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Tuesday, May 22, 1925. ■ NEW BUSTS FOB HALL OF OF FAME IN NEW YORK One of the Busts to Be Unveiled is That of General Robert E. Lee. ' New York, May 21. —When the cere mony of unveiling the seven new busts in the colonnade of the American Hall of Fame at N,ew Ybrk University is held tomorrow afternoon the guests * will observe that as last fame is to be accorder'without regard to sex. Once there were two Hails of Fame—one for men and another foe women.. Now the memorial tablets have been rear ranged so that there is no distinction. Since 1900 fifty-six men and seven women have been elected to the Hall of Fame. When it was voted to move the busts of the women, it was found that they could not be moved withoht great damage, so new busts were cast. The busts to l»e unveiled tomorrow are those of Abraham Lincoln, Alex der Hamilton, Gen. tT, 8. Grant, Gen. Robert E. Lee,, Ralph Waldo Emersou. v Henry Ward Beecher and Frances Wil lard. The Lincoln bust is the world of Saint-Gaudens and is a gift froift the Union League Ctah. _ It will be unveiled by Mrs. Mary. Lincoln I sham, granddaughter of Lincoln. The French Ambassador Jules J. '.Tussc rnnd. will deliver u tribute to Lincoln. Miss Mary Schuyler Hamilton will, unveil the Hamilton bust, which is a gift from the Alexander Hamilton In stitute. -H is the work of the Italian sculptor Giuseppe Geracchi. I)r. Tal -1 cott Williams of the Sohool of Journ alism will deliver the address. The bust of General Grant is by James Earle Fraser and Thomas Hud son Jones and is to replace the one by the late Henry M, Shrady, which was unveiled in the Hall a year age by Marshall .Toffre, The work of Mr. Shrady was a small sketch bust .. from he intended to model a, .i, larger' bust for the hall, but this work ~ wnsprevented liy ids death. The new bust is the gift of a group of citizens who will bo represented at the un veiling by Herbert L. Satterlee. Major-Gen. J. G. Harlwrd will unveil the bust and speak of Grant ns a sol dier. Dr. George Bolling Lee, a grandson of the great Oonfederato-ehibftain. will unveil the bust of General lav. which ts the gijt of the New York division of the Daughters of the Confederacy. Mrs. R. W. Jones, late president of the New York division, will make the presentation, the address to lie by Mar tin W. Littleton, ’ president of the Southern Society yt New York. Daniel Chester French is the sculp tor of the Emerson bust, which will lie Unveiled h.v Dr. Edward W. Emerson, . son of the poet and sage. The Au thors Club of Boston, donors, will be represented by ils president. Miss Alice Brown, and other members. Dr. Henry Van Dyke will speak. Col. William G. Beecher, son of Henry Ward Beecher, will unveil the bust of the famous pulpit orator, which is the work of Massey Rhiud, and will lie presented by Warren B. Nash, son of the late William A. Nash, donor of the bust. The address will lie by the Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hil lis. Beecher's successor iir Plymouth Church. Brooklyn. 1 2 The Woman's Christian Teifaperauce, ♦’nhm fs the" donutT<sl* fh# #rMW* > YV,il tard bust, which is the work of Lorado Taft. Tlie unveiling wilklie by O. H. Willard, a kinsman of Miss Willard. Mrjg Kila A- I’oole. vice president of the Nurionai W. C. T. I'., will make the presentation, the*- address lieing by Miss Anna A. Gordon, national presi dent of the organization. LITTLE DANGER OF SCHOOL FIRE Every' School Building in State Pro vided With Proper Exits, Says Wade. Raleigh News and Observer. North Carolina's forty million dol lar investment in modern school houses during the past twenty years make such a disaster ail befell the sohool commencement near Camden. S. C.. Thursday night almost impos sible in tills State, in the .opinion of State Superintendent E. C. Brooks who was discussing the tragedy that cost Til lives in a thin)}' settled rural community. Special emphasis has lieen laid on Are prevention and lire escapes by the Department of Education and the Department of Insurance., Insurance Commissioner Stacey W. Wade said that the school building at Clinton, a wooden structure with an auditorium ' on the second floor, was the lust of the old type to be modernized. Recently .$ii.(KK) bas been spent on the fire es capes. Many buildings similar to thnt near Camden have been in use in the State, but most of them have been torn down and modern structures built to replace them. The modern type of building now lieing recommended to rural com munities has only one floor, with the class rooms grhuped around an audi torium, A score or more such build ings tire now being erected in th# State. j More enreful attention to the provi sions against placing chairs in aisles In public assemblies would remove the last danger of panic from tire in the State, Dr. Brooks nlul Mr. Wade lie lieve. Neither is apprehensive that a disaster of the sort that befell the South Carolina commencement throng Kvill >ake place in North Carolina. Mrs. W. H. Wohlford, Charlotte Lady, Hart in Auto Accident. Charlotte, May 21. —Five children and three, women were in a car, driven by Mrs. Arthur Wohlford, which plunged down an embankment and tui ned over on the Dowd > rond- Sunday afternoon. Only Mrs. W. H. Wohlford was injured. In the car wererdrs. Wohlford, Mrs. Arthur Wohlford and Mas. Herbert Wohlford—daughter-in-law, and five grandchildren. •In'Mrs. Wollford'a jap was the baby of Frank Mcßae, son-in-law of Mrs. Wohlford., The infant escaped injury as did the other occupants of the lar. Mrs. Wohl ford'll collar bone was broken. f * A very forgetful bridegroom was John Kemble, tbs celebrated English actor. After the ceremony he had to go back to> the theatre. He became so absowbred in his part that he for got that he was married, and when thß play was over he went home to bft bachelor lodgings. \ , V ! ? * \ ■ -9 - *■■■*>**# •• • ■ I \ p|j ‘V 1 'lf&Ksfy . ||| Each Dollar Cash Means A Chance I ' * ists ii Good Year and Seiberling Tires and Tubes I j All Auto Accessories and Necessities I I Vuicanizing-Radiator Repair s-Car Laundry-Prest-O-Lite Batteries I I AND BATTERY REPAIRS J ■ \ __J■ 'M CO. ■ THF CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE PAGE FIVE
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