The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-16
NAMES THAT WILL LIVE.

The thirty names selected for the
proposed Hall of Fame in New York
are as follows:
Statesmen-George Washington, Abra-
ham Lincoln, Daniel Webster, John
Thomas Jefferson.
Preachers and Theologians-Jonathan
Edwards, William Ellery Charming, Hen
ry Ward Beecher.
Soldiers and Sailors-U. S. Grant, d. u.
Farragut r. E. Lee.
Scientists. j. Audubon, Asa Gray
Lawyers and Jursts-John Marshall
James Kent, Joseph Story.
Authors-H. W. Longfellow, Wasnlng-
ton Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Inventors-S r. B. Morse, Eli Whitney,
Elias Howe, Jr.
Philanthropists-Geo Peabody, Peter
Cooper
Educators-Horace Mann.
Architects-William M. Hunt.
Painters-Gilbert Stuart.
These selections were made by nine
dents, 'publicists," editors and au-
thors, and the Senate of the New York
University has endorsed the names so
selected. There were a hundred judges
appointed, but Governor. Roosevelt is
pursuing his strenuous campaign and
did not vote and two others were I'M
accounted for, so that the aggregate
vote was 81. No hero was considered
elected unless he received 81 votes, a
majority of the whole body.
The number of votes received by
each of the names thus chosen were as
follows:
George Washington, 81; Abraham Lin
coin, 90; Daniel Webster. 96 Benjamin
Franklin a. Ulysses S. Grant, go; John
Marshall 81; Thomas Jefferson, 80; Ralph
Waldo Emerson, Sc; Henry w. Longfel-
| low. 81; Robert Fulton, 84 Washington
| Irving, so; Jonathan Edwards, 80; Samuel
! F. B. Morse, 70; David G. Farragut, 70;
| Henry Clay, IA; George Peabody, ";
| Nathaniel Hawthorne, TO- Robert E. Lee
| So; Peter Cooper, 6S; Horace Mann, 81;
| Eli Whitney, sc; Henry Ward Beecher
| Sc; James Kent, 65; Joseph Story, "a;
| John Adams, 81; William Ellery Charming,
| So; John James Audubon, 81; Elias Howe,
| So; Gilbert Stuart, So; Asa Gray, 81
| This list will be generally approved.
1t may not be entirely of the greatest,
but it is certainly composed OF great,
| Americans. 1t is the purpose of the
projectors to add to it from time to
| time.
| 1t will be observed that Washington
received unanimous vote. Lincoln
| and Webster each fell one short of
unanimous vote, while Calhoun and
jackson were two short of majority.
Commenting on this the Philadel-
phia Times says:
| 1t was probably the preponderance of
| New England influence, which is indicated
| in some other selections, that brought
| John Adams in ahead of jackson, Calhoun,
| Patrick Henry, Madison and Monroe,
| though Jackson and Calhoun were but
two short of a majority. Strange to say,
| Monroe had only 10 votes, mostly from
| the Justices.
1t is most gratifying, however, to
note that the true greatness of the
South's beloved Lee is acknowledged
in the vote. There can be no doubt
that the North and South are com
ing to a better understanding and APP
probation of each other. As years go
by and new names are added, those of
Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas j. Jackson,
| Albert Sidney Johnston and perhaps
others will appear among those Sc
lected. No one received majority of
the votes in the groups of physicians
| and surgeons; of business men, en-
gineers and architects, or missionaries
and explorers.
There is to be another balloting two
wears hence TO fill the twenty panels
left vacant, any name that received as
many as ten votes this year being con-
sidered eligible, with such additional
names as may be nominated mean
while in the form prescribed. 1t is
| proposed also to add a wing to the
1 Temple of Fame for the commemora-
| ton of great Americans who were not
born in the country, which would adj
nit such men as Hamilton, Robert
Morris. Gallatin, and Paul Jones.