Feb. 24, 1894.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



16B 



and Philadelphia, many of the dogs will return home for a 

 rest and give the Quaker city the go-by. If the Philadelphia 

 people canvas the opinions of exhibitors at New York this 

 week, they will probably find that this plan will suit the dog- 

 men and a large entry be the result. 



We believe that if more Irish setter dogs possessing field 

 working qualities were placed at stud and judiciously mated 

 the Irish setter would soon take a better place in the public 

 field trials. 



Topsy's Rod and Count Gladstone IV. in the Field. 



This week we present another charming field scene from 

 the artist pen of G. Muss-Arnolt. It represents a scene in 

 the Subscription Stake at 

 Eastern field trials last fall, 

 at Newton, N. C. It is 

 drawn from a photograph 

 takeu by Mr. Arnolt, but 

 which, unfortunately, did 

 not develop clearly enough 

 to print. The picture is 

 peculiarly appropriate at 

 this time, as it represents 

 the winners of the Derby 

 and All-Age Stakes at the 

 Southern field trials two 

 weeks since. 



The Swiss Mountain Ken- 

 nels have repurchased the 

 St. Bernard King Regent 

 from Dr. L. G. Sauveur, 

 owner of the Seminole Ken- 

 nels. He throws good pups 

 and has never sired a badly 

 marked one, and that he is 

 well bred all St. Bernardom 

 knows. Mrs. Smythe is get- 

 ting out a superb catalogue, 

 descriptive of the kennels 

 and the well-known dogs 

 it contains. There are cap- 

 ital half-tones of the five 

 stud cockers, groups of 

 spaniel and St. Bernard 

 puppies, together with pic- 

 tures of Scottish Leader, 

 Eboracum and King Re- 

 gent; several brood bitches 

 will also be portrayed. This 

 is such an expensive work 

 that the owner thinks a 

 charge of 25 cents for the 

 catalogue is not too much. 

 It is not stated whether 

 this will be returned in pur- 

 chases of $10 or upward. 



with the customs department, by which dogs from Canada 

 will be allowed to enter in bond, and dutyfree, except in case 

 of sale, full particulars of which will be announced in our 

 next week's issue. 



That Beagle Challenge. 



"We publish in another column a challenge by the Hornell- 

 Harmony Kennels to show five beagles at the Philadelphia 

 show against any other five owned by one kennel, but more 

 particularly those owned by Mr. Dorsey. The. challenge is 

 the result of the wording of Mr. Dorsey's advertisement in 

 our business columns, but, in view of Mr. Dorsey's expres- 

 sions of late, we believe his claim to have the best kennel of 

 beagle stud dogs related more particularly to their ability as 



As stated before, Mr. 

 Booth leaves the Dutchess 

 Kennels after New York 

 show, and, singular to say, 

 he will leave them with 

 more young stock than 

 they have ever succeeded 

 in ''hatching out" before at 

 one time. Within the past 

 four weeks Kingstonian 

 Beauty whelped 13, Alton- 

 ette 12, the first time she 

 has whelped since Col. Rup- 

 pert purchased her; Vinnie 

 11 and Bellegarde 5, all by 

 Kingstonian Count. The 

 kennels will be in charge 

 of "Albert" after Mr. 

 Booth's departure. We 

 trust Mr. Booth will not 

 leave the fancy altogether. 

 He has always conducted 

 himself in a quiet and 



fentlemanly manner, and 

 as thus gained the respect 

 of all who have been 

 brought in contact with 

 him at shows and at home. 



year. This is most unfortunate considering the improve- 

 ment in dogs that has been steadily going on during the past 

 year or two. The more shows they can hold the better it 

 will be for kennel interests on the Pacific coast. It seema 

 strange that in a'city like San Francisco a building cannot 

 be secured sufficiently large to bench two or three hundred 

 dogs. It's an ill wind that blows no good, and Los Angeles, 

 and Portland will probably reap the benefit. Mr. H. W, 

 Lacy has been invited to judge at Los Angeles, but has not 

 yet accepted. 



Glenmore Kennels. 



Mr. L. C. Campbell writes us that having purchased 

 several dogs from the Glenmore Kennels when they were 

 owned by Mr. E. B. Bishop, 

 the latter has transferred 

 the right and title to the 

 prefix and kennel name 

 "Glenmore" to him. This 

 transfer has been recorded 

 in the Kennel Gazette, and 

 hereafter the Bay View 

 Kennels, of West Berkeley, 

 Cal., will be known as the 

 Glenmore Kennels. The 

 announcement that Mr. 

 Bishop had retired from 

 the fancy was received in 

 California with many re- 

 grets. The Irish setter fan 

 ciers of California have lost 

 much by his retirement. 

 They knew by past experi- 

 ence that in him they had 

 at least one man they could 

 rely upon. Every dog pur- 

 chased of him was as good 

 as represented and some 

 better. 



Some time since we had a 

 letter asking if eleven pups 

 was not a large litter for a 

 greyhound bitch to bear. 

 This certainly was a large 

 litter, but Mr. James Black, 

 of Sheepshead Bay, L. I., 

 wrote us last July that his 

 Grace Brian t, by Aberbriant 

 ex Grace Riley, had just 

 whelped thirteen, nine of 

 which were dogs, to his 

 Flash, by Huic Halloa. 

 He then stated that he had 

 been breeding greyhounds 

 since 1868 and never had a 

 bitch that equaled this, ex- 

 cepting one in 1873, that 

 whelped thirteen, seven 

 dogs, to Mr. Fowler's Fan- 

 dango, who won a sixty- 

 four dog stake at Ashdown 

 Park about that time. 



The Detroit show com- 

 mittee will make additional 

 classes, as follows: Class 

 15A, Russian wolfhounds, 

 challenge dogs, prizes $10; 

 class 15B, bitches, $10. Class 

 66, Irish water spaniels, 



open dogs, prizes §10 and $5; class 66X, bitches, prizes $10 and 

 $5. Class 102%, Scotch terriers, challenge dogs and bitches, 

 prizes $10. The above was received too late for insertion in 

 our last issue. The entries close the second day of New 

 York show. 



Toy Spaniel Importations. 



Edwin H. Morris is importing pet dogs in earnest, for in 

 addition to two Blenheims, one Prince Charles and one 

 King Charles that came a month or two since, he has now 

 on the water the celebrated Blenheim Chiselhurst Hero 

 (E. 33,629), by Jolly Country Squire out of Jessie. This dog 

 has won ten prizes at English shows, including firsts under 

 the best judges, and he is the sire of many winners, includ- 

 ing Golden Prince, a prize taker at the Toy Spaniel show in 

 London, where he was sold for America, 'it is expected that 

 Hero will be in time for the New York show. Another 

 Blenheim on the same vessel is Daisy, by Squire, a first prize 

 winner, out of Oldacre's Queen. As she is expected to whelp 

 to a son of champion Excelsior soon after arrival she is not 

 entered for New York. 



Esquimaux at the Show. 



A pleasing innovation at the New York show is the group 

 of Esquimaux dogs, which have all seen service in exploring 

 work in the Far North. They are exhibited by Dr. Cook, 

 who was a member of Lieut. Peary's expedition. He re- 

 turned to the Arctic, regions last summer and brought back 

 the dogs. No less interesting to the "boys" are the two fur- 

 clad Esquimaux who have charge of the dogs and sledges, 

 harness, reindeer-skin sleeping-bags, kayaks, implements of 

 the chase, etc. One of the Esquimaux is a girl of seventeen, 

 Kahlah Katak byname, and the other is Mikok, a boy fifteen 

 years old. A picture of the exhibit will prove an interesting 

 feature of our report next week. 



Chicago Show. 



The Mascoutah Kennel Club makes the following an- 

 nouncements of additional classes: 



Skye terriers, class 1783^, novice dogs and bitches, prize, 

 §10 and §15. Chesapeake Bay dogs, class 85}<f, puppies 6 to 

 12 months old, dogs and bitches, prize, §5 and" §3. 



On account of the large number of classes to be judged by 

 Mr. James Mortimer, the club has decided to relieve him of 

 the Italian greyhound classes, which will be judged by Mr. 

 Roger D. Williams. Arrangements are being perfected 



AVENT WITH TOPSY'S ROD BACKING COUNT GLADSTONE IV 

 Subscription Stake, E. E. T., 1893. 



field workers and their potency to beget good hunters, A 

 challenge that would result in bringing together the best 

 four beagle sires showing both bench and field qualities, 

 would be more to the point and of more service to the breed. 

 This reminds us that in regard to the Pade disqualification 

 we have been accused both privately and publicly by Mr. 

 Dorsey of taking a one sided view of the case and that against 

 Mr. Dorsey and his dog. It was for the purpose of defending 

 the principle of the thing that we took up the cudgels in de- 

 fence of the club's action, and although we have received let- 

 ters privately from members of the Beagle Club indorsing 

 our views, at the same time we should have been better sat- 

 isfied had the beagle men stated their views publicly. In 

 regard to partiality on our part, for Mr. Dorsey's informa- 

 tion we may state that at the meeting in which his dog was 

 disqualified we maintained that the field trial committee, 

 after having measured the dog and allowed him to start, 

 should also allow him to receive any prize he was entitled to, 

 and this view of the case we should have stated at the time 

 of reporting the field trials had not the case been then sub 

 judiee. Had we been present at the time the dogs were 

 measured, as one of the field trial committee, and an official 

 judge of the club, we should have protested him then and 

 there, but as long as he was allowed to run and was practi- 

 cally indorsed as a true beagle by the judges and the field 

 trial committee present, he was entitled to his prize. This 

 closes the discussion as far as this journal is concerned. 



A competition that will prove of great interest to collie 

 fanciers the world over, if it ever takes place, is foreshadowed 

 in a challenge which Mr. W. E. Mason issues on behalf of 

 his collie Southport Perfection, in order to set at rest which 

 really is the best collie now before the English public. At 

 Derby show the renowned Rufford Ormonde was placed 

 ahead of all others for a valuable special, but a week or two 

 following the tables were turned and Southport Perfection 

 gained the verdict. This has given rise to a good deal of 

 collie chatter, and Mr. Mason having faith in his dog offers 

 to show him against any other collie dog, rough or smooth, 

 before a recognized colhe judge, in an open field, either on 

 or off the chain. If, as suggested, a sweepstake is made of 

 §50 a side to include such cracks as Rufford Ormonde, Great 

 Gun and Southport Pilot, the result will be awaited with 

 considerable interest, especially as one of the conditions is 

 that the judge is to publish the reasons for his award. 



Not being able to secure the Mechanics' Pavillion, the 

 Pacific Kennel Club is compelled to abandon its show this 



The Columbus show com- 

 mittee have provided two 

 additional classes for Rus- 

 sian wolfhounds. Class 18A 

 challenge dogs and bitches, 

 Class 20A, puppies under 12 

 months, dogs and bitches. 

 We regret that we did not 

 receive this information 

 before going to press last 

 week, so that we could 

 have drawn attention to 

 the fact that Mr. Mooney, 

 the secretary, would be at 

 New York show to receive 

 entries, which closed Feb. 

 20. 



Our correspondents and 

 especially secretaries of 

 shows and clubs, should 

 bear in mind that as we 

 go to press on Tuesdays 

 now, all communications 

 must be received in this 

 office on Monday to insure 

 insertion. Advertisements 

 should not come in later 

 than Saturday. 



Mr. Peck writes us from 

 Akron, O., that the little show held there in December last 

 has stirred up quite an interest in well bred dogs, and he 

 has orders to buy dogs for several good people out there. 

 Thus doth the good work progress. 



The judges at New York have a good deal to contend with, 

 but nothing we should say hurts their self respect' more, not 

 even an adverse criticism, than a sight of their portraits in 

 some of the daily papers. 



We draw the attention of Irish setter breeders to Mr. 

 Blossom's announcement of his dog Bedford at stud in our 

 business columns. This dog should get good field workers, 

 for he is himself a worker, having beaten nineteen other 

 starters at the trials, at Lexington, N. C, in 1892, and among 

 them were the noted Coleraine and Finglas, the latter having 

 won two weeks before the All-Age Absolute in the American 

 field trials. 



Polk Miller. 



Dogmen know Polk Miller in a general way merely through 

 his connection with Sergeant's Dog Remedies, although he 

 is known to his personal friends as a whole-souled, enthusias- 

 tic sportsman, and one who can tell you, to a field, where the 

 quail lie in any part of "Old Virgiony." The mention of Old 

 Virginny reminds one that among Mr. Miller's accomplish- 

 ments is his great faculty for imitating in dialogue and reci- 

 tation the old negro dialect. In this particular forte he 

 stands facile prtnceps, and his repertoire includes both the 

 pathetic and the amusing sides of plantation life, inter- 

 spersed with negro melodies which never fail to bring a 

 laugh or a tear as occasion demands. 



The delegates from the Canadian Kennel Club are all at 

 the show ready to confer with the A. K. C. Their "plank" is 

 reciprocity and an acknowledgment of a standing, equal iu 

 a sense to the A. K. C. The plan on which they propose to 

 act is that both clubs shall have their stud books, and that 

 a registration in either should . be recognized by the other 

 and Canadian exhibitors not registered in American stud 

 books shall list their dogs and vice versa, for which purpose 

 the Canadians will institute a listing fee of 25 cents, If some 

 such reciprocity treaty is not agreed upon, the chances are 

 that an International club will be formed, the clubs in the 

 West representing this side of the border. We trust that 

 such action will not become necessary. 



