Show lincoln portrait drawn from life in a way most interesting of all pictures of the great president freeman thorpe in on oil article pill published in lesliea Le gave it deeply interesting account of how lie made to tio life sketches of the alie marty martyred red president one of them thein being ut tit gettysburg while lincoln was walting waiting to deliver his famous speech mr thorpe wrote 1 I was vas at home lit in geneva ohio when I 1 heard that it i train ruin which was coming that after afternoon front from tile east had on board mrs lincoln wife Ife of the newly dewly elected president I 1 hustled about and stirred ill up the company of the town and vi when lien the train pulled in we had the cannon tint and were firing a salute lit in honor of the lie future occupant of the white house then I 1 was introduced to mrs lincoln its as the boy who luid caused the salute t she wils waa pleased an and treated nie me very graciously some soine N weeks eks after that I 1 wrote to president lincoln and asked him to top stop ills his inaugural train at geneva so I 1 could make inake it a sketch of him to my iny delight lincoln replied agreeing to div request renu ost I 1 let it be known in geneva that president lincoln would ho northe dionor the town ton liy by stopping there a few minutes on in his wity way to and from froin sundle until the train arrived every hell bell in benevit kept up it a continual ringing people heard the lie noise away out in abe lie country and cattle came in to learn what it was till all about ax K 4 george G barnard well known sculptor lor Is here shown at his hia new york studio putting the finishing a touches to the first of four 15 foot heads of abraham lincoln which are to be placed along the lincoln highway in four states when the train pulled in I 1 evits the first to dumber clamber onto into tit alie ph platform of tile the presidents lents car there stood mood lincoln ready to clasp my hand then I 1 took my position on the next pint pl it fonn forin and began 1113 sketch while the cl crowd pushed up tip to sa s1 shake ills his of out that sketch ketch was r rough oil but I 1 got the lie likeness then cattle came the lie war I 1 enlisted und served in the second ohio cavalry a valry lighting fighting in the lie valley my health broke down lilt and I 1 was sent on detached duly lilt to jeffet ol iville anil to recuperate tf when I 1 regained my health I 1 went on to NNa washington hington to ID rejoin my nent eliat was just jilt before tile the first anniversary of 0 f the battle e of gatt bui g with ahli my pre cious geneva sketch of lincoln I 1 dpn went to the lie war vur department und and fur for it a furlough to go U 1 gettysburg and m malic ah a another sketch of the ili president es ident for it had been announced that mr air lincoln would sheuk on in thal occasion I 1 got tile lie f furlough 1 I it und and rode on in tit alie pattie hanic train with the I 1 president st securing cur till an audience I 1 showed him no illy unshed dra drawing whig mado from froin the lie geneva shorthand sketch and lie he complimented it alien we d at gett we ne found a great crowd there interested jn in tile the scenes 0 of f the lie battlefield rather than lit in the lie program of speeches echem n there were ninny many open grues and bi battle ittle were ere being hurled burled only ibi n wadi iati v e y sifi dinall mi of people gathered d about the stand to hour hear the speeches I 1 stood within I 1 IS 5 feet of sir mr lincoln ni as lie sat on oil tile the platform there I 1 made another sketch there Is a wonderful difference in its ita expression from froin that of the sketch the lines are deeper the countenance ce more grave we listened two hours to the oration of 1 everett Lv erett then lien the president stepped forward a sheet of paper in lila his left haud baud there he afo stood od ills his loft left toot foot advanced advance ahead of ills his right and begun began to speak peak gesticulating somewhat with both long arms the crowd settled down to hear an hours address nd dresa hut but it wits all over in less than three minutes unit and tile fresl dent sat down don there was no applause tile the audience nud lence wits na astonished three minutes es when hen they had expected an hour the meeting silently broke up in 1871 1 I went to washington with alth my two lincoln sketches they were ere jahe only known sh sketched etches front from life of tile the martyr president and that fact interested the senators henn tois they built a studio for tile rue on tile the capitol roof over the senate whig and I 1 occupied it for 1 20 0 years I 1 was vaa v aa awen ty seven seen ears old when given that studio hut but not mitt lint last ast year ear did I 1 binish tur my portrait dt alt of lincoln the it 11 arary committee of the senite senate lecont recommended I 1 its purchase and tile the senate unit voted doted 2000 for it IL |