The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-21
.EDCARA. POE WILL
Be GIVEN PLACE
IN HALL OF FAME
Virginia Poet Needs
Seven Votes to As
sure Election.
SO ELECTORS
NOT HEARD FROM
Senate Of New York University
Will Canvass Vote To-Day,
and Justice Finally Will
Be Done to Master Of
All Short Story
Writers.
IsnecialtoThe Times- p,snatcn

Especial to The Times Dispatch.l
New York, October 2o.-Edgar Allan
Poe apparently has to get only seven
votes from. the ballots of fifty-eight
electors of the Hall of Fame in order to
be accorded place there. BY poll
of the electors made Stree Sunday, This
Times Dispatch correspondent can ac-
count for the ballots of forty eight
electors out Of tie total of los so far
as they relate to the poet
Those familiar with the situation be-
'lieve there Is little doubt that the yir-
ginia post and master CT shGrt stcry-
writing will get out of the fifty-eislt
ballots ,unaccounted fer the necdful
seven The official announcement 0f
the election, not only as to Poe, hut
twenty five other men OF native BIRTH,
four men of foreign birth, and ten wt-
men, will be made tomorrow after
noon by the Senate OF New York Uni
versity.
Because Of the unusual interest In
the fate Of Poe before the electors Of
the Hall of Fame. Tie Times-Dispatch
correspondent sent letter to each OF
them, asking whether or not he voted
| for the poet.
Many replies were received. and every
mail brings them. Out of those who
said they voted for Poe and those who
had previously written that they had
always voted for him, thlrty-one votes
could be counted as positive.
His Chief Supporters.
1t has been generally understood
that the college presidents and lit
erary men among the electors have
been Poe's chief supporters In previous
elections, those opposing him usually
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States Supreme Court justices. For
that reason these electors, though de-
clining to commit themselves. are re-
garded as probable voters for Poe:
cago University; President Wm II.
Crawford. Alleg ghany College: President
Robert s. Woodward Carnegie Insti-
Tuition: Chancellor James r. Day. Syra-
cuse University: President w II.
Faunce. Brown University; President
Charles c.. Harrison. University of
Pennsylvania: President James NJ.
ID. Wa1cott. Smithsonian Institutions:
VIM. j.. Tucker, publicist Hanover, New
Hampshire Herbert Patnam. Librarian
Eof Congress. Washington, D. c.: Profess
sor George l. Burr, Columbia Univer-
sity: General Frederick D. Grant, COM
manding Department Of the East Gov
4 lernor's Island. and Dr. Rossiter Ray
mond. New York.
Those who said they did not vote
for Poe were Lucy Salmon, of Vassar
College. and President James b. Angel.
Of the University of Michigan. Chief
declined to, commit himself, and was
Iclassed as doubtful, more because law
lyers have been considered out of SYM
pathy with Poe than for any other
President Hadley. OF Yale. Is abroad.
but last year he said that Poe ought
BY BY all means to be IN the HAL OF
p r nf =
bia. about the same time, said that ne
favored Poe for the honor. and so dId
a number of others. Robert Under
voted. but his admiration for Poe IS
widely known. Richard Watson Glider.
whom Mr.. Johnson succeeded as cleo
perhaps ,Poe's most dillgent, supporter.
| II have voted for Edgar Allen zoe.
ever. since the Hall of Fame was es-s
tablished. and sincerely hope he may
be elected this time, said Professor
Andrews. of Yale.
! Chief Justice. Brannan says; DO
not remember, but have no hesitation
in saying that Poe ought to be In the
classed with those who voted tor Poe.
| Aldcrmnn's Opinion.
President Alderman, of the llniver-
sity OF Virginia, wrote:
| since the inauguration of the Hall or
Fame movement He is son OF the
University of Virginia, and from con-
urally be inclined to vote for him, but
| Independently of that, think him the
| trusst poet and the most gifted man
| OF letters our American lie mas pro-
| duced.'
Here is what noncommittal e!ector
| discreetly wrote:
| 5"1f Poe isn't famous and deservedly
Another elector, who voted for Poe.
repliea that he did so because ne re. re.
garded him, not as a great poet but
| a 4 sktlful versifier and a clever ana
| forcibIe writer of short stories. Is
The senate of the New York uni,
| yersity, which canvasses the vote, VIII
meef al 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
! II was offcially announced a few daya
ago that votes had been received from
/ ninety-six electors two OF whonl--
| chief Justice Fuller and Senator Dol
| lIver---had died since their votes nad
come in. Chief Justice Thomas ~ Mc-
/ Ciellan, of Alabama, died in l9oe.
/ n S. T.