Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21
OF KENNEL CLUB
New Brooms May Effect Many
Changes in Methods.
ASSOCIATE MEMBERS NOT NEEDED
Old Principles Far from AItruistir
idcas of FouBders--NRtiOnal
Association Has Plenty
of Money.

NEW YORK. March O.-Airs well that
ends without a lawsuit. and thanks to a
lucky star the American Kennel club has
taken a fresh start backed by a charter
and Incorporation papers lately made at
Albany. 1t Nsaw the light a quarter OF a
century ago, yet, although now prosperous
and supreme, the patient has been for a
while in the hands of the doctors and at
one time seemed in a. decline. The future
OF the American Kennel club is now
bright. for the declaration that it is a
commonwealth and not n vest pocket
monopoly has now been established under
the great seal OF the state OF New York.
Urging as a spur to the action that under
the new national law regarding the impor-
tation of dogs the pedigrees must be ac-
cepted by a recognized and incorporated
organization; also that an unincorporated
body may not hold real estate nor build.
the power behind the throne on December
10, 1906, -reorganized the American Kennel
club under articles of Incorporation OBJ
tanned from the secretary Of state at AL
bany on December 81, 1905. The executive
committee made a bill OF sale from the old
to the reorganized club. Claiming that the
Incorporation was illegal for the reasons
that The articles IL good had lapsed in the
three years of nonusage and also that a
union of distinct clubs could not be incor-
porated under the club law, but required
a special charter, a number of opponents
within the American Kennel club spoke
against the reorganization. The real
reason was that the new directors had
swallowed the American Kennel club bag
and baggage, assets and good will. accord
ing to the Independents, and while smiling
benignly, had euchred the club delegates
out of all their vested rights under the
or hginal constitution.
independents Jump Claim.
I'm taking out articles of Incorporation
said one of the independents, the execu-
tive board, as they say in the west, has
jumped the claim of the delegates. The ac-
ton should only nave been taken after a
public hearing at a general meeting prop
erly announced. The delegates have lega
rights as we'll as the new incorporators.'
A committee of the Independents that in
cluded r.. S. Edison, L. M. d. Mcguire. DR..
j. e. De Mund, Joseph B. Thomas, jr.,
Clair Foster and others then began a sys-
tematlc effort to have a reorganization on
lines that would preserve the undamen
principles of the American Kennel club.
Affairs went so far that the case reached
the courts and was placed on the docket.
The independents had never questioned the
integrity or sporting spirit Of the old Off
GERS, who they thought had been misled,
and at the eleventh hour, to save time and
expense; II was agreed to leave the case
TO an adjudication committee of thirty.
w. G. Rockefeller was chairman of this
committee and John G.. Bates secretary,
the independents having a strong minority
representation. This committee took full
charge of the club affairs, procured arti-
Giles of Incorporation and prepared a con-
stitution that pleased both the conserva-
tives and independents. The former Amer
lean Kennel club passed out, and on Feb
ruary IL last the present American Kennel
club by unanimous vote came into exist
ence.
Both Independents and standpatters had
representation in the directorate to the
number of thirty then selected, who forth
with took possession Of the assets. The
directors named by the adjudication COM
mittee were August Belmont, H. H. Hume
Well, II. X. Bioodgood, ]. w. Appleton,
Edward Brooks, w. G.. Rockefeller,
Dwight Moore, r. P. Keasbey. ]. S. Price,
W. ThulHcTlNIus o. van OtidlCht ID. D
Smith. Chetwood Smith, William Rauch,
Howard Willets, w. c. Goodman, J. G.
Bates, A. II. Ball, ]. E. De Mund. r. s.
Edison, C. B. Post, tr.; G. Lauder, jr. S.
X. Cutler, F. B. Lord, r.. II. Hunt, F. II.
osgood. w. S. Barclay, r. II. Johnson,
jr.; r. Grocer, jE, and James Mortimer.
Officers Elected.
At the meeting of the directors the Of
ficcrs of 1900 were elected: August Bel
mont. president; II. II. Hunewell and II.
X. ~Bloodgood, vice presidents, and A. p.
V~redenburgh secretary and treasurer.
These are old names, but they are pledged
to the reform ideas. Before a forecast of
the modern propaganda a look backward
Is in order.
Philadelphia, city of great inceptions.
saw the dawn of the American Kennel club.
Before each bench show or field trial club
had been a law unto itself, hut each ceased
to play a lone hand on September II. 1884,
when the American Kennel club came into
being az the rooms of the Philadelphia
Kennel club. Every club interested in the
United States or Canada had been invited
to the meeting. the call having been sent
out by Major j. NJ. Taylor. still the great
est JuoRe OF sporting uOBS III tnls country
and Eliot Smith. There were thirteen
charter memberships Westminster Kennel
club, New York. and those of st. Louis
Philadelphia, Boston. New Haven. Louis
Vile. BALTIMORE. Cleveland. Cincinnati,
Chicago. Montreal. London, Ont. and st.
John, N. b. There was a second meeting
during the Westminster show in October,
1891, at Madison Square Garden. when
Major Taylor was elected president, Eliot
Smith n Samuel Coultson vice presl-
dents. Z. S. Porter secretary. and G. N.
Appold treasurer. The expressed objects
were:
First-To secure Uniformity of rules gov
erning bench shows and field trials.
Second-To. act as a court of appeals.
Third-To punish all cases of improper
conduct ON the part of managers and eX-
hibitors at bench shows and field trials.
Fourth-To adopt and maintain such
measures as shall tend to benefit and pre-
tect it's several members.
The proposition as It stood was a purely
sporting one. providing solely for an al
truistic board TO labor for the encourage
ment of thoroughbred dog breeding. 1t was
not until an income earning addendum had
been included and the concern had at
tanned wealth that the effort was made TO
cut off the fundamental objects and TO
convert the organization into a mOnopoiy