Reminiscences about Abraham Lincoln . eside a few chairs, a map,table and a picture of Andrew Jackson °rThe President entered the room fromthe corridor clad in his morning dress-ing gown and slippers, the slippers loo-ing like some of the army brand, andthey had certainly outlived their use- iUWell, said Mr Rantoul, havingDiet my father, and remembering . Lincolns greeting was cord al .nthe extreme, and seating himself in theonly vacant chair he threw one of tho^elong legs over the arm and began rightawSv to ask questions about the manof Massachusetts that he knew and had tie had Rufus C
Reminiscences about Abraham Lincoln . eside a few chairs, a map,table and a picture of Andrew Jackson °rThe President entered the room fromthe corridor clad in his morning dress-ing gown and slippers, the slippers loo-ing like some of the army brand, andthey had certainly outlived their use- iUWell, said Mr Rantoul, havingDiet my father, and remembering . Lincolns greeting was cord al .nthe extreme, and seating himself in theonly vacant chair he threw one of tho^elong legs over the arm and began rightawSv to ask questions about the manof Massachusetts that he knew and had tie had Rufus Choates trick of pass-ing his hand back and forth through hishair as he talked. Lincolns nair vvasvery dark, .and very coarse, and it was«uite an effort to push those large bonyIjftisers through it, if he kept as ed iwioyraeu ^ru-ing measures a;^ men in the otherstates he must have been a taaxwtiovt,kind of a man to carry it all, said MiRantoul. v - ;,> \4JU^*- 7 c A ^ raper, auoaoE WESTERN VETERANIS ONLY SURVIVOROF LINCOLN GUARD. li§Kilk $£& ? George Raper. George Raper of San Diego Cal.,native of Indiana and s Civil .*arvet, is the only survivor ol theLincoln bodyguard who maintainedthe vigil in the Indiana the martyred president:;body laid in state, t/ ,,j*7. -21 3 Rasmussen, John HE KNEW LINCOLN 1 ^ JOHN RASSMUSSEN. [TRIBUNE Photo.] REMINISCENSES of Lincolnwere told to the members of theFirst Methodist Sunday school,Clark and Washington streets,yesterday by John Rassmussen. served on the Monitor inthe civil war and heard the address ofPresident Lincoln to the crew. He hasbeen librarian of the Sunday schoolfor forty-eight years and has missedfew sessions in that time. He also isan usher in the church. ^^-*-«>~yto CW-^L. \ *v*Jo-^ *. - ^^^ ) • ( RATHVOU, WM. R. I Heard Lincoln That Day at Gettysburg BECAUSE as a schoolboy I was in thelittle town of Gettysburg in Penn-sylvania some seventy-five yearsago, I am privileged to tell you toda
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