The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-11-18
BOOK NOTICES.

That the reader may get a more accurate con
ception of the nature of this book, it may be
well to refresh his memory here at the outset by
a Erief description of the character and pur-
poses Of the now famous "Hall of Fame for
Great Americans" It is a magnificent colon
made Greeted at a cost of nearly $25O,OO0), five
hundred feet in length, located just north of
New York City, adjoining the buildings of New
York University, and facing from its command
ing site the beautiful valleys of the Harlem and
Hudson Rivers. Along this colonnade are $50
panels, each about two by eight feet, on which
are to be inscribed by the year 1000 the names
of the $50 Americans whom the judges shall
have declared most worthy-ffty of these names
we understand, to be selected before the end of
this year, five in 1905, and five each fifth year
thereafter until the end of this century. Twenty
niue names were agreed on in 1900 and the re-
suit @" this years balloting for twenty-one others
will soon be announced.
But, of course, in a matter of this kind, every
thing hinges on the ability and character of the
Judges. IF they do not command the confidence
of the people, then do the builders labor in vain.
In this particular the promoters of the Hall of
Fame have been especially fortunate. One hun
dred noted men were Observation-Disclosures, scien-
lists, authors, editors, and publicists. Each
q " UnC OAAOH "0O ACHAOOSOOO0S ~N~ NS@S
no man was selected from one of the classes
just named, the Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court was chosen. Of the hundred men so Sc
lected, ninety-seven took part in the 1900 bal
loting. 1.-TWO of these, by the way, were ma
tives of North Carolina-Dr. Edwin A. Alder
man and the late Chief Justice Faircloth)
These judges, as we have said, agreed on but
twenty-nine names out of a possible fifty, tie
names of these twenty-nine and the number of
votes received by each being as follows:
George Washington 81, Abraham Lincoln SO,
Daniel Webster 96, Benjamin Franklin "a,
Ulysses S. Grant SO, John Marshall 81, Thomas
Jefferson 81, Ralph Waldo Emerson 81, Robert
Fulton Sc, Henry W. Longfellow IS, Washing
ton Irving 83, Jonathan Edwards 80, Samuel
F. B. Morse 80, David G. Farragut 70, Henry
Clay "A, George Peabody "A, Nathaniel Haw-
thorne 70, Peter Cooper So, Eli Whitney So,
Robert E.. Lee 68, Horace Mann 81, John j.
Audubon 81, James Kent IS, Fl. w. Beecher "a,
Joseph Story Ga, John Adams 60, William Ell
lery Charming So, Gilbert Stuart 50, Asa
Gray 81.
It should be said, in this connection, that no
name may be inscribed except that of a native
born American citizen who has been dead at
least ten years.
So it is to a description of this Hall of Fame,
it's origin, history, location, etc., that the first
part of Chancellor McCracken's book is devoted.
The second part contains a brief biography OF
each of the twenty-nine immortals, with bret
selected estimates of his character and achieve
ments. The book is well written, handsomely
printed and bound, and beautifully illustrated.
It is sufficient to say that it is worthy of its sub
iect, of which we wrote last year, in describing
our visit to New York City:
1--WE know of no more inspiring memorial to
greatness than this Hall of Fame, with It's
twenty-nine tablets dedicated to the memory OF