The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-01-20
some CHICKENS
ARE THESE, YES!
Peep Into the Arcade Show
Makes You Think 1t
Foolish Business.
THEY ARE COSTLY BIRDS
William Groves Game Cock. Veteran
of Thirty-one Battles, Wins
First Honors.

II an ordinary citizen should go to
the Arcade, where the National Capt.
tai Poultry and Pigeon Association
opened its third annual exhibit yester-
day, he would probably think, first,
ond. that the chickens there would
make a lot of Sunday dinners. for there
are several hundred of them.
At attempt to buy the birds. though,
would send most persons downstairs to
the market, where ordinary birds are
kept. 1t would be something like
swallowing a $500 pearl in a scent
oyster, for the birds. to believe their
owners, are worth anywhere from 500
in real money, to $1,000 in an argu-
ment.
One bird, the property of William A.
Grove, of Bladensburg road. is worth
$500. 1t occupies coop No. All and is
marked principally by a huge pair of
spurs and the scars of battle. He is a
pit game cock, and has won thirty-one
battles. not to mention first prize at
the award of his class yesterday Many
are valued at $500 by their owners. and
$1,000 by the press agents.
Birds of All Feathers There.
The birds are of all varieties. They
include the most ordinary looking
barnyard fowls and strange breeds
that never have been seen by the aver
age person. There are three new breeds
Swiss Mondaines, German Naked
Necks. and an unnamed species. There
are peculiar and outIandish chickens,
some with bird-of-paTadise plumage.
and some that resemble a Mexican
hairless dog. One breed, never seen be-
fore by those who see chickens only at
a dinner table. has Polish as part of
its name-the rest escapes. This bird
or those birds-has-or have-black
and white crests that look like the
dress hats of the Old Guard. and re-
semble Paderewski in action.
The exhibit is perhaps the best ever
shown here, and has attracted fanciers
from all over the East. 1t is open
from a. m. to p. m, and will close
Saturday night. There are more than
100 exhibitors.
Judges of the chickens are F. G..
Bean, of Collegeville, Pa; Charles T.
lCornman. of Carlisle, Pa, and f. D.
Tally, of this city. who judges the pit
game cocks.
Names of Officers.
Officers of the association are: r.
D. Lille. president; Z. D. Tally. first
vice president; Prof. Roy C H. Waite,
second vice president; Walter a.
Kiefer, secretary; W. A. Craig, treas
urer; John II. Davis, superintendent of
poultry; r. n. Jones and W. z. Tip,
assistants; William Weber, superin-
tendent of the utility department; E.
Callan Duffy, superintendent of
pigeons, and J. Henri Wagner. super
intendent of pet stock.
Among the awards yesterday were:
White Plymouth Rocks-Cocks, FIRST,
DafandnFf hens z
Defendorf; second. H z. Demarest;
cockerels, first, J. F. Defendorf; pull
let's, first and second, J. F. Defendorf;
third, H. Z. Demarest.
Partridge Plymouth Rocks-Cocks,
first, Lewis NJ. Bartlett; hens, first,
Lewis NJ. Bartlett; cockerels, first,
Lewis NJ. Bartlett ;pullets, first, Lewis
NJ Bartlett.
Plymouth Rock Winners.
Buff Plymouth rocks-Cocks, first, A.
l.. Woody; second, A. II. Kirk; third,
Hagan Brothers; hens, first, A H
Kirk; second, Hagan Brothers; cock
erels, first, second and third, A. H
Kirk; fourth. A. L. Woody: pullets,
first and second, A. L. Woody; third,
A II. Kirk.
White wyandottes-Cocks, first. Ernest
r. A. Litzau; second and fifth, Edwood
n
r. Turner; hens. first. Elwood Taylor;
second, E. r. A. Litzau; third, R. r.
Turner; fourth, Harold H. Marsh; fifth,
John W. Warrington; cockerels, second.
third, and fifth, Elwood Taylor; fourth,
E. r. A. Litzau; puIlets, first, Elwood
Taylor; second, S. f. Hutton: third, r.
r. Turner; fourth, John w. Warrington;
fifth, William F. Wolf; pens, first and
fourth, Elwood Taylor; second, r. r.
Turner; third. John W. Warrington; fifth,
f. r. A. Litzau.
Partridge Wyandotte Victdrs.
Partridge Wyandottes-Cocks, first and
third, Henry J. Hunt, third; second and
fourth, Mrs. S. E. Ferrar; fifth, B. Z.
Hutchinson; hens, first and second,
Henry ]. Hunt, third; third, Mrs. s. Z.
Ferrar; cockerels, first and fourth, Henry
]. Hunt. third; second, B. E. Hutchin-
son: third, A. Kogelschatz: fifth, Mrs.
8. Z. Ferrar: pullets. first and third.
Henry ]. Hunt, third; second (none):
fourth, A. KOgelschatz; fifth. B. E. Hut
crimson; pens, first. Mrs. S. E. Ferrar;
second, Henry J. Hunt, third
Black Wyandottes-Cocks, first, Miss
c. I. Crane; cockerels, first, Miss C. l.
Crane.
Silver wyandottes-Cocks. first, A
Kogelschatz; hens, first, A. Kogelschatz;
pullets, first, A. Kogelschatz; hens, first,
Carlton Rutledge; cocks, second, and
hens, second and third, Charles F. Weser.
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