New Britain herald., 1916-09-04

word that the farm had been ordered sold at the court house door of Larue county, and MT. Jones again came to Kentucky, arriving in Hodgenville somewhat in advance of those most keenly interested in securing 1t for comercial exploitatin. It was sold to him for $3,6OO.
 Cabin Was in Circus.
 After his return to New York, MT. Jones, again acting as MT. Golfers agent, set out to obtain possession of the Lincoln cabin which had been re- moved from the farm by a travelling snowman who took it about the coun- try. exhibiting it. The dismembered timbers of the cabin were found in cellar where they had been stored by the snowman, and were purchased from him.
 Soon afterward the Lincoln Farm association was organized and title to the cabin and farm was turned over to that organization by MT. Col Her.
 Joseph w. Folk, then Governor of Missouri was president of the organi- zation; Robert Collier, president and chairman of the executive com mittee; Clarence H. Maclkay, treasur- CT; and Richard Lloyd Jones, secre tary.
 Immediately upon tho formation of the association a campaign for funds with which to build a Lincoln Memo rial Hall over the original site of the Lincoln cabin was begun.
 The response came quickly from all sections of the country, and from no section more quickly or readily than from men and women of the south, who Vied with the citizens of other parts of the United States in the de- sire to pay tribute to the memory of Abraram Lincoln.
 The corner stone of the memorial hall was laid by Theodore Roosevelt, Feb. 12, 1909, on the hundredth an- niversary of the birth of the Great Emanciptor." On Nov. 8, 1911 it was formally dedicated by President Will liam H. Taft. Today it became the property of the whole American peo- pie.
 To it's construction more than 27O,- 900 persons contributed amounts rang ing from twenty-five cents to $25,00O which totaled approximately $383,O 900. The balance from this fund after pay ing for the construction of the memo
 
 of turning the farm into a great pub lie park Is the sum which today was turned over as an endowment fund for the maintenance of the building and grounds.
 The hall is a beautiful granite build ing standing at the top of a small hill, It faces toward a big spring at the bottom of the slope, which proved the determining factor in the choice of Thomas Lincoln, Abraham l4incoln's father, when he was casting about for a site upon which to build his home.
 Rising from the bottom to the top of this slope is a long flight of wide granite steps, fanked on either side by a row of poplar trees together with box hedge. A box hedge also surrounds small plaza at the foot of the steps, in the middle of which is a tall flag pole from which the stars and stripes will always be kept waving.
 No One Can Enter.
 Inside the big granite building the Lincoln cabin stands upon the spot on which Thomas Lincoln erected it no years ago. It is surrounded by heavy bronze chain, for no one is to be permitted to enter it's portals Upon the interior walls of the memo rial hall is carved Iincoln's Gettys- burg address and a record of the Lin coin ancestry.
 Over the entrance to the building is the following inscription:
 Here over the log cabin in which Abra ham Lincoln was born, destined to preserve the union and free the slave, a grateful people have dedicated this memorial to unity, peace and brotherhood among these states"
 The little log cabin remained the home of Abraham Lincoln until he was about nine years old, and then his father decided to remove his fam fly te Indiana. This decision was made partly because the farm was so poor it was a matter of difficulty to wiring a living from it's soil, and part ly because the insecurity of Thomas L.incoln's title made his hold upon his home precarious. Yet poor as this hoem was, it was