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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[July 14, 1894. 
Champlain, and took up their abode at Wright's Station, 
town of Putnam, Washington county, where they were 
using more than a score of fyke nets. Since Nov. 1 last the 
protector has destroyed in the vicinity of Wright's Station 
over 15 fyke nets believed to belong to them. 
On May 31 Harvey, Jr. , was arrested and brought to Green- 
wich for trial. He demanded and had a jury trial, but was 
found guilty, and Justice Wandell imposed a fine of $50 or 
50 days in jail. He has been confined m jail since May 31. 
.June 7 Bansom was arrested at Wright's Station and 
brought to Greenwich for trial. The jury pronounced him 
guilty and the judge fined him $50 or 50 days in jail. Pro- 
tector Barber had five other indictments against them, and 
could have had them fined $450 each or 450 days in jail. The 
Cooks knew this, and were, therefore, more than anxious for 
a settlement. On the 20th inst. three fines of $100 were paid, 
and they were liberated from jail. The other indictments 
for the present are withdrawn with the understanding that 
they remove from Lake Champlain at once and in the future 
refrain from violating the game laws of this State. If they 
fail to do this the other indictments will hold good. Harvey 
Cook, Sr., pays Protector Barber the amount of the judg- 
ment.— Whitehall Times, June 21. 
Raffman and Rubenstein In New Jersey. 
The office of Justice Samuel R,. Donald, at Bloomingdale, 
was crowded yesterday afternoon by interested neighbors, 
the attraction being the trial of Louis Raffman and Harris 
Rubinstein on a charge of having drawn a net in Mud Pond. 
This is a sheet of some 40 acres back of Bloomingdale, and 
was a resort for Paterson anglers for many years, until it 
passed into the possession of the Bast Jersey Water Com- 
pany. This corporation sold the fishing rights to Raffman 
and Rubinstein, and since then no person has been permitted 
to angle in the water unless a tribute was first paid to the 
lessees. Fish Warden Shriner claimed that the lessees had 
been using both dynamite and nets whenever they could find 
any market for the fish, and in December of last year he suc- 
ceeded in obtaining the conviction of Rubinstein on a charge 
of netting for the defendants. 
The State proved by two witnesses that on the fifth of this 
month the two defendants were netting. One of these wit- 
nesses, Sylvester Casson, of this city, called out the accused 
and they at once hurried away. Another witness testified 
to an admission made to him by Raffman that he had used 
a net. The defense endeavored to establish an alibi. The 
defense also insisted that the pond is private property, and 
as such the lessees had a right to take fish in any manner 
they saw fit. The State proved that the pond had an oulet 
which is a runway for migratory fish, and that it was 
always used by all the anglers of the neighborhood without 
hindrance until it came into possession of the defendants. 
The trial resulted in the conviction of the accused. Justice 
Donald imposed a fine of $25 and the costs on each. Raff- 
man at once gave notice of appeal and filed a bond. His case 
will come up at the next September term of the Common 
Pleas. Rubinstine declined to pay the fine, and so the jus- 
tice sent him to the county jail, where he will continue to 
reside for the next ten days. — Paterson Press, June 28. 
In Iowa. 
Long before morning yesterday, the authorities, accom- 
panied by a party of Dubuque's sportsmen, boarded the yacht 
Laura and struck off down the river for Harris's slough, 
where it was reported fishermen were operating, and where 
seines and nets were understood to be set in sloughs. The 
party arrived at the mouth of the slough shortly after day- 
light. A reconnoissance found three men at work. Boats 
were manned, and before the fellows recognized the officers 
they were in custody. The surrounding country was ex- 
plored, but the fishermen had taken the alarm, hid their 
paraphernalia not in use, and escaped. The nets by the Illi- 
nois laws are declared contraband and are liable to destruc- 
tion when found. Several who had not taken the alarm were 
caught unawares and deprived of all their unlawful belong- 
ings. In this manner a new net that had never been used 
and which was worth perhaps $200, was seized and burned. 
With grab hooks the party traversed the stream anddestroyed 
all the set nets they discovered. In the afternoon the yacht 
returned to East Dubuque, where the prisoners plead guilty 
and were fined the minimum amount, $10. While as a rule 
the men arrested here and at other points along the river are 
poor and but illy able to pay the fine imposed, still they are 
entitled to but little sympathy. Their vocation is a most 
despicable and heartless one. Just now the fish are spawn- 
ing, and as they seek out the overflowed places are easily of 
capture. Were it only their capture alone it would not be 
so serious, but every female fish captured now destroys hun 
dreds that would breed. The pursuit of this practice, which 
now most all States are severely legislating against, is what 
has caused the scarcity of fish and destroyed the great sport. 
Messrs. Blow and Lenk are to be congratulated on the good 
work they are doing, and it is to be hoped they will continue 
it. — Dubuque Herald. 
PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT. 
The Southern Railway. 
The official name of the Richmond & Danville R. R. (Piedmont Air 
Line) has been changed to the "Southern Railway." The service of 
this line has been very much improved and extended during the past 
year, and it now offers unexcelled facilities for Southern travel. This 
is the only line operating solid Pullman vestibuled train between New 
York and New Orleans, Atlanta, Jacksonville and Tampa, with 
through Pullman service, both dining and sleeping cars. 
Cushman & Denison, makers of the "Perfect" pocket oiler, report 
their sales as being far in exceBs of any previous season. 
Charles K. Reed, the Worcester taxidermist, has joined Dr. F. A. 
Cook's Arctic excursion in an official capacity and will be absent for 
about three months. 
Whe Menmt 
All those who love a dog because it is a dog 
and not merely a medium for the accumulation of 
dollars and cents, are invited by the editor to con- 
sider this department as one in which they can 
discuss amicably any subject that is of interest 
to the canine fancy, without fear of their commu- 
nications being subjected to personal comment 
or ridicule. 
FIXTURES. 
DOG SHOWS. 
Sept. 4 to 7.— Des Moines Kennel Club, at Des Moines, Iowa. M 
Bruce, Sec'y. 
Sept. 10 to 14.— Toronto Industrial Exhibition Association, at 
Toronto. C. A. Stone. See'y- 
Sept. 18 to 31.— Rhode Island State Fair Association, at Cranston, R. 
W. W. Dexter, Sec'y. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Sept. 5, — Manitoba Field Trials Club, at Morris, Man. R. J. Gallaug 
her, Winnipeg^, Sec'y. 
Nov. 5— United States Field Trial Club, at Bicknell, Ind. P T 
Madison, Indianapolis, Ind., Sec'y. 
Nov. 6.— International Field Trials, at Chatham, Ont. W. B. Wells 
Nov. S3.— Eastern Field Trials Club, at Newton, N. C. W. A. Coster 
Saratoga, N. T., Sec'y. 
POINTS AND FLUSHES. 
\By a Staff Correspondent.] 
I note with regret that the Philadelphia Kennel Club has 
abandoned its field trials for this year. Its reason— and a 
very good one, too— is that it did not feel justified in holding 
its trials when its Derby was so meagerly supported that the 
club had to face a deficit if the trials were held. No fair- 
minded person will hold that the club did other than wisely 
under the circumstances. 
( Mr. Taylor attributes the falling off in entries to the hard 
times. In that I think he is in error. Undoubtedly they 
were a factor in the matter, but were far from being the 
cause. The decadence of field, trials is not so recent as the 
beginning of the hard times. The true causes have been in 
action many years. The readers who have perused Forest 
and Stream ea,n remember many months back that the dis- 
integrating factors in field trials were pointed out quite 
minutely. 
Along in the early 80s there were only two great field trial 
clubs, one having an Eastern support, the other a Western 
and Southern. The list of entries were almost distinct. 
Each had its own rules, peculiarities in conducting its trials 
and distinct following. Occasionally a trainer or two would 
take a string of dogs to the East, and less frequently an East- 
ern trainer would come West to compete. The accommoda- 
tions of the towns were hardly equal to the needs of the 
visiting sportsmen. They came in large numbers and were 
representative in character. They generally remained till 
the trials were ended. Good fellowship prevailed. Sport was 
the predominant incentive with the greater number. 
As the years passed by, a gradual evolution set in toward 
professionalism. As the professional became better equipped 
with competitive material and more skillful from the experi- 
ence of many contests, the sportsman who owned one or two 
dogs learned from experience, which was paid for, that he 
had no chance to win against the professional. With each 
passing year the sportsmen in attendance at the trials were 
fewer. The happy goodfellowship largely disappeared. 
The handlers were becoming more enterprising and ener- 
getic, and the best equipped developed into campaigners. 
The entries began to lose their sectional character. Many 
Of the entries in the Eastern States could be found entered 
in those of the West. The clubs endeavored to raise their 
purses to the largest possible sum to the end that the largest 
possible number of entries would be secured. It meant rev- 
enue. The big kennel entries were particularly sought. In 
short, the clubs themselves were helping professionalism 
along to the exclusion of the amateur and the sportsman who 
owned one or two dogs. 
The professional who broke dogs for sportsmen and of 
whose string each dog was owned by a different owner, was 
no harm to field trials. His kennel was scattered at the end 
of each season. But the handler who owned his own kennel 
and could keep the same string of campaigners year after 
year, with an unlimited amount of material to select from 
either for a Derby or All Age Stake, and who devoted all his 
energies to making field trials a source of revenue, was the 
one who began damage to field trials. 
So perfectly organized and equipped was he that his win- 
ning was almost a foregone conclusion. 
In the meantime field trials multiplied. Each new club 
stupidly imagined that it must give so much or more money 
in prizes than those already in existence. And each one 
strove to secure the entries of the big kennels for the sake 
of the revenue. Thus it was brought about that each club's 
entries read very much alike, a few local dogs and the rest 
the regular campaigners, just as the Eastern Club's Derby 
entries of this year and the Philadelphia Club's read pre- 
cisely alike with a very few local exceptions. Had those 
stakes been run it would have been practically running the 
same stake twice. 
One kennel I have in mind which from the beseechings 
for entries naturally became fully convinced of its own im- 
portance and refused entries if judges were appointed of 
which it disapproved. The Southern Club in 1892 had in- 
vited a gentleman to act as judge and he had accepted. He 
for personal reasons was disapproved by the kennel afore- 
mentioned and the club was informed by that kennel that 
if he was retained the kennel would make no entries. 
Thereupon the club wrote to the judge and in substance 
invited him to withdraw — an act too pitifully cowardly and 
unmanly to expect from any white man or men. This in- 
cident is merely mentioned to show to what power a big 
kennel had arrived in arranging a competition for itself as 
well as the power it had in the competition. 
All the clubs were offering more money in prizes than 
they could afford. That they "paid out" and had a balance 
in the treasury besides one or two years was no just criterion. 
The support was largely artificial, made up of compaigners 
who went around the entire circuit. It was not a healthy 
local support. As the weaker campaigners found they 
could not cope with the stronger they dropped out of the 
competition. This, of course, cut off a corresponding revenue 
from the clubs. 
The Central Club gave very large prizes. From any busi- 
ness standpoint there was nothing to justify it. There was 
a certainty of a heavy deficit after every trial. The payment 
of the prizes of its last trial lingered a long while. Deficits 
will kill any field trial club sooner or later. 
The Eastern Club had a large balance in its treasury at 
one time. It has been giving larger prizes than its support 
warranted and if it does not manage very carefully it will 
be in memory only. 
The United States Club is giving liberal prizes, but it can 
not do so year after year; if it does it will split on the same 
rock on which the others have split— the deficit. 
I remember well, when the purses for this year were being 
arranged by the U. S. Club, the remark made by a promi- 
nent handler concerning them He said that if he won, the 
purse was not of sufficient value to pay his expenses. The 
value of a win in enhancing the value of the winning dog 
and the market afforded in making sales for puppies, etc, 
were not considered for a moment. The measure of all values 
was the dollar. It was pure business. No amateur could 
hope to succeed in exercising his sport against an organized 
business. Sport is out of place in business. 
Clubs will have to make a radical departure if they desire 
to succeed. They will have to cut down their purses. They 
will have to encourage and eater to a local support. 
The sweepstake plan with a littleadded money is the safest 
and best. The big kennel will write and say it will make no 
entries and will not participate. Let the big kennel go. If 
it comes, the trial is dead. It is better to bar the big kennel, 
or limit it to one entry. If a club cannot succeed on such 
lines, it cannot succeed at all. It hasn't the necessary 
material. 
The professional campaigner has driven out the amateur. 
The professional campaigner cannot supplant field trials 
alone. I have heard the remark made in connection with 
the dog world, that ''a sucker is born every minute." Noth- 
ing could be wider from the truth. It is not a compliment- 
ary theory to a believer in it nor a very honest business tenet. 
Neither is it true. 
If the prizes are made less, there will not be sufficient in- 
ducement to support a monster kennel as a money-makins 
machine. Such a kennel is entirely outside the realm of 
sport. But the amateur will come in. To aggressive pro- 
fessionalism can be ascribed the decadence of field trials. 
I trust that no handler will be so stupid as to misunder- 
stand my writings, and infer that I write against profession- 
als as professionals. So far as they are concerned, I intend 
to be wholly impersonal. It is only of the effects of profes- 
sionalism in connection with field trials that I treat. I know 
the handlers are broad enough to concede that if profession- 
alism is ruining field trials, it should be corrected. Field 
trials are of great value to them if they never won a cent. 
There are many handlers to-day who are making a living 
out of training who could not do so long if field trials ceased. 
„„ B. Waters. 
909 Security Building, Chicago. 
The New Bloodhound Club. 
We have received a copy of the constitution and bye- 
laws of the recently organized "English Bloodhound Club 
of America." The object of the club is to improve and to 
encourage the bloodhound breed of dogs in America and 
to assist in establishing their more general use in connection 
with the detective service of the country. Annual meetings 
are to be held prior to July 1, in each year. The initiation 
fee is $10, and annual dues $5, payable on July 1. Five mem- 
bers constitute a quorum at all meetings of the club, and 
two for the executive committee meetings. The standard 
adopted by the club is as follows: 
The Head and Wrinkle (value 20) is the peculiar feature 
of this breed, and it is accordingly estimated at a very high 
rate. In the male it is large in all its dimensions but 
width, in which there is a remarkable deficiency. The upper 
surface is domed, ending in a blunt point at the occiput; 
but the brain case is not developed to the same extent as 
the jaws, which are very long and wide at the nostrils, hol- 
low and very lean in the cheek, and notably under the eyes. 
The muzzle should be deep and square. The brows are 
moderately prominent, and the general expression of the 
whole head is very grand and majestic. The skin covering 
the forehead and cheeks is wrinkled in a remarkable man 
ner, unlike any other dog. These points are not nearly so 
developed in the bitch, but still they are to be demanded in 
the same proportionate degree. 
The Ears and Eyes (value 10). The ears, which should be 
set on low, are long enough to overlap one another consider- 
ably when drawn together in front of the nose; the leather 
should be very thin, pendulous, and should hang very for- 
ward and close to the cheeks, never showing the slightest 
tendency to "prick;" they should be covered with very soft, 
short, silky hair. The eyes are generally hazel, rather small 
and deeply sunk, with triangular-shaped lids showing the 
third eyelid, or "haw," which is frequently, but not always 
of a deep red color. 
The Flews (value 5) are remarkably long and pendant 
sometimes falling fully two inches below the angle of the 
mouth. 
The Neck, (value 5) is long, so as to enable this hound to 
drop hisnose to the ground without altering his pace. In the 
front there is a considerable dewlap. 
The Chest and Shoulders (value 10).— The chest is rather 
wide than deep, but in all cases there should be a good girth; 
shoulders sloping and muscular. 
The Back and Back Bibs (value 10) should be wide and 
deep, the size of the dog necessitating great power in this 
department. The hips, or couples, should be especially 
attended to, and they should be wide, or almost ragged. 
The Legs and Feet (value 15).— The legs must be straight 
and muscular and the ankles of full size. The feet should 
be round and cat-like. 
The Color and Coat (value 10). In color the bloodhound 
is either black and tan or tan only, as is the case with all 
black and tan breeds. The black should extend to the back, 
the sides, top of neck and top of head. It is seldom a pure 
black, but more or less mixed with the tan, which should be 
a deep, rich red. There should be little or no white. A deep 
tawny, or lion color, is also coveted but seldom found. The 
coat should be short and hard on the body, but silky on the 
ears and top of the head. 
The Stern (value 5) is like that of all hounds, carried 
gaily in a gentle curve, but should not be raised beyond a 
right angle with the back. 
The Symmetry (value 10) of the bloodhound, as regarded 
from an artistic point of view, should be examined care- 
fully and valued in proportion to the degree in which it is 
developed. The height should be from 25 to 27in. at the 
shoulders for dogs, and a little less for bitches. The weight 
of dogs should be about 801 bs. and upwards, bitches some- 
what less. 
J. L. Winchell, Dr. C. A. Uougest and Charles H. Inness 
are the gentlemen who have had charge of these matters. 
Flaps from the Beaver's Tail. 
Toronto, Canada. — Collies are continually growing in 
popularity in Canada, and not in one section alone, but all 
the country over. Mr. Arthur F. Gault, of Montreal, is the 
latest importer, having imported a dog bred by Mr. Tom 
Stretch and a bitch bred by Mr. Sutcliff e. No further par- 
ticulars have yet reached me other than that they are to 
come, out at Toronto. Mr. Gault has heretofore devoted 
himself to terriers. 
Messrs. Cleather & Rathbone, of "Spratts," have lately 
bought that nice collie bitch Nancy, imported by the late H. 
P. Harrison, of Toronto. She was first at Toronto in both 
1891 and 1892 under Mr. Davidson, and took in 1891 vhc. at 
Cleveland, third at Chicago and vhc. reserve at Hamilton. 
Mr. Terry, of New York, has bought a dog puppy from 
Mr. Hart, of Belleville, by his recent purchase Scotch Boni- 
vard. He is quite a baby and at seven weeks weighed 
twenty-eight pounds. 
The Skye terrier bitch Islay, which did some winning the 
past year or two, is dead. She had a nice litter of nine, 
seven dogs, but had no milk, and a foster mother not being 
procurable all succumbed, the bitch herself dying a few 
days after. 
Another one to go is Vixi, Mr. Macdonald's smooth fox- 
terrier bitch, winner of first puppy and second novice at last 
Toronto show. Vixi was chasing chickens and, in the 
words of the poet, "Got one in the neck" from the irate 
owner. I understand the case will be brought to court. 
H. B. Donovan. 
Bulldog Argonaut. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I regret to announce the death of my bulldog Argonaut, 
who was overcome by the heat this morning. He fell by the' 
roadside as he was following the carriage on its way to the 
station, unknown to the coachman, who would never have 
let him go on such a hot day, had he known he was behind 
the carriage. The thermometer was about 90°, and he was 
found by a bicyclist, dying, and before any of us could get to 
him he was dead. Argonaut was a promising son of King 
Lud, two years old, and was improving everyday. While 
he was not a crack dog in points that tell in the show ring, 
he possessed a true bulldog character; affectionate and faith- 
ful to his friends, he showed great attachment for them, and 
his disposition was never ruffled without good reason. In 
case of emergency he showed plenty of grit, although I have 
never known him to pick a fight with another dog, or to be 
cross with any one. It is in the possession of a dog with such 
a character as this that we feel proud of the breed of bull- 
dogs, which has been so much abused, and I cannot but feel 
that the more they come to be known, the more they will be 
admired for their native qualities. J. Daneorth Bush. 
The puppies out of the Scottish terrier Wankie Freda are 
by Rhudaman and not Tiree, as stated in a recent issue. 
