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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[July 81, 1890, 



AMERICAN KENNEL CLUB AFFAIRS, 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Some people are saying they have had enough of Mr. 

 Peshall and the A. K. C. I don't think we have. We 

 haven't, quite got Mr. Peshall into the hole dug for himself. 

 He is gradually enlarging it and making it more comfort- 

 able, but he isn't in yet. 



Since I wrote last week T have had from Mr. Peshall three 

 letters marked confidential. I shall certainly respect that 

 safeguard to silence as to their contents, except in one re- 

 spect—that is the reply to my proposition for him to go with 

 the editor of Forest akd Stbeam and myself to the A.K.C. 

 rooms and I would then from the books "give the items'' he 

 has been so plaintively pleading for from a source he knew 

 would not respond. I think all will bear me out that the 

 simple reply to the public invitation or challenge is not a 

 comnmni cation coming under the head of the. purely "con- 

 fidential." Mi*. Peshall declines to meet me to examine 

 books that are faked. 



1 was convinced Mr. Peshall would shift his ground. The 

 sands were washing away below his theoretical edifice, and 

 to save the few relics of his vivid imagination he has to 

 move bouse. Unfortunately he has only pitched on another 

 sand pile, well within reach of the incoming tide, and flings 

 to the breeze the motto, "The books are faked'." Lei. us 

 patch together the remnants of some of his former pennants 

 which the gales of public exposure ond opinion shredded 

 into ribbons: 



"Mr. Vredenburgh won't give you the figures." He did. 

 "He won't let you see the books." He did. 

 "Mr. Belmont put in $1,000 between Jan. 1 and Jan. 7," 

 Disproved. 



"Mr. Belmont loaned the club -*500." Disproved. 

 "Mr. Belmont's loan was made Dec. (5 to 8, Disproved. 

 "The loan was by cheek and the bank book will show it." 

 Disproved. 



"Mr. Vredenburgh left for England when the books were 

 balanced July 12, 1888." He didn't go till September. 



"We paid him §500 out of the July 12 balance of 8651.40." 

 The ¥500 was paid in two instalments in May. 



"Mr. Lewis's contract was an exhaustive one." Denied 

 by Mr. Lewis and Mr. Peshall's brother committeemen. 



Just here let me call attention to the position of Mr. 

 Peshall and his supporters on the question of the contract. 

 It is this: "You see they all disagree and therefore I must 

 be right." Here is the right way to look at it. "They all 

 disagree upon the terms except 'in one respect, aud thai, is 

 that Mr. Peshall's statement as to an exhaustive contract is 

 incorrect.." Hence that particular statement by the. major- 

 ity of witnesses holds good. Further than this. Mr. Peshall 

 some weeks ago challenged Messrs. Terry, Schellhass and 

 Lewis to contradict his statement, in the event of which he 

 would at once show by letters in his possession that he was 

 right. An issue of the Fokest and Stream has passed and 

 the documentary evidence is not forthcoming. In place of 

 that we are referred to discrepancies between the three gen- 

 tlemen named as proof that Mr. Peshall is right. That 

 won't wash. Let us have the documentary evidence or come 

 right out and acknowledge it was bluff. 



Finally, just as the sergeant of the Peshall guard is un- 

 loosing the halyards for the purpose of hauling down the 

 flag, the forlorn hope cry arises, "The books are faked, the 

 books are faked." 



Let us quietly examine this charge. There is no hurry; 

 the enemy is in the last trench, all ammunition gone, no 

 water, no food, no anything, not even hope. 



The books are faked. These books, or rather this book, 

 for it is the journal or day book that is faked, if anything 

 is, was kept by Mr. Lewis. Mr. Peshall acknowledges to 

 the correctness of the July 12, 188S, balance of 8651.40, so we 

 needn't go back of that. This book is a daily transcript of 

 all transactions, a day book I think it used to be called 

 when I was book-keeping. On page 34 of this day book ap- 

 pears the striking of the balance of 8(i51. 40, and it is con- 

 tinued to page 06 when another balance is struck of 81 ,228.28. 

 It was kept by Mr. Lewis, and the striking of the balances 

 is in Mr. Vredenburgh's figures. 



Now, note this. Mr. Lewis was the employee of the stud 

 book committee, was engaged by Mr. Peshall and his fellow 

 committeemen under their direction and control. As such 

 he kept this day book, or daily cash record. The presump- 

 tion is that Mr. Peshall examined this book. At least it 

 was his bounden duty to do so, and unless he chooses to 

 impale himself upon the horn of negligence we roust pre- 

 sume he did so. Eighteen months afterward he springs 

 upon us the story. "The Lewis book was faked." He hasn't 

 seen the book, bear in mind, since he resigned from the 

 committee in December, 1888. Well, Mr. Peshall, you know 

 no more about that book now than you did on Dec. 5, 1888. 

 If you know now that it was faked you knew it was so when 

 you were chairman of the committee responsible for its cor- 

 rectness. If at that time you knew it to be correct, you still 

 know it to be so. There is no wriggling off that hook. 



Having now pinned Mr. Peshall down to his final claim 

 we will just, look at it fairly. 



As I have said, the July 12 balance appears on page 34 of 

 the day book, or Lewis book, and on page 96 comes the Jan. 

 12 "gig" of 81.228.28, and it is one Mr. Peshall can't "strad- 

 dle." There are sixty-two pages of items before you reach 

 this gig, made up almost entirely of entries of stud book re- 

 ceipts. Page 40 contains about the largest receipts on any 

 one page, and that amounts to 8160, including as it does the 

 receipts for registration from one of the fall shows. From 

 that sum the page totals drop down as low as 830. I have 

 not the total receipts from July 12 to Sept. 6, the date of Mr. 

 Vredenburgh's departure for Europe, but from Sept 6 to 

 Dec. 11 the total receipts were S670. From that date until 

 Jan. 3 there was a'furfcher addition (in much larger propor- 

 tions on account of the rush to get entries into the stud 

 book before the close of the year), but I have not the figures 

 except approximately as shown by the bank book deposits 

 of $807.40. Making allowance for leaving a small balance 

 on hand we may say that from Sept. 6 to Jan. 3 the club re- 

 ceipts were 81,500. 'July and August may be guessed as 

 yielding $250 (based on a lower scale than September, Octo- 

 ber or November), thus increasing the receipts to say $1,750, 

 to vvbich must be added the July 12 balance of 8651.40, mak- 

 ing in round figures say $2,400. If then the day book on 

 Jan. 11 shows a balance of $1,228.28, we find that the ex- 

 penses for the six months were 81,200. 



Now where would Mr. Peshall's theory land us? He said 

 Mr. Belmont had to put in $1,000 to make the fictitious bal- 

 ance of $1,228.28, and that therefor the stud book commit- 

 tee, of which Mr. Peshall was chairman, remember, up to 

 Dec. 6, spent or allowed to be expended during the last six 

 months of 1888 the sum of $2,200. It allowed Mr, Lewis, 

 according to Mr, Peshall's theory, and he himself is respon- 

 sible for what was done, to use the receipts of $670 (Sept. 6 

 to Dec. 11), the balance of $641 (July 12), the receipts during 

 July and August, say $250— over $1,500. Then after Mr. Pe- 

 shall resigned in December and Mr. Lewis himself took his 

 place, Mr. Terry, Mr. Schellhass and Mr. Vredenburgh 

 looked complacently on while Mr. Lewis filched another 

 $700 from the club during the month of December, and later 

 on in 1889 drew between $200 and $300 more— the exact figures 

 of which appear in the 1889 statement of account. Mr. Pe- 

 shall fails to see how in what he has alleged he practically 

 charges himself with concocting a swindle upon the club, 

 aud that for partners he had Mr. Thos, H .Terry, Mr. Schell- 

 hass, Mr. Lewis and Mr. Vredenburgh. 



Fortunately the book that cannot be faked proves that Mr. 

 Peshall is less of an accessory to a swindle than he desires 

 to make himself out to be. The bank book shows that Mr. 

 Lewis handed to Mr, Vredenburgh for deposit, on December 



11, $284.50; it further shows that he transferred to Mr. 

 Vredenburgh between that date aud January 3 an additional 

 $807.40, there being some half-dozen deposits during that 

 period. If Mr. Lewis had had this exhaustive contract we 

 are told about, would he have turned over to Mr. Vreden- 

 burgh this $1,100, when kss than $300 of it belonged to 

 the club for club members' annual dues ? Well, hardly. 

 Do tell us something we can swallow, for we are not all 

 marines. 



In conclusion, I beg all to understand that this is no per- 

 sonal fight between Mr. Peshall and myself. We are just 

 as good friends as ever we were and are likely to remain so. 

 He writes aud tells me he "never read such rot" as my last 

 to Forest and Stream, and adds, "When are you coming 

 over to see me?" And I respond by telling him that I'll be 

 over as soon as I have an opportunity; but meantime I must 

 bring him right down on his marrowbones. 1 am on the 

 side I firmly believe is right, and he understands my posi- 

 tion exactly, only he is sorry I am so blind. I am like the 

 Canadian editor who had been giving the opposite political 

 party fits, and the election going in their favor he wrote for 

 some of the Government pap in the way of advertising. The 

 answer came to the effect that if he wanted that he would 

 have to change the tone of his paper and support the Gov- 

 ernment. He didn't wait to write, but telegraphed in reply, 

 "It's a d— d sharp curve, but I'll take it." Now, if Mr. 

 Peshall can give me facts, not theories or assumptions, 

 which will prove that Messrs. Belmont, Terry, Vredenburgh, 

 Schellhass and Lewis were all mixed up in a swindle, there 

 is no turn too sharp that I can't take. To paraphrase Dean 

 Swift's celebrated charity sermon, "If you like the stipula- 

 tion, down with the proofs," Mr. Peshall. J. W. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Your correspondent, "J. W.," in answering the question 1 

 asked of him evidently lost sight of what the question was. 

 I repeat it. "Will 'J. W.' tell his readers the deposits ap- 

 pearing in the bank book he examined between April 1 and 

 Dec. 31, 1888, or the deposits made during the time Mr. 

 A. D. Lewis was running the stud book, as they will tend, I 

 believe, to settle the question relative to Mr. A, D. Lewis's 

 connection with that book?" As "J. W." calls attention to 

 the ridiculous position in which I have placed myself, will 

 he oblige me by stating wherein I have done so. 



L. Livesey, 



Jebsev City, N. J., July 28. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Will you permit one of the onlookers to tell you how this 

 A. K. C.-Pesball rumpus appears to us? I am sure neither 

 Dr. Perry's nor Mr. Watson's letter throws the least light 

 on the subject, though they were evidently intended to do 

 so. The $1,000 business is still a colored gentleman in the 

 fence, and if Tom Aldrich's statement as to what occurred 

 at the meeting regarding that amount is to be at all relied 

 upon, it certainly changes the complexion of things in 

 Peshall's favor. It is strange that they have acted as they 

 have, if all is O. K. Treasurer Vredenburgh's statement 

 that if they wanted to borrow $1,000 it was none of Peshall's 

 business does not in any way help the A. K. C.'s side, but 

 in my opinion rather damages it. Perhaps I'm off a bit, 

 but I feel sure the whole business will never be cleared up 

 satisfactorily to the dog fanciers till the club appoints three 

 delegates to employ two public accountants to aid them in 

 going over the accounts from 1887 to date, and making a 

 public report of same. It is very evident the auditing com- 

 mittee did not half do their work or they each would have 

 had data to refer to. Said a man to meth'e other day,"I have 

 been a cashier-in-chief for over 16 years, and my"accounts 

 have been audited at least three times a year, while I have 

 every month gone over my assistant's accounts, yet never 

 did I see my auditors nor did I retire from auditing without 

 a full memorandum of all work gone over, with all data ob- 

 tainable, all balance sheets and figuring being preserved. 

 No other auditing is worth a cent." Let the A. K. C. do as. 

 I suggest, and then peace will reign or the devil be to pay. 



Mephisto. 



Mr. Peshall being^ asked by the Forkst and Stream to 

 send in his apology m time for this week, replies as follows: 

 "I have no apology to make. I consider that the letters and 

 statements made by Messrs. Schellhass and Terry, as pub- 

 lished in the Forest And Stream, prove conclusively that 

 the contract with Mr. Lewis to publish the Stud Book was 

 substantially as I stated it. And I will within a very few 

 days prove to the satisfaction of all dog men and even to 

 the 'Combine' that the major portion of the $1,228.28 in 

 question was not earned by the Club, but it was either 

 money received from outside parties, or else it was money 

 which under that contract belonged to Mr. Lewis. This I 

 will do in a legal proceeding, where the books and accounts 

 can be examined to the entire satisfaction of all. The late 

 Gazing Committee will be invited to attend." 



DOG TALK. 



HANLEY, Eng., July 14.— I dislike to break open old 

 sores, but the Meersbrook Maiden affair created so 

 much talk at the time, that when at Leeds last week I could 

 not resist the temptation to ask Mr. Ashton for his version 

 of the affair. He seemed pleased to be able to explain, and 

 requested me to publish it. I will repeat his story verbatim: 

 "About two years ago last Christmas I received a letter 

 from Scotland from Mr. Robert Chapman, saying that Mr. 

 Baillie wanted to buy some black and tans, and that he had 

 told him that I could supply him. He came to Sheffield 

 about Christmas and purchased Meersbrook Maiden for £40 

 of Mr. Hill. As Mr. Baillie had spoken of purchasing 

 more, Mr. Hill, thinking to please him and give him an in- 

 centive to come again, made him a present of another bitch 

 with a bit of white on her breast called Meersbrook Girl. 

 Mr. Baillie told me that he would buy a dog if he could buy 

 it right, and I went to Mr. Bolters with him and purchased 

 a dog. I bought him as if for myself, and paid £5 out of 

 my own pocket for him. When he took the three dogs he 

 asked for another reduction of £5 and Mr. Hill finally con- 

 sented and let him have the lot for £40." I do not think it 

 necessary to make any comments on the above, but Mr. 

 Baillie will find it quite a difficult matter to make out that 

 he didn't know t'other from which. 



Mr. Trickett requested me not to say anything about his 

 purchase of Lady Livingstone for Mr. E. H. Moore: but I 

 notice that the English papers all have the news and I don't 

 want to be the last to send the news to the States. Lady 

 Livingstone was whelped June 27, 1889, she is by champion 

 Hesper ex Lady Abbess, and promises to make one of the 

 best bitches we have. She is an orange, bitch with excellent 

 markings, good shadings and great character; skull very 

 good for her age, ears too much like her sire's to be perfect, 

 a good eye, good bone, good coat of good color, and a good 

 mover; stands 31>gin. at. shoulder, and will weigh ISOlbs, 

 now. She won first, novice; first, under 12tnos. class, and 

 cup for best in either class at Leeds. She will be bred to Sir 

 Bedivere before she is shipped to the States. Mr. Moore evi- 

 dently means that Mr. Sears shall not have a clean sweep 

 next spring. With Alton, Lady Livingstone and those that 

 he has already, Mr. Moore ean make the best showing of any 

 kennel in America. 



Mr. S. W. Smith has doubtless made the greatest number 

 of sales for the largest sum of money in the shortest time on 

 record. Alton and Lady Livingstone to Mr. Moore; Mayor 



of L«eds to Mr. Collard, of Liverpool; Young Plinlimmon 

 and Forget-Me-Not to Mr. Shillcock, of Birmingham; and 

 now it is rumored that Young Wallace is spoken for for the 

 States. I am not at liberty to state the name of the would- 

 be purchaser, but there is 99 to 1 that be crosses the pond 

 soon. Young Wallace is by Pilgrim and out of Bessie II,, a 

 full brother to champion Plinlimmon, and with a good bit of 

 a Plinlimmon head and muzzle; trifle long in muzzle, but 

 with great depth, and good expression, good blaze, broad 

 collar, great depth of chest and length of body, good bone, 

 and very rich orange coat. He has won 18 cups and prizes, 

 and will prove of great value to us as a stud dog. 



We Americans might follow in the path of the English in 

 regard to the use of foster mothers to our advantage. Even 

 with our best kennels the use of the foster is the exception 

 rather than the rule. Here, the demand is so great that 

 several men make good livings by furnishing fosters at 30s. 

 ($7.50) each, if you purchase outright, or 15s. ($3.75) for the 

 use of one until the puppies are weaned. Instead of waiting 

 until the puppies are all dead, as our people do, the English- 

 man has the foster ready before the bitch whelps, and then 

 if she hasn't any milk or proves a bad mother the foster is 

 ready: or if the litter is large, instead of drowning half of 

 them, by the foster's assistance you can rear the lot. A de- 

 mand will soon create a supply, and some enterprising 

 Yankee might do worse than to take this hint, 



A couple of cases of rabies have been developed near 

 Banly, and the Board of Agriculture are agitating the 

 question of enforcing the muzzling order throughout North 

 Staffordshire. If enforced in the same manner that it is in 

 Manchester it surely don't do the dogs much harm. 



Mi-. Jas. F. Hall's (Philadelphia) St. Bernard bitch Lady 

 Lowden (champion Plinlimmon— Lady Linton) was bred to 

 the well-known champion Pouf on May 31. Mr. Hall will 

 bring over the bitch a"hd litter with him on his return 

 Sept. 10. 



I was rather amused when the June 26 issue of Forest 

 and Stream reached me at Leeds to read the article of Mr. 

 Mayhew re the English vs. American beagles, and notice the 

 direct contradiction of my own remarks in same issue. Mr. 

 Mayhew may possibly be right regarding the type of beagle 

 bred here. In fact the cut of Bingwood and the fact that he 

 is an English champion would indicate that I was wrong in 

 stating that the English beagles resembled miniature fox- 

 hounds. Mr. Mayhew has doubtless seen a hundred to my one 

 in this country, but the fact remains that last year I had a 

 commission to purchase a beagle and could not find one that 

 I cared to bring home at any price, and this year, though I 

 have already spent two weeks visiting kennels, I have not 

 seen one beagle yet. I mean to though, before I return, and 

 then will have another word or two to say regarding type. 

 Mr. Mayhew gets rather mixed. He states that the Amer- 

 ican beagle "may" resemble the foxhound, etc. I admire 

 his pluck in rising to the defense of his native country. Its 

 a grand old country and I have quite a consinly love for it 

 myself, but he should not let his enthusiasm run away with 

 his pen. If the American beagle, as "Hibernia" says, does 

 resemble the foxhound, and Mr. Mayhew acknowledges that 

 it does, how is it that his Blue Belle has done so much wm- 

 ning? No, friend Mayhew, Ring wood and Little Royal 

 Krueger are much the same, and your Blue Belle will con- 

 tinue to win because she is much the same type as the 

 American ideal. Namquoit. 



TORONTO DOG SHOW. — Toronto, July 25, — Editor For- 

 est a nd Stream: At the second grand international bench 

 show of dogs of the Industrial Exhibition of Toronto, to be 

 held at the city of Toronto, Canada, Sept. 15 to 19, Mr. John 

 Davidson, of Monroe, Mich., will judge setters, pointers, 

 collies, bloodhounds, beagles, foxhounds and dachshunde. 

 Mr. C. H. Mason, of New York, will judge deerhounds, grey- 

 hounds, great Danes, Newfoundlands, pugs, terriers, mas- 

 tiffs, St. Bernards, bulldogs, foreign and miscellaneous 



procured by writing 1 

 Stone, Secretary and Superintendent. 



HESPER AS A SIRE. — Wyoming Kennels,Melrose, Mass. , 

 July 25.— Editor Forest and Stream: Having been asked 

 many times "Is Hesper a. stock getter?" I can only say, since 

 Feb. 6, 1890, he has been bred to sixteen bitches. Thirteen 

 have been heard from, and of this number two only have 

 missed, the aggregate of six litters being eighty-seven pup- 

 pies,— E. B, Sears. 



THE BEAGLE FIELD TRIALS.-Bostou, Mass., July 28. 

 —Editor Forest and Stream: The first field trials of the 

 National Beagle Club will be held the first Tuesday in 

 November, 1890, and remainder of the week. Particulars 

 and running rules will be sent later.— F. W. Chapman, Sec'y. 



KENNEL NOTES. 

 Notes must be sent on prepared blanks, which are fur- 

 nished free on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope 

 of large letter size. Sets of 200 of any one form, bound for 

 retaining duplicates, are sent for 30 cents. 



NAMES CLAIMED. 

 JgilF" Prepared Blanks sent free on application. 



Bex Carotin. By C. E. Greenmau, Troy, N. Y., for brindle mas- 

 tiff dog, whelped June 2, 1890, by Boss (Zulu— Monmouth Meg) out 

 of Molly Stark (Ben Adam— Lady Zara). 



The Lady Godiva. By Seymour Van Santvoord, Troy, N. Y.. for 

 fawn mastiff bitch, whelped June 2, 1890, by Boss (Zulu — Mon- 

 mouth Meg) out of Molly Stark (Ben Adam — Lady Zara). 



Dusky Bab. By Eberhart Pug Kennels, Cincinnati, O., for silver 

 fawn pug clog, whelped May 13, 1890, by cimmpion Kash (champion 

 Bradford Ruby— Lady Cloudy) out of Nun Nicer (Douglass III.— 

 Dot). 



BRED. 



Prepared Blanks sent free on application. 



Lou— Fitz Huyh Lee. Clark & Rutter's (Lawrence, Mass.) beagle 

 bitch champion Lou (K«no— Ply) to their champion Fitz Hugh 

 Lee (Lee— Juliette). May 11, 



MiMie—Fitz Hugh Lee. Clark & Rutter's (Lawrence, Mass.) 

 beagle bitch Mollie (Cumeroe— Nell) to their champion Fitz Hugh 

 Lee (Lee— Juliette), July 4. 



Daisy— Filz Huglx Lee, F. Eibel's (Lancaster, Pa.) beagle bitch 

 Daisy (Cameron's Racket— June) to Clark & Rutter's champion 

 Fitz Hugh Lee (L-e— Juliette), April 28. 



Lady Tippim-Tlte Stntire. Dr. Wm. Crawford Johnson's (Fred- 

 erick, Md.) collie bitch Lady lippin to Chestnut Hill Kennels' 

 The Squire, July 12. 



BmM—Duke of Vernon. (..'. PL Winship's (Bar Harbor, Me.) 

 pointer bitch Boski to L. (Tafdnei'vS Duke of Vernon (Gler.dale— 

 Spotless), July 26. 



Miss Freedom— Duke of Vernon. L. Gardner's (Mt. Vernon, N. 

 Y.) pointer bitch Miss Freedom (imported Pilate— Fairy II.) to his 

 Duke of Vernon (Glendale— Spotless), June 26. 



Taffy— Dukeof Vernon. L. Gardner's (Mt. Vernon. N. Y.) pointer 

 bituh Taffy (imported Pilate— Fairy II.) to bis Duke of Vernon 

 (Glendale— Spotless), July 



Pearl —Bradford Ruby II. A. Hassclmier's (Covington, Ky.) pug 

 bitch Pearl (Bob-Viola) to Eberhart Pug Kehnela' Bradford Ruby 

 II. (champion Bradford Ruby— Puss B.), July 24. 



Kurreney—John Bull. Mrs. E. Tyler's (St. Paul, Minn.) pug 

 bitch Kurrency (champion Kash ) to Eberhart Pug Ken- 

 nels 1 John Bull (champion Loris— May Queen), .July 6. 



Heattiee— Dundee, L. Timpson's (Red Hook, N. Y.) Skye terrier 

 bitch Heatbee (Donald. -Romach) to J. L. Banks's Dundee (Donald 

 — Romach), July 20. 



