The Minneapolis journal., 1905-10-10

Way to g. Niche in the Hall of
Fame Too Rocky for Most
of Us.
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New. York, Oct 10.-The second quin.
ouennial correction of the vox populi
began yesterday, and three Americans
entered the hall of fame of New York
university. James Russell Lowell
scored at the top, William Tecumseh
Sherman was second best and John
Greenleaf Whittier scraped in along
with them. E#5 %&
There was no occasion for anyone to
feel proud of himself. Each needed
ffty-one votes out of ninety-ive to be
famous. Lowell polIed IS, sherman 81
and Whittier pretty nearly stuck in the
turnstile with SO. Poe, Cooper, Phil
lips Brooks, ct al, did not arrive at all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes lacked but three
votes of being famous.
In 1900 the first attempt was made to
find enough famous Americans for the
hall of fame. It failed wretchedly. A
committee of 100 public-spirited men,
college professors, presidents, lawyers,
editors, and the like, were to choose tif-
teen names by a ma jority vote as a
only twenty nine genuine famous Amer
leans at that date.
Few Men Famous.
The electors appointed committee
to watch the obituary column, and ad-
journed for five years. This year the
committee, which counts the ballots,
over in the council room at Washington
Square, failed still more wretehedly.
The ballots for each nominee have been
counted and only three great Americans
have proved their worth.
It is not the fault of the entries.
There's any amount Of fame ready to
stand up and be counted. Take Edgar
Allan Poe, for example. He only got
forty-three votes, There were only
ninety-fve electors voting, by the
way, as FIVE failed to deposit their bal
lots. Probably they felt that the re.
sponsibility was too much.
Noah Webster could poll only thirty.
two votes. George Bancroft and Hor-
ace Greeley got thirty.four and Cooper
just ten. William Cullen Bryant, Fran.
els Parkman and John L. Motley each
was shy six votes.
Teachers? Not Teacher!
In the class of teachers no nominee
received fifty-one votes, and this corner
Of the hall Of fame will receive no ad
dition this year. Phillips Brooks, who
received forty-nine votes, was the lead
er in this class, Mark Hopkins, with
thirty eight, being second.
Rufus Choate, who led in the former
class, receiving only thirty-one votes
while Joseph Henry, who led the scien
lists, received thirty-two. Chief among
the soldiers who failed Of election were
Nathaniel Greene, with thirty ght
votes, "Stonewall" Jackson with TWEEN
ty-one and George Rogers Clark with
twenty. :.
Still There Is Hope.
The famous authors, teachers, scien
lists were settled. Tomorrow states
men, foreign born famous Americans
famous women Americans and the sep
timi will have hearing. This septim
class is sort Of free-for-all. All dea(
Americans that have : had enough
friends to nominate them, but couldn >
crowd into any Of the other classes ar,
booked as septimi. Daniel Boone
George W. Childs, Cornelius Vanderbilt
and Davy Crockett all are septimi.
It is said that twenty-five colleg
presidents Of the electoral committe
have sat down hard on these monde
scripts. There probably won It be
genuine famous American among then
by tomorrow.
The Americans chosen to be great il
1900 We're Emerson, ]Longfellow, Irving
Hawthorne, Edwards, Horace Mann
Beroah, Charming, Fulton, Morse, Whit
ney, Audubon, Gray, Grant, Farragut
Lee, Washington, Lincoln, Webster
Franklin, Jefferson, Clay, John Adams
Marshall, Kent, Storey, Peabody, Stuar
and Peter Cooper.