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Show PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S PRIVATE CAR. A National II, Mr Vllilrh la fast doing to Hiiln In the awltib yards of the I iilon Pacific railway at Omaha, stanllng In Hie op. n air and rapidly going l,. de-'. de-'. Is Lincoln's private car. a national telle, which, says the Illustrated lice-ord. lice-ord. should have been preserved for all ""' On the contrary It la all hut fo.i-oit. ,, n, mr(, ,!,.,, llllin 'he Jnnk of the railroad amip pile,. Tie nlil relic a t; (,., t i,,,,, ami '4 f"it wide. It wna built nt the rnll-id rnll-id States military cm shops at Alexandria. Alex-andria. Va., during the latter part of I be war iiml wits used by the emancipator emanci-pator on his vImiis to many points during dur-ing the tioul.li d-llllcil II i. ii . of Hie civic civ-ic atrlfe. No one to look nt the battered bat-tered old kulk now would recognize In It what was the marvel of elegance among early railroad equipment. Originally there waa but one entrance en-trance to tho car, a door In the corner cor-ner of one end on one side Knlranre In the then separate rooms was had from this ptamgewsy. The rear room was larger tbnn the others, and was used by I'reslilent Lincoln for an office of-fice and study, and also as a reception room, In which he received the generals gen-erals of the army. It la Bare to say that In this compartment Mr. l.'jiccln hastily wrote the notes for bis faracus speech at the field of Oettysburg. At any ralo. the President occupied the roach on hla trip to Oettysburg on that occasion. The old, battered and Ill-looking bulk also tarried President Lincoln's remains from Wushlngton to Springfield, Spring-field, 111. It waa In thle car that the body lay during that memorable Journey Jour-ney which lasted from April J) May 3, 18U5. For some time after tbla the car was placed In aervlce and was used as a directors' car. but lu great weight caused by the aimor plate, with which It waa protected, made It objectionable and It waa removed to a shed In the yarda at Omaha. There It stood for years, but, one by one, the boarda of the coloring place vanished and today, to-day, aa above elated, the car la exposed ex-posed to all aorta of weather. There waa talk In 1898 of Inaugurating Inaugurat-ing a movement among the colored population of the United Slatos with a view of enrurlng funds with which to purchase the car. restore It and to provide for It a suitable building In Washington, where It might be preserved. pre-served. Nothing, however, came of the Idea, |
