Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-12
National Rifles Hall Crowded With
Poultry Fanoiers.
SPANISH FOWLS ONLY LONESOME ONES
Are Turned Down by the Patriotic
American Birds.
ADDITIONAL A w ARDS

The poultry show is great success, and
National Rifles Hall is constantly crowded
with admirers of the beautiful in chicken
life. Last night the place was fairly pack
ed, the attendance being the largest yet
recorded. Today, in spite of the disagree
able weather, the attendance has been eX-
ceptionally large. The out-of-door gloom
does not affect the merry chorus of the
fowls, and inside the hall everything is as
lively and CHEEKY as possible.
Additional cages have been decorated
with the red and blue labels of distinction,
and there is consequent joy in more
chicken hearts. The judges are now en-
gagged in preparing the special awards,
their decision in many instances being
awaited with anxious eagerness by the
large number of exhibitors in the city.
Many of the classes for which prizes were
offered have not been filled, as will be seen
by the awards printed below.
The judges have evidently been very con-
scientious in their work, and where only
one bird of a class has been entered they
have not awarded a first prize when the
fowl was not blue blooded enough to war
rant such an honor. In these instances
second premiums or merely commendable
mention have been the rule. The action of
the judges in this respect has brought
about some complaint from the exhibitors
the officials have been firm and the awards
remain unchanged.
Confusion Manifest.
There is good bit of confusion in the
management of the show, and the classes
are not all arranged properly, the pullets
and cockerels of some varieties being sep
arated from the cocks and hens by several
rows. No catalogue was issued this year,
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circumstance. Until the award CARDS were
placed on the coops none but experts could
tell the class. and even then the eXnlDltors
names were unknown. Several or the COM
mitteeman having the exhibition IN charge
have been i'll with the grip for some
time and were unable to attend to the late
important details connected With the snow
Mr. Mcleod has been left In charge OF
everything and has worked mantuily.
Whatever success attends the exhibition,
and the prospects in this respect are most
fattering, will be due, it is conceded, to his
untiring labors.
The chickens are all happy today, seem
ingly and any hard feelings that may have
been engendered by the awards of premiums
has passed away. The prize winners and
the birds of lesser distinction are last
friends again, and the war clouds nave all
blown over. Chickens do not harbor i'll will
for any great length of time, the experts
say and they have been busy all morning
talking across the aisles and through the
cracks TO eacn Olner.
Spanish Birds Under Ban.
There are a half dozen coops the in
mates of which are sad and gloomy. They
are Stunned by all the other chickens in the
exhibition. Whenever one of the quasi
quarantined birds tries to strike up a
friendly conversation with a feathered
specimen of another variety, he is coldly
turned down." and the fowl approached
IL.
The outcasts from high chicken society
have nothing to do then but to mutter
among themselves. Not crow nor a
cackIe breaks from their Threats. Their
eyes seem dim and tear-stained. the white
gill growth about their heads adding to the
pale and worn expression. Close inspection
of the coOps vindicates the other chickens
in their actions. The only detected birds
in the show areSthe Black Spanish.
The exhibition will come to close Satur-
day evening.
The Additional Awards.
Additional awards have been made as fol-
lows:
Black Langshan-Cocks, first, John A.
Stewart; second, D. ]. Hoge & Son. Hens,
first, d. ]. Hoge & Son; second, Geo.
Schrade. Cockerels. first, F. G. Bean; sec
ond. D. ]. Hoge & Son. Pullets, first F. G.
Bean; second, Hoge & Son.
White Langshan-Cocks first, F. G.. Bean;
second, same. Hens, first, F. G. Bean;
second same. Cockerels. first, F. c. Bean;
second, same. Pullets, first. f. G. Bean;
second same.
Brown Leghorn-Cocks. first. Herbert w.
Smith; second, w. H. Barksdale Hens,
first, Herbert W. Smith; second, w. H.
Barksdale. Cockerels, first. W. H. Banks
dale; second, same Pullets, first, w. Fl.
BarkSdale; second, same.
White Leghorn cocks, first. H. E. Van
Deman; second. r. ]. Mccain. Hens first
Humphrey & Parsons; second, r. ]. Nc
Cain. Pullets first, Humphrey & Parsons;
Buff Leghorn cocks, first. L. S. Bache
second, Mrs. F. Turner. Hens. first, J.. s.
Bache: second same. Cockerels, first, X.
6 Grinder; second, l.. S. Bache. Pullets
first, l.. S. Bache; second, same
Ancona cock. hen, cockerel and pullet
first prizes. +. G.. Bean.
Black Minorca. cocks, second J. NJ AL
len. Hens, first. Chas. L. Blanton; second
same. Cockerels, first. j. NJ Allen; second
same. Pullets. first, j. NJ. Allen; second.
Chas. l.. Rlanton.
White Minorca hens, first, Belmont farm.
Cockerels, first, c. w. Jerome & Co. Pull
let's, first, c. W. Jerome & Co: second
same.
Blue Andalusian. hens. second. Belmont
farm. Cockerels, first. Belmont farm
Black Spanish, cocks first. E. r. Greg
DRY; second. same. Hens first, Belmont
farm; second. f. r. Gregory. Cockereis.
first, r. f. Long; second, Belmont farm
Pullets, first, Z. r. Gregory; second, Bel
mont farm.
White crested black DoliSh-Cocks first
Belmont Farm.
Golden Polish-Cock. first, Belmont Farm
Hen, first, Belmont Farm. Pullet, first,
Belmont Farm
Silver Polish-Cock and hen, first and
second premiums, respectively, Belmont
Farm.
White Polish-Cock. first, Belmont Farm
Hens, first, H. A. Munson; second, same
Cockereis. first, II. A Munson. Pullet first,
Belmont Farm
Golden bearded Polish-Cock, first, Bel
mont Farm Hens, first. II. A. Munson
second. Belmont Farm. Pullets first Bel
mont Farm: second, H. a. Munson.
Bearded Silver Polish-Cock and hen, first
premiums, Belmont Farm.
Bearded white Polish-Cock, first Bel
mont Farm. Hen. first, Belmont Farm
Buff bearded Polish-Cocks. first. Belmont
Farm; second, II. A. Munson. Hens first.
II. A. Munson; second, same. Cockerels,
first, II. a. Munson.
Changes in District Force.
The following changes in the District