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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[May 18, 1895. 
The Bull-Terrier Club. 
Pittsburg, Pa.— Editor Forest and Stream: In a recent 
Kennel News Mr. James Watson, writing about the Bull- 
Terrier Club, refers derogatorily to some persons compris- 
ing a "gang." As secretary of the club, I should deem it 
a favor were he to inform me of whom the ' 'gang" con- 
sists. Does he refer to the gentlemen breeders, of whom 
Mr. Dole was considered one, who called the meeting, 
and upon the motion of whom Mr. Dole was elected pres- 
cient? 
As Mr. Watson has kindly offered his friendly criticism 
on the composition and motives of the organization of the 
previous bull-terrier clubs, we will forward him at our 
earliest opportunity a copy of the rules and by-laws of the 
Bull-Terrier Club of America, and trust that he will oblige 
us with any further suggestions toward saving it from the 
untimely fate which he deplores having overtaken its 
predecessors. From the inside knowledge, which his article 
would indicate he possesses, his suggestions will undoubt- 
edly prove of great value. W. D. Brereton, 
Sec'y Bull-Terrier Club of America. 
DOG CHAT. 
There is no one who will not regret the serious accident 
to Mr. A. D. Lewis and his mother and sister. While out 
driving on the 8th inst in Hempstead, L. I., Bis horse 
bolted and the carriage struck a gate post. All were 
thrown to the ground. Mr. Lewis's leg was broken near 
the ankle, Mrs. Lewis was severely injured internally and 
her collar-bone was broken, and Miss Lewis sustained a 
compound fracture of the right arm. 
The Montreal Kennel Association added twenty-six 
new members to its roll at its meeting on May 7. The 
special committee reported the receipt of $250 for special 
prizps. Sir Donald A. Smith, the club's patron, sent in 
a $100 check, and will be pleased to offer a cup to be 
placed at the club's discretion. The show will be held on 
May 31 and June 1. Entry blanks can be obtained of the 
secretary. 
Mr. C. M. Eounds, Elmendorf, Tex., writes us that the 
field trial winner, Manitoba Frisk, died recently. Mani- 
rtoba Frisk won the Manitoba Field Trials Club's Derby 
when but a year old, and afterward in Texas in 1892 
won second in the All- Age stake, and in 1893 won first 
,in the same stake, Bexar field trials. Mr, Rounds adds: 
"He was as near perfect as it is possible for a dog to 
Ibe, with a disposition that was faithfulness itself. In 
ifact, he was a dog that one meets in a lifetime. He 
: seemed to be afflicted with consumption and gradually 
wasted away. I never expect to own his equal. Some 
Of the happiest moments of my life have been spent in 
company with others behind Tobe, as he was called — 
watching him make his wonderful casts in search of 
game — and he was somehow always the lucky dog; hap- 
pened to go right where the birds were. We are all 
in mourning here at the ranch, where he was the favorite 
of all." 
The Bulldog Club of America announces the opening of 
its second Produce Stakes, for thoroughbred bull bitches, 
bred between Jan. 1 and July 1, 1895. The stakes are 
open to all comers, whether members of the club or not. 
Fees, $5 for each bitch nominated, $5 for each puppy en- 
tered. All arrangements can be made with the secretary, 
Mr. E. A. Woodward, 60 Wabash avenue, Chicago. 
Preparing for the Chicken Trials. 
Milwaukee, Wis., April SO— Editor Forest and Stream: I have 
recently returned from San Antonio, Tex., where I spent the greater 
part of the winter. I was fortunate in having some excellent redhead 
shooting on the coast, and the bluebills were also very abundant. I 
called on Mr. Hough in Chioago last week and we had a pleasant time 
together talking over reminiscences of our Southern trip. 
I expect to have some very promising entries of both setters and 
pointers for the coming trials next fall, and intend to have my dogs in 
good shape for the Continental trials in September. My dogs are in 
charge of Thomas Richards, a brother of Frank and George, and he 
will start for North Dakota early in the summer and begin work. I 
expect to send up at least eight of my own dogs and will take six out- 
side dogs for gentlemen to be conditioned and broken for field 
shooting. 
We intend locating where the birds are plentiful and also where 
there is a good water supply. We already have a very desirable loca- 
tion in view, and, from recent reports, it will afford an excellent local- • 
1 ty for working our dogs. 
I have a very promising Derby pointer entry in a Strkleaway ex 
Hops II. dog pup; two flue pointer bitches by Rip Rap ex Lady Peg 
she by King of Kent ex Lass of Bloomo. I now own the pointer bitch 
Lady Peg, she having been placed in last fall's U. S. Derby and All-Age 
Stake. I have also three very promising puppies for the Derbies by 
Paul Bo ex Tube Rose. 
All my young dogs were taken down with distemper last January, 
and Richards had a tough time of it, although he did remarkably well 
in pulling tnem all through the sickness except two inferior pups, 
which succumbed to the disease. They are all in excellent health now, 
and one would not think to look at them that they had been so sick. 
Richard Merrill. 
An Unfavorable Training Season. 
Charlottesville, Va., April £0.— Editor Forest and Stream: This 
has been the most unfavorable training season 7. ever experienced in 
the South. The heavy snowstorm that commenced shortly after 
Christmas was followed by severe frosts and every sort of objection- 
able weather. On our training grounds several coveys disappeared 
entirely, which I have good reason for believing was due more to pot 
hunters shooting the birds on the ground, and scattering others so 
that they froze to death before they could get together again, than to 
the severe weather or want of food. 
Still, plenty of birds were left for breeding. I was told that very 
little shooting had been allowed on the old club grounds at Lexington 
and that there were plenty of birds left for seed there too. 
C. E. MoMurdo. 
Brighton Tobe's Pedigree. 
Chatham, Ont.— Editor Forest and Stream: With regard to Brighton 
Tobe's pedigree, I beg to say I have no desire to injure either the dog 
or his owners. Before breeding to him I had not his extended oedi- 
gree. When I got it, I found thebreedlngof Hall's Lucy was not given 
so I wrote Mr. Davey twice for it; but without reply. I then wrote a 
friend in Hamilton to see Mr. John Hall, of that place, and find out if 
he knew anything about her, with the result as given. 
The breeding of a public stud dog is public property. Breeders who 
care for pedigree (and what breeder of any consequence does not J) 
are entitled to have all the light possible thrown on the pedigrees of 
such dogs. The breeding of Hall's Lucy does not yet appear to have 
been clearly ascertained. Perhaps some Toronto* sportsman could 
throw light on the subject. 
Mr. Davidson is no doubt right when he says very little was thought 
of pedigrees in the old days. Those were the days before public trials, 
when every sportsman owned the best dog in the world, and English. 
Irish and Gordon were mixed indiscriminately. W. B. Wells. 
KENNEL NOTES. 
Kennel Notes are inserted -without charge ; and blanks 
(furnished free) will be sent to any address. 
NAMES CLAIMED. 
Prepared Blanks sent free on appHcation. 
C. T. Browne!! claims the name Angenett for Gordon setter bitch, 
whelped Oct. 1, 1894, by Gordon Grouse— Little Girl. 
Also the name Star of the East for Gordon setter dog, whelped 
March 12, 1894, by Murkland Ranger, Jr.— Blossom. 
Also the name Ben Butler, Jr., for Gordon setter dog, whelped April 
35, 1S94, by Tyrusj-Mague. 
BRED. 
Fred. Bredel's dachshund bitch Witch, March 31, to Hundesport's 
Bergman n. 
Rochelle Kennels' black and tan terrier bitch champion Gypsy Girl, 
April 21, to champion Broomfield Sultan. 
S. H. Seaman's dachshund bitch Hexe Arnstadt, March 3, to Unser 
Fritz. 
^Dr. H. M. Quiinby's English setter bitch Natell II., Feb. 23, to Kent 
Rochelle Kennels' wire fox-terrier bitch Brittle Brush, March 14, to 
White Tnpper. 
J. D. Bush's bull bitch Careless, April 4, to King Lud. 
G, W. Patterson's St. Bernard bitch Eulalie II., April 9, to champion 
Melrose King. 
Smith Penfleld's bull-terrier bitch Pricilla, April 4, to Gully the 
Great. 
Fred. Bredel's dachshund bitch Mirsa IV., March 20, to Diamond Joe. 
Dr. H. W. Lincoln's black and tan terrier bitch Broomfield Madge, 
April 2. to Broomfield Sultan. 
John E. Jewett's bull bitch Pathos, March 19, to Webb's Monarch. 
John E. Jewett's bull bitch Jane, April 3, to Webb's Monarch. 
John E Jewett's Boston terrier bitch Gloriana, April 9, to Pilot. 
P.T.Madison's liver and white pointer bitch Hops II., Nov. 4, to 
Strideaway, 
John S. Wise's liver and white pointer bitch Peggy G., Jan. 13, to 
Strideaway. 
Geo. E. Gray's liver and white poiuter bitch La Belle, Jan. 7, to 
Strideaway. 
Chas. A. Paetzel's liver and white pointer bitch Clip of Kent, March 
13, to Strideaway. 
Meadow City Kennels' liver and white bitch IghtQeld Teign, Feb. 11, 
to Strideaway. 
Meadow City Kennels' setter bitch Becky Noble, March 7, to Rod- 
field. 
Meadow City Kenuels' liver and white bitch Ightfleld Dove, Feb. 15, 
to Ightfleld Upton. 
Fred. Bredel's dachshund bitch Mirsa IV., March 20, to Hundesport's 
Bergmann. 
WHELPS. 
Edward Watts's English setter bitch Breene, April 19, seven (Ave 
dogs), by Kent III. 
Herbert Bruso's English setter bitch White Lady, May 2, seven (five 
dogs), ky Kent III. . 
The Horst Kennels' dachshund bitch Red Riding Hood, Feb. 19, four 
(one dog), by Hundesport's Bergmann. 
Rochelle Kennels' wire fox-terrier bitch Brittle Broom, March 28, 
five (one dog), by White Topper. 
Rochelle Kennels' black and tan terrier bitch champion Meersbrook 
Maiden, March 29, four (two dogs), by champion Broomfield Sultan. 
Smith Penfleld's bull-terrier bitch Chatham Kit, April 1, six (three 
dogs), by Ben Gaunt. 
Edwin A Perry's St. Bernard bitch Lady Anna, March 23, ten (seven 
dogs), by Counch. 
J. F. Stoddard's beagle bitch Standard Perfection, March 27, four 
(two dogs), by champion Tricotrin. 
Standard Kennels' beagle bitch Velvet, March 30, five (three dogs), 
by champion Tricotrin. 
A. E. Guy's fox-terrier bitch Julip, April 20, seven (three dogs), by 
Hopbloom Dusky. 
SALES. 
F. F. Dole has sold Bashful Maid, bull-terrier bitch, whelped May 24, 
1893, by Streatham Wonder— Merritt, to Smith Penfield. 
H. Fred Church has sold Pricella, bull-terrier bitch, by Streatham 
Wonder— Merritt. to Smith Penfield. 
Eberhart Pug Kennels have sold Port Wiue, pug dog, whelped July 8, 
1893, by Spokane- East Lake Virgie. to F. B. Threadgold. 
Eberhart Pug Kennels have sold The Major, fox-terrier dog, to C. B. 
Adams. 
Eberhart Pug Kennels have sold Juliet, pug bitch, whelped Jan. 18, 
1894, by Eberhart's Cashier— Cute Lady, to F. B. Threadgold. 
J. Danforth Bush has sold a bulldog and bitch puppy, whelped Dec. 
2, 1S1I4, by King Lud— Careless, to Frank F. Dole. 
Wm. Loeffler has sold Pearl, dachshund bitch, whelped Dec. 8, 1894, 
by Hundesport's Bergmann— Lina K,, to B. Wilhelm. 
Else, same litter, to Chas. T. Limberg. 
Argyle Kennels have sold Alton II. and Lady Adelaide II., St. Ber- 
nards, to Dudley E. Waters. Price, $1,000. 
Also a smooth-coated dog puppy, by Alton II.— Judith's Rachel, to 
Samuel Dodd. 
Also a litter brother to E. E. Towle. 
Also a litter brother, rough-coated, to Mr. Powers. 
Also rough-coated puppy, by Alton II.— Queen, to J. W. McNair. 
PRESENTATIONS. 
Wm. Loeffler has presented Black Sepp, dachshund dog, whelped 
Dec. 8, 1894, by Hundesport's Bergmann— Lina K,, to Richard Loeffler. 
To Get in Training for a Bhoot or a trip, to reduce superfluous 
flesh, and to put the system in perfect order, try the old and famous 
French Lick and West Baden SpriDgs of Lower Indiana, reached by 
the Monon Route. Visited and praised by hundreds of sportsmen. 
Send for pamphlet and analysis to Frank J. Reed, G. P. A., Monon 
Route, Chicago. — Adv. 
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FIXTURES. 
♦ Dates marked thus are unofficial. 
MAT. 
24. Royal St. Lawrence, opening and squadron sail, Montreal. 
25. New Rochelle special, cabin cats, New Rochelle, Sound. 
25-20. San Francisco cruise to Goat Island. 
20. California annual regatta, San Francisco Bay. 
26. Williamsburg opening sail, Sound. 
30. Atlantic opening race, New York Bay. 
30. Harlem annual, Sound. 
30. Brooklyn opening, Gravesend Bay. 
30. Audubon annual, Hudson River. 
30. Cor., San Francisco race, San Francisco Bay. 
30. San Francisco cruise, San Francisco Bay. 
30. New Jersey annual, fioboken, New York Bay. 
30. Fall River open, Fall River, Mount Hope Bay. 
30t South Boston open, South Boston, Boston Harbor. 
30. Plymouth opening, Plymouth. 
30. Southwork annual, Philadelphia, Delaware River. 
30. Cleveland squad sail, Lake Erie. 
If the report is true that the new steam yacht Giralda is coming to 
America this year, American builders will need to look to their laurels, 
as they have thus far turned out nothing that can compare with her 
in either speed or appearance. The business of designing and building 
steam yachts is in about the same condition to-day in America that 
the building of sailing yachts was in about fifteen years since, and it 
needs just such a shaking up from a first-class British steam yacht as 
Madge and Bedouin gave to the old sloops. There may be some Amer- 
- ican designers who are capable of turning out a large steam yacht of 
handsome appearance, good accommodation and more than a very 
moderate speed ; but there are none who as yet have done so. The 
latest and most ambitious attempts in this line have resulted in miser 
able failures. 
A vague story is afloat of a projected Cup defender of 80ft. l.w.l., 
to be designed and built by Arthur Dyer, designer of the very success, 
ful Onawa, for a syndicate, Whatever foundation may exist for the 
rumor, no such boat will be built this year. 
Jubilee has been hauled out at the Atlantic Works, East Bo3ton, 
and proves to have sustained no more damage than a slight bending 
of the fin in the recent rough launching. Her bow plating has been 
stripped, and the new bow will be hurried as rapidly as possible. The 
deck will be unchanged, but the bow near the water will be lowered 
and lengthened, making thewaterline between 88 and 89ft., or about 
4ft. longer than before. The same spars and sails will be tried when 
the yacht is again afloat, and in any event no material change will be 
made in the sail plan. The alteration is anything but a radical one, 
and will leave Jubilee still well under the limit of 90ft. Where Vigilant 
will come out is as yet uncertain, as there is now nothing to stop her 
from shipping more lead and lengthening her waterline should it seem 
desirable to do so, making her nearly or quite as long as Jubilee 
Both will of course receive time from the new defender. 
We have frequently spoken of the absurd practice which maintains 
in this country of misusing the English term ''rater" as synonymous 
with "racing length;" yachts which if they are in any sense "raters" 
should be called 2}4-raters being termed "25-raters." The new Larch- 
mont class is commonly known as the "34-rater class," regardless of 
the fact that the big Queen Mab is of but 40-rating. The Larchmont 
Y. C. has coined a name for the class, "34ft. raters," which is both 
clumsy and inaccurate. 
The words "rating" and "rater" possess each a definite meaning, 
established by continued use in connection with the rule of the Yacht 
Racing Association. This original meaning is very different from that 
attributed in this country, and the further use of the double meaning 
must result in continued misunderstanding. If American yachtsmen 
feel that they really must use the English term, then they should be 
fair and consistent, and adopt the form of rule to which the term 
properly applies. If they prefer their own form of rule, which there 
is good reason for their doing, then they should coin some new 
term that would be exact and distinctive, and prevent all mistakes as 
to its real meaning. 
On Friday of this week the racing season of the large yachts opens 
in British waters with the match of the New Thames Y". C, on the 
Thames. The Royal Thames follows on Saturday; and on Saturday 
May 25, comes the New Thames match from Southend to Harwich- 
The Nore to Dover race will be sailed on June 8. Both Britannia and 
Ailsa will be ready for these races after some alterations made 
on their return from the Mediterranean. 
Modern Construction. 
The following "syndicate" stories from Bristol have appeared in a 
number of daily papers within the past week. We publish them with no 
guarantee of their accuracy, but merely as giving some interesting 
hints on up-to-date racing construction. 
Bristol, R. I„ May 7,— It makes no difference what the yacht costs, 
is practically what the Vanderbilt-Morgan-Iselin syndicate said to the 
Herreshoffs when they instructed the latter to desisrn and build a boat 
to defend successfully the America's Cup against Valkyrie III. As a 
result, the defender if likely to cost quite a little more than $200,000 
rather than anything less at the starting line. Speed is naturally the 
first and chief requirement. To secure this the boat will carry such a 
spread of canvas as never before was heard of. To balance this, there 
must be the greatest possible strength throughout the yacht and 
greatest possible absence of weight above the waterline. This led to 
the adoption of the costly aluminum plates at 75 cents per pound for 
the sides of the yacht above the water line and the use of aluminum 
deck beams, both of which give the greatest possible strength with the 
leaBt possible weight. 
Precisely the same policy is being carried out in respect to the blocks 
for the defender, which are not only to be marvels of cost, but are to 
be far and away the strongest and the lightest ever constructed for 
any boat of any description, the extremes of each being unprecedented 
and marvelous. Early in the planning of the yacht Mr. Herreshoff 
decided that the blocks must not weigh more than one ton, and at the 
same time they must withstand a strain of anywhere from ten to 
twenty-eight tons because of the immense spread of canvas which it 
was designed that the boat should carry and the consequent tremen- 
dous strain upon the blocks. 
When, however, he presented these specifications to the manufac- 
turers of blocks, with a single exception they held up their hands and 
cried, "Impossible." Privately they said the great yacht designer 
must be insane. He simply replied that these were specifications for 
the defender, and they must be and would be met. The one exception 
was Edward J. F. Coleman, of the firm of Walter Coleman & Sons, 
who made blocks for Navahoe and Vigilant which never showed even 
the suspicion of a strain or weakening. The proposition, it is said, 
somewhat staggered Mr. Coleman at first, but he had much of the 
same determination and fondness of overcoming seemingly insurmoun- 
table obstacles which characterize Mr. Herreshoff, and after some 
careful figuring he declared himself prepared to undertake the con- 
tract, which was given to the firm soon afterward. To secure these 
remarkable and altogether unprecedented and supposedly impossible 
extremes of lightness and strength, no lignum-vitas will be used in the 
manufacture of the blocks, which wiil consist only of steel, bronze 
and ash. Every block will be strengthened by brass screw wires, run 
through the two sides of the shell, binding them together, and also 
through each side of the shell laterally, the latter to prevent their 
splitting; and tests which have already been made show that this 
process, patented by Mr. E. J. F. Colemau, will produce blocks which 
simply cannot even be wedged apart by any strain which it has been 
possible to subject them to. 
The blocks are more than one hundred in number and vary in size 
from four to fourteen inches in length, and the steel hooks which 
will be made for use with them are correspondingly larger than any 
ever before used for such a purpose. The mast preventer runner 
blocks will be tested by a strain of twenty-two tons, and the throst 
haiyard blocks will be submitted to a test of twenty-eight tons, some- 
thing that has been said by sonie boat builders to be Bimply prepos- 
terous; but the policy of the Herreshoffs has been from the very first 
in every minutest detail to take no chances whatever, and the munition 
is to have blocks of such strength that by no possibility whatever can 
any mishap occur in that direction, which it will be remembered wan 
one of tie greatest misfortunes of Jubilee two years ago. This iuatt< r 
of strength, however, is almost unimportant in a sen^e, when it la 
kaown what a marvellous gain has been made in the nratter of weight 
oy the methods of construction to be employed by the Colemans. 
Such blocks aa Mr. Herreshoff said that he must have, which should 
be capable of withstanding a strain varying with the different parts of 
rigging from ten to twenty-eight tons, if made under ordinary con- 
ditions, when the matter of cost was considered at all and the blocka 
were made by the usual methods, of the usual materials and on the or- 
dinary lines, would weigh not less than five tons, which would render 
their use on the defender far out of all question. Mr. Herreshoff de- 
termined that they must not weigh more than one ton, but the Cole- 
mans have agreed that they shall not exceed 1,000 pounds in weight, 
and it is said would not be surprised if they should succeed in getting 
them out at 800 or 900 pounds. This will render the blocks of the de- 
fender quite as marvellous and unprecedented as any feature of this 
marvellous yacht, the cost of which is to be equally so, and in this 
tremendous cost these blocks will figure to no slight degree. 
All the blocks made by the Colemans will be tested at their shops up 
to fifteen tons, but, as they have no machinery for testing above that 
point, all the others will have to be sent c.i the United States arsenal, 
at Watertown, Mass., for the tests. The construction of the blocks 
has been under way about a week, and they will probably be delivered 
about June 15. 
Despiieall reports to the contrary, the halyards will not be run down 
through metal tubes, through the deck, and then be handled by 
winches between decks. That scheme will not be carried out, as it 
ha3 been shown that the winch purchase would be altogether too slow 
for the purpose, and the scheme is otherwise impracticable. There 
will, however, be certain marked and exceedingly (ingenious innovations 
in the matter of rigging, upon which Mr. Herreshoff is now at work, 
and which he has not altogether perfected, which will secure greater 
facility and convenience and other advantages in the handling of the 
sails and sheets and halyardB. It is also practically settled that the 
boat will not be steered by tiller, although certain authorities still in- 
sist that such will be the case. 
Fully ninety-five per cenr. of the men that are employed on 
the defender are of English birth, and, although they are doing 
a fine piece of work, it is but natural to suppose they have some 
feeling for their own countrymen and what they are striving to do. 
Whit would the Englishmen say if they had to employ Americans to 
build a challenging yacht? It is to be regretted that the builders of 
this country are hampered by workmen who, if they have any heart 
and sympathy at all, must be for their native soil and the efforts of 
their own people. 
