Show lk pill weld ame d 1 2 a 1 och GE ad ot ch aan reon re on he 9 d aval a val 1 me or ta roa 9 be bitant the 4 in uma and I 1 hyou my thild at I 1 pitr t ah I 1 but with b Is aortal a 1 wa if an llou I 1 mine friends that feama morning ry had no th on that they were hearing him am for the last it 6 yet it w par lincoln re 4 1 ell av 1 f Z b beem later lam the most wonderful procession ever hessed on this earth e funeral pm 1 2000 mil in length ad par in by untold thousands who fired the tr ke by eight sad by day and the by by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN at 1 L lincoln I 1 1 I brines kj k J luc increases ses year II 11 by year I 1 as li tale lot increase J J J now there has begun new law man I 1 fe station of this b homage conage pilgrimage by young oung america to the home and tomb of the S vf a r of at him C country try the th first rat pilgrimage presented th the mopha spectacle of at al almost most 2000 iowa and missouri school children in r hom homage ge at the springfield brines it was a corade of 0 patriotism ot of americanism of th the hero hem worm bli that springs eternal ln in the young american can been beeart tor for washington and lan iha coin and the great and good food ot of our national history it was a declaration of faith to ID lincoln gettysburg ad drum dresa 7 four 71 1 cor r and ad even years n ago 0 o our fan brought bb forth con wati 0 af ont a t ma in ud a dall 1 to the that t ril zu thard urn ar teo reail 1 1 of tb in by the th popl fand for lh m abaft hall not 1 from th tb th the purpose ot of the pilgrimage was wa to gain strength and reNe reference reace by aatu M al contact confect sith falth the actual places whom where lincoln hod dworkes and dwOr worked ked and had bad his hl bet being before the cation till culled called him to re the be work for which itch divine divin providence raised him tad up and to ta the tomb in which he it lies there them a are many funny lincoln lincol bt A almost I 1 I 1 every pot 1 intimately 11 tely connect no nert ed 4 with ith id bl life Is known and marked an and if reverenced reveren are ced 4 th the lt lincoln I memi demori al in wash if ngam la Is a thing of beauty fid ad soy joy anve la a time the llo lle eola call III highway hway spann panning the run continent tient will be w worthy thy of his name and fame but bar always ills him tomb will feill be abraham lincoln real uterine this flint ff pilgrimage grew out 0 of a mewung last am summer m 1 in springfield earl art R fermana FerRii soB of dose doah la ic ead and rev bev EL H pittman the kiem 1 Is clubs of the two catl cities pon pa bored I 1 it t at first the pilgrimage was wae planned for the tb school children of sh shenandoah on only other towns town heard hard of 1 it and asked that their children might augh t be b included spread frona from iowa low over the state lowther line into no northwestern weeter url and when the abe ti time we came for the start stan no ho less than 22 iowa and missouri cities and towns tome were by 1850 ayd boys and girt girl th the tart we was made do if from abe elhenan doah damn and all 11 bb dah and the c countryside for miles around turned out oar to bid the pilgrimage Goda godspeed peed and sate may return I 1 it took three ape trans trains of 41 ran cara to hold the youngster and those entrusted with their care a and the three spatial pedal train were made up of steel cars can and the wabash cleared the track for far them special ins instruction were passed along th the una no ch chances ce were taken with I 1 1850 SM school children from 22 iowa and missouri towns going to pay homage at lincoln armes I 1 DIO did you foil ever we see who bal train into load of school children off ff on oa an advar toral well let your imagination wort work overtime the atmosphere was hectic betl during the early hours of ahli the night lahl about the only pilgrims who insisted red upon pr preserving nering dignity were the bo boy who was guarding a young oak tree iron to be planted diluted on the mom morrow and 1 the girl who had b been son selected d I 1 for t ans h feht honor home of baym laying 9 the tb w wreath on t the turn tomb but the excitement sad and merriment I 1 finally did die down and the pew pedal durow s nd d P y got get a clam fir fy aa chance t to go from beat to seat t tucking achl as in some me ot of the a smaller children I 1 teerat and me making king them comfortable far or the night ight some same of the older ones de blared they ry were ff going to stay a awater zil madgh th mo bip aam tur b all night so as to be sure t to fee the when they crossed it may be they did but we lots and lots jobs autte of the pilgrims bad to be roused mused a up out of f the soundest kind of bleep for tte the first top atop jacksonville III whom where the kl KI want eanls club of that city served break fast fan at 7 SO 80 at 9 80 the trains train rolled rallied into spring held field th pilgrims left their cars can it at the me old aid wabash station now a freight office why be because it was wa from that spot that LW lincoln departed for washington to in take up lp tb the duties during of af the Peem presidency blet they won were welcomed in befitting bentt lag style by the says boys bond band of the springfield high school victor BY made the welcoming address and victor by bran stood by the tablet which marks the spot where lincoln stood on february 11 1881 1861 when he delivered his him farewell add aadrew to hla his friend and neighbors lincoln may here have had a premonition prem fatlan that he be n as am never to return his was a strange soul coal seemingly at times closely in touch with the infinite he be spoke to about one am hundred people largely per aanal RL friends it was a mad aad address appreciative of bib hl sad and of the troublous a times to mme ame here hem word are am hla his exact words M mr brid bri d NO on not at to a my sot so t afta cm the th adna I 1 feel at ahn 01 pm film to we 00 leopla 1 I owa 11 II 11 til I 1 kin hair I 1 hav b lived mur chaa quarter arter ot of e eor century or bar my 1 idam children wm bar born nil ad h here win of at lie 0 burled arild I 1 know not how mom 1 I biall a moo you gafa A do duly daf davola u upon ro wa which i 1 Is varble katr ie thu tac alt I 1 ca cortege rt ego pawed by the young pilgrims pilgrim formed 1 in columns 1 of tour our heeded beaded by the told band ar they marched rhea ap I 1 the tre took a left torn fan and reached had the pleat first P pr ch chord lc ther lincoln of at tended tied there his bl pew Is I 1 17 it kept just ai it wu was when ha be aaa in it A ax the ch children ildrem of the tb first train left the church those of the second train our entered from fram the church the th march was to the old frame house where lincoln lived here they were escorted through in a steady stream of all the sections P followed lunch at the aleh if ima ZI a I 1 J ID lincoln square us in au 11 joined I 1 in planting the it U lincoln oak a rf memorial a to 1 the 4 we tor and of the tb puh gata ge turn then the little pilgrims filed aled slowly lowly up th tb ridge la in oak hill bill the via san darkened and the wind turned tamed abill little the pilgrims cared they were approaching the tomb of lincoln at the tomb the lines ol of three abreut abreast broke into single ue ole an and d oae me by one me the I 1 iowa and missouri school children of the first pilgrimage marched slowly past pant the of the martyr president not mot a word was wai bid aid the taw fare of the young pilgrims were radio I 1 in the of the moment vary mary lout loula bro brower broor or of sham alar placed ad the wreath a of the it t ue beside the wreaths of Clemen clemenceau Clemence ces aa and of lloyd george and of many othera or of the great of earth let us nope hope that lincoln in the spirit we present at the laying of that wreath I 1 the fie second cond pilgrimage wax was that of chicago boy senate led by their smut cout george stephenson Stephen Bon and george F repp premi president det of at the kiwanis club of a chicago the boy scoots were hidden bidden godspeed by mayor vever r a and given a letter flom him commanding them to mayor 8 A bullard ballard of springfield en be route mote memo filar depicting ceneri in lincoln lincolnia Lin colna life ww won amans and appropriate speeches made it was sub amen weather but 70 0 hardy youn youngsters gaters made mad the pilgrimage A special car on the chicago a alto alton landed the them at 3 8 80 p m they the wan welcomed by the tb club and were fait taken in to the lin coln home hem va and tomb the only ceremony wax was the placing of 2 a w wreath train at the tomb the portrait of lincoln reproduced h herewith edwit h Is from a photograph taken 1 in 1857 by alexander heeler healer chicago 1 it was I 1 the he that likeness ll kenes that was waa wide ly circulated lincoln let ill his him b beard rd grow for the first time in 1861 and wor won a full heard beard at his him 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