The evening times., 1900-10-11
IN THE HALL OF FAME.
Votes of the Ju,lges In the Selection
o. Names.


NEW YORK, Oct 1.-The work oi
counting the votes of the 100 judges who
have been chosen to pick out the names 0i
| famous Americans TO be inscribed on the
tablets of the Hall of Fame at New York
University was begun yesterday by COM
mittee consisting of Chancellor Henry M
| Maccracken. Edward r. Shaw, Dean OF the
School of Pedagogy, and Clarence D. Ash
| ley, Dean Of the Law School. The commit
| tee met in the chanceIlor's Office of the
university building il. Washington Square.
ACCORDING to the agreement the votes OF
| the judges today We're only for authors,
editors, business men, educators. inyen-
tors, Missionaries explorers and philan-
| thropists. The remaining classes OF per-
sons nominated for selection will be CON
sidered tomorrow. and on Friday TIE uni
yersity senate Will make q final choice of
names to be inscribed on the tablets
] After the votes on authors and editors
had been counted it was found that only
four names had received majority, OF
! hfty-one votes, which viii entitle them te
be placed on the university walls. The four
successful authors and number of votes
| for each were: saas@
| Ralph Waldo Emerson. 86; Henry Wads-
| worth Longfeliow. 81 Washington Irving
O., NatHdnlel f1aWtnO.H6, q.
Four Of the judges, Governor Roosevelt
r. ". Glider, George e. Post, of Beyrout
Syria, and Ambassador White. have not yet
| made their returns. This makes it possi-
bic for William Cullen Bryant, with forty
eight votes, to get majority if the four
rema ming votes are cast for him The
number of votes cast for the remaining
nominees in this class was as follows:
James FeniRlore Cooper, 80; William Lloyd
fEa-
Lothrop Motley. IL; Wendell Phillips, 20;
William H Prescott 80; Edgar Allen Poe
| 81; Noah Webster 35
NO one nominated under the head Of bus.
mess aen received anything like enough
votes to make a majority In this class
Cornelius Vanderbilt led with IS votes
Amos Lawrence was second, with 20 votes
and James Harper, third, with II votes
OF the educators, Horace Mann alone
| received a majority. His popularity was
close to that of Hawt horne and his tally
showed 81 votes. Next to him came Marx
Hopkins, with II votes. which gives him
a chance at Il majority if the absent votes
are III his favor. The other votes in this
class Were: Thomas H. Gallaudet, IA;
Mary Lyon, p; Frances Wayland, %;
Theodore d. WooIsey, %.
or inventors nominated, Robert Fulton
| led with 81 votes; Samuel F. B. Morse
u
and Elias Howe fourth, SO. Others nomi-
| mated and their votes were: Alyan Clark
L. Charles Goodyear, 13; Richard VI
Hoe. 10: c. H. Mccormick, 26;- Horace
Wells. r.
No missionaries or explorers received
! the necessary number of votes-5I-to en-
title them to consideration by the Senate
The votes under this class were: Daniel
Boone. 81: John Charles Fremont, II: San
sha Kent Kane, 2i; Meriwether Lewis. 13
! Marcus Whitman, IS; George Rogers
Clark IL
OF philanth-opists nominated, George
Peabooy received y votes and Peter
Cooper 6S. joEn Brown got IS, Dorothea
Lynde Dix, i, and Johns Hopkins. Il
Besides the names recorded above, there
were number OF nominations which re
eeived less than 10 votes from the judges
Among these were Francis Scott Key, who
received ? votes. and Thoreau, who OBJ
tanned like number. Others classed as
scattering were authors-Edward Ev-
erett. Richard Hildreth. Helen Hunt
Jackson, John Gorham Palfrey Ray Pal
mer, John Howard Payne, Jared Sparks.
Business Men-DanieI Appleton. Jonas
! Chiekering, Erastus Fairbanks
Educatcrs-Samuel G. Howe. Taylor
/ Lewis. Elias Loomis William H. McGuf-
fey, Lindley Murray. Eiiphalet Mott Hen
ry Tappans Samuel H. Taylor, Emma Will
| lard
Inyentors-Thomas Blanchard. Samuel
/ Colt. Oliver Evans Charles T. Jackson.
". T. G. Morton, John Stevens, Alfred
Vail
Missionaries and Explorers-David
Brainerd, John Carroll. Titus Coan. Da-
yid Crockett. Manasseh Cutler, Gordon
Hall, Samuel Kirkland. Charles Wilkes.
Philanthropists-J Lick Lucretia
Mott, Gerritt Smith.
! The individual judgment OF some of the
/ judges well known in the East 6s 10 what
1 authors. editors. and business men should
| have their names inscribed was as follows:
! Chief Justice NJ w. FuIIer-BTyan. En-
/ erson. Greeley, Hawthorne, Irving, and
, Longfeliow.
| Ex-President Grover CIeveIand-Bryant
! Emerson, Irving Motley, and Foe.
President Eliot. -Earvard-Bryant En-
| erson. Hawthorne. Irving. and Longfeliow
/ President Hadley. YaIe-Bryant, Cooper
j Emerson, Greeley. Irving. Longfellow
! Poe, Noah Webster, and Cornelius Van
derbi1t
President Low. CoIumbia-Cooper. En-
/ erson, Hawthorne, Irving. LongfeI1ow
! and Amos Lawrence
| E. Stedman-Bryant, Cooper. Emer-
| son, Garrison. Greeley, Hawthorne. irving
! Longfellew. Prescott. Poe, and Corneliu.
| Vanderbilt.
whitelaw Reid-Emerson. Greeley. Haw-
| thorne Irving, Longfellow, Motley. Poe
| Vanderbilt.
| Two State chief justices. NJ. S. Bon
nifeld of Nevada and T. T Nichols. @
| Louisiana, cast no vote for any author ol
| business man