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until more than a dozen assistants were employed on all the publi- 

 cations. 



Among the earliest editorial assistants on the Monthly was C. T. Harris, 

 later trotting editor of the Spirit of the Times, and still more recently of 

 The Horse Review, a faithful and conscientious worker. Later Gurney 0. 

 Gue, a clever writer, and exceptionally well grounded in facts of pedigree 

 and record, occupied a desk with the Monthly, and is now one of Mr. 

 Dana's "bright young men" on the Sun. In 1886 Leslie E. Macleod be- 

 came associate editor, and continued in that capacity until 1890. He 

 subsequently became managing editor of The Horseman, and later edito- 

 rial writer of The Horse Review. 



Of contributors, among the best known may be named, in addition to 

 those enumerated as identified with the Monthly at the start, General B. 

 F. Tracy, Allen W. Thompson, Samuel Hough Terry, "Mark Field" (Jas. 

 M. Hiatt), "O. W. C." (O. W. Cook), Thos. B. Armitage, "Mambrino" 

 (H. D. McKinney), Otto Holstein, "Bill Arp," "Aurelius" (Rev. T. A. 

 Hendrick), A. B. Allen, "Fidelis," Harvey W. Peck, Benjamin W. Hunt, 

 "Roland" (Leslie E. Macleod), Major Campbell Brown, F. G. Smith, 

 Judge M. W. Oliver, Prof. Chas. T. Luthy, Colonel F. G. Buford, John 

 P. Ray, "Vision" (W. H. Marrett), H. C. Goodspeed, and others. 



The last number of Wallace's Monthly issued under Mr. Wallace's 

 editorship was published in July, 1891. It then passed to the American 

 Trotting Register Company, at Chicago, and its degeneration was rapid, 

 and in a few months it died for lack of brains. Robbed of its virility and 

 of its purpose, without editorial direction, and aiming only to lead a 

 harmless existence, and to say or do nothing to offend any one of a score 

 of directors and hundreds of stockholders, it soon began to lead a useless 

 existence, and dropped out of the notice of thinking men. It became the 

 antithesis of all that it had been, and its end was a pitiable one for a 

 publication with a history of sixteen years of fearless, honest, able 



direction. 



" WALLACE'S YEAR BOOK." 



Early in the history of the Monthly Mr. Wallace decided to drop run- 

 ning summaries, and give exclusive attention to trotting and pacing 

 statistics. These grew so rapidly that they soon became burdensome, and 

 an outlet became inevitable. Furthermore the adoption of the standard, 

 depending as it did on records of performances, necessitated for its appli- 

 cation a bureau of statistics, and these considerations and others not the 

 least of which was the recognition of " a long-felt want " prompted Mr. 

 Wallace to start "Wallace's Year Book." The first volume of this valu- 

 able annual was published in May, 1886, covering the performances for 

 1885. and contained, besides summaries of all races in which a heat was 

 trotted in 2:50 or less, a 2:30 list for the year, and the Great Table of 

 Trotters under their sires. The book contained 273 pages, was bound in 

 flexible cloth, and sold at $1. 



