SBPT. 26, 1896.] FOREST AND STREAM, 2 SI 
BOSTON NOTES. 
Boston, Sept. 15,— The open season on partridge or 
ruflfed grouse, in this Sfcate, began to-day. Some of the 
members of the Scx)rdon Club have gone down to their 
preserve, and several Boston gunners were on hand early 
at different points along the Cape. 
Mr. Walter L, Hill, just returned from a very pleasant 
gunning trip to Chatham, for shore birds, says he was 
accompanied by a boy, "one almost too young to go on 
such trips. If his parents are living they might interfere." 
He referred to Mr. Warren Hapgood, the pioneer and firm 
friend of the Monomoy Brant Club. "The boy," Mr. Hap- 
good, is only eighty-one years of age, and yet he loves the 
gun as well as he ever did, and is an excellent shot. E v^ery- 
body who has gunned with him declares that he is a 
charming companion, both in the blind and in camp. 
They had very good success with shore birds. Both sum- 
mer and winter yellowlegs were taken, with an abun- 
dance of plover. Curlew were in pretty good flight, and 
the Boston boys got their share. 
Fishing parties for Maine are not all done yet. A 
Lawrence party of four is booked to start for the Katahdin 
Iron Works on Friday. From that point they will go into 
some camps at B. Pond. The party is composed of Geo. 
C. Boason and wife, Joseph F. Shattuck, and Miss Fannie 
B. Lewis. Miss Lewis made her first trip into the Maine 
woods with her father last season, and is now a convert 
to woods and camp life. In the spring she saw several 
deer, but declares that nothing' would tempt her to shoot 
one. 
Sept. 18. — Messrs. Coesand Stoddar took fifty-five bass at 
Great Herring Pond, in Plymouth county, in one day's 
fishing, the largest weighing 41bs., and landed by Mr. 
Stoddar on a rod that weighs 5ioz. Speciax,. 
A I<ake Saltonstall Bass. 
New Haven, Sept. 17.— On Labor Diy about 1 P. M., 
on Lake Saltonstall, I landed on a 6ioz. rod an Oswego 
small-mouth bass that measured 24in. from end of mouth 
to tip of tail, and girthed fully 16 in. He was weighed 
about 7 P. M., and tipped the scales at 6ilbs. Now would 
not it have weighed at least 71bs. when caught? He put 
up the grandest fight that was ever seen on the lake. 
KA.NQO. 
Thousand Island Lake, Mich. 
A Wateesmeet, Mich., correspondent writes that there 
is good salmon trout fishing in Thousand Island Lake, 
near Watersmeet: his first experience with rod and reel 
having been rewarded there the other day with a fish 
weighing ll^lbs. nine hours after being taken from the 
water. Ruffed grouse are found in good supply in the 
vicinity. 
A "Long Island Weakfish. 
Capt, Hi bam Eastman, of Islip, Long Island, took a 
15lb. weakfish in the Great South Bay on Sept, 18, and 
with it claims the record for those waters. 
Gen. George B Wingate, of Brooklyn, while fishing 
off Fire Island light on Sept. 12, took a channel bass 
weighing Sl^lbs. 
Menml 
FIXTURES. 
BENCH SHOWS. 
Oct. 6 to 8.— DaDbury Agricultural Society's snow, Danbuy, Coan, 
Q. M. Bundle, Sec'y. - 
Dec, 1 to 4.— City of the Straits Kennel Club's local show, Detriot, 
Mich. R. H. Boberts, Sec'y. 
Dec. 8 to 11. — Augusta, Ga.— Georgia Poultry and Pet Stock Associ- 
ation. J. W. Killingsworth, Sec'y. 
Deo. 15 to 18.— Central Michigan Poultry and Pet Stock Associa- 
tion's show, Lansing, Mich. C. H. Crane, Sec'y. 
FIELD TRIALS 
Oct. 19.— Brunswick Fur Club's annual hound trials, Barre, Mass. 
Bradford 8. Tiu-pin, Sec'y, Roxbury, Mass 
Oct. 26.— Hempstead, L. I.— Natioonal . Beagle Club's trials. Geo. 
W. Rogers, Sec'y, 350 W. Twenty-second street. New York. 
Oct. JJ8.— Greene county, Pa.— The Monongahela Valley Game and 
Fish Protective Association's second annual trials. S. B. Cummings 
Sec'y, Pittsburg. 
Not. 2.— Oxford, Mass.— New England Beagle Club's trials. W. 8. 
Clark, Sec'y, Linden, Mass. 
Nov. 2.— Union Field Trial Club's inaugural trials. P. T. Madison, 
Sec'y, Indianapolis, Ind 
Nov. 10 —Columbus, Wis.— Northwestern Beagle Club's trials. Louis 
StefTen, Sec'y, Milwaukee. 
Nov. 10.— Leamington, Ont.— Peninsular Field Trial Club, Leaming- 
ton, Ont. 
Nov. 10.— Greene Coimty, Pa.— Central Beagle Club's trials. L, O. 
Seldel, Sec'y. 
Nov. 16.— National Fox Hunting Association's third annual trials, 
Bardstown, Ky. F. J. Hagan, Sec'y. 
Nov. 16.— Newton, N. C— E. F. T. Club's trials. S. O, Bradley, Sec'y, 
Greenfield Hill, Conn. " 
Nov. 17.— Chatham, Ont.— International Field Trial Club's trials, 
W. B. Wells, Sec'y, Chatham, Ont. 
Nov. 28.— Newton, N. C— U. 8. F. T. Club's tall trials. W. B. Staf- 
ford, Sec'y. 
Dec. 14.— Athens, Ala.— Dixie Red Fox Club's second annual trials 
J. H. Wallace, Sec'y, Huntsvllle, Ala. 
COURSING. 
Sept. 29.— Aberdeen Coursing Club's annual meeting, Aberdeen, 8. 
D. Dr. F. W. Haragan, Sec'y. 
Oct. 6.— Mitchell Coursing Club's meeting, Mitchell, 8. D. H. G. 
Nichols, Sec'y. 
Oct. 21.— Altoar Coursing Club's meeting. Great Bend, Kan. T. W. 
Bartels, Sec'y. 
Oct. 28.— Kenmore Coursing Club's annual meeting, Herrington. 
Kan. O. A. Robinson, Sec'y. 
Oct. 13.— American Coursing Club's annual meeting, Huron, 8. D 
F. B. Coyne, Sec'y. 
1897. 
Jan. —.—Continental Field Trial Club's quail trials. P. T. Madi- 
son, Sec'y. 
Jan. 18.— West Point, Miss.— U. 8. F. T. 0. winter trials. W. B, 
Stafford, Sec'y, Trenton, Tenn. 
Et Bardoe Elliott Fund. 
MayWood, III., Sept. 14 —Editor Forest and Stream: I 
wish to express my thanks and gratitude to those who so 
generously subscribed to the fund for my benefit at the 
time of my husband's death, which fund has just been 
closed. I wish also to tender my warmest thanks to 
Messrs. Mortimer and Oldham for all the trouble they 
have taken on my behalf. Bessie E, EIlliott. 
A. K. C. MEETING. 
The special meeting of the American Kennel Club was 
held in the office of the A. K. C, Thursday, Sept. 17. The 
president and vice-president being absent, Mr. H. H. Hun- 
newell, Jr. , was selected to preside. 
There were present: American Fox Terrier Club (H. H, 
Htinnewell, Jr.), American Spaniel Club (E, M, Oldham); 
Associate Members (Dr. H. T. Foote): Boston Terrier Club 
(L. A. Burritt), Baltimore Kennel Association (William 
P. Riggs), Collie Club of America (James Watson), Gordon 
Setter Club (James B. Blossom), National Beagle Club (H. 
F. Schellhass), New Jersey Kennel League (F, Linck), 
Pacific Kennel Club (James Mortimer), Pointer Club of 
America (George Jarvis), St. Bernard Club of America 
(R. H. Burroughs), Westminster Kennel Club (Elliott 
Smith). 
Delegates were accepted as follows: Poodle Club of 
America (Henry G. Trevor), American Bedlington Terrier 
Club (Thomas Pearsall), Wilmington Kennel Club (Ernest 
B. Macnair), Georgia Poultry and Pet Stock Association 
(O. H. P. Scott), Baltimore Kennel Association (William 
P. Riggs), 
The report of the committee on amendments was ac- 
cepted, said report recommending the adoption of cer- 
tain of the proposed amendments and opposing others. 
Mr. Smith suggested a new committee, to be called the 
board of appeals, to which any person penalized by the 
executive board may appeal. Such committee could con- 
sult with the members of the advisory committee to as- 
certain what was the testimony. Mr. Smith further 
suggested that instead of electing the members of the 
advisory committee indirectly, as at present, aside from 
the president, vice-president, chairman of the stud book 
committee and chairman of the associate members, the 
others be elected du-ectly on their merits. 
Mr. Watson asked: "If we are going to elect the very 
best men in the club for the investigation of testimony 
and the decision of cases, where are we going to get this 
committee of appeals who are going to revise their 
findings?" 
Mr. Smith thought that such material could be found. 
He then moved the adoption of the proposed amendment. 
Sec. 6 of Art. V. This was in reference to the appoint- 
ment of a committee on appeals at the annual meeting, 
to consist of fiva delegates, to be appointed by the presi- 
dent or in his absence the vice-president. No member of 
the executive committee to be eligible. Its duties were to 
determine all appeals taken from the action of the execu- 
tive committee. After a lengthy discussion, in which 
motions and amendments were in clusters for a short 
time, the first proposed amendment relative to Rule IX. 
was adopted, as follows: "A deaf dog is one that cannot 
hear the ordinary methods of command." 
Also the second proposed amendment to Rule XXIV., 
as follows: Also, by adding the words, "make any entries'" 
after the word "can" in the second line of Rule XXIV. 
The proposed amendment to the bench show rules gov- 
erning the licensing of clubs was rejected. 
Art. IV. was adopted. It reads as follows: 
Section 1. The regular annual meeting of this Associa- 
tion shall be held (on some day) in February (March or 
April) of each year at such time and place as shall be 
designated by the president, thirty days' notice whereof 
shall be given and published in the Gazette. Tlie Asso- 
ciation shall also meet in May, September and December 
of the same year under similar call, but on twenty days' 
notice. 
DELEGATES. 
Section 2. Each member of the Association shall have 
the right to be represented at the meetings of the Associa- 
tion (or of the executive committee) hf one delegate duly 
authorized, and his appointment certified to by his club 
secretary; but such credentials must have been filed with 
the searetary of the American Kennel Club at least ten 
days previous to any such meeting, excepting the delegates 
of the associate members provided for in Article XI, Be- 
fore such delegate shall be entitled to qualify in the Asso- 
ciation, he must be accepted by ballot by the Association 
or by its executive (committee) board. A majority vote 
will be necessary to accept, and such acceptance may be 
withdrawn by a two-thirds vote by ballot at any meeting 
of this Association (or its executive committee). 
The above amendments are approved by your commit- 
tee, except in two details, and it is recommended that the 
call for the annual meeting be fixed at twenty days, in- 
stead of thirty days, and that the addition to Section SJ 
should follow the word Association on the last line, and 
should read: "Provided such credentials shall have' been 
filed until the secretary of the Association at least twenty 
days previous to the date of such meeting." 
(Such portions as the committee disapproved are in 
parenthesis, and the proposed amendments are in italics.) 
The last proposed amendment to Rule IX. was adopted 
as foUo'ivs: ' 
In R'^gulations Governing Clubs are the words "or li- 
censed by" added to the words "a number of," in first par- 
agraph. Also adding to Rule IX. the clause: "No entries 
can be accepted from persons not in good standing." 
Art. v.. Sec. 1, was lost by a vote of ayes, 7; nayes 6- 
the ayes not having the necessary two-thirds. ' ' 
The remainder of the report was on motion laid over 
until the annual meeting. 
Mr. Vredenburgh called attention to the fact that there 
was no provision in the constitution for the advisory com- 
mittee on the Pacific coast, and on his recommendation 
the following was adopted: "Art. XIII,, Sec. 4. There 
shall be an advisory board composed of one representative 
from each club, a member of this Association, and located 
west of 110th degree of west longitude. It shall meet in 
the city of San Francisco, and shall hold meetings when- 
ever deemed necessary. Its duties shall be advisory and 
to attend to all matters referred to it by this Association 
or its executive board, and it shall report the proceedings 
at each of its meetings to this Association. It shall act 
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under a code of rules approved by this Association or its 
executive board," 
The regular quarterly meeting of the executive com- 
mittee was then held. The same delegates were present. 
The reports of the secretary, treasurer and advisory 
committee were accepted as printed. 
The application of the San Joaquin Valley Agricultural 
Association, of Stockton, Cal., for membership was 
accepted. 
The applications for the registration of kennel names, 
Frontier, by Charles A. Converse, and Rensal, by Russell 
A, Alger, Jr., both of Detroit, were granted. 
A numerously signed petition asking for a ruling by the 
A. K. C. debarring all croppad Irish terriers whelped after 
Jan. 1, 1897, from competition at all shows held under 
A. K. C, rules was read. 
The secretary was directed to advise the petititioners 
that their proper procedure is to form a club and adopt a 
standard. 
The appeal of Mr. Moorehead asking for reinstatement 
was granted, he having severed his connection with the 
Ball Terrier Club. Mr, F. F. Dole's appeal was referred 
to the advisory committee. 
On motion that the report of the advisory committee 
be adopted as a whole, was carried. 
On motion of Mr, Mortimer, who explained that the 
sickness of the secretary of the P, K, C. was the cause of 
the delay in attending to his club duties, and who asked 
that on that account the fine be refunded, it was done ac- 
cordingly. 
Bone in Beagles. 
New York, Sept. 11.— Editor Forest and Stream: 
Within the past few months letters from various beagle 
owners, breeders and enthusiasts have appeared in print 
relative to bone in beagles. 
It would appear from the general views expressed that 
too much bone was a thing to be avoided in beagles. 
There may perhaps be some practical objection to this, 
but I for one fail to understand how this matter of too 
much bone had assumed such proportions, and a thing to 
be dreaded under existing circumstances. 
A few dogs bred in England, matured a bit large and 
heavy boned in proportion, were sent to this country to be 
sold sand were sold. These dogs were shown and won 
under different judges, I fail to see how this fact is going 
to drift the tide of taste and fancy to that one type pure 
and simple. Many entries in under 13in. classes for 
beagles have won that were generally considered light in 
bone and too small, yet this fact has not had any radical 
influence on the breed as a whole. Some fancy small 
and some large dogs, some heavy and some light bone, 
some a bit long and some short, and so on. 
In my experience for the past ten years as a breeder 
and exhibitor of beagles exclusively, I have found that the 
best general average dog does the most winning, be he 
large or small, heavy or light, so long as he possesses the 
general component parts to insure him a high average. 
As a practical illustration take the case of champion 
Lou (now aged and tu'ed). She was small and light in 
bone, even for her size, and yet she won about 40 first 
prizes before meeting her first defeat. 
If upon this line of argument it can or would be con- 
ceded that the best general average dog should be the 
winner at both bench shows as well as field trials, what 
other system or method can there be used but the scor- 
ing consistently and conscientiously applied. It un- 
doubtedly is somewhat laborious, but I strongly contend 
it is scientific and would result in more real good in ad- 
vancing a specific breed than the present idea of judging 
according to individual fancy or notion. 
It may have been tried before (as some will say), but it 
was years ago, when we were younger, and progress is 
feasible in all matters. 
I advocated and put together a combined scoring system 
for beagles about a year ago, to be used at field trials, 
with the idea of having the best general average dog for 
both bench and field qualities win. The subject was 
brought up at a general meeting of the National Beagle 
Club, and after an extended discussion it was deemed 
and termed in advance of the times, and put aside for 
demand, to ripen with the time. 
We will soon have the annual field trials again and 
probably the same old story of an inferior bench dog being 
superior in the field, and the some old question arising, 
Which dog shall we breed to get the best general aver- 
age beagle? 
As we now stand, we are drifting along loosely and 
without any fixed purpose, which can only result in one 
ending. H. L Keeudee. 
Proprietor Rockland Beagle Kennels. 
Central Beag-le Club. 
Sharpesbdrg, Fa..— Editor Forest and Stream: A 
meeting of the Central Beagle Club was held Sept. 13 to 
hear the reports of the field trial and other committees, 
Messrs, A, C. Peterson, W. H. Beazell and S, B. Cum- 
mings returned from Green county on the 7th, having 
spent several days near Carmichaels and Waynesburg 
selecting grounds for the trials. Those near the latter 
place were finally determined upon as being most desir- 
able for the purpose. 
Better territory would be hard to find. It is within 
sight of Waynesburg, in a valley several miles long by a 
mile or more wide, with a gentle rise to the hills, from 
any point of which the work of the hounds can be seen. 
Through the center runs a swale, and on both sides of it 
stubble and brier fields extend — an ideal place for rab- 
bits. 
Each stake will be open to all, excepting the Members' 
Stake. The club has decided to give a cup as a prize in 
both classes of this stake. Entry blanks and running 
rules, giving different classes, will be forwarded upon ap- 
plication to the secretary. 
Entrance fee for each open stake will be $5; $3 to ab-^ 
company nomination and the balance to be paid on the 
night of the drawing. Entries will close Oct, 20, After 
deducting 10 per cent, from all entrance money the bal- 
ance will be divided into three moneys— 50 per cent, to 
winners of first, 30 per cent, to second, and 20 per cent, 
to third. A stake wiU be provided for dachshunde and 
Bassets. 
A good entry is expected, and it is hoped all interested 
in these trials will give them their hearty support. 
L, O. Seidle, Sec'y. 
