New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-24
THE DOG SHOW OVER.
EXHIBIT A FINANCIAL SUCCESS-SAV-
AGE BULLDOG ATTACKS ANOTHER
NATE AND rs REMOVED.

Highland Dick the savage bulldog belonging to
the Highland Park Kennels. the principal
actor In another attempted tragedy in Madison
Square Garden yesterday afternoon. Not satisfied
with causing the death of one OF his comrades on
Thursday morning the brute sought fresh victims
yesterday. After the first escapade the attendants
decided TO keep sharp eye on Dick HIS stan
was fenced in with wire for fear that he would at
tack of the spectators who might get 100
near his cage
About 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon Dick seemed
TO think that Sunbeam had insulted him Sunbeam
belongs to the kennels and according TO the
keepers the two dogs boon companions and
friends when they at home. Dick however,
had tasted blood, and he wanted more. Lunging
fercely against the heavy wire screen that sepa-
rated him from Sunbeam, he at last managed TO
break through sufficiently to get his head into
Sunbeams stall. The snarls and yelps attracted
the attention of everybody in the Garden and
dozen attendants to part the dogs sunbeam
had protected himself pretty well but both ami
mails covered with blood.
Dick eventually subdued. and was hustled
out his stall and into the basement in disgrace
He was securely chained and kept a prisoner until
he was removed to the kennels last night He is
a nasty looking brute. almost pure white. He did
not get any prizes. but he certainly the win
ming bad dog of the exhibition. An ounce and an
eighth of buclshot. drachm and a half OF pow
der a good shotgun and steady aim. is about
the Of prescription vicious brute of this sort
to need
standpoint several thousand dollars will reach
the pockets of the promoters. While the show would
probably have paid had it lasted a week. the pro-
| motors thought that four days were enough OF a
| strain on the nervous temperament of the high
| class dogs. The nervousness of most Of the ami
| mails plainly evident yesterday. They yelped
| all day, and some OF them which had appeared
docile enough during the earlier part of the week
| snarled and snapped everybody who went near
| them. All of the bulldogs ugly tempered. and
1t said that Of these hideous looking beasts
had chewed up half dozen fur NUTS Of women
| visitors who had unwisely gone too close to his
STALL Some of the handlers say that muff thrust
into the face of big dog affects him as red flag
| does in the of a bull.
The most docile dogs in the show the settlers
and toy miniatures. the latter especial favorites
of the women visitors The athletic girl, of course.
took livelier interest in the mastffs St Bernards
and hounds. but the average woman liked the little
fellows the best. While the settlers docie
and amable. the pointers were nervous and dis
agreeable at times Confinement seemed to tell
more upon the thin haired smooth coated dogs.
The Chinese chow-chow dogs attracted considerable
attention. and the keeper never tired OF telling the
visitors that this species not only furnished the
Celestials with pretty and valuable fur but that
the flesh considered dainty when properly
cooked. The keeper was authority for the state
ment that these dogs raised In herds in China
in the suburban districts Then they are killed
their pelts sold and their flesh and disposed
OF for dainty Chinese dishes. The dog rather
sociable. and he is covered with long, silky hair
Much of the day was given up to the exhibitions
| of hunting packs in the ring. Each pack consisted
of five couples of hounds accompanied by handlers
| in rainent of many colors John R Townsend was
the judge and the long cared animals kept him
busy. The Genesee Valley Hunt and Monmouth
County packs acted finely The Genesee Valley pack
the blue ribbon. A throng surrounded the ring
while the hounds cornered and examined
The Genesee hounds showed the better training one
of the Monmouth County dogs insisting on running
away from his pack to the other and requiring
the constant work of the whippers In
The first requisite of the good pack must be uni
formity In height color markings and general
characteristics the hounds be all alike and
a pack of we'll trained. mediocre hounds that IL uni
| form will take the ribbon over an Ill sorted pack
of finer dogs. The "sorty pack is what the hunts
| man seeks-a well matched pack, with the indi-
vfdual showing good for foxhound points The
| Genesee hunting pack is American pack of
in this country but from English importation
The English hound type is larger than the Ameri-
: | can and, paradoXical IL may seem the best
place 10 breed the English type is in America The
master of the Genesee hounds, Englishman and
! | authority hounds says that the weather con-
ditions in the Genesee Valley peculiarly adapt
} ed to the breeding of hounds the dogs growing
| larger and better there than other place that
The American foxhound is smaller and lighter in
| muscle and bone than the English type should be
| The dogs should be between twenty-one and TWEEN
ty-three and half inches in height. and should not
weigh more than fifty-SeYen pounds. The bitches
| are a shade lighter and trife smaller. The head
| should be of a medium size with a muzZle I'm
harmonious proportions The skull should be round
cient top to give symmetry. The ears should reach
within an inch OF the end OF the muzze. The eyes
| shoulders, deep lungs, well sprung ribs straight
| legs squarely under the shoulder with plenty OF
bone and muscle, round, cathke rect are other
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