The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-19

Hessen stands foremost, a brilliant field
trial winner and a prize taker at many
bench shows. There is also the famous
bitch Woolton Game, probably the best
pointer in America. worth from 81 800 to
$1,000. She won two years in succession in
English field trials and then only month
after her arrival in America was again one
of the winners in different surroundings,
with different game and quite different
style of hunting. She is q very racy, fast
stamp of pointer with clean, oblique
placed shoulders and wonderful legs and
feet.
In bull dogs New York can claim some
good ones. John Matthews, president of
the Bull Dog Club, owns Champion Sou
dan. rather savage looking dog. but af-
fectionate to those who know him. She is
fawn and white bitch with frst-class
record at many shows. Some OF the best
bull dogs In the country are owned by +.
d. Morgan and ID. Hobby, who have at
their Tubby Hook kennels such good
specimens as Pathfinder, a big English
winner, and brindle bitch, Selini.
1t would take long time to count up
all the bull dogs in the city, for there are
hundreds of them. good and rad, and q
together. The Retnor kennels own sew
eral good ones-Oswego, Lena, Langtry
and Monarch vi. All these dogs, in spite
of their reputation for biting promiscuous
people at unpleasant times and places,
are really tractable enough in the main,
and may be safely handled by any person
who has sense enough to go up TO them
without seeming afraid. Soudan, the
champion bull dog just mentioned, is
noted for her fondness for little children,
and has never been known TO bite any one
Coming now TO what are known as toy
spaniels. little fellows with hair all out Of
proportion to their bodies and Weighing
anywhere from two to ten pounds. Romeo,
already mentioned heads the list He is
King Charles spaniel. with the shortest
face OF any dog living. He sleeps on bed
OF his own in the room of his mistress
Mrs. Ferdinand Semi, who values him
above most OF her earthly possessions.
Romeo measures twenty-five inches be-
tween the tips of his ears. and yet stands
only nine inches at the shoulder. Each
one OF his ears IS as long as that. He has
sharp black eyes, knows everyone in the
family and has lived like an Oriental po-
tentate during ms five years existence
He was bred from the bitch Eossie and
the sire Champion, by Mr.. Sem. who
owned both dam and sire.
Mr.. Sem has the honor of keeping more
dogs IN his private residence than any
man IN New York, there being 80 in ali.
and lively time they have of it when a
stranger enters and sets them all barking.
They are all little fellows. however some
BIenhelm spanieis, some Prince Charles
spaniels. some Ruby spaniels and Japan
csc spaniels- There is also n sprinkiiug of
Yorkshire terriers 10 vary the monotony.
There is no lack of Japanese spanieis,
with their curious and varied marking.
now yellow and white. now maltese and
white, sometimes all yellow and again all
black. Their short ears and heavy
teathered tai hanging on one side or the
other dlsting' fishing them from other
spanlels. Mrs. Eugene Clark has kennel
OF laps which has attracted much a;,en-
ton from the fact OF birthday party she
gave lie" days ago in honor OF her J APP
anese poodle Ootah- Invitations were
sent ont 10 all the little dogs OF high de-
gree IN the city and they had grand
afternoon tea party. at which they nearly
barked their little heads OFF. and burst the
silk ribbons around their necks to such an
extent did they stuff themselves with the
dainties Of the season.
These little spaniels have become SO pop
ular IN New ork as TO almost drive the
English pugs, with their tight curling
tails, out Of favor.
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