The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-12
PRESIDENT LAUDS
LINCOLN FAMOUS
CABIN DEDICATED
Little Town of HOdgenyille, KY,
En- Fete for PrOudest Day
in Its History.
BIRTHPLACE OF MARTYR
IS SAVED FOR ALL TIME
Many of Nations Distinguished
Men See Stone Laid for
Structures Preservation.

HODGENVILLE, KY, Feb. 12.-Rev-
erent and curious Americans to the
number of several thousand today dedi-
Gated the little cabin in which liberty
wrought her last great miracle. The
present head of the nation. the Gov
ernor of Abraham Lincoln's native
State; two eminent leaders in the strug-
gle through which Lincoln brought
forth the nation reunited and free; an
other, late the Governor of a State,
riven like Kentucky between the fires
Of sectional devotion and duty; all
these and a host of others in the fore
front of American life joined in the
act of conservation.
Something of the uncouthness SO in
separable from Lincoln during his life
time was distinct in the heart of the
ceremony of today which celebrated his
Tooth birthday: The e%nshrining of a
1lower-mantled but withal dingy struc-
ture of logs within a noble structure Of
marble, one block of which would buy
a settlement such as that in which the
Lincolns' lived
Picturesque as is the visage of the
entire Kentucky "Pennyrile," the chill
Of a Kentucky February lent it no
grace.
The tent which served as auditorium
was roped off from the crowd. In it's
centre beside the platform is the cabin
itself, its logs worn smooth where the
bark was peeled off or rotted.
Early morning revealed that Hodgen-
VILE H9n with Snmp nidat ion "a lTo,
a temporary position as capital of the
world. The whole town, and every
farmhouse passed along the three-mile
route to the Lincoln farm, was shot
through with the colors in the national
ensign. Gloved farmers, holding the
reins over the backs of every quad
ruped in the county, gave lifts to many
a centenary jubilator. AS the cabin
itself was the only antique on actual
display. many a horse, and perhaps a
shay or two which remembered Lin
coin, passed unsung.
The Lincoln cabin, set today in a
casket of flowers, the gift of the school
children of Kentucky, stands a half
mile inside the gate of the farm, and
nobody was allowed to bring his
vehicle within this gate.
II A0SALClll, w WIG dliu dduSH-
ter, with Secretary Loeb, entered two
carriages, and preceded by the band
and company of the First Kentucky
regiment, moved on to the cabin site.
Following the band and the soldiers
came Governor Wilson and his staff,
a score Of Kentucky's first citizens in
uniform, and following these the CEN
tenary committee.
Tha noroda 1rarr nv - 4ha Ill 80
the cabin. The Governor, the President.
Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss Roosevelt, Mr..
Loeb and members of the centenary
committee entered the tent to the ap-
plause Of its occupants and took their
seats on an improvised platform near
the lower-mantled cabin.
Close by lay the cornerstone of the
new memorial temple in its bed of
mortar, and a derrick vas manned,
ready to raise the huge stone into place
when the President had spread the
cement on its broad side with the sill
yer trowel which lay upon the rostrum.
Following the delivery of the i'm
pressive invocation former Governor
Joseph Folk, OF Missouri, president of
the Lincoln Mem orial Association, made
some Introductory remarks.
President Roosevelt laid the corner
stone. putting into its receptacle ap-
propriate papers which were sealed by
Nicholas Koenigstein, of H~odgenville,
and the stone was raised into place.
President Roosevelt said:
We lave met here to celebrate the hun
dredth anniversary Of the birth of one of
the two greatest Americans, of one of the
two or three greatest me Of the nine
teenth century, of one Of the greatest
men in the worlds history. This rail-
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 a