The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-11

prizes in the cat world of England.
For several years she has dazzled staid
old England by paying any price ask
ed, and, as a result, she has regular
corner in the best English cats. She
thinks nothing at all of paying 5000 or
$500 apiece for Persian pussies of,
lang pedigree"
The breeding of the long-haired cat
has been a pastime of wealthy women
in England for years. The pedigrees
of the pets are kept with as much
care as those of the owners, while the
joyous advent of a happy family, is
chronicled with respectful solemnity
in the cat page of the society journals.
These titled cats are now being
| brought in great numbers to America.
Queen Victoria had a pet Persian
named Duschar. Duschar had a son
named Amesh, whom the Queen gave
to her daughter, Princess Victoria of
| Schleswig Holstein. Amesh was
great pet in the royal household, and
has often strolled over the ample per-
son of King Edward. To-day, how
ever, he belongs to Mrs. j. V. Got
waits of Pottstown, Pa, and presides
over the Bagdad cattery and harem
of Persian beauties.
Americas Most Celebrated Cat.
In the Mohawk Valley, at the very
house where doughty old Sir William
Johnson once ruled the Six Nations,
lives the most celebrated stud cat in
| America, King of the Silvers, who has
sired more winning kittens than any
other tom in this country. just as his
father, Lord Southampton, sired more
winners than any other cat in Eng
| land. Kings owner, Mrs. III. A. Mix,
has refused $500 for him, and William
c. Whitney unsuccessfully offered $3.50
| for one of his sons, Jack Frost.
At one side of Sir Williams stately
| old stone mansion, which has been in
| the possession of Mrs Mix's family
ever since the Revolution, is the Old
Fort cattery. 1t is a neat white cot
| tage, in the midst of spreading lawns.
with kitchen and sittingroom, hos
pital and wide verandas, all kept in
| immaculate order for the tribe of ped
| igreed cats which occupies it.
At her pleasant country home in
Elizabeth, N. j., Miss Ava Pollard
has another of these model batteries.
the Omar, where. in the midst of vines
| and roses dwell Omar and whole
| family of famous queens. Omar is the
| lightest chincilla in America, and was
bred by Mrs. E. II. Bdmondson of
| Springfield Hail. Knowle, Warwick
shire, England. Lorraine of the Ca
bles is called the finest silver queen in
| America, and Purity the finest white,
her parents, White Friar and Crystal,
having been the best whites in Eng
land. In the same cattery is a tor
toIse she'll queen who was bred by
| Hon. Philip Wodehouse, son of the
Earl of Kimberly.
| Society Women are Cat Fnnciers.
one of omar's sons. Honeyboy,
went to Mrs. Clarence Mackay for a
pet last fall. He journeyed to his
| country home on Long Island in an
! automobile, his wicker cage making
pretty picture In its hamper OF fresh
| cut flowers.
Mrs. Francis Burton Harrison is an
other New York society woman who
| dotes on Persians.
Mrs Sarmiento and Mrs. Cutler, two
| wealthy sisters of Detroit, are among
the heaviest importers of English cats.
| Mrs. Frank l.. Norton of CazenoviaN N.
| Y, has just brought in five or six for
which she paid from 500 to $500 each.
Her Imperial Blue is a famous cat.
Mrs. Champion, of Hart Park, Staten
Island, has a large cattery noted for its
| beautiful silvers. Mrs. S. II. Bond OF
| Washington, Mrs, William Brandreth
| of Ossinning, N, Y, Mrs. George @.
Brown of East Cleveland and Mrs. B.
| NJ Gladding of Memphis are among
the wealthy enthusiasts.
Mrs. w. s. Hofstra Of Garden CITY,
L. l., president of the recently organ
lied Atlantic Cat Club, which will
probably become the National Club, de-
votes herself to the breeding of the
Siamese species. This is called the
royal cat, because 1t has been bred for
centuries in the royal family of Siam.
One of Mrs. Hofstra's cats was a pres
ent from the Crown Prince of Siam,
and it's little brother went to the Queen
hO fe nj htfG a a
fancier.
Mrs. Mitchelson of Kansas City re-
Gently paid $3.50 in New York for
seVen-months-old kitten, Argent
Sparks, a member of the famous Ar
gent family of silver Persians. Sparks
little brothers and sisters sell for $50
or $40 at the age of four or five weeks.
Miss Lillian c. Moeran, a wealthy
New York woman, devotes herself to
the breeding of the Manx tailless cats
at her country place at Southampton,
J.. /.
Miss Katherine l.. Gage keeps at her
country home in Brewster, N. T., a
celebrated cat named Whychwood, who
was bred on the estate of Lady Flor
ence Dillon in England, and named af-
ter one of it's beautiful forests. His
pedigree is calculated to strike awe to
the plebian heart. and he has lent 1t the
glory of traditional prizes. Seven of
his descendants gather ABOUT the
patriarch at meal time, and special
meats and fishes are sent out from
New York for the Persian pets every
day.
Uncle Russell Sage's Cat.
Milo and Melito. strictly American
cats of the Maltese variety, have the
run of the Fifth avenue mansion
which shelters "Uncle Russell" and
Mrs. Russell Sage. and one of the few
relaxations which the hardworking
multi-mlllionaire allows himself is a
play with the pets after dinner.
Mrs. Clinton Locke. of Chicago,
was the first woman to import Persian
cats, and the Beresford Cat Club of
that city was the first cat club in
America. It was named after Lady
Marcus Beresford, the most enthusi-
astic of the aristocratic women cat
fanciers of England.
These batteries are run upon the
strictest of scientific principles. The
care, the food, the grooming. the
cleanliness and the hygiene are up to
the standard of that accorded care
fully reared children.
The latest wrinkle in the cat world
is the breeding of the short-haired cat
for points, as the Persian has been
bred. Poor pussy is to be rescued from
the humble hearthstone or the alley
fence, transformed into a thing or
beauty, and then introduced to cat
shows, blue ribbons and silver chal-
lenqe Guns M. j. Reynolds.