Show simple beauty marks rebuilt tomb of lincoln shrine at springfield now more afore worthy of the great president p PRESIDENT a transformed abraham lincoln tomb at springfield III juno june IT 17 last year when tho the monument over ahn spot chere ile tl e body of 0 the civil war president rests was eh binen en to the horld again pilgrims to tho grave found that it la Is a place of simple pl alder r is der r britting a national shrine Is 1 fiords it was closed to the iut N hile skilled artists plied their arts art to repair abid rebuild it and gave it beauty simplicity and dignity the reconstruction was mas nado rinde possible by tho the pae ape or of a LINCOLN S TOMB 0 I 1 4 I 1 t 11 1 S k UK k J 1 tf AU tho th W 1 f y aad and d decorum thu kt t resting pt of americ ba d t be b bon la its th the rd If fating program pr rm appropriation by the gen condral crall as ar in 1029 much the same outside Out clde outwardly the monument appears the ame same except that it has an air of nev nes of fr freshness in a terrace created at the south or entrance eldo side of the monument thero there in 1 a bronze I 1 cad ead of lincoln b by v gutton Horg lura on a pedestal of granite tha the great transformation Is in the interior of the monument under personal pe supervision 11 of C iier iler rick li hammond ammond state architect and former president of tho the american institute of arc the pre unused and unfinished area at the basa base of tile monument was opened nd find ancl skill and art combined to fabricate a rotunda connecting galleries and sarcophagus cop hagus chamber ono of the main fen features of tho the gall galleries erles joining the rotunda and tho the sarcophagus chamber are nine lin coin coln statuettes of bianze aeple ing L lincoln at various stages of his ills career these are the handiwork of internationally famous sculptors at each of ti tie a four our corners of the central unit of the monument there la Is one of these statuettes about three feet la in height resting on a pedestal la in a niche diagonally across from each ot of these Is a tat mt tiette in a similar niche the these bronze bronz statuettes were ob irined by the state 0 t rouga the er ef forts of ur mr hammond and U 11 II cleveland cleeland director of the state deportment department part ment of public works and build ings TI tie a sculptors daniel 0 french fred torrey and leonard crunelle are each represented by two models while life lorado taft adolph mein cin man and the late augustus st gaudens each late one As a background for these ettee ettes there are rich warm colored panels of marble beautiful as are the rotunda and the galleries the tile supreme effect Is attained in tile sarcophagus cham I 1 er there the pilasters and frieze are of trench french black marble as dark as midnight with alth wall walls of st Gene geneviefe viete golden felti ea marble on the upper portion of each jet bla black c k pilaster there Is a ft bronze wreath the belling of the chamber Is cor cred with gold leu leuk i and tho room like the rotunda Is lighted indirectly by lights hidden by an on orna mental cornice there over the spot here lin coin body lies beneath many feet of concrete has been placed a new sarcophagus of solid marble of warm red hue on it Is tho the simple inscription abraham lincoln 28 18 directly aba ab abo A ft what formerly was the noth no th door but now tran trans formed into a window covered with a wrought rought iron grill there Is cut in the marble this tills famous jamous tribute to the emancipator now ha ile belongs to tho the aes ages across froni from the sarcophagi sarcophagus in a crypt sealed with slabs of marble rest the bodies of mrs airs lincoln and thru of their sons idward baker INal wallace laco and thomas flay flags form honor guard arranged along the semicircular wall vall of the sarcophagus chamber the tile there Is an array of nine flags in tha the place of honor at the right of the sarcophagus stand stands the star stars and stripes the official stand WWI ard of the seven states in which the lincoln family lived from the lime time ot of their arrival in america until the end of 0 f the career massachusetts isea ew je jersey arsey virginia ir ginta pennsylvania kentucky indiana illinois occupy the next seven po positions irions president hoover personally in 10 stalled the hag nag of the president of the united states WHEN tarn the lh victory sh V Z abt hen their sk 11 ith 1 arual 11 d the aarah how proud prow the till title of that th land which hah nry easy truly culm jaite be b th the birth elf place and bd the tb credo of 0 both tb abw arvo adad dd 1 I abst taj laj hatlon that th bu halt bv half abrahana lincoln |