The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-28
HANDSOME CHICKENS
WILL Be ON VIEW
Rare Golden Pencil1cd Ham
burgs Will BE Feature Of
Palace Show.
FEMALE OUTSHINES MALI

Tho Palace Poultry Show this wear
will make a broad appeal. beginning with
It's extensive model chicken farm. occu-
plying half Of one Of the big hoors Of
tho Grand Central Palace. This idea
vas started In III show OF a year 9
and proved popular. This year II Is to
be enlarged and developed and a rom-
oush that the beginner may learn the
ropes. the practical poultryman bring
himself fully up to date. and the sub
urbanite or small farmer to whom chick
ems are little more than a name may
make a start.
Chicken lovers as we'll as those h
know chickens scarcely at all will find
much TO interest them In the breed de-
scrtbed as the most beautiful chicken in
the world. The most beautiful chicken
Is the Colder Pencilled Hamburg. II IL
sale TO be the rarest fowl in existence
to-day. some declaring that all In all
there are not over 200 birds In existence.
One wit has called II the suffragette
chicken, for. by n curious freak Of ma
ture. alone In the entire poultry world.
the female Ia far more beautiful "a
the male.
The male is a reddish bay and nothing
remarkable. The female has a ground
color OF light orange. al exquisite golden.
pencilled In narrow greenish black.
Those interested in the new chicken be-
lieve that by doing away with the old
system of double mating that has pre-
vailed. and returning to single mating
the males may be brought TO the female
standard OF beauty and a highly popular
and modern breed be built up. All this
is 10 be dicussed In a Golden Pencilled
Hamburg club that Is TO be started and
developed through the year. To-day the
only Golden Pencilled Hamburg man of
importance in the country. SO far as IL
: known. Is John \. Gamewell Of Little
Silver. N. j., who is to show forty-two OF
these birds at the Palace. Mr.. Gameweil
is a woolen goods manufacturer who has
Just gone back into the chicken bus,-
ness. lie started the active breeding OF
Black Minorcas ten years ago or go and
founded the Black Minorca club. Others
who raise the rare breed are Richard
Oke OF London. Ontario Ira NJ. Farber
OF S~andyville. Ohio G. l.. Drew of
Hammondsport. y. Y. Or. T.. W. Dwight
Of Boston. Mass. Mrs, W. p. Master of
Pleasant Valley. y. Y, and Herman
Hoke OF Spring Grove. Pa.
Too valuable TO exhibit said n. l..
Christian OF Philadelphia. shaking his
head decisively when he was asked to
bring Lady Byzantine 10 the Palace
show. she N worth 800. 1000" Lady
Byzantine is the wonderful hen. a White
Leghorn. that has beaten every other
hen In the world in egg laying. But Mr..
Christian has reconsidered. The Palace
Show is to have this record breaker.
and n greater, more useful exhibit 10
behalf OF the professional poultrymAn.
AS well az the man in the street. II would
be difficult TO imagine.
Cats are TO be a large feature OF this
poultry show. blue and silver pussies.
chiefly. that will be wonders. The fire
house cats promise to be- perhaps the
greatest of the novelties of this section.
Not long ago a New York woman picked
up on the streets of New York a little.
black. short haired cat. a waif. In honor
OF the day on which she found II she
named the cat Palm Sunday Fed and
cared for II turned out so good a cat
that she bred IL TO a rather celebrated
personality of the feline world. King
Cole. Four remarkable black kittens
were the result. Two of these she pre-
sAnted to the fire engine company at 24o
West Thirtieth street. These gave the
idea OF the new fire house engine classes.
and the two superlative black kittens
will be the challengers to all their kind
IN the Palace Show OF 1915.
so far as can he told as yet the rah-
bit cat of Brooklyn is to have 20 rivals
and no chance OF competition. His name
Is Baby bunting and he is the prop
erty of Mrs. Frank s. Rollins OF 372
Stuyvesant avenue. The rabbit cat hops
about like a rabbit and has the same
long, uncat like legs. Mrs, Rollins says
that he had n brother. but that he
strayed away IA the woods one day and
a hunter mietook him for n rabbit and
IN him. The rabbi cat is a Yankee.
a native Of Massachusetts.
Rhode Island Reds. Buff Wyandottes,
Bun ~Orpingtons, Silver Wyandottes,
Cornish and Partridge Wyandottes still
promise to be the shows eaders. From
round about New York the entries are
particularly gratifying.