Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-01-13 | Page 21 | A Washington Bystander

I IA A WASHINGTON BYSTANDER By HERBERT C. C PLUMMER Tenth street of the national just a few blocks off avenue is to be found one of the most re examS exam exam- S pies of hero wor- wor S known to tor r The example is Captain 0 H. H 1 a war veteran now well past four four- r 4 o ni years the S end n aria of z w iii- iii J j ye rs or of serlee ser ser- lee doe In collecting N relator t ng mg to a man h he wN t at 1118 never seen seen- C. C PlUMMER Abraham Lincoln I You will find I Captain d at almost any I tour hoUr oO of the day n im tIme the house where the martyred died just across the street from irom Fords Ford's the the- atre BIG COLLECTION The rhe MemorIal Collection affords perhaps the most Intimate touch with the last hours ot of the great Lincoln ln I The collection includes more than 1000 volumes to Lincoln and numerous other mementoes I A rail hewn by Lincoln hangs in ina ina a prominent The spur worn by John Wilkes Booth on the night of the assassination and the flag torn by that spur are there with Countless other othel I Captain started his llis work in 1860 heri 1 a a. boy of 19 9 lie he operated a news stand in the tho hack of his fath- fath rr's store In Mt It Vernon O. O One day there came to hIm in his package package pack pack- age of papers a Wigwam edition of The Life Lite Speeches arid and Public Services Ser Ser- vices ices of Abraham lincoln He took it home with him After reading It he determined ll then and there thero I 1 to save everything concerning Lincoln that came his wa way Time The task has not been an easy one Money was scarCe and he was forced to to every pos pos- means to his collection growing The starr of ho hohe he acquired acquired ac- ac tile the old Lincoln family Bible is typical ot of his hardships BEGAN AT CHICAGO FAIR In he attended the worlds world's fair at Chicago Hero Here he saw sari time tile old family Bible It was taken to tie exposition by a 1 Kentuckian and was exhibited in a 1 t tent nt outside time the grounds lie He approached time the owner and was told it would take to buy It That was a great deal more money than lie he had bad Still determined determined de- de he sped to a a. telegraph office of- of flee fice and wired a friend f for a a. loan The money came and he proudly Lore his prize away Fortune the captain In later years Ills His collection now is the property ot or the United States lIe was paid for tor it PrevIously Pre Pre- lIe he had ed larger sums