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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Feb. 9, 18&B. 



DOG CHAt. 



An Ail-Round Team. 



When George Thomas goes to England it is generally to 

 some purpose. The team that he will put down for the 

 Anglo-American Kennels at New York show is both varied 

 and ^ood. Mr. Mayhew will ha.ve no sinecure in judging 

 Scottish terriers, for the prospects are that the greatest show 

 America has ever seen in this breed Avill be forthcoming. 

 Mr. Brooks's kennel is composed of some of the best, and to 

 make matters worse, Mv. Thomas sailed Feb, 4, on the s.s. 

 Georgian, of the Leylaud line from Boston, with Tii-ee, pur- 

 chased from Mr. W. E. Adcock. This dog was whelped in 

 May, 1889, and is black, with brindle on legs. He is by 

 Alister out of Coll and counts first prizes at Kennel Cbib 

 shows, Glasgow Kennel, Crystal Palace, Edinburgh, among 

 his records, and is one of the dogs illustrated in Dr. Perry's 

 new book. Rhudunan is another good one that will come 

 over, and with Scotch Hot in open dogs, Kilston in challenge 

 and Gypsey Yet in open bitches, the outlook is full of uncer- 

 tainty for both kennels. The future of Scottish terriers in 

 this country seems very bright just now. Another importa- 

 tion is Tilda II., a puppy, by Abergeldie, but will be kept at 

 home with Norwich Moiise, who has just had a litter of 

 ptippies. Scotch Cold and Highland Roy, by Gypsey King 

 out of Kelvin, may also be sent from this kennel. 



In Irish terriers two new ones will accompany George over 

 the salt divide; they are Pincher and Manxman, a puppy by 

 champion Bredenhill out of Mystery II., and these with Jack 

 Briggs, Salem Witch, Valley Boxer and Paddy Dorian will 

 comprise their team of "dare devils," A new fox-terrier 

 Lady Roseberry, by Ratio out of Nettle, bv Ambrose Joe" 

 will also be among the lot. They will also launch into field 

 spaniels as well, George bringing over a bitch called Dainty 

 by Street Arab out of Stayley Baroness. She is just a year 

 old. Some new bull-terriers are also coming. Prince GuUey 

 over 301bs., by True Blue (who is by champion Streatham 

 Monarch) out of the noted bitch Queen of the Dale, ex Polly 

 by champion Como ex Rose, is one of them. Then a bitcli 

 called Mermaid, under SOlbs., is also by True Blue ex Came- 

 lia, she by Comet — Hackness, and another dog, Griff o, for 

 under 301bs., completes the list of new "ones. ' 



Mr. Purbeck has not allowed his .=pare cash to remain idle 

 either, for in George Thomas's charge come the greyhounds 

 Honor Bright, Southern Beauty and Wild Rose, all of them 

 winners. These will of course go in the open classes. Of 

 the old lot Gem of the Season and Ornatus, now himself 

 again, we are glad to say, and Bestwood Daisy, Avho has re- 

 gained her dainty form after maternal duties, will appear in 

 the challenge classes, while Lily of Gainsborough, who also 

 has been increasing the stock of greyhounds in this country 

 will also have to be reckoned with, together wi'h some pup- 

 pies that have weathered the trials of distempei*. Mr 

 Symonds has cabled for a "grand" St. Bernard bitch, served 

 by Yoimg Bute. This one is, howe-ver, for a new fancier 

 who is said to have the means (that's good news) and enthusi- 

 asm as well, to place him at the top. We cannot as yet fur- 

 nish names of either bitch or owner. George will have to 

 skip round to Judge Tallman's ring, too, for awhile, as he 

 will have in tow some young pointers by Naso of Strasburg 

 out of their Ruby VII. The Anglo-American Kennels will 

 enter some 25 dogs, and there will be one tired man when the 

 judging is all over, and that will be George Thomas. 



The Toronto Kennel Club. 



The Toronto Kennel Club held its regular monthly meet- 

 ing on Jan. 19. After the business part of the meeting Dr 

 Wm. Mole, a member of the Royal College of Veterinary 

 Surgeons, and late of London, England, read a very interest- 

 ing and instructive paper on "The Origin and Development 

 of the Dog." Dr. Mole has lately taken up quarters in 

 Toronto, and has been elected an honorary member of the 

 Toronto Kennel Club. The Toronto Kennel Club wish to 

 thank those who have so kindly contributed pictures of their 

 dogs to help decorate the walls of their club rooms. In re- 

 sponse to a few letters asking for photographs, and an ap- 

 peal through this paper, about seventy-five pictures have 

 been received and many promised. The promises do not 

 seem to have been forgotten.'as pictures are arrix ing nearly 

 every day. The Toronto Kennel Club are anxious to have 

 the largest and best collection of canuie portraiture on this 

 continent, and ask those who have pictures of their dogs to 

 let the Toronto Kennel Club have copies, all pictures will be 



Eroperly framed. A nuinber of the most prominent kennels 

 ave sent some very fine pictures of their dogs. 



Whippet Racing. 



We have always had a good word to say for this exciting 

 sport and it is a pleasure to hear that a club has been formed 

 in London, England, for this purpose. With such names as 

 the Duke of Hamilton as president and Lord Lonsdale as 

 vice-president, to say nothing of several other titled men on 

 the committee it cannot help but jump into popularity and 

 at once command a following. It is expected to knock fox- 

 terrier coursing sky high. To the untiring exertions of Mr. 

 John A. Tatham, who was editor and owner of the defunct 

 Canine World, is due the formation of the Whippet Racing 

 Club, and he will fill the offices of secretary and handicapper, 

 the latter a most important and diflicult position. By the 

 by, Lord Charles Inness Kerr will be the general manager. 

 The first race, which will be a £50 handicap, will take place 

 shortly. The New Jersey Kennel League, if they have not 

 already too many irons in the fire, promises to give some at- 

 tention to this sport at the fall fairs. 



A. K. C. Accounts. 



The auditing committee appointed by the A. K. 0. did 

 their best to trip Mr. Vreden burgh up i'n his accounts, but 

 found everything as it should and so certified. At the same 

 time, we hear that they drew up a suggestion to the effect 

 that they thought there was too much power in one man's 

 hands, the secretary's, in the matter of passing accounts 

 rendered to the club. The committee suggested that each 

 bill should, in addition, have the indorsement of at least two 

 of the auditing committee. This in no way conveys any re- 

 flection on the secretary, and in fact meets with Mr. Vreden- 

 burgh's approval. 



Speaking of the latter official it is intimated that at the 

 annual meeting he will be asked to continue in the secretary- 

 ship under the present arrangement. Mr. A. D. Lewis acting 

 In the same capacity he does at present; which plan seems 

 to work satisfactorily, and is producing an air of dignity and 

 reserve in Mr. Lewis, befitting the position. 



Advisory Committee Judgments. 



We think the time has come when the attention of the 

 delegates particularly and the kennel public generally 

 should be called to the more or less star chamber proceedings 

 of this committee. Judgments are rendered by this com- 

 mittee which affect the standing of different members of 

 kenneldom. Whatever their effect may be outside of the 

 circle in which canine affairs ha\-e their part, these decisions 

 ellectually make or mar a man in the kennel woiid. Thus 

 are two or three men invested with somewhat arbitrary 

 power. This may he unavoidable as affairs are legislated at 

 present, and with this we have no present concern. What 

 we wish to bring before the kennel world in America is the 

 fact that it is the opinion of several members of dogdom 

 with whom we have conversed on the object tiat if the 



A. K. C. will not publish the proceedings of their meeting in 

 the sporting press which devotes space to kennel affairs, this 

 body should, at least, for the benefit of its associate mem- 

 bers, publish the full charges and correspondence connected 

 with the cases brought before the advisory committee 

 tribunal. The advisory committee holds a meeting and 

 passes judgment, after due iuTestigation, on these charges, 

 only the findings being published in the A. K. C. Gazette in 

 the January number. Do we tnow whether they have made 

 just decisions or not? Their decision is to all intents and 

 purposes final, therefore the dogmen who support the 

 A. K. C. have a right to know how such discision was 

 arrived at, and this should be published in the Gazette, the 

 official organ conducted for that purpose. Tbe proceedings 

 in such matters are all published in the English Kenvel 

 Gazette, and this is a self -constituted body and not repre- 

 sentative, as the American Kennel Club. Take the EUiott- 

 Twyford case, for instance. There has been more or less 

 tuterest atached to this case among dogmen, principally 

 owing to the publicity given to the case by the principals 

 themselves. Naturally the dogmen want to know the facts 

 and how the committee arrived at the decision they have 

 given in the matter. Either publish the proceedings of the 

 advisory committee in the Gazette or allow the spoi-ting 

 press an opportunity to do so, with full access to letters, etc., 

 Avhich accompany charges and defense. We do not intimate 

 in any way that this committee is unjust in its decisions, 

 but the kennel public have a right to know whether they 

 have done right or wrong. 



Dog- Show at Victoria, B. C. 



Most of the prizes at thisshow held the last week in January 

 were won by dogs from Seattle, AVash. First in St. Bernards 

 was won by H. E. Stumer's Plinmonarch. In Irish setters 

 first went to J. Collins's Nat Glencho, and this dog woiild 

 have won the im/.e of SI 00 for best dog in the show if this 

 .special had not beea confined to dogs owned in Victoria six 



From amateur photo by F. G. Taylor. 



months prior to the show. Mr. R. B. Palmer's Robyi won in 

 English setters and George N. Folsom's Crib in bull-terriers. 

 First in fox-terriers w^ent to L. S. J. Hunt's Jennie and sec- 

 ond to J. Collins's Psyche. Best Gordon, R. M. Palmer's 

 Romeo. 



Dogs and Cholera. 



A correspondent of the Lancet writes: "I crossed over to 

 Caen from Havre Oct. 25. Three days previously there had 

 been another death at Havre which w^as attributed to cholera. 

 It occurred under very curious circumstances. The victim 

 was a lady related to one of the professors of the town. She 

 was devotedly attached to a dog which had been suddenly 

 seized with violent vomiting, diarrhoea and cramps. The 

 animal died rapidly, and the carcass was in such a condition 

 that it was not judged prudent to bury it in the garden. It 

 was given to the scavengers and placed on board the boat 

 which takes sludge out to sea every day. Shortly after, the 

 lady, who had nursed the dog throughout, was seized with 

 the same synrptons, and died at the end of three days' iUness. 

 This case has excited great interest in medical 'circles of 

 Havre, and regret is expressed that the doR's symptoms Avere 

 not more carefully observed. Of course, the owners of the 

 dog were taken altogether by surprise, and suspecting no 

 danger, had taken no precautions." 



Cincinnati Kennel Club. 



At the annual meeting of the Cincinnati Kennel Club, held 

 Feb. 1, the following officers were elected for the ensuing 

 year: Dr. Herman J. Groesbeck, Pres.; P. J. Heister, Vice- 

 Pres. ; Al G. Eberhart, Sec'y; Jas. W. Utter, Treas. Also, in 

 addition to above, as Board of Directors, John Hawkes, Geo. 

 H. Hill and E. O. Hurd. Several new members were elected, 

 among them the well-known judge, Frank C. Wheeler and 

 R. I. Carter. The latter gentleman is a doggy man and also 

 sporting editor of the Times-Star, and promises the liberal 

 support of this paper when next they give a show. The giv- 

 ing of a bench show was talked of, but was laid over to 

 future meeting. The club is in good shape and has paid 

 up all its debts. 



National Beagle Club Meeting. 



Tarrttowx, N. Y., Feb. 4.— A special meeting of the 

 National Beagle Club of America will be held on Wednesday, 

 Feb. 22, at 2 o'clock P. M., in Madison Square Garden, New 

 York city. All members are requested to be present, 



George Laick, Sec-Treas. 



Conflicting Show Dates. 



ELi^riRA, N. Y., Feb. 3.— The City of the Straits Kennel 

 Club insist on holding their show the same dates awarded 

 the Elmira Kennel Club by the A, K. C, and I wish you 

 would please state in your next that the City of the Straits 

 Kennel Club can not hold their show under the A. K. C. 

 rules. C. A. BOWMAN, Sec. 



Southern California Kennel Club Show. 



Los Axgele-s, Cal., Jan. 30.— The Southern California Ken- 

 nel Club will hold its fifth annual dog show at Los Angeles 

 on April 19, 30, 21 and 33. C. A. Sumner, Sec. 



Irish Setter Club Meeting. 



The annual meeting of the Irish Setter Club will be h^ld at 

 the Westminster Kennel Club's show, on Feb. 22, the second 

 day of the show, in the show buiiaing, ati 3 q'tlQCk in the 

 afternoon. ' 



The Pet Dog Club is to give an exhibition m the Lenox 



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Lyceum, May 30 to June 3, and prospects are very bright for 

 success. Spratts have been applied to for to bench the ex- 

 hibition, new members are joining the club daily and it will 

 be quite an extensive affair, with novel attractions, though it 

 is to be devoted almost entirely to toy dogs. The members 

 at the meeting last week were very enthusiastic over it, some 

 members offering $100 apiece besides valuable specials. The 

 meeting was held at the house of Mrs. Barnum, Lexington 

 avenue, president of the club; members present were Mrs. 

 Barnum, Mrs. Cunningham, Mrs. Randolph, Mrs. McKey, 

 Miss Bannister, the secretary, Messrs. Fryer, Barnum, Mor- 

 ris and T. Farrer Rackham. 



Mr. Frank Conger Baldwin, Detroit, Mich., is desirous of 

 learning the address of Mr. Frank Robison, the owTier of the 

 Gordon setter bitch Rosa B. He has a puppy out of Rosa B. 

 by Gunner (A. K. C. 28113), born July 1, 189.3. Mr. Robison 

 lived in Detroit at that time, but has since moved away; he 

 thinks to Syracuse, N. Y. 



Mr. A. E. Elmer, of Kingston, Ont., has lost his black and 

 tan terrier Lady Don by death that was shown round the 

 Canadian circuit last year with some success. 



Wife— Have you done all you could to recover Fido? Hus- 

 band—Have I? Didn't I just tell you I had ordered a pound 

 of sausage from every butcher in to^'m?— Brooklyn Life. 



Here is some dog hews: According to a writer in the New 

 York Becorder Judge Hilton's son Fred showed fifteen or 

 sixteen Japanese spaniels at the last New York dog show 

 and "each mite of doganity wore a solid silver collar, costing 

 in the neighborhood of 150." Well, well! 



When the brutal fight between a man and a dog took place 

 many years a,go at Hanley, in England, we hoped never to 

 hear of another such horrible exhibition. At Bridgeport, 

 Conn., however, w^e hear that such a contest took place Jan. 

 30 between a negro and a bulldog. The negro had been vic- 

 torious in several similar contests, and stripped to the waist 

 was willing to try again in the presence of a number of 



sports." The dog proved the victor this time, one is 

 pleased to hear, lacerating the man feaj-fuUy about the head 

 and breast. 



A dispatch says that "Red" Angus, a sheriff in Jefferson 

 county, Wyo., was recently in Cheyenne, Wyo., to purchase 

 some dogs for his kennel. His dogs are wolfdogs, and he 

 has been breeding them for some years. He has had killers 

 for a long time, but now wants to get the requisite speed for 

 the chaser. He has now three dogs, any one of which will 

 kill a gray or black wolf in short order. He expects to pro- 

 duce a dog that will hunt the wolf alone as a natural enemy. 

 His stock originates from a so-called bloodhound bitch, and 

 his present stud dog is a cross between a mastiff and a deer- 

 hound, and bred back to strong deerhound or greyhound 

 bitches should produce W'hat he wants. 



The Detroit show will, we are told, give $50 in prizes for 

 Boston terriers at their coming .show. Chicago has also 

 offered money for these dogs, but none of the Boston con- 

 tingent will be represented this year, as it is hardly worth 

 while sending so far on the off chance of the wins count- 

 ing if either the club or the breed is admitted into the A 



It is said that a farmer's foxhound, called Nimrod by the 

 way, recently ran a fox for seventeen hours on Dutch Moun- 

 tain, near Scranton, Pa., lugging along with him a trace 

 chain and a pail bail by which he had been fastened, finally 

 killing the fox and bringing it home. This beats everything 

 we ever heard of in this line; but if the dog did it, it should 

 not be difficult to believe. 



Mr, John W. Munson, vice Mr. J. Locke, has been ap- 

 pointed managing director of the Chicago show now being 

 held. Mr. Munson is well known to the exhibitors of the 

 early 80s, and formerly lived in St. Louis, Mo., where he was 

 president of the old St. Louis Kennel Club, which had a far- 

 reachmg effect on pointer breeding in the West. He removed 

 to Chicago about two years ago, but has taken little interest 

 in dog matters. Mr. Munson will be chiefly remembered in 

 connection with the more or less celebrated pointer Meteor 

 whom he owned, and whose defeat of Beaufort at New York 

 in 1884 furnished the "talent" with lots to talk about for 

 months after. 



Mr. F. G. Stewart, late manager of the White Oak Kennels, 

 is now manager of Mr. Geo. Kenney's estate, "Kinnelon" 

 Butler, Morris county, N. J. We understand i\Ir. Stewart is 

 pleased with the change he has made. 



Mr. N. Q. Pope informs U.S, unfortunately too late for our 

 last issue, of the death from pneumonia, of the well known 

 greyhound Highland Chief (12311). This dog was imported 

 by Mr. Huntington, in the fall of 1888, and first shown under 

 Mr. Watson, at Buff'alo the same year, and has since had a 

 successful show career, winning something like thirty prizes 

 and becoming a champion in short order. He was by 

 Courtoise out of Rechabike and in color white and blue. 

 There was always a good deal of difference of opinion as to, 

 the merits of this dog, but all agreed that he was a very- 

 handsome greyhound. Mr. Pope still has champion Balkis,. 

 Old Stone, etc., to console him in his loss. Highland Chief 

 was always Mrs. Pope's especial favorite, and to her our' 

 sympathies are extended. 



The new beagle field trial club recently formed in Boston 

 has for its object the improvement of beagles and basset 

 hounds in the field. Officers are to be nominated by the club 

 and not by executire committee. The secretary's cluties are 

 also better defined than in the by-laws of the N. B. C. We 

 fancy after all that the idea advanced by the N. E. P. T. Club 

 will bear investigation. The beagle members of the club 

 would have such consideration in the arrangements and on 

 them would devols'-e the making of rules for running, choos- 

 ing of giminds, etc., that they would differ but little from a 

 separate club. Of course, no trials could be held on the 

 Assonet grounds owing to scarcity of rabbits. By combining 

 their interests with the older club they would at once gain 

 power, prestige and greater pecuniary benefits. Many of the 

 present members of the N. E. F. T. Club would, no doubt, if 

 the trials were held by their club, run a beagle or two for the 

 fun of the thing. It would be an excuse for a few days' 

 pretty sport. More valuable prizes than the recently formed 

 beagle club can hope to give, for the present at least, would 

 make the trials as important as those held by the National 

 Beagle Cbib. We would like to hear the opinion of the beagle 

 men on the subject. 



The members of the Washington bench show committee 

 are CAddently very enthusiastic and the least exhibitors can 

 do is to half fill that enormous building. Washiijo tou is sure 

 to be crowded after the inauguration and the thrifty fancier 

 may find it profitable to expose his wares at that tirue. 



Mr. James Watson sends us the following notes regarding 

 the Keystone Kennel Club show, to be hehl in Philadelphia, 

 on Feb. 38 to March 3. The four St. Bernard Club silv-ei- 

 medals are for members only, and will be given to the best 

 American-bred rough dog, i-cugh bitch, smooth dog and 

 smooth bitch. Mr. G. \\ . Price, of the Lansdowue Kennels, 

 donates two gold scarf pins cuncaining a miniature likeness 

 of old Belgrave Joe, one to the best American-bred fo.vtei- 



