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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[July 10 1890, 



Mr. Peshall said that Mr. Vredenburgh left for Europe at 

 the time the A. K. C. books were balanced in June, 1888. 

 Tbat to make it pleasanter for him while abroad the com- 

 mittee had, out of the balance (about $700), given him $500. 

 That then Mr. Lewis took charge under what Mr. Peshall 

 calls the exhaustive contract, whereby he was to take what- 

 ever surplus there, was over paying expenses, the A. K. C. 

 to pay half the rent of the office. That on Mr. Vreden- 

 burgb's return the A. K. C. balance had dwindled down to 

 the Dec. 5 balance of $5 and some cents, and that there was 

 nothing in the treasury beyond that odd five dollar bill, and 

 there was none except members' dues which then began to 

 be paid in, and that they ran the balance up to about *220, 

 and that Mr. Belmont, or some one for him, put in $1,000 so 

 as to bring the cash ou hand up to what it would have been 

 had Mr. Lewis not taken all under his exhaustive contract. 

 All this was told me subsequent to my having looked at the 

 books last April, when I was given to understand that the 

 jump to Jan. 13 in the 1889 statement of accounts covered 

 the alleged introduction of the thousand dollars. 



I had said when Mr. Peshall save me the above story that 

 it was all possible to be done, but that a glance at the bank 

 book would settle the matter and that some day I would 

 get an opportunity to look into it. 



When 1 went to 44 Broadway with Dr. Perry 1 had that 

 object, in view as the pivotal poiut, but there was first of all 

 some talk over the accounts. I asked Mr. Vredenburgh if 

 he had not received S500 when the books were balanced in 

 June. He said no; that iu May he had received two checks, 

 one of $200 and the other of 1300, which made up the $500. 

 "That was when you went to Europe?" "Oh, dear, no," 

 was the answer. "I did not go away until September, but 

 during the intervening three months I was not running the 

 Stud Book. That Mr. Lewis was doing, and he was draw- 

 ing the same remuneration I had done, which was 868.75 a 

 month." 



"Mr. Peshall says he took all and paid all from the time 

 of the June balance until Dec. 5." 



"I know he says so, but Mr. Terry and Mr. Lewis will tell 

 you there was no such arrangement." 



Then we got to the alleged $1,000 deposit, and I stated 

 what my information was. Mr. Vredenburgh began explain- 

 ing and showing the various ledger accounts, including that 

 of Mr. Lewis's salary, when 1 said: "It is possible to arrange 

 these things, Mr. Vredenburg; you can settle it, however, 

 very conclusively by showingyour bank book." Looking at 

 me with a peculiar Do you mean it? sort of look, he got up 

 without a word, walked across the room and returned with 

 the book. While he was doing so I said to Dr. Perry: "I do 

 not say that Mr. Vredenburgh has faked his books in any 

 way, but it is impossible to do that with the bank book, 

 every figure of which is placed in it by other parties." 



As soon as Mr. Vredenburgh turned with the book in his 

 hand I knew Mr. Peshall's case was higher than Gilderoy's 

 kite. This is what I picked out of the bank book to tell the 

 story: 



The first deposit made by Mr. Vredenburgh after his re- 

 turn from Europe was on Dec. 11, and consisted of $284.50. 

 The previous deposit was made on Sept. 5, the day Mr. Vre- 

 denburgh left, and the day book showed ad interim receipts 

 of $670. So that it will be seen that Mr. Lewis did not have 

 an exhaustive contract, otherwise he would not have handed 

 to Mr. Vredenburgh for deposit $284.50. To go on with the 

 bank book— Between Dec. 11 and Jan. 11 (the date of the 

 A. K. C. statement for 1889 commencing) there were some 

 six or seven deposits, and the last was on Jan. 3, between 

 which and Jan. 21 no deposit was made. The total amount 

 of those deposits from Dee. 11. and including Jan. 3, was 

 $807 40, in sums ranging from $50 to $200 odd. 



Here then were all three of Mr. Peshall's main allegations, 

 completely and conclusively contradicted. 



First— Mr. Vredenburgh was not paid 8500 out of the 

 June balance, but before that balance was struck. 



Second— Mr. Lewis did not have an exhaustive contract, 

 but turned over to Mr. Vredenburgh $284 50 out of $670 re- 

 ceived by him during Mr, Vredenburgh's absence. 



Third— There was no deposit of either $500 or $1,000 or any 

 such sum to the credit nf the A. K. C. bank accorint at any 

 period from Sept. 5, 1888, to Jan. 11, 1890. 



I may say that as a further check upon the bank balance— 

 this time as shown on the stub of the check book, because 

 the bank book does not show daily balances, least a balance 

 on the day book at an odd date. 'This was done in round 

 figures, and I made it $1,050. Then I asked Mr. Vredenburgh 

 what his stub showed to have been in the bank on that date, 

 and it was within $10 of the amount. There was nothing 

 else for me to do but to express to Mr. Vredenburgh my 

 thorough conviction that there was not one glimmer of 

 truth in the suggestion that the books or the bank account 

 had been tampered with in any way whatever as had been 

 stated. j. w. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Again has the American Kennel Club manifested its un- 

 fortunate mania for degrading itself in the public's estima- 

 tion in the "trial" or attempt to "try" Mr. Peshall. I pur- 

 posely eschew all suppositions as to the motives leading the 

 actors in this serio-comic drama, motives are among the 

 things that "no fellow can find out," but did kennel history 

 in America ever present so degrading a piece of ruthless 

 arrogance and blind confidence that the public will he ever 

 tolerant? Here is a notice served on Mr. Peshall dated June 

 27, requiring him to appear before his judges and accusers 

 on July 2. He is accused of low dirty cheating, conspir- 

 ing in fact, and for his defense he must produce certain other 

 parties, how easily accessible I do not know. It is fair to 

 presume that in the ordinary course, Mr. Peshall got this 

 notice on Saturday June 28. Next day being Sunday, it 

 must be counted out, he must appear on Wednesday morn- 

 ing, so he is given Saturday, Monday and Tuesday to stir 

 round and get his witnesses in shape! ' There are many law- 

 yers among dog men, Messrs. Smith, Wise and others, and 

 I would ask them how such a hasty pudding as this would 

 be regarded in our courts? One of the gentlemen [ name is 

 a member of the court that tries Mr. Peshall, 1 would ask 

 him how he relishes donning the judicial ermine iu such 

 high-pressure proceedings? Then if there is one principle 

 of law (is it law, or equity, or what?) that the lavm <n most 

 heartily believes in it is that no judge or jury may sit in 

 iudgment in a case wherein thev are personally biassed. 

 I his is a fixed and recognized principle five hundred years 

 old; yet here is Mr. Peshall required to appear before a court, 

 a majority of whom have just voted that he is a persona 

 ingrata to them! There is an old axiom as to the wisdom 

 of seeing the devil and holding court below— would Mr 

 Peshall be any wiser in appearing this modem Vehmgericht? 

 Irom his previous history I cannot but believe that there is 

 one member of the court who voted aye in the persona in- 

 grata drama, who will not bow to this extraordinary and 

 scandalous proceeding. 



I write this at the very hour the court is to convene, and 

 do not consider what the verdict may, or may not be, and I 

 ask every honest American dog lover to think carefully and 

 sobeily over this astonishing affair, putting aside all prev- 

 ious opinions at all concerning the points at issue and 

 makeup his mind to such action as he deems wisest and 

 just. w Waup 



Hoi/eon, Pa., July 2. VV ' VVADE - 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Mr. Peshall's letter in last week's issue, of your paper 

 seems to be devoted somewhat to me. Now I never for a 

 moment expected to'be drawn into this controversv; I hate 

 these things, and would much rather be left out of them 



At a meeting of the American Kennel Club I was ap- 

 pointed one of a committee of three to audit the club's ac- 

 counts. I did as requested, and did so conscientiously, but 

 did not know that I was appointed for the purpose or gather- 

 ing facts and figures for my friend, Mr. Peshall. 



I was strongly of the impression, that with the dog public 

 in general, that my signature to a statement to the effect 

 that I had examined the accounts and found them correct 

 was sufficient But it seems that with Mr. Peshall this was 

 quite, the opposite. 



I am not a statistician, neither am I a walking vocabulary, 

 "full of wise saws and modern instances," benee of the sev- 

 eral score of pages that we examined of the A. K. C. ac- 

 counts, I could not for the life of me carry in my mind what 

 expenditures occurred between such and such a date, or to 

 small fractions what the receipts were between one week 

 and another, when Mr. Peshall asked me. I made never a 

 note, as the expectations of my being cross-examined in my 

 own office (or anywhere else) were foreign indeed to my 

 mind. I found the books as they should have been, after a 

 most careful examination, and thought that enough. I am 

 a very busy man, as is well known among my friends, my 

 office hours frequently being from nine in the' morning tiLl 

 anywhere from seven to ten or eleven o'clock at night, so 

 one can readily imagine that canine matters in general and 

 dog rows in particular do not absorb my attention to any 

 great degree. 



When I was asked to examine the A. K. C. books I did so 

 from a sense of duty, devoting considerable time (about two 

 or three hours) of a busy afternoon to it, and as I observed 

 before, did not expect to be called upon for data by anybody. 

 Hence when Mr. Peshaall called upon me so many times, 

 buttonholing me in my office during business hours, and 

 haranguing me bv the half hour at the time, 1 have no doubt 

 that 1 got up that stereotyped answer for him, "I don't 

 know," which after all seems to have been what he was 

 seeking. 



I am entirely unbiased in the matter of his dispute with 

 the Kennel Club, and am more than sorry that things 

 should be as they are, but still asseverate most emphatically 

 that our committee did examine the accounts, and that 

 said accounts were absolutely correct in every particular. 



A. Clinton Wilmekding. 



KENNEL COOKERY. 



BY HIBEENIA. 



THIS article will be better understood by those who have 

 read " Kennel Fare," published in the Forest and 

 Stream of June 12. 



Of course I take it for granted that the reader interested 

 in the subject has purchased a farmer's boiler and the other 

 utensils described in the former article, all of which are ab- 

 solutely necessary in a kennel kitchen. Also that the bins 

 are filled with bread, meal of di fferent kinds, and such other 

 foods as were recommended and could be procured easily 

 and cheaply, and the local butcher has been arranged with 

 to supply you with his waste meats two or three times a 

 week. When the butcher's offal arrives, clean the stomach 

 and tripe carefully, cut off the hoofs and throw them aside, 

 and put everything else in the boiler, adding enough water 

 to just cover the contents. Use plenty of salt, not the fine 

 table quality, but such as is used iu corning beef and pork. 

 It will cost about 85 cents per large bag. The salt will help 

 to preserve the meat and will properly season the rest of the 

 mess If the meat is tainted in the slightest, put in the 

 boiler from a quart to a peck of broken charcoal. The con- 

 tents of the boiler should cook briskly for several hours 

 until the meat will readily part from the bones; then allow 

 the fire to go out. To pick the meat from the heads ( it will 

 readily drop from the other bones) use what is known as a 

 "ladies' weeder," a little tool which can be bought from 

 any hardware dealer. The bones should be thrown into a 

 barrel as they have a commercial value, and it is surprising 

 what a quanty accumulates in the course of a year at even 

 a small kennel. 



The cooked meat should be lifted out of the boiler by 

 means of the shovel recommended in the article on "Kennel 

 Fare" and dropped into a barrel or other vessel. (I use a gal- 

 vanized iron ash can.) A tight cover should be put on and 

 the vessel removed to a cool place. 



The liquor remaining in the boiler is really a strong con- 

 somme soup and should be diluted with an equal quantity 

 of water. Now if you will take bread, cut it up in slices, 

 half an inch thick, and pour the liquor over it, you have 

 a very simple meal for dogs and which will be highly 

 relished by them. The bread should not be "sloppy," but 

 only sufficient liquor used to saturate it thoroughly with- 

 out any draining to the bottom of the feeding trough. To 

 mix the bread and soup, use a broad tined potato fork. 

 There is quite an art in cutting bread rapidly. Get a white 

 pine board to fit one end of the feed trough and procure a 

 long thin-bladed butcher knife; always keep a keen edge 

 on the knife. Place a loaf of bread oh the board, take, the 

 handle of the knife in the right hand and with the palm of 

 the left bear on the blade. The knife will cut rapidly 

 through the bread with but little effort on your part. As 

 soon as a loaf is sliced, with a motion of the knife push it 

 off the board into the feed trough. 



Perhaps the easiest and best way of making plain the 

 various ways of preparing food for dogs is to classify the re- 

 cipes the same as is done in cook books published for the 

 use of housewives. 



Scrapple. Take equal parts of oatmeal, flour and corn- 

 meal, season with salt, and boil to a thick mush. It will 

 take about two hours to cook. Before it gets too thick add 

 cooked meat or fish, the quantity depending on the season- 

 more in winter, less in summer. Stir the meat thoroughly 

 through the mush by means of a wooden pole. The meat 

 can be cut up with a semicircular chopping kuife, but if the 

 kennels are large it will pay to buy au Enterprise meat 

 chojiper. The scrapple should be poured out into large pans 

 and allowed to cool and harden. Dogs are extremely fond 

 of this, and it will keep for weeks in winter, but during 

 the hot weather it must be used immediately. 



Milk &; omj,— Put skimmed milk in the boiler and add 

 wheat flour, stirring constantly until the mixture is of the 

 consistency of thick paint. Pour this over sliced bread. 

 Milk gravy will very quickly check diarrhoea, and is an es- 

 pecially valuable food for dogs that have returned after 

 going the circuit of bench shows. Puppies also thrive on it. 



Potatoes and Meat. Put the potatoes in a wicker basket, 

 allowing water to run on them until it comes from the 

 bottom bright and clear. Empty them into the boiler and 

 add water enough to cover one fourth deep. Then put on 

 the cover and keep them cooking until done They will be 

 steamed rather than boiled and will be bright and mealy. 

 Empty them into the feeding trough and add some cooked 

 meat, working over the mess thoroughly with a potato fork. 

 Potatoes cooked in this manner are not soggy and are readi- 

 ly eaten by dogs. When procurable, fish can be used instead 

 ol meat, and if equal parts of bread and potatoes are used 

 the food will be more relished. Beets, carrots, turnips and 

 similar vegetables can be substituted for potatoes. 



Soup. It is often advisable to feed soup fur a change. To 

 make a palatable article, add to liquor remaining in the 

 boiler after the meat has been cooked, rice, barley, onions, 

 chopped cabbage, etc., and thicken with wheat flour until it 

 is of the consistency of paste. This can be fed plain or 

 pourr d over slices of bread. 



Boiled Rice. Soak the rice over night and then put it in 

 the boiler, adding about one-half the equal bulk of water. 

 This will steam the rice when the lid of the boiler is closed 

 down and a brisk fire started. Cook for two hours. The 



grains of rice will swell to twice their original size, so this 

 must be taken into consideration. The boiled rice can be 

 mixed with meat, and soup or milk gravy poured over it. 



When I have a sick or dainty-feeding dog I add some 

 tripe cut into small bits, mix it into the boiled rice and 

 pour some soup or milk gravy over the mixture. N-ariy 

 all the dogs I have kept are very fond of this diet. It is very 

 nutritious, easily digested, and is one of the I est foods I 

 know of for a dog recovering from distemper or any other 

 wasting disease. 



Oatmeal Mush. To give the best results oatmeal should 

 be thoroughly cooked, at least two or three tmurs. The 

 finer it is ground the sooner it will cook. Do not put too 

 much water in the boi lei*— rather steam than boil it as it 

 will he less likely to get 'sticky." lean never get dqgs to 

 eat plain oatmeal satisfactorily. It "balls" in the roof of 

 their mouths, and the d<»gs then stop eating, so I always use 

 plenty of milk, meat, soup or some other food to mix with it. 



Corn Meal Mush. Always buy the yellow corn meal, 

 very finely ground, as the white* kind usually contains a 

 large percentage of the cob, with which light-colored meal 

 is adulterated. Boil the meal for several hours, stirriug it 

 with a pole occasionally. 



I do not advise using much corn meal except during cold 

 weather, as at other seasons it is very apt to produce erup- 

 tions on the skin. 



Boiled Beans and Peas. These should be soaked over 

 night before being put into the boiler. A few hours' cook- 

 ing will be sufficient. Both of these, are exceedingly rich in 

 nitrogenous elements, and should never be fed plain, but 

 in a combination of other foods. 



DOGS OF THE DAY. 



I WAS very glad to see that the advisory committee de- 

 clined to go into the merits of Vredenburgh, Secretary, 

 vs. Peshall as to the charges respecting the accounts, also 

 to note that the quite illegal and injurious resolution not 

 to permit delegates to look into the books whs rescinded. 

 After my look into the accounts I said to Mr. Vredeu burgh 

 and Dr. Perry that I was decidedly of the opinion that the 

 best course to pursue was to court a.nd command the fullest 

 investigation. I would even, I said, go the length of accept- 

 ing any two delegates Mr. Pt shall might select and with 

 two named by the advisory committee allow the four to 

 select another for chairman and let them settle the matter 

 at once and for all time. Mr. Vredenburgh said that would 

 be a reflection on the auditing committee, but. nothing can 

 be a reflection upon tbat committee that will show it did 

 look into the accounts a little deeper than is generally 

 imagined. 



As to the charges against Mr. Peshall, I think that those 

 who are pushing the matter will regret it. To be candid, it 

 looks like vindictiveness— like trying to get even, and when 

 prosecution merges into persecution the public won't stand 

 it. I just know sufficient of the case to be aware that one 

 can just touch bottom on the sands of truth, but you have 

 to keep your toes stretched to their utmost to do that. 



Before the Spaniel Club passes entirely from my mind it 

 will be well to say what was doue at the meeting held July 

 2. Every member of the committee was on hand— M r ssrs. 

 Wilmerdintr, president: Whitehead, secretary; Wesl", treas- 

 urer, and Kitchel and Watson, full privates. We approved 

 the minutes of the previous meeting after deciding to stirke 

 out the representation of Dr. Kitchel by proxy. While 

 proxies are admissible at club meetings, we agrteri that it 

 was a bad precedent to allow it to be recorded at au execu- 

 tive committee meeting. The treasurer reported that he 

 had $189 31 on hand. After which we decided it would be 

 well to enter into communication with the Spaniel Club of 

 England with a view of having a joint committee appointed 

 to secure uniformity of standards. After examining draw- 

 ings of cups without arriving at any definite determination 

 we adjourned. It was a very businesslike meeting well pre- 

 sided over. J. W. 



THE PUG SPECIAL AT CINCINNATI. -Babylon, July 

 5.— Editor Forest and Stream: In reply to Mr. Eberhart 

 permit me to state that if as he says the prize was in the 

 judge's book— I saw him write ic down to the Eberhart 

 Kennels," all I can say is that I wrote it under the impres- 

 sion that I was awarding the special prize for the best kennel 

 of four pugs owned by a resident of Cincinnati. I recollect 



for I considered the prize a cast-iron-bouud oue oil which 

 he, as the only exhibitor from Cincinnati, had the tightest 

 kind of a cinch. I hadn't the remotest idea that I Avas 

 awarding an open special, neither did I know such a prize 

 had been offered by the Cincinnati Club. Mr. Eberhart, 

 who very kindly acted as my ring steward, will bear me out 

 when I say that neither his nor Dr. Cryer's pugs were 

 brought into the ring to be judged for any special prize. 

 For any act of negligence or carelessness on my part 1 offer 

 a sincere apology to Messrs. Cryer, Eberhart and the Cin- 

 cinnati bench show committee individually and collectively, 

 but I ui"st positively Deny that 1 wittingly awarded the 

 open special prize for the "best kennel of pugs to the Eber- 

 hart Kennel or to any other kennel.— J as. Moktimki:. 



SPANIELS POISONED.— Britton, S. D , July 1. — Editor 

 Forest and Stream: 1 sadly take my pen to write you of the 

 loss of a most promising spaniel puppy and, worse than all, 

 of his grandsire, Prince. After having spent a useful life 

 of eight years— and no duck hunter need want a more faith- 

 ful or tireless retriever — he and the puppy were poisoned by 

 meat thrown out by a neighbor who wished to get rid of a 

 miserable cat. The neighbor is a dear friend or he should 

 be made to smart for his criminal carelessness. Knowing I 

 shall have the sympathy of every duck hunting reader of 

 your- unequaled" paper, I am, very truly— Rix. 



INDIANA FIELD TRIALS PUPPY STAKE. — Indian- 

 apolis, lud., July b.— Editor Forest, and Stream: At the 

 earnest request of many of its patrons, the Indiana Kennel 

 Club has decided to give a Puppy Stake, for dogs born on 

 or after Oct. 1, 1889. This stake will begin Thursday, Oct. 

 30. The purse will be the entrance money less the ex- 

 penses. Forfeit So, with $10 additional to start. Divided 

 50 per cent, to first. 30 per cent to second, and 20 per cent, to 

 third. Entries will close Aug. 1. Entry blanics are now 

 ready. — P. T. Madison, Sec'y. 



A LARGE LITTER.— Mr. J. R. Dennis's spaniel bitch 

 Dolly whelped on June 26 a remarkably hue litter of thir- 

 teen dogs aud two bitches, by Mr A. C. Wilimrding's 

 champion Doc Tnis is the largest litter of spaniels that 

 we have any record of, and we are sorry to learn that all of 

 them have, since died. 



MRS. J. M. NICHOLSON, the proprietor of the Mount 

 Sion Kennels, sails for England this week, to vi.*it some of 

 the principal St. Bernard kennels there. The rough-coated 

 bitch Juno will be taken to be bred to Six Bedivere. 



DOGS.— Naldires medicated Soap for wa shine doers, destroys 

 all irritating insecis. removes dog^y smell and leaves the animal 

 refreshed and happy. This prize medal soap, used by all the 

 leading ownerB in Europe, is now s'dd bv Park & Tilford, McKes- 

 son & Robbins, E. Fougera and all Druggists.— Adv\ 



