Putnam patriot., 1930-12-11
THIRTEEN NEW
 STEPPING STONES
Path of Fame at Rollins Col lege Unique Memorial to
 Celebrities
England Represented in Latest
 Addition


 Thirteen stepping stones, includ- ing six from the former homes or birthplaces of famous Europeans, and -even from the home of out standing Americans. have just been added to the Rollins Path of Fame, a unique memorial to celebrated men and women in Anglo-Saxon history.
 The Path of Fame is now eompos- ed of nearly sixty stones. The col lection was started last fall when President Hamilton Holt gave to the College. as a nucleus, twenty-two stones representing, among others, Washington. Lonefellow, Daniel Webster. Coolidge and Ralph Waldo Emerson This initial collection was dedicated as the first portion of what ia intended to be a neyer-ending 9ath of memorable and historical in tfrest.
 England is represented in the lat est addition to the collection by stones from the birthplaces or for mcr homes of Disraeli. Beaconsfield; William Penn, Rickmansworth' Rysshe Shelley; Marlow; Thomas Gray. Stokes Poges; and Edmund Burke. Beaconsfeld. These were ob- tained by President Holt on trip toI England this past summer. At the same time he made arrangements for obtaining stones from Shakespeare home at Stratford- -On-Avon and from William Pitts home.
 From the Tower
 1sl< ,,,sn...s,.:,,, e.. tha r.bo,,.as Gray stone includes Hhis informa- tion From the ivy mantled tower. At Stokes poges," President Holt explained Thomas Gray lived in the old manor house next to the church yard made famous by Gray's Elegy l went to the gardener and after telling him of my desire for stone to be included in our Rollins Path of Fame, we began search Finally, We came upon a clump of stones near an old fence and from this We rummaged out large flat stone. The design of the stone con vinced the gardener that it had come rom the ivy mantled tower where Gray worked"
 Americas stones in the latest ad- dition to the collection represent Abraham Lincoln. New Salem. III;I George Bancroft, the historian. who lived in Worcester. Mass; Helen Hunt Jackson, Amherst, Mass ;I Charles Dudley Warner. the author. Plainfield, Mass; Richard Olney, who was secretary of state under Grover Cleveland. and who lived in Fal- mouth. Mass; Dr. Henry Van Dyke, Princeton. N. J.. and J. Fhnimore Cooper, whose son, James Fenimore Cooper. sent stone from the Coop CT home in Cooperstown. N. Y.
 The Lincoln stone was secured through the cooperation of the Alb raham Lincoln Association in Spring field. IL Lincoln lived as young man in New Salem, which is twenty miles from Springfield.
 With the addition of the Lincoln stone, the Presidential Unit in the Path of Fame now includes stones from the homes of eight presidents These are Hoover. palo Alto. Calf :; Coolidge, Plymouth. Vt; Wilson, Staunton Va; Jefferson, "Monti- eello." Charlottesville. Va; Washing ton, Mount Vernon. Va; Mckinley. Canton. O.: Johnson Greenville Tenn; and Pierce Hillsboro. N. H.
 Other Celebrities
 Other celebrities memorialized in the Path of Fame include Robert Frost. South Shaftsbury, Vt; Lady Astor. Charlottesville, Va: Mark Iva n. Hartford. Conn Mary Lyon. South Hadley, Mass John C. Call houn. Clemson. $. C.; Henry Clay. Ashland. Va; John Marshall. Salem, Va. Jonathan Edwards, Stockbridge Mass; Henry W. Longfellow. Port land. Me; Ralph Waldo Emerson, Concord Mass; William Cullen Bryant. Cummington. Mass Louisa NJ. Alcott. Concord, Mass. Nathan iel Hawthorne. Lenox, Mass. Jon athan Trumbull, Watertown. Conn. i; Mark Hopkins Stockbridee. Mass. {; Israel Putnam, Brooklyn. N. r.; Arte mus Ward, Shrewsbury, Mass. Nath- an Hale, Coventry. Conn; Daniel Web ster. Franklin. N H.; Thomas A. Ed ison. Fort Myers. Fla; William Jen- nings Bryan Miami, Fla: General Lafayette. Tallahassee. Fla; Joel Chandler Harris. (''Uncle Remus'') Atlanta, Ga; Oliver Wendell Holmes. Salem, Mass; Dwight L. Moody. Northfeld Mass: Hannibal Hamlin. Paris. Me-: Col Edward NJ. House Houston. Texas; Judge Henry W. Grady. Athens. Ga: and Andrew E.w~..ssa Cl.sk.