The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-01-02
LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION.
Something About it by one who was
in Washington When the Tragedy
Occurred. ]

IN washington Wnen inc Tragedy
Occurred.
One of the new additions to cur
rent literature is a book of Memoirs
by Miss Rose Eytinge, now so.
journing in Corvallis. It is a mar
rative of great personages, and
there are many with whom the
we'll known actress has come in
contact, during her forty odd years
on the American stage. Standing
always in the front rank of her pro-
fession, and living at a time when
names like Booth. Mccullough,
Wallack, Florence Davenport,
Jefferson and many others were
familiar words in every household,
the narrator has had vast ooppor.
tunity for Selling the materials
with which to adorn the pages of
such book as. she has written. Ad-
ded to this, is a graceful flowing
style, made pungent with frequent
wit, and above all a power for the
most graphic touch of the subjects
under portrayal. Many of the il
lustrious men of the past half CEN
sury. have come at one time or an
other, and in some way or another
under the personal observation of
Miss Eytinge. Moreover, she has
visited most of the places Of note
on two continents, and with this
preparation and that other concom-
liant, a keen, intelligent and active
mind she has given to her book c
place OF its own and a character of
striking interest. A fact that tells
how we'll the narrator has done her
work, is that, when in the perusal,
each chapter is finished, the reader
Involuntary wishes that the author
had made it longer, VII e.zt. as
The assassination of President
Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth. an
actor, is briefly treated in the
book, The effect of the tragedy in
Washington, is thus recounted by
} Miss Eytinge:
I now approach one of the most
awful and a~weinspiring periods o
my life. the night on which Pres
ident Lincoln vas assassinated.
: At the time 1 was taking a brie:
vacation, and was visiting the fam
lily of an army officer who was il
: charge of a military hospital a few
miles out of town. On that dreae
occasion my hostess and I had beer
in town for the day and evening
and it had been arranged that al
orderly, with a carriage shoule
call for us next morning and driv
lis out home,
Suddenly some Of the men of tn
household where we were visiting
e dashed into the house, bringing
intelligence of the crime.
The first reports were that tn
president and every member of tn
cabinet were murdered. The com
munity was wild with horror. Ev
erybody, as if moved by n i'm
30 pulse, rushed into the streets. th
,e church bells were tolled, and a
social and conventional barrier
were levelled in the general horror
Utter strangers talked together i
le hurried accents, exchanging til
various rumors with which tn
air was filled. One report had
n that Washington was nthe hand
OF the rebels. Strangers accoste
:. each other and asked for the la
Is news; and when one or the othe
er confirmed the dreadful truth of tt
e. presidents murder they cried lik
a children. .ar.f t..1,a aflaE
Soon it became hruited about til;
the crime had been committedb by a
actor, and woe to the actor WI
had been found on the stree
n that night! My friends and I,
If common with. everybody else, rusl
o ed into the street, but we were SOC
filled with fear lest I should
y recognized. mo. sfu.1 u,.oe75aa eat
6, Toward midnight, to our adde
alarm ana horror, an army amDu
: ance numbered up the street an
stopped at the door Of the hou.
V where we were. Hdeveioped til;
as had been ARRANGED, the %carrias
ly had been so often stopped an
searched, and the orderly who W.
&c driving had been put through s
many and such rigid examination
70 that he had decided to turn bac'
at and get the ambulance insteae
" hoping that the sight Of this fami
lar and authorized vehicle would a
tract less attention. rrs III
] BY this time the city was decla
ed under martial law, every poir
of egress was closely guarded. ar