New-York tribune., 1910-12-28
GANDERS SHOW BOREDOM
Otherwise Poultry Show Holds
Interest of AL! in Garden.
COMMUTERS IN EVIDENCE
Study Prize Fowl with View of
Paying Mortgages-Women
Win Prizes.

1t really isn't the automobile show that
is going on now at Madison Square Gar
den It's only those toplofty Toulouse and
Enbden ganders trying to make people
think that il Is. The ganders are evident
~ bored with poultry shows, and are doing
imitation of motor car horns to the ex-
tent that some bantam roosters in the
yards near them are kept in a continual
, ffutter, fearing that some of their 'steen
wives will be run over.
The New York Poultry, Pigeon and Pet
Stock Association has held twenty-one an
nual exhibitions before this, but the twenty
second is the biggest one yet. If there Is
anything in the feathered line that Is not
there, the association hasn't heard of it
Rows upon rows of portly Orpingtons, buff,
black and white. double comb and single
comb: Ieghorns. black and white; houdans,
Plymouth Rocks, game chickens, Wyan-
dottes, bratmas and Hamburgs OF every
known variety; every kind of pigeon i'm
asinable; water fowl, Chinese owls, African
owls, japanese bantams Polish bantams,
Chinese geese, East Indian ducks, Rouen
ducks-a regular congress of nations. Also
there are rabbits, rats, cavies, canaries, one
goat and so many turkeys that it is hard
to believe that Thanksgiving and Christ
mas are over.
The show is drawing a large and cos
rnopolitan crowd of commuters, who wan
der I'D and down the sawdust covered
aisIes. and are perfectly happy figuring
out how if they buy a pair of prize
fowls the eggs will pay off the mortgage
by the end Of next year. But the price OF
one of these fowls is no bagatelle- A buff
ornington that won first is valued at
$500. others are marked anywhere from
500 TO $500. and single comb Orplngton
nulIet owned by Miss s. Carey is said to
be worth $1,000.
The tank where the water fowl swim was
the centre of interest all day yesterday
Snow geese. whist1ing swans, Wldgeons'
ntntaiI ducks from the Bahamas, rosy
bill pochards and a score or VarieueS
crowded the scant surface Of the water.
tall German stork proved especially absorb
ing to one small visitor, aged six
.-Muvver." she begged, when her parent
pointed out the stork, ASK him pease 10
bring me a ickle bruvver.'
In cages near the tank are other fancy
fowIs-demoiselle cranes, rightly nameo'
with their slender, graceful necks ana
gowns of delicate gray: brilliant pea fowls
and impeyan pheasants, with flowing plu-
mage.
One of these pheasants didn't IKE the
show at all yesterday, and rumor went
the round of the birds that he tried to
commit suicide by hanging himself from
the wire roof of his cage II turned out,
however, that he was simply trying to get
out.
At least half of the galle-y is given over
to pigeons crested and -.ted; pigeons
for carriers and pigeons 70 .NtGaos. There
is an especially fine lot of lvaite fantails
Beyond the pigeons are the rabbits
Prizes in this class are offered not only
by the poultry association but by the Fur
Fanciers' Association. The rabbits didn't
appear to appreciate these last, perhaps
considering them too personal
The judges got to work early in the
afternoon, and by nightfal many OF the
cages were decorated Women exhibitors
won good many prizes. They are par
ticulariy numerous in the pet stock de-
partment.
Miss Margaret g. Weyher drew several
blue ribbons with her Belgian hares, and
Miss Cora Ellard got number Of ''frsts''
and seconds with her cavies
The show will last until Saturday night,
and many future prize winners are ex
pected to come into being in the incu-
bators which are a feature of great inter-
est TO curious visitors.
TODAY the Atlantic Cat Club opens Its
eighth annual exhibition in connection with
the poultry show