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DOG CHAT. 



THE "World's Fair dog show will be held about June 12, 

 1893j and entries will close abont May 20. The show will 

 be held m stock buildings that are 50xS00ft. in size, and the 

 dogs will be their first occupants, so that everything will be 

 perfectly clean. There is any amount of room, as there will 

 be about fifty of these sheds or buildings at the naanager's 

 disposal. It only remains now to choose a manager and 

 Judges in whom exhibitors on both sides of the Avater can 

 have full confidence. 



Mr. E. B. Hears had his grand Wyoming Kennel team of 

 St. Bernards on exhibition at the Worcester County Agri- 

 cultural Fair. The team was composed of Sir Bedivere, 

 Plinlimmon, Jr., Hepsey and Lady Wellington. 



It is said that some fine collies arrived on the S.S. lira- 

 bda last, week: but diligent inquiry has failed to elicit 

 any information about thtm beyond the fact that one is 

 called Lady Macdonald and supposed to be worth "a pile." 



It is not often that a dog's value increases so rapidly as 

 the one under notiee. It seems Mrs. Clara Louise Kellogg- 

 Strakosch, the celebrated singer, was patting a strange dog, 

 whea the animal swallowed a.f350 ring which Mrs. Kellogg 

 held in her other hand. The prima donna at once com- 

 menced negotiations for the purchase of the dog, which she 

 succeeded in securing for the moderate sum of fifty cents. 

 The dog now has a value which its outward appearance 

 would hardly denote. 



The prizes to be given at the New P'ngland Kennel Club 

 and Poultrjr Association's dog show at Albany, N. Y,, Jan. 

 .5 to 8, are $7 and $3 in the regular classes. Kennel prizes of 

 $10 will also be given for the more important breeds. The 

 club has a guarantee fund of §1,000, and held at that time, 

 the show should meet with good support, especially as the 

 popular superintendent of the W. K. C., Mr. Jas. Mortimer, 

 will don the ermine. 



The A. K. C. has on the market a breeder's certificate 

 which breeders are asked to purchase. It is intended as a 

 protection to purchasers of dogs, and to accompany every 

 transfer of the animal as a means of identification. 



We have received a picture of Dr. Wartenburg's great 

 Dane Tyras, which he advertises in our business columns. 

 Tjras's color is a rich tiger brindle, and from the descrip- 

 tion which his owner sends us, for the convenience of any 

 intending purchaser, he must be a handsome animal. We 

 shall be pleased to show his letter to any who may feel in- 

 terested. 



Another of the stud books arranged by Mr. Hugh Dal- 

 ziel and published by Messrs. Upcott. Gill & Co.. of London, 

 is that devoted to the St. Bernard. The compiling of such 

 a work entails endless trouble and pains. The book also 

 includes a list of the principal shows where classes for St. 

 Bernards have been provided, and with these are the piize 

 lists, making an invaluable reference record for the breeder. 



In another column will be found the entries for the All- 

 Aged and Champion Stakes in the Eastern field trials to 

 be held next month. Compared with last year, there is an 

 equal number of settere, 44, but pointers show this year an 

 entry of 17, as against 11 in 1890, a gain which the success 

 of the pointers in last year's trials fully indicated. Our 

 principal breeders are well represented, and sportsmen will 

 also find new names among those who have entered dogs, 

 showing that, like bench show exhibiting, the field trial 

 element is daily drawing new recruits. The entries are very 

 representative, aspirants for honor beingentered from many 

 dilSerent States. The Champion Stakes show an entry of 

 seven, the same as last year; the setters as usual predominat- 

 ing The judges so far selected are Messrs. H. B. Duryea 

 and Arthur Merriman. who officiated last year, the third 

 judge has not yet been chosen. 



Mr. W. A. Coster, well known to all sportsmen as the 

 secretary of the Eastern Field Trials Club, has been urgently 

 requested to officiate as one of the judges at the Philadelphia 

 Kennel Club's trials, and will accept, in company with 

 Herbert Merriman. of Weston, Mass., another well-known 

 sportsman. These two gentlemen acted in the same capacity 

 last } ear, and this is the truest proof that their decisions 

 met with approval. 



Here is a good suggestion we find in the English Field. 

 The writer says that his Irish terriers persistently ran away 

 when walking them out. Recently he bought a little bitch, 

 perfectly broken, and such is the influence'of her good ex- 

 ample that his dogs when in her company can now be 

 safely trusted either walking out or hunting. 



We have received a very neat catalogue issued by Mr. 

 Charles E. Buan, of Peoria, 111., describing the merits of 

 his kennel of mastifi's. At the head of the kennel stands 

 Ormonde, whose breeding is of the very best, and the list of 

 matrons in the kennel will at once strike the eye of the 

 mastifE men as showing a variety of blood of the fight sort. 



It is not often the case that a weekly journal has the op- 

 portunity to retail apieceof important news before the great 

 dailies, but Forest and Stream led the way in "Dog Chat" 

 last week in reporting the purchase of such a notable dog as 

 the St. Beruard Princess Florence. It was an important 

 purchase, and a much needed one, for it is to the female 

 portion of the breed that we must look for the improvement 

 of the St. Bernard, and other breeds as well, in this country. 

 The example Mr. Reick has set in not being daunted by a 

 large price for a St. Bernard bitch, we trust will be exten- 

 sively followed by others. In a recent article in one of the 

 English kennel papers we read that they, the P^nglish 

 breeders, should not bewail the loss of their good St. Bernard 

 dogs when the Americans allowed them still to retain such 

 animals (naming several noted bitches, amongthem Princess 

 Florence) as still remained. It has been our contention all 

 along, and both privately and publicly have we urged that 

 bitches of known and proved superiority should be imported. 

 We have all the stud dogs that can be profitably used, but 

 until we follow the blood lines more closely and import the 

 producing matrons, we shall gain very little by the outlay 

 of such large sums as have been paid for St. Bernard dogs 

 this year. When urging this argument we are generally 

 met with the replv, "I won't run the risk of giving such 

 prices for a bitch." In view of recent sad events, is it any 

 more risk to import high-priced fruitful bitches than to pay 

 such large sums for stnddogs? In only one case, of late, 

 has a high-priced bitch (Plevna) succumbed to the inevitable 

 before her due course was run. 



Princess Florence is well known to St. Bernard breeders, 

 and as Sir Bedivere is the king so may she be termed the 

 queen of the breed. Whelped in 1888 "she is now coming 

 into her prime. Before she was nine months old she had 

 earned her right to championship honors, a dignity no other 

 St. Bernard has attained at that age. She has not been ex- 

 tensively shown, and only then at the best shows in Eng- 

 land. At that early age she had won the St. Bernai'd Club 

 cup for the best of her sex, and has given both Plinlimmon 

 and Sir Bedivere close rubs. In a letter £rom Mr. Cnapman 

 he told us that she weighed over 20(Hbs., and her bone and 

 height, 33fA<in. at shoulder, is far- beyond the average for one 

 of her sex. Following out tbe policy of obtaining all the 



Prince Regent blood he can secure, Mr. Relck has selected 

 the very best of this noted sire's get and the one that gave 

 him his early reputation. Young Keeper, as bis name de- 

 notes, is a sou of the grand-headed .smooth champion 

 Keeper, and will no doubt prove a valuable addition to the 

 smooth ranks, now that Watch has gone. Princess Flor- 

 ence's departure from England on the 24th of this month 

 per S. S. Aurania, together with Young Keeper, will prove 

 a great loss to the English St. Bernard fraternity. Through 

 the New York St. Bernard Kennel, New York will now be 

 able to hold its own in future competitions for team prizes, 

 and we trust that the owner will show as much judgment 

 and care in suitably mating Princess Florence as he has 

 shown in his purchases. 



Mr. Geo. V. Glazier, of Salem, Mass., has been appointed 

 chairman of a committee which seeks to have an obnoxious 

 law repealed relating to the keeping of bloodhounds in Mas- 

 .sachusetts. He has forwarded to us an extract of the law, 

 which is as follows: 



Mapsaclui.'^etts Acts of 1886, Chapter did —An act concerning the 

 keeping of doga known as hloodhonnds: Spc. 1. No ptsdd shall 

 keep or have in his caie or poasesaion any dog of the species com- 

 monly knowB as blondhoundR, nr any dog which is or h«a been 

 clas.«ed by dog fanciers or breeders as Cuban blood hoinid". Sibe- 

 rian bloodhounda, German mastiffs or great Dane, boarliound or 

 t'lmer dog. he said dog in whole or in part of said species, udIrmp 

 the same be kept for exhibition solely, in which case said doe 

 shall be at all times st'curfly inclosed or chained, and shall not 

 be abowed ^o be at lai'ge, even though ip charge of a keeper, un- 

 le«s proDeriy and securely muzzled. Sec. 2, Penalty, Sec. H. 

 Dogs to be removed or killed. 



Mr. Glazier is now collecting evidence with a view to have 

 this law abolished in so far as it aflft-cts bloodhounds, a breed 

 he is conspicuously interested in, and asks for information 

 frorn those who know the breed as to its disposition, nature 

 and qualities. Such a law certainly savors of ancient blue 

 laws and bigotry, and no doubt is begotten of the absurd 

 superstition iu relation to these dogs engendered by the 

 more or le.ss sensational tales of old slave-hunting episodes, 

 and not of nineteenth century experience. Outside of the 

 so-called "Uncle Tom's (I^abin bloodhounds," which have no 

 earthly title to the name of bloodhound, the true English 

 bloodhound is comparatively scarce in this country, being 

 confined to a few kennels, of which Mr. Winchell's is the 

 rincipal one. In conversation with that gentleman we 

 ave always heard him speak highly of their dispof^ition. 

 The bloodhound proper is a dog that does not make friends 

 with the first one who patq bis heail, and as such is to be 

 praised, but after acquaintance, from what we can gather, 

 man has no more faithful friend or companion. A savage 

 bloodhound like a savage mastiff or dog of any breed should 

 be closely guarded, or unless very valuable to breeding 

 interests, destroyed; but to enact such a law as this is, we 

 think, an unpardonable discriminatiou to one of the noblest 

 and on occasions useful breeds of dogs we have. We should 

 like to have the opinion of Mr. Winchell and other breeders 

 or former owners of dogs of this breed on the subject, so that 

 Mr. Glazier may be fully prepared to carry out his inten- 

 tion. Concerning great Danes, also mentioned in the act, 

 the breed is comparatively common, and no greater reftita- 

 tion of their savagery could be advanced than a .sight of the 

 ring at one of the New York shows, when the Hmh Ground 

 Kennel turns in a dozen of their dogs to romp together. 



One of the latest acquisitions to the St. Bernard fancy is 

 Dr. John W. Dunlop, of Clare, Mich., who has named 'his 

 kennels the "Clare City Kennels." They are situated on a 

 charming elevation on his farm of sixty acres, watered 

 by a beautiful stream fed by never-failing springs. A 

 .spacious mansion is now in process of construction, and 

 beautiful lawns are being laid out and orcb.srds planted, 

 the whole to co,st when completed upwardof ?.50,000. Among 

 the latest additions to the kennel is Bonnie Doon (Ben Lev 

 mond— Capitolab who will probably be bred to Lord Bute 

 and should produce somethmg of merit. He has also pur- 

 chased of H. F. Littlefield, Lake View. Worcester, Mass, 

 that excellent brood bitch Beulo (16,0€0), served by the 

 typical young dog Guy. Also two perfectly marked young- 

 sters, Prince Clare and Moxie, which the Doctor says "are 

 making excellent improvement" in the Michigan climate. 

 The Doctor is taking up the breeding of St. Bernards not so 

 much for the profit as the pleasure and recreation to be de- 

 rived from it, his aim and object being to produce stock 

 that will make its mark. Dr. Dunlop will be a welcome ad- 

 dition to the already large list of St. Bernard breeders. 



The New York Herald suggests that British doe owners 

 shall participate in the World's Fair dog show in 1893, and 

 their correspondent on the other side has sounded English 

 exhibitors on the subject, and they express themselves as 

 favorable to the idea of having the different specialty clubs 

 select a certain dog and bitch as types of the breeds to be 

 sent to America. These clubs to pay the expenses of the 

 dogs to New York and back, while the Chicago manage- 

 ment— i. e , the Mascoutah Kennel Club, for we hardly 

 think the World's Fair people would trouble themselves so 

 far, if they identify themselves with the big show— to pay 

 the expenses of transportation from New York to Chicago 

 and return. The plan is a likely one, in the suggestion, and 

 would no doubt enable our breeders to get a look at the best 

 specimen of many breeds wherein we are lamentably behind 

 the times. As Colonel North is sending his race horses, a 

 draft from his noted greyhound kennel would give a great 

 boom to coursing and grevbound interests; some typical 

 Newfoundlands and the different breeds of terriers would 

 also serve to arouse greater interest in the.se breeds. Our 

 suggestion of International Produce Sweepstakes would 

 also tend to a friendly rivalry that would be bound to serve 

 a good purpo.se. The matter of judging is the only stum- 

 bling block to the English side of the question. 



Dropping into the A. K. C. headquarters the other day 

 Secretary Vredenburgh said very seriously, "Do you know 

 I've just come across the best St. Bernard stud dog in the 

 country?" We, in our innocence, answered that we knew 

 of one or two good dogs in that line too. "Oh, well," he 

 said, "my dog beats them all. Do you know a dog called 

 Sir John, shown in the novice and puppy classes at Toronto, 

 and entered as registered in the Canadian Kennel Club?" 

 "Yes." "Well, the dog is ISmos. old and entered as by 

 cbaovpion Sir Charle«. Sir Charles was burned at Colum- 

 bus, 0., show in 1887." AVe confessed that certainly Sir 

 Charles was a wonder and remarked that it was about "time 

 the C. K. C. had a stud book published on proper lines. 

 The secretary of the A. K. C. protested the award and has re- 

 fused to recognize the award as a record. 



A new sanitarium near London, under the direction of 

 Dr. Sewell, the celebrated English canine "vet.," has been 

 established. Here are separate wards for each dog disease, 

 a surgical operation room, dissecting room, bath Toim, 

 kitchen and separate exercising grounds for each division 

 of the institution. Dr. Sewell last week demonstrated the 

 fact that veterinary science applied to dogs developed 

 points incredible to the general public. A valuable fox- 

 terrier bitch was in danger of death in consequence of her 

 inability to bear nups to a collie. The Doctor succeeded in 

 performing the CEesarian operation, and the bitch rapidlv 

 recovered. It is said to be the first 'operation of the kind 

 known. 



The Meuthou Kennels have bought of Mr. J. J. Lynn, 

 Port Huron, the young rougb-coated St. Bernard bitch Lidy 

 Martin, by Canada's Merchant Prince (6,327) out of Blaz 



(9,010). Mr. Croskey has been lucky in picking up this 

 proniising young bitch, and she will be bred to Lord Bute. 



We hear from Peoria, 111., that a pug well known a few 

 years ago joined the silent majority some little time since. 

 This was champion Little Toby, half brother to the ill-fated 

 champion Lord Nelson. Roth of these dogs were bred in 

 Scotland, At the same time another old-time importation 

 went the way of all flesh, Lady Fiossie, dam of Miss Whit- 

 ney's Thunder, Tiny II., Midget Lord and other winners. 



We are asked to correct the statement that the pug Curtis 

 won third at Ottawa. Curtis won first in the open dog 

 class. 



The action taken by the Philadelphia Kennel Club is sure 

 to can.se considerable comment among members of dogdom. 

 This club is one of our oldest kennel organizations, and in- 

 cludes members who are at all times active as exhibitors or 

 sportsmen in the field. The principal grotind on which the 

 resignationis based is the shelving of the recorajnendation 

 of the committee appointed by the A. K. C. that wmners of 

 field trial stakes held by clubS; members of the A. K. C. 

 should be recognized, and two wins in an open to all stake 

 should constitute a right to the title of field trial champion 

 in the eyes of the A. K. C. This would have allowed the 

 winners of the stakes of Philadelphia Kennel Club trials to 

 compete for .specials at shows given for dogs with best field 

 trial records, etc. The question just lies iu a nutshell: 

 Should the winners of .stakes in P. K. C. trials be put on a 

 par with winners of stakes at other trials where the compe- 

 tition is open to all. That is a matter for the A. K. C. to 

 decide. One member of this committee put it to us this 

 way: "Well, the .stakes are open to all, for the membership 

 in the P. K. C. is open to all." But that is not the way to 

 look at it. The other charges brought by the president of 

 the P. K. C, that the proceedings at the A. K. C. meetings 

 are "cut and dried," should be investigated and the charges 

 sustained or refuted. The moral standing of the A. K. C. 

 demands it, made as it is seriously in print by an important 

 club like the Philadelphia Kennel Club. Interviewing the 

 secretary of the A K. Con the su inject we were told that 

 Mr. Child, the P. K. C. delegate, said to him after the May- 

 meeting that "if those resolutions were not adopted the 

 club would resign," and no answer vyas made. 



Through a mistake in the secretary's book we credited the 

 Wild Crow Kennels with the ownership of the first prize 

 winning English setter pufjpy, Clip, at the Daubury show. 

 The pup belongs to Dr. Hair, of Bridgeport, Conn. 



There is likely to be a rumpus about the unauthorized en 

 tering of Mr. Little's Clumber Newcastlein the Ottawashow 

 without bis knowledge. Of course the circumstances may 

 be subject to explanation on the part of the Ottawa people, 

 but sach loose methods should certainly be looked into and 

 Mr. Little in exposing it has done the proper thing at the 

 right time. The question arises was there a reason for it 

 and why was it done? 



The secretary of the A.K.C. is now preparing a certificate 

 for the use of breeders who intend to exhibit at the World's 

 Fair show, for which a fee of 50 cents is to be charged. This 

 will be submitted at once to the World's Pair people, and 

 when passed will be for sale. These certificates will be 

 available at once, so hs toavoid the rush that will inevitably 

 occur in the A.K.C. office when entries for the show areabout 

 closing. It will be seen by this certificute that the rule 

 about a dog winning two prizes at a kennel club show being 

 eligible for registration will not hold good; the dog must be 

 eligible to registration through pedigree alone. This will to 

 a great extent affect the representative character this inter- 

 national event should have. 



Mr. W. B. Robinson, who recently bought out the Ash- 

 mont Kennels, has had the hardest kind of luck lately. Ben 

 Franklin turned out a brute as regards temper and bit his 

 wife and a stranger so that he had to destroy it. Then his 

 neighbors summoned him on account of the rJogs barking — 

 result, a .110 fine, and as if this was not sufficient, a few days 

 after Ashmont Juno WHS poisoned. Then last week Ash 

 mont Alice, by Imperial Chancellor, also fell a victim to the 

 poison fiend. The reason that the latter bitch's death is 

 most unfortunate is the fact that she had been served by 

 that wonderful headed dog that created such interest at 

 New York in the spring, Ingleside Maximilian, and as she 

 was a most suitable bitch to breed to him it means a great 

 loss both to Mr. Robiu.son and the fancy. He is doing all 

 in his power to find the guilty parties,' but this is not an 

 easy matter. The analysis showed the poison used to be 

 phosphorus. Mr. Robinson will, we are sure, have the sym- 

 pathy of his fellow breeders in his troubles. 



Among the new advertisements this week we find that the 

 following have dogs for sale: J. H. Miller, well-trained 

 beagles, foxhound.s, pointers and setters; James Berry, 

 trained pointers; G. A. McGillivray, St. Bernards and buU- 

 terriers; Geo. H. Stibbs, pointer pups; Handsome Brook 

 Kennels, cocker spaniels; University, Miss., great Dane; F. 

 M. Bennett, trained Gordon setter; M. T. Mason, pointer 

 pups; Mrs. A. Girt, pointers; Rochelle Kennels, black and 

 tan terriers; Strebnr Kennels, pointer pups; H. Northwood, 

 fox-terrier pups. In the stud: H. North wood's fox-terrier 

 Painter. Wants: W. B. Palmer, red cocker spaniels. 



Dr. Joseph L. Hancock says in the American Naturalist 

 that his attention has recently been called to the work on 

 "Organic Evolution" by Professor Eimer, page 114, to a 

 paragraph in which he seems unable lo account for the dogs 

 iu Constantinople carrying the tail upright. In speaking of 

 the subject he says: "But the reason why these dogs begin 

 to erect the tail and carry it upright, w'hile the ancestral 

 jackal, like the wolf, carries it hanging down, is not so easy 

 x,o discover, although the fact could scarcely be explained as 

 a case of adaptation." "1 beg to ofler a provisional explan- 

 ation of this phenomenon, and also to take exception to the 

 latter statement— that it cannot be explained as a case of 

 adaptation. While my observations were not made at Con- 

 stantinople, the dogs accompanying the several tribes of 

 Indians I observed in the western United States, [the words 

 dog and wolf are used synonymously iu this note] some of 

 which are tamed wolves, or are directly descended from the 

 wild American wolf known as the coyote, offer opportunities 

 of study which brought me to a realization of this subject, 

 which may be summed up in a few epitomized remarks. As 

 the dog becomes domesticated it is prone to use the tail as an 

 organ of expressing mental states, especially those of emotion, 

 for example, the wag of the tail express'ive of delight, or 

 .sudden dropping of the tail between the legs at some disap- 

 pointment or fright. The ancestral or wild wolf carries the 

 tail hangmg down, because that position (the tail being 

 especially bushy and large in the wild animal) would be less 

 couspicious and more compatible with life in a free state of 

 nature, or, as it were, to better elude detection. A family of 

 wolvesplaying together undisturbed occasionally carry their 

 tails curled upwards. By degrees the tail acquires naturally 

 the upright position as a result of coincident evolution of 

 the mind of the wolf incidental to domestication, and more- 

 over thus instancing the slow adaptation of the appendage 

 as an organ of expression. The cessation of natural selection 

 in the domestic dog would give to the tail greater freedom 

 of motion without detriment to life; and artificial selection 

 perfects the caudal appendage into many diverse shapes. Still 

 greater inflnenee is exerted by certain expressions of the mind 



