The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-01-04
THE POULTRY SHOW.
THE CAPITAL RINK CONVERTED
For the time being into Big Poultry Yard
with chickens, Ducks, Geese, Turkeys
Pigeons, Dogs, Oats and FsrrotS try
ing to Out.do each other in Noise.

The sights and sounds to be witnessed
and heard in the Capital rink yesterday
were, to say the least, very animated.
The vast floor space Is taken up with row
on row of roomy and neat looking coops,
with broad aisles between, and yesterday
exhibitors were arranging their fowls or
animals. The growing Of cooke, cackling
Of hens, quacking Of geese and ducks and
cooling Of pigeons were swslled by the
snAriing, Yelping, barking apd whining Of
dogs. The annual chow Of the Wheeling
Poultry Association has always been o
success in itself, though the public inter-
est was not heretofore as great as 1t wac
thought it ought to be. Accordingly this
year the Association resolved to capture
tho town by including in the exhibit dogs,
cats, ierrets, pigeons and any other pets
that people could be induced to bring.
The show nominally opened yesterday,
but exhibits were arriving all day and late
into the evening. To-day everything will
be In order, and there are few people in
Wheeling who will not find few houru
spent in the rink pleasant and instructive.
The exhibition is open daily from A. N.
to 10P,M.
The oficerl Of the Association are {:
President, G. o. Smith, Wheeling; sscre-
tsry, DR.. W. ]. Bates, j., Wheeling;
Treasurer, Il. E. Wells, Bridgeport; Vice
Presidents, Dr.. Harris, Businessburg, Ohio,
Perley Pickett, Barneaville, Ohio, Geo. E.
slsson, RonsY's Point, W. Va; Executive
Committee, DR.. W. ]. Bates, il. and G. o.
Smith, Wheeling; Joe Farmer, Flushing,
Ohio; Perley Pickett, Bsrnesvllle, Ohio /;
E. ]. Welser, Bellsire, H. L. Wells, Bridge
port, and Theodore Neff, Johannesburg,
Ohio. -
Among tho chickens one OF the most
magnificent displays ever Been Is the col
lection Of black Minorcas, q coop OF which
were recently received from England.
The American bred onos compare lavora-
bly, with them. The old standbys-the
Plymouth Rocks, leghorns, wyandotses,
the various Cochina and brahmaB, the
laugshaus, bRntGns and games-of Cou,Oe
abound, as usual. There are also fine
"granits" chicks, houdsus, white crested
black Polish and other novel breeds,
among them q coop Of the nondesoript
irizzlles.
The Pekin, Muscovy and Roman ducks,
Toulouse geese, white Holland turkeys,
bronze turkeys, are all beautiful Rpeci.
mena. A new and pretty feature is the
pigeon and dove exhibit, which includes
such beautiful breeds as the JacobinD and
the blue Antwerps, besides carriers, trum-
peters and the like.
Perhaps, however, the bench show Is
destined to make tho most noise In the
world. There are two dnes st. BernsrdB, two
American bull dogs, several beautiful col
les, fox hounda, beagles. cocker Rpaniels,
NeTtOundlands, terriers, settlers, an
Italian greyhound and oLherB.
OF cate there arc fewer. Any person
who hes cat no is proud of ought TO ex-
hibit it. The csts attracted much atten-
ton yesterday. Lots OF people expressed
desire to secure Ano kittens.
There are few ierrets-a rare animal
to most people, though there are many
kept here to hunt with.
The incubator and brooder department
10 interesting sa ever, and in every way
the show bids fair to equal any Of its pre-
deCessors.
Mr.. j. Y. Bicknell, Of Buffalo, the Judge,
began to examine fowls yesterday with
reference to the awards. Mr.. Joseph
L9wis, OF Canonsburg, will make the
awards on dogs,