Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-22
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY FUNDS
General Howard Announces Generous
Subscription.
MR.. ROOT JOINS MOVEMENT
Secretary of state Accepts Place ON
Committee and Subscribes, $1,000
--PIans for Centennial
Exercises.

NEW YORK, Jan. u.-At a meeting to-
day Of the Lincoln Centennial Endow-
ment committee, which is raising a $500
600 endowment for the Lincoln Memorial
university at Cumberland Gap, Tenn, the
treasurer, General O. o. Howard reported
that generous subscriptions to the fund
were daily being received. A letter from
Secretary of State Root accepting mem
bership on the committee and donating
81, 900 was received. 1t was decided to-
day by the executive committee of the
Lincoln centenary committee appointed
by Mayor Mcclellan to prepare plans for
the celebration February II of the Tooth
anniversary of Lincoln's birth. to abandon
the tentative plan for the erection of a
permanent memorial to Lincoln in view
of the fact that congress probably would
assume this work. Instead an elaborate
program for the celebration OF the day
was discussed.
Wisconsin Central Transferred
Transfer of control of the Wisconsin
Central Railway took place today at the
Carnegie Trust company office. Newman
Erb and associates, who some time ago
acquired options on a majority of the
c~onlpany's stock, paid for these securities
today. The deal involved between $4,000
600 and $4,000, 900.
It is understood that the Wisconsin Cen
trail will hereafter be operated in the in
terests of the Minneapolis, st. Paul ~
Sault Ste. Marie road. both is controlled by
the Canadian Pacific railway.
Following his retirement as president OF
the New York Central and other Vanderbilt
roads, w. H. Newman retired today as
president Of the Michigan Central Railroad
company. w. c. Brown, president OF the
New York Central, being elected as his
successor. Mr.. Brown was also today
| elected president Of the Rutland Railroad
company.
Officers Leave for Canal Zone.
Leaving for their new posts today by the
steamer Alliance were Grosvenor Porter,
chief of police of the canal zone, and
Lieutenant Charles w. Barber, second
United States infantry, assistant chief.
Mr.. Porter is an old friend of President
Roosevelt with whom he once took a long
horseback ride in Wyoming, covering the
sixty-eight miles between Cheyenne and
Laramie in eight hours. He has been a
cowboy in the west and United States mar
shall in the Indian territory. He said hc
was going to find out in just what condition
the canal zone was and then do his best
to make them as nearly perfect as good
police work would do Il.
His assistant, Lieutenant Barber, has
been on duty in the Philippines and Is held
by his army associates 70 be a highly ef-
ficlent officer.
Jewish Farmers Organize.
The Jewish Farmers Federation OF Amer
lea was organized today at the conference
OF Jewish farmers from several eastern
states. IL is planned to make the orRanf-
zation national in scope. The purposes
were declared to be Improvement OF the
condition of the Jewish farmer and
stimulation OF the movement OF Hebrew
families from congested quarters of the
cities 10 the country.
FerrybOats Collide.
In a collision between the Erie railroad
ferryboats Goshen and Sufforn in the