ELLIOT TOLMAN SMITH. 



PEMIGEWASSITT. 



We are accustomed to say appreciative 

 things of our fellow-mortals when they 

 are no longer with us, to enlarge upon 

 their virtues when their ears are deaf to all 

 we say. I do not like this method. If the 

 commendation and esteem of our friends 

 are pleasant to hear — and certainly they 

 should be to every rightly-constituted man 

 — let them be said while we are alive to 

 hear. 



Thus, when it was represented to me as 



years, with a pleasure no future success 

 can surpass or perhaps even equal. 



When he was 16 years old his family 

 removed to Worcester, Mass., the city 

 where his life has since been spent and in 

 whose growth he has been so closely 

 identified. Between the ages of 25 and 40 

 Mr. Smith was so engrossed in the cares 

 and responsibilities of an active and suc- 

 cessful business career that his still cher- 

 ished sport was not frequently entered 



MR. SMITH AND HIS FAVORITE DOG. 



likely to interest many readers of Recrea- 

 tion if some brief sketch of Elliot T. 

 Smith were to accompany the excellent 

 photograph which is here given, I acted 

 upon the suggestion. I am glad to have the 

 opportunity to write of him, in the belief 

 that a partial recognition of his excellent 

 qualities will meet the approval of the 

 many sportsmen whose good fortune it is 

 to know him. To those others who do not 

 share his acquaintance I write of him as 

 the type of man whose characteristics, both 

 as a gentleman and a sportsman, make him 

 worthy of general respect and long remem- 

 brance. 



Mr. Smith was born 63 years ago in 

 Rockland, Me., and in his early youth en- 

 joyed, in the companionship of his single- 

 barrel " muzzle-loader," that first intro- 

 duction to the sport of hunting which is 

 always looked back upon, through after 



upon. But failing health and loyalty to 

 his old pastime led him again to seek the 

 pleasures of the gun. Once more he en- 

 tered the lists, with all the zeal and hearti- 

 ness of his nature, and soon became known 

 throughout our Eastern country as an ex- 

 pert shot in the field and at the trap. 



I could easily fill pages with records of 

 his skill in many matches; could cite in- 

 numerable examples of his superb achieve- 

 ments with the gun, but it is not upon such 

 lines that I most wish to express emphasis. 

 It is rather to his natural inborn traits of 

 character that I would draw attention; to 

 those qualities of mind and heart that 

 make him respected, admired, I might 

 even say loved, by the many friends which 

 life has brought him. 



His many acts of kindness, his readiness 

 to assist in all that makes toward clean and 

 wholesome sport, an always modest and 



