Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-01
CANARiEs CHIRP FOR CASH.
Feathered Competitors in Another Sing
ing Match.


Considerable interest has been created
by the singing match by canary birds,
which took place at James DawsOn's, No.
S23 CalloWhlli street. Dawson arranged
another match of the same kind, which
took place last evening, The entries on
the first occasion numbered five birds, of
which but three came to time; but last
night the owners OF eight birds posted
their money, and half dozen of them
| produced their sOngsters to contend for
| the stakes.
The names of the hackers and their birds
were as follows: George BarIow's ''Mu-
sic" Thomas GilPs "Flute," Mr.. Jordan's
Harp" William More's sEJoe," Samuel
Bentley's ''SmOther Me-" and George
Armitage's Samson" On the occasion
of the first contest FMusic' sang himself
to the front with record of 59% seconds
out of his allotted 10minutes; ''FIute." the
favOrite, coming in second. with a "a sec
Onds record. 1t was acknowledged that
the bad position in which the birds were
placed greatly interfered with their SING
Ing,
Last evening the cages were hung on
peg some distance from the gas light, and
the records made were considerably bet
ter than before. A large crowd having
collected by half-past 8, the first bird,
"Muslc," was brought forth and his cage
uncovered. He whistled short overture,
stopped for breath, whistled again, took a
bath, twittered softly to himself for mo-
ment, and then favored the audience with
full minutes first-class warbling. after
which, considering his share of the even
ing's amusement accomplished, he re-
manned mute for the remainder of his ten
minutes. Record min. "a sec.
'Flute," the second bird, on whose
powers great confidence was placed bv a
majority of the betting men present.
started with rush, and for ~ minutes
filled the room with his choicest notes,
after which he hoped about for fun six
minutes, and then let loose again for 1917
seconds. Record-2 minutes Az seconds.
Harp" followed, but devoted himself
principally to eating his supper, dash of
81 seconds being his only attempt to gather
in the stakes.
Mr.. Moore's s'Joev was next uncovered.
and for over seven MINUTES never uttered
as much as twitter, when suddenly
bracing up he hoped to his top perch
and finished his ten minutes by singing
without a break for two minutes and
thlrty-one seconds, and was carried out
still Yarbling at the top of his tiny lungs.
smother Ne" was the next bird. and
his owner quietly and confidently remark
ed to the reporters ''Now young feller,
singin III commence, and don't you forget
it," But smother Me- devoted his en-
tire ten minutes to winking at DaYson's
cat, which all through the contest was a
deeply interested spectator. The record
in this case was minutes and 0 seconds,
The last of the six, "Samson,n was now
hung up, and after remaining mute for
five minutes turned up with a few un-
counted 'speeps," and then ratified away
for one minute and one second, and fin
ished his performance by tucking his head
under his wing and going to sleep. .sJoe''
was therefore declared the winner of the
first prize and sFlute'' of the second.
while the owner of ssSmother Me-, de-
clared that 'sif the blooming cat 'adn't
been 'anging 'round mn bird would
have paralyzed the bloomil# lot"