The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-12

THE LINCOLN. MEMORIAL.
 Joseph ". Folk of Missouri; it's inde- fatigable secretary, Richard Lloyd Jones, who had active charge of the arrangements for today's ceremonies, and other officers and members.
 Man Who Saved Cabin Present.
 A prominent figure in the crowd of distinguished men at the ceremonies was Robert I. Collier of New York, to whom the country owes the preserva ton of the cabin in which the great lfberator was born. Tn 1860 the cabin wasy removed from it's original site to another mile and half distant, near Davenport. There it served as a spring hAnsc until the early eighties, when it was bought by an enterprising show man. and carted around the country to serve as an attraction at worlds fairs and elsewhere. From this ignominious fate 1t was rescued by MT. Collier. The outgrowth of his efforts to preserve ii as perpetual memorial for the nation was the Lincoln Farm association, whose labors will take concrete form in the marble memorial which will be built around and over the shack in which Lincoln was born.
 Acting as escort for President Roose- welt and lending a very picturesque touch to the occasion were the mem bers of the Louisville post of the Grand Army of the Republic and the mem bers of the Louisville camp of the United Confederate Veterans. The mingling of the blue and the gray on this occasion elicited from President Roosevelt many expressions of delight.
 The Mon Who Spoke.
 The exercises at the Lincoln farm began at noon. The opening address was delivered by ex-Governor Folk, who spoke on "The Lincoln Farm As sociation." He was followed by Gov ernor Wilson, whose theme was ''Lin- coins Mother State." Then came Pres tdent Roosevelt, whose "Lincoln Gen. tennfal Address" was received with earnest attention and at it's close with great applause. The presidents sue cessor as orator was Secretary Wright, who spoke for "The Confederate Vet eran." Last on the list of speakers was General James Grant Wilson, the well known writer and orator, who spoke for ''The Federal Veteran The lay ing of the cornerstone followed the ad- dresses.
 President Roosevelt spoke as follows:
 Wn hox hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of the two greatest Americans; of one of the two or three greatest men of the nineteenth century; of one of the greatest men in the worlds history. This rail splitter, this boy who passed his ungainly youth in the dire poverty of the, poorest of the frontier folk, whose rise was by weary and painful labor, lived to lead his people through the burning flames of struggle from which the nation emerged, purified as by fire, born anew to loftier life. After long years of iron effort and of failure that came more often than victory, he at last rose to the leadership of the re- public at the moment when that leader ship had become the stupendous world task of the time. He grew to know greatness, but never ease. Success came to him. but never happiness, save that which springs from doing well a painful and vital task. Power was his, but not pleasure. The furrows SAspened on his brow, but his eyes s7ere undimmed by either hate or fear. His gaunt shoulders were bowed, but his steel thews never faltered as he bore for a burden the destinies of his people. His great and tender heart shrank from giving pain, and the task allotted him was to pour out like wa ter the lifeblood of the young men and to feel in his every fiber the sor- xoN q the women. Disaster saddened