Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-13
NATION HONORS
LINCOLN'S CABIN
LOG HUT WHERE HE WAS BORN
IS DEDICATED
President Roosevelt and Many Other
Prominent Men Participate in
Impressive Ceremonies
at HodgenViIle
IBy Associated Press. J

HODGENVILLE. KY, Feb. 12.-
Henceforth. the birthplace Of Lincoln is
to be marked by a magnificent stone
structure.
The emancipator of race and, more
than that, the liberator of the thought
of a nation, builded his own monument
in the heart of the world, and appro-
priately the physical structure that has
now found a beginning at the place
where Lincoln first saw light takes the
simple name of a memorial.
1t is to be simple but classic build
ing Of granite, and it is hoped that it
may be completed some time next fall,
when the Ghen) president, William H.
Taft will officiate in dedicating it, as
the president, Theodore Roosevelt, to-
day officiated in laying its foundation
stone.
The laying of the corner stone took
place after appropriate forensic cere-
monies were participated in by the
president, Governor A. E. Wilson of
kentucky, former Governor Joseph w.
Folk of Missouri, president of the Lin
coin Farm association; Hon. Luke E..
Wright, secretary of war, who is an
ex-Confederate soldier; Gen. Grant
Wilson of New York, who represented
the Union soldiers, and I. T. Mont
gomery of Mississippi a negro and an
ex-slave.
With one exception the orators, rep
resenting not only the conflicting sides
in the great struggle, but the present
generation as WE'LL. the two political
parties, the white and black races, and
the different sections of the country,
spoke from the same platform and with
the same flag, a splendid new specimen
Of the Stars and Stripes, f1uttering over
them.
Six or eight thousand people were
present. Many of them had come on
special trains from Louisville and other
Kentucky centers. The bulk of the
assembly was composed, however, of
the country folk from La Rue and ad-
jacent counties.
Few Negroes Present
There was notable absence of ne
groes in the crowd, but those present
were wedged in with the whites show
ing that none had been Kept away by
race prejudice.
Among those who had been expected
to be present was Mrs. Ben Hardin
Helm, the only surviving sister of Mrs.
Lincoln, 92 years old, but she was kept
at her home in Louisville, much to the
regret of ALL by her infirmities.
q The exercises were conducted under
a tent erected beside the cabin in which
Lincoln was born, 100 years ago. The
W6aCl6r was SuIllClSulIy OlSdST6edDI6
to render the tent useful.
President Roosevelt and his inn
mediate party arrived shortly before |
O'Clock, after a drive over a heavy
red clay road from Hodgenville, and
five minutes afterward Governor Will
son called the asSemblage together and
introduced the Rev. DR.. E. L. Powell
of the First Christian church of Louis
vile, who pronounced the invoca-
ticn.
The speakers platform was small
and accommodated few except the par
Elephants in the exercises and the presi-
dents immediate party, including Mrs.
Roosevelt, Miss Ethel Roosevelt. Mrs.
Augustus E. Wilson, Captain A. w.
Butt and DR.. RiXey.
Commencing with Governor Wilson's
address, the speaking began at
o'clock. and notwithstanding there
were six set speeches, one prayer and
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