Caption: Sophograph - 1890
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;; j ^ ^ — g . ^ m ^ m ^ m ^ ^ * * * * — • • -—»-» -m* ~m*m ^ • » • ^ «• »«* • I M> I M J H ' H I • • i J ^ *- ™ J' * ll I l*~ •« • ^ •• ^ - - A - * ^ ^ M " -*••• • i f • — ^ — • — • • t • • •••• i • i . «•" - THi < l' l i ' » . I I A I ' l l day and men who were at thai time leaders in New Fork * iety. In this city Hallack spent forty of thehest years of his life, avoiding society in general. His conversation is said by intimate friends to have displayed wit equal to that found in his poems. He refrained from taking part in athletic persuits and spent his time wholly in the pursuit of knowledge. Literature was not his profession as he never received COmpensation for his works nor desired to have their authorship made known. In proof of this fact it is related that, although constantly in tnmunication with him. it was six years after Mar Bozarris was given to the world, before his sister was informed of the authorship of the poem. Even his three 1 »rks were unclaimed \>y him. hut the * • was at last discloc I and Fitz Green Hallack suddenly became famous. After retiring from active life. Hallack had ample time to add to his renown, hut no work- ever apj ired to show hat-the opportunity had been improved. In early life many poem were written Ly Hallack. some •f which ] 98 rar<> merit foi > young a mind. Hut his fame r chiefly on six poems written between the years 1817 and 1827. There are few of value before or after this time. A volume of his ipl * works contains only about fourthoui nd lims. and it is to be regretted that BO little was produced by one who could write so Well, and whom rities have admired and praised I few others have b D pr ed. It is n claimed that Pitz Green Hallack is ;Ls gi a poet a i ha prodi < in later yeai i Po properly j f tl mi f a man. one in fcake into a uiit his li cb • and surrounding circumstan Hallacl impo once pe *?d if n >mpare him with f hi pi ime. Until "Fanny ind the "Croaker" poems appeal ill po« f A : were either mainly solemn oi riflin/ II ti\>' if not original. He i 6l which * : (I ignate as the American 3ch I, the & greater names that have e ap| - If » hig r k L assigned him than b B denf would i w entit im is because he i so far ahov. j f L:S i 1 •inpr with the life of the community 1; truly the preserver of t\ -•• 1 por vvh 1 • national life. He bears to p try the same n If hears to prose. It is to his 1 ting credit that wrot* nead* e poems that will stand a m an A to < - m more lasting than the one en 1 eleven }••J Had York not th honored him he \ N Id ill n forgotten, fears have proved the fa] '•Allies to ashes; dusl iv be B .. : .,.. a INTERESTING STATISTICS From a number of -serrations n in has 1 -n ascer ined that a i jam an i shine: d e while en«»a»d in the 1 ion gum chewin r in> I d « u w the rai only 60 chews a minute, in a which length oJ the working dav f«»r traveled over 9,000 feet. Anothei So per minut md v preat J m nearly equal to I ir miles in the san Thes,. an- only two fr i a n iber of mi •Oard. vsenl n i * ini -:* ; ., .s made iv«
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