The senate farther took note of the many requests that foreign-born Americans should be considered, by adopting a memorial to the University Corporation, as follows:

The New York University Senate, for a number of reasons, cordially approves the strict limitation of the Hall of Fame to native-born Americans. At the same time it would welcome a similar memorial to foreignborn Americans, as follows:

A new edifice to be joined to the north porch of the present hall, with harmonious architecture, to contain one-fifth of the space of the present hall; that is, not over thirty panels, ten to be devoted, the first year, to the commemoration of ten foreign-born Americans who have been dead for at least ten years-an additional panel to be devoted to one name every five years throughout the twentieth century. We believe that less than one-fifth of the cost of the edifice now being builded would provide this new hall; and that, neither in conspicuity nor in the landscape which it would command, would it in any way fall behind the present one. It is proper now that we turn from the ideal to the material. What visible and tangible memorial in the Hall of Fame will be given to each name that has been chosen? A very simple memento, we answer, has been promised by the university. As soon as the colonnade is completed, we shall select, for each of the 29 names, a panel of stone in the parapets at the side. In this the name will be carved at full length, together with the date of birth and of death-as, for example:

are the Here

be assigned the Preachers' also Edwards, Beecher, Channing, and Horace Mann. Onequarter of the way round the curve Scientists', together with the Inventors'. will be Audubon and Gray; Fulton, Morse, and Whitney. At the north end, in like manner, is the Statesmen's Corner." Here are Washington, Lincoln, Webster, Franklin, Jefferson, Clay, and John Adams. Next is the Jurists' Corner," with Marshall, Kent, and Story. The soldiers' quarters are south of these, with Grant, Farragut, and Lee. In the center of the curved colonnade is a seventh division, to include all others. This will be marked by the Latin word "Septimi." Here will be the philanthropists, George Peabody and Peter Cooper, and the painter, Gilbert Stuart. The name of each of the seven divisions is recorded in brass letters, in a diamond of Tennessee marble, set in the center of the pavement.

(1783-1859.)

(1703-1758.)

(1791-1872.)

HENRY CLAY.

(1777-1852.)

Further, the university provides admirable positions in the colonnade for bronze statues or busts of those whose names are chosen.

On the ground-floor of the hall is a noble provision of a corridor of 200 feet in length, with five large rooms, whose ultimate and exclusive use is to be the preservation of mementos of those whose names are inscribed above. These mementos will doubtless consist of portraits of the persons, with marble busts or tablets, autographs, and the thousand-and-one memorials which vividly call to mind the departed great. quaint vase has already been contributed to the museum, which commemorates, by engraved figures, the work in science performed by Franklin, Fulton, and Morse. Probably the most important feature of the museum in future years will be the mural paintings. The Society of Mural Painters has carefully examined these rooms, and has presented a memorial to the university in which they record their conclusions. This is signed by the members of the Committee on civic buildings, Joseph Lauber, chairman; John La Farge, president of the society, exofficio member; Kenyon Cox, secretary; George W. Maynard, Edwin H. Blashfield, and C. Y. Turner. The paper, in part, is as follows:

The committee on civic buildings of the National Society of Mural Painters, having carefully considered the possibilities of the embellishment of the museum

of the Hall of Fame by appropriate mural painting, hereby makes the following suggestions:

That it is eminently fitting that, in a commemoration of national greatness such as the Hall of Fame, the three great arts,-Architecture, Sculpture, and Mural Painting, should collaborate, not only to perpetuate the memory of the great men of the nation for all time, but also to serve as an example of monumental art in America of to-day.

In looking over the wall-spaces of the museum of the Hall of Fame, we find that there is an excellent opportunity for the exercise of the mural art, the architect of the structure having provided a frieze-line of over six feet in height, extending throughout the entire edifice and interrupted by partitions and windows. We find the divisions of space as they are, excellent, as they will serve to separate the depiction of one subject from another. We would suggest that, if the authorities of the New York University decide on the mural embellishment of this structure, the central gallery, which has the largest uninterrupted frieze-line, be taken up first, and a painting be placed here, chiefly allegorical, typifying American progress, the Ideals of the nation, and its place in the history of civilization. Right and left of this, on the side-walls and in the adjoining galleries, the work on the walls may have a more direct bearing on the men and their achievements, according to the space allotted to the various representatives of the nation's greatness in the museum.

Then, as we understand, it is desired to set apart spaces in this museum for relics and memorials of these men; the rooms should have a direct bearing on the achievements of the men memorialized, whether the treatment is allegorical, historical, or individual.

Even in allegory, this can be beautifully done; there

need be no vagueness in the significance of the artist's work.

Unfortunately, the university being compelled to use all its efforts on behalf of its ordinary educational work, can lend no energy to the securing of means for the decoration of the Hall of Fame, beyond statements like the present. We offer the abundant space provided by the generosity of the giver of the edifice. When the hall, including only the colonnade and the museum, shall have been completed by the close of winter, it will have cost a little more than $250,000. It is, by itself, a most delightful memorial to great Americans-not only in its architecture and the names inscribed, but also in the surpassing landscape which it commands throughout its 500 feet of length. The historic heights of Fort Washington, where one of the fiercest Revolutionary battles was fought; the Hudson and the Palisades, the Harlem and the Speedway-are in view. Close by are noble trees belonging to the park recently established by the city. Through this sloping University Park will be a popular approach to the hall from the west. From the east and the future rapid-transit road, the visitor will come to the hall through the college campus and the Mall." The Hall of Fame must be visited to be known, for it can be represented by no photograph. In order merely to read the eight connected inscriptions upon the eight pediments, the sightseer must go.

around the exterior of the entire structure, front and rear, a full quarter-mile. He will find the object and the reason of the edifice described in the carved words, which chance to be precisely the same in number as the great names that the Hall of Fame will commend to the people of the Twentieth Century. The 29 words are as follows:

THE HALL OF FAME

FOR GREAT AMERICANS

BY WEALTH OF THOUGHT

OR ELSE BY MIGHTY DEED

THEY SERVED MANKIND

IN NOBLE CHARACTER

IN WORLD-WIDE GOOD

THEY LIVE FOREVERMORE

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Mr. Hunt. (Pres.)

HE people of Porto Rico call their highest mountainEl Yunke," the anvil; and they might very properly now give that name to the entire island, for it is an anvil on which two civilizations, two peoples, with diverse traditions, are being welded. The fires have been blazing

in the forges for months, and the legislative hammering has begun. It was my fortune to be on the island when the first blows were struck to this welding.

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I reached San Juan, the capital," just or the eve of the assembling of the executive council to begin its legislative work; for its functions partake both of the executive and the legislative. Six of its members, citizens all of the United States, are insular executive officers. Sitting, by virtue of their office, with five native members, also appointed by the President, they con

stitute the upper legislative chamber. At present this is the only chamber; for the popular, elective body will not be organized until after the elections, which are to be held in November. This upper house has two exclusive functions under the act of its establishment: first, the districting of the island for election purposes and the enactment of election laws; and, second, the granting of franchises. But only in these initial matters is it independent of the lower house. Its consent is necessary to the enactment of all other laws; but the popular body, to consist exclusively of native members, may itself prevent any legislation which it considers not for the best interests of the island. It will thus be seen that the legislative machinery is not structurally unlike that which is made for the Territories; nor does the relationship of the Porto

Rican to it appear to be in fact different from that of the citizen of Arizona or Alaska to his Territorial government, whatever it may be in theory, and whatever the constitutional status of the former may be.

The assembling of this body was without demonstration. There was no more pomp or ceremony than if it were a meeting of a college faculty or of a board of railroad- directors. Eleven men sat, with less than a dozen onlookers, in the throne-room of the palace where absolutism had, for generations, attracted and awed by its splendor. They were to begin the welding. The shield of Porto Rico, bearing the emblems of Spain, still looked out from beneath the ceiling. and there was only a lone flag of Stars and Stripes hanging at the end of the hall as visible symbol of the new order of things. Some of the members of Spanish descent wore an air of dignity in keeping with the courtly association of the chamber, and quite in contrast with the unconcerned manner, the easy posture, and négligée garb of most of the Americans, who might, from all appearances, be assembled to the duties of a farmers' institute. To be frank, I felt that there was perhaps hardly enough deference to the proud past of the brave little island which the French, the English, and the Dutch had all in vain bombarded. But then I was fresh from the outside.

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If any one has visions of carpet-baggers" in sinecures, an introduction to the members of this council who have been sent to the island would dispel them; for a more capable, highminded group of men it would be difficult to gather to such a task as theirs. They are in a diving-bell amid wreckage; but they are work. ing indefatigably, and it may be said in parenthesis that they need all the pure air we can pump into the tube at this end.

The chairman is Judge William Hunt, the secretary of the island, chosen president for his evident and eminent fitness for the position. His patience seems to be equal to the extraordinary demands upon it, but it has not softened his will when firmness is needed. There is no "lackeying to the varying tide." Some of his wisdom for such varied tasks as come to him he has inherited, I fancy, from ancestors who have performed like service for England, and much he has gotten from his experience in judicial and public life.

The young man of dark visage and immaculate dress is Dr. Hollander, the treasurer of the island. He was taken from his professorship at the Johns Hopkins University, and sent down to the island as a special commissioner to report upon a system of revenue; but he was found to be so valuable a man in this field that, against

his own desire and in the face of his protest, he was kept there as treasurer, and set at the receipt of custom. Tax-gatherers became his students. Perhaps no one there has a more trying or disagreeable task; for it is only through the taxes that the government touches the most of the people. His work, immensely difficult to begin with, was augmented by the absconding of some of the old collectors, by the policy already entered upon of remitting taxes to all who had suffered from the devastating hurricane of a year ago (and nearly all asked for rebates), and by the disturbance of the recent change in currency; but in spite of all the difficulties which the department has had to encounter, the assessments are being equalized, a greater proportion of the taxes assessed is collected, and all that is collected gets into the treasury-a new experience.

Another young official with a vexing task is the attorney-general. He has sacrificed considerable business interests out in Illinois to give his days and nights to reconciling a system of law that holds a man guilty until proved innocent with one that presumes innocence until the guilt is established. There is relief in sight, however; for while I was there the commissioners from the United States arrived to begin, with one Porto Rican member, the local study and codification of the laws.

The member whose opportunities are the greatest is the commissioner of education, for it is only through the instruction of the children and youth that we can hope to exert much influence upon the life of the island. Dr. Brumbaugh's experience and shoulders are fortunately broad for his new work. It is his giant form that is first to rise, when petitions are in order, to present the first petition laid before the council, asking for an increase of the appropriation for the new normal school, toward which the people of Fajardo had privately contributed, as a bonus, $20,000. I saw him last, in the midst of his executive duties, one burning August afternoon, perspiring, hatless and coatless, directing the transformation of an orphanage in San Juan into a high-school building, to be opened to its new uses in October. All I learned concerning the two older members was that the auditor was overworked, and that the minister of the interior was efficient in attending to the multifarious duties of his department.

So much I have stopped to say of these men that those who cannot see for themselves may know how well and faithfully we are represented in this miniature State 500 leagues away.

Of the five native members appointed by the President, one also gets a favorable impression. Two are members of the Federal party-one a