Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-04

our list Of foreign dogs be extended so as
10 include any breed in the miscellaneous
class that Is recognized in Count de By
iandts book and we will take that book as
authority" All that was done therefore
was 70 permit the Samoyede to be shown
as a foreign dog in the miscellaneous class.
II the Philadelphia club had not asked the
approval Of the kennel club secretary to
It's classification 1t is undoubtedly true that
notlce would be sent to it to cancel the
classes for Samo.- ede dogs and stand some
sort Of a fine for doing what they had no
right to do, but at the head of the class
ihcation is the signed statement Of the
kennel club secretary that the classification
is approved by the American Kennel Club
some explanation, If not a self-infl:cted fine,
seems IN order, meanwhile will the Sam
oyede classes stand without any proper
authority or will they be Cancelled?
The Samoyede Dogs.
These Samoyede dogs were part of the
ten subdivisions Of the Laika, that being
the breed name according to Prince An
drew Shirmsky, who had specialized in the
breed and as stated in his Illustrated mono
graph had purchased hundreds of them
and studied them" He divided them into
ten varieties, five OF these were in Russian
Europe, Finno Ko~e!. Lapland, Cheremess,
Zorian and Vogcoi. and in Siberian Russia
the NdIletieS were SaInOyeQe, OStlal, Bash
kir Tunguse and Chooktch. Although the
titled author stated in the English intro
duction that the Samoyede was a Siberian
variety l find by the map which he gave as
showing the distribution of the varieties
that the country of the Samoyede began
at the junction of the White sea and Arctic
ocean, running sharply southwest to about
latitude 81, thence nearly due west to
about longitude 100 thence northeast to the
estuary of the YeneSei The largest por-
ton Of this territory is of course Siberian
nevertheless it also runs into European
Russia. 1t is more than two years since /
saw a copy of this book at Mr.. Rapier's
house at Gomersal, where / copied the in
PRODUCTION and the map roughly, but
could detect but little difference between
the varieties from the photographs, which
were all very much alike. At that time |
was more interested in the claim that the
arctic dogs, said to be domestcated wolves
tight curled one. Nearly all had the
curled tail, but one or two were having
their pictures taken and had dropped their
talls. Even the present supporters of the
breed do not claim any specific color
Eighteen Wins Cancelled
The October 81 issue of the Kennel Ga
zette has piece of Information that sug-
gests story of some sort, but as the paper
is just to hand nothing else is now OBJ
tainable. There Is statement that all
the winnings of a Welsh terrier dating
IlOHl JuHe, 1910, nave Deen Cancelled De-
cause she was shown as Leeds Palm and
had been registered as Betty of Cedarvale
No disclosure is made as to how the in
formation as to Identity was obtained, for
Leeds Palm has always been shown as par
ticulars unknown just such dog as one
comes across as pickup and never knows
anything about. Mr.. B. S. Smith Of Closter
N. j., has the affiX, or prefix of Cedarvale
and he, surely, as man interested in the
hrnaI CT how T n,I~
she was at Mr.. Smiths home shown a year
ago, Englewood, of which club Mr.. Smith
was president. The Kennel Club cancels
wins at eighteen shows up to Atlantic
City in April last. This does not mean the
loss of the prizes, for under very strange
decision, rendered some time ago, no change
made after six months from the date of
the show affect the prize money AS
for the loss of credit In the record no
ruling in 1906 Is going to efface the printed
record in the 1905 stud book. Undoubtedly
nothing whatever was known of the terrier
by Mr.. ALI belmont, whose wife showed
the dog in her name, so that there is no
question as to there being deception on
that point. Now Leeds Palm can begin all
over again at the bottom of the tree of
record as novice, although with a record
of three first in winners classes and MANY
other marks. Some ruling lead to very
amusing conclusions at times, especially
when we find that the win of Leeds Palm
under similar conditions at Asbury Park
was not cancelled with the Others At
present this very good terrier is owned
by DR.. Benson of Bala, who is quite the
leading exhibitor of this breed at the pres
ent time.
Importers of dogs are very anxious to
know when the Kennel Club is going to
come to their help and give the certificate
required for free importation of pedigree
dogs. Men who want to deal fairly in all
things are under the necessity of paving
duty, while others are swearing falsely
to values of dogs and paying duty on these
undervaluations. At present | have $50 in
the hands of the government which l hope
to get back some day if only the secretary
is instructed to say that a dog he registers
is .'of pure breeding" At present he only
takes the registration fee and registers
the dog without any definite knowledge as
to whether the breeding is correct or not. SO
will not say that it is so.