The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-06-06
TO GREAT AMERICANS
Muchly Discussed Hall Of Fame
Is Dedicated at New York. .
HONOR TABLETS ARE UNVEILED
Senator Dercw Was Orator OF the
Jay-Hall Is Intended to
Be American West
minister.
The Hall of Fame at New York uni

versity was dedicated Thursday.
The ceremonies at the dedication
were opened with prayer by Rev. DR..
n. Hills. Senator Chauncey NJ. De-
pew delivered the oration.
Following the oration, Chancellor
MacCracken. of the New York univer-
sity, in an address. made formal de-
claration of the opening of the hall.
The tablets we're then unveiled by
representatives Of various societies,
schools and families in the following
order:
Washir gton tablet, by the Society
of Cincinnati.
Lincoln tablet, by the Military Or
der of Loyal Legion.
Webster tablet, by the Daughters OF
the American Revolution.
Franklin tablet by the Colonial
Danes.
jefferson tablet, by the Sons of the
American Revolution.
Clay tablet, by the Daughters of
the Revolution.
Adams tablet, by Sons Of the Revo-
luton.
Grant tablet, by the Grand Army of
the Republic.
Farragut tablet, by the National AS
sociation Of Naval Veterans.
Lee tablet. by the United Daughters
Of the on,ederacy. represented by
Mrs. Edwin c. Weed, Miss M. F..
Mcares, Mrs. w. w. Reade and Mrs.
Parker.
Marshall tablet, by the American
Bar Association.
Kent tablet, by the Bar Association
of New York.
Storey tablet, by the American
Academy of Political and Social
Science.
Peabody tablet, by the Peabody cd
ucation fund.
Cooper tablet, by Edward Cooper,
.Abram S. Hewitt and R. F. Cutting.
Stuart tablet, by the National Acad.
emy of Design.
Fulton tablet, by the American So
ciety Of Civil Engineers.
Morse tablet, by the American In
stitute of Electrical Engineers.
Whitney tablet, by the American So
ciety of Mechanical Engineers.
Audubon tablet, by the American
Society of Naturalists.
Gray tablet, by the Botanical Socie-
ty Of America.
Edwards tablet, by the Society OF
Christian Endeavor
Mann tablet. by the National Edu-
cation Association.
Charming tablet, by the New Eng
land Society.
Emerson tablet, by the New York
Normal college.
Hawthorne tablet, by the Peter
Cooper High school.
Irving tablet, by the Wadleigh High
school.
Longfellow tablet, by the Brooklyn
Girls High school.
The idea of the Hall of Fame was
conceived by Chancellor MacCracken,
20 whom it was suggested by the need
of a building which would round out
the beauty Of the university quadran-
gle. This space the chancellor pro-
posed to devote to an institution SINH
lar to Westminster Abbey, the Pan
theon in Paris and the 'Ruhmes
Halle" Munich. Twenty-Five tablets
were decided upon by plan OF selec-
ton, designed with every regard to
fairness, by jury Of eminent Ameri-
cans. This number Of names will be
added every five years throughout the
twentieth century, when five new tab
lets will be unveiled in the hall, pro-
vided the electors, under the rules,
can agree on 80 many. The dimen-
sions of the building are as follows:
Total exterior length of the colonnade.
504 feet; height, 20 feet; breadth. 16
feet; length of museum, exclusive OF
entrance corridor, 200 feet; breadth,
40 feet: height 16 feet.