The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-08
LINCOLN CENTENARY
sPLENDID HOMAGE WILL BE PAID
 OLD HOMEsTEADs f

- Announcement is Made That sfrs. Roosevelt ama Miss Eshei Resse-r welt wnl Accompany the
 President to KentueIy. @. s.. Louisville. Ky. Feb. Z-simpie and yet splendid with the presence of the first citizens of the United states, will be the homage which will be paid the old homestead of Abraham Lincoln in Larue county. Kentucky, on the oc- the plans for the ceremonies of dedi- eating the marble memorial hall. by President Theodore Roosevelt having finally been arranged.
 The last preparations were made in this city yesterday by the committee in charge, and Charles E. Miner. rep resenting the Lincoln Farm Associa- tion. It was determined that the i've trains that will be run to Hodgenviiie from Louisville on February is should bear the various delegations, that . platoon of Louisville police should be permitted to do duty. and that the representatives of the Republican and Democratic committee of Kentucky be given . place of prominence In the ceremonies.
 At this meeting two facts were learned also:
 One regretfuIly, that the venerabie Cardinal Gibbons would not be able to come to pronounce the invocation. and the other joyfully. that Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Ethel Roosevelt will be members of the President's party. Up to the time of this. latter | announcement. Kentucky women. of | whom Lincoin's wife and mother came. had taken only a cursory interest in the coming of the first lady of the land and the White House debutante had been published. they began to l show curiosity and interest that pro-
 claimed them like their sisters the
 world over and to beseige their hus-
 bands to take them to the dedication. The first train which will leave this
 city at 7:Si o'clock on the morning
 of February 12, will carry all who
 desire to reach the farm early and
 to roam over the acres where the
 child Lincoln played. The second train, at 7:4s. will carry a band. sixty
 volunteer milItiamen. eighteen cavai-
 rymep and fifty newspaper men; the | third, at s:15. will bear the Federal
 and Confederate Veterans whe are to
 act as escorts to the President, the
 veterans of the Spanish American war
 and Governor Augustus E. Wilson
 and his military stan: the fourth train.
 at e:S5, will carry the Louisville busi- ness men who are behind the dedica- ton plans and those of the public who
 can get into four extra coaches; while the nth train. at 9:36, will bear the President, Mrs Roosevelt, Miss Roose. l welt. Secretary Loeb and Secretary of War Luke E. wright. <...s l,
 During the last few weeks, In which
 these plans have been crystalizing. the people of Washington county Larue's neigh bor. have been protesting against
 holding the exercises two miles from Hodgenville on the farm where Idn-
 coin was q child. They declare that
 the future President was born on Val
 ley Creek, in Washington county
 where his parents were married and
 that Washington county Is being
 cheated of her motherhood. This ss
 an old dispute between the counties
 The farm is two miles from Hodgen-
 viiie along a road which is usually
 hard to traverse In winter, but which
 has been veneered with gravel and
 einders until 1t is now passabie
 The program for the dedication in-
 eludes addresses by President Roose-
 welt, ex-Governor Joseph Folk. of Ms
 souri: Governor Augustus D. Wilson of Kentucky; General James Wilson ] for the c. A. R.. and General Luke D Wright, for the Confectionery.