New-York tribune., 1901-05-28

TO UNVEIL THE TABLETS.
PROGRAMME OF THE SERVICE AT THE
HALL OF FAME ON MEMORIAL DAY.

The tablets for the Hall of Fame of the New
York University were placed in position last week
and will be unveiled Memorial Day A stand
to hold four hundred people has been built on the
west lawn. and seats will be provided on the lawn
for three thousand more. Chancellor MacCracken
or the university will preside and the Rev Dr. New
ell Dwight Hills will offer prayer After the PRAYER
Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew will deliver the ora
ton of the day.
When Senator Depew has finished his speech
procession. headed by the 7th Regiment Band and
composed of the members of the university corpo-
ration. the womens advisory committee. the mem
bers of all the faculties of the university. the one
hundred electors who chose the names for the Han
Of Fame and the representatives of the societies
by whom the tablets to be unveiled. will march
from the platform up the Hall of Fame walk 10
Founders Road and along the road 10 Statesmen's
Corner at the north end of the Colonnade. where
the hall will be formally declared open.
After short speech by General John NJ. Scho-
field the band will play Yankee Doodle AS the
first notes sounded Colonel Asa Bird Gardiner
and Talbot Olyphant, representing the Society of
the Cincinnati; General John NJ Schoield and Cen
era Henry l. Burnett. for the Military Order of
the Loyal Legion; Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks Mrs
Daniel Manning and Mrs. Samuel Verplanck, for
the Daughters of the American Revolution; Mrs
Elizabeth d Gillespie and Mrs William Reed, for
the Colonial Dames Samuel E. Gross and Edward
V Gazzam. for the Sons of the American Revolu-
ton; Miss Adaline W. Sterling Mrs Nathaniel
Seaver Keay and Mrs. Henry Sanger Snow, for the
Daughters of the Revolution, and Morris P Ferris
and Ernest H. Crosby, for the Sons OF the Revolu
ton, will unveiI the tablets to Washington. Lin
coln Webster Franklin jefferson Clay and Adams
in the Statesmen's Corner.
TABLETS TO THE SOLDIERS
The tablets to Grant, Farragut and Lee will be
unveiled by Allan G.. Bakewen. commander of
Lafayette Post. and Theron E. Parsons. commander
of Alexander Hamilton Post. OF the Grand Army Of
| the Republic: Commodore Frederick e. Haskins. w
| H. S Banks. the secretary; Past Rear Admiral
eaenaht heiGy Commander J. Doherty for the Sa
tional Association of Naval Veterans. and Mrs Ed
Reade ard Mrs. Parker. for the United Daughters
| played by the band as these tablets are unveiled
The tablets to Marshall: Kent and Story, the
| lam & Hornbiower and Austen G. Fox. Of the
American Bar Association ex-Judge g James lame NJ NJ
| Samuel McC. Lindsay. James T. Young and Ed
cal and Social Science. 1t feared that James B.
| Dill who was TO be one of the representatives OF
Science. will be able TO attend. because of the
@ nJb[y & 20 ms b d de b davghfar IN
! runaway accident recently. Edmund Wetmore will
soanged s 1ef dPssahec and the music Will De the
Dr. j l. NJ. Curry and Henderson W. somervile
| will represent the Peabody Education Fund: Ed
| ward Cooper. Abram S Hewitt and r. Fulton Cut
erick Dteiman Henry w Watrous j. G. i-' Brown
and Eastman Johnson will represent the National
to Peabody, Cooper and Stuart. DR.. Curry will be
and Blue"
IN HONOR OF THE SCIENTISTS
! The tablets 10 the scientists. Fulton, Morse,
| Whitney. Audubon and Gray. will be unveiled by
| j. J. r. Croes and Charles Warren Hunt. of the
American Society of Civil Engineers; Carl Herring.
| Charles P. Steinmetz. G. S. Dunn and Francis
| Wiley Jones. of the American Institute of
| Electrical Engineers; Professor Robert H.
| Thurston, of the American Society of Mechanical
| Engineers: William ]. SedgwCk. of the American
Society OF Naturalists, and DR. Benjamin L. Robin
| SON. Professor Byron d. Halstead. George ". At
| knson, Professor y. L. Britton and DR.. L. H IN
| derwood. OF the Botanical Society OF America.
| Professor Thurston will make the speech, and
| Rally Round the Flag will be the music.
Edwards, Mann. Beecher and Claiming the
| great teachers that have tablets in the Hall of
| Fame The tablets TO them will be unveiled by
| John Willis Baer OF the Society of Christian En-
| deavor; DR.. J. VI. Green c. ]. Baxter. Frank A.
| catiOnal Association; Lucien c. Warner Alfred
| HarIing and Frederick b Schenck. of the Young
| Mems Christian Association. and George III. Sar-
gent of the New England Society. DR.. Green will
| be the speaker. The music will be Dixie
The authors for whom tablets have been placed
| in the hall Emerson Hawthorne, Irving and
LongfellOw. The tablets will be unveiled by young
| women of the New-York Normal College, Peter
Cooper High School. the Wadletgh High School and
the Brooklyn Girls High School. Miss Nellis L. R
| Goodwin will be the speaker. The music will be
| The Battle Hymn of the Republic
| After the tablets have been unveiled the pro-
| cession viii march back TO the platform, and the
| ceremonies will end with the singing of America"