Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-14

List of Judges for the PhiIadel-
phia Dog Show is an I'm
posing One.
By James Watson.

By James Watson.
There seems to be a very general inquiry
as to what a Samoyede dog is. judging
from communications received from total
strangers during the past few weeks. This
is only rose under another name and
smelling none too sweetly, unless recently
| washed and made presentable for indoors.
The Samoyede is simply the Eskimo, the
mallamuth, variously spelled, or. to come
down to a still more plebeian name, the
useful husky of the far north of this con-
tinent. A recent writer who has had
Alaskan experiences introduced a short
time ago the name of husky" suggesting
thereby that a Cockney had something to
do with the name originally, for the little
Londoner was corrected by his mother for
saying "a happle." You must say an
apple" Please, ma, 1 want two naples. -
To come down to plain facts and wiping
aside the glamor of grand dukes as spon-
sors for the Samoyede.. the dog is simply
the common dog of northeast Russia
and western Siberia, dog similar to what
has for years been known as the Eskimo
and in the north of this continent is called
husky and sometimes mallamuth 1t is
true that number of the Samoyedes are
white, but that is not an essential with the
variety and they come Of all known Eskimo
colors.
ne name Is tndt OF the RESIDENTS OF tnal
part Of Russia, and Theoretically, believe
it should be Samoyad. These people are
far more advanced than the Eskimos or
any American arctic tribes, having had
more intercourse with persons from civil
lied Europe than~the Eskimos have had
and are thriftier and weather. people,
having large herds of reindeer, for whose
necessities they live a nomadic life. Their
dogs have had the benefit of better care
and better development as herders of the
reindeer and, being more valued than are
plain sledge dogs, have naturally become
more domesticated and thereby of better
disposition. That they are totally distinct
from our northern dogs will have to be
proved by something more than the mere
name, for We have had dogs Of similar
type at our shows on occasions
Mr.. J. Willoughby Mitchell, an Irishman
who has knowledge of dogs to the extent
of having been frequently called upon to
judge at some of our best shows, went out
to Chicago to do SO in the spring of 1904,
Gus, for dogs not specially provided with a
class. He placed two dogs at the head of
| this class, and these were described as
"Malamouth," and are officially recorded
as such. The second dog belonged to
person not altogether unknown under the
name of Joe Choynski in a ring other than
that for prize dogs, but who is disguised by
the American Kennel Club recorded as ].
Choynisk Mr.. Mitchell is perfectly con-
versant with the dog known as the Samo-
yede at English shows and told me that
the winning dog at Chicago was one of the
best Samoyedes he had ever seen. He was
most emphatic in his opinion upon the
merits of this dog, going to the extent, so
far as I can recall, of saying that it was
England, or some equally high encomium.
1 made inquiry about this dog, and all
that was known about him was that he had
come down from the north and was one of
the huSkieS. Samoyede sounds ever so
much more stylish than plain husky, and
the name may stick, but we can supply
them from up north as well as the Rus
slams can.
Philadelphia has outdone itself and every
other show that can think of by It's list
of Judges for the show of Thanksgiving
week. We have never had such a slate at
any exhibition in this country. The only
objection that can be urged against it is
that the club has cut out good many of
the best dogs from competition by reason
of asking their owners to judge. That, of
course, has the diverse in exhibitors having
men who ought to know the breeds they
are judging a.sl giving these same exhibit
ors a chance to win they might not other
wise have so freely. There is Miss Alger
for poodles, for instance. Her Red Brook
kennel has been the crew from captain
down to midshipmite in poodleS for several
years, and with the Red Brooks out there
should be rush of poodle owners to win
under judge of Miss Ayers knowledge
Mrs. Brazier for Scottish terriers is an
equally SOuHu SeleCtlOH, ana she Will nave
large entry from those who want to
have their dogs rightly placed. -
Two of the most commendable selections
are the new men-R. E. Westlake for point
ers and Lance Farewell for spaniels. Mr.
Westlake is a. Mill City Pa.) man and his
record of breeding succession of winning
pointers year after year has been phenome-
nal. He is somewhat of a self-opinionated
man also,~ and SO long as the opinion Is
sound that is the man for judge in place
of f1oppers who fear making mistakes and
wind up by giving the prize to some owner
or handler In place of some other mans
dog. Mr.. Farewell is Toronto man and
has ranked high in spaniels SO that much
is expected OF him and his expressing his
individual opinion.
Still another who may be mentioned in
a special manner is Mr.. Joseph A. Laurin
Of Montreal. for Airedale terriers, as he
has been for years q supporter of this
breed and has owned and bred many good
dogs, the well-known prefix of "Colne'' be-
ing his. Mr.. r. d. L. Nicholson Of Wash
ington. D. c., is another new Judge. and he
has q very thorough knowledge. Of Great
Danes, SO that he should give every salts
faction. Mr.. Charles T. Luce of New
Bedford II quite new man for bulldogs,