Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-05-14
DOGS OF ALL KINDS HERE
Annual Bench Show of Champlain
Kennel Club Opened.
over $50 Entries Including Many Val
liable els-Performance by
Trained Dogs-Prizes Awarded
Yesterday-Program for
To-day.

The annual bench show of the Cham
plain Kennel club opened yesterday morn
ing at the City Hall and will continue
through to-day and tomorrow. There are
dogs of all kinds on exhibition and among
them are many of u national reputation
The show Is the best that has ever been
held in the State and the valuable CANNES
shown make an attraction that is well
worth seeing.
The entries include st. Bernards, blood
hounds, wolf-hounds. beagles. dachs-
mounds, pointers Irish settlers, English
settlers, Gordon settlers, cocker spaniels,
collies, Dalmatlan coach Dogs. French
bun dogs. English bull dogs, bull ter
riers, Boston terriers, Airdale terriers,
fox terriers. Irish terriers. Yorkshire
terriers, toy terriers and toy spanes, in
al about 255 entries.
The exhibits are from Montreal, Bos-
ton, Plattsburgh, New York and many
other points without the State and also
from large number of places in Yer
mont.
large crowd Of spectators was pres
ent throughout the day and evening. OF
the many fire dogs exhibited there are
some that have more prominence than
others. Among them are Bencilce Ruth,
a bloodhound, which has just returned
from Nebraska, where she was sent to
trail criminals. There is a splendid eX-
hibit of Russian wolfhounds, among them
/
Ronsse of New York. which was a winner
Mt the recent New York show. There
are many pointers and beagles, including
some fine creatures from Shelbulne
| Farms. In the beagle exhibit is the dog
Dan D., who has won over 5000 in cash
prizes in the past three years, besides
many special prizes
The showing of bulldogs is a splendid
one while there are some fine bull ter
riers among them being King I'd. owned
| by Clifford Drake of New York, a winner
at the recent show there. There are large
exhibits of TOW spaniels. shown in glass
cases. and of Boston terriers. the mum
her of entries of the latter breed being
the largest at the show. The French
bulldog one of the animals rarely seen
here. are shown by c. r. Chaffee. who
imported the animals from Paris.
In the evening Prof. Lite gave a per-
Torrance with his troupe of trained dogs
The animals seem to possess almost hui
man intelligence and perform many tricks
that are almost marvellous The perfor-
nance will be given again this afternoon
at 4 80 o'clock and this evening at $50.
AS a special attraction the special prizes
will be awarded this evening
The Judging of the dogs began yester-
day and was done by II. W. Lacy, editor
of the American Stock Keeper with the
exception of the bcagles which were
Judged by Ct. +. Reed of Barton. The
| judging will be completed. to-day
The prizes were awarded as follows:
St. Bernlrds-Class three novice Trough
| coated dogs and females, first prize
Rosey OGrady, owned by +. & a Stewart;
second prize, Ivanhoe, owned by f. q A.
| Stewart: third prize. Prince Williams
owned by G. q. IL c. T. Williams: third
| v II. G., Monarch owned by Thomas
kissane.
| Class four, limit, dogs and femalos-Firs,
prize, Prince Williams; second prize
Ivanhoe: third prize, Rosey O'Grady.
| Glass five, open. dogs and females-First
prize. Bay View Colonel, owned by Miller
u birmingham; second prize, Rosey
O'Grady-; third prize, lvanhoc: r., Prince
| Williams