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Show Only Bare Walls Left of House of Tragedy Ford's theater, at oshlngton, is directly across the street from the tltttA hHfW kmia. II uiii Ml IV am J vr tauu In which Lincoln died. This bouse contains the famous fa-mous Oldroyd collection col-lection of Lincoln relics which - the federal government govern-ment purchased at a cost of $50,000. The Tates bill provides pro-vides for the transfer trans-fer of these bits to the remodeled theater. the-ater. Only the shell of the theater now remains. The bal-conies, bal-conies, seats and stage were removed many years ago, and It Is now properly prop-erly a dusty relic of history. Row upon row of files filled with mysterious mysteri-ous government charts about patents and other matter that have accumulated accumu-lated through tbe years are lodged here. |