Junk 28, 1892.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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himself as well pleased with his treatment by American 

 sportsmeD. Mr. Mortimer has arrived in England all safe 

 and was an interested spectator at the show. The sensa- 

 tion of the show was the sale of the collie Ormonde by Mr, 

 Stretch for $3,500 in cash to Messrs. Holme and Holliday. 

 That collie breeding pays when you have the right stuff is 

 amply proved, by Mr. Stretch's success. 



Mr. Brailsford, in speaking of his American trip to the 

 Editor of Stock-Keeper, remarked that "An American trial 

 was a tremendous test and brings out what nose and pace 

 and endurance there is in a dog, and the one to put down to 

 win in a trial is the dog that works in a determined manner, 

 has a good nose and knows the habits of thequail; asplendid 

 little bird with more scent than the English partridge." 



Mr. Heywood-Lonsdale will again run his dogs in our 

 trials this year. He will send over among others the pointer 

 Prawn. He is said to be a good one, and will be handled by 

 Angus Cameron, who broke him and who is now with the 

 Hempstead Farm Kennels. The others to cross have not yet 

 been selected. It is not stated whether Mr. Brailsford him- 

 self will come over this year, but if he does he may expect a 

 genuine welcome from those who made his acquaintance in 

 1890. 



The Seminole Kennels have made a reduction in the stud 

 fee of their Irish setter Jerry Jarvis. As Jerry is litter 

 brother to Duke Elcbb, the low fee brings this good blood 

 within the reach of all. 



The annual meeting of the Kingston Kennel Club was 

 held the other evening when the following officers were 

 elected: President, Mr. Joseph B. Walkern; First Vice-Pres- 

 ident, Mr. Robert E. Kent; Second Vice-President, Mr. 

 G-eorge S. Oldrteve: Secretary, Mr. Harry Bates: Executive 

 Committee, Dr. Charles H. Clark. Messrs. Peter C. McNiven, 

 T. Carson, F. J. Lee and G. Allen. 



Mr. Gosling, the noted St. Bernard breeder, is dispersing 

 hia kennel, and has sold the noted Angelo to a Mr. F. E. 

 Harrison; Baron Dacre goes to Mr. Alfred BousQeld and 

 Belinda III. to Mr. T. Little of Blackrod: Belinda is well 

 known and has won first at a St. Bernard club show. 



Further notes on the English Kennel Club show and 

 other English news must lay over for another week as space 

 is at a premium this week. 



We do not think that the action of the Rochester Kennel 

 Club in holding on to the dates, Sept. 6 to 9, in spite of the 

 fact that the Hamilton Club bad by publication claimed the 

 same dates some months previously, will redound to the 

 credit of the former club. Neither will they by such action 

 be in a position to claim the goodwill of the unbiased ex- 

 hibitors. The Hamilton people, as the letters which we 

 publish in another column will show, have acted in a sports- 

 manlike manner, and the least the Rochester Club could 

 have done would have been to submit the question to arbi- 

 tration. We as well as others think the Hamilton Club 

 rather hasty in giving up their dates, as it is well known 

 that they would be in the stronger position of the two clubs. 

 All roads do not lead to Rochester, and the Canadian Club 

 could presumably count on a much larger entry than that of 

 the Flour City. Their show, coming the week before that 

 held in Toronto, which is only forty miles away, would no 

 doubt get a large Canadian entry and stand just as good, if 

 not a better, chance to secure entries lrorn the States, and 

 especially from the Western exhibitors. Exhibitors will 

 not be likely to forget the way the Hamilton Club ran their 

 first show last year, and these, men would probably have 

 been only too anxious to repeat their trip. Anyhow the 

 Hamilton Club have lost nothing by their magnanimous 

 conduct, and the exhibitors would be very likely to bear this 

 in mind should they still see fit to hold a show this year or 

 wait till next. 



The Pacific Fox-Terrier Club already numbers twenty 

 members and it is expected that before the next meeting the 

 number will be increased to thirty. 



Mr. "Inspiration" Winslow leaves for his usual fishing 

 trip to the Oquossoc Angling Association, Indian Rock, Me., 

 next Friday, and as he has premised to send Forest and 

 Stream some fishiug notes, we shall expect this well known 

 dog man to do full justice to the subject. Mr. Winslow's 

 proverbial modesty prevented him telling us of the wonder- 

 ful luck he had last year, but we trust that this year he will 

 throw such scruples to the winds and give us the "whole 

 truth and nothing but the truth." 



Mr. F. B. Zimmer writes that the Mohawk Valley Poultry 

 and Kennel Club have again secured Mr. C. H. Mason's ser- 

 vices to judge their next show, which will be held at Glovers- 

 ville, January, 1893. 



Mr. A. D. Stewart, Hamilton, Canada, has changed the 

 name of his fox-terrier kennel from "Bonaily" to '•Silver- 

 hill,'' and in this connection has claimed the prefix "Silver," 

 which he will use regularly hereafter in naming his stock. 



Mr. H. M. Tonner, of North Ontario, Cal., in a letter says: 

 There is little in the doggy line here at present, but there 

 is one matter I wish to write on. That is the scarcity of 

 birds in the East as compared with this country. If some 

 ot the Eastern handlers would brine their dogs to this coast 

 for the winter, they would find birds in abundance, and 

 cover that is unsurpassed. It being low sage brush chiefly, 

 a wide ranging dog can be seen at all times in the more 

 favored localities. None of the land is posted, and were I 

 to even guess at the size of our bevies you would put me 

 down as the best of them all. Our quail are as game as they 

 make them, and lie beautifully to a dog." Doubtless our 

 handlers would like to avail themselves of such a country, 

 but as it is largely a question of bread and butter with them, 

 the expense of a long journey like that puts the idea out of 

 the question. 



Up to this month there have been 5,088 dogs licensed in 

 New York city, as against a total of 4,644 last year. The 

 police census shows that there are 21,910 dogs in the city, 

 leaving 16,832 yet to be licensed. There is no dog pound 

 now, as the old one was destroyed by fire last winter. A 

 new pound is being erected on the same site, at the foot of 

 Bridge street, and the plans have been approved of by the 

 S. P. C. A. It will accommodate ninety dogs. The new 

 pound will be open for business about Juiv 15, so until then 

 the curs will have the run of the city. 



The National Greyhound Club have donated the follow- 

 ing specials to be competed for at the Industrial Exhibition 

 Association's dog show, to be held in Toronto, Canada: 

 Club medal for best greyhound, club medal for best deer- 

 hound, and club medal for best Psovoi. 



Mr. W. S. Hull, returning from England on the Alaska 

 last Sunday, brought with him the fox-terrier Question, 

 frcm Mr. Clarke's kennels. The dog will be taken to Grand 

 Rapids, Mich., where we shall probably see him on the bench 

 at that show next fall. 



The regular meeting of the Pacific Kennel Club, held at 

 21 Kearney street, on Wednesday evening, was very well 

 attended, some thirty members being present. After the 



reading of the minutes of the last meeting the following 

 officers were elected: Ramon E. Wilson, President: Fred 

 Webster, First Vice-President: E P. Schell, Second Vice- 

 President; Horace Orear, Recording Secretary; Clarence 

 Haigbt, Financial Secretary and Treasurer. The committee 

 on payment ot poultry prize money reported progress. The 

 following new members were admitted: Fred Farnsworth, 

 Sycamore; S. E. Fischer, Hay wards, Cal.; John A. Donahue, 

 Ji., F. L. Wooster, W. A. H. Chenoweth. The committee 

 on constitution and by-laws were instructed to have 500 

 copies pr.nted. The meeting adjourned until the first Wed- 

 nesday in July. 



Mr. C. Steadmau Hanks, who has lately imported so many 

 Pdovois, has nearly compleated a most picturesque kennel 

 for his favorites. It is a two-storied building, lathed and 

 plastered throughout, with office, kitchen and benching 

 room on the first floor, and benching room and kennel man's 

 room on the second floor. The design of the building is 

 somewhat after the style of a Swiss chalet and must look 

 very pretty. It will be remembered that Mr. Hanks shipped 

 Two fox terriers as a preseut to Prince Galitziu, of Russia, 

 but, unfortunately they died on the way over, one, two days 

 from Philadelphia a d the other just before reacbine Riga. 

 Mr Hanks has had more hard luck, as one of the Psovois 



ing to standard had nothing whatever to do with it. The 

 13in. was not asked by breeders but by sportsmen who were 

 unwilling to see a 12>gin. dog handicapped in the field by 

 running against one 15in. in height. 



I see that Mr. Phoabus has gathered an entirely wrong 

 impression from a paragraph in a previous letter of mine. 

 He says, " 'Bradley' seems to think it commendable to keep 

 good dogs out and thus keep the classes small." While! 

 do think it commendable to preserve the standard which 

 has placed the beagles of America far ahead of those of Eng- 

 land, yet I do not support the old standard for the purpose 

 of keeping the classes small, nor do I believe that 13 and 

 16in. classes would bring the club more entries for the trials 

 than 13 and 15in. classes. Let me assure my friend that no 

 one will be more pleased than I with a large entry list and 

 sharp competition, and I am sure that even under the pres- 

 ent standard, to which Mr. Phoebus objects, he will find 

 "something to run against in the field." I hope his health 

 will permit him to be present at Nanuet next October. He 

 will receive a hearty welcome, and I have no doubt that 

 among such dogs as Tony Weller, Frank Forest, Ring, 

 Fairy's Lee, June Rose, Gjpsy Forest, Nellie and others 

 which could be mentioned, ne will find worthy opponents 

 for the best of his beagles, good as we know them to be. 



Bradley. 



Beagle Champion Storm. 

 Owned by the Somerset Kennel?, Bernardsville, N. J. 



which he supposed was shipped on the Connemaugh, aud 

 which bad visited the stud dog of the Imperial Kennels, 

 died in whelp on the journey from Gatchina to Riga. The 

 old bitch was too heavy iu whelp to stand the journey, the 

 distance being 200 miles. The other two, however, were in 

 good health when steamer sailed. 



Among th-se who offer dogs for sale in our business 

 columns this week we notice that Handsome Brook Kennels 

 have cocker spaniels; J. Hope, two well-bred St. Bernards; 

 R. D. Stocking, four English setter puppies, etc.; C. A 

 Parker, several pointers; J. A. Harcvood, St. Bernard pups; 

 Corktown Kennels, cocker spaniels; Dr. John R. Dar iels, 

 well bred pointer pups: Seminole Kennels, young Irish 

 setter brood bitches; Chas. E. Glass, English setter pups. 

 At stud: Melrose Kennels' Lord Melrose and New York St. 

 Bernard Kennels' Refuere II , Kingston Regent and Prince 

 Clifford. Wants: A. Gerald Hull, a registered bulldog pup. 



The Pointer Club should have held a meeting last Mon- 

 day, but a quorum failed to appear. 



Mr. James Mortimer has been commissioned by Mr. Henry 

 Huber, of San Francisco, Cal., to purchase for him the best 

 pointer dog be can find in England. Mr. Huber already 

 owns Duke of Vernon and Sally Brass II. 



Mr. Harry Hulman, Jr., of Indianapolis, Ind., one of the 

 proprietors of the Blue Ridge Kennels, is in New York this 

 week. He thinks the purchase of Antonio one of the best 

 moves the kennel ever made, and there are many others who 

 8 hare this belief. The Blue Ridge Kennels are in the fall 

 Derbies this year for blood, but will be satisfied if they re- 

 peat their Hope's Mark— Bob Cooper victories of last year. 



THE BEAGLE STANDARD. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



In your issue of June 2 you publish a second interesting 

 letter from Mr. Phoebus on the beagle standard. In it the 

 gentleman states that "dogs which could not win in the 15in. 

 class are now winners in the 13in. class." Other corres- 

 pondents have made the same assertion. Let us look at the 

 records for a moment. There have been two shows in which 

 a 13in. class has been made, Boston and Lewiston, and none 

 of the winners at Boston competed at Lewiston. Passing 

 over the question whether a dog can become "a prominent 

 winner" by carrying off one prize, let us look at the dogs 

 themselves. Of the Boston winners Topsy S., in '91, won 

 firsts in 15in. class at Boston and Lynn. Tony is a 12in. 

 dog, but I am not familiar with her record; Forest Daisy is 

 well under 12in. and was shown for the first time at Boston; 

 Clyde won in 12in. class at Lynn in '91; Butterfly, the win- 

 ner at Lewiston, is under 12in. and made her debut this year. 

 So we find in the 13in. class up to the present time five win- 

 ners. Two of these, both under 12in., made their first ap- 

 pearance this season; one had carried oft' two firsts in the 

 15in. class in hot competition and one bad previously won 

 in the 12in. class. Surely this second gives no foundation 

 for the statement quoted above. All could have won as 

 well under the old division of classes as under the new. 



The statement in Mr. Phoebus' letter which particularly 

 interested me was the rapid increase in size from Damper, 

 lOin., to Ralph W. I have been at some little trouble to 

 trace this dog and learn that he measures at the present 

 ti me 17>£in. He has sired only one litter and that out of a 

 14m. bitch. All the pups of this litter but one died when a 

 few weeks old. This one lived for eight months and was 

 then killed by the cars. At the time of the accident he "was 

 16>^in. high and growing fast." What could be a better 

 argument to prove that beagles can be easily bred to the 

 size of foxhounds than the increase in height from Damper 

 to this 16J^in.. eight months old pup. 



It is also affirmed that the change from 12 to I3in. was 

 made because beagles could not be bred true to the 12in. 

 standard. The gentleman is mistaken. The field trial 

 committee of the N. B. C. made a 13in. and a loin, class so 

 as to give every dog entered in the trials an opportunity to 

 contest with those of his own size. The change on the bench 

 was an afterthought and was made only to harmonize the 1 

 bench show and field, trial classes, The question, of breed- ; 



THE MERCER CASE AND MR. WADE. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



It is certainly rather inconsistent that a man who is 

 notoriously the most emphatic, oracular, and I might add 

 conceited, writer for the kennel press on either side of the 

 Atlantic, should lecture me about "pedagoguing" dogmen. 

 On what subject does Mr. Wade not venture to express an 

 opinion, and on what does he express it in moderation? 

 When I wish for instruction I like to go to men who can 

 look at a subject dispassionately and discuss it calmly. 

 This, Mr. Wade seems incapable of doing. He persists in 

 keeping the real issue in the Mercer case out of sight. I 

 have never set forth, nor has the Canadian Kennel Club, 

 that only the wrong done Mr. Little was to be taken into 

 account. Once more I lay before the readers of Forest 

 and Stream the plain facts of this case. A company in 

 Ottawa formed for the purpose of holding shows, offered 

 through its bench show committee, among other prizes, one 

 for Clumbers, under certain conditions. Mr. Mercer by a 

 false entry obtained this prize, and notwithstanding much 

 writing and some "apologies," retained that which he ob- 

 tained under false pretenses. Now, to my simple and "per- 

 verse" mind this is a clear case of dishonesty — call it by what 

 name you will. 



To me this is just as real a case of fraud as if the company 

 bad been swindled by a forged check. If others do not see 

 it thus, I do not propose, however, to attempt to beat it 

 into them with a club, nor do I wish any man to try to beat 

 it ( ut of me in the same fashion. 



I claim the right to bold my own opinion on this and all 

 other matters without, being insulted by Mr. Wade or any 

 one else, and such attempts I consider infinitely worse than 

 that height of iniquity in Mr. Wade's estimation, "peda- 

 goguing" dog men. It is natural to me to seek for and to 

 give reasons for my opinions, and I have been in the habit 

 of doing so in anything I have contributed to the kennel 

 press, because I think that if this were more done we should 

 learn to discuss and cease to wrangle. Mr. Wade writes as 

 though I was personally responsible for Mr. Mercer's sen- 

 tence. I knew nothing of the action of the Ottawa commit- 

 tee till after the meeting, and I was not present at the meet- 

 ing of the C. K. C. executive that considered his case, but I 

 fully believe that the case was considered on its merits 

 apart from personal considerations. 



We regret Mr. Mercer's course; we would prefer to see 

 him a respected and useful member of our Canadian 

 kennel world, and efforts have been made in that direction 

 — efforts which have not resulted in success nor been repaid 

 with gratitude, but the reverse. This, however, is aside 

 quite from the main issue, though I may say that so far as 

 f know Mr. Mercer's worst enemy has been himself. 



I regret that Mr. Wade has seen fit to drag in the name of 

 "Ashmont," whose writings, long known to me, I am pro- 

 bably in as good a position to appreciate as any one. I think, 

 however, "Ashmont" is too much of a gentleman to relish 

 having the names of others, especially of his own profession, 

 brought into odious comparison with his own. Truly a 

 man's friends may be his worst enemies. Mount Royal. 



Mont heal, Canada. 



THE EVOLUTION OF DOG "JUDGES." 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



The process of matriculation here of : many "anthorities" 

 on dogs and not a few judges is pretty well understood, but 

 I am somewhat surpristd to find that the same conditions 

 hold in doggy England. I bad supposed that "who is who" 

 in doggy matters there was so thoroughly settled that 

 ephemera was not a known variety of insect there, and that 

 "a member of the executive committee of the Bulldog Club 

 of America, sir!" was distinctively an American product. 

 The following letter from one of the oldest mastiff fanciers 

 now living in England shows that the May fly is born in 

 the morning and dead ai night in England as well as here: 



"Dear Mr. Wade: Many thanks for copy of . I 



have not seen the standards to which your refer, but quite 

 agree with you that the opinion of one individual could not 

 be called a standard. Speaking of standards I often wonder 

 of what use they are beyond giving a beginner an idea of 

 what a breed should be like, There the usefulness of stan- 

 dards ends, for every judge seems to think it necessary for 

 the good of the breed he adjudicates to have a standard of 

 his own, and wishing to be original must introduce some 

 crotchets, hence the curiosities in awards so often seen; nor 

 is this state of things to be wondered at, when one considers 

 the manner in which our judges are manufactured. Some 

 one has said that 'judges are born,' but many people think 

 they can get in front of nature and so strike out the natural 

 aptitude part of the programme and commence the manu 

 facturing process, which is generally worked in this man- 

 ner. An individual, often possessing more money than 

 sense, jumps into the fancy, joins a specialist club and 

 spends money freely in buying winners (very often through 

 the advice of a kennel man who has probably forgotten 

 more about dogs than his employer will ever know). Then 

 he starts to wholesale exhibiting, gives a few cups and 

 specials to different shows and is soon asked to judge! with 

 a result alike disastrous to his own s°nse of the fitness of 

 things (if he has any, which is often doubtful) and the good 

 of the breed. Sometimes a few appearances in the ring are 

 sufficient to convince the individual that he is altogether 

 out of place, and he gracefully retires, but unfortunately 

 this seldom occurs, and such a man is more likely to get 

 the idea into his head that if it were only possible to find 

 another like himself the pair would be sufficient to fill a 

 show, and considers himself ready and capable of judging 

 anything in creation." 



This pen picture is too vivid to need any addition, and I 

 ought to say the writer sees no American papers, so his 

 views were not suggested. W. Wade. 



Hulton, Pa. 



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