RECORD OF A BUSY LIFE. S 



In 1891 the 'leading citizens of Northampton, Mass.) headed by the mayoiv 

 Editor C. M. Gere, Dr. J. M. Fay, et al., gave him a public dinner, at which' thirty 

 plates were laid, each course illustrating titles of books on natural, history and 

 sport of which he was the author. 



In June, 1866, Mr. Hallock's success in business, which was very considerable, 

 coupled with his income from his interest in the Journal of Comrtierce, which he 

 still held, and a one-fourth share of the large estate left by his father, who died a 

 few months previous, induced him to give up business altogether, and he returned 

 to Brooklyn, N. Y., after five years' absence, and purchased an attractive residence 

 on Gates avenue. He then devoted his time to traveling and literary labor, appro- 

 priating several months in each year to visiting remote regions. For one year, 

 during 1868, he was the financial editor of Harper's Weekly. In February, 1878, 

 he became an incorporator and director of the Flushing and Queen's County Bank, 

 New York, of which he was a large stockholder. In the spring of 1&73 he printed 

 his "Fishing Tourist," a work that has been much commended for its scope and 

 accuracy, it being a complete guide to the principal salmon and trout districts of the 

 United States and Canada. In August of the same year he commenced the publica- 

 tion of a sportsmen's weekly periodical known as the Forest and Stream, a 24-page 

 journal, now widely circulated in all parts of the world. The object of this publica- 

 tion, as announced, was "to inculcate in men and women a love for natural objects, 

 and to cultivate a high moral tone in this department of literature." The result, it 

 is needless to state, has been fully and worthily accomplished, and the founder of 

 the paper finds his due of praise in thousands of homes where it is read every week. 

 Few persons have a larger or more extended acquaintance among civilians and army 

 and naval officers than Mr. Hallock had. Of war vessel salt water acquaintances 

 he names one hundred and forty. St. Retao, for one, took him to Anticosti, of the 

 St. Lawrence. 



As the compliment in a foreign paper (Die Jagdzeitung, of Eilenburg, Prussia) 

 indicates, "Hallock's works as a writer entitle him to a world-wide fame; but in 

 America his services have been, in addition to all this, of a most substantial and 

 business-like nature. He first formulated the general ideas on game protection, 

 and pushed the same forward to the present excellent laws on that subject, a work 

 of love that deserves the highest commendation, for it involved the difficult task of 

 showing to a republican country the real difference between the aristocratic game 

 laws of the olden times which were intended for the few grand land owners, and the 

 modern game laws, which as a part of our civilization protect and breed game for the 

 reasonable good of all the people." 



He was the prime mover and promoter of the International Association for the 

 Protection of Game and Fish, comprising a membership of 250 of the leading sports- 

 men, naturalists and fish culturists of the country, with representatives in every 

 state and territory of the United States and every province of Canada. The design 

 was to formulate a common law book for the whole of America; but the impracti- 

 cability of the measure would seem to have been demonstrated in later years, as no 

 consummation has been reached. In testimony, however, of the appreciation of 

 Mr. Hallock's endeavors, he has been elected honorary member of something like 

 thirty-five sportsmen's clubs in various parts of the United States and Canada, 

 besides some twenty additional historical societies, etc. 



Mr. Hallock was also one of the incorporators of the Blooming Grove Park 

 Association, in 1871, of which he was president and Fayette S. Giles first secretary. 

 This association owns 12,000 acres of territory in Pike County, Pa., which is appro- 



