The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-07-26

University of Nebraska; Woodrow VIII
son. president of Princeton university
Princeton, N. j.. Ira Remsen, president Of
Johns Hopkins = university, Baltimore
| Md; Booker r. Washington. principal OF
| the Tuskcgee Normal and Industrial In
stitute. Tuskegee, Ala
Inventors A. Sdison. John II
Holland, inventor of ti. submarine boat
| George Westinghouse, inventor of the
air brake.
=. Explorers Robert Il. peory, Evelyn B
| Baldwin.
,Art--Charles Dana Gibson, j. Mcneil
whistler. Edwin A. Abbey. John La
Fargo. Augustus St Gaudens.
Music and Drama-Tillian Nordica.
opera singer: Joseph Jefferson, actor.
Philanthropy clara Barton Mrs
Phoebe Hearst. Mrs. Jane IT, Stanford
Miss Helen Miller Gould.
Literature Samuel u. Clemens mark
Twain). William Dean Hcwolls Edwin
Markham. James Whitcomb Riley, Ed
ward Everett Hale.
Scicncc--Proressor Jaques Loeb, I'D
ward T.. Barnard.
The first thing to be noted of this
list is the absence Of representation Of
three of the most important learned
professions--law. medicine and engi-
neering. Just why they should be
omitted while explorers are are admit
ted and educators given 16 per cent Of
the total must be left to conjecture.
Passing to the names themselves, If by
statesmen are meant men who actually
shape great political movements, what
Is the warrant for including William j.
Bryan at the expense, say, OF tor
Morgan. Cockrell or Vest: or Chief
Justice Fuller at the expense of a con-
structive law-maker like Senator Alli-
son, Spooner or Aldrich? And where
does the busiest statesman Of the day,
Elihu Root, come in? Or why include
In the army and navy list a man like
Schley, against whose record stands
practically the unanimous judgment Of
his brothers-in-arms that he lacked
some of the first essentials in great
ness, when men like Macarthur, Chat
fee and Clark are ignored? And among
inventors what special usefulness in
the submarine boat warrants the in
clusion of its designer, while Stein
metz, the greatest practical electrician
of the age, is kept out? And can it be
called a rational view of great
which puts Yellow Journalist Hearst
man who Is simply spending Inherit
ed money on newspaper freak notions
among the editors while Adolph Ochs,
who worked up from penury to owner
ship of four of the cleanest and most
influential journals in the country, is
dropped?
If we were selecting the fifty great
est living Americans, we should pick
them out about as follows, not neces-
sarily in the order named:
|. Theodore Roose-2S Augustus St Gau-
Welt. dens
.. Elihu Root. 90. Nicholas Murray
3. John Hay. Butler.
4. Andrew Carnegie. 30. S. p. Langley
5. Leonard Wood. 81. David Starr Jor-
6. j. Pierpont Nor dan.
gan 80 Emil G. Hirsch.
Z. F. NJ. Arthur. @3 Isaac X. Funk.
s. Marshal Field. 81. Mrs. Minnie Mad
3. Clara Barton. dcrn F'isie.
10. Bishop Potter. 81. Harriet Prescott
II. Cardinal Gibbons. Spofford.
u. Booker T. Washs Helen NJ. Gould.
ingt0n. 81. Ahram s. Hewitt.
l.i. I'iIle'S w IIiol.SS. NlIilHm ~ q n n
a. Whitelaw Reid. ITuwells
IL. Thomas A. E,di-39. Admiral James G.
son. Walker
1G. George Dewey. 90. A. j. Cassatt.
II. John ID. ROcke-41. James j. Hill.
W. feller. 42., Archbishop Ire
1S. Chas NJ. Schwab. land
~. Edwin T.. Abbey.43. Bishop Vincent.
20. JaQues Loeb. A. George Westing-
q. James Whitcomb house
Riley. AZ. Mary Baker
%. S. ~ Wellman. Eddy
o3 Lillian Nordica. 46. Arthur T. Had
"a. Joseph Jefferson ley.
%. Edward Everett47. George +. Toar.
Hale. 4S. Mark A. Hanna.
2G. Lyman Abbott. 49. Jane Addams.
81. S. Weir Mitchell 20. Clement A. Girls
com.
But it is matter concerning which
differ. If anybody can inn
prove on our list, we shall welcome
the attempt.