Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-02-14

this national shrine 1t was decided to
receive into membership in the socie-
ty any one who contributed to the
genral fund of the association as
small sum as twenty-five cents, and
to limit all contributions to twenty
FIVE dollars-thus making the great
memorial to Lincoln represent the
tributes of all the people, whom he
privileged few.
The purpose and plans of this new
patriotic society that was to make
this Kentucky farm, almost in the
center of poulation of the United
States. a worthy companion of Mt
Vernon in the affections of our coun-
trymen were placed before the Presi-
dent OF. the United States and his
cabinet, one of whom was one of the
organizers of the society. All gave 1t
most enthusiastic and hearty sup
port. The scheme was then laid be-
fore members of the United States
senate and House of Representatives
governors of states, men of letters
everywhere, and educators of nation.
al fame. With their unqualified en-
dorsement, year ago this week the
Lincoln Farm Association, through
the pages of some of the most prom
inent weekly and monthly publica-
tions and the newspapers throughout
the country, appealed to the Amer
lean public for members. The re
sponse was immediate and generous
Subscriptions came in from every
state in the union--north and south
To hna
the association issued handsome
certificate of member
ship, bearing a portrait of Lincoln
. picture of the log cabin in which he
was born, the White House as it ap
peared when he occupied it, the auto
graphs of all the officers and trustees
and the seal of the association. The
names of these members are filed ir
card catalogues and classified b,
states. When the list of members
has been completed and the construc
i've work of the association has cul
minated in the centenary of Februar!
12, 1909. this list will be preserved
and guarded in the Historical Mus
sum, which will have been erected OF
he farm. as the honor roll that bnil
he Lincoln Marin Memorial.
During the year the trustees of the
have placed the farm un
der the personal charge of compe
tent caretaker, who lives on the
They have sent Mr.. Juie
Guerin and Mr.. Guy Lowell, two o.
Americas foremost landscape archi
tects, to survey the ground and plar
its development. and they have pur
chased the cabin in which Lincoly
was born from the spectators whc
took IL from the little knoll where
stodd and exploited it as
side-show at various fairs and inter
national expositions This cabin was
found stored in cellar at College
Point, on Long Island, New York
The Pennsylvania Railroad provided
a special car, which Mr.. John Wall
amaker decorated with flags and the
national colors. The governor OF
sent to New York special
squad of state militiamen to escort
the old weatherworn logs, Lincoln's
old Kentucky home, back to its ma
tive soil. Its ride to Louisville Il
historic. 1t rested a day under mill
tary guard at Philadelphia, Balti'
more, Harrisburg, Altoona, Pitts
burg, Columbus and Indianapolis
of citizens came to see anj
begged the privilege of touching the
sacred pile. Mayors of cities aud
governors of states paid eloquent
tribute to the rude timbers that first
sheltered the sad humorist of the
And when at last the
special train that bore it, brilliant in
red. white and blue, crossed the Ohio
into its native border state it was met
at the Louisville depot with MARTA
music and military honors. 1t was
carted through the city's streets and
placed in the city's park, where Col
onel Henry Watterson and Adlai u
former vice-president OF
the United States. made the formal
orations welcoming back to its native
soil the cabin in which Abraham Lin
colin WAS born,
Tie most cordial coopc@5ion h1
becn pledged by many OF the sNrTiV