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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Oct. 7, 1893. 



DOG CHAT. 



Grading Entry Fees. 



It is about time that entry fees should be graded according 

 to amount of prize money. It is unfair that the exhibitor 

 of a pug or a King Charles spaniel should have to pay a $3 

 fee for |5 and $3 prizes, or $2 for $5 and $2, while for the same 

 fee setters, pointers, collies, St. Bernards, mastiffs, etc., get 

 !»15, .$10 and $5 for the $8 fee. It may be advanced that the 

 larger dogs cost more to send round, and that is probable, 

 but the little dogs should not be made to pay for the others. 

 Besides, in many cases railroads carry dogs free, and this 

 they reckon by dog and not by weight. For instance, the 

 Old Colony road from Boston to New York will charge .$1 

 a dog, no matter whether it be a 41b. terrier or a 2001b. 

 mastiff. It is a dog, and it goes at that. In justice to the 

 pet dog breeders, the fees in these classes should be graded 

 according to value of prize money offered. When $10 and S.5 

 are given, entry fee $3, with $7 and §4 fee §2, and when $5 and 

 f3 fee to be $1. "We are confident that this would lead to 

 much larger entries at many of our best shows. 



One would think that in such a shovnng country as 

 England something would be done about late entries. It 

 has become a regular thing for secreta,ries to advise the ex- 

 hibitors through the papers of the paucity of entries on the 

 eve of closing date. But in almost every instance an excel- 

 lent entry is found when the exhibitor goes to scoop up the 

 prizes, as he fondly imagines he will do on reading the secre- 

 tary's cry. The secretary of the recent Birkenhead show 

 explains the seeming inconsistency of his appeal for entries 

 and the entry that the exhibitors found. He states that the 

 entries closed Aug. 19 and on the night of the 22d, when 

 entries were counted, there were found to be 272, SO of which 

 belonged to other departments than dogs. Then the whip 

 was used, and a fine show resulted in an entry of 700. The 

 secretary very justly complains of this, as it retards secre- 

 tarial work oil catalogues, etc. While one may change the 

 date of entry closing, the date of the show remains the same. 

 The threat of expulsion from the A. K. C. for clubs taking 

 late entries worked wonders at a critical period in our show 

 history, and we should think something on the same lines 

 must soon be done in England. 



The picture of Ned which Mr. Wade publishes in the Stock- 

 Keeper, England, as a typical American foxhound, scarcely 

 does justice to the coimtry, that can show more types of fox- 

 hounds than any other in the world. There are several 

 American hounds of better formation known to our shows, 

 especially so in neck and body, and the loin and quarters of 

 Ned, as depicted, are especially faulty. American foxhounds 

 generally have very straight, flat backs and loins. 



One would suppose that the lucky prices that Mr. Tom 

 Stretch is credited with getting for his collie stock that 

 nothing went out of his kennels for le.ss than "a monkey." 

 He has a pretty long head, as he has repeatedly shown, but 

 like most of us, he gets rusty at times. He let a puppy go 

 for .$15 two months ago, thinking he had the best left. The 

 "sold one," however, came out at Birkenhead and took three 

 firsts. By the way, Messrs. Smith & Baker brought out their 

 new St. Bernard at that show. He is called La Prince and is 

 described as a dog correct in markings, excellent head, mas- 

 sive bone and great depth of body and a good mover for so 

 hea\'y a dog. 



Mr. Beick tells us that he has a very handsome litter out 

 of his new St. Bernard bitch Rustic Beauty, by Messrs 

 Smith & Baker's Country Member, she having been mated 

 before leaving England. We are sorry that the New York St. 

 Bernard dogs are not in better condition. The kennelman, 

 who is intrusted with such stock as this — Sir Bedivere, 

 Princess Florence, Marvel, Y'oung Bute, etc., thecremctZc la 

 creme of St. Bernard fancy — should have sufficient eisprit to 

 keep them at least in flesh and glossy condition. When 

 shown, Sir Bedivere and Princess Florence looked wretched 

 at Mount Holly. Mr. Reick is a busy man and has little 

 time to devote to his dogs, but surely a kennelman can be 

 found who knows his business; if not here, import one. The 

 credit of our St. Bernarddom lies in such dogs as these, and 

 the kennel that contains them is almost, in a sense, a public 

 trust. 



The Kennel Club show at the Crystal Palace to be held this 

 month promises to be the most important event in English 

 dogdom this year; 356 classes are contained in the premium 

 list. The prizes are .$20, $15 and $5 in some breeds, and §15, 

 SIO and $5 in others. Fox-terriers have 22 classes and spaniels 

 22, collies 15, St. Bernards 17, setters 17, pointers 8, bulldogs 

 15, toy spaniels 17, and showing what a popular breed the re- 

 trievers are we note that they are given 11 classes. This is 

 about three times the number of dogs of that breed we know 

 of in this cotmtry, and then one spaniel judge calls them 

 "very ordinary black setters." With sixteen specialty clubs 

 to help things along the list of specials offered is said to be 

 bewildering, 152 of them appearing in the premium list. The 

 judges appointed are: Mr. W. Foster, bloodhounds; Mr. W. 

 Normau Higgs, mastiffs; Mr. J. F. Smith, St. Bernards; Mr. 

 R. Groom, great Danes; Mr. R. H.Wright, Irish wolfhounds, 

 deerhounds, borzois, greyhounds, chow-chows, foreign dogs, 

 beagles and whippets; Mr. E. C. Norrish, pointers; Rev. W. 

 Sergeantson, English setters and i-etrievers; Col. Le Gendre 

 Starkie, Gordon setters; Mr. C. Austin, Irish setters; Mr. M. 

 Woolland, spaniels; Mr. G. R. Krehl, collies and poodles, Mr. 

 M.Wootten, basset hounds and dachshunds; Mr. P. Gresham, 

 Dalmatians, Welsh terriers, Bedlington terriers, black and 

 tan terriers, white English terriei's, Airedale terriers and 

 Pomeranians; Mr. J. S. Pybus-Sellon, bulldogs; Mr. C. E. 

 Fiimstone, bull-terriers; Mr. F. Rednjond, smooth fox-ter- 

 riers; Mr. J. J. Pirn, wire-haired fox-terriers, Irish terriers 

 and old English terriers; Mr. H. Blomfield, Scottish terriers; 

 Mr. S. Cameron, Skye terriers; Mr. G. A. B. Leatham, Dan-, 

 die Dinmonts; Mr. J. H. Hill, schipperkes; Mr. H. Maule, 

 pugs, and Mr. S. J. Thompson, toy spaniels. The club is not 

 very liberal with challenge classes, mastiffs and bulldogs 

 only getting sexes divided. Strange to say that in such a 

 show no class is made for l'"orkshire terriers. A strong breed 

 in some parts of England, but at this show they go in the 

 variety class. Black and tan teriiers, although they have 

 two or three specialty clubs to further their interests, get a 

 second ]^rize only sufficient in amount to cover entry fees. 

 This state of thifigs we have continually with us. 



Dachshunds. 



In speaking of the difference of type in dachshunds, Mr. 

 Freeman Lloyd takes up the question of utility and fancy as 

 they relate to the German and English types of this breed. 

 Lately at the Spa, Belgium show, Mr. H. .Jones, the largest 

 exhibitor of dachshunds in England, had indifferent luck 

 with dogs he took over that have taken all before them at 

 English shows. The Germans go in for the original terrier- 

 headed and short-eared type. Looking at it from a utilita- 

 rian point of view, they are right too. The long-eared hound 

 type of English dog would cut a sorry figure with varmint 

 in an earth. His ear length would afford capital hold for 

 his adversary. Mr. Lloyd says: "It stands to reason that 

 a dog going to ground should have physical proportions 

 which will not impede or lay him out to a disadvantage. I 

 have seen these dachshunds go to earth in Belgium and in 

 Holland, and merrily they have gone to their game, and as a 

 believer in things pi-actical — pretty and elegant as the hound- 



like animals owned by Englishmen are— all that can be said 

 of them is that they are a triumph of the breeder's art, and 

 demonstrate how ridiculous a fancier often makes himself 

 when he preserves and breeds dogs in no way suitable for 

 their work. Neither in an earth nor above ground are those 

 points sought for in English dachshund society of any use. 

 They rather impede and place the dog at a disadvantage." 

 Prom a_ fancier point of view, the dachshund, as we know it, 

 exemplified by a Janet or a Jay, is infinitely more interest- 

 ing and engaging than the terrier formation, aud as long as 

 these dogs are not used for their original purpose neither 

 here nor in England, their present beauty interferes little 

 with their present habits. In thick corn after the cottontail 

 we should imagine they would fare badly, though Mr. 

 Manice has, we believe, used his dogs extensively in the 

 woods rotind Stockbridge, Mass., and it would be interest- 

 ing, no doubt, if he could be prevailed upon to tell us how 

 they acquit themselves, and if their fancy points affect them 

 In any way. Mr. Lloyd says, "The dachshund is pretty as 

 they make 'em and just about as useful as the fifth wheel of 

 a coach." We trust some one will defend them from this 

 imputation of superfluity. Perhaps the coming field trials 

 will prove the falseness of this accusation. 



While we are on the subject of dachshunds, we are re- 

 minded of a call recently made upon us by a dachshund ex- 

 hibitor in the early 80s, Mr. Ludekins, who now resides in 

 New York but formerly lived at Port Richmond, S, I. The 

 uncertainty as to correct type of dachshunds that obtained 

 at our shows at that time led to his abandoning the show 

 ring. He now tells of a peculiar breed he has had for the 

 past four years. He calls them Russian dachshunds. They 

 are in color like a Gordon setter and in build are like a 

 dachshund, with straight, flat coat, heavily feathered on legs 

 aud on tail, which is carried like a setter's, ears covered with 

 long hair, too, and very silky. They have the dachshund 

 front and head, and in fact are the same but for the addition 

 of coat. His dogs .stand about 4in. high and are about 40in.. 

 long. They make excellent field dogs, and can be used on 



credited with a position and a sort of fictitioiis value that 

 in comparison with the open class winner he is not entitled 

 to. A puppy class, if we will give puppy classes, should 

 be enough for the youngster, as novice dogs as a rule are. 

 The class is superfluous and is only a drag on show com- 

 mittees, who might better add the money given to these 

 classes to the challenge, which often is too poorly provided 

 for. Instead of restricting the challenge classes to one class 

 for both sexes, or the amount of prize money, as we find in 

 so many cases, where novice classes are given, abolish the 

 latter and give more inducement to the showing of dogs 

 which presumably (of course there are exceptions) are super- 

 ior examplars of their breed, and as such are public educa- 

 tors, and in many cases worth a dozen of the novice class 

 winner, who very seldom get above vhc. when he competes 

 in the open class. We should like to hear the opinions of 

 others on this subject, as we believe it has been discussed 

 among dogmen in a desultory fashion from time to time. 

 Every dog that is over twelve months old, we contend, un- 

 less he is eligible for the challenge classes, should when 

 shown take his chances with those in the open class, and 

 those under twelve months are provided for by the puppy 

 classes, and their status is conveyed as such to the public. 

 The fact that they, the novice class awards, don't count in 

 reckoning wins for the challenge class shows that they are 

 a superfluity. If we are to have novice classes, however, 

 let them be judged first, before the open. 



The Death of Bedgrebury Lion. 



The demise of such a tine bulldog as Bedgebury Lion is 

 a heavy loss both to his owner ,and to the bulldog fancy. 

 Pew of the bulldog men had an opportunity to see the dog 

 that would have made His Lordship and King Lnd feel that 

 they had done a good day's work when they beat him. The 

 particulars regarding this dog have been so recently given 

 at the time of his importation last spring that it is not 

 necessary to recapitulate. We sympathize with the proprie- 

 tor of the Retnor Kennels in their loss, but trust they will 



CHAMPION PAUL GLADSTONE. 

 One of winning kennel at Rhode Island Show, 189.3. Owned by Mr. Joseph Lews, Moodus, Conn, 



fur and feather, pointing like the setter. They are a very old 

 breed in Russia and confined to certain localities and fami- 

 lies, and are not easily obtained by outsiders. The Russian, 

 Mr. Ludekins tells us, on his way to and from the hunting 

 grounds, carries these dogs in leather bags, which are slung 

 pannier-fashion over his horse's withers, in fi-out of the sad-' 

 die; the dog's forepaws and head alone appearing and resting 

 on the top edge of the bags. These peculiar dogs breed true 

 and are a distinct breed. The shows have interrupted us in 

 our intention of seeing these dogs, but as soon as possible we 

 will publish a picture of one of them. 



Mr. A. W. Smith, the whilom black and tan enthusiast, Is 

 paying New York a brief %Tsit, and we are sorry to have 

 missed him, but from Huron, S. D., to New York is a wide 

 stride. Mr. Smith was distinctly disappointed that his 

 specials for American bred B. and T.'s at Toronto weie not 

 won by something of more merit. It was "like throwing 

 money into the street for any good it did" — as he very sagely 

 observed. 



We gather from a letter that Mr. Fred ManseU writes us, 

 that the etching by Richard Josey, of the red dachshund 

 Pterodactyl, is, besides being an interesting work of art, also 

 a good likeness of the dog. Mr. Woodiwiss, his owner, says 

 it IS "a true portrait of mydog and a charming little picture." 

 It is not so small, however, being 15 x llin. Our copy, which 

 Mr. ManseU, according to his letter, has kindly sent us, we 

 expect to receive shortly and can tell our readers more about 

 it. India prints are .$5.25 and can be ordered through the 

 Forest and Stream Pub. Co. Mr. ManseU, who is making 

 quite a feature of this sort of work, is also at work on a pic- 

 ture of the wirehair Cribbage, which we understand will be 

 issued shortly. 



Novice Classes. 



In the Toronto show catalogue there is a rule to the effect 

 that where novice classes are provided they shall be judged 

 before the open classes. This is a good rule if it were ad- 

 hered to. It has been so at former shows in the Queen City, 

 but this year it was not, and the show management dis- 

 tinctly violated one of the rules of the C. K. C. While on 

 this subject it might be proper to ask of what use are 

 novice classes, any way .^^ Dog shows are supposed to be a 

 medium whereby the best dogs of a district or districts are 

 brought together to ascertain which are the best in the 

 several breeds. Now, what is the use of a restricted class 

 that does not appeal to the public as an educator. Lately 

 we have seen novice classes which are simply a repetition of 

 the awards in the open and practicaUy saddled the man- 

 agement with two classes, where one, the open, would have 

 been sufficient. Dog shows are supposed to bring out the 

 best dogs, but a dog not good enough to win in open, per- 

 haps is able to do so in novices. There an inferior dog is 



not be disheartened and try again. Owing to his being out 

 of condition he has had few opportunities at stud since he 

 came over, and this adds to the loss the breed has suffered 

 in his death. With His Lordship practically out of the way 

 there seems to be no obstacles in the further victories of 

 King Lud and his mates. Mr. Parker is the donor of the 

 handsome Parker cup to the Bulldog Club, and his active 

 interest in the breed should be better seconded. 



Peoria Jerry is Dead. 



A correspondent, owner of a kennel of pugs at Morris, 

 111., writes to our Western office as follows: "In the official 

 awards of the Toronto dog show, as published in the 

 A merican Field of Sept. 23, I find Peoria Jerry, owned by 

 'Uncle Dick' Fellows, was awarded seeond in open class. 

 But upon reading the Forest and Steeam of same date I 

 learn that poor Jerry was killed by a truckman at Buffalo. 

 Now I would like to know — 'you know'— how a dead dog 

 could receieve second prize at a reputable show aud just how 

 it came to find its way among the 'official' awards. Our 

 sympathies go out to 'Uncle Dick' in either event. Say, 

 this looks like a 'scoop' to a 'fellow up a tree,' eh?" It is. 

 That pug is dead, was dead, and Forest and Stream 

 chronicled its demise, and the mode and manner of its 

 taking off. 



Field Dog Trainers. 



There should be, and doubtless are, a number of good 

 trainers of dogs for private shooting within easy distance 

 of New York and New England towns. If these men would 

 only make their identity known by using our business 

 columns we are sure their income would be considerably 

 increased. Every week we have an inquiry or two as to 

 where such trainers can be found. 



IVIore Pointers for IVIaine. 



Mr. Chas. D. Roberts, of Dexter, Me., in a letter to us 

 says: "It is Avith much pleasure that I inform you of the 

 successful arrival Sept. 10 of a litter of pointer puppies, five 

 dogs and three bitches, from my imported bitch Devonshire 

 Pearl and by my Duke of Dexter. Pearl was imported from 

 John Lee Bulled, Devon, Eng., last March, and is by his 

 Devonshire Nero out of Devonshire Pan, and has won fli-st 

 Birmingham, Eng., second Amsterdam and third Boston, 

 the latter when just from her voyage. In good condition I 

 think she can do better. Duke of Dexter is now well known, 

 having won first at New York, Boston and Lewiston in 1892, 

 and first Boston in 1893. These pups are the finest marked I 

 every had and if there are not some winners in this lot I 

 shall not raise any more. As none of these are for sale I 

 hope I shall not be accused of trying to blow my own horn. 

 If 'like breeds like' I shaU surely be in it.' " 



As an evidence of the good and complete management at 



