Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-17
NEW CAT CLUB
WILL HOLD ITS
INITIAL SHOW
All Kinds of PuSSies
Entered
Los Angeles Society FeIInes Being
Primped and Powdered for Ex-
hibitlon at chutes Park
Thursday
HOWARD II. KRUEGER

once again society will kowtow to
the sweldom of pussy land With the
cat show opening Thursday aristo-
cratic cats all over the city are being
washed, combed and Croomed tor the
coming contest when they VIII prove
their superiority by capturing the blue
ribbons and specials offered by the Los
Angeles National Cat club at this, lts
first annual show.
Chutes park auditorium, the local
"Crystal palace" which is becoming
well known as the meeting place Tor
bird and beast will have the honor
of housing the coming display of choice
felines. the choicest ever gathered to-
gether in this city, the promoters say
When the doors open for the opening
night Thursday visitors will be intro
duced to fairyland glittering with
bright lights and resplendent in the
club colors. orange and light bIue
From. the stage guitar, mandolin ana
harp will discourse sweet music while
the cats do likewise. The inner man
-and woman--will be taken care of
by means of light refreshments which
will be served by the club.
All Kinds of Cats
The cats will, however, be the piece
de resistance" one hundred and fifty
OF them, cats large, cats small; cats
long and cats short cats wild, others
tame; cats with green eyes blue eyes,
orange eyes and Variegated eyes VIII
gaze with unblinlling serenity at the
hundred of gay society leaders VINO
will turn out on the three days of the
show to do them homage. But above
all else the cats exhibited will be So
ciety cats True, kennel cats will be
made cordially welcome, but the aim
of ;he Los Angeles Cat club is first
and f remost to introduce the blue
blooded pussies into competition for
the SAKE of the sport and not to ad-
vertise private kennels. Every one in
terested in the genus felis from a
sporstmarIke view will be welcome to
enter his kitty, but the high bred So
ciety cat that sleeps on velvet cush-
ions and would not know what to do
with a mouse if she caught one-such
is the cat desired particularly.
That the management has attained
to this end is shown by the list of
entries First in prominence, as in
worth, will come Mrs. Leland Norton's
Royal Norton a cat so well bred
he will not even enter into competition
with the other pussies. Then, too, Mrs.
A. C. Harper will enter her smoked
geldings; Mrs. George A. MahaTy OF
Altadena will show Blue Fritz, the
finest blue gelding in the country;
Mrs. H. A. Lowell, whose kennels at
in the country, will have a choice
showing of creams: Miss Dalrymples
silver tabby. Bonnie Blue will re-
pCse in state on a pink satin bed. Thls
PUSSY is the largest of his kind in the
city. Although but IS months old he
weighs twenty pounds.
Plenty of Freaks
Mrs. ]. w. Surls will enter her col
lection of brown tabbies which rank
high in the social scale of the feline
world The beautiful Persian cats will
be we'll represented, their number in
cluding several choice specimens be-
longing to Mrs. N. j. Fuiks and others
of Mrs. Jessie Reynolds GirinS.
In freak cats the coming show will
be not a whit behind any others. A
pair of African boo-bo cats with seven
toes on each foot vii add to the be-
wlderment created by blue cats with
orange eyes These foreign visitors
are the property Of Mrs. w. Stoddard
Mrs. A. II. Sterns will have on eX-
hibition at least two of her three tanned
wild cats. These cats, although the
blood of wild ancestors flows in their
veins, are as dOcile as the ordinary
tumcat of the back yard. Indeed, so
tame have they become the baby of
the family plays with one of them,
cc1rying it "by the stem or in any
ether convenient fashion.
Three Bengalore cats from India Will
add an oriental atmosphere to their
corner of the show. These creatures
differ from the ordinary house cat and
resemble the pig in that their tails,
instead of hanging like a true cats,
curl like pigs tail.
With such ConglOmeraton of feline
flesh to choose from the road of the
Judge will necessarily be a stony one,
and an official of keen diScernment will
be required. Cat show officials feel
they nave secured such a man in the
person of r. Farrar RaCkhan Of Boston.
Mr.. Rackhan is connected with the
Spratt company, and what he does not
know about cats, dogs and animals gem
orally it is said could be put into a
vest pocket hand book, with room
enough LETT for table of weights and
measures.
Many Prizes Offered
The prizes TO be distributed win tax
the judges powers to the utmost After
awarding the ribbons to the best pusses
he win have only begun his work A
long list of special prizes will then
have to be distributed among the fell
ines, from the homeliest to the finest.
Among the thirteen cups to be award
ed, the most coveted will be the Los
Angeles National Cat club silver chal-
lenge cup This magnificent trophy will
become the temporary property IF the
best cat in the show, but must he won
three times by the same cat before il
becomes the indiSputable posses sion Of
the fortunate pussy.
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