Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-08

almost definitely identified. 1t is an object
of the greatest interest to hundreds OF
thousands of people who visit the falr, anu
they stand wondering about spinning
wheel and other household implements
which are alleged to have belonged 70
Nancy Hanks, Lincolns mother, but that
claim is doubtful. In this museum IS the
railway car that was built for Lincoln while
he was President, and in which his remains
were conveyed to Springfield after the as
sassination. 1t is a very plain sort OIL
car, but was even above the standaro useo
in those days.
The carriage Lincoln rode In while ne was
President is also there, and it is interesting
to compare it with the state coach OF MAX.
Mexico. That Is covered with gold, silver
and precious stones, and was pullt III
France. 1t may be seen in the Transports
ton building.
building is Hank Monks famous stage
coach which he drove over the mountains
of Nevada before the introduction OF the
railroads. Mark Twain has immortal1zeo
IL in his description of Horace Greeley 9
ride. The inscription assures us that TINS
particular coach has been held up by meh-
Waymen fifty-six times, and that thirty per-
sons have been killed in defending II.
REPLICA of the Robert Burns Cottage.
Scotland has contributed an accurate re-
plica of the cottage in which Robert Burns
lived at Ayr, and within it are exhibited
many interesting relics and manuscripts OF
his poems.
In the Irish village, in connection with
several other historic relics, is model or
a humble cabin which is claimed to have
been the ancestral home of the Mck1nleys
in County Antrim. and it is asserted that
the great-grandfather of the late President
was taken out of this cabin one night in
1898 and hanged for his participation in
rebellion.
Ioo oob;p in which Patrick Henry Is
said to have lived, built on his farm In V1r-
gina, has been brought here and located
across the street from the Virginia state
building. By paying 10 cents you are al
lowed to enter it and talk with Mrs. Nancy
Self, a venerable colored woman, who cele-
brated her one hundred and first birthday
last June. She has five generations OF chill
dren around her, but is in possession or all
her faculties, and shows the method of pre-
pairing, spinning and weaving cotton that
was used in her youth.
In the agricultural building IS the head
quarters cabin of the Maltese Cross ranch,
near Medora, N. D., in which Theodore
Roosevelt spent most of his time from 1SS3
to 1856. and we are shown several interest
ing relics of that period in the career or
the President, including his favorite rock
ing chair. bench made of a hewn log
upon which he used to sit outside the cabin
door, and a pair of blue overalls labeled
''Teddy's Sunday trousers.
Historic State Buildings.
Only a step above the Virginll log cabin
is the New Hampshire building, the plain
est kind of a frame structure, Without
eaves-which makes it look like a man
without eyebrows, in which Daniel Web
ster was born. 1t is filled with interesting
furniture and household articles Of his
period. Some of them belonged to his fam
lily
The next building is the headquarters of
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Constitution House. in the town of Wind
sor, where the first state constitution of
the United States was prepared and adopt
ed III 1777, and that constitution contained
the first prohibition of slavery ever pro-
mulgated
The Virginia building Is al admirable
ard accurate reproduction of the nome or
Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, near Char
lottesville Va. 1t was designed by Mr..
Jefferson himself and does not conform
in any way to the traditional ileas of "Jef-
fersonian simplicity''-but everybody knows
that the simplicity period of Mr.. Jeffer-
sons career lasted only three years when
he was a candidate for reelection as FRESH
dent. Although he was the father Of the
democratic party, and his soul was burst
ing with ambition to demonstrate the
equality of all mankind, Mr.. Jefferson al
ways lived like an aristocrat. The build
ing contains Jefferson's portrait By Sully,
and his statue which usually stands in The
library of the University of Virginia. Re
guished sons of Virginia, Edgar Allan Poe
and Matthew Fontaine Maury, 1.-The Path
finder of the Seas" The state CT Ma-yl:.nI
also claims Poe as her son, ana has hung
his portrait in her state building.
The Virginia building is illiad with inter-
esting relics of Jefferson and his time, in
Guiding clock he brought from Italy in
17e5, which still keeps good time, after 100
years of continuous service.
The New Jersey building is a reproduction
of the Ford Tavern at Morristown, which
was Washington's headquarters for two
winters during the revolution.
The Connecticut building is a reproduc-
ton of the ancient Sigourney mansion at
Hartford. and the woodwork in the interior
was actually taken from The Slater mansion
at Norwich, which was recently torn down.
The building is filed with genuine furni-
ture of the seventeenth and eighteenth CEN
turtles, including the chair of Brother JON
athan' Trumbull and several Mayfower
relics.
reproduction of various historic houses in
Guiding the old statehOuse at Boston.
Where Louisiana Was Transferred.
Louisiana has reproduced the famous
Cabldo at New Orleans. in which the actual
transfer of Louisiana territory was made in
1903. 1t is still occupied by the supreme
court of the state. The reproduction here Is
filed with many interesting relics, including
the actual desk upon which the transfer was
signed by Count de Lousatte, the French
minister to the United States, and It is sur
rounded by portraits of General Wilkinson,
who commanded the American troops at the
time of the transfer, and Governor Clai-
borne, who was the first civil governor of
Louisiana territory. There are other DOR
traits of interest, and 1 understand that
these relics, with Louisiana exhibits from
other buildings are to be preserved in a
museum at New Orleans at the close of the
exposition.
An interesting memento of Spanish occu-
patton of Louisiana territory is found In
the New Mexico building. which has been
erected in the old mission STYLE and con-
tains ancient maps and historical docu-
ments. silverware and ornaments such as
were used at that period. But the particu-
lar relic, and perhaps the oldest article in
actual use in the United States. is a church
bell cast in Spain in 1855. 127 years before
the discovery of America, and brought to
New Mexico in 1885 by the Franciscan
monks who attended the conquistadores.
California's building Is an exact copy of
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