Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1887 — Edwin Booth and “Bob” Lincoln. [ARTICLE]

Edwin Booth and “Bob” Lincoln.

Booth and I were intimate friends twenty-five years ago, and RoberfrLincoln, in the late winter or spring of 1865, joined Grant’s headquarters as a captain of volunteers. He left college for the army, and on his way from Harvard to the front to assume his new duties, she youth passed -through New York. It was late on a Sunday night when he reached the station at Jersey city to take the Philadelphia train. Edwin Booth was also there, but had never met young Lincoln. He noticed, however, a man in front of him who stepped on a car that proved to be tire wrong one; as the stronger was getting off the train moved on, and he slipped and fell between the cars and platform. Another moment and he must have been crushed and doubtless killed. No one else seemed to notice his danger, and .Booth, who held his ticket and valise in his hand, dropped his valise, put his ticket between his teeth, and then rushed up and snatched the stranger by the collar, dragging him out of the interstice and out of peril. The man turned to thank his preserver and recog-,. nized the tragedian, whorh Ire had ofterr seen on the stage. “That was a narrowescape, Mr. Booth, ” he exclaimed, as he uttered his gratitude; but even then the actor was ignorant, that he had saved the soil of the President. Young Lincoln went on to City Point, and *knowing my intimacy with Booth, he told me that his life had been saved by my friend, and wrote to Booth to let him know whom he had served.—Adam liadeau’B letter. advancedin years, whose vivacity sometimes approached the borders of impertinence, asked an old man, in father a jeering tone, why he was always dressed in black, and what he wore mourning for so constantly. “For your charms, madam,” he gallantly replied! -