May 16, 1896.] 
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POINTS AND FLUSHES. 
In respect to a dog having the privilege of a second bite 
before in law he can bp charged with vicious .less legally, 
the Caicago Legal Adviser has the following: "E very- 
Iowa dog is entitled to one bite free of charge. This is 
official, for W. F. McMaster, Police Judge of Sioux City, 
has announced it from the bench. It was the action of 
W. A. Onstat's bulldog that gave rise to the decision. 
He bit John Fabier in the calf of the leg a few days ago 
as the latter was passing his (the dog's) master's house. 
Thereupon Mr. Fabier appeared before the bar of Judge 
McMaster's court, exhibited his wound, swore that his 
neighbor was harboring a vicious dog and demanded an 
order for the animal's extermination. Then the Judge 
explained that while he might, without laying himself 
open to prosecution, have slain the brute on the spot, yet 
in the eyes of the State law no dog is considered vicious 
until he has bitten one man two or more times or two 
or more men once each. Mr. Fabier was considerably 
dazad, but he acquiesced in the court's ruling. Now he is 
parading up and down in front of the Onstat residence 
waiting for the dog to take a fresh mouthful. If he does 
that, the suff -rer will make another attempt to secure the 
issuance of his death warrant." 
Col. John Thomas North, commonly known as the 
"nitrate king," died suddenly in London on May 5. He 
was best known in this country as a patron of coursing 
and racing, his greyhound kennel in particular making 
him famous in the canine world from its sucaess in win- 
ning the Waterloo Cup several times. By favor a few 
dogs were imported to this country from his kennel. 
His death was attributed to syncope, illness and death 
following immediately after the attack. His wealth 
was so enormously great that it has been variously esti- 
mated from $200,000,000 to $1,000,000,000; but whatever 
the amount, he was credited with being most openhanded 
and generous, in particular giving large sums to chari- 
table institutions. 
Mr. George W. Lovell, Middleboro, Mass., writes us 
that he has sold the pointer bitch Wild Lily to Mr. W. 
Gould Brokaw, New York. 
The supporters of field trials should bear in mind that 
the Derby entries of the United States Field Trials Club 
and the Continental Field Trials Club close on May 15. 
U. S. F. T. entry, $10 first forfeit, $10 additional forfeit, 
payable Aujr. 15, $l0 to start. Prizes, $250, $150 and $100. 
W. B. Stafford, Sec'y, Stanton, Tenn. C F. T. C.'s 
entry, $10 forfeit, $5 second forfeit, payable July 15, and 
$5 to start. Prizes, $125, $100, $75 and $50. P. T. Madi- 
son, Sdo'y, Indianapolis, lnd. Eistern Field Trials Club 
entries close on May 20. Prizes, $300, $200 and $100. 
Forfeit $10, second forfeit $10, payable Sept. 1, and $10 
additional to start. Judges, H. B. Duryea, S. C. Bradley 
and A. Merriman. 
The London Field states that "Austria is about to 
inaugurate international dog shows on an unprecedented 
scale at Prague, Gratz, Budapest and Innsbruck. Ger- 
many and Switzerland respectively have for several years 
past held from four to five dog shows annually. The 
'war dog' section promises to provide additional sensa- 
tion, seeing that in Austrian military circles, and more 
especially among artillery and cavalry men, the 'war dog,' 
well trained, has given signal proof of fidelity, sense and 
endurance little short of remarkable." 
The brochure of the Eastern Field Trials Club, contain- 
ing the club's rules, programme, list of officers, etc. , is a 
gem. It is moBt artistically complete in every detail. 
Here and there in it are most apt classical quotations, 
such as: "By sports like these are all our cares beguiled" 
—Goldsmith. "There's a gude time coming"— Scott. 
"Tbou marshall'st me the way that I was going" — Mac- 
beth. "Come, give us a taste of your quality"— Hamlet. 
Mr. S, C. Bradley, the secretary, is deserving of much 
praise for his new departure in the artistic as well as the 
useful. 
Under date of May 11, Mr. James W. Wood, Pough- 
keepsie, N. Y. , writes us of the death of his famous setter 
bitch. He writes: "I regret to report to you the death of 
my well-known Eaglish setter bitch champion, D mna 
Juanita, on May 5, from paralysis. She was by oh. Rjck- 
ingham ex Donna, and bred by the Rosecroft Kennels." 
When your dogs fall out and fight, separate them by 
hanging on to their tails. It breaks the continuity of 
their argument, and even a ferocious and strange dog 
will not bite you for assuming that his end justifies the 
means. — Stock-Keeper (.England). 
Mr. John Brett writes us that Cactus was not present 
at the Boston show, and that any mention of him as being 
in the challenge class of that show is erroneous. 
Mr. W. S. Clark, secretary of the New England Bpagle 
Club, writes us as follows: "Entry blanks for the New 
Eagland Beagle Club's 1897 Futurity are now ready, and 
will be mailed to beagle breeders and owners. Should 
any be overlooked I will be pleased to mail them on ap- 
plication." 
Mr. P. T. Madison writes us, under date of May 10, as 
follows: "My knee is doing as well as can be expected. 
I am now on crutches. My physician says I may be 
walking with a cane in two or three months. Tbe 
•entries to the chicken Derby are beginning to come in." 
Dog Poisoners. 
Pittsfield, Mass. — Editor Forest and Stream; I write 
just to let you know the kind of people up here, for we 
have some who make it their business poisoning dogs, 
and nothing but a full-blooded dog do tbey touch. In 
one of three houses, four dogs — two English setters, one 
Irish setter and a St. Bernard — have been poisoned in as 
many months, and still we can't locate the offender with 
help, although we have not given up, and we would be 
thankful if you could suggest something or some way to 
help us. T. H, Baldwik. 
[Perhaps some of our readers can suggest something of 
value in the matter.] 
Northwestern Beagle Club. 
Milwaukee, Miy 8 —Editor Forest and Stream: A 
meeting of the field trial committee of the Northwestern 
Beagle Club was held at Milwaukee Tuesday, May 5. 
The trials will be held at Cjlumbus, Wis., beginning on 
Tuesday, Nov. 10. The following classes were made. 
Class A, for dogs, all-age, 15 to 13in., that have not been 
placed first in any all-age class at beagle trials held in 
America. 
Class B, for bitches, all-age, 15 to 13 in., same condi- 
tions. 
Class C, for dogs and bitches, all-age, 13in. and under, 
same conditions. 
Class D, Darby, for dogs and bitches, 15 to 13in., 
whelped on or after Jan. 1, 1895. 
Class E, Darby, for dogs and bitches, 13in. and under, 
whelped on or after Jan. 1, 1895. 
Caarupion class F, for dogs and bitches, 15 to 13in., 
having won a first prize at any beagle trial. 
C lampion class G, for dogs and bitches, 13 in. and 
under, having won a first prize at any beagle trial. 
Entries for classes A, B, C, D, E close Ojt. 27. Fee to 
start $5, of which $2 forfeit must accompany entry; bal- 
ance before starting of class. 
Prizes for classes A, B, C, D are $20 to first, $15 t© 
secjnd, $10 to third. For. class E, $10 to first, $5 to 
second. 
Entries for classes F and G close immediately before 
starting of class. Fee to start $5, First prize 60 per 
cent., second prize 30 percent, of entry money. The 
judges will be chosen at next meeting. 
Louis Steffen, Sec'y. 
R. I. State Fair Bench Show. 
Providence, E, I., May 9. — The Rhode Island State 
Fair has claimed as dates for its bench show of 1896, 
Sept. 7 to 11.' Mr. E. M. Oldham will superintend, as 
last year, a guarantee that the show will be handled in a 
thoroughly efficient manner. The same liberality in 
prize money will be shown as in '95. Forty-three clas3es 
have been provided for and some few specials will un- 
doubtedly be hung up, Spratts Patent will bench and 
feed, and the fact that there is a slight if any probability 
of conflicting dates at the time of the Rhode Island show, 
there should be a large and choice entry list. The bench 
show com mittee for 1896 consists of President F. E. Perkins, 
Eirl H. Potter and W. W. Dexter. A. K. C. rules will 
govern, and a show of increased attraction and ampli- 
fied success is already an almost assured event. Superin- 
tendent Oldham feels confident that he will have more 
and better dogs than last year, and as the Narragansett 
show now ranks with the best in the country, this is not 
an unwarranted expectation. 
Wm. Hanrahan, Ass't Sec'y. 
KENNEL NOTES. 
Kennel Notes are Inserted without charge; and blanks 
(furnished free) will be sent to any address. Prepared 
Blanks sent free on application. 
BRED. 
Mr. T. Murphy's Beauty, cocker spaniel bitch, Feb. 13, to Corktown 
Cupid 
Ooi ktown Kennf Is' 
Dot Smirle, cocker spaniel bitch, Feb. IS, to Rideau Reveller. 
Rioeau Restless, cockfr spaniel bitch, March 28, to Red Ooo. 
Mr. Flanigan'a Fantisca, April 26, to imported Brock. 
WHELPS. 
Mr. F. E. Oonlin's Conlin's Baby, Eoglish setter bitch, whelped, 
March 27. eight (.five dogs), by c ampion Sheldon. 
Mr. E Eidert's Ducness, Eiglish setter bitch, whelped, April 26, thir- 
teen (nine dogs), by champion Sbeldon. 
Warwick Kennels' Neuie Llewellyn, English setter bitch, whelped, 
April 27. ten (seven dogs), by champion Sheldon. 
Mrs. E E Beache's Je*Bie, English setter bitch, whelped, April 80, 
thirteen (nine dogs), by champion SheMon 
Mr. N Knott's Nellie Bondhu, English setter bitch, whelped, March 
19, , by champion Albert's Ranger. 
SALES. 
Mr. Henry A. Estabrook has sold Kitty D., Gordon setter bitch, to 
■Wanoosnac Gordon Setter Kennels, Leominster, Maes. 
New York Game Law. 
Albany. May.— Since the last issue of Forest and 
Stkeam the Governor has signed these bills: 
Senator Brown (S 927), amending the game law so that 
the Fish Commissioners may permit persons owning or 
in charge of private grounds, reservoirs or the waters of 
the State, the privilege of taking therefrom carp, pickerel 
or other deleterious fish with nets and otner devices, or 
by drawing cff the waters from said ponds or reservoirs. 
Assemblyman Sangpr (A 1337), prohibiting the catch- 
ing or killing of any beaver, and providing a fine of $50 
therefor. 
Senator Guy (S. 1052), adding to the game law special 
provisions as to the waters of the Thousand Islands. 
The bills limiting deer jacking and hounding to two 
weeks are in the Governor's hands. M. 
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After passing the House, as related last week, the Payne yacht bill 
was favorably reported by the Senate Committee on Commerce, and 
is now under the protecting care of Senator Frye. As this "born 
sportsman" was the author of the "Frye BUT' in 1691, which proposed 
hamper and restrict even American- built yachts by burdening them 
ith additional red tape, and forbidding to the smaller yachts the 
privilege of flying the national ensign, there can be no doubt as to his 
efforts in behalf of the Payne bill. 
The main object of the new bill, as explained by Mr. Payne in advo- 
cating it, is to prevent foreign competition. It is a most unfortunate 
thing for this country that those in charge of its navigation laws and 
shipping interests for more than a generation have been so narrow in 
their views and so wedded to particular theories that they are abso- 
lutely blind to the plainest lessons of history. 
Those who will take the trouble to look up the record of American 
progress in naval matters throughout this century will find one fact 
that is prominent above all others, that the very soul and life blood of 
American progress has been that "foreign competition" which the 
American builder and his ally in Congress have labored for years to 
prevent. The fame of American ships and American sailors on the 
high seas and on the Great Lakes began in 181 i with the construction 
of fast privateers and gunboats and the bold and skillful maneuvering 
of both, the infant navy, manned by seamen and fishermen unused to 
war, defeating the British fleet alike on salt and fresh water. 
A little later and America began to compete with Britain fr<r the 
carrying trade, in a few years catching up with her older competitor, 
and then taking the lead with the American clipper ships and holding 
it in face of strong competition for over a generation. 
When the steamship first appeared in ocean commerce, though all 
the odds in the shape of established plants for iron working and en- 
gine building were on the side of the older nation, the American 
steamship proved a formidable competitor for a time in the ocean 
trade. 
Both the scieace of naval design and the art of naval construction 
reached their highest development in the fifties, with the American 
flag flying over American clipper and packet ships in every port of the 
world, the Collins Line of steamers in the Atlantic trade, the ship- 
yards of New York turning out the finest warships afloat for various 
European governments, and the American yacht triumphant in the 
English Channel. 
Tbe many minor causes which have brought about Buch a condition 
of affairs as has existed for thirty years, and exists to-day, may nearly 
all be classed under one head— the absence of foreign competition, 
whether through altered conditions of trade, of mechanical art, or of 
legislation. 
An example directly to the point may be found In the history of 
American yachting; its first growth began in the successful competi- 
tion of the schooner America with the British fleet, in 1851. For vari- 
ous reasons international racing received little attention in the thirty 
years up to 1881; and, left entirely to themselves, American builders 
produced a type of yacht that in design, construction and equipment 
was little better than a national disgrace. The awakening came in 
1881 through the visit of a small British cutter and her victories over 
the home craft; then came the renewal of international racing on a 
larger scale through the visits of the big cutters Genesta, Galatea and 
Thistle, each meeting defeat from an American craft of a new type 
called forth by the exigencies of the occasion. If they did nothing 
else, the victories of Puritan— the work of a new man, and based on 
new ideas— damonstrated how little the American yacht builders of 
the day, from 1870 to 1885, knew of their business. 
Another instance in a very different class of vessel i that of the 
new American navy, built within the past ten years. For twenty 
years after the Rebellion the progress of naval design in America 
as applied to war vessels was plainly and distinctly backward. That 
its direction has now been altered and its speed increased is due to 
what f To the keen competition with the British designs from which 
the first of the new American war ships were built a few years since. 
Who did the work? Not the old hands, under whose management the 
navy had rotted and ru-ited away to a mere memory, but a body of 
keen, bright, young Americans who received abroad, through the 
courtesy of the British Government, the technical education which 
their own country did not afford. It is these men, taught mainly in 
British institutions, and working originally on British plans, that have 
in so short a time surpassed their teachers, just as American yacht 
designers, when once they were allowed to adopt British ideas, so 
Boon outstripped the original models. 
What has been the case In the smallest class of craft; the canoe, 
originally imported from England, has reached a wonderful develop- 
ment in America, defeating the best of the British craft in two inter- 
national races; and last year the same has been seen in another class 
of English origin, the victory being with the American craft. 
The more closely we study the work of his predecessors in many 
types of vessels, the less of an opinion we have of the American ship- 
builder of tbe present day— the one who asks for protection from a 
competition which he should welcome. S •> busy i3 he in recounting 
his grandfather's victories over the British privateers, and his father's 
achievements in the American clippers, that he cannot see the great 
vessels that now carry the British flag wh«re once the Stars and 
Stripes were seen. While he has been talking about the glories of the 
clippers and building a lot of steamers of small tonnage for the coast- 
ing trade, his British rival has been setting afloat the Umbria, 
Etruria, Majestic, Teutonic, Lucania and Campania, with a countless 
fleet of successful tramp? and freighters for all classes of commerce. 
Those who are of the opinion that the science of naval design has 
progressed in this couitry during the past thirty years will find a 
fruitful field of study in the j Mnt fleets of steamboats of the Hudson 
River and Long Island Sound. L-3t them take the old Mary Powell 
and compare her with the big Adirondack, launched last year and not 
yet completed, and say which represents the highest amount of skill. 
Let them take the performances of the latest Sound steamers and 
compire th3m with those of the boats of thirty years since. The ship- 
builder of to-day has at his command metals of the highest quality 
and obtainable practically in any size and shape; he has steam ham 
mera, lathes, bending rolls and special machinery never dreamed of 
bp his predecessors, with the aid of electricity to drive his portable 
tools and light his work. Is the work of as high an order, con- 
sidering these facilities, as was turned out in the old shipyards in the 
days of wood or the first days of the Iron era? 
The one thing which serves most to conceal the faults of design in 
the steamboat fleet, for example, Is the progress In marine engineer- 
i ig, which has been far in advance of that in shipdesigning proper- 
Without their modern boilers and engines, without the fictitious aid 
of electric light, stained glass and over-ornamentation in their great 
saloons, the modern Sound and river boats would compare but 
p oorly with those of thirty years' service. The absence of competl 
tion in this class of vessel is due purely to natural causss; but it la 
none the less a fact that through such absence the builders have 
done nothing to Improve the model and have even retrograded. 
Those who will look carefully and impartially over the history of 
American shipping for a period of almost a century will discover two 
important facta. The first of these is that when spurred on by for- 
eign, which means British, competition, the American so >a takes the 
lead and holds it as long as the contest continues. The second is 
that^, lacking such competition, he becomes lax and drops into a rut 
whence it is hard to stir him; he retrogrades, as from the Amerioa to 
the Mohawk; from the Great Admiral, and other war ships built by 
Wm. H. Webb, to the war ship Trenton— a back number before she 
was launched; from the Mary Powell to the Adirondack. 
To tbe true American there is something to be proud of In the skil i 
and energy with which the little coasting schooners were converted 
