Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-22
Weird Poet Gets Equal Number Of
Votes with Bryant.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE LEADS
Famous Woman Receives Seventy
-Four Favorable Ballots.
DANIEL BOONE FAILS OF PLACE
Original Forester is In the Rejected
Column, Along with Patrick
Henry, Martha Washington
and rive Others.

NEW YORK, oct. MXEdgar Allen Poe
is at last inthe Hall Of Fame. Years Of ef-
fort on the part OF staunch supporters to
get his name added to the list were re-
warded today by the announcement Of
DR.. John II. MacCracken, 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, "A votes; oliver Wendell
Holmes and Edgar Allen Poe 50 ovtes
each; Roger Williams, ca James Fenimore
Cooper, e.; Phillips Brooks, 60; William
Cullen Bryant, 50; Frances E. Willard 56;
Andrew Jackson George Bancroft, SO each
and John Lathrop Motley, 81.
The total number of ballots cast was 81
and the number required for choice was Of.
Poes vote jumped from ~ in 1905 to 50, an
increase OF q votes. An analysis of the
vote shows that Of this 50 votes p were
cast q were cast by college presidents, Il
by professors of history and scientists, IS
by publcists, editors and authors. and ls
By jurists.
Appreciated in West.
Contrary to the general impression, the
memory o fthe poet is as famous in the
west as in the south according to the vote.
Since the last election his fame increased
more among college presidents than among
any OF the other groups As result OF
today election the authors corner doubles
its population and goes far ahead of the
statesmen in number. Eleven bronze tab
lets for the names chosen will be desig-
mated with an appropriate quotation from
the words Of each and the formal unveillng
will take place in October, 1911, in the
Hall of Fame at New York university.
The vote OF seventy-four for Harriet
! Beecher Stowe Is noteworthy. as the only
one who received such a majority in the
| election in 1905 was Louis Agassiz, and In
the first election the number was surpassed
by only fourteen names, including Wash
| ington. Lincoln, Grant and Emerson. 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. oliver
/ Wendell Holmes increased twenty votes
his competitors, Lowell and Whittier, hay
ing been removed by election.
Women Are Chosen.
In the vote 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
! Cushmsn shows q gain from thirty-nine to
forty-five votes, Martha Washington from
thirty-two to forty-three and Lucretia Mott
| from thirty-three 10 forty-one,
Those falling OF election by ten votes OF
less were Francis Parkman, Charlotte
Saunders Cushman Mark Hopkins, forty
five each; Patrick Henry, forty-four
Martha Washington forty-three; Dante
Boone forty-two; Samuel Adams and Lu.
cretia Mott forty-oRe each,