Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1928, Page 4

! ! 4. LINCOLN GREW BEARD IO DENTHBED 5 SCENE RECALLED ot oram e President's Looks. By the Associated Prass. ROCHESTER, N. Y., Februar How the suggestion of a little 11-year- old Westfield girl that Abraham Lincoln | “might look nicer” if he wore whiskers led Lincoln to grow them. was related today by Charles B. Stilson, a nephew {of the now 79-year-old woman. | Strred by attacks of his opponents about his appearance. ce Bedell, THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FEBRUARY 12, ]L‘JZS—-PAfi’I" T TRAGEDY OF LINCOLN'S DEATH HALTED FEAST OF REJOICING|'— — | MRS, SALE AWATTS - HUSBAND AT HOME Young Woman Leaves House of Detention to Face Her Relatives. Midnight Dinner at White House in Cele- bration of Downfall of Confederacy Hastily Abandoned. James Tanner, Who Record- ed Notes Near Martyr’s Chamber, Tells of Tragedy. EORGE M. BATTE JR. | A midnight feast, colebrating the fall vof Richmond, the swrender of Gen. | | Robart K. Lee and the end of the Civil | Mr. Kincheloe to et our family go. say- ing, “They will probably go to Washing- ton like many of the colored people who iook on that place now as thelr leaven: BY Mrs. Annie E. Sale, who formed “The surgeon general gently crossed ! link in a triangle that resuited in t the pulseless hands across the motion- less breast and rose to his feet “Rev. Dr. Gurley stepped forward and lifting his hands, began: ‘Our Father Our God—-—" Iy pencil point caught in my coat and broke. and the world lost the praver—a prayer which was interrupted only by the sobs of Stanton as he buried his face in the bedclothes. “ Thy will be done’ in subducd and tremulous tones floated through that little chamber. “Mr. Stanton raised his head. the tears streaming down his cheeks, as he sobbed out the words, "He belongs to the ages now.'™ Such is the word picture of the final scene at the deathbed of Abreham Lin- coln as given by one of the last cve- survive—a younz War De- who had been sum- from the next house to d notes of the word bt before Seccretary he hunt for Friend Reveals Copy. James Tar for many v of wills of the District of Colum- ote out an account of what he d 1in the h h new Jig! n 10 a personal friend. who has ands of The Evening is known, no part of been published. _Mr. Tanner's account appearsto sot- tle an issue of fact over which there has been much debate—whether Vice nt Jehnson was at the bedside me. during the night. He states ' room at the end of the hall where the | Yet we know that ce v that Mr. Johnsen was not present. and that the place at the foot of the bed where he Is represented 10! seronds of absolute silence when we | wherenbouts but Ev- been sitting was occupied by Mr. Tanner's manuscript foliows The Passing of Abraham Lincoln. mong all the characters who loom- ed iarge in the public mind from 1861 to 1865. one came to stand apart and jone n supremacy, finally recognized Imost unanimous!: hout a peer It took the perspective ©of many years to epable us to get a correct view. of t greatness of his character, his transcendent intellectual endowment his purpose, ‘his absolute devotion to the interests of the Nation which had called him to its leadership and the great agony endured by his loving gentle heart as he staggered under his awful burden., an agony never cqualed since the Bavior of mankind passed the of | ars reg- | e that nizht | now Mrs. George Newton Billings ot | Delphos, Kans., wrote “The Honorable Abraham Lincoln, Esq.” and advised him to wear whiskers, promising that she would attempt to persuade her two -Democratic brothers to vote for him, She received an acknowledgment of { the etier, whiskers. | After his clection and while on {way to Washington for his naugura- tion. Lincoln stopped at Westfield and {made a short speech, He then asked , for the girl, ed her and sald: “You {soe, Grace, T grew these whiskers for you. | taken to his apartments. He and Miss Harris subsequently married | “Through all the testimony given by | those who had been in Ford's The- ater that night there was an undertone of horror which held the witnesses back | from pos elv identifying the assassin | as Booth. Said Harry Hawk. ‘To the of my belief. it was John Wilkes ooth. but [ will not be positive.” and | so it went through the tesiimony of others, but the sum total left no doubt as to the identity of the assassin “Our task was mterrupted very many imes during the night. sometimes by | reports or “dispatehes for Secretary | Stanton but more often by him for the i purpose of 1ssuing orders calculated enmesh Booth in his flight. uard the Potomac from the city down repeated direction. He will try to got South. Many dispatches wore sent | from that_table bofore morning some to Gen Dix of New York, others to Chicago. Philadelphia, ete. “Several times Mr. Stanton left us a few moments and passed back to the | | President lay. The doors were and sometimes there would be open few could hear plainly the stertorous breathing of the dying man. I think it ! was on his return from the third trip of this kind when, as he again took his seat opposite me. I looked earnestly at him. desiring vet hesitating to ask 1f there was any chance of life. He understood and I saw a choke in his throat as he slowly forced the answer the world over as to my unspoken question. “There-is-no- | hope’ He had impressed me thronzh those awful hours as being & man of steel, but I knew that he was danger- ously near a breakdown the utter unselfishness of ; Johnson Not Present. “Puring the night there came in, 1 think. about every man then of promi- | nence in our national life who was< the Capital at the time and who had hcard of the tragedy. A few whem [ distinetly recall were Secretaries Welles night in the Garden of Gethsemane. | ygher and McCullough. Attorney Gen- “Our people have shown in a thou- sand ways and particularly in his re- cent centennial, that every atom re- lating to the life of Abraham Lincoln is of intense and continuous interest; 1o them, and because of this and be- cause of the fact that I was a specta- tor of the final scene of the supreme ! of that time on the morning of | April 15. 1865, 1 pen these lines. “At- that time 1 was an emplcre of the Ordnance Bureau of the War De- partment and had some ability as a| shorthand writer. The latter brought me within touch of the events | of that awful night. I had gone with a friend to witness the performance that evening at Grove's Theater. where now stands the New National | Boon after 10 o'clock 8 man rushec in from fthe lobby and cried out, Presi: dent Lincoln has been shot in Ford's Theater” There was a great confu- n once, most of the audience rising to the feet. Seme one cried out. ‘It's a ruse of the pickpockets: | look out’ Almost everybody resumed | his seat, but almost immediately one | of the cast stepped out on the rtage | end said, ‘The sad news is 100 true— the audignce will disperse.’ Steward Reported Killed. “My friend and myself crossed Wiilard's Hotel and there were told | that Secretary Steward had been killed. | Men's {aces blanched as they at once | #sked, “What news of Stanton? Have | they got him t00?" The wildest rumors soon filled the air. “I had rooms 2t the time in the house adjoining the Peterson rouse, into which the President had been car- ried. Hastening down to Tenth' street, 1 found an almost solid mass of hu- manity blocking the strest and the owd constantly enlarging. A silence that wes appalling prevailed. In erest eentered on all who entered or emrrged from the Peterson House and all of the latter were closely questioned as o the $rick: President’s condition, from the first the answers were Unvarying that there was no hope “A milrary g the command- d there, 1 passed which comprised of the house. up W my apartment 0} front a baloo rooms and the balcony thronged by the oither oceupants of the house, Horror was in every heart and y on every countenance. We had of tumultuous Joy Tuchmond id ontederacy, and 5 was change 1t Ges the Pets » en Maj swop of ig | bred and sew the twitching of the mus- 1 9ent Johnson's outrsl but oue wnas on v y wid the g yung man TN yen- wsk e o come down B0 it was ' ith Lhe sanes fisial hou i Abreham Linooin Hesrd Mrs. Lincoln's Sobs, ; spatiied Grn. Rugur w Year Darie; the tront parior 1 i Fnering Ve Becretnry fitar Court of the D) & U end mnany 1 Vo my watl « e 0 #rili s " wilni o " s d K Fupreme nble; 8 Vhester mowere vy Hivk Aras Lrepclsrd it Wiy, Gur Ametiun Clpughly, Col. . Y A 4V o i . O Lo o hwr &iow v distresciigly widiie 1 Jie Wik wocompaiied by Wiss Har ¥is of New Yore, whoo with het fatie Eier vl e i ! [ [T wh thrugh firiny tatals it 1 ety U Aitiea bt we frani s efier e shiot, hima duy Jight 1 n im vound etier Mo [ ¥ i » 3 " i o5 untif e “uron Jelnied s [ pome U bt of blon when v fact | L | eral Speed and Postmaster General Dennison, Assistant Secretaries Field and Otto, Gov. Ogleby. Senators Sum- mer and Stewart, and Gens Meies and Augur. I have seen many assertcc pictures of most of them have Vice President Andrew Johnson sealed in a chair near | the foot of the bad on the left side. Mr. Johnson was not in the house at all, but in his rooms in the Kirkwaod House. “With the completion of the taking ol the testimony 1 at once began to transcribe my shorthand notes into |longhand. Twice while &0 engaged. | Miss Harris supported Mrs. Lincoln | down the hallway to her husband's bed- side. The door leading into the hall- 'uay from the room wherein I sat was open and I had a plain view of them es they slowly passed. Mrs. Lincoln | was not at the bedside when her hus- Iband breathed his last. Indeed. I |think it was nearly if not quite two hours before the end when she paid her last visit to the death chamber, and { when she passed our door on her re- turn, she cried out. Oh! my God and have I given my husband to die!" “I have witpessed and experienced much physical agony on battiefield and in hospital, but of it all nothing sunk deeper in my memory than that moan of a breaking heart. Witnessed Last Scenes. “I finished transcribing my notes at 6:45 in the morning and passed back |nto the room where the President lay There were gathered all those whose {nemes I have mentioned and many | others, sbout 20 or 25 in all, 1 should {judge. The bed had been pulled out [from the corner and owing to the ! stature of Mr. Lincoln, he lay diagon- ally on his back. He had be anconsclous from the fnstant the bullet oloughed into his Lrain. His stertoror hing subsided at 22 minutes after 7 o'clock, From then to the end only ihe gentle rise and fall of his bosom ave indication that life remained The Surg-on General was head of the bed. sometimes the edge thercof, his finger on of the dying man. Occasionally i put hiy ear down to catch the le sening beats of his heart. Mr. Lin- coln's pastor, Rev. Dr. Phineas D. Gur- i front aud 1|jey, stood a lttle o the left of the bed. | Mr, Btanton sal In a chalr near the foot on the left where the plctures | piace Andrew Johnson. 1 stood near {ihe head of the bed and from that position had full view of Mr. Stanton across the President’s body. AU my right Robert Lancoln sobbed on the shou'der of Charles Summer “Btanton’s ga s fized ntently on the countenance of his dying chief. e had, I osald, been a man of steel throughout the night, but as 1 looked at ce across the corner of the {elen 1 knew that 1t was only by & po! | erful effort that he restraiued Limself. The first indication { the dieaded end hid come wes BU 22 minutes past when the Burgeon General gently crossed the pulieless hands of Lincoln wcrons the molioniess breast and roswe feot W his Prayer Last to Public. Yy, Dr. Gurley stepped nd Wiy bis bands began, ‘Our Pae her wnd our God' 1 spaslcled pen- cil wnd nowhbosk Srom my pocket, but te Geteated my puro My 1 hiad but oney caught In id the vonld Jost yer vhich was only ol of Blanton s <A e hede o her Uhy will be done. Amen duosub- dued ond tremulons tones fosted | throghs that 3ite Cliamber, My Stan Jsed hids Lewd. the Lears stivau ny down bis cheeks A more wgon- e eapresdon 1onever savon s hu conntennnee ws b sobled out e e belongs U e ages now ' tastton directed b L {14 Vincent of e staft 1o tuke Charge of e body. cilled womeeting of Ve cubinet W Ui toum whiere we b Jroced ot of U night wnd the ws by s Golng W my apertment, § out doyn once v ke W second longhind gy M b of e tesilmon 1 b taken, W oceuring b e thel | vchied Lo vt e one 1 hiad wikiten b bt it 0 Lisd been Vs enguged i Dt e whieps hesiig some Commmntion on Ve sireat, | stepped to Ve oW sl sa s @ CoMin contii g Ui body ol Ve dead Bpesident s phaced 1w hwitee which pesed i et slicet to 1 wnd Ui by e Wiite Mo Wi el pivites Ax Uy fam | mewsured 1wt and wims | hana dvoluntarily went 1oy head in l B Ahey staiied on Vel Jong ey ek Lo i prmliis snid furward venell puint i o roa intertupted by 1 L buried his fa with ny mortal vematne of e greatest Lk wuinG Gieaeed kol G Aericei ol el Ui ber s, A was hi< | the deathbed scene wnd | n utterly | eovonted by a Heatenant | ywnrta fw kiew snd Joved oo viell, | War wus due to have been held at the { White House the night of Good Friday, | April 14, 18 “The mansion had been appropriately set in order for the joyous occasion, tempting viands were steaming on the | great stove in the basement, and the and soon Lincoln raised the | hired heip. allowed to repair to their | | homes for a fow hours, had been orcered to report back about 11 o'clock to serve and attend the guests. ‘This prandial afair was supposed to assemble congenial and - diplomatic spirits who might exercise a helpful - | fluence upon the sensitive relations Il'\\\'lllfl beiween the North and the South. and_thus aid_in realizing the dream of President Lincoln of a re- united country | The places at table were never filled: the stove wood was reduced to 5 and the stew congealed in the ki 2s White House attaches forsook their allotted employments on hearing that Mr. Lincoln had been mortally shot Instead of gathering at the ap- i d hour at the White House, the | prospective guests went their several | Wavs 1o puard their own hous=holds. to | join in the pursuit of the assassing or {to augment that melancholy circle atound Mr. Lincon’s bed at the Pefer- <on home. Incident of Unwritten History. £o far as the wr is aware, the circumstance of a planned supper at !the White House on this memorrble day is unwritten tory. That h an event, told to as many as six have escaped n‘;.- n«;:!l | of biopraghers or been obscured so long in an Fm‘:\m\('l' is almost bevond belief in offivials were concerninz that as to their own to anv event con- th it: and. on the other hand vs whose storv in other tly dovetails with fact ible toe donbt his stioning that was dae of the period that itself 1o hich o it | people. shou uncommonly reticent last dav. not only | nected a wi nar | that it ar {tale In an hou | this man rels | rommeon know | hie contribution rerommend | the catennry of strav framments w | have habb~d un afier some time make the mosaic of Lincoln what is tadnv Assumin® was s°hed after the re jean Consin” thonght of eether Cabinet min others to the number which limit it could not we - re- | mained secret 63 years). or it mev he concefved as a grouping of a handful of close nersonal frisnds of the Linco'ns and even as a auiet compliment to the | affianced pair who occupicd the DPresi- i dential box with them t night ! Maj. Henry R_Rathbone of Alban Y. and the United States Vo'unt and Miss Clara Harris, daveht ris of New York City. to be fact that a narty a4 for the White Houe ent at may For N orR of | Senator ¥ ; Matter of Specu'ation. ep turther. considering the | ramifieations of the plot and the des- | perate character of the assassins it 15 not impossible that had Booth been foiled at the theater and Payne re- strained at the hour his foul blows were directed at Becretary Seward, the at- tempt upon the life of Mr. Lincoln might have been made at White House iself. While thore who know little of the inner workings of the con- spiracy may scout such a theory, « peg m support of it may be porrowed from the memoirs of Gen. Graal, who testi- fied to &Booth’s frantie sctivitiss on this fateful day in mar<haling his v cring forces for the climux of his vil- lainy, As the Grants were having Going & | was 50 insistent on foreing his presence upon them that they were obhiged to leave the dining room. When they were proceeding in their carridee to the depot, en route to Burlington, this same individual, now mounted un & spirited horse, followed them clos.ty, rode ahead, then executing a shap about-face, peered impertinently ity the closed yehicle as he passed again Booth did not follow farther, but roused Michacl O'Leughin and put im on the trail O same tralp and tried to force his way into the Grant coach on nearing Bal- tmore. but found the door securcly | locked G By catching the 6 o'clock train, Gen Grant m it almost ampossibie for | the conspirators Lo work in consonance | a8 they had planued, with himselt con- { sidered one of the prospective victims and not only dangercd part of which astule young Lra P kiiled at any thne before | the alarm would { Mnglon and the horrors there averted. Lukewarm in his re- solve and belleving be could not reach Grant. O'Laughlin probubly left e cars at Balumore and went to his brother’s home. A telegram announc- [ g the asanssinetion nt at Philadelphia. Instead of | ubeying Btanton's order to veturn 1o | Washington st onee, e continued on 1o Burlington, arriving about 2 o'clock In the morning of Saturduy, wnd reach- ing Washinglon 12 hours . wher [ be immediately conferred with Presl- cd cubluet Grant Precaution Noted. himsels Plan 8 o dian suved whol v but en the main wed by i I Grunt had Former Slave's Tesl ny. 1 Now let the grizded witness, a for- mer slave, who had some acquantance | with Prexident Lincoln, velate bis nirs Drative thal the reader may form cons clustons of his own Robert 5 Brown of I4sh N ostreel B w0 son of the lite | Peter Brown, who das butier st e Whlte House through the Suchs anan and Lincols adminbtations and the Dt puit of the dncumbeney of Andiew Johwson. Brown will be G yeurs old April 23, havieg been Apnil 2 10 at dtectoriown. Faaguler Count Vi He not a talkative man and he enjoys w repatation for veracity, turther, his mind 15 perfectly ciear on the things he telaton n Wash- Ingbon boothlack he won the confidend of notables o public Bleo particamrly President Grunt whose recommendis ton of bim was suthelont Lo galn b | the posttion of conchmin 1o Presid Gutfield. He hyed temperately Bls money sod boughit a house and ot al Lt Forty sseventh stieet Yeuterday be come to the busines: o o et lllir rent ated i the pealty office of Chutlen Mulr, son ul the 0 M clplnin of Ve Uiited Penule, wl 1403 Hew Yotk pvenue veculled Uhose otiing Umes, o | ot Washington dinico he very wi's Nbaten aluve (R | My latlu wae o ecwme Uhe property of My of Wauguler County, Vi, he nald was ot it ecttown, ey, i | v oviied by Conrad 18 K€mcheloe, i [ master ot quite wn estale Min PRIkl wan a memter of e Gl Peock tandly o Virgiils Vel Mo Jaice B Bdcheloe dnow [ reskeer e prankin National Hank Bulldiig in this (ily D our nelghiborhood ire tolk whout selting e slaves fies sy el yewrs hefore the Cial War, aid M Piiest an Koghishmsn engaged n condueting i Cundergronnd Talliond for smugklng slaves oul of the Boutly o Uie Horth, ‘sdviaed My, Mattin aud wiss sonie their mid-day meal a deslgning person 1 Laughlin ok the | wis received by | A | waen they get tired of it up there vou | can take them back, and then they will be in the notion to stay.’ So they let | us go. and helped us off. Mr. Turncr had been a supporter of Mr. Buchanan in his race far the | presidency, and was in a position to {drive a bargain or two. He kept a string tied to my father by having Mr.| Buchanan appoint him butler al the | White House, and, everything arranged. | Mr. Buchanan agreed that my fathel | pay In cash should go to my fathe | former master in_Virginia, I don't| know the details, but they made the arrangement, and left it so my father | would have upkeep for himself and | family. The butler was expected to eat at the White Ho and now and then | some other member of the family did too. I will say that those who worked around the White House received more pay then than they do now. but why [ {hat is T am unable to explain. | Made lome in Alexandria. ! “My parents lived first at Alexandria where I saw coming down the road one duy in @ fine carrlage Gen. Robert E. | Lee of Arlington. He never knew I used to ride with him. because I | bohind, but other people did. It I didn't ride the Lee coach it was bacause the driver happened lo whip up the, rses After five months we removed from | Alexandria and went to live in a house on Twelfth strect between G and H streets i Washington, While my father was butlering at the White House 1 started shining shoes around the Freasury Bullding, and now and then | ranged clsewhere. 1 met lots of big men in this way —Congressmen, mem- | bers of the Supreme Court, cabinet | ministers, heads of Government depart- | ments and nauives of Washington. I used to shine around the White House. | hoping Mr. Lincoln would call me. but | somebody was shining his shoes and | i boots instde. So not long after the inaugnration in March, 1861. my father tock me to the White House to see Abrabam Lincoln We found him in his office. “My father said, ‘Mr Lincoln. 1 want you to see my boy. “Mr. Lincoln pulled himselt to his . and sald. ‘He's a hondsome bo; all right” Then he put his big righ hand on my bare head and rubbed it | over my scalp. Lord, but he made me mad. I wanted to hit him, so I ducked | away. T suppose I was surprised. be cause the way my mistress did when #he wanted to punich me was to lay a hickory across my back E Took Up “Odd Johs." (/T made myselt at home around the Etchen and the butler's pantry, and found it convenient to do odd fobs. run- ning errands and carrving things vack and forth At this time I was 11 vears | old, nine years younger than Robort T Tincoln, #nd two or throe vears older {than Tad. the young 1 | uuflp ;b:vm the same 4 | obert went awav loge, w0 ! f«::avu" c¢ much of \mfx when | he returned home in Summer. but Tad 5 there all the time and kept every- bodv on the move, including his fathér | Willie was a great favorite with his | rents. he was quicter than the other two, end died about the middle of the | war Robert was what you would call | rough-and-ready for anvihing, but Tad | could follow his pace. The boys had a | regular menageric in the rear of the | White House grounds Among the ani- mals were donkevs. horses and goats and of course bird peis came to them from everywhere Some kind of riding | tournament was always going on, and { there were sufficlent animals to play cirens whenever we took the notion The unimals were supposed to be | { kep! up by the hastier, but thev man- | 1 to get out and roam at will about th e, and the st ruined the flowers, and kept the gardenr distract- ed They also rode the donkevs and ponies in wet weather, and just tracked up everything. Tad often drove his team of gonts through the White House, and | dien’t care what else he did_There was no color Iine there: the bootblacks and other colored boys, who came and peen- ed throtgh the fence were fnvited in Now and then when we got {00 nolsy for the cook, the hostler and the gard- cr, Mr. and Mrs, Lincoln came out to | what we wel presents Tad was a liberal-hearted | bav. and would have given away every- | | thirig 1f he had pot bren stopped. | i President Evaded Crowds, njoved fixing upfor | o | | “Mrs. Lincoln | company, but the President did not ke | crowds w0 mush ~when he had tme from ofiiclal business he used to pace | up and down the halls in deep thought or hie would it for hours reading @ book " “flow did Mr. Lincoln hupress you ally?” he way askod. He was 8 tolerant man, wasn't he?" L i, he was kind to everybody r heard him speak unkindly of any one or get out of patience. He just moved along about the » each day.” “Certain persons have ulated the {report that he was careless fn hix per- [sonal babits, DId you ever see valk around In hix socks or put | feet up on the muntelpiece?” | No, sl L onever did When he renched the front door he took off his | hat and eape nod quietly handed them 1o my father Just ke any other gentl mian. e W ver nolay In his con- atlon enjoyed telling jokex and then he would break into He had a ot on him in-those burd Storles” Cited, i “You heard many absurd storles out- side wbout things that never m.pprnmj Lover there, didn’t you?” | “Ves, sir, people huve (o have some [ thine 1o tulic about * | | e appear sad and downeast | Poaver the w2 UHOL Uil 1_could notiee, though ! born | It is not necessary i to have had an nc- | count at this Bunk to | Borrow, e MORRIS NIV < LEasy to Pay M $10.00 $15.00 $10.00 $25.00 $300 $30.00 $540 §45.00 | $1,200 $100.00 | 50,000 $500,00 THIE MORRIS Wl PLAN BANK Unidar Bupsivision U. 8, Treasury | o M NTREET, No W l [l $120 | $180 $240 $300 “ him | admits it | past {onut the deor some one ran up. saving up to. and gave us i he was needed there” | e enly helped wait on | rmergencies { i REV. LINCOLN CASWELL, The famous living double of the late President Abraham Lin-oln Cenci and Gusta the finishing touches on a painting of the great emancipator. is shown posing for a pair of Italian artists. o Cenci, in New York. Terzo Cenci (left) Is finishing a bust of Lincoln and Gusf shooting of Kenton E Davis on Co necticut avenue Thursday afte left the House of Detention yeste afternoon and went home to face 23 | uncertain weleome from her hushand and relatives The pretty 22-year-old irl. to Davis probably owes his life she changed the course {a revolver in her husband’s h remained at the House of D hours after tne police had o release merely because she [fe: encounter her husband Howe | collected ner courage snorti vesterday afternoo of Detention attaches a som reluctant fal and directly to her cozy apartm 1929 First street Mrs Sale’s hushand had been freed earlier in the day under a $3.000 bond Terzo on a charge of assault with intent to 0 Cenci s puiting | kil But he was not at home when | she returned | “Maybe he's working.” she oon, 0. WOMANKNOWS * LINCOLNS CAREER suppose he had other thoughts when he was alone in his room.” “Mr. Lincoln wasn't exactly the kind of man you best remembered from Vir- einia, was he?” “No, sir. he was a poor man who ned to work hard ds a bo ke all about life and the strucgles of That was why he sym- ored fols, and we le knew the unfortunate, pathized with us loved him." | “Was ho a heavy cater? What dish | gl e Jike besiz” Did he ke faney Miss Helen Nicolay, Daughter Brown chuckled as he ran his fingers | . ; | over the iron gray stubble on his cnin: | Of His Secretary, Writes of No Fancy Foods for Lincoln. ; : Ta b “Fancy foods for Abraham Lincoln? | Emancipator’s Life. No, sirce! He was old-fashioned about | — that. He liked cabboge botter than | ypic Helen Nicolay, daughter of anything clse, The cook had to fix Abraham Lincoln’s secretarv. John @ mess of cabbage nearly every George Nicolay. lives at the Woodward day, He wasn't a big erter or little 2311 Connecticul av x’\vn-. and the .+ 2 bLirthday anniversary of the Emanci- ] t ayv A U d'" (1 g . “f’"m say he had a /oo “hrings to her mind cherished z00d appetite and digestion. | thoughts of the man witt “He was the kind of man who, if he | father was so closely went down South, would pass up the Present she is visiting in Boston, whi asparagus tips and braised. hecf and ‘he is delivering lectures about Lincoln. all for a fat ‘possum?" She will be 62 years old on her birth- “That's it. you hit it right. With day, March 9. Her father is ow vams, of course And he In being famous for his work on the itked Trish potatoes. too™ life of Lincoln in collaboration with oIl about some conversation vou,John Hay. Miss Nicolay herself i with him " the euthor of a boys' life of Lin “Well, sir, T remember once a meet- s Well as of other books for ye ing with him in the hail, when he call- | Americans ed out to me, and says, ‘Peter, are you From personal knowledge she well hungry?' Peler was the name he guve | Knows the cvents leading up to the me, after mv father, theugh my real latter days of Lincoln. From name was Robert. Says I, ‘Always. Mr. and study she knows the beginn, coln.* hat life. While Lincoln was born Feb- Well. ruary 12, 1809, in Kentucky, the same arowing bov o be in year as Edgar Allen FPoe. her fath see about that.’ was born in 1832 in E:ssingen. Bavaria “He told my 8he hersolf was born in Fa and sald to him Father Like Lincoin. feed this bov Her father's early vears in the United i lke my hoys. his legs are hollow States. to which he came with b T didn't need a s~cond invitation parents in 1838, were akin to the strug to enter the White House pantry. Tad | gics of Lincoln. When 14. Nicolay was and 1 had been there before. as we obliged to begin earning his own wa said. looking tor mice g and. like Lincoln. clerked in a country thn-um»:_r you on the night of the | store, For a time he was a newsman assassination? § | man in Niinols. He moved to Spring- 1 was home on Twelfth street, be- | field in 1856 and became a supporter of tween Goand H. about three or four| the newly-formed Republiran npart: s’lmn"x r..n;m It was about half { ;here his fast friendship with Lincoln a 0. and 1 was taking off My |pegan. When Lincoln ves nomina ciothes to go to bed. My father hed | 1o the preside Nicolay became b just deft e Douss, saying e had | ivate Secrctar 4 g orders to retun to the Exccutive Man- | g 5 " 6w R “"“:I'm hl'x‘x:‘t ';:,‘, (‘;I“‘i“‘;.“' | ing that tour of duty his daughter w: e S e A b““x‘ rmixlnrmrla[?amf' he was ma fust ready to crawl fmio bed whon 1134l of the United States heard a big commotion in the street g men running this way and that. seaple | | Miss Nicolay was educated by her thontimg. militare giving orders. horses | father and by private teachers. George Yaching by When T stuck my head | WAshington University conferred th de © of master of arts upon her 1 thetey. | 19 n recognition of her contributiop { to literature. She s talented not on' As A writer but as N artist, for sae does work in water color and ol ana | maintains a studio at her country pl Sturhied AN told uk of tho in Holderness, N. H The author over at the White House, He stayed | PUmerous magazine articles, Miss Nico- over there trying to comfort Tad, but | !a¥ produced hey frst book in 1906 and after putting him o bed there waun't | called 1t “The Boys' Life of Abraham bing e could do, so he locked up | kincoln ™ Three vears later she pro- a while and came home. Then 1| duced “The Boys' Life of Ulysies 8 Raleen.” nt.” and in 1912 another work on “Who was to wade up the party | the emancipator. “Personal Traits of over at the White House?™ Abraham Lincoln Our Nation in the het T couldn't say. My father | BUldIng™ was written in 1916 and just ~add they were (o hive some kind | When the World War was it its height of supper after the performance, and xl‘llyl IH'I'“"; of American Wars” was iblished, h: that's a terribl> state We'll for a have to father ‘to come there, ‘Peter. 1 want you to | He looks hungry. and Fill up his legs. ioo. il he Mr Lincoln was shot at the My mother pulled me back i the house anud made me stay in bed. She said it | was dangerous to be out, and we should stav in. - We kept awake tiil invited?” ! “That [ don't know, skr. You see | my father wasn't the steward, othei- wise he would have known how many the table in ! and 1 can't say wheth he was to do table duty that night ™ “Were the guests coming from Ford's Thes with the Lincolns or from clsewhere?" “That, sir, I8 beyond me” . The most severe test of friendship 14 whether it will stand a loan, “How many were Shuns Publicity. Miss Nicolay wrote “The Boys' Life lof Lafayett in 1920, following this two vears later with “Peter wnd Paul and Their Friends” A book dealing | with Washington cume from the press under her pame I 1024, With the ap- | pourance of “Our Capital on the Po- tomac™ A life of Alexander Hamtiton by her was recently published ‘ Hor work assisting her father with his (amous life of Lincoln gave her a love for history and writing and she utilizes the vast resources of informa- THE GREATEST VALUE Obtainable In Automatic Gas Water Heaters Is Offered In This NewPittsburg Automatic Gas WATER HEATER New Low Price—Higher Quality E:timate Furnished EDGAR MORRIS SALES CO. Factory Disteibutors 1305 G St. N.W. Main 1032 "his $325 3-Piece Mohair Suite, { DIINE o o v b hionic s saiunmswsvas $185 Made to Order G- e hardwond feames, wilint or mahogany fhish e veraible cushions. Only & of cach of theae sultes can wade at thia price. Also feduced priven on reupholtering aid slip covers Standard Upholstery Co., Inc. 284 14th St. NW. Open Evenings Col. 10237 ' ' | | Voiw .. | Star reporter last night w tion in Washington in her work. she| Star reporter st n8EE SH is an Unitarian in faith. Disliking - ere stil to her. Dubacity, she 1s s-arcely known in tie | HE UsU h“f‘“.‘""."‘;‘n_rs;" ;""':: life of the Capital and her Dights Perhaps i L s have deemed 1t @ hopeless|later 1 do not know. I do hope. of securing a photograph of her. vhuu[gvxy that everything turns out al he shuns the camera. Her friends | T z he does not look her age and de- Mrs. Sale L as'orz'i:-r"d rr‘:"aszrd “ :; are that her modesty is one of her the House of Dete 'm;‘b";1 b oittanding characteristics. She fre- | Friday afterncon. but she chose 1o re- quently does research work in the Li-| main a “guest” of the institutioh o7 brarv of Congress and naturally is most | cause of the security it offercd interested in the period covered by the would just rather not go back to m3 life of Lincoln. | husband right now,” she announced | when notified that her release had been | authorized. “I'm just a little bit afraid.” Estate Valued at $26,320. Alexander H. McCormick. emplove | the Department of Justice, who died | left an estate valued at! according to the petition for ! testamentary filed in Probate by Robert M. Heth. the execu- He was survived by his wife. Mrs rie H McCormick. and three daugh- , Hannah, Isabelle and Virginia. Files in Bankruptey. Paul G. Garber, auctioneer and ap- sraiser. has filed a petition in voluntary sankruptey He lists his debts at 4,161 and estimates his assets at $2.650. He is represented by Attormey George P. Lemm 6. 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