The Portland daily press., 1896-04-01
PUss PROUD.
First Annual Cat Show at Congress
Hall.


Big Cats and Acknowledgements and Coons
Natives and Manx-Purring and Spit
ting--A Very Well Behaved Crowd.
A large airy hall, good big cages with
iron net work fronts that enables the
tabbics to get all the air they want and
yet confines them within bounds careful
feeding, surely Puss ought to be happy.
Such is the condition of things at Con-
gress hall where the first annual cat
show is being held. And a very orderly
gathering of cats it is If it were do G
show there would be any quantity OF
barking and growing but Fuss lies
curled up on her cushions and sleeps con-
tentedly or is SO companionable that sho
sticks her head up to the netting to have
it scratched by her admirers. Some OF
the cats are adorned with colofed ribbons;
some are of prodigious size, as for instance
the one labelled twenty-five pounds, a
weight the ladies present declared was
incorrect for the cat wasn't any bigger,
they knew, than their cats.
ooh you darling little BEAUTIES said
one lady as she looked at the TWO kittens
belonging to Miss A. P. Cox, and
"wouldn't like to own that big fellow
was a constant criticism of the large cats
that showed their fine points. All the
afternoon and the evening there was
constant stream of visitors and it is Ger
tain that the exhibition is going to be
great success. Remember the hall will
be open daily from III a. N. to 10 p. III.
This is list of the exhibitors and their
pets:
Mrs. A. M. Douglass, black coon, four
years. weighs eleven pounds, name
"Topy.''
A. L. Perry, So Congress street. nine
pound gelding Mig
john 6. Turner, Alder, female An
CORA, Fluffy" with kittens.
C. P. Chandler, New Gloucester, male
coon, John, eleven months.
W. P. Haskell. New Gloucester, gelded
coon, Joe"
G. NJ. fuckers female coon, "Pansy,"
eight months, New Gloucester.
Mrs. G. NJ. Cushman's "Ginger," male
coon.
Mrs. Frank E. Browns "Cooney,
gelded. ten pounds, six ounces.
Mrs. p. L. Chase's white Angora
flames Blaine.' weight nine pounds.
John Messing's black female cat Mari
anne,' eight pounds.
Mr. g. A. Fearby. "Dick,' gelded
econ, eighteen pounds. black.
Frank H. Stanorth's, black and white
coon "Smutty," seven pounds.
Mrs. Harry L. Smiths, female Angora
Kitty" Maltese color, six pounds.
Mrs J. W. Hooper's tiger gray and
white "Rinotum. thirteen pounds, male
gelded.
Mrs. E. NJ. Latham's "snip," pure
white male coon, ten pounds.
Miss A. P. Cox's "Daisy," mixed gray,
coon, great pet.
Miss A. z. Cox two bright kittens,
Alexander and Silver Gray.
Miss Anna A. Willey's Beauty" tor
toise shell coon, sixteen pounds.
Mrs. E. +. Carter, Black Beauty"
fourteen pounds, probably.
+. E. Moore, Augusta. white An CORA
"Tabitfa."
+. E.. Moore, Augusta, white and
b-HEr, "TuDny."
F. E. Moore's "Towser." Angora.
Carrie P Aliens white gelded coon onn
hold up paw and shake hands, name
FLAMES Blaine" weighs eight and one
half pounds.
VIM. Macarthur, Jr.'s Jack" black,
eight pounds
Mrs S. Zimmerman's great fawn and
white "Trilby," weighs fourteen pounds.
Cash Bros, Cash Corner, Jim" black
native. seventeen pounds.
Cash Bros, "Tom, " brown and white,
male gelded, seven pounds.
Cash Bros, Smart" tiger striped, five
pounds.
Elmer W. Gerr1ng. "Bob," pure Manx,
very shy, tortoise shell. nine pounds.
j. +. Colby's 'tCarl,n sixteen pounds
gelded native, brown and white.
Georgia Cary, frank" brown and
white.
Mrs. G. A. Thomas, "Trilby," female
coon, with kittens.
Charles E. Thomas. "Tony," twelve
pounds, Maltese color.
Mrs. M G. Young, "Peter the Great "
yellow color, 1917 pounds.
W. r. Cummings Bobby" tortoise
she'll with four kittens, bobtall, seven
pounds.
&C Beams "Tony," yellow and white.
twelve pounds.
Mrs. c. J. Moliam's "Peter Jackson"
fifteen pounds, black and white.
Mrs. Durgan's Baby" Maltese.
j. NJ. Shea's black cat Handsome"
must weigh fourteen pounds.
Mrs. l.. B. Saunders black cat HWin-
ney."
Harry C. saunders's dot" black
native.
Mrs. Dunlap's Daisy and kittens,
white, weigh seven pounds.
Rosa Burns, native black gelded,
Dandy" weighs twenty-five pounds.
A. D. Wilson's "Tiger," tiger striped,
sixteen pounds
kittens.
Mr.. L. Waite's ebony" male coon,
black, eight and one-half pounds.
Ii. F. OWENS Joe" white and gray
Maltese, fourteen pounds
Miss Carrie Parlow, Beauty" i'm
ported Italian cat, sixteen pounds, gray
md white.
Novel Display.