The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-13


 Louisviile at s:xB D. m. expecting to arrive at Washington about ?. m.
 pleturesaue se<sss
 Ths territory Of which is pisced Larue county-an anachronism to Lin- coin who knew It as Hardin--is rolling bare. green of course like all tho country. picturesque indeed ss is the visage of the entire Kentucky "pen- nyriie.'. but 1t fs not like an Arcadian grove nor does the chill of q Kentuc- and there red soil which betrays the country's lack of fertility. is barred on the plain, the fields are split oc- passionaliy by hollow and fhictet.
 The tent which served as an audi torium was roped off from the crowd, spot. Tn the center, beside the plat form for the spectators and the ma chinery of the cornefstone laying, fs Che cabin itself, a little building not over sixteen feet square, built of logn notched and laid together. pioneer fashion. The logs are worn smooth where the bark is peeled oR or rot gray. The clapboard roof is in fair condition and the puneheon floor patched as though "shifiess Torm'' as Abaraham's father was known. had knelt down one afternoon and done the very ehors.
 Tall farmer boys and grizxied old men sprung from the same old soil breasts. gaxed at the cabin from day light on, reinforced by those of the city dwellers who had come out early Co the scene, they started at 1t now in its carnival trappings as though 1t might at any time glow from its win- dow holes with the genius that was in the place before the Lincolris cross ed into Indiana and young Abe began that pilgrimage before which his feet were not to rest until he reached Ford's Theatre.
 Early morning revealed that Hodg- enviiie had with some Erspidation tsr ken q temporary position as capital of the world. The little place is q fair specimen of the brisk Kentucky town with commercial club. a mayor and corporation and . clean Main street. This, ae well as sthe entire residence portion, and every farna- house passed along the route to the Lincoln farm was shet through with the colors in the national ensign. How many thousand yards of bunting were used in La Rue county today no one win ever know.
 it is an even three miles from the depot to the farm and the farmers, xioved and holding therein over the backs Of every 1usdrupsd h Lsras, gave liets to many centenary 1uhila- tor who had not calculated the dis tance from Hodgenville itself to the dedication site. As the cabin itself was the only antique on actual dis- play. many a horse and perhaps q shay or two which remembered Lin- coin, passed unsung. By the sugges- tiou or some of the kindly Kentuck- fans whose indigenous corporation made the entire celebration possible in a rural county. the native cabin was set in casket of flowers, the gift of the school children of Ken- lucky.
 A Delta sa Humanity.
 The cabin stands e half mile Inside fhe gate of the farm and as none was allowed to bring his vehicle with in the gate, there was a forking delta Of humanity and color setting toward and around the cabin during the time before the ceremonies and when 1t was seen that there was no more geom within the tent
 Five special trains that set out early from Louieville kept the air in the little town vibrant with their whistles until near the hour of the fiedication. The first came at 7:s5 p.clock with spectators aboard. the the fourth arriving at II o'clock, brought Governor Augustus P. Will son. of Kentucky. and his company and stan. A long drawn out tOot ct quarter of noon announced to the