New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-22
BIG SHOW WILL
OPEN WITH HUGE
HOST OF DOGS
Westminster Kennel Club
Will Bench 1854
Entries.

With 1884 entries on the benches, the
fortieth annual dog show Of the West
minister Kennel Club will open at Q
o'clock this morning in Madison Square
Garden and continue until Friday even
ing. All is in readiness for holiday
crush of visitors. At 10 a. m. the judg-
ing will begin simultaneously in the
eight main floor, two balcony and the
concert hall rings.
Nearly all the unusually strong Cana
dian entries were late Sunday night ar
rivals. The owners we're careful to
have their dogs across the border on
Saturday, to comply with a law forbid
ding express companies to transport
them on Sunday in the Dominion. The
first dogs TO be passed by the veterina-
risns and be benched for the show were
the bull terriers from Ottawa owned by
Frank Beard and r. II. Elliott.
The first dogs owned by Americans
20 be benched were the Genesee Valley
Hunts foxhounds, owned by Major
J. W. Wadsworth, and the entries of the
Kinnelon Kennels, of Butler. y. j.,
which this year include St. Bernards
and Old English sheepdogs as well as
msstiffs.
The dogs will be admitted into the
show after o'clock this morning. The
contingent owned in greater New York
will be delivered mostly by their own
ers before that hour and brought in by
-, -, Lop IL
according 20 the size of the dogs. The
entries from the kennels situated with
in a 80 or 40 mile radius of the city
which were not in their places last
night will be brought in this morning
in special motor vans.
Among the strings TO arrive in aristo-
cratic ease and rspidity this morning
will be Walter r. Stesrnss Early Bird
Kennels of Scottish terriers, which will
journey thirty-three miles from Ossin-
ing in his private auto kennel car, es-
pecially fitted for such trips. They arc
TO be benched together, and the pens
they are 70 occupy were decorated dur
ing the afternoon in Royal Stuart tar
tan.
Other motor van arrivals will be Mrs
Roy A. Rainey's and George W Quin-
tard's wire-hsired fox terriers from
their Long Island kennels. The dual
cons ignments have value of not less
than 100000, for each includes single
dogs, such as Wycoller Boy, Biddy of
Holyport, Oh. Wireboy of Paignton and
Oh. Matford Vic, that cost $4,000 to
$4,000 apiece in England. Other dogs to
roll up TO the Garden in motor vans be-
fore early breakfast time will be from
the kennels of Mrs. Payne Whitney. W.
Ross Proctor, John G.. Bates, Theodore
Otferman, Mr.. and Mrs. c. c. Won Phzen-
meyer, of Hampstead, and Howard VIII
lets, jr., who will send down his big
string of Cassilis Kennels cocker span
iels from White Plains.
The entries from Chicago and tho
West, including forty wire-haired fox
terriers and Airedales owned by the
Vickery Kennels; the Alexander T..
Stuart bulldogs and the wires and
smooths OF Daniel and James Lynn, Of
Port Huron, Mich, arrived on fast ex-
press cars and were met at the Penn
sylvania or the Grand Central station
last night by motor vans ordered in adj
vance.
Robert Armstrong. who used TO ham
die the late J. Pierpont Morgan's col
lies, got in during the afternoon from
Barber, n. C., with a string Of settlers
and pointers that have been taking part
in the recent field trials on quail through
the South. Five of his own included
three cup winners, and he also had the
cup winners owned by l.. s. Borden and
j. J. Graham, the Suffolk County Surro-
gate.
The Boston terriers of Mrs. George
F. Dresser, of Thompson, Conn, which
included her $500 purchase, Ch. Tri-
mount Rimona. Oh. Yankee Spider and
The Little Boy, were evening arrivals.
The benches they will occupy on the
balcony are hung with gold-framed oil
paintings of famous Boston terriers
formerly exhibited by Mrs. Dresser, in
GLIDING On. Lord Derby, Gordon Boy
and Tom Tucker.