The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1911-02-17

Taft as the guest of honor, and of
many other distinguished citizens
from various parts of the country.
The city hall, the arches On the pub
lie square, the interior of the capitol
building and many residences are
handsomely decorated and business
has been practically suspended during
the day.
Arrival of the President.
President Taft and his party ar
rived early in the afternoon, having
been brought in Congressman Mckin.
ley's private car OF the interurban
from Decatur, where they were met
by Representative Israel Dudgeon, of
Morris, chairman of the joint legisla-
tive committee in charge of the pro
gram. AS soon as Mr.. Taft alighted
from the car the parade was formed
with Mai.-Gen. Edward c. Young, of
Chicago, as grand marshal, and Adj
Gen. F. S. Dickson as his chief of
staff.
The First regiment, from Chicago,
acted as an escort to the president
and that regiments band supplied the
military music, turning out eighty-five
strong. The parade moved down Capt.
toll avenue to the state house, as the
presidential salute of twenty-one guns
was being fired.
At the Capitol and the Monument.
Arriving at the capitol, the soldiers
were drawn up in two lines n the
president entered the building and
was received by the two houses of the
Legislature in special joint session. To
the lawmakers he made his first adj
dress of the day. speaking briefly but
spiritedly. Mr.. Taft and the other
visitors We're then escorted to the old
Lincoln homo at Eighth and Jackson
streets. The house is preserved by
the state just as it was during the
civil war period, and is visited an
nually by thousands.
From the home the visitors were
taken to Oak Ridge cemetery, where
the martyred presidents remains rest
beneath the new monument. Mr.. Taft
and the other guests entered the me
mortal chapel in h temonument and
reverently viewed the priceless Lin,
colin relics preserved there. These in
clude much of Lincoln's correspond
ence and the famous autobiography
which he wrote on one sheet of paper
The party also viewed the empty sar
cophagus in which Lincoln's body lay
Tor many years.
Mr.. Lincoln's remains probably viii
never be viewed again by mortal eye
Following the memorable attempt tC
steal the body in 1880 when it rested
in the old vault on the hillside over
ment commission decided, when tn,
plans OF the new reconstructed monu
ment were under consideration, tina
provision should be made to deposi
the body in its last resting place be
meath the concrete foundation of tn
towering obelisk. Accordingly TIL
body is now imbedded in solid con
crete and beneath a solid base of cor
crete Is feet thick. Engineers hav
estimated that it would require blast
ing by powerful explosives for seI
eral days to uncover the body now.
From the. cemetery the presidentia
party was escorted in automobiles t
the executive mansion where Go,
ernor and Mrs. Deneen held a publ
reception.
The elimination of the days event
IS to be the great banquet in the a.
t senal this evening, under the auspice
: Of the Lincoln Centennial Associate
and the Springfield Chamber of Con
merce. The principal speakers wi
? be President Taft, whose subject wi
be abraham Lincoln and Marti
w. Littleton, of New York. Judg
]. Otis Humphrey, of the Unite
q States district court, is to act as toas
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