This gentleman has been associated with show work, in one way or another, since 1885, and as Manager, or one of the staff in the Manager's Department of Spratt's Patent, Ltd., has taken part in a great number of shows all over the country.

As far as I am aware he is not a fancier, although he must number amongst his friends a great many of the dog fanciers of the kingdom for some years past, as well as those interested in the kindred sections devoted to Fur and Feather, which have grown to such extended proportions during the last decade or more.

Mr. Goss is another of those gentlemen who may be said to have served their apprenticeship under Mr. Charles Cruft, as I think since his long connection with Spratt's Patent, Ltd., now more than twenty-four years, he has been principally concerned with the Show Department, and none but those who have had much to do with it can have any idea what an amount of detail and organisation comes into play in carrying out the work of caterers and contractors for a big show.

Mr. Goss has had much practical experience in his work, is always courteous and obliging to exhibitors and others requiring his services, and attentive to the interests of the gigantic firm of which he has so long been a representative; and it is not only because he is quite a type of the class called into being by the growth of shows all over the world, but from his own good qualities and popularity with fanciers in general, and the many kindnesses received by the writer from time to time, that I am pleased to give my readers a good portrait of Mr. Goss, and include him amongst the ranks of the Doggy People, by so many of whom he is well known and esteemed.

MR. G. C. GOSS.

From photo by Bennett James & Co., Kilburn.