The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-29
WESTMINSTER SHOW
RETURNS TO GARDEN
Familiar Madison Square Site
Will Be Scene Of Big
Event in 1915.
MORTIMER IS PLEASED
Exhibition Next February TO Be
Thiity-hinth by Lend
ing Club.

The nest show Of the Westminster
Kennel club vii, he held during Febru.
AIRY, 1915. In Madison Square Garden
TIE veteran and popular superintendent
james Mortimer. has said 40. and tina.
qualities the rumor that such was to be
the case. II Ia certain that all the
Eastern kennel world Of the United
States and Canada will rejoice over the
return OF Americas greatest bench show
TO the Garden after an absence Of three
years. The occasion will be the thirty
ninth annual event OF the old aud ex.
elusive sportsmen's club. established OF
Long Island years ago for the accom-
mediation OF members and their dogs.
Somehow or another dog men as wen
- horsemen have vew great respect for
can be little doubt that It's central and
imposing premises have a deal to do
With drawing q big gate OF all sorts and
conditions OF men fond Of field sports.
Moreover. there exists a sort OF glory
about q win At the Garden. a sentimental
DON. perhaps. that may not be attained
e any other hall within the Union.
Tho layout OF Madison Square Garden
hts Il for q public indoor exhibition II
live stock. and 80 accustomed had regu.
lar dog show visitors and others be-
.come to the place that they knew at
once where to md certain breed they
required to look over or TO meet the
man or men they wanted II Is IN
record that even this year during the
New York dog show week. people drove
80 lodi
the big event was being held elsewhere
for the third occasion.
Tho reason for the Westminster Kennel
Club leaving the Garden was one for
which the club In not in anyway to blame.
AZ every one knows IL was proposed to pull
down the old playground" of New York
ers. SO the W. X. G. had to make pro
vision for another place. II In said that
after the premium lists OF the W. X. c.
had been printed for the first show away
from the old stand II became known that
the Garden wasn't to come down after
an. That the w. X. c. people and the
Garden people who sorely disappointed or
upset 80 far as their relations with one
another went. there can be no doubt. II
10 said that the W. X c. men had signed
three years contract elsewhere-and
they kept TO their agreement.
So popular was and Is the Garden that
more than one prominent exhibitor said
ne would not SEND MS dogs 10 any other
place. They stuck to their words. The
losses to the hotels In the neighborhood
must have been considerable. for visitors
like TO put up somewhere close to where
their dogs are. At bench show hun
dreds of exhibitors from all parts OF the
country and the Dominion like TO meet
one another and have their yearly chat
therefore throughout the four days OF the
fixture from morning TIL night these same
people foresathered and remained as
close together as possible.
II has been said. and with a good deal
OF truth. that the darkness and dreariness
Of the underground exercising parts Of
the Garden have been the cause of much
distemper and other Ills that dog flesh is
heir to. that the sun never shines In or
on the old exercising space. Puppies are
proverbially liable to catch distemper at
any show In confined places the open air
anywhere. Exposing young dogs very
likely brought up In heated Kennels
canine exotics as IL were--in February, is
generally Ill advised. a chill. then a cold
followed by pneumonia, and in eight
cases out OF ten. the well bred puppy is
no more. II will be borne In mind that
tho dogs were exercised in rallied of odd
corners of the last locale of the W. X.
C.. and the same arrangements may be
made at the Garden.
Anyway. there IL much gladness among
dog owners that tho Westminster goes
back TO Madison Square Garden and the
Westminster Kennel Club will also. un-
doubleday rejoice over an increase Of in
come and certainly moro and convenient
elbow room.