| Show he Centenary of Great American President I Tj 1 i r s J 1 IL f I r c c L J Jc Ji t a I IS r S awe v 4 t i tIT yb L Li 1 c i w I li rt rte Y i ie e i t r t x e ni p l i f I a t I i r y r l i rl l lt 5 I f F AI tle ry 1111 t W L I p paa J M iIi t tr aa a ai i r i THE OLD MiLLSTONE i ii rY i I L 1 I Irr II II I I rr aid s fi f I t T r rC C Nr i iera P era eoN cg hr y i LINCOLN S BIRTHPLACE Feb 10 I 1 1801 th the cn cen FRIDA memorial to Abraham will m be dedicated on OD ODthe the rho cave te of the famous lOll log bin In III which was waa born The ThO site I ts on a a Mw fw mile from H 4 le count county Ky KyThe KyThe The memorial I Is conspicuous on ac acCOunt ace COunt of Its ape 11 pros h It by wide step tepa that lead up from the p pleas Greek Ih front and nd on all aid Ides add to the un tan of the It ItI I 1 In kelp with the of theman the theman man to whose WhOM memory It hu bas been beeD He erected hd A worn path winds wind from the pa to the spring of the farm The farm In other respects remain u AI It t was A Gnarled apple tree le la I out as the nl one of th the that was w put out and fostered rd I b by Tom Lincoln Tile The cable cabin Banda within the IRP m I It t la the only e All t tb o osbin In i Ground Th that all b as newly nearly Ita Ia tile tb original tat a ble has baa MIa carried out A tall white I l at t thu foot or of the Ibe plans Prom Its Ita halyard ea aa American I flag will be unfurled en every day d In III the year ear Th farm I 1 e T Lein I bb b c t I te au road II I n e I is a as n old IJ xH aM the It farm itself It I still known as th the Tille and road 1 li Lw 11 oln eoln was supervisor or of th the pike The Theother other road la a nw new It I la the out ne over which will ra pass th the throngs I that wilt will go to thu cre cere cremonte monte After the through which I the genius or of the farm west to the I ItuaU White lions tb the birthplace war w vir virtually vi unknown 10 o fa tar a It Its exact I IIo Io WU was concerned wu wasI I dead and nd before It occurred to hl hi country that the farm In Ken JI huld I b d Ih it ti it tir would ha been ui r I a I later I is mere r than Ilk trot th the I fad t t that 1 mug h ill is a u w fad jn in the I land eaty O I in III II Ih of th the hure cI w IS th awe 11 for tor It Its r Stry of the Farm Rec Rescue far ai k known no n tb the first t man tn advocate the purchase of tb farm for fot fota fora a memorial was AI a Chicago preacher r the Rev Lloyd Jor Jones Robert RobertJ J Collier 1 a New York took up 11 the The farm Mal had be been advertised ro for sale lIe Mr COWer rent t Yr Jones Jone to 10 the sale with full sue all I i I l f t r a s y 1 5 I h F i MI RON LINCOLN FARrr i I The I h was wa for tl the land lad only The Th log cabin was wa not them It had I II I Leon n reran t d for show how pur It ItI had boon en shipped north It was wa traced I I In 0 the basement ent of a house on lon Lung i Island Through the Root trona of oC Mr I Mad d b by other public spire pr I the ca cabin ln was wa rescued I and pent nt buck back to the hallowed ground In all lands land the bodies of Illustrious dead kad have had triumphal journey The ot of this loll log cabin bin to th thI the I hu m It was Drat erected wo woI of the th It received I Railroads carried It tr free The Th car Ar which held th the hut but wan decorated by I IJohn John A IfO great at of New York and Philadelphia A detail wall wag by the governor of Ken i lucky ludy to ad act as guard of honor during i I th the When hen th the ear reached Philadelphia th the mayor or of that city l It with honors honorl no 1 lees than han he could have hae on the Living through which 1 lad f 1 h he arrived Ill b found Ih there on OH Uw the ground Some ome ot of these I It 11 must 1 b admitted were rc moved In their to get the farm tarm It y other thou patriotic motives One On had enn n Ived th the idea Idell of getting tho ground I cod reeling thereon II a distillery lIe had already all on nn the th name ot of I Ithe th the Liquor that was w to 10 bt be Itla It la evell said that II he had bad thE poster I out I Whisky Ife He was so 0 elated at hi his proe prospects that In III a revel he declared hi Intentions Mr Jr Collier agent nt heard ot of It and nd arrived on tb the ground In time timeto to get In the bid which saved the day place u en pa n a night nighton 1 on his hili way to be hu inaugurated lie 11 Its Ite appreciation b by making the occasion a holiday children at Altoona na strewed the car eliI with flowers owe oweA A detail from the Ann Army took I or of the car car at l Pittsburg Co Columbu and fOlI bellowed towed honors hono as the e esbin passel through those cities At Louisville the vice 1 president of the United Stat Stater air 1 Stevenson received It and dl distin I men who bad opposed I the ot of Lincoln pronounced eulo When hen tile the cabin rosebud hones bom and nd I w was pla placed where It was w fiat arlt put ilk 1111 dr Collier turned over oer the farm and I tl hi rula allI t nil nn I 11 of I t the h hI head rat Mr t r h nl Pundit tr 11 Lune h ui un a ItI t f fr r In this thlIn o n nIt In It I In hn n national 11 laU i iIo Io 10 lilt th Ir 11 or r th iii Till ea 1111 a el If Int han l of nf r I Ih Ih h lann ann which 1 promptly Incorporated and r t a wr f XI New York The hr title or lOr l girt wo wa to III N i 1 II nod th the program fr f en n th membership of th the j tv 1 e art t un It t IN I 1 t u receive m mIn I In the Ih It s t 1 11 h ll 1 to the Iral fund of n nIs Is I II ass II a s tn II iiI I 01 l t I Ii limit I an all contribution i a h Ih the t rep r III 11 th t of all th the people 11 Program of Th Ie ti fur fr the r f fI I u riAl has hall Ii it ft Iy I th Ih It II Lloyd rah I led ed II r in Ihn I hates tIt Tarn farm The Th i t tI I I hem rth a II park It i iI II I be d 10 I II the sta of nr II t 11 iron the th hu hour of II Its d Un UnI II I n Il will dell deliver tit th principal rat lUll It 11 I la said aId t thus I L mead to make k th lh effort th the lug one ot of ItI oratorical life II f It It ii been hint d that h he wilt will I avor to 10 milk make It as brief a ac t I which Lincoln uttered at t tw i 1 iburg w Jolk holk of t l k In behalf hlf of the II 11 I a th the head or of cI The he fr for suite te ot of Kentucky will be deli I Iby by Augustus E Will In ht his hili robes of t hi will be Present and participate It is II expected that filter W Wendell Holmes Hulm or of the United Stat Ia e supreme I bench will make the r for tor the Union soldiers All As I is known Justlee I Is th the son lOr f the 01 famous pt poet et and t who m horn born the tho same am year a as Lincoln The Th Confederate veterans will I Iha have ha a conspicuous Pitt In the th 1 pt Secretary of War ar Luke Luk I Wright who was wall a Confederate N Ur filer will deliver the address I its I 1 ludt ot of th the south lOuth This be a climax to the O occasion for Cor It I Ic n Ii ceded that the south long lone since r rt c In Lincoln w I true friend i previous It has h h n II admiration of hi his genius That th 11 memorial which wilt will enshrine the c cabin In which Lincoln was born stanI In the south lOuth I regarded h b th the whole country ate as felicitous the memorial at t th the farm tann I Is being dedicated other ver 1 et clues commemorating th the centenary the martyr be taki place One or of th these will be at t field Id Ill III where hr body hodr under a monument erected hr by tl III state 11 ceremonies will 11 tat tak place on 00 the I earns me day In III Nw New Yurl and In other cities The present board of o r ti t I Il l Lincoln I is compose 0 of Ulu U following Joseph If 11 th eit henry lIry Watten on Ii If Taft J Galle ase Norman Porter J Robert nobert J Collier A All i mint Delmont Traver J toms rom Samuel I 1 Clemens Clemen ii ol I Ida tt II Parboil Tarbell I Gibbon Jenkin Lloyd Jones JonM Charles CharI CharlesA CharIA A Tow Towns Albert Shaw and Thomae Joseph 1 lk Is III Preel dent CIa H 11 hacks treasurer and net Lloyd lIoyd Jones JonN secretary UA ID N |
