Text: Anonymous, “Poe's Ghost Rises,” New-York Tribune (New York, NY), vol. LXIX, whole no. 23,099, February 12, 1910, p. 7, col. 2

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POE'S GHOST RISES.

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Hope Finally to Elect Poet to Hall of Fame.

Edgar Allan Poe may yet be elected to the Hall of Fame when the hundred electors appointed by New York University signify their choice of names to be added to the forty names selected in 1900 and 1905.

The New York University Senate met yesterday in the university building to fill vacancies in the roll of the one hundred electors of the Hall of Fame. In 1905 Poe received forty-two votes, or nine less than required. There will be sixteen new electors this year who may vote thus to honor the poet.

This year, 1910, is the quinquennial year. in which nominations of famous Americans are received by May 1 from so individuals throughout the United States. On or before October 1 the one hundred electors will make known their decisions.

The following vacancies have been created by death since 1905: Grover Cleveland, In whose place Andrew Carnegie was elected over a year ago, and Edmund Clarence Stedman, in whose place Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell was elected. The other deceased members to whom successors were elected yesterday were: Professor George P. Fisher, of New Haven; Watson Gilder, of New York: Dr. Everett Richard Hale, of Massachusetts: Dr. George E. Post, of Beirut. Syria: Professor Edward C. Bourne, of New Haven. and Dr. Simon Newcomb, of the Smithsonian Institution. at Washington. The names of their successors will be announced as soon as acceptances shall have been received.

The electors will be expected to select this year twenty-six Americans of native birth, four Americans of foreign birth and nine American women for places of fame.

Chancellor McCracken, who is president of the senate. said yesterday that there would undoubtedly be a renewal of the controversy concerning Poe's right to a place in the Hall of Fame. The Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences, strongly in favor of the poet's claim to such recognition being honored this year. will, it is understood. soon distribute among the one hundred electors an extensive treatise having that end in view.

Whittier and Lowell were elected in 1905. A fact that is pointed to as encouraging to the 1 Poe champions, as relieving the situation of two highly popular competitors.