FOREST AND STREAM 
97 
What Subscribers Think of 
the New-Old 
Forest and Stream 
AN OLD FRIEND’S COMPLIMENT. 
Elmira, N. Y„ Jan. 2, 1915. 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
Reading your announcement in the December 
26 number, of the new idea of making our 
Forest and Stream a monthly and at $1 per 
year, was a very agreeable surprise to me and 
I wish to congratulate you on your good busi¬ 
ness foresight in so doing. 
As a reader of Forest and Stream since 1873 
I am delighted to know that my old tried and 
true friend Forest and Stream will soon be in 
the hands of so many thousands more of my 
shooting and fishing friends who will never miss 
a number if they can raise the one dollar, and 
I hope you attain the impossible—that is to get 
as readers everyone of the four and a half mil¬ 
lion sportsmen who took out a license in 1914 
in the United States. I recently left in a shop 
here fifteen years of Forest and Stream to 
be given to the farmers of our county for their 
winters’ reading. 
EDWARD H. KNISKERN. 
MARYLAND STATE GAME AND FISH PRO¬ 
TECTIVE ASSOCIATION. 
Baltimore, Md„ Jan. 8, 1915. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I am in receipt of my first copy of the 
monthly, and want to congratulate you on sense 
you display in this change. I am sure it will be 
a better and a bigger magazine in every way. I 
have often found that the four papers coming 
each month did not arrive always at the moment 
that I wanted or had time to read and enjoy. 
When a paper did come at the right moment 
there was not enough of it. Under the present 
arrangement it can be set aside until the proper 
time and thoroughly enjoyed. The current issue 
is certainly a good one. My father subscribed 
for and read Forest and Stream before I was 
born, which is just 38 years ago. 
TALBOTT DENMEAD. 
YOU ARE GOING TO HIT THE MARK. 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
I think you are going to hit the mark on the 
head when you put the old Forest and Stream in 
the monthly column. You know how to run a 
paper better than I do—but cut out the “I took 
my 12 qua Fox in hand and as the moon was 
slowly rising mended my way noiselessly into a 
neighboring coodcock cover—when I could hear 
the noble bird a boring”—in other words the 
balderash of individual wanderings in common¬ 
place stubble and duck marsh don’t interest the 
ordinary man worth a darn. Written by an ar¬ 
tist, Yes! but not a recital of John Smith and 
his brother-in-law Bill Williams. And then the 
kennel -“go to it” that department alone properly 
run will put the Forest and Stream first and 
sufficient. Start a series “Dogs I have shot over” 
get Bob Cornell to write of Sensation; William¬ 
son of Ladies gladstone; Titus of Joe Cumming 
Plain Sain, etc. Give the ladies a corner. I 
have a family feeling for the Forest and Stream. 
I remember it when Wild Bill and Dr. Carver 
shot mucilage bottles in the old mailing room at 
hi Fulton street, and I would like to see it go 
back to its palmy days. 
E. N. WILBUR. 
Cincinnati, Jan. 7, 1915. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Enclosed please find P. O. order for $1.00 in 
payment of my Forest and Stream for 1915. 
I have often wished that Forest and Stream 
was a monthly, and was glad to see in your issue 
of December 26th that it will become one. 
GEORGE E. HUGHES. 
12 BITES BETTER THAN FIFTY-TWO. 
Worthington, Ohio, Jan. 10, 1915. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
When your proposition to change the publica¬ 
tion of the best paper on earth from fifty-two 
bites a year to twelve, I was heart sick. When 
your beautiful January number came to hand, I 
was completely cured. It was a dandy! I can 
see now, what you have in mind. 
I wish to thank you for the January treat and 
to congratulate every-one from the galley boy 
to the president of the company. I do not see 
where any lover of the big and beautiful out¬ 
doors has any complaint now. 
An evening spent with that January number 
certainly files the chains that hold us to the 
eternal daily grind. 
Success to Forest and Stream in its new 
clothes! 
WILL C. PARSONS. 
FOR SALE ON ALL NEWSTANDS. 
Swanton, Vermont, January 9, 1915. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
No mistake has been made in dropping the 
weekly and changing Forest and Stream to 
monthly. 
I have often wondered why the change was 
not made. Now it is a magazine and can prob¬ 
ably be found at the newstands. 
When my stuff has appeared the local news 
dealer ordered through the American News 
Company, he told me, and re-ordered, selling 
around 75 copies. 
T. M. TOBIN. 
THE SPORTSMAN’S AUTHORITY. 
Capitola, Cal., Jan. 14, 1915. 
Editor Forest and Stream. 
I am just in receipt of the January, 1915, num¬ 
ber of Forest and Stream. 
I congratulate you on your splendid work, and 
assure you that Forest and Stream merits the 
reputation of being the sportsman’s authority 
in America. 
Reading Will. C. Parson’s article has caused 
me to become a reminiscent, and calls to my 
mind that I first began to read Forest and Stream 
about 1874. 
I was at the time about twelve years of age, 
and was the proud carrier of a “Moore and 
Harris,” double barrelled, muzzle loading shot 
gun, “Dixon” powder flask and shot pouch, wad 
cutter, tube wrench, and a well trained setter dog. 
On the banks of the San Giogrio, a beautiful 
trout stream in the county of San Mateo, Cali¬ 
fornia, was located a cabin. 
This cabin was the home of two hunters and 
fisermen, Alex and Jim Butchart, Scotchmen by 
birth; and as true sportsmen as ever pulled a 
trigger, or wet a line. There it was that I first 
became acquainted with Forest and Stream, and 
with its contributions “Kingfisher,” “Nesmuk,” 
and others. 
Oh! for those happy by-gone days, with my 
gun, rod and faithful dog, the Butchart Brothers, 
and Forest and Stream.. When the hills and 
valleys of California were alive with deer, quail, 
and wild life, the streams filled with trout, and 
the great red wood forests were in their primeval 
beauty, thirty or forty years ago. With best 
wishes for the success of Forest and Stream, 
WALTER R. WELCH. 
MR. SHANER LIKES THE NEW FOREST AND 
STREAM. 
Pittsburgh, Pa., January 11, 1915. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Your letter of January 8th is at hand and I 
note how the mix-up occurred in the report of 
our last annual meeting which apeared in Forest 
and Stream.. Let us forget all about it. I can 
understand how things of this kind are liable to 
happen. 
If the future of Forest and Stream’s issues 
are kept up to the same standard as that for the 
month of January, I can see no reason why it 
should not be a “howling” success. It is very 
seldom that I read much more than the editorial 
and trap departments in any of the Sportsmen’s 
journals, but I read nearly all of Forest and 
Stream yesterday (Sunday) and enjoyed it very 
much. I wish you every success in your efforts 
to. secure one hundred thousand new subscribers 
within a year. 
Reciprocating your wish for a prosperous year, 
and Reed joins me in this, and with every good 
wish, I remain 
ELMER E. SHANER, Treasurer and Man¬ 
ager, The Interstate Association. 
THE BEST OUTDOOR MAGAZINE 
PUBLISHED. 
Jan. 10, 1915. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Dear Brother Sportsman: 
The first copy of your monthly magazine at 
hand, and it is the best copy of any sportsman 
magazine I ever saw, bar none. 
J. H. KELLOGG, M.D. 
LET US HEAR FROM YOU. 
For many years Forest and Stream has been 
a forum for the exchange of the best thought 
in outdoor matters. The contributions which 
have . been made by our friend's constitute 
a veritable literary repository of natural history, 
exploration, and experiences that have proved 
helpful to every reader. In its new form this 
paper will have more room than ever to devote to 
such contributions and we invite our readers to 
continue the pleasant custom of sending us mat¬ 
ter which will interest their brother sportsmen. 
While we believe in amity and good fellowship, 
and the extension of the hand in friendship 
rather than with a club clutched in it, we still 
must admit that literary controversies now and 
then do no harm, and often are of value. But 
we must insist that Forest and Stream shall be 
the final judge as to the time of shutting off de¬ 
bate. You are hereby invited to pitch in. 
