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PAGE flPllf B PINEHURST OUTLOOK 8 wiw w- - - y AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN. Absolutely Fireproof Located in the most fashionable part of the city and within five minutes walk of the Executive Mansion, Treasury, State, War and Navy Departments. 3obn Z. Hevine, Ipropnetor. i A 'A I ; ty fthk li:b-U23:' -l rJirti Kenilworth Inn, BILTMORE, NEAR ASHEVILLE, N. C. JUST THE PLACE TO STOP ON YOUR WAY SOUTH. Recognized as the leading hotel of Western North Carolina. No scenery in the world will compare with the view from this hotel Mt. Mitchell and Pisgah in full view. Adjoins and overlooks the Biltmore Estate. Dry, invig orating climate. Magnificently furnished, cuisine unsurpassed. Orchestra, golf, livery, beautiful rides and drives. Coach meets all trains at Biltmore Station. Open all the year. Send for booklet. EDGAR B. MOORE, Proprietor. The Gorham Mf'g Co. TROPHIES FOR ALL SPORTING EVENTS AND PARTICULAR OCCASIONS FIFTH AVENUE - . NEW YORK SUPREMACY OF POINTER DOG Comment Upon it in Connection With Field Trials Held Here. At Prctcnt Ilotb on Field and Ilencli lie la FaTorit with Ameri can 8nortsinm. WIOPOS to the Field Trials held here The New lork Herald prints the following comment upon the supremacy of the pointer in America. THESE ARE THE DAYS OF THE POINTER DOG. At the present time both in field and in Norfolk, England, was so advanced in the art of fowling and firearms that he could kill game on the wing. This points to the first use of pellets of lead, now called shot ; so the first pointer to arrive in England from Portugal was the one imported by theNorfolk merchant about 1730. It was found that the double nosed Spanish pointer was not at all good tem pered, and the English did not like him for this reason ; indeed, he was not to be compared with their own fawning setter, which did exactly the same work as the newly imported pointer, save that the former "set" on his haunches or lay on his belly, when lie got close up to his game, whereas the latter stood boldly up and "pointed.' Hence the names of the setter and pointer. Hut to return to the varit ty from Spam or Portugal, which it was thought well to cross with the foxhound. There was a celebrated sportsman of the latter part of t w I" -.VvTi'' If fJxh ' WW, X 1 b7 THE MAKING OF A POINTER. bench show pointers, America is su preme, for time and again have the United States and Canada bought the best that could be procured on the other side. The English pointer, which is almost in universal use today, was probably brought to perfection about one hundred and fifty years ago, and is the result of a cross between the Spanish pointers of those days and the English foxhound, or even the Talbot hound of the same pe riod. There were also pointers in France, and Portugal, and perhaps Italy, before they were in 'England. It is curiously on record that about the first, if not the first, "Spanish" pointer was introduced into Britain by a merchant trading with Portugal. This sportsman, who resided the eighteenth century, Colonel Thornton by name. It was said that the Yorkshire gentleman was the first to use the strange blood, but whether he did or not, he pos sessed some wonderful dogs early in 1800. There was one particularly good dog by the name of Dash. He was produced by a cross of the foxhound with a high bred pointer bitch this bitch being probably a descendant of the old and early cross be tween the Spanish breed and the English hound. Dash was remarkable for his style of ranging upon the moors, as well as his superior method of finding, and when hunting in enclosures for partridge showed an instinct or sagacity almost in credible, by constantly going up to the
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