The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-03-16
AMERICAN HALL OF FAME.
Open to Fifteen Glasses of Citizens
Limited to $50.

on March ;. 1900, the council of New
York university accepted a gift Of
! 100000, afterward increased To $780,
GOO, from a donor whose name was
withheld. but since become known 10
be Miss Helen Gould, for the erection
and completion on University Heights,
New York city, of a building To be
called The Hall of Fame for Great
Americans" structure was built in
the form of a semi circle, 10 feet on
the ground floor of which is museum,
200 feet long by 40 feet wide, consist
ing of corridor and six halls, to con-
tain mementos of the names that are
this is 400 feet long with provision for
80 panels, each about two feet by six
feet. each To bear the name OF fam
Gus American.
only persons who have been dead
ten or more years are eligible to be
chosen Fifteen classes of citizens arc
recommended for consideration - au-
thors and editors, business men, edu-
Gators, inventors, missionaries and eX-
plorers, philanthropists and reformers,
preachers and theologians, scientists,
engineers and architects, lawyers and
judges, musicians, painters and sculp-
tors, physicians and surgeons, rulers
and statesmen, soldiers and sailors,
distinguished men and women outside
the above classes. Fifty names We're
To be inscribed on the tablets at the
beginning and five additional names
every fifth year thereafter until the
year 1000, when the $50 inscriptions
will be completed. In case Of failure
to fill all the panels allotted the va
cancies are to be filed the follow 'ng
year. In February, 1904, the plan was
announced of an additional structure
in the form of a loggia, joining the
colonnade on the north. having thirty
panels for foreign born Americans six
to be filed i'm 1905, and beyond this a
Hall of Fame for women, about 30 by
60 feet, with a museum on the ground
floor and a main story above of TWEEN
tv-eight columns supporting a pedi-
mented roof, with places for sixty tab
lets.
In october, 1900, the university SEN
ate received the ballots of the electors.
OF the 100 judges selected, 81 voted.
The rules required that a candidate
must receive at least fifty votes. the
returns showed that twenty-nine can
didates received the required number
and were chosen. They were Georga
washington. Abraham Lincoln, Daniel
Webster, Benjamin Franklin, ulysses
s. Grant, John Marshall, Thomas Jet-
ferson. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry
w LongfeIlow, Robert Fulton, Wash
ington Irving. Jonathan Edwards
Samuel 4. -. Morse, David Farragu1'
Henry clay. Tathanial Hawthorne'
George Peabody. Robert 70. Lee, Peter
Cooper, Eli whitney. John j. Audubon
Horace Mann, Henry Ward Beecher
James Kent. Joseph Story, John
Adams, William f. Claiming Gilbert
Stuart, Asa Gray.
In October. 1905. the senate again
received the ballot Of the electors ana
the following were found to be chosen:
John quincy Adams. James Russell
Lowell. William Tecumseh Sherman,
James Madison, John Greenleaf whit
tier, Alexander Hamilton Louis Agas-
siz. John Paul Jones, Mary Lyon, En-
ma willard Maria Mitchell.
The hall was dedicated May 30, 1907,
when twenty Ave or more national as
sociations each unveiled one Of the
bronze tablets in the colonnade and on
May 3d. 1907. the eleven new tablets
were unveiled, orations being given by
the governors of New York and Mass
achusetts.
An ANONYMOUS lettor sent TO Lord