IVlAY 4, 1893.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



S91 



DOG CHAT. 



Irish Terriers. 



TlirougTi the courtesy of one of its members, in fact the 

 only American member, Mr. Walter F, Comstock, we are 

 enabled to look through the prettily and appropriately gotten 

 up report of the Irish Terrier Club for the past year. Dr. 

 Carey in the course of his report as to the progress made by 

 the club and its present healthy status says: "'There can be 

 no doubt that the Irish terrier has become almost the most 

 fashionable breed of terrier, at least if numbers seen on the 

 benches at all the principal shows during the year are any 

 criterion; the quality has also much improved and the classes 

 now present a much more even appearance, and a greater 

 similarity in type, than was the case a few years back. Coat 

 seems to me to be the point now requiring most attention, 

 many of the dogs seen during the past year are wanting in 

 density and hardness of jacket. Ears are improved, as is 

 coh)r. Size is another point I should like to direct breeders' 

 attention to; it is time now that more dogs under 241bs, 

 should be produced, and I think that the attention of judges 

 having been specially directed to the club standard weights, 

 will probably have a good effect in the direction of lessening 

 size during 'the coming years." Among other things we 

 learn that the sixty-guinea challenge cup was oiJered six 

 times, and on every "occasion won by Mr. E. A. Wiener's 

 champion Brickbat. Dr. Carey is happy to say that the 

 Kennel Club has made the cropijing regulation into a rule of 

 the club which goes into effect after July 1, and this pro- 

 hibits the exhibition of any Irish terrier, born since Dec. 31, 

 1889, if cropped, at any show held under Kennel Club rules. 

 In our remarks on this subject recently we .should perhaps 

 have made our meaning a little clearer if we had written 

 "even better." We do not in the slightest degree wish to 

 cast any slur on the excellent lot of "daredevils" our country- 

 men have ■ hown recently. We believe that the good lot of 

 dogs of this breed such as Dunmurry, Boxer IV., Jack 

 Briggs, Jackanapes, Candour, Merle Gandy, etc., are only 

 the forerunners of strong classes at future shows, and we 

 threw out the hint suggested by this new cropping rule, 

 which will necessarily have a retroactive effect on many 

 kennels which have good dogs that have been "under the 

 scissors" since 1889. It was a hint that we thought some of 

 our terrier men might take advantage of, as such a rule does 

 not obtain over here. 



Eater we hear that Brickbat has won the cup outright 

 and that the club is now calling for subscriptions to pay for 

 another challenge cup. Brickbat has won twelve successive 

 victories. 



The Columbian Dog Show. 



We are continually hearing of the inability of intending 

 exhibitors nt the World's Fair dog show to secure a premium 

 list, although repeatedly written for. The way things are 

 going it looks as if a muddle is in sight. No authentic list 

 of judges is as yet forthcoming, and the promised revised 

 premium list has not yet made its appearance. According 

 to the date given out in the early premium list the entries 

 close May 20, and that is little more than a fortnight ahead, 

 and then there is no mention of entries having been received 

 yet. A great effort should have been made to secure foreign 

 entries so that native exhibits could have been compared 

 and our strength or weakness ascertained. English ex- 

 hibitors depend gTeatly on the list of judges, and with the 



firesent uncertainty as to who will really officiate, there is 

 ittle likelihood of our cousins across thewater making any 

 special effort. W e should know, too, by this time what the 

 specialty clubs are going to do in the way of specials. In 

 fact the' whole arrangements seem to be as incomplete as the 

 World's Fair generally, when President Cleveland pressed 

 the button last Monday. There 1^ another fact which has 

 cropped up and been brought to our notice. Through the 

 rules of the English Kennel Club, dogs are registered which 

 Avould not have been considered eligible for registration in 

 the A. K. C. S. B. Take for instance the Irish terrier Merle 

 Grady, owned by Mr. W. J. Comstock, of Providence, R. L, 

 which is registered in the English book, bttt cannot be 

 registered here on account of his grandsire. Bellman's, the 

 well-known prize winner, sire being unknown, still Bellman 

 is registered in the English book, and were Merle Grady 

 owned in England he could be shown at the World's Fair 

 show; as it is he is debarred. Owned by an American he 

 must produce that great grandsire or stay at home, because 

 the A, K. C. will not give him one of those gilt-edged certifi- 

 cates. No doubt there are other well-known dogs that will 

 hud themselves in the same box. An inferior animal, how- 

 ever, that can boast of three generations back of names no 

 one knows anything of, nor cares to, is allowed to occupy a 

 bench that might well be filled hy a worthier animal. He 

 has the magic number, howevar, and has the further pri\d- 

 lege of paying fifty cents extra into the already loaded 

 coffers of the A. K. C, for something he had already paid 

 for. Americans have great advantages and — disadvantages. 

 Hurry up the judges and premium lists. 



Pet Dogs at Shows. 



We regret to hear that Dr. W. E. Oliver's noted York- 

 shire, Dick York has met with such a sudden death. 

 One of Mr. Hacke's wolfhounds at Denver show nipped him 

 and he was squeezed into the canine paradise that is reserved 

 for all good prize winners. Handlers of these wolfhounds 

 should be more careful of their charges: some of these hounds 

 seem to take a fancy now and then to make a sudden dart at 

 some harmless little dog in a crowded ring. One of the 

 beagles at Pittsburgh, for instance, was nearly killed by a 

 hound from these same kennels. This leads us to think 

 that show committees should by all means provide a small 

 inclosure where toy dogs alone could exercise. Some of 

 these little pets have been delicately nurtured and are alto- 

 gether too delicate and refined in their natures to be sub- 

 jected to the careless rompings of a lot of big dogs. To see 

 their fear and trembling when set down in such a ring shows 

 what a purgatory it is to such animals. Too distracted to 

 attend to the wants of nature, when put back in their 

 stalls, they suffer untold agony, and disease in some shape 

 is a result if continually subjected to such treatment. 



The United States F. T. Club. 



Mr. P. T, Madison writes us, too late for last issue, that at 

 the request of many patrons of the U. S. F. T. Club the clos- 

 ing of the entries to the Bicknell Derby has been extended 

 to June 1. Field trial men should appreciate the progressive 

 efforts of the U. S. F. T. Club in giving two trials in one 

 season. Given good weather conditions — ^in the trials of 1891 

 the ground was too dry — there is no better game country 

 than that around Bicknell, Ind. The trials are visited by 

 larger crowds of sportsmen than any we have yet attended 

 and the villagers taking an interest "in the trials conduces to 

 a good feeling all around. 



Sale of Duke of Kildare. 



Mr. J. Myrick, Jr., of Portland, Ore., has bought Mr. W. 

 L, Washington's Irish setter dog Duke of Kildare, the win- 

 ner of first prizes in both open and novice classes at the last 

 New York bench show and in the open class at Baltimore 

 and Eluiira. Duke of Kildare is of the same litter as Queen 

 Vic, now iu the challenge class, and of the prize winning 

 bitches Belle of Kildare and Queen of Kildare, being sired 

 by champion Kildare ottt of Red Rose, the dam of l5ildare. 

 These four Irish setters are a striking, example of the benefit 



of judicious Inbreeding. Mr, Myrick also brought oixt a 

 young bitch from Mr. Washington's kennels named Kildare 

 Flo, by champion Dick Swiveler out of Bessie Zapp, which is 

 said to he a bitch with a ftiture. She shows great bench 

 form and acts very much like the making of a first-class field 

 trial dog. Duke "of Kildare is well known as a high cla.ss 

 practical shooting dog, and has had three full seasons on 

 game in a district where quail are very plentiful, and has 

 had many hundreds shot over him. Mr. Myrick has lost 

 the IrisLt" setter Ormonde, which he bought last winter, 

 from an attack of pneumonia. Oregon seems to be a great 

 coumry for Irish setters, and the sportsmen out there have 

 brought out some of our best dogs. The winning dogs at 

 New^ York in 1891 and 1893 are both now owned in the same 

 town in Oregon. 



This Speaks for Itself. 



Mr. Huse, secretary of the Boston Terrier Club, sent the 

 following too late for pttblication last week: "Mr. G. H, 

 Huse, Sec'y, 95 Blackstone street, Bcston, Mass. — Dear Sir: 

 I have your letter of April 17, and by way of reply have to 

 advise you that a class for Boston terriers has been added in 

 kennel exhibit witti same premi ims and conditions as other 

 terriers. Very respectfully, W. I, Buchanan, Chief Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture " There is no denying the energy dis- 

 played by this club, and Ave bow gracefully to that energy. 

 Their terriers will have a class at the Pet Dog Club show 

 May 30, and they are at last in a fair way to arrive at some 

 unanimity of type by carrying otit the suggestion we made 

 at Boston" show", that they discard their specialist judges for 

 awhile and let an all-round judge familiar with terriers 

 decide upon their terriers in the future. This has been done 

 in the case of the Pet Dog Club show. At a meeting of 

 B. T. C. held April 21, it was resolved that Mr. Mason should 

 be asked to judge these classes. Further, it was annotmced, 

 and this is also commendable in this day of carelessness in 

 such matters, that all the medals offered at late .shows had 

 been delivered to the lucky owners of the winners. 



Ohio Field Trial Club. 



At a meeting of the Ohio Field Trial Club, held April 21, 

 the following officers were elected: President, Henry E. 

 Weber, Canton, O.; Vice-President, John Bolus, Wooster, O.; 

 2d Vice-President, J. A. De Normandie, New Castle, Pa,; 

 Secretary-Treas, G. V. L. Mullenger, Canton, O. The club is 

 a member of the A. K. C., has a charter and is incorporated 

 under the laws of Ohio, and will be known as the Ohio Field 

 Trial Club Co. The club hold trials annually on its preserve 

 on the Line of the Inter-Suburban R. R.,, liiidway between 

 Canton and Massillou, Ohio. Three stakes will be run, an 

 All-Age Stake for pointers and setters, with prizes of $350 to 

 first, ¥1-50 to second and SlOO to third. Derby, for pointers 

 and .setters whelped on and after Jan. 1, 1892, each breed to 

 run separately; Urst Sl25, second f65, third $50. The trials 

 will commence Nov, 15. For entry blanks and further par- 

 ticulars address the secretary-treasurer, Mr. G. Y. D. Mull- 

 enger, Canton, O., or Mr. Jolin Bolus, Woo.ster, 0. 



Vonkers Dog Show. 



Some time since we spoke of the formation of the 

 Yonkers Fanciers' Club. The club has not lost much time 

 it: getting down to business and the well-arranged premium 

 list that lies before us is an example of their energy. In 

 connection with a poultry show, a dog .show will be held 

 May 25 to 27. The prizes are represented by glory in the 

 shape of club badges, in color — blue, red and yellow. In 

 addition, providing there are three or more entries in a breed, 

 the club will donate a bronze medal for the best in each 

 breed. A member of the club also oft'ers .$5 for the most 

 tastefully arranged stall in the .show. This is all the cash 

 in sight at present, but further specials will, no doubt, be 

 forthcoming and be published later in the catalogue. Mr. 

 C. H. Mason is the judge. The entry fee is H^l and the 

 entries close May 13. The show is not under A. K. C. rules, 

 but that should make no diff erence and we trust that a good 

 little show may be the result of the club's efforts. Mr, 

 Emil Garnjost, a fox-terrier breeder, is the secretary and the 

 owner of tile Bronx Valley Kennels, James H, Young is the 

 president. 



Death of Refuge II. 



For a comparatively yoting fancier in St. Bernards, Mr. 

 Reick, owner of the New" York St. Bernard Kennels, has had 

 his share of the troubles and penalties that beset an owner of 

 a valuable breeding kennel. On Sunday last the noted St, 

 Bernard Refuge II, joined the ever-increasing majority. His 

 death was due to a sudden attack of colic. Refuge II. was 

 bred by Mr. Norris-Elye, and whelped April 3, 1886. His sire 

 was the great Plinlimmon and dam champion Recluse, the 

 dam of Lord and Lady Melrose. He was imported by Mr. 

 Reick about eighteen months since, and although his show 

 career on this side has been somewhat over.shadowed by the 

 other celebrated inmates of this kennel, his valtte as a stud 

 dog was never questioned. Possessed of great bone, a splen- 

 did head and many other attribittes of a good St. Bernard, 

 his place on the prize lists would have been much higher had 

 his forelegs been as they shottld have been. At the Agricul- 

 tural Hall, London, in 1891, he won the stud dog medal. 

 Besides this, he won in England over forty prizes and cups. 

 He was a good dog, and his death is a distinct loss to the 

 breed in this country. Mr. Reick will have the sympathy of 

 his fellow breeders. ' 



Death of Mr. Astor Carey. 



The kennel world has no doubt lost in the sudden death of 

 young Mr. H. R. Astor Carey a budding fancier that we 

 could ill afford to lose, Mr. Carey died suddenly from heart 

 disease at the Everett House last Friday night, having come 

 on from Newport to see the naval review. This well known 

 society man had only just become known to the kennel 

 world as the plucky buyer of the bulldogs His Lordship and 

 White Venn. He had just bought Mr. .James R. Keene's 

 stables at Newport and a large farm near by, and that he in- 

 tended to go in for dogs to some extent is proved by his 

 intention of building some fine kennels at the above-men- 

 tioned .'■table. We suppose that His Lordship and W^hite 

 Venn will be disposed of now, but who will be wise enough 

 to purchase is an open question as yet, 



Los Angeles Show, 



The Los Angeles dog show seems to have attracted consid- 

 erable attention on the Pacific slope. The entries numbered 

 1S7, and the attendance is said to have been unusually good. 

 Among the dogs which created an interest was the terrier 

 Owney, whose record as a traveler on most of oitrmail trains 

 is well known. He wore a collar marked "Owney, Post- 

 office, Albany, N, Y,," and attached to the collar were tags 

 and medals indicating the many large cities this canine 

 tramp had s isited. As there were no regular prizes, merely 

 club diplomas or ribbons at this show, it speaks well for the 

 fanciers' instinct which had so many owners of good dogs to 

 strive for the empty honors regardless of the expenses they 

 incurred. A number of San Francisco dogs ^\ ere in evidence, 

 and it is to be hoped that this good feeling will be recipro- 

 cated at the show which takes place at the latter city this 

 week, 



Toronto K. C. Show. 



We have received the premium list of the Toronto Kennel 

 Club's show to be held in the Granite Rink, May 13 and 13, 



We have already given all necessary particulars, but may 

 again remind our many readers in Ontario that entries close 

 May 9, at 5 P. M. with Mr. W. P. Eraser, 82 King St., East, 

 Toronto, 



St. Augustine Coming, 



It may siu'prise otir readers, those interested in the St. 

 Bernard, that the crack smooth dog, St. A-Ugustine, will soon 

 be over here. The owner does not wish his name known yet, 

 taut sufBce to say that he is known in St. Bernard circles and 

 lives in the W est. St. Augustine won the 100 guinea chal- 

 lenge cup at the last Crystal Palace show, and is considered 

 by many the best, rough or smooth, dogin England. Heisby 

 Apollo out of Dinorah. The West is already strong 

 in St. Bernards, and the importation of such a dog will 

 still further improve the breed. The purchaser has had, 

 naturally, to pay a long figure for him. He was owned by 

 J. F. Sm'ith, of Sheffield, and was whelped Feb, 19, 1890; in 

 color he is orange and white. He was known formerly as 

 Tarash and was then owned by Mr. A. J. Gosling. 



Death of Lord Sheffield. 



We regret to hear that Capt. Phelps's bulldog Lord Shef- 

 field, the last link that connected poor Mr. Porter with the 

 present kennel world, is dead. The dog did not do well on 

 the circuit, would not eat, and was generally out of sorts. 



Setter Bitch Bessamond. 



Warsaw, Ind,, April 22,— In this week's Forest awd 

 Stream yon name E, Haymond as the owner of my bitch 

 Bessamond, Please correct the mistake, which doubtless 

 occurred by reason of my name being Leigh H. HATmond. 



P. S.—I think the engraving very good.— H. 



Beagle Club Meeting. 



An executive committee ineeting of the National Beagle 

 Clttb of America will be held at the A. K, C. rooms, No. 44 

 Broadway, New York city, on Monday, May 8, at 3 P, M. 

 Members of the committee are earnestly "requested to attend, 

 as the arrangements for the coming field trials will be dis- 

 cussed. 



The CharlottesA'-ille F, T. Kennels have sold the field 

 pointers Conscript and Exile, brothers of Rip Rap, to Mr. J 

 Otto Donner, of New Y^ork, for $750. 



We have received quite an extensive- catalogrte of the Ford- 

 hook Collie Kennels. It is well gotten up, adorned with 

 pictures of their collies, and has a good deal of interesting 

 reading on collies in general. 



Dr. Foote has sold the following black and tan terriers: 

 Monarch, first Omaha, Brooklyn, New York and Philadel- 

 phia, and Rochelle Carmencita, winner of several prizes, to 

 Max J, Baehr, St. Louis, Mo, The wire-haired fox-terrier 

 bitch Miss Brittle, by Brittle out of Vic Broom, he has dis- 

 posed of to F. S. Kinney, New York. 



The members of the City of the Straits Kennel Club are 

 making an effort to secure outside grounds, so as to have a 

 place where the members can train and work their dogs. 

 Mr. Howie Muir, the owner of the deerhounds champion 

 Olga, etc., is said to be at the head of the movement. 



The Masco titah Kennel Club was to hold their annual 

 meeting last Monday evening, at which eight directors were 

 to be elected, afterwards a meeting of the new directory 

 would be held. 



At a sale of horses at Tattersall's the other night, 

 Mr. William Ea.ston purchased six couple of foxhound, a 

 draft from the Belvoir pack, for §75, a cheap lot. They will 

 be sent as a present to Gen. W. H. Jackson, owner of the 

 Belle Meade stock farm, at Nashville, Tenn. 



We are indebted to Mr. G. E. Osborn, the well-known 

 owner of the Rosecroft Kennels, for a very pretty paper- 

 weight which he is getting out. Under a heavy concave 

 glass is a capital sort of silver print of his English setter 

 Sheldon in the field. There are interesting po.ssibilities in 

 this respect for fanciers generally, and such pictures are a 

 pleasant change from the impossible landscapes and marine 

 subjects generally depicted in this Avay. The Metal and 

 Glass Ornamental Co., of New Haven, Conn., is gettiiig them 

 up. 



W^e notice that Mr. T. G, Davey this week spreads a treat 

 before the pointer and setter men in ottr business columns. 

 Such pointers as Miss Rumor, Josie Brackett, in challenge 

 class; Brighton Leda, etc., should not go a-begging. H"'is 

 two prize-winning retrievers, imported from England, are 

 also in the list, as well as some good setter stock. 



There seems to be a good market for St. Bernards in Kan- 

 sas City, Mo. We see that some of the Lawrence Garza 

 (Alton — Judith), out of Ashland Bessie stock, have found 

 many purchasers. 



There was a Boston terrier at the Los Angeles show. Its 

 circle of recognition is, indeed, on the increase. 



Mr. John H. Mathews is in a likely way to show some more 

 bulldogs of his own breeding. His bitch Grit lately whelped 

 nine hy his dog Bahros; about half of the litter are still alive 

 and growing up with the country. 



Referring to our btisiness columns we find that yet another' 

 sportsman, Mr. L. K. Devendo^f, is deploring the loss of hi.s 

 setter dog, which Avas stolen from his place of business in 

 Washington, D. C, March 2. He has every reason to t)elieve 

 the dog was sent out of town. 



Flaps from the Beaver's Tail. 



Toronto, Can. — The list of entries given out of Canadian 

 applications for exhibition at the World's Fair is not at all 

 complete and there is little doubt but the full complement 

 of 200 entries wUl be sent. 



Intending exhibitors here are slow in entering until the 

 list of judges— autheiiticated list— is given out and also the 

 Ijroper and final classification announced. No one seems to 

 be in a position to give reliable information on these 

 points, which are essentia], as entries are supposed to close 

 on May 20, 



Several breeders in British Columbia intend showing in 

 Seattle, May 17 to 20, to get Mr. Raper's decision on their 

 dogs. 



From Mr. John B. Carmichael, of Victoria, I learn that 

 collies are having quite a boom in the Flowery Province, 

 several recent importations having been made. Mr. Stewart, 

 of the Belmont Ranch, who has just returned from Eng- 

 land, brought Avith him a very nice dog bj^ Wooly (by 

 Metchley W^onder) out of Vic (by Rob Roy McGregor). A 

 bitch by Edgbaston Excelsior, brought out at same time, 

 has since unfortunately gone over to the majority. Mr. 

 Chambers, of Victoria, another enthusiast, received on April 

 20, a bitch by Rob Roy McGregor out of Jennie Deans and is 

 negotiating for a first class stud dog. Mr. Carmichael him- 

 self has bought the bitch Metchley Flurry, by Claremont 



