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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[June 2, 1894. 



A mysterious announcement was made this week that the Steam 

 Yacht Valiant Company had heen wound up voluntarily, and that 

 a Birkenhead accountant bad been appointed liquidator. 1 he vauanc 

 Steam Yacht Company consists, we believe, of Mr. W. K. VanderbUt 

 only, and for some reasons never made public the ownership was 

 made into a "company," which Mr. Vanderbilt could dissolve at .will. 

 At any rate, the voluntary winding up and appointment of a liqui- 

 dator need not cause alarm on the Stock Exchange or elsewhere.— 

 The Meld. 



TheDouglaston Y. 0. will sail five extra races for small yachts; on 

 June 2, June 9, July 21, August 4 and August 18. The boats will be 

 classed as cabin sloops, cutters and yawls, of thirty reet i.w.i. anu 

 under, cabin cats of twenty-two feet l.w.l. and under, open cats or 

 twenty-two feet l.w.l. and under, and mixed rigs of seventeen feet and 

 under! It will be a series of Saturday afternoon races, and there will 

 be four prizes of a value of $25. Entries are restricted to the Larch- 

 mont, Corinthian, Atlantic, New Rochelle, Knickerbocker Riverside, 

 Indian Harbor, Hempstead Harbor and Sea Cliff yacht clubs. 



Frank T. Morrill has settled his differences with George Munro and 

 Frank Squire, executors of the will of Norman L. Munro, m respect to 

 the possession of Vamoose, and now possesses it, but he is at law witn 

 his attorneys, Messrs. Blumenstiel and Hirsch, in regard to the com- 

 pensation that they should receive for the services rendered him in 

 the action. He compromised the suit without the consent of his coun- 

 sel. They claim that they are entitled to $1,250 for the services, which 

 Morrill disputes. They sued him in the City Court to recover the 

 amount of their bill. In the meantime, when an order was given them 

 to sign, discontinuing the action over the Vamoose, they declined to 

 do so until their bill for services was paid. Application was made to 

 Justice Patterson, of the Supreme Court, in behalf of Morrill to have 

 Henry Ware Jones substituted as his attorney m the place of Messrs. 

 Blumenstiel and Hirsch, and to have all the papers in the action turned 

 over to him, with the view to having the original suit discontinued. 

 Judge Patterson decided that Morrill was entitled to a substitution or 

 attorneys upon proper terms -the payment of or the giving of security 

 for such amount as they may be entitled to for the services rendered. 

 .The New York Shipbuilding Co. (Messrs. Gardner & Mosher) here 

 signed a contract with Rich. K. Fox to build a racing steam yacht to 

 run 30 miles per hour. She will be 100ft. long, 10ft. beam and 5ft. draft. 

 The guarantee calls for official trials of the speed over measured 

 courses. 



Valkyrie was sighted on May 27, off the Irish coast, being then 24 

 days out from New York. 



"Vigilant. 



The work of preparing Vigilant for sea was completed early this 

 week, and everything was in readiness for sailing on Thursday. The 

 yacht was docked last week at the Erie Basin Drydocks for examina- 

 mation. but nothing was found necessary and she was floated on Sat- 

 urday. The seagoing rig includes a small triangular mizzen with a 

 light pole mast. The bowsprit is quite short. The stays up and down 

 the mast have been removed for the voyage and a second forestay set 

 up some 8ft. inside of the main one. Along each side is run a 4in. 

 spar supported on trestles about 2tt. above the deck, to serve as a bul- 

 wark, while a lifeline will be run on stanchions. The sails were bent 

 on Monday morning. The steam yacht Ataianta came off the dock on 

 Tuesday with a handsome new wheel of manganese bronze, and is 

 now ready for sea. 



Imnth 



Dogs as Property. 



.11, There are always two sides of the question in keeping a 

 dog, especially in towns and villages. Because a man is a 

 lover of dogs and likes to see them around him that is no 

 reason why he should ignore the pleasure and rights of his 

 neighbor, who may not have the same feelings. A dog, like 

 horses and cows, should be kept in its proper place, and no 

 more be permitted to run at large and become a nuisance, 

 simply because it is a dog, than the animals spoken of. If a 

 man claims ownership of a dog he should be made to use 

 every endeavor to keep that dog within the bounds of his 

 own domain, and if the dog be allowed to run at large then 

 the owner should be made to assume all responsibility for 

 his acts and incur the penalties accruing from the mischief 

 he may do. There is considerable agitation just now in 

 different parts of the country about dogs being recognized 

 as property. This is all very well and commendable, and if 

 the dog is considered valuable enough to be recognized as 

 property it is no reason why its owner should allow it to 

 ride rough shod over the commonweal. The sooner this 

 fact is properly digested the sooner will laws be made for 

 their proper care and protection. 



Mr. Dan. Joh. Waden has very kindly sent us a copy of the 

 "Finska Kennelklubbens Kalenda och Starnbok(F.K.S.B.)" 

 for 1889-1893. Our acquaintance with Finland and. its lan- 

 guage is limited to a very interesting visit we received from 

 that gentleman, who is one of the officers of the Kennel Club 

 of Finland, during last summer, an account of which was 

 published in Fokest and Stbeam at the time. We are 

 therefore unable to give any very lucid description of this 

 stud book. The interest taken in well bred dogs seems to 

 compare very favorably with that in the English speaking 

 countries, for we find a list of 253 members, and the registra- 

 tions number 265. Some of the names of familiar breeds 

 seem very peculiar, for instance, a collie is called a "Skotsk 

 Farhund," but they do not seem very popular, as only one 

 is registered, and he is Lord Aberdeen, a son of Christopher, 

 winner of first at Helsingfors, 1891-92. Fox-terriers are 

 called "Rafterrieri." Pointers and setters are the most pop- 

 ular breeds, and many familiar names are found in the pedi- 

 grees of those registered. The cover of the book is adorned 

 with a number of excellent sketches of dogs, by A. Federley, 

 and is altogether a handsomely arranged publication. 



Express Companies and Dog Shows. 



In a chatty letter from Mr. C. A. Stone, superintendent of 

 the Toronto Industrial Fair Association's dog show, he asks 

 us to do something in regard to railway companies compel- 

 ling all owners to send their dogs by express. While For- 

 est and Stream is only too willing to ventilate the subject 

 we are afraid little good can be done at present. It lies 

 entirely with the railroad and express companies, and they 

 hold the reins with a pretty tight hand at present and decline 

 to move from their position. The A. K. C. committee that 

 was appointed to make some arrangement has done nothing 

 but have a few sheets of foolscap covered with names of 

 dogmen in the form of a petition. A prominent officer in 

 one of the companies when recently asked if some reduction 

 could not be made in the rates answered, "Why should we 

 reduce rates? We can get all the dogs we want to carry at 

 the present ones." And that covers the whole ground and 

 the dog owners are powerless. 



Mr. Stone remarks: "Now the question that arises in my 

 mind is this. Railroad companies being common carriers 

 and their rates to a certain extent being authorized or 

 governed by the Government, can thev as carriers refuse to 

 accept dogs for transportation over their lines? Have they 

 power to discriminate and say that they will only carry 

 this and not that? I don't think they have as long as the 

 stuff they carry is not dangerous to the general public a<* 

 gunpowder, etc." ' 



If the rule to send all dogs by express were strictly adhered 

 to, dog owners would be able to make their calculations ac 

 cordingly, but this is not so. For instance George Thomas had 

 a large team of dogs for Louisville show. Starting from 

 Boston he was allowed to send the dogs as excess baggage at 

 a rate of $2 25 per hundred weight. His crates and dogs 

 weighed 2,o00 lbs. and all went well until he arrived in Wash- 

 ington, when he was compelled to send them the rest of the 

 journey by express. This cost him $90 more, so that when he 

 arrived at Louisville he had paid $146.25 exclusive of cartage 

 at both ends of the journey. And when one considers the 

 cost of fare and hotel expenses, etc., there must have been 

 little profit in such a trip even if every dog won first prize 



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Then Ben Lewis, who had also a large team of dogs, had to 

 pay $118 in expressage from Philadelphia to Louisville. This 

 with fare and hotel expenses would bring his outlay to about 

 $175 before drawing his prize money. There were other 

 grumblers to a large extent at this show but we quote these 

 two cases as being the principal sufferers. It is therefore ap- 

 parent from this, it merely becomes a question of staying 

 power between the express companies and the handlers, with 

 the usual corporate result and, as these men control a num- 

 ber of dogs or in other words unless they go to the dog shows 

 the dogs stay at home, dog shows will suffer seriously in the 

 end. Another hardship thi3 new order of things entails. 

 When dogs are shipped by express they usually go on certain 

 trains that carry such matter, and the result is that dogs 

 must lie over here and there until such time as the com- 

 panies are ready to take them, and in several instances this 

 season the owners of valuable dogs have suffered loss on 

 this account. 



The whole question is a serious one for dog show commit- 

 tees to consider, in fact, as the case stands at present it is 

 almost a vital one. We should like to hear some suggestion 

 that would point a way out of the difficulty. As it is, with 

 all the risks, and little compensation if losses ensue, dog 

 owners have to pay double rates, and having received double 

 rates the express companies in most cases magnanimously 

 allow the dogs to be returned free. Would dog shows be as 

 popular as they are in England to-day if the railroads did 

 not meet the dog exhibitors half-way? There a man may 

 buy a ticket for his dog and it travels as a passenger while 

 some roads have special cars fitted up with dog kennels. We 

 may come to this in time, but not at the present rate. 



A Glass-Eating Dog. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



It is rather startling, but I am going to tell you something 

 I know to be true. In Livingston, a small town in western 

 Alabama, which was at one time my home, there lived a large 

 liver-colored pointer, Carlo by name. One day the owner, 

 Mr. P. P. W. , asked if I had ever seen Carlo eat glass. I 

 laughed, thinking he was joking with me, but my curiosity 

 was greatly aroused when I saw him pick up a piece of 

 broken window pane which happened to be lving near and 

 lay it down in front of the dog. The latter immediately 

 picked it up, and crunching it in his moutn, swallowed it 

 Piece after piece went in the same manner. Carlo lived to 

 be 22 years old. The only explanation Mr. Richmond could 

 give of this queer taste was that the dog being quite old was 

 perhaps unable from lack of teeth to chew his food suf- 

 ficiently for digestion and had taken to swallowing the glass 



for the same reason fowls swallow sand and pebbles, to aid 

 in digesting the food. I thought, though, that the same 

 teeth that had crushed the glass might chew the food. Carlo 

 was first class in the field and Joe had many a good day's 

 shooting over him. I dare say that there is hardly any one 

 who ever visited Livingston but that remembers Carlo. He 

 was a great pet and loved by all who knew him. W. H. S. 

 Brooklyn, N. Y. 



True English Setter Type. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I think the time is now ripe for a radical change in the 

 way English setters are being judged at some of our shows. 

 I was glad to see you speak out as you did in report of Louis- 

 ville show. It is time to sound an alarm. Any one who has 

 followed the shows recently cannot but notice the great lack 

 of type among the English setters exhibited. There are, of 

 course, some dogs shown with good typical heads and bodies, 

 but the average are inclined to weediness. Good legs and 

 feet they possess, as Mr. Davidson remarked, in common with 

 the mule; but the run after field blood and qualities is produc- 

 ing an animal at variance with the standard. In the South and 

 West, where so much attention is given to dogs purely for 

 field work, is this more apparent. Many of the owners of 

 these dogs affect a contempt in more or less degree for bench 

 shows; still I notice that when a dog show comes their way 

 they are only too eager to strive for bench show ribbons, and 

 will kick as heartily as the next one if they don't come their 

 way when they think they should. This is where the harm 

 comes in; if these dogs were kept for the field only, then the 

 result would not be so serious. 



The average field trial man has no conception of "Stone- 

 henge's" standard and thus pays little attention to the 

 niceties of form, which combine to produce a typical English 

 setter such as a Rock, a Foreman, a Plantagenet or a Rock- 

 ingham, and when judges whose sympathies are entirely with 

 the field trial element, elect to place the ribbons, they are as 

 a rule more influenced by the performances of the dogs on 

 the field than by beauty of form as adapted to a standard 

 that has done so mnch in years past to produce one of the 

 handsomest animals of the canine creation. In how many 

 of the English setters of the day do we see the head and ex- 

 pression of the dogs named, as well as Blue Nell, Maid 

 Marion, Princess Beatrice, Spectre, Glendon, and others could 

 be named that conform to "Stonehenge's" standard in a 

 great degree, and are still not at all heavily built, as the 

 average field trial man considers all dogs of the old standard. 

 The breeding of Rockingham and Myrrha II. producedEng- 

 lish setters that were at once typical with the expression and 



