The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-10
ion dated January I. ,sss,I was inter-

ton dated January l. is6s,i was Inter- ested at once.
 Mir. Morgan proceeding said that he purchased the table from one Louis Burgdorf of washington.who for many years was employed at the white house and for about twenty years has been In the treasury department. and 10 whom the table had been presented by Fresi- dent Lincoln short time before his as- sassination.
 Mir. Burgdorf. who is seventy-five years of age and who for more than forty-fiye years has been in the govern ment service, was born in Brunswick. Germany, and was employed In the executive mansion during the admin istration of Polk, Taylor. Fillmore. Pierre. Buchanan and Lincoln, and to the latter gentleman he acted as con- fidential messenger. and so greatly was he respected by Lincoln that the lat ter sent him abroad on some important missions.
 In an affidavit furnished Treasurer Morgan by Mir. Burgdorf he says: l further affirm that was present in the executive mansion. in the presidents office, when President Abraham Lin- coin signed the emacipation proclama- ton dated January l. 1863: that l held the document on this table when he signed 1t. and about n week afterwards he gave me the table. l furnishing one to take the place of 1t, Dr. Blake con- senting to the exchange as MT. Lin- coin was willing should have 1t. The table had previously been used by Presidents Polk, Taylor. Fillmore. Pierce and Buchanan, to my certain knowledge. Since President Lincoln gave me the table have had 1t in my possession in my present residence. so that the authenticity and correctness of all my statements pertaining to the
 historical emancipation table must for ever go unquestioned for nothing can be more absolutely sure. I was obliged to lessen the size of the table somewhat in order to use 1t in my small house. MT. Burgdorf desired to present the table to Mir. Morgan. but the latter would not consent to this without giv- ing to MT. Burgdorf suitable table to take the place of this one.
 NIT. MOTSdHt WuO lHlihS u great uedi of his prize, will ship 1t to his home
 at Bridgeport, and it may sometime find its way to the New Haven Histori- cal society.
 Another valuable relic recently of- ferd Mir Morgan was letter written by President Lincoln dated April 10, 1865, to the secretary of war, asking for some flags for his son.
 Treasurer Morgan also has. without a doubt, the best collection of autographs in the world, and one book contains some three thousand names of the most prominent men and women in the world. Nearly all people coming to Washington visit the treasury depart ment and this with the extensive trav- els of the treasurer has enabled him to make this valuable collection. Among the names are those of six teen foreign ministers, the president and cabinet and all but twelve mem- bers of the fifty-third congress. Also I
 noticed the names of Monsignor Satolli, Gladstone, Cardinal Gibbons, ex-Presi- dent Harrison, Irving, Ellen Terry and ] numerous others prominent in the his- tory of the country.
 MT. Morgan. who is an extremely hard worker, has devoted what little leisure time he has had in making this collection, the value of which is very
 hard to estimate, as it could never be duplicated.
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