The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-22
.POEGET'S PLACE
IN HALL \ /. OF Q FAME |
Tardy Justice Is Done
to Virginia s Fam
GUS Poet.
SUCCESS a AFTER
YEARS OF EFFORT
Honor Is Accorded by Vote Of
60, Increase From AZ in Five
YearsOf Names Added to
List That Of Harriet Beech
er Stowe Leads All the
Rest.

New w>York. October 21.-Edgar Allan
poe is at last. in the Hall OF Fame.
years OF effort on the part OF staunch
supporters to get his name added to
the list was rewarded to-day by the an
nouncement of DR.. John H. MacCrack-
en-, chairman OF the Senate of New
York University. that the author Of
"The Raven" with ten others, had
been accorded this honor. The eleven
names added are as follows:
Harriet Beecher Stowe, seventy-four
votes; oliver Wendell Holmes and Ed
gar Allan Poe, sixty-nine votes each;
Roger Williams. sixty four ames Fen
imore Cooper, sixty-two; Phillips
Brooks. sixty; William Cullen Bryant.
ffty-nine: Frances e. Willard. fifty
SIX; Andrew jackson, George Bancroft.
lfifty-ttree votes each. and John La
tthrop Motley, fifty-one:
The total number of ballots cast was
ninety-seven. and the number required
for choice was flfty-one. Poe's vote
jumped from forty-two In 1905 to
Isixty-nine. an increase OF fstwenty-seren
votes. An analysis OF the vote shows
THAT of this sixty-nine votes. twenty
one were cast by college presidents.
scientists, eighteen by publicists. edi-
tors and authors. and thirteen by ju-
rists. Contrary to the general impress
sion, the memory OF the melancholy
poet is as famous In the West as in
1.-The South, according to the vote. Since
1.-THE last election his fame increased
more among college presidents than
among any OF the other groups.
Authors Corner Doubles.
AS result of to-day's election the
authors. corner doubles its population
and goes far ahead of the statesmen
| in number. Eleven bronze tablets for
1.-THE names ehpsen will be designed.
| with an appropriate sGota lion from
the words of each, and the formal ur-
yeiling will take place in October, 8. y,
lin the Hall of Fame, at New York nj
versity.
The vote Of sseventy-four for Harriet
lBeecher Stowe is noteworthy, as no
one received such majority in the
election in 1905 except Louis Agassiz,
and in the first election the number
! was surpassed by only fourteen names,
including Washington. Lincoln, Grant
1 and Emerson One Of the most inter
Testing results is that whereas the his
ltorian Motley gained -four votes over
the election of five years ago, the his
ttOrian. Parkman. lost two votes. Phil
Hips Brooks gained eleven votes, Jump
Ting from forty-nine to sixty. Oliver
| Wendell Holmes jumped from forty
nine to sixty nine. ar increase Of twen-
lty votes. his competitors. Lowell and
Whittier, having been removed by elec-
Ition.
4 1nsvoting for women the names cho-
sen are those Of women who were not
eligible a the last election. not hav.
ling been dead ten years al that time.
lOf those who were voted for In the
Hast election, but still lack the neces-
sary votes, Charlotte Saunders Cush-
Imam shows gain of from thirty-nIne
Ito forty-fve votes; Martha Washing
Iton. from thirty-two to forty three, and
1 Lucretia Mott, from thirty three to
forty-one.
Those falling of election by ten votes
Tor less were Francis Parkman, Char
lotte Saunders Cushman, Mark Hopkins,
lforty-five each: Patrick Henry, forty
four; Martha Washington. forty-three;
Daniel Boone. forty-two; Samuel Ad-
ans and Lucretia Mott, forty one each