New-York tribune., 1903-02-14
N-4NT RIBBONS AWARDED
But Dogs UW Not Be Taken
-3TdY Till the Dan Is Oucr.

By ngiltfalI last evening nearly all the regular
prizes offered by the Westminster Kennel Club
had been awarded, and the benches were decorated
far and wide by the much desired blue placards
and ribbons. signifying that the lucky dogs who
hoasted them had won the honors most priced by
the owners Of CANNES in this country. The mex
pert who love TO appear expert may now visit the
show 1ith the greatest safety. They need longer
fear lettering for hour OF before the wrong
bench or wasting their praises some dog they
have picked out the best of his class. only 10
see him come shamefully back from the ring
without even H G" justify his in
showing him There can be no mistake now. for
the good ones have all been labelled by the judges
and the benches that show the most blue labels
and ribbons are surrounded from early morning
until night by animal ted, interested crowds.
II is q never ceasing wonder that few peopl.
are bitten by dogs a these shows. In the first
place, the ordeal OF being rushed strange place
away from home, With fifteen hundred or sixteen
hundred other dogs most of them engaged ii
shrieking their lungs out Is enough ruin the
nerves or any dos. But this is the worst of
the canine woes What pc more annoying TO
= high strung animal than to have an endless pro
cessiou of total strangers parading in front OF il
and attempting unlimited. and, frequently entirely
unUelcome. fa;niliarities? or course the Garden
is plastered with signs warning visitors TO touch
the dogs but II these signs had be obeyed it is
certain that the attendance at the show would be
materially decreased. Two out OF every three
visitors delight in fondlfng and caressing the dogs
and making friends with them. Strange 10 say,
nearly all the dogs receive the approaches Of the
multitude in friendly spirit. or the worst with
only harmless expression of boredom A few Of
them, however. are not pacific and several per-
sons have been snapped at. Yesterday,
trying 70 make friends with sulky bull-ter-
rie-, and the dog bit his thumb badly that he
had TO hurry 10 Z physician and get the wound
csutertzed.
Those who saw the discontinue Of this person
declare that he had only himself blame, the
dog was sulky from the start and showed in an
Tnistakable ways its dislike being disturbed.
There is doubt that usually the man who gets
bitten gets bitten result of disregarding Ger
tain plain canine expressions OF Ill humor surli-
ness. The dog that wags its tail cheerfuily when
spoken TO- otherwise shows its amiability. may
be safely approached, but the animal that shows
puts its tail between its legs or In
way objects social intercourse should be avoided
Simple observance Of the individual dogs attitude
will always prevent any little unpleasantuess be
tween the exhibited and the observer.
None OF the prize winners will be removed from
the to-day until the day that ali
coners will have a chance the very pick OF
the animals Moreover, there this morning
number OF special prizes and cups 10 be competed
for. Yesterdays attendance large all day
long. though, Of course a little less than that or
Lincolnts Birthday.
There seems 10 be growing and lamentable
decline in the quality of the kind of dogs used
Ioticeabe only At The shows. FOR there is no doubt
that the field dog is more seTytceable noW than
before this country. The shows do
the best Of the field work dogs, such bea-
gles. settlers pointers, retrevers, and The
bea gIes, for example, weaker at the show this
season than for years. So the foXhoUnds and
the settlers. The shows may counterbalance this
tendency by offering more special prizes for neld
trial winners III the various sporting dog classes.
II they fail DO this the time may not De far
OF when the sporting dogs at the bench shows
will be scarcely worth going across the street
10 see. Owners Of sporting dogs that have worked
q season in the field naturally do not wish 10 Rave
10 show their dogs against the cUrled and per
fIned dandies that are bred for the bench show.
and for nothing else, while II Is greatly to he
feared that out of every three settlers seen
At this years show would be worse than useless
in the neld-
one Of the most consistent winners yesterday
ole priest The dog IS Celtic Badger. and belongs
10 Father O'CIorman. of Ciananague. Canada
Celtic Badger through the novice, limit open
and winners classes without suffering defeat II
was Ct the most consistent performances OF
Mrs II. G. Trevor vas 4 frequent winner with
her French poodles. In the novice class Of this
breed Red Brook Kennels showed an unusually
good one in Ace Of Spades Mrs Dudley :. Harde
Showed in this class in Mio-Toto, a son OF the
celebrated Milo oldtime winner Of many blue
ribbons and her dog would have done better than
the " II. c.. ne won. but for its size, which IS
a bit inferior
Prominent among the days successes we're the
victories Of Frank p Dole's bull terriers while
among the toy dogs CuriolISly inspected were
~ Japanese Chin dogs recently imported from
stamford Conn These two dimnutive animals
arc among the rarest ever brought from the land
Of the Mikado. and valued st 500