The San Francisco call., 1897-01-23
OPENING OF THE SHOW.
Interest in the Poultry Exhi-
bition Seems to Be Rapidly
Increasing.
School Children Will Have a Day on
Which to Visit Their
Pets.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN Francisco CALL, |

OAKLAND OFFICE SAN Francisco CALL
908 Broadway, Jan. 22.
Tomorrow night everything tame that
ears feathers will be on exhibition at the
Tabernacle. The annual show of the
Pacific Poultry and Pigeon Association
will open, and as there are more entries
than ever before the event has created
grs at deal of interest all over the county.
The main object of the association is to
encourage the breeding and care of fowl.
ducks, pigeons and rabbits, and this view
of the matter is of much Importance at
this time, as a movement has already
been started to utilize many of the idle
tracts of land in Alameda County for the
purpose of raising eggs and chickens.
Some weeks ago Mrs. W. W. Cunning
ham, an active worker in the Livermore
League of Progress, astonished residents
of Alameda County by showing that it
would be possible to raise all the eggs and
chickens that are annua lily i'm ported into
this State. This can only be done by q
thorough understanding of the most
economical method of raising poultry,
and the addresses that will be made each
evening will all have a tendency toward
this great object.
In addition to hundreds Of coops of all
kinds of fowl there are excellent exhibits
of turkeys, geese, ducks, pigeons, rabbits
and incubators. The display of carrier
pigeons is larger than ever and shows
mark ed increase of interest in their breed
ing. Trustee Leydecker of Alameda has
several of his finest homers in the coop,
and one of them has the mark of a shot on
the little ring around its leg. This was
one of large number recently released
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which returned home, the remainder hav-
ing been shot.
There are over 1000 exhibits, and the
poultry fanciers from San Diego to British
Columbia are interested in the show. To-
morrow evening Professor Hilgard of the
university and Hugh Craig will deliver
short addresses and the Acme Club will
give an athletic exhibition.
1t is the desire OF the management to
let the school children have the full bene-
fit of the lesson to be derived from seeing
the well-kept birds, and arrangements
have been made by which all the pupils
of the different schools will be admitted
free at certain times.
There are more fancy birds than at any
previous show, and their owners are con-
stantly in attendance upon them.
The officers of the association are:
President, Ed Ellis of Santa Rosa; vice.
president, T. w Leydecker OF Alameda;
Secretary, Frank Seed of Alameda; treasurer,
a. E. Curzons of Alameda.
Directors - william II. Arps of Oakland,
George II. Croley of San Francisco, G.. w. Cum
bers of Alameda, H. E. Curzons of Alameda,
Charles f. Earle of Sonoma, Ed Ellis of Santa
Rosa, George F. Emery of Oakland, I. w. Ley
decker OF Alameda, Frank Seed of Alameda,
S. A. Wells OF San Francisco, w. r. Wright OF
Berkeley.
The following officials are judging the
exhibits:
Judge of poultry, 1. z. Felcn of Natick.
Mass. Judge of pigeons, ]. w. Sayers of Ala.
media; assistant secretary, 7. Erskine of So
noma; manager, Craigie Sharp; superintend-
ent of livestock, Charles w. Cumbers of Ala
media; assistant superintendent OF livestock,
Frank Powell OF Santa Rosa.
Gone to Help His Uncle.
OAKLAND, CAL, Jan. 22.-Maceo's
nephew, Antonio Maria Maceo, who has
been working at the racetrack for several
months, is on his way to New York, from
where he intends to go down to Cuba to
help his uncle. Some time ago be served
as a seaman on board the United States
cruiser Bennington.
Was Not Suicide.
OAKLAND, CAL, Jan. 22.-The Cor
oner's jury found that Thomas Curran
died of fatty degeneration cf the heart.
and thus exploded the theory that he had
committed suicide by taking laudanum.
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