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FOMESt and stream. 
[MayI23, 1896. \ 
Dogs for the National Zoo. 
To the Kennels of the United States: 
Washington, D. C— For some time the National Zo- 
ological Park has possessed in its collection a few of the 
various breeds of dogs, which have been kindly presented 
or loaned. 
It is the intention of the officials, in order to provide 
object lessons in the Capital for the people of the United 
States, to bring this department of the animal collection 
up to as Complete a condition as possible. Accordingly, 
an extensive and modern system of kennels is to be erect- 
ed this forthcoming summer, so that every breed may be 
represented. 
The appropriation voted by the House of Representa- 
tives for tbis institution cannot he devoted to the purchase 
of any animals; at the same time a clause prohibits selling 
of the same. Consequently the Park has to depend on* 
gifts or loans of animals. 
The officials of the Park have instructed me to extend 
to the leading kennel breeders of the United States an 
invitation to co-operate in this movement, which is dis- 
tinctly national in character, without attachment of any 
personal interest whatever. 
They desire that I request from you either the gift or 
loan of a representative of the breed in which you are in- 
terested. Acknowledgment of the same will in every 
case be made permanent by a printed placard over each 
kennel, stating in bold letters the name and address of 
the donor or lender. The advantages that will accrue to 
the said donor or lender cannot be over-estimated when 
regarded as an advertising medium, because the collection 
will take the form of a permanent exhibition to the many 
thousands of visitors from all parts of the country. 
The officials will, of course, be gratified to receive a 
clear gift from you, but should you not see your way 
clear to this, will be very glad to receive a specimen as a 
permanent loan. In the case of a bitch, which would be 
preferred from an educational point of view, inasmuch 
as any young that might be bred would be interesting and 
instructive, the progeny would be considered the property 
of the lender and would be returned or disposed of accord- 
ing to his directions. 
In case of sickness the best medical attendance will be 
promptly given. The kennels will be in charge of com- 
petent attendants, and full information of the character- 
istics and points of the breed will be printed and attached 
to each kennel. All charges incidental to the removal 
and transportation of the animals will be borne by the in- 
stitution. Cecil French, D. V. S. 
714 Twelfth stbkkt, N. W. 
Advisory Committee Meeting 1 . 
At the meeting of the Advisory Committee of the A K. 
C. , held in the American Kennel Club's rooms at 55 Li- 
berty street, on May 14, there were present: Messrs. James 
Watson, H. F. Schellhass, F. S. Webster, A. C. Wilmer- 
ding and E. M. Oldham. It was ordered that the Bull 
Terrier Club of America be granted fifteen days within 
which to comply with the resolution of the committee 
at its meeting held April 11, 1896 in default of which 
said club and its officers holding office on Jan. 13, 1896, 
shall be thereby suspended. In the matter of the A. K. 
C. vs. E. H. Morris, re misconduct, it was ordered that 
Mr. Morris be suspended until Jan. 1, 1897. In the mat- 
ter of the St. Louis Kennel Club vs. Fred P. Kirby, re 
misconduct in connection with dog shows, it was ordered 
that the matter be left in abeyance pending further in- 
vestigation. It was also ordered that the award of first 
Erize in the challenge class for Skye terriers, at the St. 
ouis show, to the bitch Bessie (35,411), be cancelled. The 
challenge class made for the black and tan terrier Glen- 
wood was cancelled. The action of the secretary in re- 
moving the suspensions of W. S. B'glow and B. Alton 
Smith was confirmed. A penalty of $10 was imposed on 
the New England Kennel Club for accepting the entry of 
a puppy under 6 months of age. It was ordered that a 
committee of three be appointed to report resolutions on 
the death of Dr. N. Rowe and Mr. H. B. Cromwell, and 
submit same at the next meeting of the A. K. C. The 
following prefixes were granted; Beaver Brook to Mr. 
Tyler Morse, Hiawatha to Mr. R. McDonald, Mount Shas- 
ta to Mr. A. E. Culver, Oakside to Mr. H. H, Carlton, 
Sangamo to Messrs. F. M. Wade and F. Pillo. The secre- 
tary was granted five weeks' vacation. 
Kindness to Animals. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I wish to say that the position your paper takes on the 
question of justice to the lower animals must commend 
it to all right-thinking people. Your paper is the best 
there is in the current literature of sportsmanship. It is 
your privilege to educate merely by the position you take. 
You have it in your power and apparently in your dis- 
position to express for us, who regard the ethics of our re- 
lations to the lower animals, our sentiments in an authori- 
tative way. E. K. W. 
American Spaniel Club. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
At the last meeting of the executive committee of the 
American Spaniel Club, the mail votes for a new list of 
judges were opened and the following gentlemen were 
declared duly elected official judges of the Spaniel Club: 
E. M. Oldham, James Mortimer, C. H, Mason, James 
Watson, A. C. Wilmerdlng, George Douglass, Andrew 
Laidlaw, J. F. Kirk, J. Otis Fellows, Dr. S. J. Bradbury. 
Rowland P. Keasbey, Sec'y. 
POINTS AND FLUSHES. 
We are informed by the R. I. S. F. A. that the grati- 
fying success of their 1895 bench show has determined it 
to retain in 1896 the efficient plans then employed. They 
are fortunate in again securing the services of Mr. E M. 
Oldham as superintendent, a guarantee that the show 
will be managed in a thoroughly practical manner. 
Spratts Patent will bench and feed, undoubtedly the best 
service of its kind in the country, and the show will be 
disinfected and deodorized by the same company as last 
year. To insure the widest public interest and inspec- 
tion, no admission fee will be charged visitors to the 
bench show, and the very large amount offered in pre- 
miums ($2,200) should easily attract the best dog fanciers 
in the country. The show will, as heretofore, be held 
under American Kennel Club rules. The especial atten- 
tion of exhibitors is invited to regulations governing the 
receiving of exhibits in the department. The judges for 
1896 will be F. E. Perkins, Earl H. Potter and Walter W; 
Dexter. 
Mr. A. P. "Vredenburgh, the secretary of the A. K. C, 
will take special action toward the enforcement of A. K. 
C, rules hereafter, and to that end has prepared a circular 
giving a digest of the important regulations directly gov- 
erning bench shows and other pertinent information, the 
matter covered being under the head of dates, penalties, 
registrations and listings, challenge classes and prizes, 
rules to be published, additional rules, premium lists and 
catalogues to be filed, amount of prizes, winnings in 
catalogues, closing of entries, disqualified and suspended, 
ownership, no change in classes, transferring entries not 
allowed, weighing, veterinarians, puppies, vhc, reserve. 
In respect to no change in classes there is the following, 
which clubs would do well to read and heed: 
"No change can be made in the classification not 
specially provided for in the rules, or of which public 
notice has not been given prior to the closing of the en- 
tries. It is permissible to make a rule that if there are 
more than a certain number of entries in a class not di- 
vided by sex, such a division shall be made. If any di- 
vision or addition is made other than as above the 
additional class and the record will be cancelled by the 
American Kennel Club. 
"No transfer of an entry is permissible either in classes 
where there is subdivision by weight or sex, or in case of 
an error in making the entry. The entry, as made, must 
govern in all cases, and any dog transferred will be dis- 
qualified by the American Kennel Club." 
Capt. Keene, an officer of the English Kennel Club, and 
a popular exhibitor and judge in England, died on May 3, 
The St. Hubert Schipperke Club (England), met on May 
7 to discuss the important matter of docking. The prop- 
agation of the myth in respect to the schipperke being 
naturally tailless was condemned. The chairman ex- 
plained that they had the choice of three courses 1. Con- 
tinue to remove the whole tail, which gives the animal 
the appearance of being born tailless, and so may mislead 
judges and public. 2. Leave on the whole tail, docking 
nothing. 3. Dock in such a manner as to inflict no more 
pain than fox terriers experience by the operation. After 
discussion, during which the question was viewed from 
every quarter, the following resolution was unanimously 
carried: "That the St. Hubert Schipperke Club inform the 
Kennel Club that they are in favor of docking schip- 
perkes in a humane manner, that is to say, leaving a vis- 
ible stump." This resolution will be communicated to 
the secretary of the Kennel Club in due course. 
The Foeest and Stream is put to press each week on 
Tuesday. Correspondence intended for publication 
should reach us at the latest by Monday, and as much 
earlier as practicable. 
A Model Life Insurance Policy. 
With the general proposition that life insurance is a 
wise precaution, and for many men an absolute duty, 
most of our readers would probably agree. When they 
came to saying what is the best kind of a policy to take, 
or the best company to insure in, there might be some dis- 
cussion. We aro not going to decide these latter questions, 
but propose to call attention to a policy form lately an- 
nounced by the New York Life Insurance Company 
which seems to contain all the features of a model con- 
tract. There is only one condition imposed on the 
insured, and that is the payment of premiums. If he 
does this he is insured, and large liberty is allowed even 
in this respect. Days of grace, privilege of reinstate- 
ment, loans and cash surrender values, automatic non- 
forfeiture conditions, and the privilege of adjusting the 
value of the policy to one's circumstances, whatever they 
may be after a term of years, these are surely the marks 
of a model policy. The company sums up the virtues of 
this, its latest and most liberal contract, as follows: 
1. No restrictions whatever as to residence, occupation, 
travel, habits of life or manner of death. 
2„ Claims paid immediately upon the receipt and ap- 
proval of proofs of death. 
3. The return of one-half or all premiums paid, if de- 
sired, in case of death during the accumulation period, in 
addition to the face of the policy. 
4. The right of the insured to change the beneficiary 
while the policy is in force. 
5. Policy incontestable after one year, if the premiums 
are duly paid. 
6. Eight options in settlement at end of accumulation 
period. 
7. Cash surrender values, or loans at 5 per cent, inter- 
est, after three years' premiums have been paid. 
8. A month's grace in the payment of premiums, the 
policy remaining in force. 
9. The privilege of reinstatement during the five 
months following the month of grace, if the insured is in 
good health. 
10. Automatically non-forfeiting after being in force 
three years, the insurance being extended during a period 
shown in the policy if no request is made, or ordinary 
paid-up insurance granted on request within six months, 
and no abatement from the death claim in case of death 
during the term of extended insurance.— Ado. 
In the Forest and Stream of May 2 appeared a criticism of Amer- 
ican steam yachts and their builders which the Marine Journal pro- 
nounced untrue, at the same time boasting of the number and skill of 
American designers of this class of vessel. In answer to our direct 
challenge to name these American designers and the steam yachts 
designed by them, the Marine Journal, in its issue of May 16, speaks 
as follows: 
One of the arguments of the Forest and Stream against the Payne 
bill for the protection of American yacht builders is that we have no 
yacht builders who make a specialty of that business and especially 
of steam yachts. All the more reason, then, why we should encour- 
age yacnt building. If it is a good business for foreigners, it ought to 
be so for Americans, and therefore an industry that should be devel- 
oped. But it never will be extensively developed so long as our 
builders have to work against the competition of the British yards, 
with the handicap of their established facilities and no encourage- 
ment from our Government. It is one of the essential features of the 
policy of protection to home industries that this kind of business 
should receive* governmental acknowledgment and discrimination in 
its favor against foreigners. Indeed we are led to believe that the 
reason Americans, who own or charter foreign built yachts, have not 
opposed the Payne bill, is that they are so directly interested in Amer- 
ican manufactures, from which they have made their wealth, that 
they cannot consistently take a stand in opposition to the protection 
of the yacht-building industry. 
The above is in no sense an answer to our statements; if they were 
false, a much better and fairer course for our opponent would have 
been to reply to our challenge by printing such a list as we named, 
and its failure to do this, with the above evasion of the question, 
proves that we were right from the first. We must correct our 
opponent once more; our argument is not as it has stated above, but 
that the American builder, after ample encouragement from wealthy 
but ignorant owners, has shown a total lack of both skill and enter- 
prise, and is entirely undeserving of the monopoly which the Payne 
bill, if passed, would create for him. We have never stated that 
there are no American builders who make a specialty of steam 
yachts, but there are, so far as we have been able to ascertain, none 
who are competent to turn out a yacht that will cempare in appear- 
ance, utility and general excellence with those built abroad. We dlB- 
cussed last week the question of British competition as a necessary 
incentive to American progress in naval design, and need not repeat 
what we then said; we must take issue, however, with the Marine 
Journal on its statement that British competition is a bar to what 
should be a profitable business, the designing and building of a type 
of steam yacht specially fitted for American waters. 
The development of steam yacht construction can never come 
through protection alone, coupled with ancient ideas and old-time 
methods, but must come from the earnest effort to excel the British 
steam yacht, just as American designers in another field have excelled 
the British sailing yacht. What has protection to do with the mar- 
velous advance in- sailing yachts from the old-time sloop of the builder 
to the modern Cup defender? 
The true object of the Payne bill, as indeed of all similar measures 
now in force against merchant vessels, is not to stimulate improve- 
ment through open and healthful competition, but to maintain, 
through the possession of a monopoly, a fictitious advantage, which 
could otherwise be held only by the exercise of increased skill. 
On one point we are in accord with the Marine Journal. Like it, we 
believe in Government encouragement to yachting and yacht builders; 
but the sort of encouragement we would advocate is, in the first place, 
that yachting be left severely alone by the national legislators, and 
that no measures such as the former Frye bill and the present Payne 
bill be passed; and, in the second place, that the existing duties on 
materials for yacht and shipbuilding be alike removed. What Ameri- 
can merchant or mechanic is benefited by the heavy duty on African 
teak or American elm; two of the most essential materials of yacht 
building? 
The American yards can boast to-day as complete a plant as any on 
the Clyde, as good a quality of steel at almost as low a price; the dif- 
ference in labor, however great it nominally seems, is in reality largely 
offset by the vast difference in the conditions under which such work 
is done in this country. That the British yards are at a material ad- 
vantage in the matter of the large amount of teak, mahogany and 
other costly woods, is very true; but who is to blame for it? What 
the American yard lacks, at least so far as steam yachts are concerned, 
is brains— not merely technical knowledge of the higher sort, but such 
common horse sense as would teach the builder that the sheer plan of 
a harbor tug cannot be used for a 600-ton steam yacht by the mere ad' 
dltion of a nondescript figurehead forward, a stern like a dishpan, and 
an unlimited amount of braes railing about the bulwarks and houses. 
In this same connection we may diverge a little and say that this same 
tugboat sheer plan is also incapable of enlargement to the dimensions 
of a 5,000-ton ocean greyhound, a fact not yet appreciated by some 
American builders. 
We have laid considerable stress on appearance, as we" know that 
moBt men who build steam yachts expect, and all are entitled to, a 
craft that is in every way pleasing to the nautical eye. something 
shipshape and graceful. In this respect the many steam yachts 
nominally or actually of American design are almost without excep- 
tion notably lacking, the very best are old-fashioned and common- 
place in appearance. What is worse, the adage "handsome is that 
handsome does" cannot bring saving grace to them, as in perf ormaDCa 
and too often in accommodation they are even worse than they look. 
There was a time when American shipyards were noted for the grace 
and beauty, the "eye sweetness," of the crafc they turned out; when 
even the trading sloops, to say nothing of the grand old clippers, had 
their share of nautical symmetry and beauty. We look in vain 
to-day, whether in yaohts or in merchant steamers, for any trace of 
either. 
In our opposition to the Payne bill, as to previous similar measures, 
we are not arguing over protection as a national policy, whether 
political or economical; but we recognize in yachting as a national in- 
stitution something so important in every way to our great maritime 
nation as to be entitled to, if necessary, exceptional privileges in the 
way of favorable legislation, or at least of no legislation at all, bu fc 
merely to be allowed to work out unimpeded its own future. Whether 
selfishly or not, the yacht owner spends a very large amount of 
money, frequently for a very small return, in a way that is of material 
benefit to the nation in the encouragement of naval design, the main- 
tenance of building yards, and the training and maintenance of a large 
fleet of skilled seamen. The more yachtsmen and the more and better 
yachts, the better for the nation at large. The idea that the building 
of some of these yachts in foreign yards is a detriment to the home 
industry is based solely on the narrowest and most illiberal theory of 
protection, and is absolutely contradicted by facts. 
There was a time, about twelve years ago, when the tide of popular 
favor among American yachtsmen swung very strongly toward the 
British cutter. "Under the existing law these yachts— which could be 
built for much less in England or Scotland than in America— could ba 
imported free of duty, provided they sailed into an American port on 
their own bottoms. What has been the result of this experiment in 
free ships? There have been imported In a period of twelve years 
five modern racing yachts— Queen Mab, Jessica, Minerra, Clara and 
Uvira— all of small size; three very old schooners— Miranda, Hilde- 
