Sept. 33, 1893.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



^89 



DOG CHAT. 



The Ashmont Trophy. 



We scarcely remember, even in the old pointer squabbles 

 of years past," when so mixch rancorous feeling was created 

 at a show as that caused by the manner in which the "Ash- 

 mont Trophy" was awarded at Toronto. No one begrudged 

 such a good dog as Ch. Tim the victory that was unex- 

 pectedly his, but it was the peculiar change in the conditions 

 which govern this special. A correspondent in another 

 column, whom we may at once say stands high in the esti- 

 mation of dogmen, asks several questions. The answers to 

 most of them are apparent. We understand that the man- 

 agers of the Toronto show applied several times for the con- 

 ditions, etc., applying to this " Trojjhy," but received no 

 answer. The " Trophy" was not mentioned in the catalogue. 

 The conditions under which this " Trophy" has been given 

 stated that competition is restricted to dogs and bitches 

 which Mr. Mason has judged. There was no harm in this, 

 and as the "Trophy" was a handsome one, it gave rise to 

 much rivalry and considerable interest attached to the final 

 outcome. Now all this is changed, and the sooner the com- 

 petition is ended the better it will be for those most inter- 

 ested. The way in which this special was judged was a 

 presumptuous insult to the other judges whose breeds Mr. 

 Mason called into the ring. Again the increased competition 

 was unfair to those of the owners and dogs that had already 

 a claim on the " Trophy" through previous wins under the 

 original conditions. Any way we look at it, it is bad. 



The fact that Mr. Mason judged all breeds for the trophy 

 implied that the other judges were not competent to have a 

 voice in the matter, and this was the feeling among the ex- 

 hibitors at the show. And evidently a similar feeling exists 

 in the office of the Fanciers' Journal, of which Mr. Mason 

 is the editor, judging from the following in their last week's 

 issue: "As we go to pre.ss we learn by dispatch from Toronto 

 that the 'Ashmont' trophy was won by Tim, with Lady 

 Gay Spanker reserve. From this we are led to believe that 

 Mr. Davidson could not have been present and that Mr. 

 Mason took his classes. This we are unable to verify owing 

 to lack of time." The character of this special now partakes 

 more of the hippodrome, and we are surprised that the 

 donor should lend himself to such a scheme or rather farce. 

 Mt. Holly, as our correspondent suggests, will probably see 

 the finish. And it would be well. 



Toronto Show. 



There were many visitors at Toronto show. Among them 

 we noticed A. D. Stewart, fresh from England; Dr. Foote, 

 who is on his way to Chicago, but looking far from well; A. 

 W. Smith, having his semi-annual fling and full of jokes and 

 chaff, as usual; Dr. Mills, planning improvements in dog- 

 dom; E. M. Uldham, keeping tab on spaniel type; W. J. 

 Higginsou, proud as Lucifer of his terriers; German Hop- 

 kins sighing for a string of good ones; George Bell thinking 

 of "what ruight have been;" John Davidson, looking as spry 

 as a two-year-old after many miles of travel lately; F. H. P. 

 Mercer, looking very legal; Ed. WLxom, a little quieter than 

 usual, but "Uncle Dick" made up for it; James Green, with 

 quite a Scotch accent; George Thomas, looking very tired 

 after the Ashmont trophy judging, and T. A. Dewey, quite 

 reserved in manner from the same cause; Ben. Lewis, mourn- 

 ing the decadence of dog shows from a pecuniary view; 

 Will. Conners, too pleased to express himself when Tim got 

 the blue. Others we saw were Jas. Lindsay, A. M. Hughes, 

 W. D. Forbes, H. Massey, W. S. Jackson, C'. J. Bou.sfleld, W. 

 J. Talk, J. D. C. Glynn, A. A. MacDonald, C. E. Ireson, F. 

 B. Carlisle, Fred. Hobart, John F. Scholes, Joseph Smith, E. 

 Clark, Hes. Milkens, Dr. J. Rune, L. A. Van Zandt, E, B, 

 Elliott, Dr. Griffin, P. J. Keyes, S. Glass, A. Murdock, H. L. 

 Kreuder, Wareham Whitney and a party from Rochester; 

 Dr. Bamber, Harry Yates, Henry Brooks, C. M. Nelles, A. 

 Laidlaw, Jas. Luck well, George Douglass, J. Kennedy, Tom 

 Blake, Joe Spracklin and many others. 



The Irish Setter Club Trials. 



We call attention to the advertisement of the third annual 

 field trials of the Irish Setter Club, which appears in our 

 business columns. After many trials and tribulations all 

 arrangements have been completed. The grounds are located 

 near Thomasville, N. C, and board can he obtained at the 

 Mock House for $2 per day, including everything. Saddle 

 horses are §1 per day, single teams $1.50 and double teams 

 $i3.50, including a man. The prizes are not as large as it was 

 ■desired to make them, but if the entries warrant it they will 

 ibe increased. A special prize or two may also be given. 

 Entry blanks will be ready for distribution by the time this 

 is in print. The club is fortunate in securing the services of 

 Ml'. W. S. Bell, so favorably known in connection with the 

 Central Field Trials, as judge. Dr. Davis writes: "Now that 

 everything is ready I hope the Irish setter men will come for- 

 ward and make these trials a success. Every single entry 

 counts, and we would like to see the man with a single dog 

 come and try his luck as well as he who has .several. These 

 j'eunions are always very pleasant and I hope to ha\'e the 

 pleasure of meetiag at the coming one many of those with 

 whom I have corresponded but never seen." 



A Commendable Innovation. 



Mr. J. E. Isgrigg, of Chicago, has set an excellenfexample 

 by refusing to indulge in a newspaper controversy with a 

 trainer with whom he has had unsatisfactory dealing. Mr. 

 Isgrigg tells us that he will resort to the American Ken- 

 nel Club, the field trial clubs and the courts for the remedies 

 provided by each. Such a course is likely to prove as satis- 

 factory to every aggrieved individual personally as it surely 

 will to the public. The day has gone by when questionable 

 dog transactions should be made topics of protracted discus- 

 ,siou in the papers. 



Death of Richmond Olive. 



Mr. Donovan tells us that Mr. Heald writes Mm that 

 "'poor old Nancy," as he calls her, but known to show goers 

 as Richmond Olive, the celebrated fox-terrier bitch, died at 

 Mr. Thayer's kennels on Sept. 3. Her list of winnings is a 

 long one, commencing at Toronto, in 1S84, where she won 

 first and three specials. There was probably no fox-terrier 

 in this country in which dog lovers were so interested several 

 years past as in Richmond Olive, and until the appearance 

 of Rachel and Lucifer, held undisputed sway in the prize 

 lists, and she "kejit herself " much longer than the average 

 terrier., 



Pug Killed. 



Uncle Dick is full of trouble over the loss of his pugdog 

 Peoria Jerry while on the way to the Toronto show. While 

 lie was exercising the dogs outside the station at Buffalo, 

 Mr. .Fellows tells us ^that a truckman drove deliberately 

 over the dog and crushed his life out. Uncle Dick thinks it 

 lucky he did not have a pistol, as he might now be awaiting 

 a verdict of manslaughter in some degree or other. Our 

 Hornellsville friend avers that the pug curled his tail so 

 tight he couldn't shut his eyes, and this makes the loss so 

 much more serious. 



Libels and rumors of libels were flying thick and fast at 

 Toronto. Mr. Mercer was very busy trying to serv^e a sum- 

 mons on Dr. Mills in a suit for §10,00() damages for alleged 

 libel contained in his address that we reviewed last week. 



Dr. Mills did not care to assume any .direct responsibility in 

 the matter, and we must say the manner of service was 

 scarcely in accordance with our notion of a Chevalier Bayard. 

 Whatever the in j ury , the sho w ring is no place for such action 

 among dogmen. AH this sort of thing must stop and at 

 once. The whole kennel interest of the country is suffering 

 from it. 



It has been a subject for surprise that Wellesbourne Char- 

 lie was not shown for the Ashmont trophy at Wissahickon 

 when The Squire won. It seems in the earlier part of the 

 show during the other special judging when the collies were 

 brought in for the special for best in show Mr. Mason an- 

 nounced that he would not judge them then but would leave 

 it till the last day, when he would award the Ashmont 

 trophy. Mr. Jarrett was not pleased with the arrangement 

 and withdrew his dog from further competition. 



Mr. Wixom felt pretty proud of his kennel record at To- 

 ronto, and well he might, when we find that ten out of the 

 thirteen winners he showed were bred by himself. Is it not 

 about time he donned the ermine according to some precepts? 



Our contemporary hardly got that great Dane tale right. 

 When Mr. Glynn, owner of the Wolverton Kennels, was 

 bringing in his great Danes on Monday one of them got away, 

 and being chased by boys took to the lake, near the Fair 

 grounds. He swam round for some .time and then came out 

 and made his way to the gate again, but the gatekeepers sent 

 him off several times, not thinking he was one of the show 

 dogs. Finally Mr. Glynn heard of it, and captured him in 

 time for judging, where as Senta's Brutus he won first in 

 puppy Class. Toronto papers worked iip a weird story on 

 the subject, and implied that if he had not stopped he was 

 swimming yet. 



Canadian Fox-Terrier Club. 



The display of trophies made by this club at Toronto show 

 was a most surprising one— four large pieces of silver, up- 

 ward of 2ft. in height, surmounted by a bowl, under which 

 stood a capital representation of a fox"-terrier that should be 

 a guide to the fortunate winner to breed one like it in type, 

 were flanked by numerous fine cups donated by different 

 members. We hope to give a picture of this display to show 

 Americans what our cousins over the border are capable of 

 doing on short notice. 



George Thomas says Paddy Doolan, the Northcroft Irish 

 terrier, can do that Badger at Philadelphia, and he is getting 

 him into traiuing. Be careful, the badger game is a hard one 

 to beat. 



Cockers for Medford. 



During the Toronto show Mr. Brooks bought the cocker 

 Woodland Prince; third in open black dogs and second in 

 novice dogs, also the winning bitch puppy Ina. We hear the 

 Misses Brooks are devoting some attention to this part of the 

 Wankie Kennels, and the kennel is expected to be pretty by 

 the time New York show comes round. 



Toronto is proverbially stiff-necked in the matter of admis- 

 sion tickets, but surely there is some lack of management 

 somewhere when a judge has to pay to get in, though he 

 shows his badge. This occurred to Mr. Davidson one morn- 

 ing during the show. Tom Blake was also a sufferer because 

 he preferred to get his meals outside the grounds. There 

 were several complaints from others over similar treatment. 

 The idea seems to be when they get you in you must stay for 

 the rest of the day and spend your money and ruin your con- 

 stitution on pie and red lemonade and such delicacies. 



Cribbage. 



This crack wire-hair arrived on the steamship Spain shipped 

 to Mr. H. W. Smith by Mr. Fred Man.sell. Cribbage ^viIl 

 make his debut at Cranston this week. Surrey Janet tarries 

 awhile longer. The English papers deprecate several things 

 that have been said about this bitch and congi-afculate Mr. 

 Smith on owning her. ^ock-Keeper mentally remarked on 

 seeing her, "Cheap at a nundred," and pounds, not dollars. 



Other Importations. 



With Cribbage came the Irish setter Signal for Dr. Jarvis, 

 also the pugs Dong and Haughty Madge for L. C. Nims, 

 Somerville, O., from Mr. Houldsworth, of Bradford, Eng- 

 land. 



Our Quaker contemporary should know better than to 

 crow over a little "wire" from Morris, Manitoba, and sup- 

 pose we should attempt to snatch the glory from them. Of 

 course the editox-ial talent is young yet, but probably they 

 will find out in course of time that there is such a thing as 

 the Associated Press, and further, that New York papers are 

 not slow to avail themselves of its benefits, and such a dis- 

 patch was the one .spoken of. 



We received a call yesterday from Mr. J, B. Martin, of San 

 Francisco, Cal., a well known fox-terrier breeder. He will 

 attend the Cranston show and judge for himself how Eastern 

 shows compare with those on the Pacific slope. 



Dr. O. S. Bamber, of Rochester, N. Y., has transferred the 

 beagle Jack Rowett to a friend in Cuba, N. Y. 



Death of Obadiah. 



The well-known cocker, Obadiah, is no more. He was run 

 over by a cab and killed, At the time of his death he was 

 owned by Mr. HaiTy Yates, of Rochester, who had pur- 

 chased him fi'om Dr. O. S. Bamber. Obadiah is principally 

 known as the sire of Fascination. 



We know that Mr. Leslie must feel much disappointment 

 as well as regret in the death of his pointer bitch Cora of 

 Lynn. She broke away from her kennel and making straight 

 for the railroad, met death by being run over by the cars. 

 She was in charge of Mr. W. B. McCloud, owner of Liberty 

 Kennels, Hyattsville, 0., who was preparing her for field 

 work in which she gave great promise. Cora was by Tempest 

 ex Nadjy of Naso and a full sister to Duke of Kent II. 



Ottawa Show. 



The Canadian Kennel Club diplomas wUl be competed for 

 at Ottawa this year. J. Otis Fellows will judge all classes. 



Any one in search of good bull-terriers is likely to drop on 

 a winner in the litter Chatham Kennels offers this week in 

 our business columns. All bull-terrier men know what 

 White Wonder is, and Queenjof .the Dale is the dam of True 

 Blue and grand dam of Prince Gully and Mermaid, familiar 

 names in prize lists. Queen of the Dale has always been a 

 matron of merit; for one litter in England an offer was made 

 of $1,500 and refused. 



Mr. G, W. Patterson is exceedingly pleased with a large 

 litter of twelve that his St. Bernard Lady Lomond has by 

 Mr. Moore's ^Uton, Jr. They are said to have remarkably 

 large heads and are all lively and well. Alton, Jr., Altoneer 

 and such dogs are bound to improve oar St. Bernards if 

 judiciously used. 



California. Notes. 



E. K. Benchley. of Los Angeles, reports a litter of winning 

 pointers, by Kan Koo, out of Kioto. 



While PoEEST AND STREAM will ever be received with a 

 cordial welcome by sportsmen throughout America, the 

 new candidate for honors, The Breeder and Sportsman, 

 with " Namquoit" at the belm, will be in the front rank. 



There are a number of very fair English setters on the 

 coast that, judging from the tales told of them, wei'e stolen 

 in the East, as their owners know nothing of them. Any 

 one losing a dog would do well to drop us a line, and if th.ere 

 are any who answer the description their owners could 

 recover them. By working quietly many stolen dogs would 

 be recovered— too" much bluster only warns the thief. 



The quail season opened on September 1, but the weather 

 has been such that but little shooting has been done. T. 



Providence Dog Show, 



Naekagassett Piek, R. I., Sept. 19.— Special to Forest 

 and atream: The show opened with a capital collection of 

 467 dogs, from the principal kennels in the East. Pointers, 

 setters, spaniels, mastilfs, St. Bernards, fox-terriers, Irish 

 terriers and rough terriers show much quality. The rain 

 falls heavily,- but the building is good and well arranged. A 

 large number of prominent dogmen are present. 



H. W. Lact. 



ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Th&re is no charge for ansioering questions under this head. All 

 questions relating to ailments of dogs will be answered by Dr. T. Q. 

 Sherwood, a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. 

 Communications referring to other matters connected vnth Kennel 

 Management and dogs toiU also receive careful attention. 



M. S., Pittsford, Vt.— I have a Laverack setter puppy, about 16mos. 

 old, that I have tried to train by your "Practical Dog Training," and 

 have been quite successful, but until this summer he never tried to 

 chase chickens, although he always pointed them, and I unfortunately 

 did not reaUze the necessity of following your advice about chickens. 

 This summer he has developed suddenly a wild frenzy for killing them. 

 He has the hunting instinct very strongly, and when he sees a chicken 

 is perfectly blind to everything ixntil he has killed it. If you know of any 

 way of curing him, I will be very much obliged if you will write and 

 tell me. We have whipped him severely every time he has chased one 

 and lied him up, but with no effect. Ans. The nest time he kills one, 

 whip him and lot him know what it is for, and then tie the chicken se- 

 curely round his neck in such manner that he cannot get it oiS or bite 

 it. If that does not cure him, nothing will. Allow the burden to re- 

 main on the neck as long as possible, and it is more than likely such 

 continuity of chicken wOl create a distaste for the fowl. 



^anting di(d ^aat[mtg. 



FIXTURES. 



Oct. 3.— International Coursing Meeting at Huron, S. D. J. Herbert 

 Watson, 26 Court street, Brooklyn, N. Y. (chairman). 



Oct. 17. — Kenmore Club meeting at Goodland, Kan. Frank L. Web- 

 ster, Sec'y. Entries close Oct. 16. 



Oct. 24.— American Corn-sing Club. Ira D. Brougher, Sec'y. 



Nov. 7.— The Cowley County Coursing Association, Winfield, Kan . 

 J. R. Ballard, Secretary. 



Is Shooting the Fox Assassination? 



"F. W. H." takes exception to my use of the word "assas- 

 sination." I used it advisedly. With a lucid idea of its 

 definition I employed it to characterize the act of a man who 

 lay in wait with a shotgun upon the path of his vulpine 

 enemy, and from ambush wreaked that revenge which he 

 was unable to obtain in a fair field. He confesses "we 

 Northern fox hunters shoot the fox" — why? Why— because 

 "it is impossible to get him otherwise." Does not his de- 

 scription fit the case— "alone on the stand behind a friendly 

 boulder or tree stump you await your chance for a shot at the 

 'dog' who stole your wife's chickens." If that is not assas- 

 sination then I confess to having been brought up in sublime 

 ignorance of the labors of Noah Web.ster, If he will consult 

 that neglected authority I think "F. W. H." will make the 

 amende honorable as to my correct use of the word. 



The fact that"F. W. H." dislikes to have his method called 

 by its true name, more than the palpable paucity of his at- 

 tempts at justification shows where the shoe pinches. His 

 description more than anything I could say annihilates the 

 claims of the shotgun policy to the consideration of the 

 sportsman. It is the utter abnegation of cheer, of excite- 

 ment, of everything embraced in the word sport. Solitary, 

 cold-blooded, premeditating murder, "you stand for hours 

 with nothing to cheer you or inspire your flagging energies 

 but an occasional bar or two of hound music conveyed on 

 the blast that chills you to the marrow, or the echoing report 

 of a gun in the hands of a luckier aim a mile away to your 

 right." Barred of human companionship, the hours thus 

 spent moodily treasuring the hope of shedding blood can be 

 conducive of neither health nor happiness, but are calculated 

 to make a misanthrope of a man mentally, while phy.sically 

 the seeds of colds and rheumatism are sown in his stagnant 

 blood. 



Contrast this method, depicted by himseK, with, the action, 

 the stir, the enthusiasm, the joy of the chase. It may not 

 make a man nobler, but it does make him feel nobler to 

 have a noble animal beneath him, to feel embodied in him- 

 self the power and strength of the powerful animal he 

 strides, to feel that his hand is the hand of fate as he rushes 

 into space upon the wings of the wind, to see a staked and 

 ridered fence rise up and rush at him, to mount into the air, 

 higher and higher yet, while space opens up before him as a 

 strange devouring void, to plunge madly back to earth and 

 onward in a career which knows no obstacle — ^it is the very 

 ecstacy of existence, it is the intoxication of action, it is 

 life, one instant of which outnumbers years of uneventful 

 waiting by the runway. But how feeble are words to de- 

 scribe sensations 1 If, my New England mentor, you have 

 never known the exhilaration of soul and sense which fires 

 the most fearful to deeds of daring, you are hardly qualified 

 to discuss fox hunting. 



Without vanity, but to disabuse you of your opinion that 

 I am one of those naiTow bigots "who think their sport the 

 right one and their way the only one," I think I may fairly 

 claim to have exhausted the variety of vicissitudes within 

 the field of legitimate sport. I have even lain in wait, with 

 malice prepense, and I can testify to the truthfulness of 

 your cheerless description of the tedium of the long and 

 lonely vigrl. Slowly the moments linked themselves into 

 minutes which dragged their slow length along until the 

 shadows stole adown the steep and savage slope of the 

 Shoshones on which I was ambushed, and gloomed until the 

 huge carcass of the elk before me grew vague and indistinct 

 to sight, and there in the gloaming over the dead body of the 

 antlered monarch of the mountains I have faced— no fleeing 

 fear-stricken "chicken thief," but the grim and grisly king 

 of the wilds, Ursus horribiiis, the grizzly bear. 



A few days later I met a sheep herder who was hunting 

 the same royal quarry but with a more deadly weapon than 

 my Winchester — strychnia. When I suggested that his 

 method was not sportsmanlike, he answered with the same 

 cogent reasons that "F. W. H." has advanced, and since 

 their object is identical, the destruction of an animal which 

 stole the one's wife's chickens, and the other's master's 

 sheep, it seems to me that the poisoner's method is the best. 

 How would it do to let strychnia lay in wait and toy with 

 those chilliaErbiH^r ^ <>aid look for the fox that never camei* 



