Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-22
POE IN HALL OF FAME
Success Rewards Years of e.
fort by Supporters.
GETS SO VOTES OUT OF 81
Eleven Names Added to the List
This Year.
HARRIET B. STOWE IN LEAD
Formal dwelling of Tablets in New
York University Will Take Place
in October Next.
HARRIET B. STOWE IN LEAD

NE WYORK. October 22.-Edgar Allan
Poe is at last in the Hall of Fame. Years
of effort on the part of stanch support
ers to get his name added to the list
have been rewarded by the announcement
of DIR. John II. MacCracken chairman of
the senate of New York University. that
the author of THE Raven and ten
others have been accorded this honor.
The eleven names added are as follows:
Harriet Beecher Stowe, a votes: Oliver
Wendell Holmes and Edgar Allan Poe,
69 votes each: Roger Williams. 81; James
Fenimore Cooper. 81: Phillips Brooks, go;
William Cullen Bryant. %: Frances f..
Willard, 50; Andrew Jackson and George
Bancroft J:s votes each, and John 10th
rop Motley. 81.
The total number OF ballots cast was
ninetv-seven. and the number required
for choice was ffty-one. Poe's vote
jumped from forty-two in 1900 to sixty
nine, an increase of twenty-seven votes.
An ANALYSIS of the vote shows that or
these sixty-nine votes twenty-one were
cast by college presidents. seventeen by
professors of history and SclehtiStS'
eighteen of publicists. editors and authors
and thirteen by jurists. Contrary 10
the general impression the memory OF
the melancholy poet is as famous in the
west as in the south, according 10 the
vote. Since the last election his IaIne
increased more among college presidents
than among any of the other groups.
dwelling Next October.
AS a result of the election the Authors
Corner doubles its population and goes
far ahead Of the statesmen in NUMBER
Eleven bronze tablets for the names
chosen will be designed with an ap-
propriate quotation from the words o;
each and the formal unwilling will take
place IN October. 1911. in the Han Oh
Fame at New York University
The vote of Seventy-four for Harrlel
Reecher Stowe is noteworthy, as no one
received such a majority in the electloh
in 1900 except Louis AgassiZ. and in the
first election the number was surpassed
by ONLY fourteen names, including Wash
ington, Lincoln, Grant and Emerson.
Motley Gains, Parkman Loses.
One Of the most interesting results is
that whereas the historian Motley gained
four votes over the election OF five years
ago, the historian Parkman lost two
votes. Phillips Brooks gained eleven
votes, jumping from ~ to GO Oliver
Wendell Holmes jumped from 10 to a.
an increase of 20 votes. his competitors,
Lowell and Whittier, having been re-
moved by election.
In voting for women the names CHOSEN
are those of women who were not eligible
at the last election. not having been dead
ten years at that time. OF those who
were voted for in the last election, but
still lack the necessary votes, Charlotte
Saunders Cushman shows a gain of from
30 to Al votes, Martha Washington from
81 to 43 and Lucretia Mott fronts to Al
Those failing of election by ten votes
or less were Francis Parkman, Charlotte
Saunders Cushman, Mark Hopkins, "a
each: Patrick Henry, "A: Martha Wash
ington, AZ: Daniel Boone. AZ; Samuel
Adams and Lucretia Mott, Al each.