New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-29
Fifty Tablets on Univer-
sity Heights to Honor
Greatest of Their Sex.
TWENTY-FIVE NEW
ELECTORS CHOSEN
Long List of Noted Americans
Will Be Voted On for Admis-
sion TO Roll This Year.

NlNClSlty AC4SNNS ONcE4OohS Nne III
isades and the Harlem and Hudson
River valleys. where the names of
forty-six American worthless already
have been inscribed for posterity.
Because Of a widely expressed desire
for a larger recognition Of women in
the plan New York University has set
srart a site for Hall Of Fame for
Women Places have been provided for
70. less than fifty tablets. The board
OF one hundred electors was requested
20 elect in 1905 ten famous American
women. This year two names will be
added, as in each succeeding quinquen-
NAL year. until the tablets are filled
Since the last election. in 1910, more
than twenty vacancies in the roll of
one hundred electors have been made
by death or by the retirement of jus
tees Of the highest state courts who
held Office officially Two of them
after accepting Office recently died
Curtis Guild. former Ambassador to
Russia and Governor Of Massachusetts,
and Thomas r. Lounsbury, professor
emeritus of English at Yale University.
Twenty-Five New Electors.
The new electors are John Grier
Hibbon. president Of Princeton Uni
vcrsity; Alexander Graham Bell.
Colonel George W. Goethals, George
W. Gable. Winston Churchill. James
Whitcomb Riley, Miss Ida NJ. Tarbell
and Mrs. Helen Ekin Starrett; Justice
lrrc
Day. Of Ohio; William Howard Taft,
Walter H. Page. Ambassador 10 st.
Jamess; Henry van Dkye. Minister TO
The Netherlands and Luxembourg;
Oscar S. Straus. John Sharp Williams,
Senator from Mississippi; Morris Shep-
pard. Senator from Texas; Joseph L.
Ransdell, Senator from Louisiana;
Champ Clark, John Wanamaker, John
K. Mott. Y. VI. c. A. official of New Jer-
sew: Myron T. Herrick, James Douglas
and Ebert II. Gary, of New York; Ar
thur J. Brown. of New York. and KoD-
ert s. Brookings, merchant, OF st.
Louis 10000.
Recent gifts Of more than $33, 900
have been received by the committee
men 10 lay the foundation of The Hail
of Fame for Women, for the completion
Of the north colonnade. for work upon
the museum and for the reception of
romertos Of names inscribed IN the
colonnade. OF this the largest gifts
came from Mrs. John s. Kennedy, SlO.-
GOO: John Underwood. $4,000. and An
drew Carnegie. $4,000 Other gifts,
under $4,000. were subscribed by Mrs.
Whitelaw Reid. Seth Low, James Doug
las. James Talcott and A. D. Juilllard.
Friends of Henry Mitchell Mac
Cracker. chancellor emeritus Of New
York University, who knew him IN
Ohio have given q purse Of SlO'OoO
i'm his name TO endow perpetually the
Hall Of Fame.
Final Ballet October I.
On MAY 1 q preliminary list Of nom
nations will be sent out to the dit-
ferent divisions of electors. who VIII
nominate their choices in the fifteen
classes. By July / these nominations
will be voted upon by the electors, ana
the results will be known by October l,
when the final ballot will be taken,
The names 10 be voted upon tins
year are:
Av.b,rs-Horscs Creeicy. Georre William Curtis
l..hi,4 a. 49,, William dwight Whitney. I'd
v,-f I-g es,or Lewis Wallace Francis A MaI5R.
r4-raf0rs- Thomas II Galaudet. Marx holklhs'
samuel Hove william Homes McGlney' I H1ng
s-r He,-y Tappau. John Withelspoon. Fhlp ScAaH'
Te-ry Barnard Cyrus ismun. w.. p,.h,.,,
vee- Cs-twrghi. Timothy Dwight. Charles Hecge'
Join McCwtork Cotton Zane, Io F1al1l3s AsbUry
william Brewster. Alexander Campbell. D"'Sh' M'
.-,,.-,.s., and Eeforrers-.Rocer Williams.
S..r-is,s-Spercer T Band. Nathaniel Bowdltch'
--.s-t Herrv Matthew = Nauy. BENJAMIN tleiee.
Bs ,-, I Si"wS Disp.r .Louis Assssz
Engineers and Architects lanes t. E4uS' ii''''
E'hf51s'" s JGH ssrs1ons|Tphrainn Mcdowell
Vi sm r. c Morton Valentine Mott Benjamin
Rush. James Manon Sims.
Inventors To Be Honored.
I-re-or,-Alvan CLARK George Henry T ,aISs;
iFmu Houeg. Elias Howe. Cyrus Han McOo'-
,,,os ssd Trplorers-Dariei Boone DAVID
p-..-e-I David Crockett. Manssseh Cutler, samuel
H,es.,n Tsha Kent Kane. Adonirsm Jnason
Js.11es Marquette. Titus Cosn. Guido F. Yer
be-, Cornelius Van DICK. ~.
S.,l'srs and ssllors-George Rogers ClsTa
Semen Dsrs,ul. John Charles Fremont. Nsihsnie
C-tra. Nathan Hale. Thomts J. Ias s NJ, pn
Je--i o,e- Hazard Perm. Dayid r. f 1:
fHnp schuyler. Winfield scott t imp 1,, r,y
.l1., Paul Jones John Ne Kalh Miles siandish
Tiei-rok W A. S'elhcn. Peter SiuyyesSnnt, o- Fila
Iaw5ers and Jrdrcs-Eufus Choate OHyer - u
vrra Tlwsri livingston. Lcnuel shaw KogTt Is
Taey. Henry wheaton William " Eyar's; , LhS9s
rs.u, Tar,ors Charles o'Conor Thomas Mcintyre
Cocle. william Crsuch. Austin ABBOTT IL, .s.-,,
rrs-s srd Stgtrsncn- Charles Francis Adams
samgd Adams Thomas Il Benton. JAiI P6-tisnd
Ctss, De wit clinton. Edward Everett lanes
Abrsro CarAeld John Hanco'E. Ps'rlck he.IS'
Charles G Piuckus William W SeWsId ~ ri Ia
sherman Tiwln NlcMsstcrs stanton. hieI9 S,i. ~
ltre' Wilson. - PwnNlrsnis A'6er lawn es,dss,dd
John Sherman William Mckinley. Jo9n ha nn,.,,,.-.
Business Mei-Ceorre William Childs Nli .
" Co-corsn' James Harper. Johns Hopkins Amos
Lawrence Leland stanford. Judah Truro. 'ofneHus
Vanderbilt, John jacob As,or. stephen Girard
For WOmen's Hall.
Ttaea,r-, and Mssionsncs-Isab Graham.
B-oua Heck Eizab,,h A seton. SiIt4 d. Ia
H;sn f 1',i F IKE Ei ifsIi Asne% S''
Vo~. ~ eraisI Wofkers-Eesnor Dare Dorothea
Pr Mary DYER. Anna HUTCHINSON Dorothy l,1ey
Catherine Nan Rensselaer, Schuyler. Lucy blacR"eH
Stone Marina Washington. Mary Washington Mar
Aun..-.- A,,gsI Adams. Louisa Nav Alcoit.
Aice Cav Phoebe Cary sarah Margaret Fuller tos-
m.U Helen Hunt jackson. Lydia H. slsourhey'
Nas.-lsrs Painters Scuptors etc. lMenl-
iis1 B.o'h Frederick Edwin Church. John ~
Is.ol cop'ey. Thomas Crawfo,d EaT Ti,s1n Pow
- Frederick = Church. Frederick La" olhs'eu'
4o.s1h Jefferson. Theodore Thomas c, roh,
Eminent Men Outside the Above C!asseS-1oun
b'"n. Gerii; smith
These names were elected before IN competition
OILS for ,he nan for Foreign Born Americans. The
provision FOR this separate han has been sifuGk
ut ~ ftQues, Electors feel that fairness oehar,s
hei these names he considered thls yea IA
ssaoid receive majority Of votes OF the one nun
cred electors
Frederick w. Seward Buried.
Auburn. y. Y, April 2S-The funeral
IL. A. Tor