennel Club, provided 

 his credentials were amended so as to conform with the 

 rules. 



Mr. Watson : For the present I will withdraw the creden- 

 tials of the Southern California Kennel Club and represent 

 the Spaniel Club. 



.On motion, Mr. Lohman's credentials being regular, were 

 accepted. The credentials of C. J. Peshall to represent the 

 Maryland Kennel Club were read. 



Mr. Leslie ; I move those credentials be accepted. 



Mr. Anthony: I rise to a point of order tbat, the club 

 having appoiuted Mr. Malcolm lor the jear 1890, had no 

 right, in the absence of the resignation of Mr. Malcolm, to 

 send another delegate. 



Mr. Leslie : Mr. Peshall responded to the roll-call for the 

 Maryland Kennel Club and he was r. cognized. 



The President: He was not recognized. He choose to oc- 

 cupy the floor in spite of my refusal to recognize him. 



Mr. Wise : This is a ques'iou of power with me. On April 

 5, 1890, this Maryland Kennel Club met, and it elect, da del- 

 egate and duly authorized him for twelve months to repre- 

 sent it as a delegate, and his name is H. Malcolm, and ne 

 stands here as the duiy authorized representative of that 

 club for twelve months. Of course if there is a resignation 

 there is a vacancy, but it is the principle of law that a dele- 

 gate has no power to delegate his autnority. 



The President : I desire to state fur the information of the 

 meeting that that was the ground on which I ruled. When 

 I first saw the certificate, ii such it can be called— I had not 

 heard of it before— I saw Mr. Peshall had no authority to 

 represent any club here, I did not have an opportunity of 



stating so when I ruled because Mr, Peshall did not wish to 

 take ray ruling, and to silence his interruption, I was 

 obliged to go on with another motion in order thattbe meet- 

 ing might, proceed. I think it is very indelicate that Mr 

 Pershall should remain in the room during this discussion 

 so long as the Cbair hasrnled that he is riot a member or 

 delegate. It is clear that the certificate he presents is not a 

 valid one in any sense. It states cJparly that it is but a 

 substitution, and the constitution does not recognize the 

 possibility of a substitution. If nothing had been said 

 about Mr. Malcolm in the certificate, I certainly should 

 have been obliged to recognize Mr. Peshall, no matter 

 whether the regular delegate previously appointed had re- 

 signed or not. In this case be is not sent here as a delegate 

 but as a substitute. It is so distinctly stated in the so- 

 called certificate. 



Mr. Watson : I very much regret that this discussion has 

 come up m this shape, 1 think we all know what this 

 means. Tbi* is personal auiinnsity to Mr Peshall. 



Mr. Anthony: In order to eut short all discussiou I with- 

 draw my point of order, and I now move that as Mr. Pesh- 

 -dl is not a persona gratia to the members of this club for 

 reasons you all know, he be not accepted as a delegate to the 

 American Kennel Club. 



Mr. Watson: I object with regard to mvself to any such 

 motion being put to the meeting. 



M"tion seconded. 



The President (resigning the chair to Mr. Terry) : Con- 

 cerning Mr. Watson's statement that this action 'is the re- 

 sult of personal animosity, I think perhaps I am the one to 

 reply to that, as my feelings on the^mbject would probably 

 be interpreted as personal. They are not at all. I readily 

 believe tbat the party is uot worthy of my personal feeling 

 on the subject. Mr. Peshall has written all sorts of letters 

 and articles in the papers against the American Kennel 

 Club What his motives were is for you to decide. It was 

 in the main an attack upon the financial conduct of the 

 Club, and after an investigation of the books was made and 

 after the financial condition of the Club, as reported by 

 your officers, was indorsed by a Committee appointed to in 

 vc stigate and report he did not accept that, and accused the 

 Club of so manipulating its accounts as to make it appear 

 that it was in a better financial condition than it really was, 

 and accused me of having come to the assistance of the Club 

 with money, which the accounts show I did not, although I 

 offered to do so in the event, of its becoming necessary. The 

 statement, made by the American Kennel Club through its 

 officers, that such assistance had not been given, was not be- 

 lieved, and every effort was made on the part 

 ot* Mr. Peshall to have the public, and the dog- 

 men m particular, believe the financial statement of 

 the American Kennel Club was a false one, and that 

 the accounts were open to the accusation of mismanage- 

 ment, I consider on this ground that no one taking that 

 position should be received here as a delegate, because it is 

 saying practically "I don't believe in your club." That is 

 one ground. There is another ground, and that is that it 

 was published in all the papers that a suit was going to be 

 brought against the American Kennel Club to take it into 

 Court in order to prove these false entries, as it was 

 claimed. That was published everywhere. Some of the 

 delegates being frightened, went so far as to write and ask 

 all sorts of details, &c, until it became such aniiisan.ee that 

 we consulted counsel on the subject, and were advised that 

 even delegates had no right to inspect the books, and I had 

 occasion to write a letter to the delegate of the Masssachu- 

 setts CI ub that the books could not remain open to inspec- 

 tion any longer, after the Committee had passed upon their 

 accuracy. We are willing to do anything and answer any 

 questions that anybody may reasonably ask, but this inces- 

 saut pecking became not only tiresome but insulting. For 

 instance, if I, as your president, should make a statement 

 here that I did not give any money to the club I should 

 expect to be believed, and if I am not to be believed I am 

 not fit to be your president. Those statements were made 

 That suit referred to was never brought, was never in- 

 tended to be brought, and never could be brought under any 

 process of law. The parties intending to engage in it would 

 have been shown up in a ridiculous light. On the two 

 grounds I have stated, I maintain that Mr. Peshall is not fit 

 to represent any club, nor fit to sit in this room after the 

 accusations he has made, excepting as a private individual. 

 The statement that there is personal animosity here is all 

 nonsense, but if we have any respect for ourselves as an 

 organization we should not receive anybody in it who 

 speaks and writes against it, in such a manner. 



Mr. Peshall : I ask to be heard. 



The Chairman ; I cannot recognize you. 



Mr. Leslie : I move the delegates grant to Mr. Peshall the 

 privilege of being heard. 



Mr. Lohman : I have never met the gentleman, nor do I 

 know anything about him, but I believe we have by-laws 

 and a constitution to govesfc us at these meetings, 'and I 

 don't think we should depart from them now. 



Mr. Anthony's motion, that Mr. Peshall be not recognized 

 or admitted as a delegate on the ground that he is not a 

 persona gratia (under Arfe XII, Sec. 3) to the majority of 

 the delegates was then put and carried by the following 

 vote: Ayes— Am. Pet Dog ©lub, Associate delegates (2 

 votes), Mascoutah Kennel Club, Pointer Club of America 

 Virginia Field Sports Ass'n, Westminster Kennel Club' 

 St. Bernard Club of America, Collie Club of America' 

 Nays— Am. Beagle Club, Am. Spaniel Club, Massachusetts' 

 Keunel Club. Ayes, 9 ; nays, 3. 



The treasurer's quarterly report was read as follows: 

 MAY 21, 1890. Gentlemen : I beg to submit the following 

 report: 



Receipts from all sources from Jan. 1 to date §5,358.32 



Expenses for same period 3,317.16 



Balance on hand $2,041.18 



The following clubs have not yet paid their annual dues 

 for the current year : Chattahoochee Valley Exposition 

 Comp-my, Connecticut State Kennel Club, Elmira Poultry 

 and Pet Stock Association, German Mastiff or Great Dane 

 Club, Hartford Kennel Club, Syracuse Kennel Club. 



By resolution at the last meeting these clubs were given 

 thirty days in which to pay this year's dues, under the pen- 

 alty of being dropped from the roll of membership. They 

 were duly notified of this resolution, and have failed to re- 

 spond. Exception is made in the case of the German Mas- 

 tiff or Great Dane Club, which, by an oversight, I neglected 

 to include in my report at the lastmeeting and consequent- 

 ly did not communicate with. (Signed) A. P. Vreden- 

 btjrgh, Treasurer. Adopted. 



The minutes of the last meeting of the Advisory Com- 

 mittee was re id, and motion made to accept them. Mr. 

 Watson moved that sections six and seven be stricken from 

 the minutes of the meeting of the Advisory Committtee 

 held April 7tb, 1890. Motion seconded and lost. The motion 

 to accept was then put and carried. 



Mr. Watson : I give notice that I will make a motion at 

 the next meeting which will give the Advisory Committee 

 the power of suspension which they have not at present. 



The following clubs, candidates for membership in the 

 American Kennel Club, were elected, their applications 

 being in proper form: Youngstown Kennet Club, uf Youogs- 

 twon, Ohio; The Louisiana Poultry and Pet Stock Associa- 

 tion, of New Orleans, La.; Northern Illinois Poultry and 

 Pet Stock Association, of Rockford, III ; Wilmington Agri- 

 cultural and Industrial Association, of Wilmington, Del ■ 

 the Chesapeake Bay Dog Club, of Baltimore, Md.: the 

 National Greyhound Club, of New York, and the California 

 Kennel Club, of San Francisco, Cal. 



