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Show r Birthplace of 1 " Great President to Be qJ Converted Into Public Park li .N February 12 I SOS the Kentucky farm where Abra ham Lincoln waa born wilt If all gone well, be dedicated to the American IwnplH aa a national park Ha 110 rocky acrea In the heart of the lllue (Iraaa atate have Ix-en pur rhnaed, ami an nm.xln.ilon haa lieen nrganlieil to roatore lla many natural beautlea Tho log cabin In which the future president waa liorn waa recently rescued res-cued fnun a cellar at College Point Uing laland, whero It hail lieen Igno mlntoualy dumped after traveling about the country na n abow With Imposing ceremonies, it waa carried back to Ita native soil, and reatoreil to the very apot whore "Tom" Un coin, the father, put Ita rough llm ber together On another part of the farm, a an antithesis to the hut, and aa Illustrative of the height to which the aim attained from audi a humble origin. It la planned to erect memorial atructure which will lie nn eiact reproduction of the White llouee nt the time Lincoln lived there Within Ita walla will be. preserved all the available hlatorlcal treaaure na aoclated with hla -name and fame The date choaen for the dedication of the Lincoln farm la especially ftj-proprlate. ftj-proprlate. for It rnarka the lOotlt nnnl veraary of the birth of the martyred president. Prominent American from the north, aouth, raat ami went are eiected to bo preeont nt tho eier-claea eier-claea Prealdent IliMavelt haa ac n' d under military guard t if ornora and mayors met It at vn t railroad station and paid trlbuv tl! the life that Itegan within t n t tlmliera When the apeclal trail olj which It rode rroaeed tho Ohio r . from Indiana Into Kentucky, It met at the Lnulavllle station will J Itary honor Col Henry WatU el ami Adlal K Htevemwn mada ttr, chief aechea of welcome i The coal of making n park of in Lincoln farm of euctlng tho ttt orlal hall and of carrying out t U plana Is being met by tiopulnr iut acrlptlnn sent to Clarence It : kay, treasurer of the Lincoln I irl niaorlallnii Other ufllcera of tbr aoclatlon are Joseph W Folk (- dent. William II Tart Cardlnul ;t bona Samuel L Cleim-na August :4 innnt and Lyman J (lage The movement to preserve iM ecene of the earliest years of Ji coin's life haa revived untiatial I it eat In all the aasoclallona of hla ji 4 The graybearda of lltHlgenvllle. ti hamlet which I situated about I mile from the Lincoln farm, lot since they wero arouacd by IU kaJ nt auction, ba been telling rujyl story nlHiut "Little Abe," when a lot about 'Tom," hi father, nnd !itt hi mother "Abe" lived on thiffi. they say. until ho wna four (oil half year old, when, because of tM scant produce of Ita 110 acrci tM family waa forceil to movo to mil u In tho village whero "Tom" lm as barely aupixirted hla family by t PROPOSED LINCOLN MEMORIAL DUILDINO. ' It la to be built on the Lincoln farm, and will be an esait reproduction f tho White House at the time Lincoln lived there. It will contain all theivall' able historical treaturea associated with Lincoln's name and fame. cepted the Invitation to make thn principal nddreaa of the day j Had the farm not been purchased when It waa for a national rk. It ' might even now have been the alto for a distillery llet-ause of n spring on tho farm, fnmoua throughout Ken lucky for tho purity of Its waters, n wealthy liulavllle whlaky mauufno-Hirer mauufno-Hirer bail sought to buy the property I that tie might advertlee his product ' In aoiiiu audi way us thla: LINCOLN RYE Mads from tha ri'ltMSTT M.W.T, i omliitinl with the cryalsl water nt the famous LINCOLN HI'ltlMI. wtilih irushM out of the rork within with-in h rw fevt of ihs piste whsrs Abraham Lincoln Was Dorn. I VMt our itUtlll.ry at Lincoln's blrthpUfs anil See and Taste for Yourself, : (All in-imln Lincoln whisky shews iwrtrstt of Uucoln iltliiklntx : from the spring) Aa It happened, whlaky hclpd defeat de-feat whlaky When It was publicly announced that the long drawn out litigation In which tho farm's till" had become entangled was at last ended, and that It would be sold nt auction on August US, 1006. the Uiula vllle distiller sent n representative "to bid It In," no matter what the figure The agent got as far tt lilliH bethtawn, K) , some 13 miles from Hodgeuvllle, where the auction whs to take place, and, a It waa Hundny and the sale was to lw hold In tho afternoon of the following do), he put up at a hotel and ' took things easy," Intending to drive over to HiHlgenvllle the noit morning Hut although the trains do not run In that mrt of Kentucky on 8umla, tho hollies do, ami the whisk) man drank long and often In the barroom Here ho made the acquaintance of a )oung j man from New York, who had come I to buy the farm for ita preservation I aa a park, and who la now aecretary of the Lincoln Farm association On . learning the purpose of the man from I lnulavllle and noticing that "the tide I waa coming In" the New Yorker got up at ila) break the next morning and 1 hurried to Hodgeuvllle In the fastest convevance he could hire 1 On reaching llndgenvllle the New York man asked that the auction bo I hold as early lie possible, nnd he ' bought the farm for S,o00 about a quarter of an hour before the whlaky man arrived The restoration of the log cabin to l lla native elate waa a apectaolo as Im posing as Its consignment to a cellar In New York was Inglorious It was pUced on a special car nnd escorted back to Kentucky by a squad of Ken- i lucky militiamen At Philadelphia, llaltliuare llarrlsburg Attooua, Pitts bum, Columbus nnd Indianapolis It Ing nt odd Joba aa a carpenter. There they lived until the boy waa warly ten, when the Llncolna moved to Indiana. |