FOREST AND STREAM 
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A Page of Personals From Forest and Stream’s Friends 
FROM THE FOUNDER OF FOREST AND 
STREAM. 
Washington, D. C., March 13, 1915. 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
This is my eighty-first anniversary. It seems 
to me that Forest and Stream’s change of dress 
at the beginning of the New Year was apropos. 
“Times are not as they used to be.” When 
Forest and Stream was started it was introduced 
to its readers as the opener of a new country 
(represented as a terra incognita on Mitchell’s 
School Atlas) and handed out in piecemeal and 
not in volume, bulk and book. West of the 
Mississippi River, plains and prairies were dotted 
with army posts, buffaloes, trappers, and breech 
clout Indians, and no civilization. Nowadays we 
have it offered to society and tourists by rail and 
autos; peopled from longitude to latitude with a 
remarkable growing population, crowded with 
sky scrapers, traversed by water courses, sub¬ 
ways, tunnels and canals, and presented by 
photos, camera and periscope, in a panorama of 
landscape and birdseye views. 
All this, as seen by younger generations can 
only be repeated and printed over and over again. 
Daily newspapers are just an everlasting tread¬ 
mill and a continuous sensation. Monthly issues 
are frequent enough, outside of war news and 
death dealing. CHAS. HALLOCK. 
A SUBSCRIBER FROM VOL. 1, NO. 1. 
1 Pierrepont PL, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
March 15, 19x5. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I have been a subscriber ever since the paper 
started. How many other original subscribers 
have you? JOHN J. PIERREPONT. 
[The “Old Guard” of Forest and Stream is 
still a numerous as well as a goodly company 
and we hope soon to be able to publish the list 
of original subscribers still on the books. Prob¬ 
ably no other paper in the country can boast of 
so many readers of so many continuous years’ 
standing, and certainly none can show a more 
distinguished, intelligent or happier lot of men 
—and women too—than comprised in the “Old 
Guard” of Forest and Stream. —Ed.] 
A READER FOR 35 YEARS. 
Durhamville, Oneida Co., N. Y., Feb. 27, ’15. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Enclosed find money order for one dollar— 
you know what it is for. When I read your 
notice of change of Forest and Stream from 
weekly to monthly, I felt some despondent as I 
did not fancy the idea of losing my most welcome 
week end visitor. 
When I received the January number and saw 
the many good things you had in store for us I 
was glad of the change—as it was the best sport¬ 
ing monthly I ever saw or read at that time and 
thought it was impossible to improve it. 
When the February number arrived I was 
more than pleased and greatly surprised at the 
good things you had in it for your readers. It 
was an improvement on January number. Every 
article very interesting and “gilt edge.” 
You certainly have them all stopped and I 
know if the sportsmen of the country at large 
knew the good things in store for them the dol¬ 
lars would come in to you thick and fast. 
I have read Forest and Stream for the past 35 
years—it has followed me through many states 
and I have always found it both interesting and 
instructive to all classes that love outdoor life. 
I have always found its advertisements reliable 
and honest in fact. I got the best strain’ of fox 
hound that ever followed sly Reynard, from an 
adv. in Forest and Stream. 
You are at the top and always have been and 
before any other can pass you they will have to 
build a much longer ladder than they have at 
present. 
Let the good work go on. 
M. K. STRATTON. 
BEGINNING THE NEXT 40 YEARS. 
E. Wareham, Mass., March 8, 1915. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Having completed 40 years commencing with 
Vol. 2, I am sending you my dollar to begin on 
the next forty. 
WALTER B. SAVARY. 
ITS RECORD IS SOUND. 
Indianapolis, Ind., March 16, 1915. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Along with many other of your older sub¬ 
scribers I want to congratulate you on the change 
to a monthly. I like the idea, and believe it 
will bring you a greatly increased circulation, 
due to the reduced price. Your labors in behalf 
of the conservation of fish and game in this 
country date back many years, something you 
have reason to be proud of, for undoubtedly you 
have changed the opinion of many sportsmen who 
are inclined to be selfish. What I like about 
Forest and Stream is the stand it takes when it 
comes to vital questions affecting the preserva¬ 
tion of fish and game as is proposed in the en¬ 
forcement of the’ migratory bird law by the 
Federal Government. Your stand on that ques¬ 
tion stamps you as a friend of the wild life of 
this country. I hope you will get a large in¬ 
crease in your circulation in Indiana. It is a 
State that needs education. With your help and 
that of other magazines in the same field we 
hope some day to put Indiana in the class where 
it rightfully belongs. 
GEO. N. MANSFIELD, President Indiana 
Fish, Game and Forest League. 
A WORD FROM KANSAS. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I enclose $1.00 for subscription to Forest and 
S tream. 
The Kansas sportsmen are compelled now by 
Uncle Sam to take care of their hunting wants 
through theory, not by practice. 
Some day your Uncle Samuel may be glad to 
have some of the red blooded people who have 
been raised on the smell of gunpowder to help 
him fight his battles for him, while the milksop 
will cling to the radiator and the theory that it 
is not proper to shoot in National defense. 
TPIOS. G. O’DONNELL. 
IT IS SECOND TO NONE. 
Wyomissing, P a ., March 11, 191^. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Yesterday while waiting on a train in Norris¬ 
town, Pa., I happened to see your magazine at 
the news stand. I purchased it, looked it over 
and I must say it appealed to me very much! 
and if this March edition is a sample of what 
you are going to send out each and every month 
you can count on selling at least one more copy. 
I read practically all of the magazines per¬ 
taining to out-door life, and I am frank in tell¬ 
ing you that Forest and Stream is second to none. 
B. L. LORD. 
A SOURCE OF ENJOYMENT. 
Saginaw, Mich., March 12, 1915. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I congratulate you on the first copy of the 
Forest and Stream received from you since my 
new subscription. I am delighted with it and 
know it will be a source of enjoyment during 
the year. GEO. GRANT, JR. 
MONTHLY WILL GET MORE ATTENTION. 
Baltimore, Md., March 14, 1915. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Let me say that the changing of Forest and 
Stream from a weekly to a monthly magazine 
is the best thing possible, the way I look at it. 
As a weekly paper it really came too often; one 
had hardly time to read one number before an¬ 
other was out. So that one got behind and lost 
the reading of many good things. I feel sure 
that as a monthly your circulation will greatly 
increase, besides it will be seen more on the news¬ 
stands. I hope you will keep up the same stand¬ 
ard and that you will enjoy success in the change 
to a monthly. CARROLL HAINES. 
FROM THE OFFICE WINDOW. 
Up from the litter on his desk 
His wearied eyes a moment turn 
To stark steel cubes and buttressed piles, 
And asphalt that the sun’s rays burn; 
But in his gaze there dwells a dream 
Far from the steel girt thundering pile. 
And he is back, a boy again. 
In realms where boyhood’s fancies smile. 
The azure sea that was the sky; 
The floating islands, fleecy white; 
The purling stream where fishes lurked; 
The drowsing woods, the emerald height; 
The moments freighted with such joy 
As only untried youth may know, 
And all his world his own to hold 
Fresh in the fleeting morning glow. 
Within the watching eyes there fades 
Dream of the vanished heart’s desire, 
As bleak gray ashes, comfortless, 
Cloak the warm glow of dying fire ; 
The city’s pulses tireless beat; 
The city roars and thrums and teems; 
His world again has gripped his throat, 
His world that has no time for dreams. 
—OLIN L. LYMAN, in N. Y. Sun. 
