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FOREST AND STREAM 
September, 1918 
FOREST and STREAM 
FORTY - SEVENTH YEAR 
GOVERNING BOARD: 
GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL, New York, N. Y. 
CARL E. AKELEY, American Museum of Natural History, New York 
FRANK S. DAGGETT, Museum of Science, Los Angeles, Cal. 
EDMUND HELLER, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 
C. HART MERRIAM, Biological Survey, Washington, D. C. 
WILFRED H. OSGOOD, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Ill. 
JOHN M. PHILLIPS, Pennsylvania Game Commission, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
CHARLES SHELDON, Washington, D. C. 
GEORGE SHIRAS, 3rd, Washington, D. C. 
WILLIAM BRUETTE, Editor 
TOM WOOD, Manager 
Nine East Fortieth Street, New York City 
THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL WILL BE TO 
studiously promote a healthful interest in outdoor recrea¬ 
tion, and a refined taste for natural objects. Aug. 14, 1873 
FOREST AND STREAM 
The above is the title of a new paper just started in the City of 
New York. We have No. 1 of Voiume I before us, which is ::eat in 
typographical execution and is well filled with useful and interest¬ 
ing reading matter. Forest and Stream is devoted mostly to the 
sports to be found in the stream and forest and champions the 
growth and protection of the fish and fowl. 
'"PHIS is taken from the Record and Farmer, devoted 
to literature, news and agriculture, Council Bluffs, 
Iowa. The issue is dated Saturday, August 30, 1873, an d 
the copy of the paper came to us only a few days ago, 
from Charles H. Babbitt, who was its proprietor. 
For us, as for many of our old-time readers, the notice 
has a keen interest. It carries our minds back over the 
years—forty-five of them—that have elapsed since 
Forest and Stream came into view and made its un¬ 
certain bow to the public. It was new-born then, and—by 
comparison with today-—very slightly clad, when it set 
out on a career to be “devoted mostly to the sports to be 
found in the stream and the forest” and began to cham¬ 
pion “the growth and protection of the fish and fowl.” 
In the years that have passed how many ups and 
downs there have been! How many long strides for¬ 
ward—toward better things! 
Away back in the early 8o’s Forest and Stream set 
on foot the great battle in behalf of what was then the 
Nation’s only playground, the Yellowstone Park. A few 
years later it announced the formation of the Audubon 
Society and impressed on a large public the idea of pro¬ 
tecting all useful birds. Later, it nailed up its platform 
plank, “The Sale of Game Should be Forbidden at All 
Times.” Then came Mr. Lacey’s bill giving a government, 
to the Yellowstone, and ten years after, it first printed 
Mr. Shiras’ Federal Migratory Bird proposition. In 
later years it performed a multitude of other notable 
public services. We suspect that when Mr. Babbitt said 
that the number before him was “neat in typographical 
execution and well filled with useful and interesting mat¬ 
ter,” he little suspected the career of usefulness which 
lay before the new paper that he approved. 
It is good to remember from time to time these cheer¬ 
ful records of the past and remembering them we may 
take heart of grace for other good things to be done in 
the future. One works and labors and toils and sweats 
year after year for some good object, but apparently 
without making the slightest impression on the public 
mind or the slightest advance toward the accomplish¬ 
ment of what he hopes for; and then, on a sudden, and 
almost without warning, it develops that the popular 
mind has changed and is ready for the measure he has 
been advocating, and almost like the passing of a rushing 
wind the hoped for event takes place. 
Forest and Stream is now in middle life. Crow’s 
feet are gathering about its eyes and the hair on its tem¬ 
ples is growing white. Experience has taught it many 
things and the lessons of the past have not been for¬ 
gotten. They give us warrant for a firm faith in the 
future. There is still much to be done—work that can 
be accomplished only by long years of faithful service. 
FROM AN OLD-TIMER 
CINCE his return to England but little has been 
^ heard of Captain Albert W. Money who a few 
years ago was known from coast to coast as one of 
the really great shots of the day, with a host of 
friends in the sportsman’s fraternity. The following 
letter from Captain Money, recently received by 
Walter Sykes and published by his permission, will 
interest many of our readers who will be glad to get 
a few words, even though indirectly, from this cele¬ 
brated old-timer: 
168 Sandgate Road, Folkestone. 
“My dear Sykes: 
“Your nice long letter of Nov. 14 has been lying 
on my desk unanswered all these months as I am 
only able to write very occasionally. I have two 1 
sons, four grandsons and two sons-in-law engaged 
in the fighting. My son Harold is, and has been for 
some time, with the British expedition now in the 
States, training officers and men of the American 1 
Army. His present address is Captain Harold Money, 
British Mission, Headquarters 4th Division, Camp 
Greene, N. C. My son Noel is now a Brigadier Gen¬ 
eral in Palestine and has been winning honors there. 
His was the first division to enter Jerusalem and he t 
has been in all the fighting before and since that. . 
He was wounded at Gaza but soon got all right 
again. 
“We are not far here from the fighting line and 
get our little excitements over air raids and sub¬ 
marines in the Channel. My house faces the sea and 
my bed-room windows look straight across at Cape I 
Gris-Nez, so that lying in bed at night I see the twink- 1 
ling of the lighthouse there. 
“Please remember me to all my old friends, 
Yours very truly, 
(Signed) Albert W. Money.” 
“P. S. I am 79 years old all but a fortnight and I 
hope I shall live long enough to see those swinish 
brutes knocked out of time and put in their proper 
place. What a place in the world America will hold 
after this war is over, in fact, what a place she does 
hold now!” 
THE NEW “AMERICAN DUCK SHOOTING” 
HEN Mr. Grinnell wrote American Duck Shooting 
he performed a good service for lovers of the gun, 
and, above all, for duck shooters. He has now placed 
sportsmen under further obligations by publishing a new 
edition. 
When this book was first issued the numbers of Ameri¬ 
can wild fowl seemed to be lessening year by year, and 
FOUNDERS OF THE AUDUBON SOCIETY 
