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FOREST AND STREAM. 



fOoT. 12, 1862. 



ntr AlPffLBRS 1 TOURNAMENT. 

 "VfEVF.R before has there been bo much enthusiasm over a 

 -^ casting tournament as now exists in regard to the coming 

 Firs! Annual Forest \nd Stream Anglers' Tournament. 

 Inquiries pour in regarding it. and many prizes have heen 

 given by gentlemen who take interest in angling as a line 

 art. Should the weather he tine on the 19th, there will be 

 a large attendance o£ ladies and gentlemen to witness the 

 routcsls. From the number of persons who have already 

 mentioned their intention of entering the different elas.se.-;, it 

 isaquestfoh if the programme can be carried out in one 

 day. The rules which the Committee of Arrangements have 

 formulated, and which wc again publish in another column, 

 are such as in their judgment seem lies! and fair for all. 



An objection has been raised that the rules do not contain 

 a clause requiring the line to he recovered after casting. 

 This clause, Which haij heen inserted in the rules of other 

 tournaments, was considered unnecessary, for the reason 

 that the recovering is not of use, and therefore the rule 

 was intentionally left out. li was said that one who made a 

 long cast could certainly get itis line behind him if he wished, 

 and that with file use of automatic reels it was impossible 

 for Jadges to determine whether he did so fairly or not. 



The prize list, as published below, represents a value of 

 over seven hundred aud eighty dollars (s?7S(i.(Kl). not one 

 article of which is valued at a fraction beyond its retail 

 price. The Fohest and Stiikam pii/.r is a solid coin silver 

 flower, fruit, 01 punch howl, with gold lining. It is of 

 hammered silver with appropriate ornaments and inscrip- 

 tion. This, it will he s.-cii, is placed to the class arranged 

 for those who have uovor east before hi public, the class 

 which the tournament is especially designed to encourage, 

 and it will prove a most acceptable trophy to an amateur. 



The contests in fly casting will be judged by a standard 

 including distance, delicacy and accuracy. The committee 

 have substituted the word "delicacy" for that of "style," as 

 some persons have construed the latter to mean the grace of 

 the caster. In these contests "delicacy" will be construed 

 to m^at) only the manner in which the Hue and flies fall 

 upon the water. 



The first contest will he called exactly at 11 A. M, Thurs- 

 day, October 19, and the others will follow in as quick sue- 

 0333100 aspo33ibl'e,Bnd it is hoped to conclude the tournament 

 iuoneday if possible. T he following order will beobserved: 



1. The two light-rod contfels. 5. Fly casting— Class B. 



3. The Nichols contest. ti. Beavy bass casting. 



3. Fly casting — Class A. 7. Salmon casting. 



4. Light bass casting. «. Fly casting— Class ( !. 



Tiik Prize Lisa. 

 LirjIU Hod Cmtti-Mx. 

 Class A.— Open to all; oiitruuee tec J3. This prize is to be east 

 far wit i rods of SVj ounces in weight or less, made with ferules and 

 reel bauds, a ud of two or more pieces, rods to be not longer than 

 ten nor shorter than nine feet ; six to nine feet loaders with two flies. 

 A split bjtnboo "Catskill' rod, rod and line, given by Win. 



Mills <£ Son, 1 Wurn-n street, Xow York. . 8&p'0O 



Members Siouth Side Sportsman's Club, cash., -'r. iNi 



One year's subscription to Forest ajjii Stbeam 4 uO 



Class B.— Entrance [88 $3, To be cast for with fidl mounted rods 

 of two or more pieces, with metal reel bands, weighing not more 

 than i% dunces; lenders to be sis to nine feet with two flies. 



Members Sooth Side Sportsman's Club, cash .s-js (Hi 



William Mitchell, rod maker, 'JIS Vaudam street, New York, 

 offers a three-piece tly rod, duplicate .joint and three tips, 

 t|4 ounces weight; or similar rod with metal reel plate 



one ounce heavier, if winner prefers ; value ■ 30 00 



One year's subscription to Forest anij Stream 1 00 



the B. K NtakaU Contest. 

 Opentoall Each. Contestant to us.- the s:tme rod, reel and line 

 which will be furnished. (Rod 10ft. loupraud weighing about !i<4oz.) 

 Each competitor will be allowed three minutes practice with the rod 

 before casting. The scale of points in this class will be: distance, 00- 

 ouraey and delicacy, thirty-three each. Tlie line must be retrieved 

 after eich ea3ti Ail the prlzsa are donetud by. B. f. KTIehols, mauu 

 faeturer, 153 Milk street. Boston, and all iu grooved wood eases, 

 1. Split bamboo salmon rod, lijj?aft. . 27jH&OZ.,with two tips. G-er- 

 man silver mountings, (313.00). Also one split bamboo 

 trout tori, lrir't., ?; <( ok., Germtut silver mountings, value 



S20.no. Total. sm\ 00 



i. SpUt bamboo trout rod, lift., S'4o?... Herman silver mount- 

 ings, two tips, JJO.Oli. Also one similar rod, luft.,7k(oz., 



530.00 WW 



3. Split buuboo By rod. lift., si„ j0Zl . ,„,., tips. German silver 



mountings so oo 



Khhjlr.-IIamlalFI.it CnsHwj. 

 Class A,— Open to those who hit ve never cast in any tournament 

 or who have no p tblic record of casting sixty feet. Entrance fee 

 three dollars. The winner to have choice of the following prises and 

 the other contest ants to choose from the remainder in their respec- 

 tive orders of merit: 

 Forest and Stbeam otters a hammered coin stiver gokt-liued 



bowl, value $128 00 



Members of the South Side. Sportsman 's Club offer cash SO 00 



.lames Itamsbottom, Baldwin's, L. L, a split-bamboo liy rod 



will] reel, reel ease, aud water-proof silk line :3fi 00 



Wakenian Holherton. t)6 Fulton Street, card of copy of Stand- 

 ard Trout Flies, colored by hand, in frame 10 00 



One year's .subscription to Forest and Stream , 4 00 



1 lass li, - Open 1 o all who have never won a jirxt. prize at this or any 

 other similar contest. Entrance fee $3. The winners to have choice 

 of the followiug prizes in the order of their awards: 

 "Game Fishes of the United States, " plates by s A. Kti- 

 bouru, und text by G. Brown Gor.de, presented by Charles 



Scribner's Sons. New York $60 IX) 



Split bamboo iiyrod, presented by fljj\ Fred Mahesou. 13(1 First 



street. Brooklyn, N. Y gS 00 



One portable "StrSuahan" estuvas bout, sent and uars com- 

 plete, presented by Frank Holmes, Chagrin Falls, O ao 00 



t'opyof ''Fygshe aud Fishing," by I'ame Juliana Herners 



(American edition) ISO 



One year's subscription to Forest and Stream Hi 



Class ft champion class), upett to all. Entrance fee, $3. 



K. 1 ;. Blackford, Fulton Market, New York, cash.... $26 A) 



Revolver, .32 mil,, presented by Messrs. J. P. LovelKt Seats. 



Boston, Moss , ..value not Riven 



One year's subscription to KOBKS* asp Stream | Oil 



"Boole of Ibo Blade BOSS," by Dr. J. A. Hcushall. presented 



bJROberi ClarkeS Co.. imldisbers, Clneiiitiuti. Q -I 00 



Salmon pasting. 



Open to all, Entrance fee,$3. 

 A iinciy iinisbcii. German sliver mounted, Uejcagcmal split- 

 tiainb.io snimou rod., presented by Conroy & Bissott, Oo 

 i- niton street, Now York . . &50 "" 



Uno year's subscription to I-'orksi- inii Srm:tv . it" 



Striped BaHs Casting. 

 Class A.— Open to all, under the rules applying to heavy bass cast- 

 ing Entrance fee $3. 



Split bamboo ■•Sewport" buss rod. witii agate tip ami rubber 

 handle, donated by Fred. Mallcson, IT; First street. Brook- 

 lyn sin (JO 



"The Ameriruu Anglers' Hook." bj Thud. Noni-.. presented 



by Porter & t.'oates, Philadelphia S B0 



t Mi" > ear' i subscription to Forest ANn Stream Ion 



"Canoe add Camera, ' by Thomas Sedgwick Steel.-. Hartford. 



Conn,, from the author. i 50 



Class 1). -Open to all persons, under the rules applying to light 

 bass casting. Entrance fee $3. 

 "Remington" sewing-machine, with tour drawers, bemmer, 



etc., complete, presented bv Martin U. Brown, New York. «.-,;, ,.,. 



One year's subscription to Forest and Stream loo 



"Paddle and Portage," by Thomas Sedgwick Steele. I Inn lord. 



Conn., from the author I 50 



&W&ffB R PHBLAN. 



nnO note the death of a contributor to the Forest and 

 * Stbeam, is but to discharge an obligation which is owed to 

 its readers. This would be the coldest and most perfunctory of 

 all performances at duty, did it not also carry with it, the 

 privilege of adding ;i word or tribute to the memory of the 

 departed. It is with the sincerest sorrow that we announce 

 the death of George U. Chelan, the author of the series of 

 "Great Swamp" sketches published in this journal, under tho 

 laneiful nowt de plume of "A. Mule." 



We have before this referred to the many peculiarly pleasant 

 friendships which it has been our privilege to form with eor- 

 respondents of Forest and Stream. Not least among them 

 did we value that of George R. Phelan. For his untimely 

 death we feel that grief which least readily expresses itself 

 in printed words and sentences. 



Few persous outside of this office can appreciate from what 

 a diversity of mon aud variety of circumstances come the let- 

 ters and sketches published from week to week in this journal. 

 Tho stories of "The Great Swamp" were sent to us from the 

 sick room of an invalid: they were written— so their author 

 told us— to while away the weary hours, aud that in their 

 iposition the pain which was racking the worn frame might 

 be for the moment forgotten. Mr. Fhelan's personal letters 

 stamped their author as a singularly gifted man, and they 

 had about them an undername charm which at once won tho 

 heart. In them were the strangely intermingled hope and 

 despair of a man prostrated with an incurable disease, and 



inning through them all was a vein of cheerfulness that told 

 how brave was the heart engaged in the unequal conflict. 

 We cannot forbear to quote this pathetic ending of one of 

 these letters written a few days before his that It: 



Tin- trifles sent have been written during the most distressing 

 tough; and pain. I send what 1 have on hand. I tun really too ill 

 to w rite tit all. and both Secretary of Interior ami Surgeon General 

 (private Officials of my Own) have forbidden farther attempts. 



's life. One by one all utt v.- dropped, and 

 after descending from the gun to t he Paber, I have to drop n,«t from 

 a nen eless grasp. Good night.' 



From the Jlemnhis Appeal of Sept. '.'«, we take the follow- 

 ing notice: 



After a brave struggle of many years with consumption, the enemy 

 which never falls to conquer, und after much suffering andlong 

 hovecmg between hope and despair, George it. Phelan died at bit 

 residence, in this city, on Sunday morn lug last. His death was no 

 unexpected, as nothing hut his iron will and resolute deterniinatioi 

 kept h 



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descended from the 



late .lames Phelan, of this city, a senator in the Confederate Con- 

 gr.-.-s. and his mother was u Miss Moore, a member of one of the 

 oldest, most talented und Highly respectable families of Alabama. 

 It is impossible to giro a correct analysis of the genius and charactet 

 of this man. He hail grand aspirations, aud his life, from hi s boy- 

 hood up to. Six months ago, when he returned home to die, is full of 

 adventure and romance. Oi Irish descent on his father's side, b 

 young brave heart deeply sympathized (Vith the wrongs of Ireland, 

 and wften a boy he stole away to Ireland and was prominent in or- 

 ganizlnclbe Fenian movement. He crossed the otvan twice before 

 he reached his majority, and In the hope of restoring bis shattered 

 health hi' exiled himself amid the wilds of Texas, Mexico and Colo- 

 rado. George R. Phelan was composed of the stuff of which heroes 

 are made. He was the very incarnation of perseverance, With iron 

 resolution, he set los aim before him, and uu difficulty could dis- 

 courage him. Ills life was almost a continuous living tragedy in 

 its fierce light with disease. Nothing hut Ida .strong uill kept alive 

 the weak and emaciated body. He had the qualities of a com- 

 mander, and would have been great in perilous times, for 

 what would have been to other men depression, would have 

 been to him Inspiration. He was fearless and aggressive. 

 and a strong man as the leader of ani- cause. His mind 

 was brilliant, bis fancy was fervid he was eloquent aud 

 forcible us a speaker, and .is a u liter he hud but fi u superiors 'lie- 



artistic delineaii : his nomenclature; Ins arrangement ..I words; 



his construction ..f sentence. Die darting ti-rceness with which he 

 shot his sal ire, ridicule and arguments In his communications to the 

 public always attracted attention. He had great fertility of imagin- 

 ation, and with a natural talent for studv he never knew the crm-l 

 necessity of forsaking his favorite pursuits to earn a livelihood. 

 Moved by a restless desire to I. now. cry thing, lie hud ample leisure 

 to explore any branch of human inquiry which might allure him. 

 His mind was enriched by foreign travels and to other rare gifts was 

 dded u wonderful memory, winch made his mind a vast tre 



thoughts, and t 

 he been blessed 

 name hi the pa 



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"NUTMEGGERS" ON THE OTTAWA. 







N Monday. Sept. 18, & parly of four males might have 

 been seen boardings northward bound Irain near the 



boundary of <i 



•d men. dreasi 

 bluer Dunne] shir; 

 and numerous sn 

 hiinling-knivrs. 

 railroad station ' 

 wore enl. ripe q 

 Hon. They wen 

 j.t-i star 



J throughout. 

 Each t 

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They seemed to be bent mi I 

 Being one of Hit party and also a read 

 STREAM, 1 knew that yon would like t 

 trip for your caimans, and Inn 

 without thai fact being kim 



They were iniddle- 

 ituse. heavy clothing, 

 I it rifle and knapsack 

 vhieh peepeil hatchets, 

 ; with friends at the 

 to believe that they 

 if several weeks' dura 

 en from Connecticut, 

 nrting trip up tlirougn 

 tva River and its tribn- 

 liavinga capital time. 

 ■ of the Forest asd 

 have me report their 

 le. I that I would do so 

 the others, for I knew 



just what trouble the war correspondents reporting General 

 SYolseley's campaign in Egypt hail experienced, and 1 I 

 didn't propose to be bluffed < tl" in the way they were. Con- \ 

 aider me, then, as a special reporter on this expedition for 

 the l'"i.'i 8T LND SritEAM: and you may depend upon it that 

 1 shall sen. I you each week a straightforward, truthful ac- 

 count of this expedition, without feat or favor of any man. 



Connecticut, like most 6f the seaboard States, being of I 

 late years principally adapted to the production of barn 

 swallows and malaria, my comrades are in the habit of tak- 

 ing about a month's vacation nv^ry fall for health and pleas- 

 ure — far away from business cares and oiviliaation'8jpequire| 

 incuts— one year to the pine forests of Northern Michigan, 

 another to the attractive mountains and lakes of Maine, or 

 lo Hie -amy forests of Ontario. One of the number has. in 

 his experience, captured and slain seventeen bears, three 

 moose, fifty -two deer, six caribou and innumerable otter, 

 beaver and smaller animals. The route marked out for this ■ 

 irip was viii Albany. Montreal and Ottawa to the terminus 

 of the Canadian Pacific Railway, which, at this date, has 

 been pushed up into the wilderness 330 miles beyond Mon- 

 treal. This route was changed somewhat bv crossing the 

 St. Lawrence River at Brockville. 



Wednesday morning found us at Renfrew, an intermediate I 

 slatiou near the Miitlawa.ska River. Here we chartered a 

 three-seated wagon, and with John Scott us driver and guide, 

 we headed toward Ferguson Lake, twenty-five miles west, j 

 when- we propose having a few days' sport with deer before 

 continuing our journey up the Ottawa, Six hours of pretty ] 

 rough traveling brought us in sight of the lake which lies at 

 the foot of Mount St. Patrick. Here within a stone's throw 

 of the shore a Wanderer from the Emerald Isle. Patrick I 

 llanrahan by name, has established a residence, and in order ■ 

 to introduce him aud his quaint originality, I will quote an I 

 account of our party's iirst introduction to him when, on a 

 similar nip last September, we had driven up as wehave to- I 

 day. J I is whole-souled, generous and hospitable nature re- I 

 voltcd at the idea of our 'camping out" while he had a good 

 log cabin and barn to share with us: 



"Faith." he says, "It s not often I see the likcsofyeesl 

 out in thishuythen wilthcrncss, and (btirrin tlieould woman) I 

 yees are welcome to any and ivory blamed thing I have. 1 ] 

 have a deer hound, the likes of which yco'il not find betwixt I 

 this and ould Ireland, and if I jist whisper in his cur. he'll 

 put a deer into this lake for yees in the smaller half o' thirty 

 minutes. Now do yees go straight into the cabin and piit 

 yerguns across the deer horns up out of the children's way! 

 and before yee. ken say Jack Robinson, the ould woman II I 

 have yees 9 sinokiu' din.ier an' a cup o' biliu' fay. No vee'r 

 hot aither, goin' to tiut out, an' cook vee'r own fodder, not! 

 while me name's Put llanrahan. Here, inc. run, run as I 

 fast as iver yer tegs kin carry ye, .-.. and give the "jntlemen's I 



harsess • hay, and -n' ver scrimpin', now mind yc,| 



give Vm the full o' the manger; and, Joluiuv, run now, run | 

 ye ilivil ye. and tell yer mother to put the lav kittle a bilin', 

 there's a giutlemen lure from the . stales of Amcrikv, coome I 

 all the way to s*e ould Patsy Htmrahan. Well, well, well,! 

 I'll be blamed if ever I thought such a thing could happen. \ 

 Ah. byes, byes, coom in, coom in, and run, Tommy, ye/J 

 booger, and give Bosy a pan o' sour milk, and whisper m 1 ! 

 his ear, aud tell him we'll be after giviu' him a sniff at a 

 deer as soon as ihe giutlemiu pick their teeth. Hi! hi! hip. 

 faith an this is a big day for Patsy llanrahan. Aud here'sl 

 me ould mother, five and ninety years since the day she was 

 horn, an' she's able to lick the" best of 'em now, an' here's 

 me wife anil the mother of me ten children, an' she canj 

 shake her feet this minnit as illiganlly as any o' yer byes and 1 

 gearls in yer big city. Coom now Mary, spake to thegintle-J 

 min, and make them feel like they were in their own cabin J 

 an' barrin yees have tio objections, I'll be afther haulin' upl 

 to a cup o' tay wid ye. 



"How docs we be afther getting a docther here, is if; 

 Well, well, well, Mary, do \ res hear Ilia! now; Faith an' 

 nivera bloodv docther— Paddy, now run away with yees. 

 an' don't be lookin' at the gintiemin like they was a bear iuj 

 the oat lot. As I was sayin', niver a docther put his wicked 

 bed in :ii Patsy Hanralian's dour. Wehave heaven's pun; 

 air. an' iliafs all we ask for, Faith, an' 1 will take anothcrl 

 cup. lis luoiight lav I he likes of which 1 niver >aw bf 

 fore. Bears, is it? All. in the winther ve should see them, 

 an' ye should sic the one lh.il took me ould sow fine night 

 llisl winter, air ye could hear the sides of her rippin' like ye| 

 Were teariu' boards off a barn. Now away wid ye. ve voting 

 rsskil, or yer tin toes 'II be fm ted before ye have yei perS 

 tec- du|, An' now, gintlcmin, if yee're "done, the dog bj 

 — rtitiu' lor ye at the door, an' now mind! A segar, is it? 



Faith. Mary, an' would ve h;n 



it's forthe'like c. ye 



and thechiithern that thini are a pleasure to. It's the blackj 

 plug for me ivery time, aud when I see the black, sthrongl 

 smoke curlin' up from it, thin is whin I gel pleasure, pffl 

 licin' as ye offered it. I'll take one jit-l tin same to remember 

 ye by. 



"An' Nil inyeer eotinirv ye have apple.-.' Faith, an' yej 

 might have ivery bla mei I deer in Ontario an' welcome.'id 

 yeed ouly say we might raise apples here. Ah ! dear, dear. J 

 dear, it'sa Due dhrmk the juice o' that same apple makes, 

 au' shorter wud it make many a ' 

 whin we sit in this ould cabin wi 

 yanther lake, and all we can listOl 

 wolves a r.'tein' a deer i.ivei the to| 



iiov. liosey. the -lnilcmiii are rea 



ye. And now mind, do iv »o (vi( 

 'way above the el, arm', and do ye'two take that birch f.iiu.e. 

 aud, and, km ye swim? An' now do ye steer straight lot 

 the tall pine on the other shore, and thin paddle as fast atP 



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