Show t S S LS S 4 U S U-I U I 04 14 I S S I S I l S I I U t S Abraham Lincoln in 1864 From a Portrait it J Considered by Many to Be His is Best esi i. i e. e b 4 S I-S P I S S U U S S I S S S p WA 4 r 1 4 Jc r N J t as J 1 l t f i 1 r f t S- S 1 1 bc BMW BMW- Simple Beauty Marls Marks Rebuilt T Tomb of L Lincoln nc lh Shrine at Springfield No Now More l Worthy of of- the Great President P RESIDENT HOOVER HOOVEn dedicated a transformed Abraham Lincoln tomb at Springfield Ill liI June 17 last ast year ear When the monument over oyer the spot where the body of ot the Civil war President rests was given to tobe be the world again pilgrims to the grave found that It Is a place of simple grandeur befitting a national shrine brine For months It was closed to the public while skilled artists plied piled their heir arts to repair and rebuild It and nd gave It beauty simplicity and dignity The reconstruction was made possible by the passage of a LINCOLN'S TOMB r AH An the th y and decorum Defining thu tho 10 Last Leet retting place ploce of Americas America's beloved resident bas baa been exemplified in tho the re de I signing program appropriation by the general assembly as as- embly In 1020 1921 Much the Same Outside Outwardly the monument appears bo the same sarno except that It has bas an air of f newness of freshness In a terrace ter- ter race aco created at the south or entrance entrance en- en trance ranco side sido of the monument there Is B a bronzo Ileac hea J l of Lincoln by Gutzon Guton Gut Gut- zon on Borglum on a pedestal of ot granite The great transformation Is In inthe bo the Interior of the monument Under Un Un- ler der personal supervision of C. C HerIck HerrIck Herrick Her- Her rIck Ick Hammond Hammon state stale architect and former ormer president ent of the American of Architects the prevIously previously pre pre- unused and un unfinished area at the base baso of the tue monument was opened and architectural skill and art combined to fabricate a r rotunda rounda ro- ro unda connecting galleries a sarcophagus sarcophagus sar sar- chamber One of tho thu main features of the galleries Joining the rotunda nn and the sarcophagus chamber are nine Lincoln Lincoln Lin Lin- coln coln statuettes of blonze depicting Lincoln ut at various stages of ot his career These are the handiwork of Internationally famous Us sculptors At each of the four tour corners of ot the central central unit of the monument there Is Is one of f these se statuettes about three feet In height resting on a p pedestal destal In a niche Diagonally I across from each of these Is a stats stat uette In a similar niche These bronze statuettes were obtained ob ob- ob i lamed by the state through the efforts ef I forts of Mr Hammond and H H. H. H Cleveland director of the state department department department de de- de- de of public works and build ings lags The sculptors Daniel C. C French Fred Torrey and Leonard Crunelle are ore each represented by two models while Lorado Taft Adolph Weinman Weinman Wein reIn man and the late Augustus St. St Gau Gaudens ens each have one As a background for these statuettes statuettes statuettes statu statu- ettes there are rich warm colored panels panels' of marble Beautiful as are the rotunda rotunda and the galleries the supreme effect Is attained In the sarcophagus cham chainS ber There the pilasters and frieze are of trench black marble as dark as midnight with walls of St St. Genevieve golden vein marble On the upper portion of each jet jet- black pilaster there there- Is a bronze wreath The ceiling of the chamber Is covered cov coy ered with gold leaf and the room like the rotunda Is lighted Indirectly indirectly Indi indi- by lights hidden by an ornamental ornamental ornamental orna orna- mental cornice There over the spot where Lincoln's Lincoln's Lin Lin- coln's coins body lies beneath many feet of ot concrete has been placed a new sarcophagus s of solid marble of ot warm re red hue On It Is the simple Inscription Abraham Lincoln 1800 Directly above what formerly was the north door but now transformed transformed trans trans- formed Into a n window covered with witha a wro wrought Iron grill there Is cut In Inthe Inthe Inthe the marble this tills famous tribute to the emancipator Now INow lie Ho Belongs to the Ages Across from the sarcophagus In Ina Ina Ina a crypt sealed with slabs of marble rest the bodies of Mrs Lincoln and three of their sons Edward Baker William Wallace Vallace and Thomas Flags Form Honor Guard Arranged along the semicircular wall of the sarcophagus chamber flanking the sarcophagus there Isan Is Isan Isan an array of nIne flags In the place of ot honorat the right of the sarcophagus stands the Stars and Stripes The official al standard standard stand stand- states In which ard of f the seven the Lincoln family lived from the time lime of their arrival In America until until the end of the emancipators emancipator's career carce Massachusetts career Massachusetts New Jersey Virginia Pennsylvania Kentucky Indiana Illinois ocCUPy Illinois occupy the next seven positions pr President sI ent Hoover personally Installed In stalled the tho flag of the l President of the tho United States State |