New-York tribune., 1909-02-08
BUSY LINCOLN DAY
FOUR LARGE MEETINGS.
Dper Sir Hundred Other Gatherings
4Lso TO Celebrate Friday.

Prom the time that the guns Of the regular Totes
ard the militia boom out their national SILL -
honor OF Abraham Lincoln. the ~fole CITY via 20
sIed ,,pon 10 do honor his memory next rl1as-
NJ, ecboofhcuse fl the city but will have lts pa
.r.o.ic exercises: not theatre but where his Get
sysfrrg address viii be read
r-crr great meetings and smaller ones VII
10 held throughout the city, the plans for whlch
hsva been worked out by the Lincoln Centenary
Committee appointed by Mayor Mcclellan. OF when
Hugh Hastings is chairman In All there VIII DC
s24 meetings in various parts Of the city al Whloh
comics % the Gettysburg address and a parphlet
containing a rrief biography Of Lincoln and seiec-
4Sons frcn his most notable utterances VIII De as
.r5fn,ted A bronze medal. in four sizes mas als0
teen prepared 10 mark the hundredth anniversary
Of his birth At the four large meetings three OF
which viii be held Manhattan and one IN Brook-
I'm the music viii be rendered by the hest known
musical organizations in the city supplemented by
solos by opera singers and others
Chief in interest Of the big meetings probably Is
The one 70 be held in the afternoon at cooper
Tnion the scene Of Linoolns first appearance IN the
East Using the reading desk and cTlair "IAci
Lincoln used on that day. Mayor Mcclellan VIII
czJi the meeting order at O'Clock Blshop
Greer viii prcnounce the invocation An ADDRESS
VIII be made By Joseph Il Choate1 and the KEY
7er Lyman Abbott will eeliver the oration. AS al
shs other big meetings. the music VIII oe Ies' 1
It VIII be furnished by TIE Lederkranz and tne
Kew York Symphony Orchestra with MISS Lliiiah
c Funk soioist-
OTHER BIG MEETINGS.
The commemorative exercises ar Carnegie nan
vii re in the evening. where the Arion Society va"
FURNISH the music General Horace Fo[4eI Ioa ~
r-eside the Grafton being delivered by the Rev An
drew Y Y Raymond Richard Watson Glider mas
written a sonnet. 'ton Life Mask CT Lincoln "ilA
n. viii read fer the first time at this meeIhs'
7siS+son Alexander Walters also Will speak
,-ns ,h.r5 roeettng in Manhattan viii be held al
en-. college OF the City OF New York where Pat
yick F. MCGOWAN, president Of the Board OF Aoer-
men viii preside The Rev Dr. Robert Macken-
tim
-e.1es Tsncoln Great viii be delivered by An
srew s Draper Commissioner of Education Inc
United Singers Of New York City, Carl Hem con
ssuc+or: Otto Goritz the Metropolitan oary
she Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra ana Pro-
sessor Samuel A. Baldwin. the college organisI
viii furnish she music
n Brooklyn the one big meeting VIII be helo IN
she evening at the 18th Regiment Armory. at Sum
rer and Jefferson avenues Colonel C. O. Davis pre-
x,ssnz There the Grafton will be delivered by
Professor Stockton Arson The invocation viii be
tv the Rev. William C. P. Rhoades- The music
win he by the United German Singers Of Brooklyn
snd the Grand Festival Orchestra unoer tle olrec
Yica OF Car1 Fique
In every one OF the 5ef schoolhouses Of the city
there VIII be patriotic exercises, at each Of Whioh
one af the pupils viii read Lincolrs ADDRESS at
Gettysburg In the evening there VIII be exercises
held at fortv-six schoolhouses and thirteen
srrnories There VIII also be an Illustrated lecture
on Lincoln by William Webster Ellsworth at the
american Museum o. Natural History
The arrnories where exercises will be held and
she rrnciual speak kers are follows; Second Bat
ferv ] Thomas Hefiin. of Alabama: eth Regiment
ex-Judge Alton 3 Parker; sth Regiment Judge u
NJ Rose. of Arkansas; 9th Regiment the Rev
Arthur gudson Brown: 18TH Regiment. Judge En-
frv Speer Of Georgia: .14th Regiment Brigadier
General l. S. Catlin, L 8 a; 20 Regiment
Joseph 7 Robinson. Of Arkansas Esd Regiment
sbe Rev George Alexander: 47th Regiment, the
Rev John R Paxton. 6sth Regiment. William
sulzer- 18th Separate Company (FlUshing), Judge
II Stewart Mcknight; list Regiment, Senator
Clauncey n DepeE-
In many of the churches and synagogues the an
niversary also will be observed by religious and
patriotic services There will be g special service
IN Plymouth Church. and the pew which Lincoln
occupied he visited the church in 1850 to listen
10 Henry Ward Beecher wilh be marked
The College of the City ofslew York has chosen
Friday especially sitting time to open its
new historical museum with Lincoln memorial
loan exhibition. The most prominent thing in the
collection replica Of the great bronze head OF
Jinooln in the Capitol recently presented TO the
college by Gutzon Borgium the sculptor on the
walls and in the photographs Of the
President. taken and enlarged from the original
negatives by Brady Gardner and Warren, with
portraits end engravings by various artists Then
ihere are Illustrations various kinds dealing with
she great events of Mr.. Lincoln's life and his
heath and funeral.
nanv specimens of his autograph also will be
shown. There two letters written TO General
Hooker. one just before and the other just after
The battle of Chancelorsve- In another letter, as
sor1u,ander-fn-chief he permits B., then ION
parole not TO go south of Philadelphia, 10 return
10 his home at Culpeper. Va, his honor being
--ouched for By an army officer. Douglas Volk has
contributed replica of his fathers bust and hands
of lincoln and Mr.. Coster has contributed bronze
of volks life mask
AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY.
The centennial celebration al Columbia University
sviu he combined with the annual alumni cele
i,ration ard the Charles Darwin centennial
rises Every hour cf the day from o'clock in the
morning until midnight VIII be taken up by the
various lectures receptions and exhibitions which
Asve been arranged
The university buildings are to be open 10 The
Subiic throughout the day and in the library there
a 10 he an exhibition OF Lincoln relics. An effort
has been made 20 obtain the certificate which Co
surnbia College gave the President year or two
before his death. An interesting relic that will be
on view is piece Of OF the rails split by Lin
ccln in the SOS and brought into that famous con-
zentScn at Springfield in 1850 which recommended
aincolns nomination fer President piece Of the
ran has been made into picture frame containing
an old oaguerreoty-pe of Lincoln
Ex-senator John c. Spooner viii deliver ad-
dress n th@ chapel al : O'Clock Henry Fairfield
Osborn Will deliver lecture on The Life and
Work Of Charles Darwin in Havemeyer Hall at IL
tive Of Da-wiu's birth, which also on February
u lss. Al the same hour Professor Christian K.
T. Hulsea Will deliver illustrated lecture on
The Roman Forum IN Schermerhorn Hall
The alumni VIII be entertained luncheon at the
university commons. the Faculty Club and the
:zenty-one fraternity houses. An organ recital
will be held in St PauTs Chapel at O'Clock and
s there Will be alumni in Earl Hall and in
assembly rooms Of Hartley and Livingston halls.
The hour between 5 and 6 viii be taken up with
exhibitions of rowing, fencing. boxing. swimming
and water polo in the gymnasium building A beef