HALL OF FAME

a building on University Heights, New York City, on the grounds of the New York University. It as erected from a gift of $100,000, afterwards increased to $250,000 for a building to be called ‘The Hall of Fame for Great Americans’. On the ground fioor of the buildings is a museum, 200 feet long by 40 feet wide, consisting of a corridor and six halls to contain mementos of the names inscribed above. The collonade is 600 feet, with provision for 150 panels, each to bear the name of a famous American. Only those persons who shall have been dead 25 years or more are eligible to be chosen. The names are selected by a commit tes composed of prominent persons. The Hall was dedicated on May 30, 1901, when 25 national a ociations each unveiled one of the bra tablets in the collonade. On May 30, 1907 eleven new tablets were unveiled. Up to 1923 the names of 56 men and 7 women had been inscribed on the tablets. In May, 1923 the busts of Edgar Allen Poe, George Washington, General Grant, Mi Maria Mitchell and Mark Hopkins were unveiled.