New-York tribune., 1909-02-10
TRIBUTES TO LINCOLN
BENEFIT FOR UNTVERSTTY.
Mss Ida n. TnbeH Chief Speaker
at Metropolitan Opera House.

General Benjamin F. Tracy presided at the bene-
1T for the Lincoln Memorial University at Cumber-
land Gap Tenn, I'm the Metropolitan Opera House
yesterday afternoon. General o. o Howard, who
has been working tho success of the university
was on the stage at his side. Among the guests
were Rear Admiral Goodrich (retired) William l.
Stooksbury, president of the university Joseph H.
Choate Colonel Augustus P. Dunlop. General Hor-
ace Porter and Commander A V Wadhams- The
musical programme included numbers by the New
York Symphony Orchestra, under the direction OF
Walter Damrosch and violin solos by Albert
Spalding
ernors Island, under command OF Captain Alvin c.
Read, was present, having marched from the ele-
waited station at Sixth and 42d street TO the
opera house.
Monsignor L4aveIle, who represented Archbishop
Farley said that in behalf Of the two million Ro-
man Catholics IN the diocese he Joined heartily in
the cause. He referred to the part played by ON
GERS and of his Church in the civil war, ana
said that the Church could do nothing better now
than nbuo the rising generation with the spirit
Of patriotism that bound UP in the character
OF Lincoln .He said that. without the glamour OF
military lifa the people to-day were 100 prone 10
forget the Christian and manly virtues OF Lincoln
Long may his memory, rich strong and SELF
sacrificing survive in the hearts of the American
people," he said; Tong may his sentiments OF de-
termination and frmness in the right. his feeIing
Of charity to ALL Of malice to none, survive IN t'o
hearts OF the American people"
Miss Ida NJ. Tarbell, speaking OF the Lincoln CEN
tenary celebration, said:
Everywhere in the land-North. South. East and
Westn the great uniyersitesM III IN ,1 the Samp5
in the fashionable girls schools and the East SIDE
has been provided FOR. over the desk Of almost
ecf S s ny II be rnEsed R1 se @
OF platforms boys and girls will read the spring
s ffwe nd the fens Of sSn young
they hear them viii fee! something OIL 3d tne sIre
listen! Is mysterious S'n0',0n "'ll,l, ~ 80
bv the young and curfously enough It is being
done without concert forethought II Is sPen,
which lies deep in every American heart-that this
man is the best Of u.s. the finest tnins I've we ot5is
model we have for the young Of the country. lie ne
at life, fitted himself for it. lived it
We all know the onerQom cabin the he h%eInBd9 so69 IIe
You may look from the beginning to the end OF the
Of complaint or sef-pity because Of that meagre-
ness. dPretty pinching times is the most that ne
need weep over the fact that 4 brahar7 Lincoln was
born 5 IN 2s & hut Sas se.Is 10 bry
He never did He had hard besipaing; put SeT OF
sibie philosophy Of life. power OF clear and logi-
ardr cal aI n .stimat,n and handling men and
a capacity for steady growth.
Miss TarbelI related Of the stories of lin
coins career suhstautiate this estimate OF his
character The insults 70 which he was subjected
by Stanton and others uever Influenced him when
the good Of country at stake. She said. add
ing:
II is not 20 be supposed that Lincoln vas tnsensl-
bic 10 insults like that of Stanton at ClnCInnau o
superCousness such as Seward shoWeu AZ Ile
opening Of the administration There Is evidence
enough that he entirely conscious of the lirte~
tions Of his education. entirely conscious Of the
differences in general culture and address between
hin, and many Of his Washington associates hui
no one had 1uster of the relative lrnportan9
Of things-or planted himself more hrrnIy on ; me
Toroposion that character and intellectual integrity
outweigh the manner snd the address he to2E (
raan Tor what they really were, ana ne ollSLlF
ror1pelIef them to take him in the same way ms
result vas that Lincoln grouped about MN n L2
civil Usr an extraordinary collection OF dlIeren
I-irs5s Of men. and before he was through ne hao
The devotion ard reverence Of them AL.
c4-e-ai Howard told several stories Of Lincoln 70
,,,-+ra+a hi. SAep religious nature The cettvsburg
sadr.s. vas read by General Jannas r y Beirne
America and Tn. Star spangled Farmer T@re
sIre bv the audience, standing.
r+a receipts of the bareAt Tere se.s4s-