Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-16

colors in the national ensign. How many
thousand yards of bunting were used in
La Rue county today no one will ever
know.
1t is an even three miles from the depot
to the farm, and the farmers, gloved and
holding the rein over the backs of every
quadruped in La Rue, gave lifts to many
a centenary jubilator who had not cal
culated the distance from Hogdenville it
self to the dedication site. AS the cabin
itself was the only antique on actual dis
play many a horse and perhaps a shay or
two which remembered Lincoln, passed
unsung.
Casket of Flowers
BY the suggestion of some of the kind
ly Kentuckians, whose indigenous CO.
operation made the entire celebration pos
sible in a rural county, the native cabin
was set in a casket of flowers, the gift
of the school children of Kentucky.
The cabin stands half mile inside the
gate of the farm, and as none was al
lowed to bring his vehicle within this
gate, there was a forking delta of hui
mainly and color setting toward and
around the cabin during the time before
the ceremonies, and when it was seen
that there was no more room within the
tent
Five special trains that set out early
from Louisville kept the air in the little
town vibrant with their whistles until
near the hour of dedication. The first
came at 7:35 o'clock with spectators
aboard; the second and third an hour
apart. and the fourth, arriving at IL
O'Clock, brought Governor Augustus E.
Wilson, of Kentucky, and his company
and staff A long-drawn-out foot at a
quarter of noon announced to the wait
ing hundreds surrounding the station the
presidents train, anu when it pulled In
and the distinguished citizen alighted the
air cracked with cheers.
When the president and his wife and
daughter, with Secretary Loeb, had en-
tered the two closed carriages reserved
for them, and the band and company of
the First Kentucky regiment had formed
at the beginning of the line, the parade
was ready to move 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 uni
form, and following these the centenary
committee.
No traffic was permitted on the road
during the passage of the procession, but
it's side policed by mounted officers,
were lined with the legion of the curl
Gus.
The parade drew up at the side of the
cabin and the governor, the president,
Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss Roosevelt, Mr.. Loeb
and members of the centenary committee
entered the tent to the applause of its
occupants and took their seats on an i'm
provised platform near the fiower-man-
tied cabin.
TrOweI for Roosevelt
Close to this lay the cornerstone of
the new memorial temple, in it's bed of
mortar. and a derrick was manned, ready
to raise the huge stone into place when
the president had spread the cement on
it's broad side with the silver trowel
which lay upon the rostrum.
Silence and something Of the signif-
canoe of the event fell upon the assem-
blage when the invocation was delivered
and following this former Governor Jo-
seph Folk, of Missouri, who is president
of the Lincoln Memorial association, ut
tered some Introductory remarks, telling
the purpose of the association.
He was followed by President Roose-
welt. who layed the cornerstone, put
ting into it's receptacle appropriate papers
which were sealed by Nicholas Koenig
stein of Hodgenville, and the stone raised
into place.
The president yielded to Governor
Wilson, who spoke on behalf of Ken
lucky for her greatest son
Gen. James Grant Wilson, for the fed
eral army. Gen. Luke E. Wright, for
the Confederate army. were then heard.
The president and the other dignitaries
boarded a train at 80, leaving the peo-
pie TO return to Louisville by other trains,
and the ceremonies until William H. Taft
in April dedicates the completed memo
rial hall were ended.
LINCOLN is LINKED
WITH WASHINGTON
HODGENvILLE, Ky, Feb. 12.-The
following was the speech of President