Dec. 16, 189S.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



829 



It is to be hoped that the northern meeting will he suc- 

 cessful, but as it has suffered by Mr. Miller's death the pros- 

 pect is not charming. 



At best the number of starters on the Coast is small, and 

 when four or five are withdrawn it is hard to keep the inter- 

 est from flag-gin.e. 



There are numbers of birds all around iis, and the duck 

 shooting has been better than for years. A party returned 

 from the Santa Anna River on the 2Ttti and reported ducks 

 in great numbers. The reports from Elsimere Lake are very 

 flattering, so that the sportsmen are at least havina: good 

 sport afield. Dr. Green, of Hesperia, informs us that the 

 mountain quail are a perfect pest in his town, and as the re- 

 port is reliable a party from Los Angeles and Ontario will 

 try them next week. 



We will give you a few items of interest shortly on the 

 kennel question, as there i a very good outlook for some Al 

 material in pointers and setters. J. C. Collins, sheriff of Los 

 Angeles county, is going into pointers, and has started with 

 the bitch Brown Betty, who did so well at. the trials last 

 year, though not in the money. There is not a .single good 

 specimen in southern California of either bulldog or bull- 

 terrier, aud a kennel of either should do well. T. 



Okxario Beach, Cat, Deo. 2. 



Smoking at' Shows. 



Editor Forest and Strtcim: 



I have noticed in attending dog shows, outside of New 

 York, that smoking; has been allowed in all parts of the show 

 building. Although the chances of fire originating from a 

 segar being thrown on the fioor, may be small, it seetns hardly 

 worth the enjoyment of a smoke to run the risk of such a 

 thing happening when there are so many valuable dogs on 

 exhibition. 



Take the Newark show building for instance, there was 

 not much to the building itself, it Is true, but there was 

 plenty of inflammable material in it, and I would venture to 

 say that out of the 500 odd dogs exhibited there, not one-half 

 could have been removed in case of fire, to say nothing of the 

 loss of life to those attending the show. 



That the attendance is affected by it is cprtain. The New 

 York show would never have been what it is to aay, if 

 smoking had been allowed in all parts of the building, and 

 the sooner kennel clubs make a rule against it, and have it 

 enforced, the better it will be for all concerned. 



I do not say this against the managers of the Newark 

 show alone, it is allowed almost everywhere, but I do say 

 that there is a place for everything, and that a dog show is 

 not the place to smoke. An Exhibitor. 



New YoRiv, Dec. 7. 



[As far as we could judge the Newark managers were very 

 strict in regard to smoking in the show building.] 



DOG CHAT. 



Imperator Sold. 



While at Newark show Mr. 'Pitkin, of Hartford, Conn., 

 was nibbling at Imperator (2,5,411), by Alton out of Hilda, 

 winner in novices, but the deal fel 1 through. Now Mr. Frank 

 Linck, of Newark, N. J., has purchased Imperator. Be.'^ides 

 this handsome dog, Dr. Longest sold a ma.stiff bitch pup by 

 Beaufort's Black Prince out of Gerda If., to Mr. Wm. Arnot, 

 of Newark, and a young ma'-tift'dog by Ingle.side Maximilian 

 out of Gerda II., to J. H. Goldberg, of New York. It will 

 therefore be seen that the Newark show i> already exerting 

 a beneficial influence, and that Newark citi2eus and fanciers 

 will not be content until they can show some of the best. 

 Mr. Linck already has a very fair dog in Ashland Jumbo, 

 who should have been second to Imperator at Newark. 



A Newfoundland Saves a Life. 



The Newfoundland scores again. It is only human nature 

 on our part to attribute the following to a Newfoundland 

 proper: the vicious escapades we naturally attribute to the 

 big^ black, curly dogs that roam about under the same cate- 

 gory. On the morning of Dec. 8, about half past three. 

 Meuer's gi-ocery store in Kingston, Ont., was fotmd to be in 

 a blaze. The owner of the .store was in the country and only 

 his aged mother was in the dwelling rooms at' the time. 

 She was awakened by the dog, a large Newfoundlaud, howl- 

 ing and throwing himself against the door of her room. The 

 faithful animal succeeded in saving the life of his mi.stress, 

 but was smothered himself in the smoke. 



We are indebted to Mr. R, S. Bell, of Bedeville, Out., for 

 the particulars iu the case. 



According to an account of the occurrence which we find 

 in Le Chenil it is almost as much as a man's life is worth to 

 kill a dog in Turkey's capital. Major Marini, military 

 attarhe at the Italian Legation in Constantinople, having 

 killed by accident one of the dogs that infest the streets of 

 that city, was pulled from his horse by a Turkish soldier, 

 roughly handled and eventually taken before a police ofificer. 

 There, having established his ideutity, he was given his lib- 

 erty with profuse apologies, but he promises to respect here- 

 after, iu the same light as he would a human beiutr, the life 

 of the canine pariah in the streets of Constantinople. 



Saratoga Show. 



The premium list of the Saratogadog show, tobe given by 

 the Saratoga Poultry and Kennel Club, comes to us in good 

 season. Tlie early issue gives exhibitors plenty of time to 

 choo.se their entries aud condition them properly. Challenge 

 classes divided by sex are given iu almost every breed with 

 S7 and diploma as prizes. In open $7 and .s,") and dii)loma is 

 the rate for nuistiffs, St. Bernards, all setters, collies, great 

 Danes, greyhounds and foxhounds, both strains. Puppies 

 get §5 aud diploma. Other breeds have $7, $4 aud diploma. 

 The kennel prizes are club diplomas. Spaniels have Classi- 

 fication No. 1. Collies, spaniels and beagles are already 

 nicely treated iu the vay of specials and American foxhound 

 have *;10 for the best. The eutry fee is $3. which is rather 

 too nuich for the amount of money Kiveu, but as wins will 

 count this perhaps will not be considered so much. Mr. W. 

 A. Coster is the superiutendeut, and we have not seen him in 

 this capacity since the old show at Cincinnati, when Hugh 

 Dalziel judged and Mr. Coster's patent-homemade-stick-to- 

 the-ribs a'l eat-it food soured on all of us. Mr. C. H. Mason, 

 Philadelphia, Pa., is the judge. Sprattl Company will bench 

 and fped. Mr. Lyman W. Clute, Ballston Lake, N. Y., is 

 the secretary. 



A man has just completed a journey from San Francisco 

 to New York on foot. The feat becomes interesting to our 

 readers from the fact that he was accompanied by his dog, 

 which, under the conditions of the wager, he was to deliver 

 in this city within six month.s. The qufulruped, however, 

 did not pay that strict atti-ntion to stomachic conditions 

 that it should have done ai d for some di-tance after leav- 

 ing Toledo. O., his owner was compelled to trundle a wheel- 

 barrow containing the dog, as the animal had fed not wisely, 

 but too well, before leaving that city. The distance was to 

 be covered within six mouths aud tliis was done with some 

 days to spare. 



The rumor that Mr. F. Redmond had sold his crack fox- 

 terrier' champion D'Orsay to the plucky Welsh lady, Mrs. 



Lawrence, for §2,500 is denied by the St-^ck-Keeper. Mr. Red- 

 mond still owns the dog. This gentleman had quite an 

 innings at the fox-terrier show at Wolverhampton, winning 

 no less than ^400 with his team. Thi's team, besides the in- 

 dividual prizes, won the team prize aud Mr. Redmond also 

 took the brace prize with D"Orsay and Dickon II. In the 

 competition for the team prize, Mr. Stephens spoiled his 

 chance by including Stipendiary, whose size marred the level- 

 ness of the lot. Stipendiary, howe%'er, had his revenge in the 

 stud dog competition, for with his celebratedsget, D'Orsay, 

 Hunton Justice and Acton Blanche he was enabled to beat 

 Rowton Warrant, who is himself a near relation of the great 

 stud dog. Speaking of the team prize reminds tis that many 

 of our exhibitors in showing and making up their teams for 

 the kennel prize attach too mttch importance to the individ- 

 ual wins of the dogs in their preAdous competitions. This 

 should not enter into consideration so much as the general 

 "sortiness" and levelue.^s of the team, and if exhibitors 

 woitld bear this iu mind there would be lessgrumbling when 

 a judge with a proper conception of his duties places a ken- 

 nel ahead of another whose individual members have perhaps 

 won more firsts than the other. And another point is often 

 lost sight of, the mere fact of a dog winning a first should 

 not be considered alone, btit the competition it had to con- 

 tend with in doing so. 



One of the Sefton Hero — Orm.skirk Dollie pups bred over 

 here was sent to England on the Majestic Oct. 25. 



There must be a bad link in Geo. Bell's long chain of luck, 

 for the other day his noted fox terrier champion Dusky Trap 

 was rttn o\ev by a trolly car in Toronto. Dusky Trap is, 

 however, a tough member and a terrier all over, for he 

 escaped with some brtiises only. 



The charges and cotinter-charges between Mr. H. Huber 

 and E. P. Schell, both of the Pacific Kennel Club, have not 

 yet been considered by the club because at the last meeting 

 a quortim could not be had. A peculiar feature in kennel 



bably, ere this appears, be the owner of the well known bitch 

 Prudence, now in the Shrewsbury Kennels. 



As a means to secitring that sprightliness of action so much 

 desired in the ring, especially when collies and terriers are 

 under jtidgment, a mouse in a cage was brought into the 

 ring at the Cambridge (Eng.) show recently held. This was 

 during the competition between Rufford Ormonde, the col 

 lie, and Jack St. Leger, the wire-hair fox-terrier, for best in 

 show. At the supreme moment the mouse was released and 

 Rufford Ormonde scored the run up and kill, much to the 

 discomfiture of both the wire and his owner, Mr. Clear. 



Some of our judges who are in mortal terror when the 

 novice classes come in of reversing some previous decision, 

 may take heart of grace from the fact that such an old hand 

 as Geo. Raper, at this same show, withheld first from a wire- 

 hair fox-terrier puppy, and then in novices a few minntes 

 afterwarc awarded it first prize. 



We find in Stock-Keeper that the railway authorities 

 have decided that if a dog's fare has been paid he is as much 

 entitled to a seat as any of the carriage's two-legged occu- 

 pants. We do not know how these things are arranged 

 nowadays, but years ago one could purchase dog tickets on 

 the railroads, and one's canine companion was allowed to 

 travel along in the same compartment. This has since 

 struck us as a most landable concession on the part of the 

 railroad companies. Would that the same authorities over 

 here had some such milk of canine kindness in their corpor- 

 ate systems. _ There are many people who would like to take 

 their dogs with them when traveling, but rather than con- 

 sign them to the dirt and tender care of the baggageman in 

 a crowded baggage car, leave them at home. But when our 

 railroad and express companies combine to charge double 

 rates for less attention than they give other freight, we can- 

 not hope for such a millenium as this. 



The English Stock-Keeper does us the honor of publishing 



AfROYAL FLUSH, 

 Collie Puppies by;;christlaii out^of Ouida, Christian by Christopher." 



club'Tlegislation was the appearance of counsel^for^oth 

 parties. This is by no means a desirable innovation, and is one 

 that should be discountenanced at once. A man's ca«e must 

 be pnnr indeed when a lawyer is needed for a private investi- 

 gation that it not in any way a court of law. The presence 

 of lawyers in such a case is a trespass. We understand that 

 as vet no charsres have been preferred against Mr. Huber by 

 Mr. Schell with the A. K. C. 



M. K. C. Club. 



The Maryland Kennel Club has .gone up Salt River, we 

 understand, as far as giving another bench show is con- 

 cerned. The uuple:i«antness arising from the action of an 

 irresponsible scribbler last year determined those who had 

 the best interests of the club at heart and made good the 

 losses not to expose themselves to any more of the same sort 

 of thinar. The game is not worth the candle they .say, and it 

 is not when tile reputation of such men can be'attacked by 

 any dissrnutled scribbler thst comes along and can find ah 

 empty column to fill. Mr. W. S. Diffenderffer has re«i£rned 

 a.s secretary, member aud delesate to A, K C, and Messrs. 

 Will FarbeV and C. Dift'enderffer have also resigned. So it's 

 verv probable that we must count Baltimore" out of next 

 spring's circuit. 



We are pleased both for thp paner's sake and that of the 

 dos public to see Mr. V. M. Haldemau's name once more 

 at the top of the Funcivr'H .Inn rual's editorial page. A gen- 

 tleman will always ri.~e to the sttrface, though meteoric 

 blackguardism may tiecome rampant for awhile, it cannot 

 last, and the clean man comes to the top once more. We 

 look for an era of cleaner kennel journalism now through- 

 out the fancy. It is needed goodness knows. 



Mr. R P, Keasbey, the senial secretary of the Spaniel 

 Club, had a smile of large dimensions with him at the New- 

 ark show. It was all on account of Madge. Madge is a 

 cocker spaniel bitch, and she brought joy to the kennel of 

 Keasby when she whelped eight pups to Little Nig. That 

 three of these are reds snd one fell in the milk ha« nothing 

 to do with this tale. Mr Kea.sbev has had diabolical luck, 

 for although he is one of our oldest exhibitors he has never 

 been able to breed any voung stock. It never rains but it 

 nours, and last week a litter of six field spaniels arrived by 

 Echo out of his Bess. These pups are all well aud hearty, 

 and it looks as if the worst is over. 'Sir. Keasbev is joining 

 the beaele ranks, but even here his ill luck pursued him. for 

 after buyimr a Royal Krtteger doi? last September he had 

 two days' himting with it. and it hunted so well that some- 

 body thought he would like it, too, and that is the last he 

 has seen of it. He is not disheartened, however, and willprob- 



extracts from^FORRST AND Steeam's National Beagle Club 

 field trial report. We also note that the journal coincides 

 with us in our estimate of Pade from the rough sketch we 

 ptiblished, aud which estimate was unanimotisly borne out 

 bv the decision of the field trial committee which disquali- 

 fied Pade. 



Mr. C. A. Shinu, well known as the owner of the Skye, Sir 

 Stafford, is coming out largely in this breed. During the 

 Newark show he arrived from Europe with live Skyes. 



All the boys seem to take a little pleasure in giving a dab 

 at Mr. Morris. Perhaps he may be a little ahead of the 

 times, or the other way, but when there is some solid helpful 

 work to be done, there is no one who gives his time and 

 energy more willingly than Mr. "Dexter" Morris. At Newark 

 for instance, he mnst have been an invaluable aid in giving 

 time and labor that he could ill afford, besides the benefit of 

 his experience in show matters, to the interests of the N. J. 

 K. L. in the preliminary work of their late show. The 

 rather vicious communication in the daily on his work in the 

 ring were entirely uncalled for and unnecessary. The old 

 saying crops up here whether we like to own up or not. 



New Jersey Kennel League Meeting. 

 This club has acted with commendable promptness in 

 disciplining their "vet," reference to whom we felt com- 

 pelled to make in our last issue. At a meeting held Dec. 8, 

 Dr. Sattler was expelled from the N. J. K. L. on Artice VI. 

 of the constitution, which reads: "The executive committee 

 may suspend or expel anv member for conduct prejudicial to 

 the League," etc. The other business done was chiefly the 

 pa.s.sing of accounts, one of which was for a large suna for 

 service rendered by the veterinary, who was .supposed to be 

 a volunteer, which will help to curtail the balance on hand. 



The Akron people seem to have a just conception of the 

 value that the kennel journals are to .shows and other ven- 

 tures connected with dogdom. The f'-ict is too often lost 

 sight of, aud the accompanying acknowledgment which we 

 find in the premium list is as rare as it is gratifying: ""To 

 the -Journals. — We desire to specially acknowledge our ap- 

 preciation of the favors conferred upon our association by 

 the various fanciers and .sporting journals who have so 

 kindly noticed our exhibition in their columns and by the 

 donation of specials, and to all such we have to sav it will 

 be a great plea.sure to us to afford them every facility for 

 distributing sample copies, taking subscriptions and other- 

 wise enlarging their circulation, and if they will visit our 

 exhibition or send samples we will be pleased to render 

 them all them favors within our power. No fancier can 



