Jan. o, 1893.] 



FOREST AND STREAM, 



13 



DOG CHAT. 



New A. K. C. Regulations. 



In the proposed new regnlatious for the guidance of any 

 clubs wishing to hold shows under A. K. C. rules there, are 

 some Kood suggestions, 



"Rule I. Applications for dates riiust be filed with the 

 secretaiy of the American Kennel Club for ajjproval by the 

 executi\'e committee or sucli sub-connnittee as may be 

 empowered to grant dates. Such appro\-al. howevev, shall 

 be su bject to the subsequent indorsement of the premium 

 list as being in accordance with the requirements of the 

 American Ifemiel Club. 



"II. Applications for dates must be accompanied by a fee 

 of #10, which will be forfeited in the event of the show not 

 being held, or failure to comply with the requirements of the 

 American Kennel Club as set foi'th herein. 



"III. Sec. 1. Advanced proofs of the classification should 

 be submitted for iiidiii'senu'nt at the earliest possible moment, 

 in the drawing up of which the following regulations must 

 be observed: 



'•Sec. :l The show shall not exteird beyojid four days, and, 

 should a Sunday be one of those days the show .shall not be 

 open to the i)nl)l'ic on that day. 



"Sec. 3. Entries shall close not le.ss than ten days prior to 

 the first day of the show, and any club acceptino" any entry 

 after date (unless ].)ostmarked on" the dyte of closnig entries) 

 shall be subject to a tine of not less than .i^lO for each entry 

 .so accepted. N<:) alteration of the date of closing shall be 

 allowed. 



"Sec. -l. The classification shall be confined to established 

 breeds, which may be divided by sex and otherwise as pro- 

 vided for in the dog show rules. 



"Sec. 5. No challenge first prize shall be less than the corre- 

 sponding prize in the open class for the same breed, unless 

 such prize exceeds -S15, in which event the challenge first 

 prize need not be over that amoimt. 



"IV. Sec. 1. The name and credentials of the proposed 

 veterinary surgeon must be .submitted with the classifica- 

 tion, and if satistactuiy he will be licensed by the Amer'ican 

 Kemiel Clu b to act in that capacity. 



"Sec. 3. A qualified surgeoji is a. graduate of a. recognized 

 college entitled to confer the degree of Y. S., or one who, 

 without having a diploma, has had at least fi\-e years prac- 

 tical experience to fit him for the practice ot his profession, 



"T. Sec. 1. An additional fee of 1 per cent, on the total of 

 cash prizes offered, including club kennel prizes, but ex- 

 clusive of all special or donated prizes, shall be forwarded 

 with the proposed iH-emium list. If the premiuni list is not 

 endorsed as being in accordance with these rules this fee will 

 be returned. 



"Sec. 2. No show can be held under the American Kennel 

 Club rules at which the prize money is less than $500." 



The last is a necessary and wise precaution. 



The next rule says that no ptippy shall be shown under six 

 jnonths of age, or a penalty of 'si 0 for each puppy so ex- 

 hibited will be enforced. A move in the right direction. 



"VL In addition to the exact copy of the indorsed classifi- 

 cation, the dog -show rules of the American Kennel CTtrb^and 

 ■A list of recognized shows corrected up to the date of closing- 

 entries, the premiuni list must give a list of the officials 

 undei- whose management the show is to be held, who, vdth 

 the exception of the paid employees, shall be held responsi- 

 ble fo)- the payment of all prizes within sixty days of the 

 last da.v of the show. 



"VJL No special prize shall be oiiered except for dogs of 

 t^Sjtablished breeds, and none can be oft'ered unless publicly 

 announced before the regular judgin.g has commenced. 



"Vlll. All prizes must be in accordance with their desciip- 

 tibn in the premium list. Prizi^s of gold or silver must be of 

 the purity of United States coin. 



■■IX. No person under sentence of suspension, disqualifica- 

 tiMii or cxputsion can he employed in any official raiiacity, or 

 e.vhibit. or take a piize. oi- act as agent for any exhibitor. 



"Xi. No entry can be .accepted of any dog not marked 

 "listed" or 'registei'ed" on the eiit-rv form, as per dog show rule 

 II. Subject fo o line of So for each offcrib-e. 



■"Xn. A (/Inb may act as agent for exhibitors by accepting 

 the fee for registration or listing. Init must make immediate 

 returns thereof to the American Kennel Club. A j.ienalty of 

 *I0 for- eaeli day will l:)e enfoi'ced for an.\' delay beyond three 

 days from the date of closing entries, in making sitch returns 

 I n the Ame)-ican Kennel Club." 



That some such regulation is needed there is no doubt but 

 the above seems rather stiff. 



The arrangement of the catalogue ^fcrieg, idust be the same 

 as pro\'ided for in the regular rules. 



■'JilV. No record of wins at any of the recognized .shows 

 shall be permitted in the catalogue and it is optional with 

 fJie club to give any, except in the case of any cliallenge en- 

 tries which nrust be catalogued in accorda,nce with rule 

 XVIII. of the dog show rules. " 



Onlv A. K. C. Stud Book numbers are to be given in the 

 (atrilogue ind theiiile'- i-. to ob)( cl loiis md suspi ii-,jon^ in 

 about the same as m the regular rules. 



The proposed alterations m the rules govenunu' doa shows 

 now m force are as follo^-^'s: To Rule III. is added: -'/t tlie 

 dog IS ahr.adu rcq-tstcrcd m the Aiiicrieun Krivnc-1 Club 

 ^tuaBuiil tlx Slu<l Bdol uHinlt I tlt( (h (I ■^iKoiJd Jj< uinn 

 iiyith IJic entni. 



In Rule xn . the last word, "discovered." is altei'ed to 

 "dll(_(d I h( 1 ule ri*- to f h lUenge (.l,i-,s( s ichK italusde 



notiiiii' ne^y matter: 



"'The (Jhallenge Class shall be tor all dogs liaving wou four 

 prizes m the open class f/; ;-ccuo"(S''f? .s7(o/('.v. nt irliit-h 



millet lian I leni inon at <i shoir niti rtiui tuii li-ss tJian ,v/ ;V70 

 m citxh- urtzfif. A do(.i luivivq won thn i' iirnrs in tlim class 

 Shan have the privilcac nt fin title a1 clia in jiinic n-itfmitt 

 lirrther cionyet itojn. 



I III' UiKMi < lass shall lie iar dogs ol any age inx'V hlx 

 niiaiihs \y\\\r]] l^-ut.' imv alicadv Cjualified tor the Challenge 

 (^lass. aud Inr winch no (_ hallena-e Class has been provuled- 



' Ihe Xo\ ice ( lass shall be tor a breed toi- which a regular 

 class has bfcii in-nvided. and tor competition m which a dog 

 shall u'li Ji.iA i' w lui a, lirst ])rize m an Ojmii nr Nomc.i' ('l.as.s 

 at anil recnijnued shovj. 



1 he I'uppx ( lass shall be for at/, dogs over SIX mon til sand 

 under t wch-i moiuns ol age, and no entry nan, hi) madejor 



one uiuler six nareitlis. 



"The ]Miscella]ieous Class .shall be opun to all dogs of 

 listojjlisjicrl ( (/x for which no regular class has been pro- 

 vided i n the pri-niium list. Entries in this class must specify 

 the breed nt the exhibit. 



The Selling Class rule is omitted. 



"XYIII. In entering a do.g in a Challenge Class it is neces- 

 sary to specify on the entry blank a sufficient number of flr.st 

 prize win nmgs to entitle it to compete in such class until 

 sudi time as it has i-von, in a Chcdlcime Class, after lohicli 

 one chaUcnqe v-in shall he sufficieiit.'" 



In old Eule XXVII. the saiiie wording is kept until the 

 end, where, instead of "in the kennel name" the new rule 

 reads in their ncinics. 



Changes, amendments, alterations or suggestions are in- 

 vited to be sent to the secretary before the annual meeting, 

 to be held in February next. 



Brunswick Fur Club Meet. 



Those sportsmen fond of fox hunting are invited to attend 

 the foui-th annual meet of the Brunswick Fur Club, which 

 will beheld at the Westminster Hotel, Westminster, Mass., 

 commencing Jan. T6 and c^ntiuuing one week. The hotel is 



two and a half miles from Westminster st.ation, on'the Fitch- 

 burg Railway, and stages connect with all trains. The ac- 

 commodations' for- hunters" and hounds are excellent,' and the 

 rates very reasonable. Westminster is situated in an open, 

 rolling- country, about four miles from Mt. A¥achuset, and 

 is undoubtedly^ one of the liest huntin,g regions in New Eng- 

 land. The officers of the club will arrive at Westminster on 

 the first day of the meet, and the election of officers for the 

 ensuin.g year will occur at S:.30 P. M. of that day. Two im- 

 portant questions will be discussed at this meet, 'viz., the ad- 

 visability of chan.giiig the running rules for the field trials, 

 and the selection of n-ial grounds for next aut.unin, This is 

 essentially a .hunting meet and members are requested to in- 

 vite all fox hunters in good standin.g to attend. Nearly all 

 the fine prize-win rung hounds of the recent field tria ls will be 

 present, and some great riuming may be expected. Mr. .J. 

 H. Baird Auburndale, Mass., is the secretiiry, and from him 

 all other information can be obtained. 



Pawtucket Dog^ Show. 



T'here is certainly something i-adically wrong in the way 

 some of our express cmn panics handle the dogs intrusted to 

 their care. Complaints were long and loud at Pawtucket on 

 this score. There ^-s as Mr. .Taniiesori waiting anxiously for 

 the dogs that ne\ er caiiip till tno l:ite tor busi)]ess. ?Ir. 

 Blossom's dogs were also delayed. Shipped from New York 

 Tuesday A. M., tliey should surely have reached Pawtucket 

 by Wednesday morning, instead of that they arrived Wed- 

 nesday night, also too late for l.nisiness. This was bad 

 enough, but their last state was even woi-se than the first, 

 for, shipped on Friday night from the sho-\v. they did not 

 reach him in Ncav York till last Tuesday jiiorning. This 

 was not only exasjierating to hirn but cruel in the extreme 

 to the dogs,'who would have, had little provision juade for 

 them ffjr such a short .journey — h\'e hours by rail. 



Tlie t-Jrove Kejinels nude)' the ]iew ]:iartnership made its 

 debut at this sho\^- and "our only (:ierinan" had One of his 

 old time twinkles on wdien he '■added up the score, second 

 open dogs, first bitches, lir.st puppies." As if this was not 

 luck enough, Mr. Pnrroy, Jir. [lopkins'.s partner, on New 

 Years eve received his appointment to a much higher posi- 



count. The continued organization of these associations in the 

 smaller towns is bound to have an educational influence iti 

 kennel affairs that will be far reaching and of permanent 

 value. 



Some New St. Bernards. 



We took a run up to Col. Ruppert's kennels last Monday, 

 ostensibly to see the new arrivals, but really to find out how 

 Mr. Booth was getting .along with the puppy question with 

 which he was confronted the last few weeks of the old year. 

 We fountl ,him up to the armpits with work, legal holiday 

 though it was. He showed us the pups first. There was 

 Lady Gladwyn nursing a litter of five by Leister, some 

 smooth, others rou,gh. They are really gi-and, three dark 

 colored ones bein.g exceptionally .good both in head and size, 

 and all well marked. They are three weeks old now. She 

 was also nursing one of Bellegarde's pups by Aristocrat, of 

 the same age. In the next compartment were five of Miss 

 Anna's darlings, by Alton, .Ir.. and one or two of them will 

 surely turn out well if they live: these are also three weeks 

 old. One bitch pup is simply grand in head, very deep, 

 square and broad, and has lots of bone. Miss Anna is 

 also fostering one of Bellegarde's. This bitch had a 

 sorry tinie ot it, several pups being born dead and more than 

 ordinarily hirge, having to be taken, from her; she was conse- 

 quently entirely unfit to nurse them herself. In the next 

 place, y\ ere tAvo'of Ellen Terry's babies by Otos, very prettily 

 marked and already sold. Mr. Booth had an anxious time 

 with all these bitches, whelping within twenty-four hours, 

 and the night watch was kept up for a fortnight after their 

 birth. Then he brought out two of Bonnie Kingston's pups, 

 by Aristocrat, only two weeks old, but all looking as if they 

 had a good mother. 



The three new ones arrived on the s. s. Gallileo, that came 

 in last Thursday after a voyage of twenty days. That they 

 must have had excellent care is proved by the fact that they 

 are in splendid fiesh and ready to show any time. Kingston- 

 ian Countess is a litter sister to Mrs. Smith's new dog Ebor- 

 acuni, by Scottish Pruice — Lady Glen. She is exceptionally 

 good in body and has a very taking head, besides standing 

 and moving on a good set of legs. She is only 17 months 



Mii. IiACY'.s Notion of .\ Head fok thk Octside Covui}. 



lion in the fire departtnetit of New York ro.gether Avith in- 

 creased emoluments. Chief Purro>' has had charge of the 

 station at Chambers and Center streets, considered the hardest 

 and most important in tlie city, and the efficiency of his men 

 was proved when they won the prize at the horse show for 

 shortest time record in coupling up for a fire. But we are 

 getting away from Pawtucket. 



Mr. Babcock, the president, informed us that at Piwidence 

 la.st year the club lost J^SOO over their show, owing to the very 

 poor attendance. They^ thought this year by giving no money 

 prizes for dogs and holding the show ina uiamifacturing cen- 

 ter like Pawtucket they could command the attendance of a 

 cla.ss of people that they could not .get in Providence. An- 

 other scheme of his Avas to let the children from the schools 

 in free, and the first afternoon these embryo fanciers over- 

 ran the building. These little chaps were expected to go 

 home and tell their daddies the wonders thev had seen and 

 the daddy would come along with his 2.5 cents before the 

 week was out. Sharp people in New England. If the club 

 comes out at all light, a good sho-s\' is to be given ]iext vear. 

 Before we leave the sub.iect we must draw the attention of 

 these chicken clubs to the necessity of getting ])remium lists 

 in time, and further to place them in the hands of dogmen 

 who have and are likelv to enter does. 



The Ne-wtoundland that unwillmglv went over the jSiagara 

 ialls recently has become the cause ot a peck ot trouble. It 

 seems a party ot actors Avere viewing the falls, and when 

 iiCiir Luna Island tliev saw llie dog come to th<' water s edye 

 to drmk. It slii)])ed and despite everv efiort \\'a,s carried ovej- 

 the falls. The jiartv rushed to the overhanging cliff and 

 perceiving the doy buftetmg the wa^'es at the edge of the 

 Ca\e of Winds, descended and succeeded m rescuing the ex- 

 hausted animal. C:ari-ving him upstairs, thev^ found that 

 beyond exhaustion and some depyi tlesh wounds the dog had 

 sustained little daniatie. A pfn sieiau was summoned and 

 attended to the dou. Out ot the crowd slipped a man 

 ■who said he owned the dog. and as the actor. Mr. Lisser. 

 had rescued if. from alniosf. cert ain deal 1 1 he would 

 make hnn a present of it. The dog traveled with the 

 comijany. :md the actor takmg a personal interest 

 m the do.ii made ai-raiigemeuts with a livervman 

 at War.saw, N. ^ .. to lake care of it till its wounds were 

 healed. Last week Mr. kisser sent a man for his dog. Init 

 the livery man said he did not know where it was. IMien 

 Li,sber came on hniLselt, and to him the livervman said he 

 knew where the dog was. but that a doe that had gone over 

 the falls and come out alive -s^-as worth ulone^^ and he must 

 pay -sdOO before he got the dog. Lisser having reeeived the 

 doii liom th( rwn n-ibh owmi lhnu„hi lu u i- lu-tinidin 

 gUtmgout a iti int t a the aiic^t of the no^ ibdiu foi 

 The man could not be found, but on Friday he returned to 

 Warsaw, and -with him the superintendents of police of 

 Niagara Falls and Ontario and a policeman who claimed the 

 dog was his. Then the policeman had Mr. Lisser arrested on 

 a charge of petit larceny for taking the dog away from the 

 falls. They took Lisser to Niagara and he was held by a 

 iiLstice of the peace to answer the charge. Verily, the way 

 of the .good Sama ritan seems hard. 



A New Kennel Club at Akron, 



Yet another kennel club has been organized and 1892 kept 

 up its record to the finish. The Akron, Ohio, people inter- 

 ested in dogs have formed a kennel club and consolidated 

 with the Northern Ohio Poultry, Pet Stock and Kennel As- 

 sociation. They have claimed the dates .Jan. 25 to ;38, for 

 their first dog show. The secretary, Mr. W. A. Cauldwell, 

 in wishm.g Forest and Stkeam a Happy New Year adds 

 that the club has applied for admission to the A. K. C, but 

 missed the last meeting by one day. They ivill show under 

 A.K.C-irules, however,t.and hope at the next 'meeting'ofj the 

 A.K.C. that they.wilL be^admitted and their.views allowed to 



old. Kingstoniau Beauty next came forward. She is by 

 Lord Bute out of Altonelia, the latter now owned by Mr, A. 

 H. Moore. I lle^•er sa\A' a much better built bitch, very 

 .strong in loin and quarters and deep in chest and body. She 

 carries, if anything, a better head than Countess. The dog, 

 King.stonian Count, then came forward. He is 18 months 

 old, by Scottish Prince out of Septima (first at Oldham). 

 This is the same breeding as the would-have-ijeen-great-dog 

 Premier. Count stands nearly 3-tin., has immense lioiie, rich 

 color and iiiarkings, great depth of chest, and only" needs 

 time to make up into a winner. His expression is esjiecialh- 

 pleasing and intelligent. This keimel's Baroness Cardiff was 

 iired to ISIarvel last Tuesday ^^■eek, and Sig-ma, who is tlie 

 .standby of the kennel in the ^-^-ay of puppies, was also mated 

 to this do.g last Thursday. She is an excelleid mother, her 

 last litter, by Aristocrat, numbered eleven and all raised, 

 Sigma doing her duty by seven of them. Altogether Mr. 

 Booth and his aide-de-camp, Albert, have their hands full 

 and won't hear of dog shows till next month's show at the 

 Garden. The dogs we must say all looked in pink of con- 

 dition, and considering the rather confined space they are 

 kept ill it must be a hard matter to do justice to so many. A 

 new kitchen has just been built and a steam lioiler erected 

 for cooking purposes, \vhich will ease the work considera.bly. 



A New Shooting Club. 



On Friday atteriioon a meeting will be held at 19 Ann 

 street, bv several sportsmen, among whom are members of 

 the Boiling Springs Gun Club. George Jarvis and John A. 

 I inlavson. The idea is to organize a .sportmen club for shoot- 

 ing and fishing, with grounds and club house aliout three 

 miles from Morristowii. Is. .1. 1 liey ab-eady have the option 

 on a lai'ge iarm and almost anv ainount of shooting ground 

 c ui b( U ised 111 tin sui lonndmg < nuntry. There is plenty of 

 (pi 111 c \( I Ih nf \\ oodi o( k -,hootin_ amrgood black Imss and 

 trout fishing on several streams running through and near 

 the property. If the club is orsaiiized Mr. George Jarvis will 

 hiive charge ot the propertv and club house. A good select- 

 tion. the wav. Mr. .larvis returned last Friday fi-om his 

 taunt, attcr North t arolina quail. He reports great sport, 

 aud IS particularly enthusiastic over a young English setter 

 owned bv Mr. !< mlavson and bv Ins Rock Belton. 



Paul Gladstone. 



Mr. Joe Lewis always had a soft spot for champion Paul 

 Gladstone, aud now we learn he has purchased this noted 

 dog from Mr. ^s. L. Boggs. The last time we saw "Paul" he 

 looiced almost as ^^t 11 e-M r and <eemed good for many a 

 day jet ^\hllc hi'- no^c seems lust a i impressionable as ever. 



Elmira Sfiow Dates. 



Mr. C. A. Bownifin. secretarv of the Elmira K. C. writes, 

 "Please change dates to March "2:2. ;33. 34 and 25, 1893. The 

 Elnura Kennel Club have made three applications for dates, 

 the first one last February, and have ju.st been awarded the 

 above, while Washington did not think of holding a show 

 until Dec. 1.5." 



A New Kennel Club for Chicago. 



A dispatch fi-om Mr. Waters informs us that a new kennel 

 club was formed in Chicago Jan. 2, to be known as the 

 Chicago Kennel Club. It is intended to hold a show in 

 February. Several members of the Mascoutah Kennel Club 

 are interested in the new movement. We thought Chicago 

 could scarcely forego a show on its own hook this year. 



Leicester Sold. 



We understand that Mr. D. P. Foster has sold his noted St. 

 Bernard, Leicester, to a gentleman whose name is not givan 

 and who has him at present "on trial," The Dutchess Ken- 

 nels were after him. 



