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priated to the propagation of game and to hunting the same. It has 200 members 

 and a large clubhouse and many annexes and cottages. In 1875 Hallock took after 

 buffalo in the Indian Territory (Nation). 



In 1876 Mr. Hallock published his "Camp Life in Florida;" in 1877, his notaible 

 work, "The Sportsman Gazetteer,' 'a perfect compendium and book of instruction, 

 which has run through seven editions, and received the encomiums of the press on 

 both sides of the Atlantic ; in 1(878, "The American Club List and Glossary ;" in 

 1880, "The Dog Fancier's Directory and Medical Guide ;" in 1886, "Our New 

 Alaska;" in 1890, "The Salmon Fisher," besides four volumes of a different class, 

 including college and family genealogies. Besides book-making he has contributed 

 constantly to the daily and weekly press in and out of New York, gathered from 

 commercial, mining and railway sources, by whose influence he had worked. Occa- 

 sionally he has dipped into poetry, having written some fair poems, humorous and 

 sentimental, quite a few of which have been printed as far back as 1855. 



When in college Mr. Hallock was elected a member of the D. K. E. Fraternity, 

 and has since filled the honorary positions of secretary and vice-president of the 

 New York and Washington (D. C.) Alumni Associations. He has held no public 

 offices. 



In January, 1880, he sold his interest in the Forest and Stream to Dr. George 

 Bird Grinnell, a nephew of Hon. Levi P. Morton, and retired from its management, 

 greatly to the regret of his constituency. In April following, however, he was 

 induced to accept a one-fourth interest in the Sea World and Fishing Gazette, a 

 weekly journal devoted to angling and the commercial fisheries, published in New 

 York, but his business interests in the far west prevented his devoting much atten- 

 tion to it, and he may be said to have then practically abandoned the field of active 

 journalistic labor. 



One of the most signal projects which he has yet undertaken was instituted in 

 1879. It was the establishment of a Farm Colony for Sportsmen, in the extreme 

 northwestern county of Minnesota, adjoining the Manitoba line. There, in the midst 

 of the finest game and grain-producing region in America, he gathered around him 

 many old friends of the rod and gun, and erected a large hotel at a cost -of $12,000, 

 which he hoped would become a stated resort for sportsmen during the summer 

 and autumn seasons. His location was on the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba 

 Railroad, and was called Hallock. It is the county seat of a rapidly developing 

 section. He attempted to place the enterprise in the hands of a stock company 

 because Jim Hill had frozen his tourists out. His scheme included a sylvan park 

 of primitive forest, beautified by a winding river, where sportsmen might locate 

 summer cottages and escape from periodical heated terms, but it failed. Carnegie 

 would not assist. In 1892, Christmas night, the hotel burned up without insurance. 



Altogether Mr. Hallock's roving life, tastes and habits of close observation have 

 especially qualified him for just such duties as he has thus far imposed upon him- 

 self; and although desultory and erratic, they have not been without benefits and 

 usefulness to mankind. On one of his long vacations he attached himself for seven 

 weeks to a squad of mounted revenue police, under Major Wagner, operating in 

 the mountains of the Blue Ridge, to suppress the manufacture of illicit whisky, and 

 a sketch of his adventure, as well as of the contraband traffic, together with valuable 

 statistical information, was printed in the New York Herald in March, 1878. 



One peculiarity of the Hallock family is its longevity, which is possibly scarcely 

 exceeded. In 1877 this was referred to by the New York Times, and in December, 

 1870, the Brooklyn Eagle printed a list of fifty-four Hallocks whose average ages 



