The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-06-11
THE HALL OF FAME OPENED.

The much talked Of Hall of Fame
was formally opened in New York
last week. From press dispatches
regarding the event, we conderse
the following:
In the presence of 5000 persons
the flags which draped the tablets
concentrating % Americans who
had been adjudged by representa-
tive jury Of their countrymen
worthy of the highest honor we're
drawn aside. DR.. Henry Mitchell
McCracken, chancellor of the uni
versity, who conceived the idea of
erecting the hall, presided over the
exercises which marked the COM
pletion of his plan. Near him,
among the guests on the platform
from which he called the assem-
blage to order, sat Miss Helen Gould,
who is credited with having given
the 800, 900 which made the com
pIetion of the building possible.
Those judged worthy of a place
in the hall are the first group selec-
ted of a total of $50, whose names
will eventually occupy places on the
walls. A committee Of 100 judges,
consisting of public men, authors,
college presidents, professors and
eminent jurist, was authorized to
select so names for the first group.
The % chosen we're all upon which
a majority Of the committee could
aggree, their choice being scattered
among more than 200 other candi-
dates.
The process of arriving at a decis-
ion in regard to the names was
rather intricate. In the first place,
persons in IL parts of the country
sent in lists of candidates, and from
these and the suggestions made by
different journals 100 names were
selected. Another hundred were
taken from the lists furnished by
persons of prominence who had been
invited to send in names, and 50
others suggested by the judges
themselves brought the total num-
Der of candidates up to 252.
Only one ballot was taken by
mail, each judge sending his list of
so to the Senate of New York Uni
versity. The count showed that
20 persons had secured the requisite
majority of 81 votes.
Fifteen divisions mere made of the
nominees for the CONGRATULATIONS,
business men, educators, inventors,
missionaries, philanthropists, sol
diers ard sailors, preachers and theo-
lOgians, scientists, engineers and
architects, judges and lawyers, must
clans, painters and sculptors, physi-
clans and surgeons, and rulers and
statesmen: Of these, the last fur
furnished the largest number of sue
cessful candidates.
Following are the names Of the
twenty-nine persons chosen, the
figures following the name Of each
being the number Of votes cast for
him:
George Washington, 81; Abraham
Lincoln, 96; Daniel Webster, 96 E;
Benjamin Franklin, "a; Thomas
jefferson, 81; John Adams, 81 &;
Henry Clay, II David Farragut, 79 ;
Robert E. Lee, 60; Ulysses s. Grant,
SO; John Marshall, 81; James Kent,
IS Joseph Story, "a; George Pea.
body, "a; Peter Cooper, SO Gilbert
Stuart, 50; Robert Fulton, 86; Sam
uel F. B. Morse, 80; Eli Whitney,
So John James Audubon, SO Asa
Gray, 81; Jonathan Edwards, 81 :;
Horace Mann, 81; Henry Ward
Beecher, "a; VIM. Ellery Charming,
So Ralph Waldo Emerson, 81; Ma
thaniel Hawthorne, 70 Washington
Irving, SO Henry w. L~ongfellow, 85.
No selections we're made from the
business men, missionaries and ex-
plOrers, engineers and architects,
physicians and surgeons. Further
selections to fill up the so will be
have been selected a new selection
of 5 names will be made every 5
years, beginning in 1906, and con.
tinuing until there shall be $50 Amer
leans with appropriate busts, stat
ues and tablets in the Hall of Fame.