Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-02-08
LINCOLN DAY CELEBRATION
Entire Country Planning to Pay
Tribute to Martyred President.
MANY NOTABLE GATHERINGS
Chicago and Springfield, Illinois, aud
birthplace in Kentucky Prin-
cipaI Centers of Public
Interest.

CHICAGO, Feb. by the authority Of
the city council tomorrow will inaugurate
Lincoln week in Chicago to celebrate the
Tooth anniversary of the martyred presi-
dent. While every city and village in the
state, especially Springfield, will celebrate,
Interest Is centerod in Chicago because Of
the unusually elaborate program. Displays
of Lincoln portraits, some of them twenty
five feet square, exhibitions of civil war
relics, and patriotic band concerts will en-
liven the events. The chief celebration will
be on Friday, when more than fifty meet
ings are scheduled. At a demonstration at
the Auditorium in the morning, Woodrow
Wilson, president of Princeton university,
will be the orator chorus of $50 boys
and girls from the high schools will furnish
the music. The naval militia near the Lin
coin monument in Lincoln park will fire a
presidential salute. The climax of the day
will be at Dexter park pavilion, where a
chorus Of 1000 voices and the formation
of living flag will be features.
Kentucky's Tribute to Lincoln.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. 7.-Simple and
yet splendid with the presence of the first
citizens of the United States will be the
homage paid the old homestead of Abra-
ham Lincoln i'm La Rue county, KY, on
the occasion of his centenary, February II.
The plans for dedcating the marble MEM
orial by President Roosevelt have been
fully arranged.
1t has been determined that the five
trains that will be run to Hodgenville
from Louisville on February IL shall bear
the various delegations and that the rep
resentatives of the republican and demo-
cratic committee of Kentucky be given a
place of prominence in the ceremonies.
Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Ethel Roosevelt
will be members of the presidents party.
This announcement has proved of great
interest to the Kentucky women. The
first train will leave this city at 1880 d.
M. February H. and will carry all who
desire to reach the farm early and roam
over the acres where the child Lincoln
played The second train, at 7:45, will
carry a band, sixty volunteer militia
men, eighteen cavalrymen and fifty news
paper men; the third at SIS, will bear
the federal and confederate veterans who
are to act as escorts to the president, the
veterans of the Spanish-American war
and Governor Augustus +. Wilson and
his military staff; the fourth, at S:35,
will carry Louisville business men in
charge of the celebration, and the fifth
train, at 9:35, will bear the president,
Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss Roosevelt, Secretary
Loeb and Secretary of War Luke T..
Wright. The people of Washington
county, Larue's neighborhood. have pro-
tested against holding the exercises two
miles from Hodgenville on the farm
where Lincoln was child They declare
he was born on Valley creek, in Washing
ton county, and that Washington county
is being cheated of it's rights.
The program for the day includes ad-
dresses by President Roosevelt, ex-Gov-
ernor Joseph Folk of Missouri, Governor
Augustus f. Wilson of Kentucky, Gen
eral James Wilson, for the Grand Army
of the Republic, and General Luke T..
Wright, for the confederates.