Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-20

was or should be better dog than the one
! SHOWN. for on his English reputation he
| should beat all dogs in this country, and it
was questioned whether this dog could beat
! Mrs. Proctor's Chinese Chum. Very shortly
| after that the question came up at the ken
mel club Office and on looking up the Eng
| 1sh records 1t was found out that the real
| Red Craze was being shown in England.
| and of course the wins of the dog posing
mere have been cancelled and an investiga-
| ton set on foot.
The only reason this was found out was
| through the prominence of the real Red
| Craze but for which this dog would have
passed down in history with his fake pedi-
| gree. 1t was merely lucky chance that it
was found out and this demonstrates that
| 1T is perfectly possible to palm off spurious
| pedlgrees of foreign dogs upon the-ameri-
can Kennel Club, which could not pass
| before the club of the country where the
| dog comes from. Lucky chances should
not be the sole safeguard for the detection
| of faxed pedigrees and this case is clinch-
Ing argument calling upon the powers that
| pc Tor a rule providing that dogs from
abroad must be furnished with certified
| record from a recognized or recognizable
| cIuo of the country of expectation. the
| country where the facts OF the record are
published and fraud can be detected
| There Is another very necessary question
| arising out of this case. The statement is
made that 100 guineas were paid for Red
| Craze, and the bitch which accompanied
| him from England. There are only two
ways of importing dog into this country,
! one being free upon presentation of a certi-
| fed pedigree with two full generations of
| registered parentage with stud-book num-
| bers. That could be furnished by the English
! or American kennel clubs. We know the
American did not give one and we know
| that only the real owner of Red Craze could
| get one for her dog from the English club
| hence the presumption Is that duty was
paid on the dog, and 1t is open for the
| authorities to find whether the declared
| value was the 80 guineas claimed to have
| been sent TO England for the pair of elbows.
| That is a past event, however, and can
| take care of itself, but for the future impos-
| sibility of the repetition of frauds of this
| nature no dog of any description should
| be admitted into this country from any
| European port or from Canada without a
| certified pedigree or certificate of regis
| tration from the country whence the dog
| comes. Asiatic ports of expectation are diff
| ferent, for there are no record books in
| China or Japan, and dogs from these pay
duty, but on the Atlantic side we want re-
corded dogs or none at all.
1t will be well to recall some facts of a
| somewhat similar nature which occurred
| some six years ago. One Of the importing
| spectators of that time came back from
| England with an invoice of dogs of differ
/ ent breeds, for all of which he had pedi-
| grees, but strange to say some of these
pedigrees were for dogs already in this
| country. ms nelnOd was TO DrlD6 some OF
| the clerks in the English Kennel Club to
| give him copies of the pedigTees of
| previously imported dogs, and their names
| were given to the new dogs, temporarily
! and until passed at New York. This was
! found out and Mr.. Jaquet, who had lately
| been appointed secretary of the English
Kennel Club, had a thorough overhauling
| of his office, every person implicated had
| to walk the plank and new set OF rules
| put in force governing the issuing of certi-
| fed pedigrees. The result Is that It is i'm
possible to register dog with faxed
pedigree with the English club or get
certified pedigree unless you own the dog
and have a transfer duly signed on kennel
| club blank, for the registration of which
transfer you must pay fee. These strin-
| gent and necessary rules are the outcome
| of the fraud of six years ago
The premium list of the Wissahickon
Kennel Club show of June Is being sent
out to probable exhibitors, but there are
many outside of the regulars who are like
| ly to want to patronize this very excel
/ lent show. In the first place it is managed
and conducted with no idea of club profit,
] but for most meritorious local charity,
/ the Bethesda Home for Orphan Children.
! To give a dollar to this show means con-
tributtng to the benefit of waits without
| home, and last year nearly $500 was
turned over to the home. Another reason
| day summer shows, is again to the front
with the now growing movement OF Amer
lean money for American-bred dogs" 1t
has this year opened twenty-five classes
| tor American. including Canada as part of
America, the American Kennel Club to the
contrary Notwithstanding, and for each Of
these classes the prizes amount to IS, 81
| and ". The breeds SO catered for are
great Danes. Russian wolfhounds. beagles,
| pointers, English settlers ewo). eollies
two, old English sheepdogs dalmatians,
y0lo
riety Gwo), French bulldogs, Airedale ter
rters (two), bull terriers. daschhunds, fox
terriers. wire haired fox terriers. Irish ter
riers (two). Scottish terriers and two cla Uses
for toys of all varieties Where two classes
are given the division IL by sex.
The breeds which have no special class Of
this kind are those in which there Is lit
tie or no competition With foreign dogs
and there = no need to make q class with
& bar" There Il another class which
VIII be quite novelty and that IL for the
road trial class for dalmat lions. for which
the prises are a., x16 40 and s. A car
rage and pair VIII be provided and the dogs