The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-04-22
MANY CATS CONGREGATE
NEW HAvENs car sHoW NOV IN
 PROGRESS.

A Great Variety of Feline Beauty-Feat-
 ures of the Exhibit-Prizes to be Award
 ed-Famous and Curious Cats in the Ex-
 hibit-Pussy In Her Glory.
 While the politicians of the state were assembling to the great republi- can convention in the Hyperion yester- day a somewhat smaller and much qui- eter convention of cats was being in- augurated in the Old Union armory, at the cornor of Union and State streets,
 The show opened yesterday morning at 10 o'clock and the attendance throughout the day was tip-top for the first day of the show
 Some of the exhibitors have been slow in bringing in their entries, but the number of exhibits will be soon filled. There are in all ninetyfour entries,
 The armory has been handsomely lit ted up to receive its feline visitors. The cages are arranged around the armory on wooden horses and are handsomely trimmed with flags, ribbons and flow CTS.
 In these cages one sees cats of every tribe and nation known to the cat race, cats of one color and cats of many col ors, Angoras and Persians, Maltese ana tiger homely cats and handsome cats, cats with and cats without a history, and all under the management of that skilled organizer of cat shows, Adrian L. Potter, whose cat shows in many other cities have been patronized by thousands upon thousands of people
 Everything has been done to make puss feel at home in these new sur roundings, and the cats look very com- fortable as they lie stretched lazily out upon their cushions, oblivious to the gaze of spectators.
 There are some curious cats in the collection.
 No. 57, called Miss Nix, is an Irish grey and white and has won distinc- tion because she happened to be born with but three legs. She won the first prize at Springfield as being the best freak there.
 No. 90, Minyon, a cat of aristocratic blood, imported from Paris, France, has already won three first and several .spe- cial prizes. She is owned by MT. Fred Kurtz of Fairfield Mass, and is valued at $500.
 No. 54, Skipoi, is royal cat of Siam, known to the Siamese as 1.-The Sacred Cat of Buddha," being worshipped by them in their temples It is the only one in the country, is owned by MT. F. c. Witt of Greenfield and is valued at $10O.
 No "A, Tom, known as the Fire King" is native of New Haven, where he has lived for the past eight cen years. Tom has made himself fa- nous by crawling from the blazing ru- ins of the City market after the roof fell in, July A. 1894. His body shows marks of his terrible experience.
 No. 84, Jerry, is a beautiful solid white cat, with blue eyes, and is the winner of firsts at Boston, New York and Worcester.
 Every visitor is provided with two tickets to vote for the handsomest and the homeliest cat in the show.
 About seventy prizes in all will be awarded when the show closes next Friday. Among these are eleven silver cups and nine silver vases. A silver fruit dish will be given to the exhibitor whose cat receives the most votes as IU6 IItOSI pOpuldE Cetl- IN uillGIOuS ollleli prizes will also be given. Each cat will be given rosette rib bon with the judges signature and the number of points scored. The following are the cats on exhibi- tion, together with other interesting facts concerning them and the names of the owners.
 Hotties" solid white, native, male, 1 year months; "Nippins" solid white, native, male, year; Mrs. E. Hill, city. 4'Alfonse," red Angora, male, year months: Mrs. J. Boutelle Standish, Philadelphia.
 North Pole," white Angora, male, 2 years, Miss Evelyn Trowbridge. .Orio1e," tortoiseshell Persian, male, year, Mrs. Sanford Whyte, New York.
 "Tourie," pure black, native, female, years; "Forepaugh,' "P. T. Barnum'' 7 "Joe Jefferson,'' tabbies, natives, male, weeks; "Nordica," tabby, native, 5 weeks.
 "Maxy," silver tabby, native, male, years months; "Blacky," black and white tabby, native. years, Nelson Adams.
 Fluffy gray Angora, female, 5 months; "Titwillow," black and white Angora, male, 5 months; 'Pansy," pure