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FOREST AND STREAM 
June, 1922 
FOUNDERS OF THE AUDUBON SOCIETY 
ADVISOHY BUAHD 
GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL. NEW YORK, N. Y. 
CARL E. AKELEY, American Museum of Natural History, New York. 
EDMUND HELLER, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 
WILFRED H. OSGOOD, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. lU. 
JOHN M. PHILLIPS, Pennsylvania Game Commission, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
CHARLES SHELDON, Washington, D. C. 
GEORGE SHIRAS, 3d, Washington, D. C. 
JOHN T. NICHOLS, American Museum of Natural History, New York. 
T. GILBERT PEARSON, National Association of Audubon Societies. 
WILLIAM BRUETTE, Editor 
JOHN P. HOLMAN, Managing Editor 
T. H. MEARNS, Treasurer 
Nine East Fortieth Street, New York City 
Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation 
THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL WILL BE TO 
studiously promote a healthful interest in outdoor 
recreation, and a refined taste for natural objects. 
August 14, 1873. 
VACATIONS 
T he successful business man is generally one who 
is enthusiastic over his work ; who devotes his 
best energies to win a name and a fortune for 
himself. But there are very few men to-day who can 
work steadily for a series of years without that re- 
laxation and complete rest which is found in the forests 
and along the streams, where there are other than busi- 
ness pursuits to occupy their minds ; who can retain 
their physical strength and mental balance while up- 
setting nearly all of nature’s laws. 
There is a difference in the point of view, however, 
which is too often lost sight of in statements regarding 
vacations. The head of a great industrial corporation, 
when an employe asks for a vacation, leans back in his 
chair and relates how many years he has worked with- 
out a vacation, and if he needs none, why should his 
employees? He overlooks the fact that the latter are on 
duty nine or ten or even more hours every week day 
for fifty-two weeks, public holidays excepted, in the 
year, and that they grow stale and lose interest in their 
duties. He forgets that while he takes no set vacation, 
he travels here and there, visits other cities, is absent 
from his office frequently, on business of course, but 
with changes of scene and periods of enforced rest and 
relaxation. He forgets his shorter hours, his frequent 
visits about town that break up the monotony of a day 
at the desk. And yet he says he has no vacation, and 
needs none. However, he expects all his employees 
to look out for his interests, while he, in return, believes 
his duty is completely performed when he pays their 
salaries. 
There are thousands of employers of this stamp, but 
that their number is not increasing is apparent, thanks 
to the general movement in the direction of healthful 
outdoor recreation. Men in every walk in life are giving 
more and more serious attention to their physical well- 
being. They set aside certain days, or weeks, for work, 
and others are just as carefully arranged for rest, not 
only for themselves, but for their employees. The re- 
sult of this harmonious and sensible arrangement is 
becoming more evident every year. It astonishes the 
people of the nations of the old world, many of whom 
believe we Americans still work all the daylight hours 
six days of every week in the year, when as a matter 
of fact we are coming to a realization of the fact that 
more can be accomplished in forty-eight or fifty weeks 
if the other two or four weeks can be devoted entirely 
to rest and recreation. As proof there is the fact that 
all those who supply sportsmen’s goods fail to fill their 
orders in the busy season. 
HOWARD EATON 
H oward EATON died April 5th in Sheridan, 
Wyoming. His death takes from us an old-time 
dweller of the once Far West, a real pioneer and, 
above all, one whose character had endeared him to a 
very wide circle of friends. 
He was an old-time neighbor and friend of Theodore 
Roosevelt ; and it is said that it was an enthusiastic let- 
ter written by him that induced Mr. Roosevelt to go out 
to the Little Missouri and to start in the cattle business. 
With his two brothers — each of the three the soul of 
hospitality — Mr. Eaton long kept open house at his ranch 
near Medora, on the Little Missouri River; and later, 
when he moved south to the flanks of the Big Horns in 
Wyoming, the brothers established a resort for eastern 
and western people, which became a favorite stopping 
place for summer people from all over the country. Of: 
those who came there and met him, all grew to know ' 
and love Howard Eaton. 
Howard Eaton had wrestled with the wilderness for 
many years, and in this struggle had absorbed many of 
the fine qualities which are likely to come to the manj 
who lives much in the open. Through a long career on i 
the plains and in the mountains, his personality had 
become known to thousands, and by all these he was 
beloved. He had a singular charm of manner and was 
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a delightful entertainer, bubbling over with anecdote 
and wit which made him the best of company. Beyond 
all this and more potent than this in binding people to I 
him was the quality of intense sympathy that he gave' 
out to those he met. 
During his many years’ experience in the West, Mr. 
Eaton had been a hunter and had killed much game, 
from buffalo to birds. He was a keen sportsman ; but 
he loved the wild creatures that he had known so long 
and so well, and in his later years he became more con- 
servationist than hunter. He was active in efforts for 
the protection and increase of wild life — an advocate of 
good protective laws and a worker for restocking barren 
game areas. He procured for the Yellowstone Park 
the buffalo from which has sprung the tame buffaloi 
herd there; and Col. John Pitcher used to speak of him; 
as the father of that herd. 
His death followed an operation for appendicitis, and 
was unexpected, for he had been doing well for a week,.! 
up to within a few hours of his death. When that event 
came, he was seventy-one years old. 
Howard Eaton’s passing on carries grief to many 
hearts, and many will echo the words spoken by an old 
friend when he first heard the rumor of his illness — • 
“We can’t spare Howard.” 
COUNTING OUR BIRDS 
R ENEWED interest in the bird population of the| 
United States has led to a revival of the efforts, 
begun in 1914, by the Biological Survey of the| 
United States Department of Agriculture, to collect in- 
formation on the number and distribution of the birdsj 
breeding in this country. Counts have been made eacli 
succeeding year, and interested persons who are thor- 
oughly familiar with the breeding birds of their respec-| 
tive vicinities are asked to aid in the work. Many peo- 
ple have an idea that taking a bird count requires access] 
