The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-12-31
In Memory of Lincoln.


Living Monument to be Reared by American
People. National Movement Begun to Per-
petuate Lincoln Hospital.
NEW YORK, December %. Half a mil
lion dollars will be offered in memory OF
Abraham Lincoln by the people OF this
country between Christmas and the hun
dredth anniversary Of his birth, accord
ing to the leaders of national memorial
movement which was started in this city
today. To permanently endow the Lin
coin Hospital and Home, where thousands
of colored and white patients have been
treated, educated and housed here for
the last sixty-nine years, is the object
for which American citizens in every
section of the land are to be invited to
devote their individual tributes to the
martyred president. Seventy-five thou
sand dollars has today been promptly
subscribed in this city to start this fund
and it's completion in time for the CEN
tenary celebration is declared to be as
sured when the people of other cities and
States learn of the project.
In crumpled dollar bills and stamps, as
we'll as substantial checks, the working
committee of this new Lincoln memorial
movement are preparing to receive the
response of the people from end to end
of the country to their Christmas call for
a living monument to Lincoln. Thousands
of white and colored persons, who have
alike received the free treatment, care
and relief of the institution since long
before the Civil War, are today enlisting
in the movement to perpetuate it in Lin
coins name. From the infrm old people
who are weaving baskets for the fund IN
the home wards to the corps of hundred
graduate trained nurses who are spread
ing it's relief work in every part OF the
country, volunteer army OF benef1cl-
aries will work to secure the future Of
this UNIQUE hospital in the name of the
great emanicpator.
No other institution exists today in this
part of the country where the training
and expert services of nurses Of the col
ored race are successfully combined with
the operation of a modern hospital man
aged and largely patronized by whites.
The professional authorities here declare
that this work has opened wide field
for successful service to the race which
Lincoln freed. Booker Washington, Rob-
ert C. Ogden and other leaders in solving
the problems of the colored race in this
country have today joined in supporting
the project to dedicate this successful
undertaking to the memory Of the author
of the emancipation proclamation. Scores
of organizations that appreciate and de-
rive benefit from the work of the Lincoln
Hospital and Home have also joined the
movement.
Women members Of the most promi
nent New York families founded and
have always managed this extensive IN
stitution, and the national campaign for
it's perpetual dedication to Abraham Lin
coin will be conducted by them. The
working committee of the movement
consists of Miss Mary W. Booth, presi-
dent Of the board Of managers of the in
stitution; Mrs. A. D. Juilliard, Mrs. Ar
thur Curtiss James, Mrs. Henry l.. Slim
son, Mrs. Frank H. Platt, Mrs. Samuel
Sloan, Jr., and Mrs. Samuel c. Van Du-
sen. Samuel Sloan has been placed in
charge of the receipt of this Lincoln
national memorial fund at ATS Fifth
avenue.