Show SING urn ONE SONG IN LOUISVILLE Strai Strains s of f Old Kentucky Home Greet Visitors DUN Dur During DUNin ing in Home Hom Coming Week SOM 30 ME UNIQUE U E FEATURES R ES ESEN EN PiCtURE OF HOSTS AND I LouisY Louisville Je then weep ho DO OFt my In lady h m mst I will ill sh OM ab ios of my W ad b Not ot oue time but many hundred times Um UmI I he Lo this thi w wo kne heard beard Poster Foter Old Kentucky Home All the 1 bra ra b from all the round rounel are here and nd their throats t blare forth the strain ov over r and ander tr er agaIn A quartette of n negroes es at the of Fourth and Walnut n I Weep no more my lady with In a high hiah falsetto A bUnd blind tN fid I Ier r by tM the hoUe building saws ws at t T Thc l un shines abines bright in inny ny fly old Ken Kentucky tuck home bom sonic some boys wingIng over the excavation wh where re the thew w Mar Mary Anderson AnderOn theatre is going up re It and little further i yn wn the street teet a phonograph parlor told 1 same me And stilt they smile T I H ice and even cheer when T 1 h MIMi band somes along For they au are aur arery r ry happy pe people Home Is 18 spelled 1 It itt it a vry ery lar iare H 14 and aDd U ly y Old IC Ken 1 i d ky y No with h Its plaintive worn words iJ 1 mcl y is the audible of It I hr i r emOtion eUon St Fosters men memory has bas lived with withy y 1 org ong and one of the occasions of the I 1 was the of a bust of the theal al ad po pot t with the proper ht of elo do eloIne Ine in his honor The bust bUH is to o oi 0 i h ht new W capital building at hOve n a lot of mode r r t he comers beside the Foster FOiter a Daniel Boone da day a Lincoln I a av a floral pa pre a night pa page e ut nl a arnd bat ball I te The shows have rood ones b th tb people have hose hoseh h 11 real ral show 0 ti On ev every l side the soft thern speech the drawl the resonant or of otee the slurred consonants family group Sung un mot mother tM the big d l Lh r a troop of clad oun lell n n noros bringing n up the rear with r ba baby by In bet Iter arms Th street t ears rs stop while two groups iet w and ml mingle Howd hone honey how hov hovI I When did you come How ire are all h hr fulk Tom Dick And Harr And women kiss cia while men clap one another 11 l the shoulders They come from aU all wr nr the land and some from oU other r lands I r y are of an all ages and conditions On Onh i hf h ear I met t an old lady coming after fort forty years ears on a California i lt She was br bringing her clothes In 4 and she had a sublime Fw In tb the Louisville Commercial club It ItS Her homecoming In she had bad had bad been a per personal r ronal onal one to nero her I have hae faith to believe bellve he p was tak taken n care of for fot the hospitalIty r these Louisville people was val most gen fins mus There was wa an atmosphere of fried hicken and barn bam and aU all that savors of good cheer floating from the fine old homes Jol the ed streets and per ad ns the town The portrait of Lincoln occupied the most prominent place In the armory the thereat reat hail 1111 where the crowd gathered and m an afternoon was set et apart to do honor honorI t I 0 the great 0 And nd the most moot prominent fi figure ure in the celebration wu was that of Henry Henr Henry the they cell call him here so 56 when It w was s known that Wat WatT T r ron on was to talk about Lincoln a great gathered In Central l park to hear hI h speech It wu was 5 i In the after oon Ifon and the sun had bad just dipped below t lH Ii tops of the old beech trees when the rose There stood racing facing us a man r height stout of build his short arms anus brou brought bt forward across 6 his hi body and his iriS big homely head bead lifted hward the people who yelled and shout 4 frI f 1 and as the they dId every time f e appeared throughout the week He is 1 ru rugged ged leonine type ud od when he be shAkes shak white l locks cu bc dc f from JIt his hils big fore forehead h head ad and lifts his arms in gesture you OU feel j i t once the p power or of a born leader of Very deliberately In a splendid b big b he rounded hk his periods period The ro rough h cabin in hi which Lincoln WAS horn born hornas bornas I as just be beside the platform in which Watterson stood Mood With that poor hov hovel 1 within the range of his vision he was in d to eloQuence the 4 of the school readers the roll roU g p periods o of Webster r aM Patrick Hen Heny y and kind that brings the thears fars ars and stirs tb the emotions Marse henry fenry was s the or orator tor of the occasion and I nd aroused more enthusiasm m than any ther IndivIdual but there were others g Old Governor Leslie nearly N fi years old was shown much honor as the onetime I vernor of Kentucky and later on of Montana Then there were Adlai Ste Stet t I and Governor Francis and nand hand urn um y young the present gov gor of the state And Senator McCreary and II a lot of men or of more than local In Interest terest But It was the crowds that held the UIE At Attention longest t When an G Carruth By the waters of Babylon I sat down and wept when I remembered Zion a tottering old fellow with a military goatee exclaimed Golly aint that fine That seemed the prevailing sentiment about e everything Even when the rain fell In sheets as the Daniel Boone Edone stAtue was unveiled in Cherokee pork park the enthusiastic approval of the people was not found wanting The DAniel Boone statue is a fine bronze fIgure fiUr b by Enid Yandell a Louisville Girl or of the gr great t hunter coming through the wood ills JUs long rifle in his arms The pedestal is a pile of rought sand sandstone stone ston slabs over which the wild honey honeysuckle honeysuckle suckle is already growing The figure tb thus mounted seems to be coming from froma a thick covert of beeches and elms and ad to bf be keenly alive to what may be seen In th the wooded glade ade that opens before him It Is 18 a realistic piece of work and quite In harmony with tb the splendid wood perkin parkIn which it stands This is a natural forest where b beeches befi and ADd elms centuries oM old lock Jock arms with giant Jiant poplars and gums and maples Where man has only bunt built roadways and bridges and wild rose hedges and fIt elder and the sumach and the wild ape and the scarlet trumpet vine to follow th their ir own sweet will The fireflies glow with a million fairy torches in the tr and undergrowth of Bear Grass c creek k as the they must have done when DaniEl Boone came through or 01 wll when n the tRe Indians danced In war and In peace upon Bi Rig Rock RockI I wu was glad Iad the Louisville people gave us lit all an excuse by the Boone da day exer ellMS tot fOl loItering in the checkered l lights and shades of dear old Cherokee I was glad too that they bad the floral noral parade and showed us their lovely girls in the setting of garlanded and bedecked vehicles eIsa cles Ant th the children too beautiful lit tie tle ores ones peeping out of daisy bowers Or arbors of wistaria The ball was The climax no the last night of all the handshaking night was as the best when hosts and talked it all over mer and agreed that homecoming week must come a again in and come often in Ken tucky By the way aU all the laBs Ions I heard speak found a place In their glorification of the dark and bloody ground nd for a word of praise and love for forthe forthe the homes of their adoption It Is 18 of Interest t to us westerners to know that the celebration aU all came about through a woman Hiss H Haplin IR of Denver but formerly of who wrote the homecoming suggestion to a Lou Louisville ville friend who presented it to the Commercial club It was taken up by that body and managed mo most t ef as the results Indicate Each county this week has its with barbecues and burgoo feasts and a then Kentucky will settle back a little tired perhaps but flushed With the faction of haying done the thin thing exceed well R j P I |