The sun., 1900-10-11
NAMES FOR HALL OF FAME.
ELEVEN nave BEEN SELECTED BY
TIE COMMITTEE or JUDGES
Ralph waldo Emerson Heads the List. and
Longteiiow and Robert Fulton Come Next
No Woman's Name Among those Chosen
Although Two Of Them Mere Voted For

Ralph waldo Emerson Heads the List, and
LonateIiow and Robert Fulton Come Next
No Woman's Name Among those Chosen
Although Two OF Them were Voted For
Eleven names for the Hall OF Fame for Great
Americans. in process OF erection by the New
York University have been fixed upon so far
by the committee OF one hundred judges. and
will be inscribed In the colonnade. provided tho
Senate OF the university approve the selections
The results of the judges votes were made
known yesterday when n Canvassing committee
Of the university senate went over the judges
reports In the university building in Waverley
place The names selected are IA follows. the
figures after them being the number OF votes
for each out OF the possible one hundred.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. so: Henry Wadsworth
Longfelow, 81: Robert Fulton. 81: Washington
Irving. 50. Samuel +. D. Morse, 70: Nathan
lei Hawthorne. 72: George Peabody. 70; Peter
Cooper, IS; Horace Mann. 81: Eli Whitney. 90;
Elias Howe. So
Four of the one hundred Judges had not been
heard from by the university authorities up %
yesterday, so that as n matter Of fact the votes
recorded for each candidate named above are
out Of total OF niucty-six instead OF the con-
templated one hundred. II three OF the re-
naming four judges have voted for William
Cullen Bryant who In yesterdays returns had
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added TO the roll Of fame. and II all four OF the
judges not yet heard from agree In the selec-
ton Of Mark Hopkins as worthy OF a memorial
In the oolonnads on University Heights. his
name will also be Inscribed on a tablet there
a. In Yesterdays returns he had a credit Of
fOrty-sevpn votes.
The 100 Judges were made up of college
Presidents and professors, Chlef Justices Of
tho lnitcd States and several OF tho individual
States. and publlctsts and editors, The
Welt. Andrew II. White. Ambassador at Berlin;
Richard Watson Glider, and Or George +. Post,
head of the Medical School at Beirut, Syria,
According to the announcements made after
the meeting Of the senAte's committee yes
terday, there is chance f2r Bryant and Marx
Hopkins y be m sb to The t 9 Sssady by sd t6
council Of the university in accepting the gift
OF the Hall Of Fame, il would appear that no
alter the list as It now stands before going
to the full university senate. Rule as adopted
says no name viii be Inscribed unless ap1
from this, body o. judges before Oct. OF the
year Of election"
The committee canvassins the votes yes
tarday was made up of the chancellor Of the
university, Or. Henry NJ, MacCracken;, Clar.
ence D. Ashley. dean of the law, school and
were W. oanyassed yest'rday. those for authors
tors. tors % misaionsrIes aries and eIpiorers, and phil;
anthroplsts. The. canvass will be continued
this morning and to-mOrrow afternoon and
tomorrow evening the fun senate Of tho uni;
yerait will act finally on the names selected
Nearly ali Of the college President. among
the Judges voted for the four successful authors
President Hadley OF Yale. however. was one
Of four who did not vote for Hawthorne. Presi-
dent Dav Of Syracuse University did not vote
for Emerson President Tucker Of Dartmouth
did not vote for Irving and President Crawford
Of Allegheny College did not vote for Long
Irving Longfellow. hawthorne, Bryant and
Emerson. President Hadley voted for Emerson
IonCfellow, Irving aud Brvant, and for Poe,
Noah Webster, Fpnimore Cooncr and Horace
Greeley. Grover Cleveland voted for Emerson
Webster, Bryant Cooper, ICngfenow. Irving
and Motley. Chief Justice Fuller Of the United
States supreme Court voted for Emerson,
Hawthorne. Irving, BRYANT. Greeley, Long
fellow Prescott and Motley Among business
men Cleveland voted for Amos Lawrence
The Chief Justices Of South Dakota and Lousi-
ana, NJ $ bloomfield and +, T. Nichols, re-
spectivev. refused to vote for any author.
editor or business man.
No missionary or explorer was passed into
eligible to the tablets Of fame none was se-
lected for the honor bv the Judges. Two were |
voted for, Dorothca Dix and Mary Lyon. but |
each failed Of a majority In the yote t9r !
dents and professors cast GS and 81 votes re- |
spectively while the justices and publicists, |
q ppa -ently thinking less OF the educators than
the Presidents and professor do cast respeo- |
lively but a. and 81 votes. The only business |
men voted for besides Amos awrence were |
Commodore Vanderbilt and james Harper. |
Thomas H.. Gallaudet was among the educa- |
tori voted for. and among the inventors were |
Hopkins was among the philanthrupists. and |
among the missionaries and explorers were |
Adoniran Judson and Daniel Boone and Dr. |
f. X. Kane. Sam Houston and John c. Ere |