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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[JAN. 29, 1891. 



tm-e? Did anybody besides "Gothamite" bave a hand in 

 that scbeme? Wben these questions have been considered 

 and dismissed, the subject of cocker type can be discussed in 

 a friendly way by those fanciers who are content to state 

 facts. 



Mr. Wilmerding wants peace. "Sly Dog" wants peace. 

 Sly dogs as a rule are sly. The writer wants peace, but it 

 ranst be peace ^vith honor. There can be no honor without 

 justice; so he signs himself yours for justice, Obo. 



January 19. 



Editor Forest and Stream; 



The cocker spaniel discussion has gotten into a most de- 

 plorable condition. Beginning as a discussion of cockers, it 

 is now only a discussion of personalities. It had been hoped 

 that the miserable squabbles between Messrs. Washington 

 and Coverb had so surfeited readers that writers would take 

 heed to their ways, taut these hopes do not promise fruition. 



The OnIjOOicer. 



[The foregoing letters indicate a consensus of opinion 

 among spaniel men that "Gothamite" should withdraw his 

 erroneous assertions respecting certaiu judges. Beyond sttch 

 a "personal statement" from him. we shall permit no further 

 "personalities," but communications relating to "Cocker 

 Spaniels of 1890" will be welcomed at any time. Our idea 

 of a discussion of this sort is something that will settle for 

 all time the question of proper cocker type, the diference 

 between a small field spaniel and a true cocker.] 



DOG CHAT. 



AT the annual meeting of the stockholders of the 

 Duquesne Kennel Glut), held at the Hotel Schlooser, 

 on Jan. 20, the following gentlemen were selected, and the 

 offic-ials of the club for the next year will be: President, S. 

 L. Boggs; Vice-President, ,1. O'Hara Denny; Treasurer, W. 

 E. Patrick; Secretary, W. E. Littell. Board of Governors: 

 John Moor head, Jr., J. H. Ljle, Dr. J. S. Phillips, J. O'Hara 

 Denny, W. E. Littell, John M. Chaplin, and J. O. Home. 

 Bench Show Committee: J. O. Horne, J. O'Hara Denny, 

 W. E. Littell, John Moorhead, Jr., and F. H. Denny. At 

 the coming dog show, March 11-14, Mr. John Davidson will 

 judge English, Irish and Gordon settei's. pointers and grey- 

 Jiounds. Mr. James Mortimer will judge mastifJs, St. 

 Bernards, Great Danes, Newfoundlands, Chesapeake Bay 

 dogs, Clumber, field and cocker spaniels, collies, bulldogs, 

 bull-terriers, dacbshunde, fox-terriers, pugs, Italian grey- 

 hounds and miscellaneous classes. Mr. Joseph Lewis will 

 judge beagles, foxhounds, bloodhounds, Bassett hounds. 

 King Charles, Blenheim, ruby, Prince Charles and Irish 

 water spaniels. The list of specials that will be offered at 

 their show is particularly large, but want of space will not 

 permit of our publishing it in full. Among the principal 

 ones are kennel prizes of 120 for mastifits, St.' Bernards, both 

 breeds, collies, pointers, English, Irish and Gordon setters, 

 foxhounds, pugs, beagles, fox-terriers, Newfoundlands, grey- 

 bounds, cocker spaniels and deerhounds. Nearly every breed 

 gets a cash special of §5 to SlO, and the specialty clubs are 

 liberally represented. Doubtless this list will be materially 

 increased before the show, so that the coming exhibition wifl 

 have quite an old-time flavor about it in this respect al3 least. 

 This club has adopted .something new in their letterhead. 

 This is a small circle with the Duquesne Kennel Club, Pitts- 

 burgh, March 11 tn 14, in the middle, and radiating from the 

 outer edge of the circle are twenty linos on which are printed 

 the number of hours distant from Pittsburgh of twenty of 

 the principal cities that have kennel clubs and are principal 

 kennel centers. 



Messrs. W. J. and Frank P. Comstock and Edward Bick- 

 nell have joined forces, and claimed the name of Narragansett 

 Kennels for their kennel of Irish and black and tan terriers, 

 schipperkes and Japanese spaniels. Mr. Comstock writes us 

 that the black and tan terrier Louie, recently imported, 

 whelped a nice litter Jan. 17, by Jasper (Sir Edward II.-— 

 Lloyd's Rose). 



It strikes one as peculiar that the Newfoundland does not 

 receive more attention at the hands of breeders and exhibi- 

 tors in this coimtry. Besides being one of the handsomest 

 breeds, they are noted for their docility and the many oc- 

 casions in which they have displayed their intelligence and 

 bravery in rescuing people from a watery grave. Only last 

 Wednesday we i-ead of a child ten years old, living at Berlin, 

 who, while trying to lift a pail of water from the mill pond, 

 overbalanced herself and fell into deep water. The family 

 dog, a Newfoundland, heard her screams as she rose to the 

 surface the second time, and jumping in, succeeded in catch- 

 ing her by the hand and so swimming with her to shore, 

 where, dragging her half way out of the water, his bark for 

 help was quickly answered and the child was saved. Many 

 stories of a like description could be told of this noble 

 animal. That he is appreciated in England is proved by the 

 large classes one sees at the different shows. While many 

 are casting around for new breeds to boom, why not try and 

 raise some of the older and more deserving to' their proper 

 position. 



Spratts Co.'s imported "bench raiser," M. Murphy, has 

 evidently impres.sed the good people of the South, for we 

 find him dubbed Captain in one of the New Orleans papers, 

 where he seems to have pleased both chicken and dog men 

 with the benching arrangements. 



« The greyhound Volunteer, owned by Mr. H. P. Thompson, 

 of Toronto, Can., died last week from a ruptured stomach. 

 He had won several prizes. 



A noted great Dane in Canada, Mr. Roedler's Lord, im- 

 ported from Germany and considered the best dog of the 

 breed in Canada, was poisoned recently. His record was: 

 1st, Loudon, 1888; 1st, London, Toronto, and vhc. New York. 

 1889; and second to Melac at Toronto. 1890. Death has been 

 busy among the best dogs in Canada, for we have also the 

 news of the death of the noted black cocker Sensation, owned 

 by Mr. .J. W. Bunting, of Toronto. She was literally a sen- 

 sation, for though of unknown pedigree, under Mr. Bell's 

 careful handling she swept the decks at the New York show 

 of 1889. Though she has gone oft' considerably the last year 

 or so she has still done a good deal of winning. She died in 

 parturition. 



The Hamilton Kennel Club was to have another members' 

 show last Monday for terriers. Mr. Geo Bell was to be the 

 judge. We hear that the Canadian division will come down 

 in full force at the W. K. C. show, bringing with them a large 

 entry of dogs, of course the majority of which will be 

 spaniels. We trust that when they get together the pipe of 

 peace will circulate and the proper type of "cockers of 1891" 

 will be the only topic discussed. 



One of those provoking slips of the pen made us state last 

 week that Sir Bedivere would arrive on the 24th instead of 

 sail on that date. It was all the more provoking in that it 

 caused two well-known St. Bernard men to take profitless 

 journeys to Boston to see the crack. There is some little 

 consolation to be drawn from it however. Two other kennel 

 papers had it right, so it only proves that the dog men look 

 to FOEEST AND Steeam for their news. We promise these 

 gentlemen therefore tn square matters at New York when 

 we meet. Sir Bedivere's latest price is S13,.500— Next. 



An auction isals of dogs in the show was to take place at 



New Orleans on Saturday evening last, and no doubt a good 

 many of the northern dogs will change hands, especiallv in 

 the terrier section. 



There is trouble in the round-headed bull and terrier camp 

 at Boston, and dire threats are made by one disappointed 

 exhibitor of keeping his dogs at home this year. It is need- 

 less to say that he did not win last year. Though the.se 

 dogs are as identical to Boston as its baked beans, it would 

 be no great loss were the classes done away with. There is 

 precious little satisfaction in either judging them or show- 

 ing them, for no one seems to know on what lines they are 

 to be judged. 



Mr. Purbeck is practical, he denies the rumor that he paid 

 -$3,000 for the greyhound Gemot the Season and adds that 

 he would not pay that sum for any dog on earth, and he's 

 not far wrong. 



Mr. Keyes, of the Rideau Kennels, Ottawa, Canada, will 

 accept our thanks for the plea-sing photo of his good little 

 cocker bitch Rideau Flossy. We shall publish it as show- 

 ing the difference in type two acceptably good cockers mav 

 be, as type goes at present. 



Our illustration this week is the noted black cocker bitch 

 Idea, ovraed by Mr. Geo. H. Bush, president of the Buffalo 

 Kennel Club. Idea is by King of Obos (Obo II.— Darkle) 

 out of Snow IL (Obo— Snow), and was bred by Mr. Geo. Bell, 



of Toronto, Can. Her winnings are: 2d, open, 1st, novice 

 and puppy classes, Toronto, 1890; 1st, open, puppyand novice 

 classes, at Ottawa. 18&0; 1st Charleston and 3d New Orleans 

 (to Be.ssie W.), 1891. These are the only times she has been 

 shown. While she has her faults, she is still one of the best 

 of the "Cockers of 1890." 



Mr. B. F. Wilson has the sympathy of bis fellow breeders 

 in the loss of that grand sire of held dogs, the English setter 

 Count Noble. This noted dog died at Sewicklej', Pa., last 

 Wednesdy morning. The dog was taken sick immediately 

 after eating his dinner and, despite all the doctor could do. 

 death claimed him. Count Noble was imported by Mr. D. C. 

 Sanborn, of Michigan, since whose death he has been in the 

 possession of Mr. Wilson. He was whelped in August. 1879. 

 Sired by the noted Count Wind'em, and claiming as his dam 

 the well-known Nora, his pedigree was of the bluest. It 

 was on the field and as a sire of field 1rial winners that this 

 dog must be ever rememt>ered. In 1880 he won the National 

 Derby. In the Brace Stakes with Nellie he won second 

 prize. In the Pennsylvania Trials' All-Aged Stake he 

 divided first money, and was third in the Fairmont. Minn., 

 Trials. A few only of the noted dogs he has sired can be 

 mentioned here, among them recur to us .such names as 

 Gath, Roderigo, San Roy, Prince Noble, .Ir.. Roger, Bo- 

 hemian Girl, Katie Noble and King' Noble. Following so 

 soon after the death of Gladstone, the English setter breeders 

 have indeed sustained a loss, though in the natural order of 

 things he had almost lived beyond his powers. 



Mr. Jarrett, manager of the Chestnut Hill Kennels, ar- 

 rived home last week, bringing with him from England five 

 dogs. Instead of bringing Christopher he cho.se a youngster 

 by Edgbaston Fox out of Purity that is said to 'be a hard 

 nut to crack. E.oslyn Sensation also returned with him. 

 The noted field trial Irish setter Tearaway, for Mr. Geo. H'. 

 Covert, of Chicago, also came in the same vessel. 



A meeting of the advisory committee of the A. K C. will 

 be held this evening (Wednesday), when several important 

 charges against dift'erent members of dogdom will be inves- 

 tigated. 



We hear that those stars of the fox-terrier world. Venio 

 and Vesuvienne, are now at the kennels of Mi\ John E. 

 Thayer, Lancaster, Mass. If this is the case, competition in 

 fox-terrier classes will be lively this spring. 



The W. K. C. has opened its office at 44 Broadway for 

 receiving entries and transacting business connected with 

 the coming show. 



At the auction sale of dogs at New Orleans, buyers were 

 few. Fred Kirby was the auctioneer. Bull -terrier White 

 Stubbs brought §150 and Warwick, Jr., ran up to f^lfiQO, as 

 it is said, but was withdrawn. The highest bid for the 

 English setter Dimple was 81,000— rejected. Another sale 

 was to be held on Sunday evening. ^ 



The newly formed Whippet Racing Club, whose existence 

 has been brought about through the exertions of the editor 

 of Canine World, will hold its first meeting next month. 

 A 200yds. handicap will be run with |500 added money. This 

 ought to draw the best dogs in the world, and such prizes at 

 meetings projjerly conducted, will soon place whippet racing 

 among general sports to be indulged in by high and low, as 

 they may desire. 



To show what an extensive affair Mr. Ci-uft's coming great 

 terrier show is to be, we may mention that there are 477 

 classes provided for already. Strange as it may seem, bull- 

 terriers, in the schedule, had only one class for dogs and 

 bitches; this has been attended to by request. 



It is very likely that some wire-haired beagles will be seen 

 at Boston. A certain beagle man proposes to import some, if 

 they can be secured. 



Mr. W. L. Washington, of Pittsburgh, Pa., has made 

 another valuable addition to his kennel of Irish setters by 

 the purchase of the beautiful champion Irish setter bitch 

 Molly Bawn (5841), who for years was the undefeated cham- 

 pion of the American benches. She was bought at the New 

 Orleans bench show (exclusive mention of the purchase 

 through Mr. Peck was made in our last is.sue), and has been 

 bred to Mr. Washington's Kildare, %vho has now won his 

 way into the challenge class under five different judges. 

 Molly Bawn is six years old. She was sired by champion 

 Glencho out of Biddy, and is well known to all lovers of 

 sporting dogs. She has a record that had never been equalled 

 up to the time it was made. Her principal winnings are too 

 well known to need repeating here. Molly Bawn i.s also 

 a thoroughly broken field dog. With the addition of MoUy 



Bawn Mr. Washingt.on will be able to bench four entries in 

 the challenge classes at the New York show. 



Mr. Lifctlefield, proprietor of the Lake View Kennels, 

 wntes:_ 'Your kennel department far surpasses any other 

 paper m this country. But as an advertising medium I 

 derive the most profit. It reaches a class of readers that I 

 have tried through other papers to find— those that appreci- 

 ate a good article and are willing to pay for it." We do not 

 solicit encomiums of this sort, but when they are received 

 spontaneously and with a request for further advertising 

 space, they are always gratifying and prove tiiat our claims 

 are oust. 



learn that the special prize list of the Washington 

 ^--ity Kennel Club's coming show in March is increasing 

 rapidly, the latest additions being a cup for the best fox- 

 temer in open or puppy classes, and a cup, value $30, which 

 will probably be given as a kennel prize for St. Bernards. 



They draw things pretty fine sometimes in Englisb courts. 

 A well known coursing man recentlv answered a summons 

 before a London police court for not having his greyhounds 

 muzzled in the street. He claimed exemption from the muz- 

 zling order, under a clause that said grevhounds and deer- 

 hounds, among other sporting dogs, were exempt from 

 wearing muzzles when being exercised and in charge of a 

 competent person. The judge held that taking the dogs 

 along a public street, though led by a chain, to their exer- 

 cising ground, was not part of the exercising. That com- 

 menced when the fields are reached, and that the dogs must 

 be muzzled till they got to the fields. The defendant con- 

 tended that according to "Stonehenge" and other authori- 

 ties, walking along- the roads was part of greyhound exer- 

 cising. The question was purelv a technical one, and the 

 defendant was fined 2 cents and 50cents costs. This decision, 

 if adhered to, will affect packs of hounds such as the Queen's 

 when they go out to exercise. 



The American Spaniel Cliib #tll Appoint a competent 

 person to look after the club members' entries at the New 

 York show, and if this supervision proves successful it will 

 be continued at subsequent large shows. • 



Our attention has been called to a pamphlet issued by 

 Dr. W. W. Bradley, who has a grievance against the Asso- 

 ciated Fanciers. In it he sets forth under oath before a 

 notary public in North Dakota, that last August, having 

 received special list No. 12 of the Associated Fanciers, be 

 purchased two dogs from them, Dom, an English mastiff", 

 and a certain St. Bernard. He sent the company 6100 with 

 the request that the dogs be kept till Sept. 10. They agreed 

 to the.se terms and accepted the money, stating that Dom 

 weighed then about 1431bs., though in the list lie is quoted 

 at loOlbs., and that the dog would win in a second class 

 show. He wrote the company to express the dogs to Ran- 

 somville, N. Y., where he then was, on Sept. 10. He waited 

 there till the 14th, but no dog arrived nor did he hear from 

 the Association. He then wrote them to express the dogs to 

 Buffalo on the 17th. He arrived there on the 18th, but no 

 dogs had come. He then wired them: "When and where 

 can I find my dogs?" He says that repeated messages were 

 sent asking for an answer. It was not till the following 

 Saturday that he managed to get an answer by telephone, 

 that they had not answered the telegrams because they sup- 

 posed he would receive their letter, explaining that the St. 

 Bernard not away while being taken to the depot, but that 

 they would ship Dom, themastiff , tnat night at 7 o'clock, On 

 the" Monday he again wired to l)Oth their office and kennels, 

 and found that no dog had been s h ipped to him. Not hearing 

 anything further, he then left for his home, Milnor, N. D. 

 On the 29th the Associated Fanciers wrote him, "No doubt 

 you con.sider the Associated Fanciers the greatest frauds on 

 earth, and I do not blame you. Here is what 1 am willing to 

 do— to send you the mastifl and the St. Bernard, if he turns 

 up. If he does not turn up, we will ship another and a 

 better one; also to pay all your expense.*, if reasonable, or to 

 refund you your money if so desired and pay your expenses." 

 Mr. Bradley then wrote them demanding payment of the 

 SlOO and Sil.'' expenses, at the same time forbidding them to 

 send any dog, as they had not filled their contract. He says 

 that in'deliance of 'this they expressed to him on Oct, 27 a 

 mastiff C') iu good iiesh that weighed lOllbs. He refused to 

 accept it, as it was not the dog he had bought. He has not 

 received any part of the money he sent the company, nor 

 anything on account of expenses. This is sworn to before 

 Chas. E. Wolfe, Notary Public of Sargent county, N. D. 

 Two other men swear before the same notary that they 

 weighed the dog and found it to be lOlltis. and in good Hesb". 

 This is Dr. Bradley's sworn .statement of the affair, and as 

 these pamphlets are being scattered broadcast, it behooves 

 the Associated Fi.nciers to state their side of the case, as the 

 above certainly demands it. We have received several letters 

 on the subject from people inclosing affidavits as to Dr. 

 Bradley's good .standing and character. 



Mr. Mortimer writes us that the following specials have 

 been offered for the W. K. C. show in February: Besides 

 the Gordon Setter Club's .specials, which have already been 

 published in these columns, Mr. Rowland P. Keasby, of 

 New York, offers $10 for the best field spaniel brood bitch, 

 to be shown with two of her get, the get onlj'- to be judged, 

 and open only to members of the Spaniel Club. Also the 

 American Spaniel Club sweepstakes of 1891, for field span- 

 iels whelped in 1890, will be decided. Entry foe .S3 each, 

 with SlO added by the club, to be divided as follows: Forty 

 per cent, to winner, thirty per cent, to breeder of winner, 

 twenty per cent, to second, ten per cent, to third, open to 

 members only. Entries close Feb. 9. Also a sweepstakes 

 for cocker spaniels, with the .same conditions. All entries 

 to above .stakes to be also entered in their respective classes 

 at their show. Entries to be made with the secretary of the 

 American Spaniel Club, Geo. H. Whitehead, 441 Chestnut 

 avenue, Trenton, N. J. N. Rowe offers the American Field 

 English Setter Cup, value SlOO, for the best Eiiglish setter in 

 the show. VV^e are asked to correct an error which appears 

 in their premium list concerning the old English Mastiff 

 Club's Forty Guinea Cup. The latter is offered by the old 

 English Mastiff Club, and not the American Mastiff Club, 

 and is for competition among the members of the former 

 club. There will also be a class for great Dane puppies 

 under 18 months old and another for bull-terriers under 

 801bs. weight. The management will gladly divide any 

 cla.ss by sex where five entries of either sex are received. Mr. 

 Daniel Downey, of Boston, offers §10 for the best Yorkshire 

 terrier, bred in America. 



We have not space to spare for the publication of Mr. 

 Watson's letter to the Fanciers' GazeWe; suffice it to say 

 that in heaping his mountain on their mole hill he has left 

 nothing of them iu sight to swear by. 



Mr. R. P. Mayhew has the satisfaction of having got two 

 kennel papers into a legal snarl owing to his remarks about 

 Mr. Krehl, of the Sioclc-Kceper. This geutlemaii has 

 brought suit in the High Court of Justice in England 

 against the FavcicfH' (jiaze.tAc for the publication of Mr. 

 Mayhew's letter. In the issue to hand of Fanciera' Gazette 

 they make an ample apology in the following terms; "We 

 consider, on a re-perusal of the letter, that it contains an 

 attack on Mr. Krehl's character which should not have 

 been made. We desire, therefore, to repeat the expression 

 of our deep regret to Mr. Krehl that the Fanciers' G-azette 



