[ Dogdom ]
A monthly American magazine (Battle Creek, Michigan), edited by F. E. Bechmann, devoted "Exclusively to Dogs, Dog Fanciers, Bench Shows, and Field Trials." Early 20th Century.
The April, 1919, issue's "Kennel News and Notes" column by Freeman Lloyd was devoted, at length, to he 42nd annual Westminster Kennel Club dog show, and had this to say about the Newfoundlands:
It was one of the chief events at a classic meeting to be able to see, once again, a typical representative of the real and black Newfoundland, surely one of the most beautiful and noble of all the dogs on God's earth. It was New Jersey Big Boy which won for J. Alpin Graydon, of New York, who has spent large sums on this variety. Big Boy is an English dog, bred by Mrs. Wollis, and a son of Ch. Zingari Chief and Mollie. So far as is know Big Boy is easily the best of his kind in America, and I, for one, was very glad to see him on the bench. (76)
This same winning dog, New Jersey Big Boy, was mentioned in Dogdom magazine exactly one year earlier, in the April, 1918, issue. The same "Kennel News and Notes" column by Freeman Lloyd, devoted exclusively to the 1918 Westminster dog show, noted that there was only one Newfoundland entry, "a very decent black in Graydon's New Jersey Big Boy" (68).
And "New Jersey Big Boy" is mentioned again in Dogdom, in the same "Kennel News and Notes" feature of the November, 1919, issue. Writing of the 2nd annual show of the North Shore of Long Island Kennel Association, Freeman Lloyed remarks that "the typical and black Newfoundland Graydon's New Jersey Big Boy secured his champion and at one time was led in the ring by little Jessie Graydon, a young lady rejoicing in the existence of her three summers!" (433).