Seattle's First Poultry Show Was a Rooster Booster's Dream

Yesterday was the first day of the first annual exhibition of the Puget Sound Poultry Club. Attendance gathered in Rialto Hall to view the specimens of ducks, geese and chickens there assembled. The show is by far the best that has ever been held in Seattle, there being over [number] entries, and the light and ventilation of the hall leave nothing to be desired. The officers of the club have been indefatigable in their efforts to make the show not only a success from the number and variety of the entries, but attractive to spectators from the order and neatness of their arrangement, and have promised to present each lady visitor on a certain day this week, which is not yet decided upon, with a rooster.

S. Tyler, of Pasadena, Cal., who has come by special request to judge the show, is well known in poultry circles and one of the best judges in the country. Mr. Tyler has been a poultry breeder for thirty-five years and a judge for a number of years, and will undoubtedly give satisfaction to all exhibitors. Mr. Tyler was enthusiastic over the outlook and said:

"The coops are as nice as any I have ever seen, not excepting those at the world's fair, and for light and ventilation the hall cannot be beaten. The arrangement for feeding and watering the fowls is excellent and the birds themselves in some classes are even better than I have seen in the San Francisco shows. All the birds are not yet arranged, so that I shall not begin to judge until Tuesday. I have not yet had time to examine them carefully as yet, but my impression is that the birds are uncommonly good."

The officers of the club are resolved that the show shall be a success and putting their shoulders heartily to the wheel. The following gentlemen have the affair in charge: Joel Docking, president; F. V. Van Duwd, F. T. Palmer and C. C. Batson, vice presidents; Thomas Moore, secretary; J. R. Friggin, treasurer, and J. H. [superintendent]. The premium list included silver cups and prizes for American, Asiatic, Mediterranean, Spanish, Polish, Hamburg, Game, Bantam, Duck, Pigeon, Turkey and Goose classes. The officers of the club were yesterday occupied in arranging the exhibits and putting in coops the birds which arrived late. Today the exhibits will all be in place and the show fully prepared for the public view.

Fred S. Aleck, of Puyallup, arrived in the city last night with twenty-six pairs of homing pigeons, including all but one of those which carried messages from the Post-Intelligencer's expedition on Mount Olympus, and they will be found at the show today.

The January number of the Washington Poultry Journal says: "The homing pigeons taken into the mountains to be used in sending messages by Maj. Ingraham on his exploring expedition to Mount Olympus proved a great success. Messages were quickly transmitted by the birds from an altitude of [blank] feet. The average consisted of 2,700 [feet?]." It is the interest of the owner of the pigeons to exhibit them at the Seattle poultry show to be held in Seattle this month.