The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-04-11
26 NAMES
FOR HALL
OF FAME

New York. April 11.-Chancellor Mac
Cracken made public yesterday the new
Iy appointed electors OF the Hall OF
Fame. Twenty-sx names have been add
ed bringing the total number OF electors
up TO l0l They are.
President Jesse of Missouri University,
Misses Lillian w Johnson OF the West
ern College for Women at Oxford. o.;
Northrop of Minnesota University. Rem
sel OF Johns Hopkins. Van Hise OF Wis
consin, Woolley OF Mount Holyoke ana
Woodward of the Carnegie Institution.
Professors OF History and Scientists
Mss Lucy Salmon Of Vassar, Charles d.
Wolcott OF the Geological Survey and ST
non Newcomb of the Smithsonian Insti-
tute.
Pubhcists editors and authors: Senator
A. J. Beveride OF Indiana, w j. Bryan OF
Nebraska. Vice President Fairbanks OF
I1Giana Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote OF Cal
ifornia and John r. McMaster Of Phtla-
dephia.
Chief justyees-N. C. Young of North
D6kota. w. H Gab1ert OF Colorado, w.
Clark Of North Carolina, Charles r. Sore
OF Delaware. John G. Sherwin of Iowa.
). 3. Hobson OF Kentucky ]. A. Breaux
OF Louisiana, A H. Whitfield OF Missis-
Stockologer OF Idaho, Y c. Pope OF
south Carolina and John w. Rowell of
Vermont.
Chief justices from the states OF Neva-
da wyoming and West Virginia will be
appointed as soon as those officers are
fled
THE WOMEN ELECTORS.
The number OF women electors has been
Increased from to I'm the last five
years. and though no women were then
elected TO the HAL Of Fame there Will
nuvr be added a woman's annex, i'm which
tablets to famous women Will be placed.
There will also be a space reserved for
six Americans OF foreign birth.
The names OF candidates for the hall
will be sent to the electors on the first OF
Nay and the returns are due on Oct. 1.
Under rules OF the hall 80 immortals
should have been chosen in the first year
and FIVE more everv fifth year afterward
until the end OF tho century.
However the electors at their first
meeting only succeeded In choosing % so
there remain % to be enthroned next fall
In the first election no professions re-
oe1ved n place and since that time medi-
cal ssociations have been agitatinR the
question OF who shall be their candidate.
The question will probably be decided at
the meeting OF the American Medical as
sSCiatIon at Portland, ore.
Some hundreds OF names Of candidates
have already been sent in for the judges
Every one who received 10 votes Ave years
ago is an ipso facto candidate. so there is
no doubt that the electors will have
plenty OF material 20 work on.
The name of Edgar Allen Poe will come
up again this year under the 10-vote rule
and II r. said that the prIdes may be pre-
vailed upon 10 vote for the poet and for
get some few sins Of the man
The chancellor said yesterday that when
the electors were last at work Richard
H'stson Glider called on Mr.. Cleveland al
Princeton and tried TO prevail on him Ia
vote for Poe, but Mr.. Cleveland could not
be persuaded.
Poe got only ~ votes and the chancellor
save he believes that the electors are
such a representative body that he Is al.
rncst convinced that the great mass OF the
l.eople do not care for the author OF 'sT-ht
rs ven"