Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-24
DOGS DAYS COMING
Noted CANNES Entered for
the New York Show.

special D1spAtCh to The Star.
NEW YORK, December 23-Entries for
the Dog Show to be held in connection with
the County Fair al Madison Square Garden
December &c to December 30, are coming
in rapidly. Prominent among the noted
dogs entered up to date are Leeds Quaker
Boy. entered by Mr.. George A Roosa of
dlen's Fails. n. Y: Thomas w. Lawson's
prize winner, English Bulls Lady Somer-
set, from the Boston financier's kennels at
Scituate, Mass; fifty st. Bernard and other
breed of dogs from the WilIowmere farm at
sound Beach, Conn. and from the kennels
or Mr.. Karl Bjurman of Guttenburg n j.
Leeds Quaker Boy has a record of TWEEN
ty-one prizes. He has beaten such dogs as
champion Rufus Stone at Buffalo, under
Luke Crabtree of England; Uxbrdge Nor
gan, at Toronto, Cam Little Nipper
CrumpsaH Banker, Baron. Woodcote Her
rslit, Aulea Rubina and Champion Rodney
1T0reador.
Leeds Quaker Boy is rich dark brindle
with massive bone. great head, good body
and screw tail set on correctly. He was
bred by Tom Ashton of Leeds England,
and IS by Cambridge Heath Crib and out
of the grand bitch Half Dollar. At twelve
months his weight was forty-ive pounds.
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The Long Island Kennel Club has COM
menced an agitation in favor of a reform
in express charges on dogs. At the annual
dinner of the club, just held, several of
the falrciers told distressing stories Of ca
nine deaths and suffering by needless delays
in transportation, and every" one contrib
uted stories of being charged extortionate
rates. All agreed that no other single
drawback as great exists at the present
time to breeders.
President Dwight Moore started the dis
clsSion. Others who contributed were c.
G. Hopton, Clarie Foster, ]. w. Britton,
f; P. Northridge. F. NJ Cote. P. B,
Adams and John +. Collins. Mr. Collins
told of shipping a dog to Washington, a
trip possible in ten hours.
Twelve hours later he found the dog in
an express Office half mile from his home
II. z. Vredenburgh said a special commit
tee of the American Kennel Association
headed by no less person that William c.
Rockefeller had been unable to move the
express company one inch. Mr.. Dole ad-
vocated hiring an expert lawyer to press
their cause. Mr.. p. B. Adams said that the
express companies could not be coaxed,
but that they were common carriers and
that they certainly could be compelled to do
Hopton told of his suit for $1,000 damages
against them in the case of Rodney
Smasher.
Ihe price paid for dog seems to be gov
erned not so much by the value of the AMI
nal as the sentiment of the purchaser in
sporting dog brings the lowest figure.
Doubtless this is due to the fact that the
man who wants gun dog is a practical
person, While the seeker after the show
dog pays for the show" 1t is granted
right here that many a good gun dog also
shows well. but the highest prices go for
the show animal, pure and simple
At a recent sale of pointers and settlers
at Birmingham. England, one of the most
important sales m years-the entire lot
two score or Inore-sold for Cos guineas.
The highest price paid was 80 guineas for
the famous pointer bitch Coronation -four
and a half years., the winner of many
championships. while among the settlers the
choice was IghtfieId Bang -four and a half,
q great field trial winner, who brought only
81 guineas. American purchasers would
have thought these dogs cheap at 81 900
apiece.
In contrast with these prices the bull ter
rier Woodcote Wonder sold in New Haven
for 5000 to a San Francisco purchaser
Richard Croker, jr., paid $1,000 for his
champion Rodney Stone, and Frank Gould
paid as high 5000 for a ST. Bernard
These. are real prices-unlike many of the
amounts running up into the thousands
tagged on to bench space of not IA few
thirty-cent dogs exhibited nat some of the
kennel shows where ii Is thought neces-
sary to have something attractive.