Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1910-03-07
NEWS AND GOSSIP
OF NEW YORK
SOME or THE DOTNGs OF THE
METROPOLIS AND SIDE
LIGHTS ON IT'S LIFE.
Edgar Allen Poe 10 be Perpetuated
in Hall Of Fame.

republic, Sufficient to make a gOodly-
sized town, resulted from the arrival
at this port this week of the steam
ship President Lincoln. The big
vessel, which sails on the return trip
to Hamburg next Saturday. brought
over total OF 3,61s souls. OF these.
thirty-seven were first class and 276
second cabin passengers. Packed In
the steerage were nearly 1900
souls, and these, with the crew, made
up the almost record-breaklng total.
Only once has this record been sur
passed by transatlantic steamer.
and that was by the President Lin
coins brother ship, the President
Grant, which last December smashed
all records by arriving in port with
3,747 persons on board.
May Defeat Merger Plan.
Today is the time limit for the ex-
change OF Nevada for Utah shares,
under the plan OF the Guggenheims
to have the Utah Copper company abb
sorb the Nevada Consolidated COM
pany, and the issue OF the sensation
al controversy which has been waged
over the scheme will soon be known.
The opinion in the Street among
those who have been watching the
contest most closely is that James
Phillips, Jr., president of the Nevada
company, and leader of the opposition
has defeated the merger plan and
that much less than half of the
Nevada stock will be exchanged for
Utah shares In fact, there are
those who see in the movements OF
the Guggenhelm forces signs that
they are about to abandon the merger
project. In this connection they
point to the departure of Guggen-
helm members Of the Nevada board
as significant. OF the Guggenheim
forces s. w. Eccles is now in Mexico,
Pope Yeatman has left for Chile and
Daniel Guggenheim sailed recently
for Europe
Edgar Allen Poe.
Edgar Allen Poes name will be
perpetuated In the Hall OF Fame of
New York university as a result of
this years election of candidates, un-
less all signs fail. The fight for Poe
has already been renewed with vigor,
and those who labored SO hard for
that end and walled Ave years ago
believe now that they will be sue
cessful. When the one hundred cleo
tors chosen by the senate OF New
York university to vote for candi-
dates for the Hall of Fame sent in
their ballots in 1905 1t was found
that in spite OF the energetic cam
palgn in behalf of Poe he lacks nine
votes.
Since that there have been sixteen
vacancies through death or otherwise
in the board of electors. Two of
those vacancies, one occasioned by the
death OF Grover Cleveland and the
other by the death of Edmund Clar-
ence Stedman, were filed several
months ago. Andrew Carnegie sue
ceeded Mr.. Cleveland and DR.. Abbott
Lawrence Lowell succeeded Mr.. Sted-
man.
According to the rules of the uni
versity senate, nominations of candi-
dates for the Hall of Fame will be
placed In the hands of the electors
on May |, and during the summer
months the electors will decide upon
their choice of candidates, The bal
lots will be In ON Oct. /. At
least ffty nominations have already
been received by the university sen
ate, most Of these being names which
were voted on by the electors in 1906
but who failed to get the required
majority of votes. A hundred or more
nominations will probably be added
TO these before May /. when the cleo
tors win begin their work,
One of the first societies which will
be In the field in behalf of Poe will
be the Branx Society of Arts and Sci
ences. The members of this society
believe that Poe was the greatest
author America ever produced. Last
year the society played an important
part In the Poe centennial obsery-
anee. Other organizations here and
in the south win also seek to In
nuence the electors favorably toward
Poe.
There are at present nine vacan-
eies for women in the Hall Of Fame.
The vacancies for Ameriean-born
men number twenty-six and foreign
born men four.
Loyalty OF Irish Nationalist.
To prove that the situation brought
about by the recent British election