Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-10-01
BALLO7ING ON AMERICANS
FOR HALL OF FAME ENDS
TODAY; 20 TO BE ADDED
fBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

New York, Sept. 36.-1ailoting
closes tomorrow for the quinquen-
NAL election of twenty additional
famous American men and ten
famous American women to the
Hall of Fame. There are 204 celeb
rites nominated for that honor.
The result of the election will not
be made public until November /.
The Hall of Fame, national in
stitution, is located on the heights
of New York university overlook
ing the Hudson and Harlem rivers.
1t was organized twenty years ago
with a gift of 100000, which has
since been increased to s250,000,
the money to be used in building a
museum and colonnade 500 feet
long and to contain $50 panels for
memorial bronze tablets. Fifty were
to be inscribed in 1900 and at the
close of every five years thereat-
ter, five additional panels were to
be placed, so that the entire num-
Der would be completed by A. d.
1000. Only fifty-siX in all, how
ever, have been elected since the
first votes were cast twenty years
ago.
Electors of All Kinds.
The ballots in the present cleo
ton, which were mailed last July
to 1872 electors in various parts OF
the United States, college presi-
dents, historians, professors. scien-
lists, authors, editors, statesmen
supreme court judges, business
men, publicists and others, contain
the names of III men and. ~
women, of whom III men and "a
women were holdover nominations
from previous elections. The ini-
tails IN. J. F." alongside the names
of twenty men and one woman in
dictate that in q preliminary pub
! lie nomination last May majority
of a special group of electors des'
| ignated them as being more justly
| famous" This makes them eligi
BILE to election by a majority vote
and all others must have two-thlrd'
| of the vote cast. In the absence io
DR.. Robert Underwood Johnson
now United States ambassador t.
| Italy, the balloting is in charge o
the acting director of the Hall o
| Fame, Mrs. William Vanamee o
this city.
Those Already Chosen.
The following famous American
already have been elected:
Authors-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nathaniel Hawthorne, washington
Irving, Henry Wadsworth Longfel
! T,.,o. D,,ova1I omal1 Jnhl
| Greenleaf Whittier, George Ban
croft, William cullen Bryant, Jane
Fenimore Cooper, Oliver Wendell
Holmes, John Lothrop Motley, Ed
gar Allen Poe. Francis Markham.
Educators-Horace Mann, Mari
Hopkins.
| Preachers, Theologians - iona
than Edwards, Henry Ward Beech
err, William Ellery Claiming, Phil
lips Brooks.
| Philanthropists, Reformers-Pet
err Cooper, George Peabody.
Scientists-John James Audubon
Asa Gray, Louis Agassiz, JosepI
Henry.
Engineers, Architects-None.
Physicians, Surgeons-None.
tOfS-kUDelI uItOil, odhi
uel f. B. Morse, Eli Whitney, Ella
Howe.
Missionaries, Explorers-Danit
L, Boone.
Soldiers, Sailors-David elias
gov Farragut, Ulysses Simpso
l Grant, Robert e. Lee, William Te'
, cumseh Sherman.
, Lawyers, Judges-James Ken
John Marshall, Joseph Story Rt
fus Choate.
= Rulers, Statesmen-John Adam
: Henry Clay, Benjamin Franklin
. Thomas jefferson, Abraham Llr
coin, George Washington, DAM
: Webster, John Quincy Adam
James Madison, Andrew jackson
: Alexander Hamilton:
5 Business Men-None.
l Musicians, Painters, Sculptor
5 etc.-Gilbert Charles Stuart.
2 Eminent Men outside of TT
Foregoing Classes-None.