New-York tribune., 1901-05-31
HALL OF FAME OPENED.
GREAT CROWD ATTENDS THE CERE
MoNY ON UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS.
SENATOR DEPEw THE ORATOR OF THE
DAY-THE TWENTY NINE TAB
LETS UNVEILED.


The Hall Of Fame-America's Westminster Alb
hey, minus the Abbey's admixture Of nonentiues
with immortals as Senator Depew put it in a
speech which many of his auditors declared was
worthy Of his own fame orator-was for
maly dedicated yesterday TO the memory of those
native born heroes of democracy whose deeds and
thoughts will be the inheritance. education, in
spiraton and aspiration of endless generations yet
10 be born in these United States. The ceremony
was as picturesque as the occasion was memorable.
Several thousands of invited guests sat upon
benches on gentle hillside, whose emerald green
grass sloped away in front and at either side Of
them in broad expanses and rose behind them TO
the base of the noble hall. whose massive granite
blocks. crowning the summit OF the HILL look
if they would last as long fame endures.
From a low platform near the bottom of this hill.
partly oVerhung by the foliage of trees, the orator
OF the day, Chauncey NJ. Depew, and the presiding
officer, Chancellor MacCraeken of New-York Uni
versity. addressed this throng
When the speeehmaking over a procession
was formed. led by representatives of the thirty
patriotic and educational organizations who
TO unve the tablets in the hall and the line
moved slowly along the winding paths of the uni
versity grounds under the trees. and steadily up
ward TO the broad plateau whence direct admission
to the hall is obtained 1t then entered the north
end of the stately colonnade in such order that
when the whole line halted each society stood oq-
posite the tablet it had unven Brief ad-
dresses made. and then the draperies of red
white and blue bunting removed, revealing
twenty-nine names, all that have so far hecn Sc
lected worthy of patriotic commemoration
there, but enough to form worthy recognition Of
the multiformity of human greatness. Singing the
national hymn brought to a close the ceremony,
which had been begun with prayer by the Rev. DR..
n. D. Hills.
AGREEABLE FOR AN OUTDOOR AFFAIR.
Fortunately no rain fell and the whole affair
was conducted in the open air with comfort The
sun shone even brightly part of the time showing
10 the best advantage the varied landscape over
looked by University Heights. which includes parts
of the Hudson and the Harlem rivers. Fort George
the big knolls Of Spuyten Duyvil and the far away
tops of the Orange Mountains. The Hall of Fame
itself has been described and pictured in The Trib-
unes columns before now. 1t is imposing col
onnade of stone, open at the sides, but rooted five
hundred feet long, semi-circular in shape, and
the architectural style of the early Greeks. The
spaces between most OF the pillars which support
the roof filed in with solid stone balustrade
about four feet high. On the inner side of this
! balustrade $50 panels. each feet long and
feet wide. These panels intended for the heavy
bronze tablets bearing in high relief the names of
the elected On top OF the balustrade, between the
pillars and Immediately over each name will event
! ually be placed the bust Of the whose fame
| is there perpetuated. The twenty-nine already
there were elected out of 234 nominated. The sys
TEN Of selection is arranged that the entire $50
panels expected be filled in the 2OOO A D.
| No is eligible except native born Americans
| who have been ten years dead.
This restriction native born Americans has
| started a movement to erect an addition to the
original Hall of Fame, which shall provide panels
| for the names of thirty foreign born Americans.
This has not been constructed yet. the necessary
! fund has not been raised Although Miss Helen NJ.
! Gould has never acknowledged that she is tho
giver of the 100000 which made possible this unique
/ addition TO the buildings of New-York University
! far completed. she was an important figure at
| the ceremonies yesterday, and, with Chancellor
| MacCracken and some others. welcomed the invited
guests in the auditorium of the library before the
| speechmakng began. Some Of those who took part
in the informal reception, other than those named
| hereafter were Russell Sage, Judge Warren W.
| Foster. ST. Clair McKeway, Miss Laura d. GIL,
| dean of Barnard College; Miss Ogden Jones, Mrs.
| John p Mum and Dr. Mum, William A. Wheolock.
! DR. II. N Baird, Professor Charles Sprague Smith,
Professor ]. j. Stevenson. Dr. George Alexander,
| Professor Henry Wade Rogers Professor David S.
| Schaf. Professor Henry f. Bourne. Charles War
rem Hunt and Rossiter w. Raymond
Those who were selected 10 take an active part In
unveng the tablets were as follows:
/ CooPER's-Abram s Hewitt Edward Cooper and II.
Fulton Cutting, representing the Cooper Institute
IJSCOLN's-General John Schoheld General Henry L.
Burnett and General Joseph W. Plume. representing
the Loyal Legion
MARsHALLs-W William B. Hornblower, Edmund Wet
and Austen C. Fox. representing the American
Bar Association
! sroRY,s-James q Din. Edward T. Deyine, James T,
Academy Of Political and Social Science
/ sTUARTs-Esstman Johnson J. O. Bro~n. frederick Frederick
Academy Design.
cBANRINGs-George H. Sargent, representing the New
England Society
xIlle o. the Peabody Education Fund.
KENT"s-E1x-J James NJ Varnum. Of the Bar Asso-
citation Of New-YoTk
FARRAGUTs-Past Rear-Admiral Daniel Kelly; W II g.
Banks smith end ana r vs,era0 j. Boher'y OF the Ma
General Wager Commander Theron Z,