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Show RELICS OF LINCOLN Wonderful Collection Gathered and Placed in the House Where He Died. THE building in which Lincolr died on Tenth street, Washing ton, is now owned by the government. gov-ernment. It houses the wonderful won-derful collection of Lincoln relics which has been the life work of Mr. O. H. Oldroyd. This work was begun in 1860, and has continued ever Lincoins Office Cnair. since, until now fchere are in this mass of material thousands of newspaper clippings, hundreds of pictures, books, drawings, badges, sermons, speeches and every imaginable thing connected connect-ed with Lincoln's career. Here are be found the chair housed ho-used in his office, his death mask, the chair in which he sat when killed, a rail split by his hand, a theater bill of Ford's of the night of the assassination, assas-sination, Booth's spur, a cooking stove used by the Lincoln family, dozens of Lincoln's articles of furniture, statuettes, statu-ettes, autographs, the cradle in which: the Lincoln children were rocked, the.: Spur That Was Fatal to Booth. Lincoln family Bible in a word, thousands thou-sands of articles of every kind relating to him. There is nothing which could be traced as having once belonged to Lincoln that Mr. Oldroyd did not secure, se-cure, if purchasable. And it is safe to say that his collection is the most remarkable of its kind in the world, for it is the work of more than fifty-years fifty-years of a man's life, devoted almost solely to this one object. While the buildinz helonH tn thA government the collection is stilL owned by Mr. Oldroyd, to whom the writer is indebted for the illustration in this article. Washington Star. |
