Show ANECDOTES AN JOSEPH JEFFERSON I First Meeting With Lincoln New York World orld During Mr r Jeffersons first western tour while tm still a lad and a member or of him hiR fathers Cathers company compan his wanderings wandering led hint him to Springfield nl IlL which bich being the capital or of the state was as deemed worthy worth of an aim sta stay But the town had bad no theatre so the elder Jet ferson and his partner decided to build o one A lot w was s hired and amI soon a 8 rough structure ninety feet deep and fort forty feet Ceet wide was a erected on it But when hen the project scorned em d about to be crowned by success a religious revival broke out in Springfield and the pre preachers per persUAded persuaded the eit city council to put a license upon the theatre that was practically prohibitive At this juncture at a young layer lawyer called on the Jeffersons and told them that if ie they would place their case lii in his hands he would ace e that the license was removed us Hs asked no compensation tion and said he be had offered himself for the task only In the interest of fair fairplay pIa play When the ease came to a heAring the I young oung lawyer argued it so wittily tactfully and thoroughly and kept the I city fathers in such constant gales or of laughter with his anecdotes and good I humor that they reconsidered their ac action I tion and declared the prohibitive tax off The lawyer in the ease case was Abrah m Lincoln |