The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-08
MRS. ROOSEVELT
WILL BE THERE
Decided to Attend Lincoln Memorial
DedicatiOn-AlI Plans
Completed.

Louisville, Feb. 8.-Simple and yet
splendid with the presence of the first
citizens of the United States will be-
the homage which will be paid the
old homestead of Abraham Lincoln, i'm
Larue county, KY, on the occasion of
his centenary. February II, the plans
for the ceremonies of dedicating the
marble memorial hall by President
Theodore Roosevelt having finally
been arranged.
The last preparations were made I'm
this city by the committee in charge
OF Charles e. Miner, representing the
Lincoln Farm association. 1t was de-
termined that the five trains that will
be run to Hodgenville from Louis
vile on February II should bear the
various delegations, that a platoon OF
Louisville police should be permitted
to do duty and that the representa-
tives of the Republican and Demo-
cratic committees of Kentucky be Civ
en- a place of prominence in the cere-
monies.
At this meeting two facts were
learned also: One regretfully, that
the venerable Cardinal Gibbons will
not be able to come to pronounce the
invocation, and the other joyfully that
Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Ethel Roose-
welt will be members of the presi-
dents party. Up to the time of this
latter announcement Kentucky wom-
en-, of whom Lincoln's wife and
mother came. had taken only a cur
ter the fact of the coming of the first
lady Of tho land and the White House
debutante had been published they
began to show interest that proclaim
ed them like their sisters the world
over to beseige their husbands to
take them to the dedication.
The first train will leave this city
at 1871 o'clock on the morning of Feb
ruary IL, will carry all who desire to-
reach the farm early and to roam
over the acres where the child Lin
coin played. The second train at 7:45
will carry a band, sixty volunteer
militiamen, eighteen cavalrymen and
+ fifty newspapermen; the third, at
S:15, will bear the federal and con-
federate veterans, who are to act as
escorts to the president, the veterans
of the Spanish American war and
Governor Augustus e. Wilson and
his military staff; the fourth train az
8:35 will carry the Louisville business
men who are behind the dedication
plans and those Of the public who can
get into four extra coaches; while the
fifth train at 9:35 will bear the presi-
dent, Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss Roosevelt,
Secretary Loeb and Secretary of War
Luke E. Wright. During the last few
weeks In which these plans have been
crystalizing, the people of Washing
ton county, Larue's neighbor, have
been protesting against holding the
exercises two miles from Hodgenville,
on the farm where Lincoln was a
child. They declare that the future
president was born on Valley creek in
Washington county, where HIS parents
were married and that Washington Is .
being cheated Of her motherhood
There is an old dispute between the
counties.
The farm is two miles from Hodgen-
vile along road which Is usually
hard to traverse in winter but which
has been veneered with gravel and
cinders until it is now passabls.
The program for the dedication in
cludes addresses by President Roose-
welt, Ex-Governor Joseph Folk, Of Mis-
souri,; Governor Augustus e. Wilson,
Of Kentucky; General James wilson,
for the G. A. R., and Luke z. Wright.
for the Confederacy.