Show UNIQUE BADGE fLAG GLORifiES LINCOLN 30 YRS YEARS IN r AKING Veteran Has Spent Most o of Time Since War in Collecting Col Col- Materials After thirty years of ot badge collecting L. L R. R Miller familiarly known as Crook stick Miller of ot Brooklyn finished this morning the gathering of ot material for on one i of the most wonderful flags ever made I Ithe In Inthe I Ithe the flag are represented the forty eight stat states s and territories each with a foot foo square of badges In 1879 Mr Miller became afflicted wit with the badge collecting fad and in order that tha thata a good collection of oC Interesting emblems emblem might be he attended every encampment encampment en en- and got badges from ever every state t T These have been woven I Into on one big silk lIk flag P probably b b berh erh the most t valuable and wonderful flag of Its kind ever made On the top is an embroidered American eagle resting between en the squares In which are aro the badges from Alaska anc and Maine representing the farthest north territory and state of the union The eagle Is worked In changeable blue silk In th the center of the whole flag is a portrait o ot of Abraham Lincoln Around this are dates Lincoln's birthday Is on ODi top in white sill silk representing purity his Inaugural date 1 Is In blue representing loyalty the date o ohis of his calling out of ot the troops is in red representing representing representing rep rep- resenting blood the day of ot his death i Is in golden thread The whole affair makes make maleesa a crown of ot glory On the bottom of the flag is a set let o ot of small historic flags including the British union Jack Washington's flag the rattlesnake rattlesnake rattlesnake rattle rattle- snake flag of ot South Carolina and th the thirteen stars In another part of ot the group are the flags of the Philippines Hawaii Ha Ha- wall wail Panama Porto Rico and Cuba Near Lincoln's portrait is a flag o of thirty-four thirty stars representing the number numbe of ot states in the union when the grea great emancipator was elected president Opposite Opposite site that thirty-six thirty stars representing the additional two states in the union at the time of his Is death Mr Miller says that he now has all the Badges he needs Ills daughter In Brooklyn Brooklyn Brook Brook- lyn is putting the finishing touches on the portrait in the middle With that tha completed and the several leveral badges gathered gathered gathered gath gath- ered in this city sewed In place the mammoth mammoth mammoth mam mam- moth flag will be complete Mr Miller is gratified with the result resul of his thirty years ears of planning and hard hare work worle getting the badges together |