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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[BeC. 1, 1893. 



A KEKOSKEE MEDAL. 



CHICA.GO, 111., Nov. 12.— Some one, whom I do not 

 know, but who signs himself "F, S,,"ha8 sent the fol- 

 lowing letter, dated Chicago, Nov. 10: 



Your Kekoakee fish Ptory takes firHt prize. It is a dandy. As 

 facts are faotf, itmii'st be true, every word of it. I was tbinking 

 of eoiPfr up there at ler a mess of bullheads, but after reading 

 y> ur storv I thnuerht I had better wait and learn if there were any 

 left, loclosed find your reward— a first prize medal. Although 

 you deserve a better one, this is the best I can do for you at this 

 time, as I have not yei got done laughing. F- S. 



Now I wonder whatever on earth is "F. S." laughing at? 

 At that story, that story of Kekoskee fish, that mere, bald, 

 simple, straightforward story of plain faces? I.am sure I 

 don't see anything funny about it at all. It's just a plain, 

 easy, true, honest kind of a story. I didn't make the 

 story, and T didn't make the facts, and I didn't see any- 

 thing remarkable about it, and can't understand why 

 people laugh at it. It would make me hot if I thought 



it CHAMPION 



JfsH • 

 STORY TELLEI?' 



they laughed because they didn't believe the story, and I 

 think things have come to a pretty pass when a fellow 

 gets a medal sent to him for telling the truth. That looks 

 a good deal like there was an insiuuatlon somewhere. 



The medal itself as it lies before me, however, is a 

 worthy work of art per se, without the insinuation. It is 

 of Folid silver, witn ornamental trimmings, of chased 

 gold, bearing for its central design the conventional fig- 

 ure of a fish, the latter bearing blazoned the inscription 

 "Kekoskee." I have sent this medal on to the Forest 

 AND Stream office, for fear there may be some men down 

 East who Will doubt that I ever received such a medal, 

 But I don't know what it's all about. I never saw such 

 a fuss over a little cold truth. I have got m"re proof, too, 

 if that is needed. E. Hough. 



Pennsylvania Fishing Camps. 



Fish Oommissio.ner. W. L. Powell, of Harrisburg, Pa,, 

 informs us that one hundred and five camps were estab- 

 lished last summer in the district guarded by Fish 

 Warden George M. Permar, of Newcastle. 



The number of fish caught was very large. A great 

 many "salmon" (pike-perch) and pike were taken, some 

 of them weighing from lOlbs. to SBAlbs. Catfish ranging 

 from 71bs. to 351bs. were among the trophies. The black 

 bass season was unusually good. 



Newcastle is the county seat of Lawrence county, on 

 the western border of the State. The principal fishing 

 stream is Beaver River, in which pike of very large size 

 have been known for many years. The mascalonge has 

 been recorded by Prof. Cope, from Conneaut Lake, in 

 Crawford county, and is occasionally found in the Ohio 

 Vallev. May it not prove to be the big "pike" of Beaver 

 River? 



Other waters accessible from Newcastle are Shenango 

 River and Neshannock Creek, the latter containing black 

 bass and rock bass. Baits of various kinds are easily 

 obtamed aud fishing is prime during the summer months. 



Pennsylvania Pike-Perch. 



Pike PEECH fishing continued to be good in the Lower 

 hustiuehanna in November. In deep water below the 

 Columbia Dam, some very handsome strings were caught 

 by Harrisburg anglers. At Fite's Eddv, on the Columbia 

 <v i ort Deposit Railroad, Mr. L jmer captured thirty-six 

 in one day, aggregating T.^lbs., and faii-ly good catches 

 were made by others. 



It is well worth while to visit this part of the river on 

 account of the scenery and the prehistoric records on the 

 rocks, to say nothing about the fishing for black bass, 

 striped bass and pike-perch. 



New Vermont Law. 



The Vermont bill noted in our issue of Nov. 17 was 

 passed and has been made a law, with certain changes 

 trora the original text. The close seasons fixed by it are: 



irout, landlocked salmon, salmon trout, longe.'Sepb 1- 

 May 1. Black bass, Jan. 1-June 1,1 Wall-eyed pike 

 pike-perch muskallonge, April 15-June 15 (except Lake 

 Champlain). ^ 



Deer protected to 1900. Rabbit, hare, May 1-Sept 1 

 (Uray squirrel and raccoon not protected.) Beaver, fisher" 

 o ter, April 1 -Nov. 1. Qnail, wild duck, wild goose! 



l"^?*^^- Srouse, partridge, wood! 



cock, Jan. 1-bcjpt. lo. Pueasant, Nov. 20-Oet. 1. 



A New-Subscriber Offer. 



A bona fide new subscriber sending us §5 will receive for that 

 sum the Foii^ST Ayu Stream one year (price 14) and a set of 

 Z mmerman s famous "DucMng Scenes" (advertised on another 

 page, price S5)-a gO value for 85. 



r™i*'' *° subscribers only. It docs not apply to 



FoZS 1^ n""^f ^ew snbscriher for sis months will receive the 

 IXb •^''""^ "^'"^^ and a copy of Dr. V«n 



p;r:e\?4iihri3r'' ^^^^ 



F r XTU R E S. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Dec. 6 to 9 —First Annual Dog Sliow Hermitage Kennel Club, 

 Nashville. Tenn. Rohert C. Stockton, Sec'y. 



1893. 



,Tan. 3to6.-Mohawk Valley Poultry and Kennel Club. F. B. 

 Zimmer, Sec'v, Gloversville, N. Y. , , , 



Feb. 31 to 32.— Westminster Kennel Club, New York city. Jas. 

 Mortimer, Snpt. 



April 1 to 7.— New England Kennel Club, at Boston, Mass. J. 

 W. Newman, Sec'y. . „ 



Mav 3 to 6.— Pacific Kennel CYnh, at San Francisco, Cal. Horace 

 W. Orear, Sec'y- 



June 13 to 17.— World's Fair, Oiiicago. 



Sept. 7 to 10.— Hamilton, Ontario. A. D. Stewart, Sec'y. 



FIELD TRIALS. 

 Dec. 5.— Central Field Trials, at Lexington, N. C. Col. Ode 11, 

 Sec'y. 



Dec. 19.— Irish Setter Field Triais, at Lexington, N. O. Dr. G. 

 G. Davis, Philadelphia, Pa., Sec'y. 



1893. 



January.— Pacific Coast Field Trials, at Bakersville, Cal. J. M. 

 Ki'Karif, .Sec'y. 



Feb. 8.— Southern Field Trials, at New Albany, Miss. T. M. 

 Brumby. Sec'v 



BROOKLYN DOG SHOW. 



The National Greyhound Club has scored a success. 

 Good dogs, good attendance and good management. "With 

 these three concomitants, necessary to every bench show, 

 continually brotight to one's notice as we strolled through 

 the aisles, the venture could not help but be a success. 



Any one who saw the first dog .show held by the National 

 Greyhound Club in the American Horse Exchange in Feb- 

 ruary, 1891, and noted its cold, bleak surroundings and 

 remembered the train of distemper that followed in its 

 wake, must have heaved a sigh of gratification and relief 

 when they entered the Palace Rink in Brooklyn last week 

 and saw the second etlort of this energetic specialty club. 



The quality of the dogs present cannot be spoken of too 

 highly. In Russian wolfhounds, fox-terriers, bull-terriers, 

 pointers, beagles, Great Danes, rouch terriers and spaniels 

 was this particularly noticeable. The arrangement of the 

 stalls was as good as could be hoped for with the limited 

 size of the bulldinsr, and not many more than the .577 entries 

 present could have been properly benched. Four .judeing 

 rings were set up, but owing to the proviso that no nails or 

 screw'S must be put in the flooring, the railings was a con- 

 tinual source of anxiety to the management, and men had 

 to be placed in the ring to hold them up. The judging did 

 not progress on the first day quite as quickly as it might 

 have done, though there were plenty of willing attendants, 

 but what with the crowd and confined space locomotion was 

 not very easy. The gathering of prominent fanciers re- 

 minded one of a New York show on a small scale; one met 

 a well known face at almost every step. By noon oii Wednes- 

 day nearly all the specials were awarded and the club issued 

 a marked catalogue singularly accurate, with most of the 

 specials marked as well. 



On Messrs. Huntington, Drake and Whiton's shoulders 

 devolved the brunt of the management, aided by H. Osborn 

 and E. F. Vacheron. Much credit must certainly be given 

 the two first named, who held to it from first to last, one as 

 secretary, the other as treasurer. The exhibitors spoke in 

 glowing t?rms of their treatment by the club, and all seemed 

 to have had a good time. Prizes were paid promptly and 

 the array of specials was "glittering," the club itself being 

 most generous in both money and medals for all breeds ex- 

 cept the small terriers. The catalogue was arranged nicely 

 and had few errors. Among those present, besides those 

 mentioned last week, were Dr. J. F. Perry, G. Jarrett, John 

 Keevan, G. Leibacher, A. W. Smith, ll. S. Sands Fred 

 Schmitt, Col. Ruppert, Jr., W. C. Reick, J. L. Winchell 

 Julian Smith, Prof. Braive, Geo. W. Glazier, Albion l' 

 Page, J. S. Bradbury, E.W. Irwin, W. H. Hyland, —Verity' 

 Francis G. Taylor, Geo. E. Csborne, Dr. L. Sauveur Dr' 

 Jas. E. Hair, Jas. B. Blossom, E. H. Morris, Mr Sm'yth 

 Thos. H. Terry, H. M. Howes, C. H. Mason. Winthrop 

 Rutherfurd, Geo. Laick, H. L. Kreuder, Edward Booth D 

 P. Foster, F. H. Clarke, Walter J. Comstock, Joe and Ben 

 Lewis, W. Connors, Donald Munroe, Carl Heimerle, etc The 

 club's luncheon was a— well, HchercM affair and quite in 

 keeping with the style of the show. The attendance was 

 very good, and espeeially on the first night did the Brooklyn 

 400 turn cut in force. With Mr. .lames Mortimer's vast ex- 

 perience as .superintendent to help thiugs along and John 

 Read to assist, the show could not but be kept clean and 

 nice as a show should be. Dr. T. G. Shercyood won honors 

 as well, did not stop a dog and was attentive to his duties 

 throughout the week. 



MASTIFFS ( IK. Wacic, Jiahjc).— The judge, who is known 

 the dog world over as the most energetic supporter of the 

 mastiff living, did not receive the support one would like 

 to have seen. The good mastiffs are pretty well scattered 

 now, and this may have been one reason, and it was not to 

 be expected that in this instance the Mastiff Club would see 

 fit to encourage the breed it is supposed to foster With no 

 challenge entries Mr. Winchell's Black Prince was the hero 

 on this occasion, and as one passed along the bench it was 

 no wonder that some were heard to remark "Is that a 

 mastiff, too f he didlook so different from the rest This 

 grand dog has carried out Foeest and Strisam's estimate 

 of him in the Albany report. Age has brought a dignity to 

 his head, and certainly trom the hips forward he i.s simnlv 

 grand, and could one add four inches to the length of his 

 body and let down his stifles, where is the mastiff that could 

 beat him Last week he moved a trifle stiffly and " chunk- 

 ily." The well-known Merlin, .second, was looking well 

 but was of course some distance from the winner • the other 

 ^.^fci'y-.^'ero, was of no account, hi bitches (5) there is room 

 lor difference of opinion as to the way the judge olaced 

 them The winnel^ Ethel, had lost her fit to Lroe extent 

 and thus looked better, but though she has a better type of 

 head than Boss s Princess, in no other point is she superior 

 or at all equal ; much smaller, inferior in action si/o-htlv 

 cow-hocked, open feet, and not so well made in bodV Prin 

 cess IS long m head ; the skull is good: in the miizzle lies 

 the trouble. This bitch afterwards took the special f'or belt 

 u^^Vu^- Pjobably a little light in pasterns for such a 

 big bitch. Third went to Bruu, second at New York last 

 spring. She shows age, but is typical. Lady Teazle, he 

 was m poor shape and looked much like a greyhoundy ireat 

 pane. Her head is the best part. A bitch that must have 

 been overlookedlaltogether was Lucy IL, with the best hfid 

 wl'^ &'«o*J^body and legs, only a little lacking in 



bone. She beats the winner. The prize was withheld i>om 

 a baa specimen m the puppy class. 



St Bernards (A. M. Hughes, Judge).~This was Mr 



^^^^^.^'^.i?"^'"^^ ! ^"^"^^^i probably unknown to 



many of the present lam of St. Bernard breeders vet in the 

 old Apollo, Duke of Leeds, Leila, Hector rS ^day^ Mr 

 Hughes was fairly m it. At this show the judge met a numl 

 her of strange dogs, and if he made a mistak? or two t^?v 

 were not very serious ones, if I except one or two cases in 

 ReV°t-A^"?''f^^\^- In challenge roughs, with Kingston 

 ?h»^i^lf ''^°^i!-'^'''t*°?'''^*^'^'^?^'^« probably as well as we 

 shall ever see him had a walk-over, and in the bitch class 

 that sterling good one, Lady Gladwin, followed suit. The 



open dog class introduced us to several second-rate dog.«), 

 from a bench show point of view. The winner proved to be 

 Roland, .Jr., that won at Danbury la.st month. He has a 

 good, strong head, his profile being more pleasing than full 

 face. His feet are faulty and he needs more swell of rib and 

 twenty pounds more flesh. Second went to Otos, a new one 

 to us, though he won at Mount Holly. A son of Ben 

 Lomond, his bead is a little on the Aristocrat order, beauti- 

 ful markings, but eye like hi.? daddy— full and showing the 

 haw all round. He is very flat-sided, good legs and action, 

 and has a rich orange body color— a handsome dog, but no 

 crack. Donnar, third, has a nice head, deep square muzzle, 

 stands back on pasterns, and Inclined to cowhocks, body 

 fairly good, a nice brindle, small sized. Vhc. went to Re- 

 fuge 1I„ well known. Though he stands out in front his 

 fine bead, very massive bone and good body make him a 

 hard dog to judge. He has the component parts and excel- 

 lent breeding to be a good stud dog. which he has effectually 

 demonstrated, and his place is in the kennel, where he wjuld 

 not be exposed to defeat for faults only due to had raising, 

 probably. He should have been thiril. King Regent is 

 even worse in front, good head, massive and well-marked, 

 excellent body ; only in his legs and action is he at fault. 

 When dogs cannot hope to win, through these defects, why 

 imperil their standing in the stud when their fine blood is 

 bound to reproduce itself and be appreciated by breeders 

 who study blood line.s rather than prize cards. Percival, a 

 dark brindle with poor expression, and White Pri.ar, a big 

 white dog, a handsome animal in his wav, but a St. Ber- 

 nard misprint, were the other he. dogs. Achilles, c, a broad 

 blaze still further spoils a long and narrow head ; good fore- 

 legs ; small sized. The bitch class (11) turned out a better 

 lot all round. Miss Anna's sweet head cannot be denied, 

 and despite her rather slack back and faulty pasterns and 

 feet, her improved condition, great depth of body and in- 

 tense quality no doubt influenced the judge in putting her 

 over Sunray, who was just about looking her worst, shed- 

 ding coat. She is finely built as we all know, but she has 

 not the head quality the other possesses. Altonette, third, 

 is improving in head with age. Judy, vhc, has a plain 

 weak head, feet turn out, no chest, flat-sided, eye large and 

 light, otherwise a large roomy bitch ; there were better ones 

 for the place; Ellen TeTy, proving in whelp at last, deserved 

 her three letters. In the he. lot Princess Hepsey is a pretty 

 little bitch with washy body color, but a heavily marked 

 head that is an engaging one, hardly enough stop, coat in- 

 clined to curl. Princess Wang is rather plain fric'ed and a 

 bit straight behind. Zenith and Guess Noble were left cut 

 of it and harshly treated. Zenith stands on good legs and 

 feet, though they turn in a little at times like a foxhound's ; 

 her head is well shaped and if she had the shadings there 

 are not many better ; good body and symmetrical— in fact, 

 is up with the winner. When shown she had bowel com- 

 plaint and would scarcely stand up. Guess Noble, another 

 left in the cold, though in indifferent condition, has head, 

 especially skull, size and legs that must not be passed ovi-r. 

 Perhaps she bad too much white on body for the judge ; she 

 also moved a bit lame when I saw her. The neglect of these 

 two bitches was unfortunate and unaccountable ; they were 

 afterwards given he. Lord Walbeck won in puppies, a 

 promising one with great bone. Duke of Alton, a big one 

 of rich coloring, is faulty behind. In smooths there was no 

 aspirant for challenge honors in dogs, but in bitches Em- 

 press of Contoocook in nice condition is always a great at- 

 traction. 



Open dogs (4) were few but choice, and the struggle be- 

 tween Scottish Leader and Leicester was very.keen. It's all 

 a question of fancy ; the two dogs are as different in aspect 

 as possible. Although owing to the babyish tactics of the 

 owner of Leicester we were unable to put both dog.s to- 

 gether, we know them, and the decision that put hi's dog 

 second is not so wrong as he imagines. Neither dog is right 

 in head. Leicester is too houndy, on the Apollo order, and 

 Leader has too square a look and not enotigh quality. At 

 New I'^ork last spring Leicester had all he could do to beat 

 Melrose at ten months old. At Rochester, six months after, 

 Leader beat Melrose, and leaving out the latter's condition, 

 he (Melrose) had only his superior quality to question the 

 decision with, so the Brooklyn awards is not out of the 

 way. The third winner, Czar O. is not in it with the win- 

 ners—a leggy, plain sort of dog, with a long insipid-looking 

 head. In bitches (a) that exaggerated type of her mother, 

 Bellegarde, won easily over Charmion, both well known. 

 Bellegarde's dewlap and loose skin would do for two blood- 

 hounds almost, but nevertheless she brims over with qual- 

 ity and was looking very well. In fact, the condition Mr. 

 Booth had his dogs in was very much to his credit. Bessie 

 of Contoocook, third, has a beautiful skull and pleasant 

 face; she dips in back a bit. The puppy prizes were won 

 by two pups by Leicester. The Dutchess Kennels won the 

 kennel prize. 



[Spetial Report.] 



Great Danes (A. H. Heppner, .JvOiie).~'My first im- 

 pulse, as I glanced over the class previous to judging, w<i8 

 to resign and to call some one to perform the work who has 

 a less pronounced idea as to what a Great Dane should be. 

 I felt that with such material it was not a question of pick- 

 ing a real flue prize dog, but to compare them among thetn- 

 selves and give the one that comes nearest to the type the 

 best prize, which should have been a vhc. in this .show. I 

 therefore cannot give you the desired explanation why I 

 gave prizes to the respective dogs, but I will try and explain 

 w^hy 1 did not withhold them, as I intended, with precisely 

 the same propriety that the first prize .should have been 

 withheld, a second prize should not have been given. There 

 would have been no award in the challenge class nor any in 

 the puppy class. The question whether the breed is far 

 enough advanced in this country, where I know of only 

 about ten real first-class specimens, or whether all prizes 

 should have been Avithheld, waiting for a perfect dog to 

 come along, was an open one until the dogs were brought 

 before me into the ring. 



Challenge Class.— First, Pascha shows age, is coarse and 

 snipy, with an abundance of throat: has a good stern, but 

 moves like a mastiff' and is wide in tront. 



Open Class. — After this award had been made Maloc 

 naturally came in for first, as he is better than challenge 

 Pascha, When I saw Maloc on his bench afterward he did 

 not look like the same dog that he had made of himself in 

 the ring. His handler seemed to have trained him for the 

 very purpose of showing him.self. On the bench when I 

 took my notes he had a brutal expression, too much loose 

 skin about the face and wrong in eye. Ears wide apart, 

 giving the skull the appearance of being round (like Im- 

 peratoH and too large. He appears lippy. In the ring, 

 however, he showed him.self entirely different. His ears 

 came up within ,3in. of each other; the loose .~kin was drawn 

 up tight and formed the folds on the forehead and between 

 the eyes; the round skull disappeared and the corners ami 

 parallel and sharp lines became visible. He was then nearly 

 a typical dog of enough merit for the first prize aud beat iu 

 this position challenge Pascha and easily lowered the gloiies 

 of Nora for the special for best dog or bitch. I wish to 

 emphasize that Maloc showed in the ring a great deal of 

 character, and came nearest the ideal dog before any in the 

 show, as stated before, about as near as to get a vhc in good 

 company. He is wide in front and his movement uuder 

 excitement in the ring with Pascha and afterward when 

 beating Nora for best dog or bitch was better than either of 

 his rivals. He showed more character and breeding than 

 either of the two right through. His stern is in a bad con- 

 dition from "striking the wire," but there is nothing miss- 

 ing. In making this award I also bore in mind that 1 was 

 judging under the rules of the German Mastiff Club of 



