Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1919 — Memorials to Lincoln All Over World [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Memorials to Lincoln All Over World

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By J. A. EDGERTON. f BRAHAM LINCOLN Is so large a man in history that he hardly needs monuments, and the ordinary memorials the world can give. Perhaps it is the world Kl* *v > that needs these things, to remind it of what human nature may become when at its best. Merely calling to mind the fact that such a man lived has a tendency to sweeten and ennoble men. Thus the visible symbols of him refresh our memories of the highest and purest American type yet brought forth. Pretty much every large city in the land new has its Lincoln monument, or statue. New York. Philadelphia. Washington, Buffalo, Chicago and San Francisco head the list. Even Edinburgh. Scotland, has a Lincoln monument There is now under construction in Washington a great memorial building which will adequately represent the country’s estimate of the second of our immortals. The chief Lincoln monument, of course. Is the one erected at the tomb in Oak Ridge cemetery, Springfield, 111. This has been described so often in the public prints, that it is unnecessary to speak more of it here. It is now a popular Mecca for Americans, second only to Mount Vernon. Two Monuments in Capital. In the city of Washington there are two Lincoln monuments, besides a memorial kept in the room In which he died. This room, which is just opposite the old Ford’s theater, contains almost 300 portraits of the martyr president, besides various interesting mementos of his life and associations. __Qne..of .tb,e.,monnments™in.. .the„na-.. tional capital fronts the city hail. It is a fine marble shaft, surmounted by n statue of the war president. It was unveiled by President Johnson in 1868. The other monument to the great emancipator is located in Lincoln park, on the other side of the city. It was erected entirely by the freedmen of the country and the address at Its unveiling was delivered by Frederick Douglass. The pedestal is not high, but the statue itself is notable. It represents Lincoln standing with his hand extended over the kneeling figure of a negro 'with broken shackles. At least two other Lincoln monuments have been proposed at different times for Washington, in the new and beautified national capital that Is to he —at least, if our dreams come true. One of these was to consist of a memorial bridge over the Potomac, a magnificent portico of doric columns nnd a splendid driveway along the river. Another projected improvement was to be a Lincoln’ gateway to ■"the new and larger capitol building for which so many plans have been laid on paper. - _— Statues in Many Cities. The metropolis of the nation has two fine Lincoln statues, one in Union square. New York, the other In Prospect park, Brooklyn— -. —' Philadelphia "has a very handsome statue of the great war president. It is situated near the entrance to Fairmount park. It is lent a romantic appearance by the ivy that entwines it,. Buffalo has a characteristic Lincoln statue by Charles H. Niehaus.. It was

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made for the Buffalo exposition and now' stands in Delaware park. A similar Lincoln statue by Niehaus is included in the Hackley collection at Muskegon, Mich. Lincoln park, Chicago, Is itself a memorial to the martyr president. Near its entrance is one of the finest statues of the great emancipator ever made. It is the w’ork of the famous St. Gaudens and represents Lincoln tn a characteristic pose. He is standing, one hand clasping a roll, the other on the lapel of his coat. The head Is bent -forward. Some years ago was projected nt San Francisco a magnificent monument to the great liberator. It was to overlook the bay, something as the Statue of Liberty overlooks New’ York harbor. Monuments in Foreign Lands. Memorials to the first of the martyr presidents are not confined to our own land. One stands in Edinburgh, Scotland, erected by patriotic Americans In honor of the Scotch-American soldiers who fought in the Civil war. Another stands in Christiania, Norway. In the. Royal academy at London Is also a very artistic statue by . Caccia, repre-

senting Lincoln as a boy in rough and rural dress, reading from a book. There are innumerable busts of Lincoln, some of them made from casts tluring life. One of the most famous of these busts, however, Is by a woman who had never seen the original. It is the work of Mrs. Emma Cadwalader Guild. She had fashioned the heads of kings and queens In Europe, but her most ambitious work was of him whom she had come to reverence as the savior of her own country. Art has not fashioned all the monuments to Abraham Lincoln. At the Cumberland Gap, in the Tennessee mountains, is the Lincoln Memorial university, erected by Gen. O. O. Howard. It was designed to educate the mountaineers, whom Lincoln so loved. Near Leadville, Colo., is a tall peak, over 14,000 feet above the level of the sea, named Mount Lincoln. Throughout the West are many counties and towns named for the emancipator. Perhaps the most famous and enduring monument erected by human hands to the memory of the war presdent, however, is the capital of Nebraska, Lincoln, one of the beautiful and growing cities of the great West.