Morning journal and courier., 1884-03-13
The Bench Show.

The first annual bench show of the New
 Haven Kennel club began yesterday at Union armory, Meadow street. and under the
 most favorable auspices as far as the manage
 ment was concerned, the show being an ex- cellent one and comparing favorebIy with the best held in the country outside of New | York. The only drawback was the rainy
 weather and lowery skies, despite which
 there was an attendance highly encouraging
 and auguring well for the public interest in
 the show. Yesterday afternoon the attend ance was large. and between and o'clock the passage ways between the rows of ken
 nels were sometimes thronged with spectators. There were all sorts of dogs, great dogs, big dogs, little dogs and wee little dogs on ex- hibition; dogs large enough to make tramp jump in terror if intruding on forbidden grounds at night, and little pet dogs pretty and cunning, which ladies fondled and petted
 and caressed as if anxious to take them to
 their hearts at once. There were blood hounds, notable among which for grim and
 lean and un ntamable appearance was MT.
 Roths on State street, near Bradley, while
 MT. Siebert's, of Westville, more amiable looking, was still an object of interest; and the rare blooded one of MT. Gale, of Pros pect street, showed many points of good pedigree and doclity. Among the greet
 mastiffs was No. l, Nevison, entered
 by Charles H. Mason, of Bradford Eng
 land, and 49 West Twenty-fourth street, New York city, four years old, price $500,
 winner of 37 first prizes and cups, including specials at New York and at Pittsburg in 1883, as best mastiff of all classes. He lay calm and at home in the straw as if uncon- 1 as canine, but satisfied to have people gaze | at him if they wanted to. Next were the ! noble mastiffs of J. W. Burgess, East Orange, N.J F. A. Gilbert's Remus, New Haven, $500; Frank H. Rockers Kaiser, New Haven, $500; and next were Horace Lynch's Jumbo Now Haven, $15O; Wm. North's Surry, New Haven, $25O; Munson & Pier pont's Romeo, Seymour and Waterbury, $75; H. B. Munson's Romeo, Seymour, $75; John A. Fisk's Prince, Westbrook, Conn, $50; and Shaw & Bates Agrippa, from Riverview kennel. Clinton, Mass, $500. The next among the big dogs were Shaw & Bates Duchess, from Riverview kennel, Clinton, Mass, $500; D. D. Mangan's Queen, 43 College street, New Haven, $500; Richard w. Megs' Juno, 65 Chapel street, New Haven, that keeps watch
 and ward at the Demarest carriage manufac-
 tory; and E. A. Pierpo2t's Juno. In mastif
 puppies there was one, Edward Porter's Re
 gia, 3S Hillhouse avenue, New Haven; and in
 class 5, champion rough coated St. Bernards,
 there was one, E. R. Hearn's Bonivard, Pas T~ oIa q there were E. B. Condon's Mendelssohn,
 Hartford, Connections. $sOO Hermit from Chequasset kennel, Lancaster, Massachusetts $55O; Ned, belonging to Geo. B. Gladden., the clothing dealer, of this city; Samson, from Clovernook kennel, 1855 Fifth avenue, New
 York; Thomas Jefferson, owned by O. T. Doolittle, New Haven; Bengalo, owned
 by A. L. Warehouse, 15O Grand street, this city, $1oO; Guy, owned
 by Arthur B. Wright, this city, $50,
 and Duke, owned by James s. Thomson, New Haven. Then came class on the east side of the armory, in which were E. R. Hearn's Gertie, Passaic, N. J.; C. A. Hinckley's Min
 ka, 47 Artisan street, New Haven; E F. Mansfield's Cleo, New Haven. Next was class 8, rough coated St. Bernard puppies, In which were Henry Muller's Fluhli, Clifton, Staten Island. $175; Schoonhoven from Schoonhoven kennel, Fairfield Co.,, Conn, $35O. Then class 9, champion smooth coated St. Bernards, no entries, and class 10,
 smooth coated St. Bernard dogs, in which |
 was Carlos French's Alexander. In class II,
 smooth coated St. Bernards, there were Carlos l
 French's Juno, Seymour, and T. D. Pomeroy's l
 Fanny, Beech Grove, Pittsfeld, Mass, $500. | In class 12. smooth coated St. Bernard pup pies there were Carlos French's Billy, Sey- mour, Eckhardt from Milbrook kennel, New l
 York city, and Verone from same, $15O, | In class 13. Berghunds, there was Major | George Fl. Larned's Bruno, a dog as well | known and popular as any candidate for dog |
 honors in the show. In class 14, Newfound- |
 lands. there were o. M. Brocksieper's Major, New Haven. Anson Buttons Major, Monto- wese; Allen Seaman's Charlie, 265 Ferry 1 street, New Haven; James Davidson's 1 Captain, Ansonia, Conn.,; Jacob P. Richards | Hector, 426 State street, New Haven, $50; l A. c. Lightbourn's Hector. Westville; F. A. | GiIbert's Watch, New Haven; G. J. Bassett's | Jack, New Haven; M. Figman's Mascot, New | Haven Opera House, and Wm. O'Keefe's l Major, 219 Grand street, New Haven, $1OO. 1 In class 15, bloodhounds, there were Charles l J. Roth's Dinx, New Haven, $125; Wm. | Sieberts Jack, Westville; w. H. Gales Rolf, | 324 Prospect street. $10o; H. B: Mnnson's |
 Trump, Seymour. Conn, $75 This includ- | ed about all the large dogs and the deep bass l voices of some of them kept up continual din
 which WAS echoed by many of the smaller | dogs, and there was music in the air. Some of l the large dogs seemed seized with 8 fit of | joyful enthusiasm that made them oblivious to Ail spectators, in their eager desire to seize
 upon s6me dog which wGs being taken past | by it's owners and some were irrepressibly | ent aged in barking as if this was the soie l end and aim of the dog show, while compan- iG2s by their side looked calmly around and
 blinke5 at the ladies as if they had come to enjoy the occasion and the world was a very good place to Kve in with so many nice peo- ple gazing at them. Most of the little dogs seemed tolerably contented &t their being chained up to be looked at and welcomed fondling, while others among the small bull dogs looked sufficiently enraged out of their eyes to warn spectators to let them alone, even if there was no sign up over them
 "Hands off,"
 Oh! you look just ugly, you naughty creature!" was ths just ex- New Haven ladies of fashion as tbe7 pazed st the ugly mug of one os seyeral small prize bulldogs, each of which looked ss if ip per petual state of irritation with the rest Of the canine creation and yet conscious of being as well bred Rs any of their kind. Then there were smaller sized dogs of the same breed of the kind sppro Ted as pstsby many fashionable ladies and these behaved with eonsfderable decorum as if they would not bite except in cases of extreme provocation. Then there were the little puppies, and one litter in one kepnel were declared too pretty to live by > lady dressed in the height of fashion, who nlaver with the little pets, which frolicked about in t~ haPPtest and most cunning 
 Mrs. Henry Allen, of Branforo, ~ H rest are arlstocratic greyhounds from u, the State, some coming from as far as Penn sylvania, others from Brooklyn and New York city.
 Among the deerhounds are Theodore A. Blake's Lorna II, New Haven, Sl ,OoO, and f Ihora, same, $l 1000, and Fleet. same, $1 GOO, also Dr. W. Fl. Carmalt's Rhoderick Dbu. 87 ] Elm street, city. The champion pointers are all from out of l the State. In pointers of over fifty pounds, I