The record-union., 1894-07-07
DOG BOARDING HOUSE.
Pet CANNES Belonging to Upper Ten
dom of New York.
Big and Little, Ugly and Handsome,
All on Their Good Behavior
The Dog Judy.

The clearinghouse for the pet dogs
of the Four Hundred is located uptown
on the west side. It is conducted by an
Englishman and his wife, who make a
good thing out of it by giving the elite
among the dog creation a comfortable
home and the tenderest care. The price
OF board is not high. but it is more than
some poor families have to live on a
whole week.
The quarters are modest, and not SO
luxurious as these aristocrats are used
to. The is a small plot of ground where
they run, a cosy little parlor where they
may yawn and snooze and stretch them
selves before bedtime, and snug KEN
nels where they sleep the sleep that only
dogs may know. The Englishman and
his wife go in for bulldogs. both raising
them and importing them. He says
there is something grand about a 'uge
dorg of the breed, and their intelligence
is immense" A whole pack Of them are
about the place, inside and out.
The dog boarding house is necessary,
because many Of the rich dog-oWners
don't own country places where they can
are forced to leave them in town. From
So to $l2 month, according to size, is
paid for them. Size makes the only dit
ference in price.
There are Spring and Nellie, two Eng
lish bull terriers belonging to Mrs. James
Kernochan, pronounced the best pair Of
English terriers at the Dog Show OF 1888,
Like other ladies Mrs. Kernochan has
come round to the bull terrier as pet,
foff nj lass
peevish and more to be trusted with chill
dren than the lazy sybarite little l2pdog.
Mrs. kernochan is great lover OF dogs,
and from her early girlhood, as Miss
Eloise Stevenson, she has spent many a
long hour among the proud pets OF the
boarding house.
Julia Marlowe frequently drops in to
say How dye do" to all the dogs, and TO
take out her own Irish setter Ranger for
scamper in the park. RanG9r is on
capital terms with all the little dogs and
has the freedom of the place. The big
dogs sometimes are quite ill-man-
nered and aggressive towards the little
ones, despite the fact that they have had
such select bringing up. When they
misbehaye they are locked up in the ken
nels and forbidden the parlor.
Just before Miss Lulu Morris married
Frederick Gebhard she imported an
eighteen blue and tan York
shire terrier, Rex, for which MIR. Geb-
hard paid $500. Little Rex is on the best
terms with Tarquin, the great prize-win-
ming bull terrier, belonging to the pro-
prietor. Tarquin is king at the board
ing-house. Mr.. Gebhard's own six
pound bull terrier keeps them company,
and if they didn't dig pits in the grass
plat they'd be an absolutely irreproacha-
bic trio.
None of these dogs are chained up.
They all get fond OF the place and don't
want to run away. A toy bull terrier,
Tin, belonging to Miss Barnett, of Eigh-
ty-geventh street, looks out for strang-
ers. He is four-and-a-half-pound mite,
light brindIe and white, but he is a fine
watch dog and could give quite as much
trouble to burglars calves as any larger
animal.
The prize dogs, Carney, Little Plim-
mer, and a number of others are on hand
to show the manners of the ring circuit
to the boarders who may have fallen into
sloVenly habits. There's one man in
New York who would have given a good
deal two months ago had be left his fine
English bulldog at the old stamping
ground of the boarding house. DR.. Jo-
seph n. Henry of the Hotel Vendome.
whose Marcus took first prize at the
show, hesitated about taking Marcus TO
Washington and refused 81, 900 for him q
like, however. to leave him behind, even
at the clearinghouse. In Washing
ton the doctor went up the big monu
ment. Marcus jumped on the parapet,
overbalanced, fell 500 teet and was killed.
Some dogs have prior right in the
boarding-house. There's Tip, Mrs. Perry
Tidany's terrier, whom she carried
away one winter afternoon in her muff
when he was only a month old. She was
gle Cline, another prize terrier in Miss
6aVemeyer's boudolr, and never gnawed
anything IN his early youth that wasn't
OF fine lace or silk or velvet.
Then there's Archie PelPs Prince, an
other swell boarder, who is entirely at
home, and II. Van Rensselaer, Kennedy's
imported fox terrier Spot who fiuctuates
regularly between the Fifth avenue man
sion and the Eigth avenue lot. There
are also Rose, owned by Arthur Taylor OF
the Osborne Flats and the Taylor estate
at Whitestone, l.. l., really snobbish
dog, and the two heavy and light weight
bull terriers, Nettie and Ethel, for which
Trenor l.. Park gave in exchange two
bulldogs and 5000. The dogs prefer the
boarding-house to his steam yacht good
deal. Then there are Mrs. Whitelaw
Reid's collie Harrison and her French
poodle Dodo, both valuable dogs, who
never deserve anything at the boarding
house but a good time When Mrs.
Reid visits there she makes the round
OF all the dogs for she is great dog-fan-
cier and well up in dog flesh.
Pink-eyed, black-nosed monster Marc
Antony, an English bulldog, is now be-
ing led round by chain, growing at his
uniucky fate in reaching the country two
days late to take prize at the Philadel-
phia dog show. The Eighth avenue lot
seems too small for Mare With him has
come Judy, toy bull terrier, declared
by pedigree and registration papers
OF all kinds 10 be the smallest of the
breed living. This is certainly Curl
osity of dog going on eight months old
and weighing just three and a halfpounds.
Judy is dark brindle and white, looks
pretty and wise and not bit conscious
that she's bound to make big American
sensation.-New York World.