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being the annual dues OF $40 from each:
now there Is from this source an annual
gross income Of sl.O0 and $3.50 from as
sociate members. with a cash surplus of
Sso,cm. The first step to gain a national
pre-eminence was to establish a stud book
and register. This was decided on In 1886.
and within two years the American Kennel
club had gained the possession OF the two
! pioneer ventures OF the sort. the American
Kennel Register. published by Forest and
Stream. New York. and the American
Kennel Stud Book. published by the Ameri-
can Field, Chicago. In 1888 the American
Kennel club started the American Kennel
Gazette, now issued semi-monthly. and the
auxiliary associate membership.
Canadians Drop out.
The three Canadian clubs among the
charter member lsoon dropped out and
there has been no affillation on rulings
with that country since 1883. for the fan
ciers across the border prefer to run their
own affairs under an allegiance with the
English Kennel club. Despite what may
be termed a perpetual quarrel with the
United States customs and the quarantine
regulations the Canadians are frequent ex-
hibitors at bench shows in the United
States, but the reverse is not the case. The
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the English Kennel club in 1901. constituted
OF A. p. V~redenburgh. c. Rodman and G.
M. Carnochan. to argue for mutual action
on certain points. Nothing came Of IL save
a perfunctory agreement under which the
American Kennel club was to be recognized
as the ruling body for the United States
and Canada.
There have been at times an opposition
to the American Kennel club, notably the
National Breeders Nassociation, started at
New York In 1889, and various rival stud
books and registers, but none has survived
At this time It is throughout
the United states, safe I'm harbor after the
storm that followed the hasty actions Of
1906, yet but for the wise counsels that
led to the committee 81 adjudication there
would probably now befa new organization
and new stud book ina vigorous race with
the old ship. This thought may have some
Influence in leading the American Kennel
club back to the early altruistic methods.
Committees for the Year.
The affairs for the year will be shaped
by the following standing committees:
Pacific Coast A~dvisory-C. X. Harley, II.
4. Carlton. DR.. w p. Burnham. w. w.
Stettheimer, j. p. Norman.
Finance-W. G. Rockefeller, w. Ruther-
furd. william Rauch.
sS STUD OK w Appleton, s. Van
Rules-E. Brooks, J. e. DeMund, ID.
Moore. Franklin Lord. II. H.. HunneweIL.
Field Trial-C. Smith, G. b. Post. jr.; s.
Ball.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. willets. J. e. De
Mund, j. s. Price, b. s. Smith, r, II.
Publication-D. Moore, r. Croker, jr.; r.
h Hunt, r. p. Keasbey. r. s. Edison.
show Licenses-J. G. Bates, F. II. os-
good, G.. Lauder, jr.
As new brooms sweep clean. some
changes from the former methods are ex-
pected during the season from the COM
mitteemen. The stud book work is to be
regulated, it is said. by adopting modern
indexing and filing systems, while some ef-
fort is to be made to have-verified the
pedigrees handed in for registration. The
committee on this work may find 1t i'm
possible to guarantee pedigrees, but In the
interest of p~aternal government it may be
often possible to throw cut a.redigree man
ifestly fixed up. The task of the rules
committee is to cut out the red tape that
has entangled the management of dog
shows and to enforce certain needed re-
forms in the selection of show Judges on
the principle that all exhibitors, rich or
poor, should have an equal chance TO win
the blue ribbons and no awards be made
through favorftism. The safeguarding of
puppies at shows and more drastic penal
ties against the benching of unsound. mu-
tilated or faked-up dogs will also engage
attention of the rules committee.
Doesn't Give r. show.
The American Kennel club, unlike the
English Kennel club. does not give an an
nual show, and this is in accordance with
Its position as the supreme and UNI
prejudiced high court of dogdom. 1t con-
sequently is not apparent to many why
there should be an associate membership,
particularly as they are carried along at a
monetary loss to the American Kennel
club. The original idea was to create a
support for the stud book. which no longer
holds good, for the dog breeders of the
country are now sufficiently numerous to
make it and the Gazette profitable. even
though the latter were issued weekly. An
other primal idea and one very dear to
two or three was that the associate mem
bers would some day build a club house,
part of which would be used for the
American Kennel club offices. 1t happens
now, however, that many of the associate
members are mere figure heads and do not
own dogs. while some of them speak dis
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hibitors. A favcrite remark with this sort
of associate member is; "Yes, / belong TO
the American Kennel club, you know, but
really l wouldn't keep a dog and I-never
go to dog shows.
In keeping with the platform of the 1884
meeting at Philadelphia the membership
should be limited to kennel, speciality or
dog show clubs. each TO a nave a voting
delegate and to pay annual dues of $40.
The associate member pays S a year, for
which he receives free two registration
privileges. value 81 each; a copy of the
stud book. cost TO print $3.50; a subscrip-
lion to the Gazette, value g., and access to
all records and to any foreign and Ameri-
can papers on file in the American Kennel
club office. There is no profit i'm this
membership, II Is manifest. and the new
constitution has limited the voting dele