PROGRAM OF \ m .^^ JOHN W. KAPP. JR.. Mayor of Sprin-fuld ILLINOIS HISTORICAL SURVEY 977-^5-^ CITY OF ^ Springfield Illinois department of public affairs /^ f ^J'^ JOHN W. KAPP, JR. MAYOR October 18, 1937. TO THE CITIZENS OF SPRINGFIELD AND THE CENTENNIAL GUESTS: The City of Springfield is celebrating the One-Hundredth Anniversary of its establishment as the Capital City of the great State of Illinois, and at the same time paying respectful honor and homage to the illustrious Abraham Lincoln and the "Long Nine", thru whose loyal efforts this great achievement was accomplished. This five-day review of inspiring, historical and commercial accomplishment will bring to every citizen and every visitor an equally encour- aging faith in the future of our great city. It is an esteemed privilege and honor to extend cordial greetings of the city to every guest who comes to participate with us in celebrating the rich significance of this soul inspiring, historical event. I recommend attendance to the Springfield Centennial also, by the children - they have the serious responsibility of being Springfield's citizens of tomorrow. With an appreciation of Springfield's traditions of the past and the realization that in like manner the Springfield of the years to come will be the lengthened shadow of its people, I am. Sincerely yours. MAYOR We wish to express our appreciation and sincere gratitude to all those who gave so cheerfully of their time and energy toward the Springfield Centennial Celebration now being held. The untiring help of those civic spirited nnen and wonnen has contributed nnuch toward its success. JOHN W. KAPP, Jr. Mayor HARRY B. LUERS Commissioner of Accounts & Finances FREDERICK VAN HORN Commissioner of Streets & Alleys W. J. SPAULDING Commissioner of Public Works JOSEPH FIGUEIRA Commissioner of Health & Safety Two FOREWORD Not effort, this, to add more luster to a name effulgent ! Rather the thought to stress the homely, human traits, the simple, lovely deeds, that only one from nature's mold, untrammeled, could display and execute. To tongues of noted orators, to pens of scholars deep, the task assign of telling his great acts, engrossing thoughts profound. Herein the simple tale be told of one "who loved his neighbor as himself." Vague fragments from tradition and from written facts, sometimes not more than dozen words, contain a hidden story, waiting time for spreading on the page of drama. Not "pageantry" the form to use. Rather let Webster indicate the way. Read what he wrote: "An 'Epic' is a narrative in heroic form, telling the words or deeds of a national hero." Each recurring annual anniversary of the natal day of Abraham Lincoln three important organizations in the city where he rests bring speakers of world renown, who dwell upon the wonders of his mighty intellect, his statesmanship, his fame. For once a writer will, through deliberate intent, avoid e'en faint allusion to a speech, a legal scene, a national event. Great Washington upon a mount of adulation stands that far removes him from a nation's heart. Now, in unfolding of the daily life, the humble friends, the kindly acts, may Lincoln closely come to every mind within the story's range. William Dodd Chenery. Three For Over 70 Years it has been SCHUCK & SON For Lumber and Building Materials Phone CAP. 637 Looking Forward As we pause to reflect upon the progress Spring- field has made during the past one hundred years, we cannot help but look forward into the future century. What it holds in store, de- pends upon us. Just as our ancestors contributed their thoughts and energy into building the Springfield of today — so nnust we lay the founda- tion for the Springfield of tomorrow. We deem it a privilege to have contributed in our small way to the progress of Springfield, and pledge our whole-hearted cooperationtoward making the Springfield of tomorrow, the city its founders dreamed of. I1LLIS- CHALMERS • SALES AND SERVICE ^^ t our THE SPRINGFIELD CENTENNIAL ASSOCIATION The Honorable John W. Kapp, Mayor of Springfield General Chairman AJNNOUNCES PROGRAM OF EVENTS Adjutant General Carlos N. Black, Chairman of Military Events Centennial Grand Parade Thursday Night, October 21, 1937 John E. MacWherter, Chairman. Colonel John M. Tipton, Grand Marshal. ILLINOIS STATE ARSENAL Three Epic Dramas by William Dodd Chenery Creating the Capital Friday, October 22, 1937 Life of Lincoln Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, October 23, 25, 26 Spirit of Springfield - Sunday, October 24 At Eight O'clock Sharp Each Evening. LINCOLN RELIC DISPLAYS The Merchants of Springfield display Lincoln Relics in store windows during period of Celebration. CENTENNIAL JUBILEE PONTIFICAL MASS His Excellency, the Most Reverend James A. Griffin, D.D., announces a Cen- tennial Jubilee Pontifical Mass in the State Arsenal at Eleven o'clock, Sunday morning, October 24, 1937. Sermon by His Excellency, the Most Reverend Joseph Schlarman, Bishop of Peoria. Their Excellencies escorted by Knight of Saint Gregory, James A. Graham. Processional of groups n Academic Gowns includes Faculties and Student bodies of Senior Groups of the Ursuline Academy, Sacred Heart Academy, Catholic Boys High School, Springfield Junior College, Saint John's Nurses School, Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus. Wicks Organ Console — Maestro Mario Varchi, Organist of Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, and Associate Conductor of the Chicago Civic Opera Company. CENTENNIAL SUNDAY IN ALL PROTESTANT CHURCHES The Springfield Ministerial Association, by resolution passed, observe Sunday, October 24, with special services suitable for Jubilee Celebration in honor of the occasion. Committee appointed to cooperate with the Centennial Association includes: The Reverend John T. Thomas, D.D., Chairman; The Rev. A. Ray Grummon, The Reverend Hudson Pittman, The Reverend Vernon L. Shontz. Reservations for the above productions are now available at Centennial Head- quarters, 305 South Sixth Street, at any time during the day and at the Armory Box Office on the evenings of performance. Five 88 YEARS A FAVORITE BEER i !%5?ftW?5?:::??i?VSSS^ STILL GROWING IN POPULARITY AGED AND MELLOWED LONGER IN OAK CASKS REISCH BREWING CO The Pioneer Brewers In Springfield Since 1849 IN KEEPING WITH THE SPIRIT OF THE OCCASION . . . THE HOTEL ABRAHAM LINCOLN Superior Service Ample Accommodations COMPLIMENTS OF PEABODY COAL COMPANY "Mining and Selling Good Coal Since 1883" TELEPHONE MAIN 854 1 24 So. 6th St. Illinois Building SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS Six (Note: Names of group participants will be found on page following the text of the dramas.) ILLINOIS STATE ARSENAL October 22, 1937 CREATING THE CAPITAL By William Dodd Chenery PROLOGUE— THE CREATION CHARACTERS ETERNITY The Reverend W. H. Whitlock HISTORY Sidney B. Smith SPIRIT OF MUSIC Norman L. Davis SPIRIT OF LIGHT Letha Tracy CELESTIAL HOST Mildred Caskey School of Dancing (Enter L 3 Eternity bearing scroll.) (Enter R 3 History with scroll and quill.) (Stage dimly lighted. Characters followed by spotlight.) (Entrance music, Meyerbeer's Coronation March.) ETERNITY to HISTORY: I am Eternity! Before mine eyes all mortals wend their way! Long the procession; unending the dull stream That pours unheeded o'er the cliff of time Adown the deep abyss — Oblivion! My scroll is filled, O! History! Let thy clear page record events That future ages may reveal. Ere earth and sea and covering heavens were known The face of nature, o'er the world was one; And men have called it chaos; formless, rude; Dead, dead the weight, lifeless, inert and crude. HISTORY: "What caused the change? What mighty power brought order out of chaos?" ETERNITY: "In heavenly realms converse is held in notes celestial. Let Music's Spirit voice the dawn of light, the birth of earth and sea and heavens." Action: (Enter L 2 Spirit of Music as Eternity speaks the above lines. Spirit of Music advances to Eternity and History at front center.) SPIRIT OF MUSIC: (From Haydn's Creation) "In the be- ginning God created the heavens and earth and the earth was without form, void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep." CHORUS: "And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, and God said: Let there be light, and there was light!" Action: (Eternity and History move R and L, Spirit of Music departs L 2, while Chorus sings.) Tableau: (Curtains open, disclosing small stage with tableau of the Spirit of Light, standing on elevation. All available lights thrown upon tableau and full stage.) CHORUS: (From Haydn's Creation) "The Heavens are telling the glory of God, The wonders of His work displays the firmament Today that is coming, speaks it the night. The night that is gone, the following night. In all the lands resound the word. Never unperceived, ever understood." Action: (As the above chorus begins, angelic visitors enter and illustrate the music, in dancing form, making exit dur- ing last measures of the chorus.) End of Prologue Curtains close on tableau INTERLUDE Following Prologue HISTORY: A Paradise for beings created in His own image, was the home Omnipotence bestowed. Banished from Eden's garden, their numbers fill the lands wherein they dwell. Wars, famines, strivings of vain rulers are their lot. ETERNITY: Fear not, O! History! Another Paradise exists, where hills and vales, clear streams and fertile fields, vast waving forests, shelter fowl and fish and game. Where grain for mortal needs abound. Within its wide expanse it is ordained that men find peace and plenty. Freedom from bondage and despair. Let it be known as Sangamo, the other name for peace! Scene One THE SANGAMON COUNTRY First White Pioneer Early Spring— 1818 CHARACTERS ELISHA KELLEY, Hunter from North Carolina The Reverend Burd Arganbright LONE WOLF, Chief of the Chippewa Indian Tribe Leo Richards TRIBE OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS Order of Red Men and Daughters of Pocahontas TRIBE OF POTTAWATTOMIE INDIANS (Tribe of Pottawattomies cross stage from 2nd L entrance returning from hunting trip to their home near Rock River.) (Enter Elisha Kelley, sturdy hunter from North Carolina, clad in buckskin, with coonskin cap, and carrying a long Kildeer rifle.) ELISHA KELLEY: Glory! What a grand land; the land of Canaan, a Paradise, a wonder to behold! Action: (Enter R 1 tribe of Chippewa Indians, led by Lone Wolf. They raise their right hand in greeting to Kelley, and form a semi-circle back of him while Lone Wolf ad- vances with some typical Indian form of greeting.) LONE WOLF: Pale Face, what brings you to the Indian country? Seven Made In Springfield For Use By The Nation TRACTOR EQUIPMENT FOR ROADS. EARTH-MOVING AND SNOW REMOVAL HYDRAULIC BULLDOZERS ROAD ROOTERS. ROAD DISCS ROAD IvIAINTAINERS HYDRAULIC SCRAPERS ROTARY SCRAPERS SNOW PLOWS THE BAKER MANUFACTURING CO. SPRINGFIELD. ILLINOIS Making Good Equipmeni Since 1908 COMPLIMENTS OF The W. Q. O'NEALL Co. 100 Years of Progress for Springfield . . . Of Which We Have Taken Part for Twenty-five Years CAPITAL CITY PAPER COMPANY Eight KELLEY: I come from far east. My people lived in North Carolina. Messengers have told of the wonderful Illinois territory and they would like to make their home here. My name is Elisha Kelley, what is your name? LONE WOLF: The tribesmen call me Lone Wolf, not because I fight but because I keep them away from other tribes of warlike Indians. KELLEY: You speak the pale face language as though you were born among them. LONE WOLF: My parents placed me in a Mission in Detroit where the Fathers taught me all I know. KELLEY: Do your tribesmen dwell here, or do other Indians claim this as their rightful heritage? LONE WOLF: Long years ago the peaceful tribes had formed the Illini Federation. Then they were driven away by covetous Iroquois and formed their last abode upon the mighty rock that now is known as "Starved Rock." KELLEY: Are they still there, and why was it called Starved Rock? LONE WOLF: A revengeful Indian bribed a member of the Illini tribe with whiskey to kill a rival Indian chief called "Pontiac," whose friends surrounded the rock and starved the remnant of the Illini tribe, four times twelve moons ago, or as pale face say, eight and forty year. No Indians now dwell in all the Sangamon region, only hunters like ourselves, pass through and stop a while be- cause it is the finest place in all the land. KELLEY: Since that is so, I will return and bring my family and friends to make their home in this wonderful Paradise. LONE WOLF: Paradise, is that what you said? Paradise? That is what tribal tradition tells us it was called twelve times twelve moons ago, or what the pale face calls 1673, by the Father, called Marquette, the first white man ever known to visit here. KELLEY: Now I will hurry home and bring my friends. LONE WOLF: No. not hurry, tarry with us until you resl. Venison, grain and fish we will give you. We camp near yonder spring. So far as Indian tradition recalls, this land has been called "Sangamo," in Indian language. In Pale Face tongue that would mean "Peace." I call you friend. Come! Action: (AH move off stage through various entrances, left.^ INTERLUDE Following Scene 1 ETERNITY: Great the rejoicing in the country home of Henry Kelley of North Carolina when his favorite youngest son, Elisha, returned with the glowing account of the earthly Paradise at the heart of the Illinois country. Great trains of covered wagons were loaded with the favorite belong- ings of the large household. The extensive lands were divided among the five sons, and to each of the two daugh- ters were given three slaves. HISTORY: Why were lands given to the men and slaves to the women? ETERNITY: Unwilling to spread slavery in free territory, the sons refused the slaves and in their stead Henry Kelley divided his land among them. The daughters preferred the slaves as they relieved them of domestic burdens. All other slaves were given their freedom by Mr. Kelley. HISTORY: That glowing record here I will jengross. (Ap- parently writing upon scroll as he speaks.) Behold they come! The first settlers of this earthly Paradise. (Eternity and History return to concealed seats.) Scene Two THE FIRST SETTLERS Spring of 1819 (Arrival of Kelley family and friends.) CHARACTERS HENRY KELLEY, from Rutherford County, North Carolina Waldo Ackerman SUSAN, his wife Susan Root His Sons: JOHN John Coocan ELIJAH Harold Walker WILLIAM WooDROw Leach GEORGE Ralph Hicks ELISHA (Bachelor) The Reverend Burd Arganbright His daughters: ABIGAIL Betty Bradley ZILPHA (wife of Andrew Elliott) ..Mrs. Frances Bradley ANDREW ELLIOTT (Henry Kelley's son-in-law) ...Paul Craig MARY, wife of John Lois Hardbarger MARTHA, wife of William Mrs. Brusek HANNAH, wife of George Mrs. Gertrude Buoy Children of John Kelley: JACK KELLEY (age 9 years) Jack Dean ALICE KELLEY (age 7 years) Lucy Gietl Neighbors of Kelley in North Carolina: JACOB ELLIS John La Feure LEVI ELLIS Bernard Combs SLAVE Mrs. Paul Craig Action: The members of the group bringing in household utensils, apparently from covered wagon. The slaves singing. HENRY: "Lish! Providence surely must have guided you to this Paradise. That is what you called it when you came back home to us in North Carolina, but we could not pos- sibly have visualized the beauty of this spot. John, look over yonder in the grove at the deer; we'll have plenty of venison around here." ELISHA: This has been the 'Happy hunting ground' of Indian tribes for countless generations. All of the wild game, bear, deer, squirrels, and sometimes even buffalo, come to the pure waters of the streams in this Paradise, and have never yet been startled by sound of fire arms. JACK: "Daddy, look at that flock of quail running along! There is a lame one, I believe I can catch that one." JOHN: "Didn't you ever see a lame quail before? That is the mother trying to lead hunters away from the nest. When you come close she can fly as well as any of the rest." ELISHA: I think we had better set traps for quail, prairie chickens, and wild turkeys, so that they will not be fright- ened away by the sound of shooting. MARY: "Well, I am hungry and I know the rest of you must be after the long trip. Elijah, while you are feeding the horses, Martha, Hannah and I will prepare the supper." SUSAN: "This camping out is a new experience for all of you, my children. All of us now will have to take a hand and learn to wait on ourselves. We have been so used to being waited on back in North Carolina that this new life may make us more self reliant. We will learn to forage for what we eat." Nine STUART BROADWELL CO. Northwest Cor. Square Springfield, III. Prescription Druggist Phones, Main 404, 670, and 669 GILBERT'S & BAUER'S FAMOUS CANDIES SODAS -:- PERFUMES -:- CIGARS Springfield's 1 00th Year Celebration Our 72nd Year MONTGOMERY WARD AND COMPANY COMPLIMENTS PANTHER CREEK MINES, INC. Phone Main 8044 Retail Office, 507 E. Monroe COMPLIMENTS OF BARKER GOLDMAN LUBIN CO. Lumber — Building Material Ten WILLIAM: "George, let's see if we can find some dry twigs and branches in the woods to make a fire for supper." (William and George depart L 2.) ALICE: (Who had disappeared in the woods, running back) "Oh, Daddy! There is the nicest spring coming over the rocks by that little hill." JACOB: "I'll go down and bring a bucketful of water for the coffee." LEVI: "No trouble to bring back a brace of partridges from over yonder." (Leaves R 1.) HENRY: "If we are to live around here, there ought to be some name for this place." ALICE: "Oh, why don't you call it for the spring over there? Why don't you call it 'Spring'?" SUSAN : "There is such a nice field over yonder, along that Indian trail, where we can build our cabins without cutting down any of those forest trees. There should be something about that in the name." ALICE: (Clapping hands) Grandma." 'Oh, let's give it two names, HANNAH: "Why, Alice, what do you mean, two names? How can a town have two names?" ALICE: "We can call it 'Spring,' which is my choice, and 'Field' to please Grandma." LEVI: (Returning from hunting, holding up bag) Was able to get three partridges, we can all have a bite. ANDREW ELLIOTT: (Who has been helpful to the women in arranging for the supper, turning to one of the negro servants) You take that bag of partridges over there and dress them so that we can cook them right away. Before another meal we will have time to search through the forest and find nuts, and fruits, many kinds, perhaps that we never saw before. But let's get busy. Hannah, why haven't you put out the dishes? Action: (William and George return with brush and branches which they pile at back center of stage. The women bring kitchen utensils.) HANNAH: William, go fetch a cloth to spread on the ground for supper. .MARTHA: Thank goodness, we have found a place to camp, so we won't have to pack the things in the wagon every time we move. LEVI: (Returning with bucket of water) This is the clearest, coolest water that I ever tasted. HENRY: That will be just the baptismal water to use in christening this wonderful spot, where we hope to live and nrosper. Let's use the name the children suggested. Every- body take a cup and we will all say together before we drink — Spring-Field. Action: (All assemble back stage, each taking cup or gourd, dipping up from bucket as they pass around it, forming semi- circle around bucket, Henry Kellev in front of others. All raise cups in unison, led by Henry Kelley. Three times they sav heartily: "Springfield! Springfield! Springfield!", holding tableau till center stage curtains close.) SECOND INTERLUDE Following Scene 2 HISTORY: Happy indeed this company of settlers! Together contentedly they dwell! Why should there be so little strife among them? ETERNITY: Unlike the earlier period of settlement of the western country, when sturdy hunters from wild mountain districts brought their unlettered groups, the paradise of the Sangamon country enticed enterprising, educated, brilliant, and ambitious young men and young women, eager to escape the shackles of the older communities of the east. Swiftly they come! The growth of community needs demands industrial and business development, and now you will behold the arrival of the first merchant to supply the pressing needs. From Kentucky comes a youth, Elijah lies. Action: (Eternity and History return to station.) Curtains parted, showing full stage. SPRINGFIELD— THE FIRST STORE 1821 CHARACTERS ELISHA KELLEY Burd Arcanbricht ELIJAH ILES, Age 25 Tom Collier LEVI CANTRALL George Arbuckle CHARLES R. MATHENY, Age 35 Tom Robinson DR. GERSHOM JAYNE, Age 30 Kenneth Allen HENRY JAMES, Age 26 Eden Nicholas ARCHER HERNDON John Raber MRS. ARCHER HERNDON Kay Millin WILLIE HERNDON, Age 3 Herbert Craig MALINDA BENJAMIN, Fiancee of Elijah lies ...Virginia Neale Action: (Enter Charles Matheny and Dr. Jayne, L 3 conversing.) MATHENY: Too bad for you. Doctor Jayne, that this is such a healthy country. Guess you are not getting many calls, are you, just now? JAYNE: Indeed I am. Lots of people having fever and ague. Nobody seems to know why, but it must be from the freshly plowed ground. But how about you, Charles? Anybody wanting any law matters straightened out? MATHENY: Well, the people living around here are most of them pretty good friends, but there are certainly a lot of new settlers wanting to enter lands and giving me all the work I can do preparing abstracts and titles and deeds. Action: (Enter R 2 Levi Cantrall.) CANTRALL: Hello, Matheny. Doc, how are you coming? Haven't seen a stranger around here today, have you? MATHENY: Oh, everything is just fine here, Cantrall, new folks coming in every day and the town is growing. Who are you looking for? CANTRALL: I came over from my farm along Fancy Creek to meet a young man named Elijah lies, I used to know in Pennsylvania. He wants to settle out here and open a general store and he would like to come over to our town of Cantrall because there are so many more people there than there are in your little village of Springfield. JAYNE: If he comes while we are around, let's try and per- suade him to settle here in Springfield. We certainly need a general store badly. Have to go all around the country to buy things. CANTRALL: I rather he did come here instead of settling over in our town because I have some boys growing up and where there is a trading post a rough gang collects. To say the truth I don't want to raise my boys in a big city like they become if there are many stores. (Enter L 1 Elisha Kelley, Archer Herndon, Mrs. Archer Herndon, holding Willie by the hand and Malinda Benjamin.) Elet ERNEST L SCHAFER Wholesale Dealer ANHEUSER-BUSCH PRODUCTS BUDWEISER ^^^J 102 E.Jefferson St., Springfield, Tel. Main 3460 HATCHER -JOSEPH, Inc, DODGE and PLYMOUTH Dealers 217-219 South 7th St. Main 3507 Spring-field, Cong ra + ula + ions Springfield! Sears Begins Another Half Century of Value- Giving . . . On Your lOOth BIRTHDAY SEARS, ROEBUCK & GO. 621 East Adams St. Chech yOVRADVERnSING FOR Hf SUITS mn^ HAHN-RODENBURG CO. SPRINGFIELD. ILLINOIS individually Designed ^evfspaper Jidvertising Service Compliments of FORD HOPKINS CO. World's Finest Drug Stores COMPLIMENTS OF SPRINGFIELD ELECTROTYPE CO, Roscoe Zeigler KIRLIN & EGAN Funeral Home Phones: MAIN 364; CAPITOL 364 Twelve MATHENY: Good morning, 'Lish! You see, Cantrall, Elisha Kelley was the first white man to lay eyes on the Sangamo country, and we want him in on everything we undertake. CANTRALL: Kelley, being a bachelor, has more time than some of us to look after public things, but just wait till some pretty girl, out fishing, catches him on her hook. Mrs. Hern- don, your Willie has grown a lot since the last time I saw him. Miss Benjamin, you're looking right chipper today. MRS. HERNDON: Yes, he now travels about sometimes with his father, when Mr. Herndon makes short trips. HERNDON: Well, fellows: 'Top of the morning to you.' Glad to see Cantrall here because I want to know about having a lot of skins of animals tanned. MATHENY: Doc, how in the world do you suppose Cantrall looks after all his affairs? You know he has the biggest tannery anywhere in the west, and then he has built a grist mill with a wheel forty feet in diameter, run by horse power, and people from thirty and forty miles around take their corn to him to be ground. Then on Cantrall Creek he has a water mill where they saw logs as well as grind corn. HENRY JAMES : Well ! Cantrall isn't the only man around here conducting extensive operations. Just imagine. Arch Herndon running a tavern and at the same time gallivanting around the country buying and selling stock. HERNDON: It's about the stock business that I want to consult Cantrall. I have been shipping dressed beef by way of Beardstown and I have a lot of hides that I want to have tanned. CANTRALL: Well, Herndon, I can take care of all the hides you bring. I have just finished building a lot of wooden vats in which we soak the skins for six months in a solution of ground tan bark and water, then I built some other tubs where we rinse them in a lime solution, which makes it easy to remove the hair. After they are cured, I will pack them and send them in ox carts up to the settlement in the north and have them traded off for you. MRS. HERNDON: By the way. Archer, you have been talking about going to New Salem for some time to buy some stock from Bennet Abel, who lives on the big farm near there. Why can't he send his hides over to Levi Cantrall at the same time? WILLIE: Oh! Daddy, take me down there when you go. Mrs. Rutledge always makes such good doughnuts. CANTRALL: There he comes! Look over the hill, that's my friend, Elijah lies. Action: (As lies enters, various members of the Kelley settle- ment people, enter and move backward and forward on the back of the stage, greeting each other as ordinary passers-by would do.) Action: (Enter Elijah lies.) CANTRALL: Well, everybody is looking for you 'Lige'. Each of the women folks here have a list a yard long of things they want to buy when you get your store open. Mrs. Hern- don, this is Elijah lies. Miss Benjamin, Elijah lies. (Note: Miss Benjamin later married Elijah lies.) ILES: Howdy, Levi! Why do these people think I am to have a store here? I want to put it over in your town of Cantrall, which is so much bigger. MALINDA BENJAMIN: Oh! Mr. lies, do have your store here. All our men folks think about is hunting, trapping, fishing and raising grain and we have to go to Beardstown or some where else for anything we want. ILES: All right. Miss Benjamin, I believe I will settle down here. Where do you think would be the best place for me to build my store? Where could I get logs, Mr. Kelley? ELISHA KELLEY: There is a good, smooth plot just east of my brother John's cabin, and right along the old Indian trail that has been our main guide in building the cabins. ILES: But where will we get the logs? Do you know, Mr. James? HENRY JAMES: There are some fine oak trees over there beyond the creek that will be plenty long enough. You can make a store room 18 feet square with those logs. Why wouldn't the new store be a good headquarters for a post office? CANTRALL: The logs for the doors and window frames and shelves can be sawed at my water mill. ARCHER HERNDON: Well, folks, all of you come down to my cabin and we'll celebrate with some cider, and fixings that Mrs. Herndon can dig out. Action: (Mr. and Mrs. Herndon conduct Cantrall and Elijah lies off stage R 2 followed to R by assembly in little groups, con- versing.) THIRD INTERLUDE Following Scene 3 HISTORY: Fortunate indeed the younger generation of this ambitious town. Mothers of culture gather around their knees young students, whose ideals they seek to guide. ETERNITY: Long have they desired a leader able to impart true facts. Logs have been hewn; a cabin built where will be opened the first school in all the Sangamo country. A teacher comes, one Andrew Orr. HISTORY: A prophecy I make! 'Tis this: the wheel of time will transform the school grounds into a burying place. One Hutchinson, here will place all who cross Death's threshold. Once more the revolving wheel of time, generations later, will disclose a temple of learning, the modern Springfield High School, on this same site. THE FIRST SCHOOL HOUSE 1821 Action: (Full stage and small stage showing exterior of school house.) CHARACTERS ANDREW ORR Gordon Ickes ROBERT PULLIAM Harry Grubb SAM PULLIAM, Son of Robert Wayne Cogmbs SARAH PULLIAM, Daughter of Robert Recina Coogan WILLIAM DRENNAN Max Gardner FREDERICK, Son of William Granville Helm ZACHARIAH PETERS Paul Craig JOHN KELLEY John Coocan ALICE KELLEY Lucy Gietl JACK KELLEY Jack Dean ARCHER HERNDON John Rarer MRS. ARCHER HERNDON Elizabeth Schreiber WILLIE HERNDON Herbert Craig CHARLES R. MATHENY Tom Robinson MRS. CHARLES R. MATHENY Acnes McLaughlin JAMES MATHENY, Son of Charles Herbert Craig Thirteen ILLINOIS FOUNDRY CO, Grey Iron Castings 20 Years' Experience 1917 -:- -:- -:- 1937 OUR NEW 1938 CHEVROLET IS NOW ON DISPLAY SAVE WITH A CHEVROLET WmnsJliihe^ToUtio. Inc. 413 So. 4th M. 3080 Plant Located East of Bunn Park Tel. Capitol 1898 SPRINGFIELD CLAY PRODUCTS COMPANY Manufacturers of HARD BURNED SHALE DRAIN TILE, BACKUP, LOAD-BEARING AND PARTITION TILE. COMMON BRICK SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS COMPLIMENTS OF ILLINOIS SOY PRODUCTS CO. WHITE SWAN LAUNDRY COMPLIMENTS OF BENJAMIN S. DEBOICE PROBATE JUDGE Sangamon County Illinois PROBATE CLERK'S OFFICE L. E. BIRD w. D. HOYT GLADYS EVANS MILDRED HALL WM . YATES FRANCIS HARTMAN Burkhard+'s Drug Store Registered Pharmacist Finest Foods -:- Excellent Service S. W. Corner 4th at Monroe COMPLIMENTS OF THE OFFICE OF STATE'S ATTORNEY of SANGAMON COUNTY Fourteen HERNDON: Good morning, John Kelley, this is certainly a day to be remembered. At last our children will have a chance to learn 'Readin', 'Ritin', and 'Rithmetic' according to the new fangled ways of teaching. KELLEY: It will be a great satisfaction to me, Mr. Herndon. My children now have no mother and I have little time to teach them. Look! Yonder come the County commissioners, Zachariah Peters and William Drennan with their children. Action: (Enter Peters and Drennan with their children L 4.) KELLEY: Mighty glad to see you, Mr. Peters (shaking hands), and you too, Mr. Drennan. PETERS: We have come a long way to bring our children in, but it's well worth driving through the mud. My little girl could hardly wait for school to begin. DRENNAN: I brought my boy this morning, and there are more in the neighborhood who want to come but I thought I had better find out how much room there will be in the school before we crowded too many in. There comes Andrew Orr, the new teacher, now. He must have slept pretty late this morning after the long journey he took yesterday to get here. (Enter Mr. Orr) Howd'y! Mr. Orr. ORR: Good morning. Very glad to see so many of you are interested in the opening of our school. I have heard that Springfield people want their children well instructed, and I will do my best to teach them. Action: (Enter Robert PuUiam, with boy and girl.) PULLIAM: I am sorry to be so late. As I have met all the rest of these people before, I presume you are the school teacher, Mr. Orr. My name is Robert Pulliam, and it may interest you to know that I was the first white man to build a cabin in all Sangamo county. Several other families have settled near my home on Sugar Creek, and will send their children later. I understand that the location for the school was decided upon because it is the highest hill around this settle- ment, and after a rain the ground dries quickly. Then too, it has such wonderful forest trees to shade the children's play ground. (Enter Charles R. Matheny, Mrs. Matheny, with small boy.) JOHN KELLEY: Well, Mr. Pulliam, don't feel bad because you were late. Mr. and Mrs. Matheny live right here in the settle- ment and are tardier than you, who drove in from Sugar Creek. MRS. MATHENY: You can understand how it is, Mrs. Herndon. I churned at least twenty minutes this morning and the butter just wouldn't come. (Mr. Orr presented to the new comers.) MRS. HERNDON: Willie, here already knows his letters and can spell some words. Don't give him any long words that are too hard to spell. ORR: Well, suppose we take the children inside and give them their places. MRS. MATHENY: I hope you don't mind, Mr. Orr, if my little girl does her patchwork during recess. Every day she ought to do her stint. (Hands bag of patchwork to her child.) KELLEY: You will find the benches, made out of split logs, are hard, and the desks are only rough boards, but we will bring in our planes and smooth them off a little better very soon. Action : (All move toward school. Curtains of small stage close.) End of Scene FOURTH INTERLUDE Following Scene 4 ETERNITY: Quickly two years roll by. The little one family settlement spreads along the Indian Trail. Growing import- ance of the mid-Illinois paradise required the opening of a land office, where no town had yet been surveyed or platted. The President of the United States, James Monroe, appointed Pascal P. Enos of Connecticut, Receiver in charge of an office for the Springfield district. HISTORY : My records now will assume historical importance. Fortunate indeed, this settlement, that it becomes a village, guided by trained supervision. SPRINGFIELD SURVEYED STORE OF ELIJAH ILES November 7, 1823 CHARACTERS ELIJAH ILES Tom Collier PASCAL E. ENOS Maurice Gardner PETER CARTWRIGHT, M. E. Missionary George Arbuckle JOHN TAYLOR Clark Barnes THOMAS COX Samuel Smith JOHN WILLIAMS, Clerk for Elijah lies Eden Nicholas JAMES C. STEPHENSON, a Surveyor Max Gardner DR. MERRIMAN John Merano CHARLES R. MATHENY Tom Robinson DR. GERSHOM JAYNE Kenneth Allen ARCHER HERNDON John Raber JOHN KELLEY John Coogan TOM BROWN, Assistant Surveyor Harry Brown Action: (Full stage, curtains open, disclosing small stage, show- ing interior of store of Elijah lies.) (Elijah lies standing at side of counter, John Williams behind it. At other end of counter Pascal Enos, Archer Herndon and Peter Cartwright.) ILES: Rev. Cartwright, that was a powerful sermon you preached today, and our people around here are hoping that before long we have some regular preacher come to stay with us. There is no church where he could preach but he certainly would be welcome to use my store. CARTWRIGHT: This seems to be a God-fearing community, Mr. lies, it will prosper. Some day you will have a regular church and services. I would like to stay here myself but it has been ordained that my life will be spent carrying the gospel to all the quarters of the country. Action: (Enter L 1 James C. Stephenson, the surveyor with Charles R. Matheny.) MATHENY: Good morning, Elijah lies. How is your clerk, John Williams, coming along? ILES: Oh, John is a fine boy, Mr. Matheny, I am thinking of selling out to him and let him run the store. Who is this you brought with you? MATHENY: This is the surveyor, James Stephenson, who has come to lay out the town for us. What a wonderful thing it was that President Monroe sent Pascal Enos to be the Receiver in the land office. None of us had thought anything about laying out the town, or naming a street, or entering the land. Mr. Stephenson, this is Mr. lies, this is his clerk, John Wil- liams, and this is Archer Herndon, who runs the Indian Queen Tavern. Fifteen Compliments of JOHN A. WIELAND State Superintendent of Public Instruction SEVENTY-ONE YEARS Serving the People of Springfield and Vicinity From a small beginning in 1866 we have grown fo the Herndons you know today QUALITY MERCHANDISE AT REASONABLE PRICES is the foundation upon which this store was built and will be followed in the future as in the past :::::: 1866-1937 HERNDONS For 30 Years We Have Sold BUICK AUTOMOBILES See our display — showing a 1908 Buick and the New 1938 Models SPRINGFIELD BUICK Co. A. H. Penewi+t Second and Monroe Paul S. Penewitt Main 8660 Grows With Springfield The Williamson Press H. L WILLIAMSON, President 219 South Fourth Street Main 395 Sixteen STEPHENSON: Howd'y! Gentlemen. Action: (All greet Stephenson, with handshakes or other man- ner,) HERNDON: We did not need a name for a street. When the Kelleys first came here, they built their cabins .ilong the smooth prairies bordering the old Indian trail, and all of us have been calling it Indian Trail. Action: (Enter R 1 Gershom Jayne, John Taylor. Enter L 3 Dr. Merriman, Thomas Cox and John Kelley, greetings ex- changed, mentioning names, as Matheny introduces them to Stephenson.) ILES: Well, the group seems to be here now, so we will ask Mr. Enos to tell us what he has in mind. ENOS: The most important thing now will be to divide up this section of land into four quarters, and four of you citizens each enter a quarter in your own names. Mr. lies, who would you suggest to take over these quarters? ILES: Why, Mr. Enos, you ought to take one of them, you know more about these things than any of the rest and you are a representative of President Monroe. John Taylor, here, is one of our first settlers, and Thomas Cox. They are not only about to look after it but are able to make the down payment of $1.25 an acre, that mav be necessary. I am willing to take one of the sections myself. COX: What would be the starting point of the quarter section? ENOS: A suitable place is the stake that was driven to show the location for the government post office, and then the section will be divided into four quarters. ILES: Suppose I take Section Number 1, which would be the northeast part, and Mr. Enos, you have yours adjacent to mine, you taking the northwest section, Mr. Cox taking Number 3, and Mr. Taylor taking the fourth. DR. MERRIMAN: There has to be a legal name for this town after you get it laid out. It has been called Newsomville part of the time. TAYLOR: Well, you know the joke on that. Some of the people that don't like us call it "Nuisanceville". KELLEY: Most of us have been calling it Spring Field. Father named it after the spring that starts down there on my farm and we are used to that name. JAYNE: I have great admiration for that splendid statesman, John Calhoun of South Carolina, and that name has been used as the Post office name for this locality. The commis- sioners who selected the county seat four years ago chose that name. WILLIAMS : You can call it that if vou want to, but everybody will keep on calling it Spring Field. ENOS: Time and custom will decide the permanent name. WILLIAMS: Now that you talk about names, what shall we call the streets? JAYNE: There is so much fine forest around these parts, why not give the streets the names of the trees, and call them "Oak", "Sycamore" and "Elm", etc. ENOS: Gentlemen, I have a suggestion to make to you. Now that we are forming a new town, why not adopt the names of the Presidents of the United States as the names for the streets, and the first perfectly straight, fine street should be named Washington, after the first president, and the numbers of the lots should be started from that street to north and south. COX: Why don't you use the Indian Trail for the first street? ENOS: That is a street with a bend in it, following the old Indian path. It could be the second one. Suppose we call the first one Washington, and then the one south of it, another perfectly straight street, Adams, and then jump back north of Washington to Indian Trail and call it Jefferson, then back south for Monroe. WILLIAMS: The plan you have been showing us calls for another street north of Jefferson. ENOS: Madison, one of the most popular men in all the United States at this time, and who was almost unanimously elected, when president, will have that honor. TAYLOR: Should there not be some different way of describing our sections? ILES: Why not call mine in the Northeast corner, the First Ward; and Pascal Enos' west of mine, the Second Ward, and John Taylor's the Third Ward, the southwest corner, and Thomas Cox' the Fourth Ward in the southeast corner. ENOS: We might as well start surveying and know where we stand. We will start at the very western edge of the settle- ment and lay out First Street running north and south. No one will ever build homes beyond that. Then we will number the next street east from that Second Street, and so on. TAYLOR: About how many lots will there be in the central blocks, Mr. Stephenson? STEPHENSON: Some of the blocks will each have sixteen lots. ENOS: By the way, Mr. Stephenson, we have been discussing how much you should be paid for laying out this ground, and have decided we will give you block 21 as your pay. STEPHENSON: That will be all right with me, and right now I want to make an offer to Dr. Merriman here. I am very fond of dogs and I will give him a quarter of my block, four full lots, for his pointer dog. MERRIMAN: Well! I should say not! I would not trade this dog for your whole block, much less one quarter of it. STEPHENSON: Well, let's go down to First Street and start our surveying. Action: (All move from the stage to the right in little groups, except Elijah lies and John Williams, who remain in the store, as curtains to small stage are closing.) (Note: The quarter block for which Dr. Merriman refused to trade his pointer dog is that on which stands the present First National Bank, South to Monroe, and from Fourth to Fifth Streets.) FIFTH INTERLUDE Following Scene 5 ETERNITY: Place in thy record. History, the strange act of nature that covered all the region with deep blanket of snow. More marked the freak of weather because till Christ- mas eve that year of 1830 there has been no breath of chill. Green was the grass; budding the fruit bearing trees. Softly fell the snow; merrily laughed the children with their sleds. Little knew the settlers of the hardships facing them that winter^ that came to be known as "The Winter of the Deep Snow." Within five days the snow was five feet deep through all the central west. Deeper, deeper it drifted. Terrific winds, with twenty degrees below zero cold weather, blew almost constantly. People could not reach their wood piles. The suffering from cold and hunger was indescribable. HISTORY: My record reads here that Pascal Enos used his strong oxen, cut trees near his cabin and hauled wood to the community. ETERNITY: When the winter had passed and the warm sun of spring melted the snow, rivers and creeks became raging torrents. Before the snow had come, the family of Thomas Lincoln from Kentucky had buiU a log cabin on the bluff of the Sangamon river, seven miles northwest of Decatur. The son, Abraham, his cousin, Dennis Hanks, and step-brother. Seventeen John Johnston, split rails to enclose a field. The deep waters encouraged the hope that large ships might come up the Sangamon river, hopes destined to be of short duration. The Ship, the "Talisman", came up the river near Springfield; the waters subsided; the ship could not turn around and had to back down the Sangamon. PLANNING THE JUBILEE CELEBRATION OF THE ARRIVAL OF THE FIRST STEAMBOAT UP THE RIVER 1832 CHARACTERS ELIJAH ILES, Chairman of the Meeting Charles Bottorff WILLIAM PORTER, Secretary John P. Kinsley WASHINGTON ILES Peter J. Welch E. D. TAYLOR Raymond A. Byers T. M. NEALE E. F. Benning Committee to Meet the Boat THOMAS MOFFETT A. T. Oswald GERSHOM JAYNE W. A. Steiger D. DICKERSON Edwabd Lucasey Committee to Solicit Funds for Celebration JAMES RUTLEDGE Wm. J. Mungall BENNET ABEL Lawrence Melton DENTON OFFUT Henry Sokolis ABRAHAM LINCOLN F. W. Raymond Delegates from New Salem SIMEON FRANCIS, Editor Sangamo Journal John Walsh JOHN T. STUART Clifford Harvey DR. JOHN TODD Charles A. Nokris PETER VAN BERGEN William Wallner ERASTUS WRIGHT Raymond J. Campbell PASCAL ENOS A. W. McKnight ZIMRI ENOS, Son of Pascal, aged 10 years Donald Kinsley ARCHER HERNDON Carl J. Giordano JOHN ROLL Patsy Gentile Action: (Enter LI lies. Porter, Washington lies, E. D. Taylor, T. M. Neale, Thomas Moffetl, Gershom Jayne, D. Dickerson and Archer Herndon.) (Enter L 2 John Todd, Peter Van Bergen, Erastus Wright.) f Enter L 3 John T. Stuart, Pascal Enos and son Zimri, and John Roll.) ILES: We must have a table for the use of the Secretary, at this meeting. William Porter, as you are secretary, take Erastus Wright and Peter Van Bergen and go in the court house and bring out a chair and table. Action: (Porter, Van Bergen, and Wright bring in table and chair, placing them center of stage. Enter Rutledge. Abel, Offut, and Lincoln Rl.) JAYNE: Here come the delegates from New Salem. Didn't think you could possibly get here. Mud so deep on the roads everywhere since the thawing of the deep snow. Come over here, we want you to meet John T. Stuart, who has recently come from Kentucky. Mr. Stuart, shake hands with James Rutledge who has the tavern down at New Salem, and this is our good friend, Bennet Abel, who raises stock down there, where Herndon gets so many hides to tan. RUTLEDGE: Want you to know Denton Offut who is going to establish a general store over in New Salem. The women folks will be decorating themselves all up in finery after he opens up. ^ OFFUT: I am feeling mighty lucky about one thing. I wanted a flat boat to go down the river and ship things to New Orleans. This lad here, Abraham Lincoln, has had lots of experience taking flat boats up and down other rivers. LINCOLN: Well, I couldn't build it single handed, but there are a couple of good helpers I can get that were not able to come over with me today. One is my cousin, Dennis Hanks, and the other is my half brother, John Johnston. ROLL: Lincoln, my name is John Roll and I am needing some work just now, can't you let me help you build that flat boat? LINCOLN: Mighty glad to have you help us, Mr. Roll, it is going to be a big job because Offut is in a hurry to have his goods get to New Orleans. He will pay us each 60 cents a day and a bonus of S50 beside. ABEL: Offut, while the boat is going down to New Orleans, why can't I ship a lot of skins to St. Louis? OFFUT: All right, Bennet Abel. Action: (Enter the members of all preceding casts, except the Indians, some of the villagers carrying fiddles and other musical instruments, in little groups R and L 3 and 4, greet- ing each other and forming groups at the sides and back of the stage behind the table.) ILES: (Pounding on the table with a gourd) Time to call the meeting to order. Secretary William Porter, read the minutes of the last meeting. PORTER: (Reads) "At a meeting called to arrange plans for the reception of the steamer Talisman at Portland, north of Springfield on the Sangamon river, it was planned that the following committee be appointed: Committee to meet the boat and invite its owner, Vincent A. Bogue, and its Captain, J. W. Pollock, to visit Springfield, as follows: Washington lies, E. D. Taylor and T. N. Neale. Action: (As each name is called that person steps forward. This committee will move from the right of the stage toward the center while the following committee will move from the left toward the center of the stage.) Committee to solicit funds for the celebration: Thomas Moffett, Gershom Jayne, and D. Dickerson. MOFFETT: Before beginning solicitation the committee would like to have some idea of the amount of the fund needed. ILES: There won't be any difficulty raising all the funds you want, because the making of Springfield a seaport witli its outlet up here on the river at Portland, great prosperity will attend all Sangamon county. It is proposed that out of the funds left over from the Jubilee celebration. S2.000 be set aside to clear the Sangamon river from Beardstown to Port- land of fallen trees, over-hanging grape vines, and sycamore branches so that the next steamer coming up the river will not require helpers to clear the passage. VAN BERGEN: Well, I know all about just what a job that is. A number of us men went down to Beardstown and came bark with them. We certainly had to use our axes, and Erastus Wright here, sprained his wrist pulling a big log out of the way. (Cloth wrapped around Wright's left wrist.) Eighteen ZIMRI ENOS: Daddy, what was that story you were telling us about Mr. Wright's elk? ENOS: You know Erastus Wright has the only ferry up here at Peoria on the Illinois River, and two years ago he traded eighty acres of land on the other side of the river for a large elk, twice as big as a deer, and very dignified, that had been trained to be ridden 'elk-back' and to draw a cart, so that he can drive between the Illinois River and Springfield. It was called "Wa-pi-ti" by the Indians. The elk did not mind very much being ridden 'elk-back', but felt insulted when hitched in harness. One day Mr. Wright drove him up to the grist mill and the elk was hitched to the machinery to turn the wheel. It felt so insulted that it kicked loose from the harness and tore across the town toward its pen, men and boys shouting and the dogs barking after it. WRIGHT: (Interrupting) Bless my soul! that beast of mine is a born abolitionist; certainly has no use for slavery! FRANCIS: Mr. Chairman, Elijah lies. ILES: Mr. Francis. FRANCIS: I have torn a page out of my Sangamo Journal of last week which has an advertisement about this ship coming up the river, which I would like to read. ILES: Go ahead, Mr. Francis. FRANCIS: (Reading) The splendid upper-cabin steamer, the Talisman, Captain J. M. Pollock, will leave for Portland on the Sangamon River near Springfield, via Louisville, St. Louis and Beardstown, on Thursday, February 22nd. For freight or passage, apply to Vincent A. Bogue, Broadway hotel, Cincinnati. NEALE: Well, it's here now at Portland, and lies, you and Taylor and I better get going if we are to bring them down here for the celebration. ABEL: Mr. Chairman, Springfield and New Salem will now become ports for ocean-going ships and ought to become great cities. WRIGHT: This is the first year that any boat has ever been able to come up the Sangamon river. Don't you realize that it was the melting of the deep snow a year ago that filled the ground with water and has kept the streams up where they seem like mighty rivers? Even the Indians have no record of any such storm before. LINCOLN : The snow was just as deep over near Decatur where we built our cabin last summer, and the women folks couldn't leave the place for weeks. I have handled flat boats on the Ohio river and other places and I am very sure that the Sangamon will always be deep enough for big ships. Some day, perhaps, it will seem important enough to the govern- ment for them to straighten out the river. There is one place where by cutting across with a canal they could save seventy- five miles, by getting rid of the bend in its course. ENOS: I am wondering if everybody else here feels as uneasy as I do about the trouble among the Indians being stirred up by Black Hawk. STUART: I am so sure that there will be trouble, that I have started organizing a military company. OFFUT: New Salem is getting up a company too and there is a good deal of competition as to who will be the Captain. Some of the boys want to elect Lincoln as their Captain. LINCOLN: Shucks! The only one reason I would be willing to run would be to put it over on Kirkpatrick, who wants to be Captain. He cheated me out of pay for work I did for him. STUART: Well, if trouble starts, Lincoln, we will try and have our companies back each other up to the limit. HERNDON: Suppose we all go down to my tavern, the Indian Queen, have some cider and drink the health of Ship Master Bogue and Captain Pollock. STUART: With those fellows over there having their fiddles, and with all this big crowd around here, we have more room right here on the court house grounds than we would have in the Tavern. I would like to see one of the old-time jigs that I hear you people like to dance. Action: (Musicians apparently play while jig is danced, the people standing around clapping hands to the time of the music, jovially interested.) HERNDON: Well, my wife told me to bring you people over to the Inn, so we better go or she will be disappointed. Action: (All move off stage various entrances as R. William Porter, Van Bergen and Wright remove table and chair.) SIXTH INTERLUDE Following Scene 6 ETERNITY: Relate once more, O! History, the story of the Temples of the Law. Throughout the vast expanse of Illinois' fair realm, peace, quiet, order and prosperity prevail. 'Tis not by chance. Wise guidance, legally devised, alone could bring this happy consummation. HISTORY: Ere first the eyes of white men revelled in beholding Illinois' abundant bounties, dwelt red men here, Kaskaskias their name. Smoked they the pipe of peace; gave counsel to young braves. 'Twas to Kaskaskians Father Marquette brought knowledge of things celestial. More than a century and a half it was capital for Indian tribes, and for following governors of territorial lands of Virginia. There a temple of uncut limestone became the first capitol. There the State government was organized. ETERNITY: All law and order must be based upon written constitution. The mightiest nation History has known, Amer- ica, exists because wise founders laid a corner stone of an imperishable constitution. In the year 1818, a constitution was formed for Illinois, and next year's legislative session of 1819 removed the Capitol from Kaskaskia, because the waters of the river were washing it away. They selected a wild, wooded spot for the new Capitol, calling it "Vandalia" in memory of an extinct tribe called "Vandals." A dozen years roll by and now competing cities strove to become the coveted Capitol. Alton, Jacksonville, Peoria and others vied with Springfield. Sangamon county wisely selected its nine representatives from outstanding personalities, called "The Long Nine", because none were less than six feet tall. To their untiring efforts Springfield owes its present eminence as Capitol of Illinois. SELECTION OF A CAPITOL LEGISLATIVE ROOM IN THE ILLINOIS STATE CAPITOL AT VANDALIA March 1, 1837 characters "the long nine" Senate Members ARCHER G. HERNDON Chakles Klaphake JOB FLETCHER Benedict J. Yamont, Jr. House Members ABRAHAM LINCOLN F. W. Raymond NINIAN W. EDWARDS Joseph Copp JOHN DAWSON Thomas Collier ANDREW McCORMICK James G. Drew, Jr. DAN STONE Anthony Pletzke WILLIAM ELKIN George McCuley ROBERT WILSON Adam Kluzek ELIJAH LOVEJOY «>f Alton, Illinois James R. Aylward Nineteen EDWARDS: Well, men, we can go home now and enjoy the congratulations of our friends upon securing the location of the Capitol in Springfield. It's been a long, hard pull, and many times it looked as if Alton or Peoria would secure the prize. Job Fletcher here turned a good trick when he traded the promise of a canal for the boats up in the northern part of the state, for votes to make Springfield the Capitol. FLETCHER: What all of us put together did would not have won the fight, Ninian Edwards, if it had not been for our friend, Abraham Lincoln, who pulled the wires, rolled the logs, engineered all the plots, and gained the day. LINCOLN : One thing we have won has been the ill will of every other member of the legislature, both in the Senate and in the House. They will go home and say that we were cheaters and perpetrated frauds to gain their votes. Just the same we do intend to try to keep all of our promises by passing laws to build railroads, canals, and other public improvements. HERNDON: Let me tell you this, Lincoln, I am afraid that if all the things we have voted for are built it will bring the greatest crash ever known in the financial history of America. What do you think, Elkin? ELKIN: Bosh! When all those things are done it will make Illinois the greatest state in the union, and people will flock from not only all over the east, but also from foreign coun- tries, to share the prosperity. LINCOLN: Today's postman, coming on horseback, brought me a fine document, my commission as a lawyer with right to practice at the bar. EDWARDS: Hurray for you! Lincoln, I heard John Stuart up in Springfield saying he felt you would be just the one to become his partner in a legal firm. You heard Stuart say that, too, Wilson. WILSON: How are you going to arrange that, Lincoln? Ever since you have been in the legislature you have been coming from New Salem and you must have a lot of friends there that it would be hard to leave. McCormick said he would like to settle there himself. McCORMICK: That's true enough! Salem is certainly a beauti- ful little spot upon its forest clad hill there on the Sangamon, but when a nearby village becomes the Capitol of the state, it is certain to dwarf all other places in the vicinity. LINCOLN: You are right there, McCormick, and I will tell the rest of you now what I have not wanted to mention till sure of receiving my commission. John Stuart invited me a long time ago to become his partner. Some of you know how kind he has been through my New Salem years in lending me law books. Many is the time I have walked all the way from Salem to borrow a book or inspect one in his office. He has even set the day for the opening of the office, April 15th, after the legislature adjourns. Action: (All the men shake hands with Lincoln or slap him on the shoulder, and evince great gratification that he is coming to live in Springfield.) STONE: Dawson, what do you suppose is the matter with Love- joy over there? He has not said a word since he came into the room. DAWSON: Well, I will tell you Stone, he was the most eager advocate of making Alton the Capitol, and undoubtedly he is feeling disappointed. We can't blame him, but he ought to put away that feeling now, and join the rest of us. STONE: All right, Dawson, let's go over there and speak to him. Mr. Lovejoy, we are mightly glad that Springfield has been made the Capitol but we are also sorry for your disappoint- ment. You have been a fair and honest opponent and had not Springfield won out, we would have been glad to help you win for Alton. Come over and tell Lincoln how you feel about it. LOVEJOY: Well, what has happened now cannot be undone. However, I will have to tell you men that some of the cities that have been disappointed will probably try to take the Capitol away from you before they get through. (Walking toward Lincoln and extending hand.) Mr. Lincoln, I con- gratulate you upon the success of your efforts, and also that you have accomplished your great ambition to become a commissioned lawyer. I would like all of you to come down with me now to the Tavern and drink toasts to the future prosperity of the new State Capitol. Action: (All leave stage at L in small groups, talking together.) SEVENTH INTERLUDE Following Scene 7 ETERNITY: Too true, alas, the prophesy of Herndon, that disaster would result from the wild orgy of internal improve- ments that engulfed not only Illinois but also the entire nation. All banks failed everywhere, money disappeared from circulation, and purchases were made by exchange of merchandise, or by working for articles that otherwise would have been bought with cash. HISTORY: It is here recorded that panic started first in the east, and that Springfield was able to lay the foundations for its newly bestowed capitol building, and obtain promised subscriptions for the pledged amount, before stringency reached Illinois. ETERNITY: More than a decade passed by before recovery from distress ensued, but in the first respite citizens of the new capitol began without delay the building of the state house, to avert threatened removal of the capitol to rival towns. Peoria went so far as to name a block of ground "State House Park", fully expecting that there the capitol would finally be built. HISTORY: Wise the selection of the nation's birthday, July the Fourth, for laying of the corner stone of the new capitol. Happy omen of long years of coming usefulness and enter- prise for Illinois' new City of State. LAYING THE CORNER STONE OF THE NEW CAPITOL July 4, 1837 characters CHARLES R. MATHENY, President, Board of Trustees Joseph Maurer COLONEL EDWARD D. BAKER, Orator Otis Downing The Long Nine ARCHER G. HERNDON Charles Klaphake NINIAN W. EDWARDS Joseph Copp JOB FLETCHER Benedict J. Yamont, Jr. JOHN DAWSON Thomas Collier ABRAHAM LINCOLN F. W. Raymond ANDREW McCORMICK James Drew, Jr. DAN STONE Frank Dirksen WILLIAM ELKIN George McCuley ROBERT WILSON Adam Kluzek JOHN F. RAGUE, Architect John Loye SIMEON FRANCIS, Editor Sangamo Journal Ray Cicci WILLIAM WALTERS, Editor Illinois State Register Joseph Gaffigan GOVERNOR JOSEPH DUNCAN Jack Slater CAPTAIN THOMAS M. NEALE of Cavalry Co Leo Richards STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS Andrew F. Geatz Twenty Action: (Matheny, surrounded by distinguished citizens, intro- ducing the Governor in pantomime. Band marches in, play- ing, taking station at L back.) MATHENY: Governor Duncan, Col. Baker, distinguished guests from all Illinois, and citizens of Springfield: Your hearts, like mine are overflowing today with the happiness arising from the fulfillment of our ardent hopes. The legislature of this great state on Feb. 28 of this year assembled in their halls in Vandalia, created Springfield the permanent capitol. As President of the Board of Trustees of this city it is my exalted privilege, no less than my supreme pleasure to state that the Governor of this state now makes his home in Spring- field and today honors this occasion by his presence. GOVERNOR DUNCAN ! (Enthusiastic applause and friendly approving nods of all on stage.) GOVERNOR DUNCAN: When we look abroad and see canal boats, locomotives bearing with seeming triumph the rich products of the interior to the rivers, lakes and ocean, almost annihilating time and space, what patriotic bosom does not beat high with ambition to give Illinois her full share of those advantages adorning her sister states (The above remarks of Gov. Duncan are taken from historical record of a speech made by him.) That Illinois will not only rival her sister states, but will far outrank them within a brief period of years is assured by the many laws for internal improvements passed at the last session of the Illinois Legislature, largely through the efforts of our distinguished friends who stand beside us here today, known as "The Long Nine". It shall be the privilege of the President of the Board of Trustees of Springfield to present these men to you. Mr. Matheny will you introduce the members of the Lone Nine? Action: (As Mr. Matheny reads the names, each steps forward and acknowledges the applause of the multilude, but without comment.) MATHENY: To insure accuracy in a record that has been pre- pared for placing in the corner stone, statistics regarding these men have been compiled. Permit me to read them as their names are announced. (Reading from manuscript.) Outstanding above all others in this assembly, is one whose untiring efforts, elaborate planning, and brilliant oratory was more largely instrumental in securing the selection of Spring- field, possibly than all others put together. Al)out seven weeks ago this rising young attorney came to Springfield from New Salem to make his home. Just across the street, a law office has been opened by him in partnership with our esteemed fellow citizen, John T. Stuart. Further words of eulogy are unnecessary. All of you know and appreciate — ABRAHAM LINCOLN! (Lincoln bows and steps back to place.) It was fortunate for Illinois that the first territorial Governor, aopointed by Patrick Henrv, governor of Virginia in 1809, the year Lincoln was born, should have been Ninian Edwards, who remained governor until the organization of the state, nine years later, in 1818. His great service caused us then to send Mr. Edwards to the LInited States Senate. When that term expired we elected him Governor of the State. MR. EDWARDS! (Bows — retires to place.) No occupation tends to make a citizen more popular than that of being a genial host of a tavern. Hardly had the settlers camped in this vicinity when a tavern known as the "Indian Queen" was opened. The first great celebration held there, was on the arrival of the steam ship, the Talisman, up the Sangamon river five years ago. Perhaps when the cere- monies are finished today this een-al host may invite us all to be his guests— ARCHER HERNDON! (Great enthusiasm over prospect of feast.) Selection of the stone for the foundations, that will be com- pleted this day with the laying of the corner stone, was made by another member of the Long Nine, who contracted for this stone at the rate of $1.00 a load, from the quarry of Leroy F. Hill on Sugar Creek. Unfailing in his interest in the erec- tion of this great building has been— JOB FLETCHER! Action: (The following members of the Long Nine, presented in the order in which their names are read, without comment, as follows: John Dawson, Andrew McCormick, Dan Stone, William Elkin and Robert Wilson.) GOVERNOR DUNCAN: It will interest those of us who are comparatively new comers to Springfield to know about the first building on this site. Perhaps Mr. Chairman, Mr. Neale, who made the survey for these grounds, may recall some of the incidents. MATHENY: Mr. Neale, what information can you give us? NEALE: Governor Duncan, Mr. Chairman, citizens of Illinois: Four months ago the legislature passed the law creating Springfield the Capitol of the state. Knowing that other cities would strive to take this prize away from Springfield, the citizens immediately began digging the basement and building the foundation. Perhaps never before in the history of a Capitol building of any state has so much work been done in so few weeks. The first building ever erected on this site was a brick two story court house completed six years ago in 1831 at a cost of $7,000. With the foundation completed as it is today, it lias been decided to change the original plan of Ijrick for the upper floors and use the same stone from the Sugar Creek quarry because of its rich blending color of tan and l>rowii. to be found nowhere else in all the world. MATHENY: Everyone who has examined the sketches for the completed building confirms the opinion of the commis- sioners that it will be a classic gem, almost peerless among American capitol buildings. Let us acclaim the ardiitect, John Rague! (Rague bows.) DOLIGLAS: On behalf of many citizens who contriliuted to the pledge of Springfield of $50,000 toward the erection of this building, and who are now pressed for funds, I shall offer a bill to the next legislature asking that they be released from this pledge. LINCOLN: (Rushing forward excitedly) Mr. Chairman: While we appreciate the kindly spirit of the proposal made by our esteemed friend, Stephen A. Douglas, we will pay in full, in reasonable time, and we insist on keeping our promise to the state. Springfield has too much pride to accept a release that would reflect upon her credit, that would humble her in the eyes of envious neighbors. We will not beg off from our just debt. MATHENY: Witliin the box placed in this corner stone, we will now deposit memorials that future generations may uncover. Mr. Simeon Francis, will you bring your offering? FRANCIS: Mr. Chairman, as Editor of the Sangamo Journal which for nearly seven years has upheld the standards of high living in Springfield. I wish to place within this box a copy of the issue of this date, in which we have outlined these events. Action: (Mr. Francis advances and places the paper. I MATHENY: Mr. William Walter, Editor of the Illinois State Register, present your gift. WALTERS: Mr. Chairman: At present the Illinois State Regis- ter is printed in Vandalia. Having been made the official paper of the state by act of legislation, now that the Capitol has been removed to Springfield we are planning to follow with our publishing plant and establish the paper in the Capitol City. (Moving toward the box.) May the permanence of its resting place in this box predict prolonged existence. MATHENY: Mr. Henry, as acting commissioner for the build- ing of the state house you will place within the box the follow- ing articles: A list of the General Officers of the State; A copy of the law locating the Seat of Government at Spring- field; ' Twenty-one \ ioi)> ol' the Records of the last session of the Legislature; Several species of American coin, hoth recent issues and of 1795; Name of architect, John A. Rague. While the ■workmen place the cover over the box, let us lift up our voices in the inspiring anthem, "Hail Columbia" which has been the recognized national hymn since it was first sung when Washington crossed the Delaware. Action: ( Tlie band plays anil ihc concourse sings Hail Columbia) MATHENY: Honoring us today with his eloquent tongue and insoirational mind, we will now have the atblress of the dav by Edward D. Baker. MR. BAKER ! Action: (During hearty applause, the curtains close on half stage. I NINTH INTERLUDE Following Scene 8 ETERNITY: A score of years rolls swiftly by. From youthful village has grown a city, home of culture, wealth and social prestige. A State now builds a home palatial for those who in the future Destiny will guide. HISTORY': 'Tis well that foreign diplomats impressions gain of prosperous dignity. ETERNITY: Fitting that you record the names tonight of many who in years to come will be its host. Senators, Governors, yea, and one supreme as President, will join the festive throng that ushers in new era. THE EXECUTIVE MANSION 1856 CHARACTERS GOVERNOR WILLIAM H. BISSELL Dr. Fred P. Cowdin MRS. W. H. BISSELL Mrs. Fred P. Cowdin RICHARD YATES Russel Yates MRS. RICHARD YATES Julia MacPherson RICHARD J. OGLESBY Richard Oglesby MR.S. RICHARD J. OGLESBY Catherine Kimball JOHN M. PALMER Oscar Ansell MRS. JOHN M. PALMER Mrs. Oscar Ansell SHELBY M. CULLOM William Rinehard MRS. SHELBY M. CULLOM Mrs. Robkht (;\rvi;v ABRAHAM LINCOLN C. E. Knapp MR.S. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Bertha Proska STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS Andrew F. Geatz NINIAN W. EDWARDS J. Parr MRS. NINIAN W. EDWARDS Mrs. Conkling Buckley JOHN T. STUART Dr. Christopher Brown Stuart MR.S. JOHN T. STUART Mi;s. C. B. Sn vim MRS. ELLA ARNOLD RINK M^n:. Margauu \ T. Varcim STEPHEN T. LOGAN Logan Coleman MRS. STEPHEN T. LOGAN Mrs. Albert Scmlu-p (Groups of youthful society men and women. Action: (Enter Governor and Mrs. Bissell, L 3, advancing to focttligbts, extreme left. Enter R 4 Ste|)hen A. Doupla,>. MioNJng to the (Governor. Music -"Pomj) and Circumstance"'. .Shakes han(l> with (rovernor. bows low to Mrs. Biss<'11.) GOVERNOR BISSELL: I am glad you came early, Mr. Douglas. With this being the first reception to be held in the new Executive Mansion the custom of a receiving line of state officials will be temporarily discarded. Mrs. Bissell has invited the Yateses of Jacksonville and the Oglesbys of Elkhart to assist her. May I ask you to be Master of Ceremonies and present the guests to the host and hostess? Action: (Guests enter the reception rooms in couples and in groups. Mr. Douglas escorts Governor and Mrs. Bissell acros^ front of stage to R. The governor near footlights, Mrs. Bissell standing at his left. Mr. and Mrs. Yates are met at L front by Douglas.) DOUGLAS: Good evening, Mr. Yates, and Mrs. Yates. The Governor requests that you assist him in receiving. Action: (Conducts them across stage to governor at R. Without audible greeting, the governor and Mrs. Bissell welcome them and station them. Mr. Yates at left of Mrs. Bissell, Mrs. Y^ates next. After conducting the Yateses, Douglas performs similar office for the Oglesbys, greeting them audibly at left, presenting them inaudibly to tbe reception group.) (While Governor Bissell greets the Oglesbys Douglas assembles guests in groups at back stage, not in double file. As tbe guests reach front L they cross stage to reception line at R in double file, or couples.) (The couples in advancing line keep well apart so that audience may observe details of costuming. Couples advance with dignity, but waiting groups apparently converse at ease and happily. Douglas stands ten feet from Mrs. Bissell. facing audience, and clearly announces names to the governor as they come near him, from list prepared in advance. Guests arranged in line according to order of names on the list.) Action: (After the eight couples listed by name among the characters and also Mrs. Rink, have passed before the receiv- ing line, the Governor and Mrs. Bissell will advance several feet to vicinity of microphone at R of stage. Mrs. Stephen T. Logan, Mrs. Ninian Edwards, Mrs. John T. Stuart, and Mrs. Lincoln move toward Governor and Mrs. Bissell.) MRS. LOGAN: Mrs. Bissell, your new mansion exceeds in beauty and spaciousness anything we could have imagined. It will be a wonderful place in which the Chief Executive of the State of Illinois and his wife may receive distinguished guests. MRS. BISSELL: This is the first time in my life. Mrs. Logan, that I have ever moved into a new home with all the furnishings fresh and dainty. MRS. STUART: (Turning toward Mrs. Lincoln) You know. Mrs. Lincoln, that my husband. Major Stuart, predicts that Mr. Lincoln will some day be Governor of the State of Illinois and you may be mistress of this x^alatial residence. MRS. EDWARDS: A higher office than Governor for Mr. Lincoln is the ambition of his wife, my sister Mary. Long before she was even married to Mr. Lincoln it was her firm belief that some day he will be president of the L^nited States. GOVERNOR BISSELL: No question in my mind. Mrs. Lincoln, but that your husband has every qualification lo be tho ruler of this great nation. Action: (At left of stage near the L front microphone, assemble Lincoln, Douglas. Oglesby, and Palmer.) OGLESBY: It's fine to see you two men, Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Douglas, pleasantly meeting inider the same roof. LINCOLN: When we are not on a platform discussing opposing political issues, Mr. Douglas and I are the best of friends. PALMER: Well! You will both have to sharpen your wits for the conung contest you have talked about ;-o long, regarding the Missouri Compromise. Action: (Mr. and Mrs. Cnllom move toward tin- Governor.) Tirenty-luo MRS. CULLOM: Governor Bissell, the young people are eager to dance. Why not let them begin? GOVERNOR BISSELL: Indeed they may, but before I have the orchestra begin the music for the Lanciers, we will request Mrs. Rink to favor us with a song. Action: (Mrs. Rink advances to center front microphone and sings. Following her song the Governor indicates the dance may begin.) MR. CULLOM: Mrs. Bissell, may Mrs. Cullom and I join you and the Governor in watching the dance? Action: ^ Non-dancing guests assemble at side and back of stage. Sets for Lanciers are formed and at the close of the dance curtains close.) EPILOGUE THE SPRINGFIELD OF 1937 CHARACTERS GOVERNOR HENRY HORNER MAYOR JOHN W. KAPP, JR. WILLIS J. SPAULDING, Commissioner of Public Property. HARRY B. LUERS, Commissioner of Public Affairs JOSEPH M. FIGUEIRA, Commissioner of Public Health and Safety FRED VAN HORN, Commissioner of Streets and Public Im- provements ETERNITY Reverend W. H. Whitlock HISTORl Sidney B. Smith SPIRIT OF ILLINOIS Mrs. N. S. Stocicton SPIRIT OF SPRINGFIELD Mary Frances McCarthy RELIGION Ch.\rles Ettelbrick LABOR Paul Tangora ART Mary Elizabeth McGinley EDUCATION Betty Rummel MUSIC Betty Hatcher BUSINESS Jerome Taverna TWENTY EARLY STATES ATTENDANTS TO "SPIRIT OF SPRINGFIELD" BOY SCOUTS GIRL SCOUTS EPILOGUE CREATING THE CAPITAL HISTORl : It seems but yesteryear since last we journeyed past this verdant clime! A thriving Capital, with cultured groups, with ample leisure, wended a smiling, peaceful way. Today I know it not. This humming hive of industry denotes new vigor, pulsing veins, abundant energy, and skilful plans. ETERNITi : A thousand years to eyes Omnipotent are as a day to mortal ken. The names you last recorded. History, are now but passing memories to builders of today. New Century begins; fresh pages turn. Before thine eyes the builders of this glorious Capital will pass in radiant pro- cession. Come forth, O! Trumpeter. (Enter Trumpeter R 1 taking station at extreme right front.) Summon the image of this place, the Spirit of Springfield, and her attendants. (Trumpet call. Enter R 4, Spirit of Springfield, with attend- ants, moving at R to front, across stage to L front, to back at L, across to pedestal at center, forming group.) Once more, O! Trumpeter, thy clarion notes ring out. Spring- field, rejoicing in her century of growth, would share her joy with others. Thy call will bring the Mother of them all, great Illinois, attended by the twenty states that welcomed her into the Union. (Trumpeter calls, enter L 4 Illinois, attended by twenty states, move to front at L across stage to R back at R crossing to back center.) ("Glorious Illinois" is sung while the character representing the State enters and moves to her station.) HISTORY: What means the raising of the scepter by fair Illinois? ETERNITY: The summons thus she gives the ruler of her realm, the Governor, whose tireless days have brought pros- perity and peace. Call, trumpeter, that Henry Horner, the Governor of Illinois attend the court. (Governor Henry Horner and attendants rise from seats in front of audience, ascend stage at R moving toward center, the Governor remaining at center near microphone.) (ETERNITY AND HISTORY who had entered at opposite sides at the beginning of Epilogue, take their station at L near microphone and remain there through all the scene.) HISTORY: The record do I keep. Oh Ruler great! Speak thou the words of greeting, that they may be here engrossed. GOVERNOR HORNER: (Governor Horner greets Illinois and her daughter, Springfield, and welcomes the citizens of the state to do them honor.) (It is suggested that Governor Horner end his remarks by addressing History as follows:) Though to my hand is given the guiding of the destiny of Illinois, each daughter of that state, each city, has her own leading hand. Does thy record state, O! History, the name of Springfield's guardian, and his fellows who divide his tasks? HISTORY: Soon will he appear before you. Trumpeter again call, that Springfield's Mayor, John W. Kapp, Jr. may join the Governor of his state. Let with him come the four who share the burdens and the glory. (The moment trumpeter begins the music, the Mayor and Commissioners rise from seats near the front of auditorium, ascend steps at R. The Governor and attendants move some- what to L to admit of the Mayor and Commissioners. The mayor to remain in front of microphone surrounded by Com- missioners.) GOVERNOR HORNER: Triumphant is this day for you, oh Mayor Kapp! and for your friends. Let History their names now learn, but first give welcome to your guests. MAYOR KAPP: Welcome guests of the Capital City. No city will long survive. Governor Horner, without abundant streams of healing waters. A lake the City of Springfield claims that came from thoughts of inspiration of our Commissioner of Public Property, the Hon. Willis J. Spaulding. Action: (Commissioner Spaulding's hand is taken by the Gov- ernor. The same procedure as each Commissioner is intro- duced.) MAYOR KAPP: Few other cities. Governor Horner, can claim so honorable a showing of financial honesty and prosperity. Let the Commissioner of Public Affairs receive your praise, Hon. Harry B. Luers. Stalwart the men who guard the homes and by-ways of trust- ing citizens, who know their safety is assured so far as human hands can grant it. Freedom from illness is also the desire of our Commissioner of public Health and Safety, Hon. Joseph M. Figueira. Since dwelling among us. Governor Horner, you cannot have failed to note the fine highways and other improvements pos- Twenty-three sible only through moilern methods. Those are the gift of our Commissioner of Streets and Public' Improvements, Hon. Fred Van Horn. GOVERNOR HORNER: A city so resplendent some emblem ought possess, a banner unique among all others. MAYOR KAPP: "Your wish. Governor Horner, might be Father to the Fact. Twice two decades ago our poet, loved, lamented, Lindsay, made offer for a flag emblematic of the city of his birth. We called him Vachel. His was the choice of flag — of royal blue, with white stars of twenty states. Within their circle one large star of white. Within the heart of that large star a burning lamp of crimson is the symbol of our town. ETERNITY: Sound forth once more. Trumpeter, thy notes. Guardians of that Springfield flag, the Association of Art, present it to the city. Action: As trumpet sounds the representative of the Art Asso- ciation enters R 1, moves to center, pauses a moment while all gaze upon it in silence, then moving up stage at center, delivers the flag to the Spirit of Springfield's suitable attend- ant.) MAYOR KAPP: Not single-handed has this city grown so great: All elements of human endeavor have combined. Let them appear before you. First — LABOR, that foundation laid; MANUFACTURING, that lends comfort to our needs; and BUSINESS, too, lends its great aid to city building. These three arc the necessities. Development of wealtli brings love of ART. of MUSIC, and that vital gift, EDUCATION. Action: (As the names of each of these branches is mentioned, its representative enters R 2 moving toward front and after passing center followed by next branch, all moving in a com- plete circle around the stage from right to left once and a half. As they reach the back of the stage on the second round, they group themselves around the pedestal.) GOVERNOR HORNER: Well have you shown. Mayor Kapp. what has produced this magnificent city, but you have not yet mentioned a future generation. HISTORY: With all thy might, O! Trumpeter, peal forth the call to Youth. Action: (Mayor Kapp rends the vein of the Horn of Plenty at back stage. Companies of boy and girl scouts proceed toward footlights, dividing, the boys moving off stage into the audi- ence by the steps at right; the girls move off stage into audi- ence by steps at left. While groups are advancing "America the Beautiful" is sung by the combined high school choirs.) (When stage is cleared of scouts, a trumpet call ushers the advancing of the colors, "Star Spangled Banner"' i^ ^ung.) END OF EPIC DRAMA CREATING THE CAPITAL 1 iii'iity '( (//• ILLINOIS STATE ARSENAL SATURDAY— MONDAY— TUESDAY October 23-25-26, 1937 Eight O'Clock P. M. LIFE OF LINCOLN BY PROLOGUE— DESTINY CHARACTERS William Dodd Chenery Copyright, 1937 HUMANITY: ETERNITY The Reverend John T. Thomas, D.D. HISTORY The Reverend Walter R. Cremeans, D.D. HUMANITY Miss Adelaide O'Brien (Enter Left 4, Humanity, in agitated despair, hands clasped on breast. Advances to down stage center, kneels on left knee, looks up.) (Music by organ — first measures of Rachmaninoff Prelude in C. Sharp Major, the three massive opening chords of which will be played very slowly, the third chord held till Hu- manity kneels and lifts her hands. As she speaks the organist will play the following agitated measures very softly, barely audible, till after Eternity and History enter, and Eternity begins to speak, when playing ceases.) HUMANITY: How long, O! Jehovah, wilt Thou hide Thy face from me, How long shall mine enemy triumph over me. Consider and answer me, O! Jehovah, my God; Lighten mine eyes lest I sleep the sleep of death. Hide me under the shadow of Thy wing. Deliver my soul by Thy sword from the wicked that oppress me. ETERNITY: Arise, Humanity, daughter of Earth, lift up thine eyes to the mountain whence cometh help. In thy distress didst thou call upon Jehovah, The sound of thy voice came unto His holy temple; He is a shield unto all them that take refuge in Him. Help will He send you from His sanctuary. Arise ! (When Eternity speaks. Humanity slowly lifts her head in surprise that gradually turns to joy, but without turning her head to look at Eternity. As the word "arise" is repeated. Eternity takes Humanity by the hand and gently assists her to rise, after which Humanity looks toward Eternity with eager happiness. Eternity continues:) ETERNITY: Wheels of the ages before mine eyes have slowly turned. Eternity am I, and future years disclose the deeds of coming generations. The sword of His wrath Jehovah will unsheath; As a flame shall His wrath devour all who oppress. HUMANITY: Blessed be Jehovah! He has heard the voice of my supplication. Thou knowest that Mother am I of all mortal races. Those from Ham descended, of darker hue, are held in chains, oppressed. Dost thou. Eternity, foresee deliverance for them? ETERNITY: Unrolling now before thine eyes Jehovah's will, procession long will pass, of many generations. One will arise to banish fear, break chains of bondage, free the oppressed. HISTORY: Recorded here are deeds of many generations, all tending toward a centering point, A master mind. Product will he be of sturdy men, valiant and true. (To Eternity) Unroll the future; fain would I quickly see the coming of the hero. Action: (Eternity motions Humanity to accompany him and History to the secluded spot from whence they will behold the future.) End of Prologue Scene One INF ARE At the Home of John Parrott following the Wed- ding of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks at Home of Richard Berry, Beechland, Kentucky, June 12, 1806. CHARACTERS THOMAS LINCOLN F. W. Raymond NANCY HANKS LINCOLN Mrs. R. S. Cooke THOMAS SPARROW, uncle by marriage to Nancy .H. R. Emery ELIZABETH SPARROW, sister of Nancy's mother Carrie Ann Decker MORDECAI LINCOLN, elder -brother of Thomas Paul E. Carson JOSIAH LINCOLN, second elder brother of Thomas RICHARD BERRY, uncle by marriage of Nancy, at whose home wedding occurred William Clifford MRS. RICHARD BERRY JOHN H. PARROTT, host at Infare Earl Miller MRS. JOHN H. PARROTT, hostess at Infare - Mrs. Paul Minnie.4r REV. JESSE HEAD, Methodist minister who performed the ceremony Isaac R. Diller CHRISTOPHER BUSH, Captain of patrolers.G. E. McCammon DANIEL JOHNSON Floyd Broyels SARAH BUSH JOHNSON, his wife Mrs. A. G. Frew NINIAN EDWARDS, afterwards Governor of Illinois Harry Keller THOMAS B. REED, afterwards U. S. Senator from Mississippi Robert H. Rowe JOHN J. AUDOBON, afterward world famous Ornithologist... John J. Audubon DANIEL BOONE, relative of the Lincolns H.^rold Scott JOHN T. SLATER, sold Thomas Lincoln 238 acres of farm land for 1590 J. C. Juarez MRS. JOHN T. SLATER Mrs. Theodore More JOSEPH HANKS, carpenter in Elizabethtown, uncle of Nancy M.ARTiN Doe DENNIS HANKS, cousin of Nancy Charles Fetzer CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS GRAHAM, quaint guest at wed- ding Nelson L. Allyn (Enter L 1 John Parrott, forms trumpet over mouth with right hand and calls loudly.) PARROTT: Maw! Maw! Maw! Don't you hear me? (Takes several steps impatiently. Again calls.) Oh! Maw! Where are you? (Enter R 4 Mrs. Parrott.) Twenty-five MRS. PARROTT: Oh, John I am so glad you are here. It is almost time for the neighbors to come and there is lots to do before they arrive. MR. PARROTT: What all have you for the first day's feast? MRS. PARROTT: There is some bear meat and venison and wild turkey that Daniel Boone sent over. You know he is a relative of the Lincolns and mighty fond of all of them. The young bride, Sarah Bush Johnson, sent us some peach honey syrup in gourds, and Betty Sparrow tied strings around a lot of big hunks of maple sugar to hang over the tables so that everybody can bite off a piece when they drink their coffee. Land sakes! there comes Tom and Betsey Sparrow now. Like as not the bride and groom will be coming before we are ready for them. Action: (Enter L 3 Thomas and Betsey Sparrow.) BETSEY SPARROW : Thought we would come early and help you get the quilting frame out, because you know the patch work spread ought be ready to give Nancy soon after she comes. Tom, you and Mr. Parrott bring out some chairs and put the frame on it. (John Parrott and Thomas Sparrow exit R 4, returning each carrying two chairs, which they place for a quilting frame, then bring out the frame with quilt which they place on the chairs. Enter L 1 Captain Christopher Bush, his daughter Sarah Bush Johnson and Daniel Johnson.) CAPT. BUSH: Howdy, Mrs. Parrott. Betsey, you are all spruced up for the party aren't you? Tom and John seem pretty busy over there. MRS. PARROTT : Better go over and help them. Captain Bush, because there are a lot of other things to do beside just getting the quilt ready. MRS. JOHNSON: I want to see how the quilt looks now. You know I sent the last square to be put in it and some of us will have to see that the squares are all stitched in. (Draws long needle from bag and apparently stitches quilt.) (Enter L 4 shabby looking Christopher Columbus Graham.) THOS. SPARROW: Well! Well! Well! There comes Chris Gra- ham. You are pretty near the first one to arrive for the Infare, Chris. GRAHAM: Well, you get mighty tired just living on herbs that you pick in the field for soup. I knew you would have a big feast today so I thought I would come and get filled up. PARROTT: You know you are always welcome, Graham. You are mighty good hearted even if you are no account. GRAHAM: Understand you are planning a race for the boys, for a whiskey bottle hidden somewhere in the woods, and my nose is trained to find that kind of a prize. (Enter L 1 Dennis Hanks with basket.) DENNIS HANKS: Aunt Betsey, here are the eggs you told me to bring. Took me a long time hunting all those nests out in the brush, but they all seem fresh, so I guess they will be all right to boil. (Hands basket to John Parrott.) MRS. PARROTT: Thank you, Dennis. If it was not for all the things you good neighbors bring in we would be hard put to it to have enough provisions on hand for a three day celebration. (Enter L 3 Mordecai Lincoln.) MORDECAI: Howdy folks. Have brother Tom and Nancy got here yet? MRS. PARROTT: Glad to see you, Mordecai Lincoln. There hasn't been time since the ceremony. You know their uncle, Richard Berry, would want to have them and the preacher take a bile to eat before starting to drive over here. MORDECAI: I have just been over to Elizabelhlown to see that the ground was all cleared and to help lay the log foundation for the new cabin we will build tomorrow for the young couple. We picked out a good place not far from the church. While I was over there I invited some of those young lawyers to come over to the Infare. MRS. PARROTT: The more, the merrier. If we are going to celebrate three days, some of them will give out before the last. Who was it you invited, Mordecai? MORDECAI: Well, there is Ninian Edwards, who seems to be one of the brightest of all those twenty-two young lawyers over there. SARAH B. JOHNSON: Did you say twenty-two lawyer-^ in that little town, with only one street and one church? MORDECAI: Well, anyhow it has a court house, and you know folks (laughingly) the Judge had to make a ruling that only two attorneys could appear before the bar in one case. Then there was another bright young fellow, Thomas Reed. He told me that he had an invitation from friends down in Mississippi, to come down there. They told him that after he has been there a while, they will see that he is elected United States Senator. SARAH JOHNSON: I was hoping you would bring that young man who has taken such an interest in birds and plants, John Audobon. He tells us such wonderful stories about nature life. MORDECAI: Oh, I would not leave him out. He is the best company of all the folks around here. Do you know, he is writing a big book about birds and plants, and drawing pic- tures of them. (Enter Mr. and Mrs. John T. Slater.) MR. PARROTT: How did you find the roads, Mr. Slater, of that eight miles from your farm up in Hardin county. They must be pretty muddy after the rains we have been having. Your dress does not look as if you got splattered any, Mrs. Slater. SLATER: How do you do, Mr. Parrott. Mrs. Parrott, I have another wagon coming along with something for the barbecue. Ever since Tom Lincoln bought that 240 acres of land from me over in Hardin county for about S600, I have taken a great liking to him. He is the best natured man I ever knew. MRS. SLATER : Yes, and he likes to tinker, too. You know he learned his carpenter trade from his uncle, Joseph Hanks, and he can fix any door or window so they will work. BETSEY SPARROW: What was it you brought, Mrs. Slater? MRS. SLATER: We have had a fat sheep barbecued whole over coals of wood burned in a pit, enough for two families, and we have loaded it in the wagon and covered it with green boughs to keep the juices in. SLATER: Talk of the devil and he will appear! Here comes Joseph Hanks. (Enter Joseph Hanks L 4. Greets the men while Mrs. Parrott, Betsey Sparrow, and Mrs. Slater move R. Front near micro- phone. Sarah Bush Johnson remaining with the group of men who are greeting Joseph Hanks.) MRS. SLATER: We have heard a little about that romantic story of Tom Lincoln courting two girls almost at the same time. Mrs. Parrott, won't you tell us about that? MRS. PARROTT: Well, Tom had bought this land from your husband with money he received from his father's estate, administered by his brother, Mordecai, and wanted to get married and settle down. You know he had just been ap- pointed a member of the Patrolers who hunt run-away slaves, under Captain Bush, and as the Captain's daughter, Sarah, is such a likely young woman, and noted as a fine housekeeper. Tom courted her and proposed to her, without knowing that she was to be married within a few days to Daniel Johnson. BETSEY SPARROW: You girls know that Nancy is the very apple of my eye. My husband. Tom. and I have raised her almost from childhood. We wanted to have lior wedding at our house, but her uncle, Richard Berry, over at Beochland. insisted that he wanted them married inider his roof, espe- cially as Parson Jesse Head was coming to visit at his house at this time. They are all of them good Methodists. Tom has TtcetitY-six broken ihe record as a rapid-fire suitor. Its just three months ago tomorrow that Sarah Bush married Daniel Johnson, and Tom brought Nancy home from that wedding to our house and right then began his courtship of Nancy. (Enter Ninian Edwards, Thomas Reed, John Audobon and Daniel Boone, Ninian Edwards advancing to Parrott, who greets each by name.) EDWARDS: Sorry to be so late, Parrott, but I have just been over to the court house in Elizabethtown verifying the deeds of Tom Lincoln's big farm over in Hardin county. Have the Patrolers been making any captures of run-away slaves lately. Captain Bush? CAPT. BUSH: A few, Ninian Edwards. There are not many slaves around these parts of Kentucky, as you know, but two or three from down Tennessee way were passing through and we took them into custody. I sent Tom Lincoln out on the trail after another one, but you know how kind hearted he is, and while I believe he saw the darky, he let him get away. PARROTT: Tom Reed, I hear you are talking of moving down to Mississippi? REED: A lot of friends I used to know back east, who have settled down there, think that maybe they can send me to the United States Senate after I get acquainted and well estab- lished down there, but I am afraid that I would not be right material for United States Senator. We had a hard time dragging our friend here, John Audobon, away from some sketches he is making of birds and plants. Some day he may be able to have them published, and if they seem as inter- esting to other people as they do to the young lawyers over in Elizabethtown, he will make a name for himself. Daniel Boone could give more information about wild life to Au- dobon than anybody else in all these parts. AUDOBON: I am greatly indebted to Daniel Boone, Reed. He has shown me the haunts of birds and animals, and where many unusual plants grow, that it would have taken me a long time to find by myself. BOONE: Glad to do it, Audobon. Hardly anyone else that goes trapping with me even sees the things that you do. MR. EDWARDS: I have always heard, Daniel, that it was through you the Lincolns came to this part of the country. BOONE: Yes, I told Abraham Lincoln, in his Tavern over in Virginia, about the wonderful land here and he sold all of his property in Virginia for $25,000 and came over years ago. (Hub-bub heard off state at L. Young men and women set- tlers come crowding in, some of them moving backward sur- rounding Richard Berry, Rev. Jesse Head, and the bridal couple, Tom and Nancy Lincoln. Those already on stage hasten over to join the other group, drawing the bridal couple to front stage.) (Members of the first groups on the stage excitedly con- gratulate bridal couple, with such exclamations as "Best wishes," "Good luck," "Long life," and other seemingly natural expressions.) PARROTT: We are ready to celebrate, Richard Berry. Parson Jesse Head must have kissed the bride, judging by his broad smile. Everybody give three cheers for bride and groom. (Hearty cheers.) RICHARD BERRY: Those of you who were over at my cabin heard Parson Jesse Head tie a knot that can never be untied. We persuaded him to come along and enjoy the Infare. BOONE: Why not begin the celebration right now. There are a lot of us hankering for a good old fashioned Virginia Reel. Let's all sing "Pop Goes the Weasel," and dance. BERRY: You don't mind young folks dancing, do vou Parson Head? JESSE HEAD : Probably I will get in line with the young folks myself. It does anybody good to mingle with the crowd once in a while. While the rest are dancing the first set, sup- pose we draw me a glass of cider, Mr. Parrott. (Mr. Parrott and Mr. Head move toward R 4.) (Line is formed for the Virginia Reel, which will be the closing feature of the scene.) End of Scene 1 INTERLUDE NO. 1 ETERNITY: Not long content was Thomas Lincoln in any home. Filled with roving pioneer spirit, he sought location new. Rumors of Indiana's forests and fields led him across the Ohio's broad expanse to forest home on Little Pigeon Creek. HISTORY: Ordained events work to one common end! A neighboring realm, fair Illinois, that year of eighteen hundred and eighteen became a sovereign state; while Indiana held sorrowing boy, destined to be future statesman of great Illi- nois, one Abraham Lincoln. My imprint shows a loss supreme; a cabin small; a mother's dying blessing sweet; a burial without rite of church; a mourning boy, lamenting lack of hymn or prayer. Young Sarah and sad Abraham now bereft! Scene Two NANCY LINCOLN'S FUNERAL SERVICE Near the Cabin of Thomas Lincoln on Little Pigeon Creek, Indiana, in 1819, Year follow- ing the Death of Nancy Hanks Lincoln. CHARACTERS THOMAS LINCOLN Harvey A. Flock ABRAHAM LINCOLN, aged 7 years Norman Helm SARAH LINCOLN, aged 9 years Eleanor Blasey DENNIS HANKS, cousin of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, whose uncle and aunt, Tom and Betsey Sparrow died of the 'milk sick' shortly before death of Nartcy Ch.\rles Fetzer REVEREND DAVID ELKIN, traveling Baptist preacher, friend of the Lincolns in Kentucky Archie Brownell WILLIAM WOOD, who had sat up all night with Nancy on date of her death, and who also had just lost his wife with the 'milk sick' Francis Cody PETER BOONER, with whose dying wife Nancy had sat up, while herself in the first throes of 'milk sick' Wilber Mirus SIX NEIGHBORING COUPLES— George Shadis, Paul Novot- nak, John Forgas, Andy Forgas, Bernava Mathalavic, Frances CuUak, Margaret Forgas, Pauline Novotnak, Marie Higuit, Stella Pludniak, Helen Cullak, Laura Capronica. (Scattering couples enter from R and L, sedate, but friendly with each other and exchanging greetings.) (Enter R 3 Dennis Hanks, enter L William Wood. They meet and move toward front center.) DENNIS HANKS: This will be a comforting day for our little Abraham, William Wood. Ever since the death of his mother last year, in October, he has been downcast because no burial service was held over her grave. WILLIAM WOOD: I remember, Dennis Hanks, how I sat up all night with Nancy just before she passed away. She called little Sarah and Abraham to her bedside, placed her hand on the boy's head and said, "My son, be good to your father and sister always." Nancy knew that she had only a short time to live. Then she said to both children: "Always be kind to each other and worship God." DENNIS HANKS: It does not take long for the 'milk sick' to carry them off. My good uncle, Tom Sparrow, and my Aunt Betsy, were only sick a few days and died just before Nancy was taken down. Tom Lincoln took a log left over from building the cabin and I helped him whipsaw it into planks. Then we planed the planks smooth and measured them for a box in which to bury Nancy. Little Abe, with a jack knife, whittled pine wood pegs. Then while Abe and I held the planks, Tom bored holes and stuck the pegs through the Twenty-seven horetl lioles. Thai made the coffin. The next day we made a little wooden sled and i)iilled the coffin up to the knoll in the clearing where we had Imried LIncle Tom Sparrow, and Aunt Betsy. There were but a few of us there and jio one to pray or sing. (Enter Peter Booner in i)ioneer hunting costume, greeting; Dennis Hanks.) DENNIS HANKS: Tom Lincoln is left alone now, like we are, Peter Booner. BOONER: This is a fine day for the preaching, Dennis. Elder Elkin will have a pretty good crowd, judging from the way our neighbors are coming in. How did the Elder happen to come here? (Enter Tom Lincoln, Abe and Sarah, greeting Booner, who calls him Tom, and Wood, who calls him Lincoln. R 2.) TOM LINCOLN: I heard that question you asked just now Booner. Nancy and I knew Elder David Elkin in Hardin county, Kentucky. He often came to our cabin and stayed days at a lime while on circuit trips. He sent us word that he was coming, and to let all the neighbors know. WOOD : Well, Tom, the news has spread, because they are com- ing from everywhere. I would not wonder if we have twent> or thirty people here today. That's a good many for this scattered neighborhood. ABRAHAM: Oh! Father! Maybe we can get Elder Elkin to preach and pray over mother's grave. TOM LINCOLN: Well! Abe, it would be fine if he would do that, but he came here to hold a preaching service, not a funeral service, and he may not feel like doing that. ABRAHAM: Oh, Sarah, let us beg him to go to the grave when he comes, and speak and pray. SARAH: I believe he will. Oh! Father, please ask him. BOONER: I wonder if we cannot get Elder Elkin while he is there to sav a few words over my wife's grave, and yours, loo. Wood? WOOD: We will soon find out. Booner, for there he comes down the hill over yonder by the creek. (Point L. All on stage move about, looking eagerly toward L.) ( Enter L 1 Elder Elkin, greeted first by Tom Lincoln and Dennis Hanks, whom he already knew, and then is greeted by all the assemblage.) ABRAHAM: (Running to Elder Elkin and clasping his coat. Elkin stoops over and pats the boy on the shoulder and kisses Sarah on the forehead.) ELDER ELKIN : You children have grown since I saw you pretty near two years ago over in Kentucky. Abe, I believe you are going to be taller than your father, when you grow up. ABRAHAM: Oh, Elder Elkin, won't you say something out of the Bible over my mother's grave. We put her away without a hymn or a story even. DENNIS HANKS: We will all certainly be glad if you will do that. Elder Elkin. Uncle Tom Sparrow and Aunt Betsy arc buried right near Naiuy. You can make the service do for all three of them. BOONER: Wood and I have lost our wives in the 'milk sick,' Elder, and it will be right comforting to us. Won't you do it? Nancy Hanks used to come to see my wife every day, till she, too. got sick. Nancy was kind to everybody, and iin wife loved her. Their ilenl >lcep. While thy loved ones vigil keej); Now with angel bands above. In the realm of joy and love. (Settlers form in double line, a man and a woman together, led first b> Elder Elkin, holding Sarah and Abe by their hands; next Thomas Lincoln and Dennis Hanks; then Wood and Booner. All sing as they walk down stage L to front, across stage at front, to R 4 and disappear in wings.) End of Scene 2 INTERLUDE NO. 2 HISTORY : A dozen years have passed since i)rayer was voiced o'er grave of Nancy. To comfort his motherless girl and boy, Tom Lincoln had sought his early choice, sweet Sarah Bush of Kentucky, a widowed mother of a son and daughters twain. Together a happy family they dwelt, content and peaceful. Then, once more, the dread 'milk sick' brought threat of loss. Came travelers from the west with glowing stories of wide plains of marvelous fertility. And thus once more the Li^coln^ moved! ETERNITY: On gently rising bluff above the sparkling river. Sangamon, rose cabin snug. Logs hewn by sturdy arms! Young Abe now in full strength of youthful manhood; his cousin, Dennis Hanks, and half brother. John Johnson, son of Sarah Bush Johnson Lincoln. Scene Three THOMAS LINCOLN'S CABIN ON THE SANGAMON Early Summer 1830 CHARACTERS THOMAS LINCOLN Harvey A. Flock SARAH BUSH LINCOLN Constance Pierson ABRAHAM LINCOLN Richard Morrisev DENNIS HANKS, cousin of Abraham Charles Fetzek JOHN JOHNSON, step-brother of Abraham, son of Sarah J. Beger (Curtains part on small stage, showing cabin of Lincoln, and a few split rails.) (Abraham, Dennis and John, each with an axe.) DENNIS HANKS: (Wiping brow with bandana handkerchief) No wonder, you and I get tuckered out. John. Abe sets a pace that beats us both. I believe he could split more rails in an hour than you and I could split in a whole day. JOHN JOHNSON: Well, Dennis, it certainly takes a lot of rails to go around a thirteen acre plat. Mighty glad that Father Lincoln did not want us to fence in the whole plain. ABRAHAM: Mother Sarah is luckier than my own mother, when she went to her new cabin for the first time. We only had three sides to that one and this one has all four sides, and a puncheon floor, doors on leather hinges, and a chimney that won't catch on fire. (Enter Sarah, Bush Lincoln with shabby old book in her hands.) SARAH: Oh! Abe, I found that copy of Pilgrim's Progress that you have been asking me about ever since we unpacked the wagon when we first got here. It was tucked away in the bottom drawer of that old bureau that I brought from Ken- tucky to the Pigeon Creek cabin eleven years ago. JOHN JOHNSON: Now I suppose I will have to listen to Abe reading out of that book again. Why do you tell me so much about the stories you read. Abe? ABRAHAM: W.-ll. it's this way. I like to know all sides of the questions of what I read, and when I try to explain it to some- body else it makes it nnich clearer to me. If you understand what vou read, vonr time is not wasted. Tiicnly-eight DENNIS HANKS: I believe I know everything that ever hap- pened to George Washington by heart, from hearing Abe read it out loud. SARAH: That makes me think of the meetings in Gentry ville back in Kentucky, when Abe used to go to the store and let the men folks tell about things, and then when they would stop for a minute, he'd start in and they would keep him talk- ing for an hour, (Enter Tom Lincoln.) TOM LINCOLN: Talking about book* again are you? I wish Abe would not pay so much attention to book larnin', he's so strong and husky that he will do a lot better farming than he would teaching school or making other use of his book larnin'. SARAH: 1 thought we had that all settled way back years ago on Pigeon Creek, Tom, that first winter when you brought me over from Kentucky. I made Abe go to school a few months, even if he did have to walk a long distance. Thai boy has got more inside of his head now than lots of the preachers and teachers and college professors. But let's go in the cabin, Tom, and get things straightened out for dinner. The boys have been working pretty hard splitting those rails and they- will be hungry. TOM LINCOLN: After you finish eating, boys, better >plit a lot of the logs up smaU, for the fire place and pile them close to the cabin. No telling how soon cold weather will come in this part of the country. SARAH: Be sure and wash your hands over there at the bucket before you come in. Everything will taste better if your hands are clean. (Tom and Sarah Lincoln move off stage toward cabin.) JOHN JOHNSON: How are you going to do the things you warn to do, Abe, if father Lincoln is always on the other side? DENNIS HANKS: I have tried to argue with father but he says that Abe is too strong a worker to waste his time on book larnin'. ABRAHAM: I have that all figured out. boys. You know all of us are under bond to our parents until we are twenty-one, and have to do exactly as they tell us, that is, if we are obedi- ent children. On February 12th, next spring, I will be twenty- one, and 1 am going to start out for myself. No matter what happens. I will take on my own shoulders the responsibility of my own life, DENNIS HANKS: WeU, the folks must have the dinner ready. Come on now, while it is hot. (All move off stage toward cabin.) End of Scene 3 Scene Four THE PREDICTION CHARACTERS ETERNITY Reverknd John T, Thomas, D.D. HTSTOT?Y .. Reverend Walter R. Cremeans, D.D. ETERNITY: In ages past the wilfulness of His created mortals caused Omnipotence to remove from earth all living beings, sive only those obeying Divine commands. At His behest an Ark was formed. Noah, mighty prince of emnire wide, escaped deluging floods. With passing cycles man replenished Earth with teeming multitudes. Once more the strong oppress the weak. The cry of those descended from Noah, through Ham. his son, arises to His throne in lamentation. HISTORY : Will Jehovah once more destroy mankind? ETERNITY : A rainbow was thrown across the cloudy sky when Noah from the Ark came forth. The promise made — that not again would man be destroved as in the flood. He heeds the cry of the oppressed. A new deliverer will He create, a superman, with mighty sinews built by arduous toil, with intellect surpassing all that went before. Hark to the name! At its pronouncement men give pause; a race of million mortals rise and call it blessed: ABRAHAM LINCOLN Behold! Humanity, the awakening of righteous wrath, when first the sale of slave is seen. End of Interlude Scene Five SLAVE MARKET IN NEW ORLEANS With Auction Platform — July 1831 Auction of Slaves CHARACTERS ABRAHAM LINCOLN Richard Morrisev DENNIS HANKS Charles Fetzer JOHN JOHNSON j. Becer MRS. LEHIGH, of Lehigh Mansion Loretta Donelan MRS. MATTHORN, Society Matron Catherine Cooper COLONEL DUDLEY, Tennessee Planter Gordon Ickes COLONEL JACKSON, Plantation Owner William Goss MAJOR BENHAM, Plantation Owner Jack Moore AUCTIONEER, Richard Sampson Otis Downen AUNT JUDY, aged negro Voodoo fortune teller LILY, comely Mulatto, slave of Colonel Dudley _■■■■ Charlotte Sublett TOM, servant of Mrs. Lehigh DAN, servant of Mrs. Matthorn JAMES HARDCASTLE, Colonel Dudley's Plantation Overseer "' , ■ -; Harold Hawkins NEW ORLEANS CITIZENS PLANTATION NEGROES— SAM, slave of Colonel Dudley DICK, slave of Colonel Dudley Action: (Scattering groups of New Orleans citizens enter R and L, moving leisurely, greeting each other, turning about, ap- jtarently in casual conversation. After a few moments of thai action, a group of plantation negroes cross the stage L to R singing plantation melodies. They pause near R 1 to finish iheir song, and then, without crowding each other, move ofl stage, humming until entirely out of sight, when they observe silence. Enter L 1 Abraham Lincoln, Dennis Hanks and John Johnson,) JOHNSON: (Pointing toward auction platform) What in the world is that odd looking thing over there, Abe, I never saw anything like that before. HANKS: Since we have been here in New^ Orleans these last three weeks, I have heard a lot about auctions of slaves and it looks to me as if that might be an auction block. LINCOLN : The only slaves I ever saw, till we stopped in Saint Louis, were up in the north, and mighty well treated. When the Kelley family first came to Springfield they only brought six slaves with them. Then you know there is that old Aunt Creecy, the free negro in Springfield. Action: (Hub-bub of talk among those on the stage, looking toward a point R 3 but without congested crowding.) (Enter R 1, Mrs. Lehigh, holding parasol over her head, and accompanied by Tom, her servant.) (Enter L 2 Mrs. Matthorn, with parasoL accompanied by Dan, her servant, carrying large basket on his arm.) MRS. LEHIGH: (Advancing toward Mrs. Matthorn, who moves toward her) Good morning, Mrs, Matthorn! Are you coming to the auction this morning, too? My Liza is getting old and feeble, and I want a new maid for the second floor. I have heard that Col, Dudley has some fine slaves that he wants to sell. Twenty-Hine MRS. MATTHORN: Gootl morning, Mrs. Lehigh! Well, I was not needing a woman slave so much as I do want a good likely boy to look after the stables, but if there happens to be a good, strong middle-aged woman, I don't know but I might bid on her. Action: (Enter L 4 Col. Jackson and Major Benham.) COL. JACKSON: Major Benham, we thought we would have the pick of all the slaves at the auction today, but it looks as if Mrs. Lehigh and Mrs. Matthorn arc also seeking some new servants. COL. BENHAM: Well, southern courlesy ought not allow us to bid against the ladies, but they will overlook our seeming rudeness, when they know our need of help. Perhaps Col. Dudley will bring quite a number of slaves from his planta- tion in Tennessee. Too bad that the depression caused him to dispose of some of them. Action: (The two men approach the two ladies, greeting them and pronouncing their names.) (During the conversation of the New Orleans people, Lincoln, Hanks and Johnson group at L front, first show interest, then resentment at the conversation regarding slaves.) COL. JACKSON: From the excitement over there among the people at the edge of the walk, it would appear that Col. Dudley is coming. Action: (Additional excitement in the group, which separates to allow the entrance R 4 of Col. Dudley, followed by his slaves, Sam and Dick, each holding the mulatto slave, Lily, by an arm. A number of other colored slaves, both men and women, of assorted ages, some of them bound together by ropes, and including a couple of children, enter. Col. Dudley motions Sam and Dick to place Lily on the pedestal, accom- panied by his overseer, Hardcastle, who carries a long lash whip.) DUDLEY: (To overseer) Hardcastle, hurry down to the office of the auctioneer, Richard Sampson, and ask him to hurry. Tell him that we are here now and ready for the auction. Hardcastle exits L 1, while those on the stage appear im- patient. Hardcastle returns in a few moments with the auc- tioneer.) DUDLEY: Good morning, Mr. Sampson! We will have to im- pose on you more than we had planned today. I found that having sold some of my acres, I could get along with less help on the plantation. First of all I would like to put up Lily. SAMPSON: Ladies and Gentlemen. Probably everyone stand- ing here before me today knows the extent of Col. Dudley's plantation, and that all his slaves have been well fed and taken care of and will be in fine condition. Lily, here, has been trained by Col. Dudley's housekeeper to perform the finer kinds of household duties, such as waiting on table, attending to the wishes of her mistress and other household duties. What am I offered? What do I hear? Action: (Citizens gather round the slave platform. Aunt Judy, a negro fortune teller, suddenly starts, grasps the arm of a negro standing beside her, and excitedly points at Lincoln, rushes across the stage, and exclaims.) JUDY: Marsa, Marsa, let me tell your fortune. I see great things for you. Action: (Hanks and Johnson laugh heartily and slap Lincoln on the back, who joins in their merriment.) LINCOLN: Go away from here, I don't believe very much in fortune telling. JOHNSON: That's what he says, but he is always talking about the dreams and visions he had, and it is strange how many of them come to pass. (Turning to Lincoln! Go ahead, Abe, it won't do any harm to hear what she has to say. Action: (Judy takes Lincoln's right hand in her left hand anil tracing marks in his rigiit hand. looks upward and mumbles, suddenly lets go of his hand and shouts.) JUDY: Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! I see the salvation of the Lord. He will make you President of the United States. You will set all the slaves free. Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! (turn- ing. Aunt Judy runs back to the other slaves, whispering and they become very excited.) LINCOLN: Come back here, and I will give you -onie pennies for that. Action: (Aunt Judy just shakes her head and waves her arms in joyful excitement.) MRS. LEHIGH: I would like to know just how active Lily can be. Col. Dudley won't you have her step down off the plat- form and walk around in front of us? LILY: (Kneeling, clasping her hands, then outstretching them toward Col. Dudley.) Please, Mars Dudley, don't sell me away from the plantation. My folks are getting ole, and Mammy will die with grief if you sell me away. HARDCASTLE: (Flicking at her with his whip) Jump down off that platform, Lily and move around. Action: (Lily sinks down farther on her knees, burying her face in her hands, Sam and Dick ascend platform and help her arise and step down off the platform.) Move around, Lily, turn around, and raise your arms, and keep them up. (While Lily's arms are up. Col. Jackson moves toward her and places a hand upon her left arm, moving back, nodding his head approvingly.) JACKSON: She seems good and sound to me. I will bid $150. Action: (Abraham Lincoln clenches his fist and starts toward the group surrounding the slaves. Hanks and Johnson re- strain him.) LINCOLN: (In an aside to Hanks and Johnson) Boys, I just cannot stand it. I never saw anything so horrible before in all my life. HANKS: Hold yourself in, Abe, that's the way tlie.-e people have been brought up. It does not mean a thing to them. MRS. LEHIGH: I will raise that bid to S175, Mr. Sampson. MAJOR BENHAM: I will make it $200. SAMPSON: $200, $200, I am bid, what do I hear? $200. MRS. MATTHORN: (Closing her parasol and handing it to Dan) I will give you $250 Mr. Sampson. It's more than she ought to be worth, but as she is young and strong. I will take a chance. COL. DUDLEY: Y'ou can let your arms down, Lily. (Lily buries her face in her hands, apparently sobbing.) JOHN JOHNSON : (In an aside to Lincoln) We belter be going. Abe. You are getting excited. I never saw you worked up so before in all my life. You probably were not so mad not even when those seven darkies tried to kill you on that flat boat last year. LINCOLN: Let's get away from all this. If ever I get a chance to hit this thing called slavery, I will hit it hard! Let's be going. (Exit Lincoln, Hanks and Johnson, L 1.) Action: (The first group of negroes who had crossed the stage singing at the opening of the scene, gradually re-assemble on the stage L 1 during the auctioning of Lily. While Lincoln and his friends are departing, ihcy hum a mournful spiritual.) HARDCASTLE: Sam and Dick put Lily back on the block. SAMPSON: Everybody come up closer and we will go on with the sale. Action: (All move to back of stage to auction block. Humming negroes crossing stage and leaving L 4. Middle stage curtain closes.) End of Scene Thirty INTERLUDE 5 CHARACTERS HISTORY Reverend Walter R. Cremeans, D.D. ETERNITY Reverend John T. Thomas, D.D. HISTORY: Here it is recorded that the Salem voyagers left their flat boat at New Orleans, as it could not return against Mississippi's current. By steamer to Saint Louis, thence, walking across country to Edwardsville. After brief rest, the journey took Lincoln to a visit at the Coles county home to which his roving father had moved from the Sangamon cabin of the deep snow year. Twenty-two years old, no longer under legal obligation to work for his father, he felt free to journey on to New Salem. ETERNITY: No warmer friend ever had a youth than Denton Offut was to Lincoln. Within his care he placed his village store. Scene Six JNEW SALEM DAYS Denton Offut Store Fall of 1831-32-33 CHARACTERS ABRAHAM LINCOLN Richard Morrisey JAMES RUTLEDGE, the Innkeeper Kenneth MRS. JAMES RUTLEDGE Mary Murphy ANNE RUTLEDGE, daughter of James Julie Eadie DENTON OFFUT, store owner Marcus Trosius BENNET ABEL Lewis Kaufmann MRS. BENNET ABEL Catherine Higgins MARY OWEN, sister of Mrs. Abel from Kentucky M.\RY Fortune HENRY ONSTOT, village cooper Albert Nicodemus MENTOR GRAHAM, village school master Jerome Murray JOHN M. CAMERON, Rutledge's partner in the mill and dam Frank Pfieffer JOHN CLARY, owner of Clary GroVe Saloon Jack Moore WILLIAM CLARY, his brother Elmer Brockman JACK ARMSTRONG, best wrestler, Clary Grove gang Edward Sharp MRS. JACK ARMSTRONG Mabel O'Brien ROWAN HERNDON, friend of Rutledge Raymond Ernst BILL KIRKPATRICK, defrauded Lincoln. SAMUEL HILL, courting Anne Rutledge Harold Hitzeman JOHN McNAMAR, courting Anne Rutledge. DAVID RUTLEDGE, Anne's brother C. A. Neerm\n HENRY SINCO, Village Constable. CLARY GROVE GANG— Victor Herman, Boleslaw Holzman, Robert Behrend. MOTHER MORRIS Rose Maloney MILITARY MESSENGER E Jaech CONSTABLE SINCO Elmer Wehrspann (Enter L 1 Bennett Abel and Mrs. Abel, Mrs. Abel's sister, Mary Owen.) (Enter R 3 John McNamar.) McNAMAR: Good morning, Mr. Abel! How do you do, Mrs. Abel. You must have risen early this morning to be over here at this hour. Village folks are all pretty busy around their household duties yet. Should not wonder, though, but maybe Abe Lincoln is in the store. MRS. ABEL: Have you met my sister, Mary Owen from Ken- tucky, Mr. McNamar? She has only been here a few days. She has not had a chance to meet many of the New Salem people yet, but I know she will like them. McNAMAR: The Salem people will certainly like your sister, Mrs. Abel, if I am any judge. MARY OWEN: How do you do, Mr. McNamar. (Smiling to her sister.) The Illinois men are just as gallant in their speech as our Kentucky friends. ABEL : Haven't seen Archer Herndon around here today, have you, Mr. McNamar. We deal together in hides and thinc^ that I raise on my farm. McNAMAR: I thought I saw him over there near Henry On- stot's cooper shop. Think he wanted to get a tire fixed on his buggy. I'll go down there with you. (As all move toward R 1 and leave, Abraham Lincoln enters L 4, with large, shabby book in his hand, intently reading, movmg diagonally across stage toward center. Enter R 1, Anne Rutledge with dainty 'Kiss-Me-Quick' poke bonnet' and sprays of autumn leaves and golden rod in her arm. She' approaches Lincoln, peeps at him, coquettishly, around the brim of her bonnet and coughing. Lincoln apparentlv too absorbed in his book to notice anything. Anne moves almost directly in front of Lincoln, drops spray of leaves and stoops to pick them up. Lincoln almost walks over her, pausing suddenly, rising on tip toes as though aware he would have brushed her with one more step.) LINCOLN: (Face lighting with joy, closes book, places under left arm and picks up spray for Anne. Opens book, and place* spray between the leaves.) Oh! Ann! I did not think that you could be so near without my knowing it. When did you come here? ANNE: I might have been here half the morning without you knowing anything about it, if you had a book in your hand. What is that you are reading? I never saw that book before. LINCOLN: The other day I bought a barrel of junk and took It into the store. Wanting to use the barrel, I dumped out the contents on the floor, intending to burn them, and found this old book, which is one of the greatest treasures that has ever come into my possession. ANNE: What is it, Abe? With your love for Shakespeare, and Aesops Fables, I am surprised to hear you call any other book a great treasure. LINCOLN: This is Blackstone's book on the law. From begin- ning to end it is filled with things that I should like to know, and that every young man should know. (Enter Ann Rutledge's brother David, R 2.) DAVID: Hello, Anne! You were not looking for me, were you? I did not expect to get back from Jacksonville until tomor- row. ANNE: Oh, David! I am so ghid you are here now. Abe has been talking with me about going to the college in Jackson- ville in the fall when the term opens. You can tell him all about the tuition fee and what accommodations he could have for boarding. DAVID: It will be a fine thing for you, Abe, to go over to Jack- sonville, especially since Anne has decided to go this fall and all three of us will be company for each other (Enter R 2, Mentor Graham.) LINCOLN : Mr. Graham, what do you think I have found, a copv of Blackstone. You will have all your spare time taken up now helping me study it. GRAHAM: Before many days, Abe, you will be able to instruct me. You know, Anne, in all my experience in teaching anv- where in the country, I have never found any one so quick to learn, who could remember so thoroughly, and who could explain so clearly what he had read, as Abraham Lincoln (Enter Denton Offut, L 2.) OFFUT: There are some customers over at the store, Abe. The Abels have come in and want to do a little shopping. (Turn- toward Anne.) When Abe gets hold of a book, Anne, he is lost to all the rest of the world. GRAHAM: But the world will not be lost to him, Denton Offut. Some day words of wisdom, gained from his reading, will be heard by all people. LINCOLN: Shucks! You men are likely to have me all puffed up saying such flattering things. I am a good deal handier with an axe than I am with a book. Thirty-one OFFTT: He is sure enousli handy with an axe, or any other kind of tools, let me tell you, Mentor Graham. You should have seen the slick way tliat he got tliat flathoal over the dam (U)\vn here at the foot of the hill. Anyhody else in charge of a boat like thai would not have known what to do, and it uould have sunk to the bottom of the river. After awhile, before the boat pulls out, we will go down there and I will show you just what a smart plan he used to get the boat over. LINCOLN: Don't wait too long, Mr. Offut, because as soon as we get Herndon's hides all piled up on the boat, we must >tart before the water gets any lower. OFFUT: Did you ever hear the story, Graham, about the seven darkies that attacked Abe last year, when he took another flat boat down the Ohio and Mississippi to New Orleans? GRAHAM: No, what happened? OFFl'T: While he and his partner slept, one night when the boat was tied up at Baton Rouge, seven darkies came on board with clubs to rob the boat. Abe waked up and picked up a big club he had laying beside him. beat up the whole seven and chased them half a mile into the woods. Just look at the mark he has on his head yet, that one of them made with a >killet, while they were fighting. (Enter L 4 Jack and Mrs. Armstrong, John and William Clary, and Clary gang of young men, chattering boisterously, and greeting all on the stage, the groups co-mingling.) (Enter R 1. James and Mrs. Rutledge, Henry Onstot, Mr. and Mrs. Abel, Mary Owen and John Cameron. Mrs. Abel takes Mary Owen's right hand in her left, and they move quickly across the stage to Mrs. Rutledge.) MRS. ABEL: Oh, Mrs. Rutledge! I want you to know my sister, Mary Owen from Kentucky. MRS. RUTLEDGE: (Taking Mary Owen's right hand between both her own hands and clasping it warmly for a moment.) You ought to become a great belle here. Miss Owen. There are plenty of men folks here but mighty few young women. MRS. JACK ARMSTRONG: Perhaps you can help Anne Rut- ledge in her dilemna. Miss Owen. There are three of our voung men here all courting Anne at the same time. I believe I'll let you meet them. Oh, Abe, come over here. Miss Owen, this is Abe Lincoln (Greetings). Sam Hill, you come over here too. I see. Miss Owen, you already know John McNamar. DENTON OFFUT: (Boastingly and pompously) WeU, I will bet S5.00 that Abe Lincoln will be able to get the best of any of the young men in his courting, just as he could be able lo throw any man in all the county in a wrestling match. BILLKIRKPATRICK: Oh, I don't know. I don't think Lincoln i' all that you crack him up to be. ROWAN HERNDON: Better be careful, Kirkpatrick. Lincoln thinks that you beat him out of all that was coming to him when he did that work for you not long ago. JOHN CLARY: Offut, you are a great bragger. You been telling how fine Lincoln is ever since you opened up your store here rnd lie came up to help you. It is about time for a siiow-down. I pick on Jack Armstrong here. He has thrown every other fellow in the countr> around. MRS. ARMSTRONG: Well, John Clary, I hope Lincoln can throw him. Jack has become so headstrong himself thai there is hardly any living with him in the house. OFFUT: I bet S5.00 that Abe can throw Jack. WILJJAM CLARY: 1 \sill jnst take yon up on that. T have been making some money. (Captain Rogue i>aid both Abe and me *KI apiece for piloting his shij), the Talisman down the Sangamon from Portland, near Springfield, to Beardstown. The Captain tbongiit that because of the deep water after the flood last winter, even ocean steam shi|)s minbt come up the river some day. He got the ship up to Portland and the water went down and Lincoln and I had a terrible time getting it back as far as Beardstown. LINCOLN: Everybody knows that I dont like fighting but as this is just a wrestling match to find out who is the best man. I will agree to do that. Let's go over there to that little clear place among those trees where we will have plenty of room. WILLIAM CLARY : Mentor Graham, you hold the stakes. (Lincoln, Armstrong, the Clarys, move quickly off stage R 3. All the others move about, rising on tip toes and looking between each others heads as if watching a wrestling match. Exclamations from off stage of the Clary boys, "Sock him. Jack," "Get an under hold, Abe", etc. Those on the stage also talking excitedly through the match. Armstrong and Lincoln re-enter, smoothing their hair and brushing their bruised faces and bodies with their hands and looking ruefully at each other.) LINCOLN: Folks, we will have to call it a draw. I cannot throw Jack, and Jack cannot throw me, so no use bruising each other up any more than we have. I got off with a few scratche:-, but I managed to squeeze Jack's ribs pretty hard. MRS. ARMSTRONG: I owe you a good big dinner, Abe. You are the first one that ever was able to stand up against Jack. DAVID RUTLEDGE: One has to come home to learn all the news. Abe's clerk. Bill Green, told me Abe intends to run for the legislature. OFFUT: If making good speeches ever elected any politician Abe will win hands down. He talks circles around all the other men who discuss public questions. MENTOR GRAHAM: Tell David Rutledge your platform, Abe. He can spread the news over at Illinois College in Jacksonville. LINCOLN : I am humble Abraham Lincoln. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance, (laughter and head shaking) I favor a national bank, internal improve- ments, and the high protective tariff. If elected to the legis- lature, I will try to have Springfield made the State Capitol, (frantic applause) RUTLEDGE: Abe is able to fill several offices at once. He's the post master, with his mail box inside his hat. and a Deput> Surveyor, and when he is a member of the legislature, that will make three positions. I ought to run for some office myself. One of the Rutledges in '76, signed the Declaration of Independence, and we have had a Governor, and a Judge and others on down the line. lEiUer Mother Morris, with basket on her arm.) MOTHER MORRIS: What's all the crowd gathered around? I came in to buy something. I drove a long distance just to deal with "Honest Abe.'' ANNE RUTLEDGE: How do you do. Mother Morris! 1 have not seen you for a long time. MR. RUTLEDGE: Why do you call him Honest Abe. Mrs. Morris? MRS. MORRIS: A short time ago. when I was in here. I bought a bunou this morning. The Sangamo Journal had the ad in this morning about your open- ing the law office with John T. Stuart. The building where the office is located is just across the street north of here on fifth street. MARY TODD: (In an aside to Ninian Edwards) Oh, Ninian, is that the young man you have been telling me about, who was so helpful in having Springfield made the Capitol of the State? EDWARDS: Yes, that's the very bright young lawyer that we all think will make a high mark one of these days. MRS. EDWARDS: All Springfield is talking about Mr. Lincoln. They appreciate what he has done for the town. It will bring us prosperity and many new citizens. MISS TODD: He must be a very interesting man to know. EDWARDS: Everybody feels that way, Mary, almost as soon as they know him. But we must be going. (Exit Mr. Edwards, Mrs. Edwards and Mary Todd R. 1. During conversation of the Edwardses and Miss Todd, Lincoln advances to counter, places saddle bags on it, shakes hand with Speed.) LINCOLN: Springfield has a new citizen this morning. Speed, but I am afraid one who will not be of much benefit to it. When you came to Springfield, you were able to start in busi- ness right away, and you surely have a fine store here. I must get settled right away, because Mr. Stuart will be expecting me at his office. What would it cost for a bed-stead, and bed- ding that I could use, if I could find some room somewhere? SPEED: It would cost about $17.00 to fit you out with those things, Abe, and then you will need some other things too, if you are going to keep bachelor hall. You will have to have dishes, and a knife and fork and spoon and other things. LINCOLN: Well, I don't know how in the world I can arrange for that as I haven't any money. SPEED: No money? You have just served a term in the legis- lature. What in the world have you done with what you were paid down there? LINCOLN: Well, they did give me the usual salary that is paid to all legislative members, but, you see. Speed, Offut turned over all of his business places to me and now that New Salem is beginning to go down hill, all of them failed and left me owing a lot of debts. I used what money I earned at Vandalia to settle as many of the little debts as I could, and that left me absolutely without a penny. SPEED: No wonder they call you "Honest Abe". Any other man in the world, nearly, would have kept out enough at least for his current expenses before paying old debts. LINCOLN : I wouldn't eat a meal that was paid for with money that I owed to others. You will have to credit me for the S17.00 bed and other things that I may need, if you will. Speed. Whether you would ever get paid for it or not is more than I can tell you now. At any rate I would make every effort to pay for them as soon as money was earned. SPEED: Upstairs over the store here is a large room, where I have a very wide bed and stove and some cliairs and a table. Come up and look at it. If you can put up with it, I will be glad to have you share it with me as long as you care to do so. LINCOLN: Speed, that's one of the most cheering things I have heard in a long time, but it is not like your taking in a stranger. We have Ijeen good friends for many a day. SPEED : You will find a lot of good friends here in Springfield, Lincoln. The whole town knows that it is mainly owing to >(>u tliat it has l)een made tlie (]apitol of the state of Illinois, but come on up stairs and see the room. • Abe picks up ibe saddb- i)ags and liundle. follows Speed off stage R 2, gives saddle bags and bundle to stage hand, in wings, and follows Speed back lo the stage.) LINCOLN: Well, Speed, I have moved! SPEED: I don't believe you brought all your belongings over with you, Abe. You could not have car;-ied in that bundle, your Shakespeare and Blackstone and all the rest of the books you have read over and over. LINCOLN: You can't eat books. Speed, and even if yon could, my creditors took all my books away from me. I will tell you, I am getting mighty hungry. Wonder if there is some boarding house around here where I could get a meal. (Enter William Butler) BUTLER: Howdy, Lincoln! So you have come to live in Spring- field? John Stuart has been bragging about putting your name on the sign on his office over there across the street, and probably is looking for you right now. SPEED : By the way, William, where do you suppose we better send Lincoln to get his dinner. He is hungry from his long trip on horseback from New Salem this morning. BUTLER: Well, there is one place where he will be welcome. Mrs. Butler would feel it a great honor to entertain in her home the man who has helped make Springfield the Capitol. She is credulous enough to hope that some day I may hold a state position and will be glad to have me associate with a statesman who could swing the whole state to Springfield. You can put your feet under my mahogany table as long as you want, Lincoln. It would hurt our feelings if you should ever offer to say one word about pay. Come over and be one of the family. Your company will be more than any money you could give to us. LINCOLN: You are a good friend, Mr. Butler. Some day I may be able to return your kindness and that of Speed here, too. I want to thank both of you from the bottom of my heart. (Enter John T. Stuart, R 1, and William Fleurville, the bar- ber L 2.) STUART: I have been looking for you, Lincoln, all morning. Why didn't you come right up to the office when you reached Springfield? LINCOLN: I had to find a place to stay and clean up a little bit, before I went up to see you. I see my New Salem friend. Billy Fleurville, the barber, has followed my advice and come over to Springfield to open a shop. I suppose. Major Stuart, that you have found out what an expert Billy is with the razor and scissors. Billy can use more big words than all the rest of us know, put together. MAJOR STUART: Billy had an ad in the Sangamo JournaL on March 4th, just after Springfield became the Capitol, when he opened his shop. I cut it out because it seemed so good to me. This is the heading. "Hair Dresser & Barber Shop". Read this to us, Billy. (Hands poem to Fleurville, who reads. t FLEURVILLE : They who would get the public favor Must learn to utter some palaver; Sound their own fame — or at least show They'll hold the trump while others blow. Powders and Puffs, cosmetics too, I'll find All things, indeed, not needed to adorn the mind. To such as care for curls, for top knots seek — Heads I can dress as a la Kemble or as a la Greque. I've skill for those, whose hair to curl or cut. Even those who dash with a bald occiput. And I never force one unnatural grin On those who yield to me tlieir chin. (The four men on stage laugh heart il> and applaud Fleur- ville's poem.) LINCOLN: Are vou willing to trust me for a shave and hair cut, Billy? FLEUR^ ILLE: Mr. Lincoln. Ill give you the most efflorescent hair cut that any barber ever manipulated. Come on down to my Emporium, and I will make you look resplendent. STUART: Billy's shop is not very far from the office and I want you to come up and see how snug we are, Lincoln. (Enter Mrs. Butler, all the men bow and greet her.) Thirty -four BUTLER: I have just invited Mr. Lincoln to come home with me to dinner, Mrs. Butler. It won't be long before you will find us at the house. First he wants to go out and see the new office of Stuart and Lincoln, and then he is going with Billy to the shop for a short time. Then we will all come home. MRS. BUTLER: That is the reason I came down to Joshua's store. When you cronies get talking about the Black Hawk War, or some of your other larks, you forget all about dinner and things get cold. It will be a real pleasure to us to have you come, Mr. Lincoln. I am glad that William invited you. * All exit R 1, Stuart accompanying Mrs. Butler and the others fbatling animatedly.) End of Scene INTERLUDE 7 HISTORY: Erratic is that little god of love, 'Cupid'! His flam- ing arrows, sped from tense drawn bow, found ready target in a lonely breast. Impelling urge for understanding mind, draws Lincoln with firm bands to friendly haunts. Distressed by rift in loving ties, his sadness wakens echoing answer from Srue friends. ETERNITY: True friends indeed are they! This Simeon Fran- c'Si writer clear, and patriot in heroic mold long cast. Keen vision had he of young Lincoln's latent greatness. With woman's intuition, his companion fair, the idol of his home, conspires to bring the parted lovers to reunion, never more to end. Scene Eight HOME OF SIMEON FRANCIS Reunion of Lincoln and Mary Todd 1841 characters SIMEON FRANCIS. Editor Sangamo Journal. ...Carol Reynolds MRS. ELIZA RUMSEY FRANCIS, Wife of Simeon 4 ^v; ; VV ; ,V ; ^^^- Leonora Henkle Starne d^^i^^^ LINCOLN Richard Morrisey JfARYTODD Bertha Proska DANIEL. Colored Waiter Action: (Mrs. Francis enters R 1, with jar of foliage or flowers, placing it upon table in her drawing room. Re-arranges flowers in jar. Enter R 4 Mr. Francis, high hat in hand.) MR. FRANCIS: It may be late before I return tonight, my dear. There's big news to prepare for tomorrow's edition of the Sangamo Journal. MRS. FRANCIS: Oh, Simeon! I have a confession to make to yoo. I want you to wait a little while before you go to the office. 1 ou are to play Cupid tonight. MR. FRANCIS: (Chuckling) That's surely a new role for me. MRS. FRANCIS: Ever since the misunderstanding between Mr. Lincoln and Mary Tood last New Years night, they have both been changed creatures. Mary seems to have lost all the bright sparkle that drew even a Stephen A. Douglas to her court. Mr. Lincoln moves about like a man in a dream, ambition departed, life seemingly without an aim. MR. FRANCIS: What is your plan, Eliza? MRS. FRANCIS: It is already under way. Knowing that the young people would not willingly enter the same room at the same time, I met Mr. Lincoln in Diller's drug store this afternoon, and told him you wanted to ask him something about his theory of what should be done with the money from -ale of government lands, and that I thought you would be home this evening after seven o'clock, and I would be glad to have him come to see you. Then I dropped in at Mrs. Edwards' home and found her sister. Mary, there all alone, arnl invited her over this evening also. MR. FRANCIS: I still don't see where I play Cupid. MRS. FRANCIS: When Mr. Lincoln arrives, you will ask him about the government land money, and after a few moments of your conversation, I will come and ask you to raise the window in the kitchen that seems to be stuck. When you leave the room, I will explain to Mr. Lincoln what I have in mind, ask him to excuse you and will ask him to wait in the dining room until I have talked with Mary. You will then return from the kitchen, excuse yourself and go on down to the office. MR. FRANCIS: What would be the right name for a female Cupid, Eliza? You will be the one to shoot all the arrows tonight. I am only the hobby-horse upon which you are hang- ing your hopes. Action: (Door bell rings, enter Barney L 4.) MRS. FRANCIS: Will you please see who that is at the door, Barney? (Barney moves off stage L 1, re-entering accompanied by Mr. Lincoln. Barney relieves Lincoln of hat, placing it ou the large table on which Mrs. Francis had arranged the flower jar.) (Exit Barney L 4.) MR. FRANCIS: Good evening, Mr. Lincoln! While I am always glad to see you, I am just wondering a little bit why you slopped in this evening. Usually you come around to the office. It is partly due to your anonymous editorials that the Sangamo Journal is gaining so many new readers. MRS. FRANCIS: (Advancing, shaking hands with Mr. Lincoln) Perhaps I had better explain for Mr. Lincoln, Simeon. I told him today, when we met in Diller's drug store, that you wanted to ask him something about the use for Government land sales funds. Please excuse me for a few moments, Mr. Lincoln, while you and Mr. Francis are discussing the fund question. I wish to write a little note in niv librarv. (Exit Mrs. Francis R 2.) MR. FRANCIS: Mr. Lincoln. I know that you have been advo- cating the exclusive use of money from sale of government land for educational purposes, but I remember distinctly the impression made upon many of us at the opening banquet at the American House three years ago, when Joseph Smith, head of the Mormon Church at Nauvoo, so ardently presented the thought of the funds being used by the government to buy all slaves in the entire area of the United States, giving them their freedom. The misunderstanding and bitterness arising between the north and south, on the slavery question is becoming so acute, Mr. Lincoln, that unless some drastic change occurs in the situation, there will surely be war. LINCOLN: The speech by Joseph Smith made a great impres- sion on me also, Mr. Francis. Nevertheless I feel that the greatest need of America today is universal education. With the limitless funds that will in time arise from sale of govern- ment lands, it will be possible to build great colleges and universities. Perhaps right here in Springfield, some day we may see a splendid seat of learning. I have talked with a good many of our prominent citizens and we have even gone so far as to inspect ground in the north east part of town, that now is entirely vacant, where a University of Illinois might be located. Action : (Re-enter Mrs. Francis.) MRS. FRANCIS: Mr. Lincoln, when I invited you this after- noon to my home, I gave you a reason that I felt sure would bring you. However, I have an entirely different motive. If Mr. Francis will pardon me, I will ask him to go on down to the office, where he really is needed this evening, and explain to you what I have in mind. LINCOLN: What you say surprises me beyond measure, Mrs. Francis. However, I know that you are one of my most sincere friends, and that Simeon is more like a brother than merely a friend. (Turning to Francis.) Do not let me detain you, Mr. Francis. We will discuss this vital question of government lands in your office at another time. (Francis lifts hat from table, moving toward Lincoln, he grasps his hand.) Thirty-five FRANCIS: Goodbye, Mr. Lincoln, 1 hope llie nexl time you rome, we can have a longer visit together, and I am very sure that when you do come, it will he for the purpose of pouring out your heartfelt thanks to Mrs. Francis and myself. < Exit Mr. Francis L 1.) MRS. FRANCIS: Won't >ou he seate.l. Mr. Lincoln? ( Both seat themselves near R 2 on chairs or small settee.) It is impossible for us not to know, Mr. Lincoln, of the mis- understanding that has arisen between yourself and Mary Todd. Knowing both of you as 1 do, loving Mary as though she were my own sister, and having a sincere liking for you, I cannot avoid trying to clear up whatever difficulty may have arisen. Mr. Francis and I both believe that the difficulty resulted from some source that can be easily explained, and that once more you and Mary may assume the relationship you had before this unfortunate occurrence. LINCOLN: I am very glad of this opportunity to open my heart to you, Mrs. Francis. All through my life some kindly woman has been my benefactor by wise advice or helpful act. My regard for Mary is more than mere admiration. It is love, aroused by her cheerful disposition, her brilliant mind, and, especially, her great ambition for herself and her friends for the future. MRS. FRANCIS: I have asked Mary to come here tonight, Mr. Lincoln. There is no time now to plan further for your meet- ing, but I will ask you to step into the dining room, leaving the door ajar so that you may overhear our conversation. At what may seem to me the judicious time, I will tell Mary you are here and then yours will be the privilege of adjusting the misunderstanding. LINCOLN: Not for a moment would I hesitate to argue even the most complicated law case. Mrs. Francis, but this time I fear I shall be tongue tied. (Both chuckle, while Mrs. Francis escorts Lincoln to the dining room door, off stage L 3.) < Bell rings, enter Barney L 4, moving toward door.) MRS. FRANCIS: I am expecting Miss Todd, Barney, please bring her righl into the drawing room here without waiting in the hall. (Enter Mary Todd, followed by Barney, who retires L 4. Mrs. Francis and Mary Todd move rapidly toward each other and embrace. Mrs. Francis holding both Mary's hands in hers, and looking earnestly at her countenance, shakes her head sadly, and assists her in removing hat.) MRS. FRANCIS: Mary. Darling, all that pretty color that you usually have has disappeared. When the heart is sick, one cannot smile. I know of the rift in your friendship with Abraham Lincoln. What can we do to bring you two together again? MARY TODD: To me it seems, Eliza, that all the joy has gone out of life. I miss the pleasant hours spent with Mr. Lincoln, so manv of them here in your own familiar room. You know both Mr. and Mrs. Edwards have not yet fully realized the ir<*men'lous intellect of Mr. Lincoln, and do not encourage his visits. MRS. FRANCIS: You realize his worth, Mary. How many times T have heard you say, both in his presence and when he was awav, that you had no doubt some day he would be President of the Ignited Slates. MARY TODD: It's true! I know it is true! It would be the crowning joy of my life to help him win that high office. MRS. FRAN(]IS: Prepare for a real surprise, Mary. Your hope will be fulfilled. Wait here a moment. I'll soon return. Action: (Exit to dining room. Returns with Lincoln. Points toward Mary. Hastily exits.) MARY TODD: (Clasping hands on breast, draws back several steps.) Oh! Ob! Oh! Mr. Lincoln! Did you overhear our conversation? LINCOLN: Mary! Mary! My own Mar> ! (Very slowly they approach each other, eyes holding eyes, arms exIenchMl. As their hands clasp, the curtains close on inotidiiless tableau.) End oi .Srene INTERLUDE 8 ETERNITY: Joy bells ring out! A wedding night arrives. Hos- pitable mansion of a Governor's son. Two hearts unite, and till Heaven's mission is fulfilled, together will they tread the upward path. HISTORY: Once more a woman's hand outstretched will point the way to fame. Sustained, inspired, impelled by faithful wife, a hero of unrivalled magnitude, like flaming meteor sweeps the mortal skies. Scene Nine HOME OF NINIAN EDWARDS Wedding of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd November 4, 1842 CHARACTERS NINIAN WIRT EDWARDS Ken.neth Allen ELIZABETH TODD EDWARDS, His Wife Mary McDonali. MARY' TODD, Sister of Mrs. Edwards and Mrs. Wallace Bertha Proska \BRAHAM LINCOLN Richard Morrisev DR. WILLIAM WALLACE The Reverend Jerry Wallace FRANCES TODD WALLACE, His Wife Florence Pattison REV. CHARLES DRESSER MRS. CHARLES DRESSER Jane Clements WILLIAM BUTLER Major William Butler MRS. WILLIAM BUTLER Sxllie Perkins JAMES C. CONKLING C. A. Neerman JULIA JAYNE, Bridesmaid for Mary Todd Margaret Ellen Jayne JAMES L. LAMB MRS. JAMES L. LAMB Anne Knox MRS. THOMAS MATHER Katherine Mather BENJAMIN EDWARDS MRS. BENJAMIN EDWARDS SIMEON FRANCIS Carol Reynolds ELIZABETH RUMSEY FRANCIS, His Wife Mrs. Leonora Starne JOHN WILLIAMS John Williams Blvck MRS. JOHN WILLIAMS Mrs. Edna Orendorkk MuPhkrson PASCAL ENOS Ozivs M. Hatch. H MRS. PASCAL ENOS Mrs. Ozias M. Hatch ELIJAH ILES MRS. ELIJAH ILES Rosemary Sheehan WASHINGTON ILES Gregory McFall MRS. WASHINGTON ILES Elevnor Hefferon CHARLES R. MATHENY Rodman Mathenv MRS. CHARLES R. MATHENY Mrs. Rodman Matheny JUDY, Colored Servant Michelina Brxcio ELIZABETH KECKLEY. Mulatto Dressmaker (Enter R 2, Mrs. Edwards, followed by Jud>.i MRS. EDWARDS: Judy, it is almost time for the su»"->'--* }(* arrive. As they come to the door, you send the men upstair* to the large room on the right and the ladie- to my own bedroom, to leave their wraps. Mary has certainlv taken u> by surprise. It is the first time that I have ever heard of a wedding among our friends where the hostes> of the house, in which the wedding was to be held, did not bav.- at least a full day of advance notice. JUDY: WelL you know. Mrs. E. Dr. Wallace with large basket covered with white cloth.* JUDY: Bett«-r go upstairs. Mrs. Wallace, and leave your wrap>. Thirlv-six MRS. WALLACE: I don't want to wait for that until we take this basket out into the kitchen. All the neighbors are plan- ning to send in something to help out sister Elizabeth. There are a great many people coming in after the wedding cere- mony and we want to have plenty of everything for them. DR. WALLACE: May I help you, Elizabeth, in receiving your friends? MRS. EDWARDS: You are both so kind. Indeed you may, William. You help Judy direct the men to their room and tell them to come right back as soon as they have left their wraps. Frances, I will depend upon you to help me see that the tables are all prepared. (Exit R 4, Frances Wallace, with Judy carrying the basket. Dr. Wallace Exit L 1. Mrs. Wallace returns and helps receive guests, Judy hastens across and exits L 1. Enter William and Mrs. Butler, accompanied by James Conkling and Julia Jayne. Mention names while greeting.) WILLIAM BUTLER: We will be lost at our house after tonight, Mrs. Edwards. Mr. Lincoln has been staying with us ever since our friend Joshua Speed went back to Louisville to help his widowed mother look after the vast estate of the Speed family, almost two years ago. MRS. BUTLER : Of course you know, Mrs. Edwards, where Mr. Lincoln and Mary are going after the wedding? MRS. EDWARDS: Yes, indeed, they have made arrangements for rooms over in the Globe Tavern on Adams Street. JAMES CONKLING: Lincoln met me on the street late this afternoon and told me to be sure and be here, in case he needed some one to stand up with him. JULIA JAYNE: (Running to Mrs. Edwards and throwing her arms about her in girlish enthusiasm.) Oh! Mrs. Edwards! You know Mary has asked me to be her bridesmaid. How do I look? (She pirouettes before Mrs. Edwards. All present smile and applaud approvingly.) MRS. EDWARDS: No one ever had a sweeter bridesmaid, Julia. But be careful; don't stand up three times with other people or you will be an old maid. JAMES CONKLING: She will not be an old maid if Lyman Trumble has anything to say about it. JULIA JAYNE: Oh, James, why do you say such things in front of everybody? I must hurry to Mary's room so that I can be with her when she enters during the wedding march. (Exit Julia L 1.) (Re-enter L 1 Dr. Wallace with Ninian Edwards, followed by Rev. and Mrs. Charles Dresser, James L. Lamb and Mrs. Lamb, Simeon Francis and Mrs. Francis, John Williams and Mrs. Williams, Pascal Enos and Mrs. Enos, Mrs. Thomas Mather, Benjamin Edwards and Mrs. Edwards, Elijah lies and Mrs. lies, Washington lies and Mrs. lies, Charles R. Matheny and Mrs. Matheny.) NINIAN EDWARDS: I had hoped, Elizabeth, to be home before any of the guests arrived, but I wanted to bring Rev. Dresser and his wife with me in the carriage, which detained me a little while. (Greetings, names mentioned.) REV. DRESSER: Mrs. Edwards, your husband is always so con- siderate in looking after the comfort of his friends. I appre- ciate his calling for me. Where would you like me to stand for the ceremony? MRS. NINIAN EDWARDS: The place we have selected is by the south wall in the center of the room as it will give a better opportunity for all of the guests to witness the ceremony. (Rev. Dresser moves to back center of stage. During ensuing conversation, Ninian Edwards moves about among guests making them feel at home.) (Enter Judy, L 1 with Elizabeth Keckley, who remains stand- ing near L 1, Judy advancing towards Mrs. Edwards, but remaining at least ten feet away.) JUDY: Mrs. Edwards, Elizabeth Keckley is here and wants to know is Miss Mary will need any help with her bridal veil. MRS. EDWARDS: Indeed she will, Judy. None of the four Todd sisters would feel that they were properly dressed for a party unless Elizabeth Keckley looked them over. Judy, take Elizabeth to Miss Mary's room immediately. (Judy and Elizabeth Keckley leave L 1.) MRS. EDWARDS: (turning to Mrs. Francis) You know, Eliza Francis, that Elizabeth makes all of our dresses. We depend upon her taste in many of the details. Mrs. Lamb, have you ever tried Elizabeth Keckley for your dressmaking? With all of those girls of yours, just beginning to grow up, you should have lots of work to give her. MRS. LAMB: Thank you for recommending her, Mrs. Edwards. Some of the girls are starting to high school and will need new frocks. JAMES LAMB: (turning to Benjamin Edwards and James Conkling) Perhaps now that Abraham is to be married, he will soon return to his old time happy moods. It's months since I have heard him make one of the jokes that are always so appropriate to the subject he wants to illustrate. JAMES CONKLING: Not only have we missed his jokes, Mr. Lamb, but we have noticed a sorrowful attitude in his de- meanor. Before this mood of sadness came upon him, I had written to my fiancee, Mercy Levering in Philadelphia, that when Mr. Lincoln was on the platform he somehow reminded me of a Jupiter bending down from heaven toward earth. (Simeon Francis, overhearing remarks of Mr. Lamb and Mr. Conkling, joins the group.) SIMEON FRANCIS: It is satisfying to be able to tell you, gentle- men, that some weeks ago my good wife, Mrs. Francis, through a little romantic plot that she devised, brought the parted couple together at our home. When she informed me, earlier that evening of her intention to attempt a reconciliation be- tween them, I could not imagine any possible way of doing it without an unpleasant scene ensuing. Buf Mrs. Francis brought it all about with her customary tact. Since then, both of them have taken a renewed interest in life, and we firmly believe they will 'live happily together ever after.' MRS. MATHER: (to Mrs. Pascal Enos) Mrs. Edwards has just told me, Mrs. Enos, that Abraham and Mary are to live at the Globe hotel. I am so glad. You know we have a delightful, little neighborhood here, with the Lambs only a block away from my home on Second street, and the Edwardses here in our same block. Mary has been so vivacious that we have never been at a loss for entertainment since she came to Springfield. JAMES CONKLING: All of us who know Mary, Mrs. Mather, have the same feeling. Don't think I am quoting Mercy's name too often, for of course you know I write to her three or four times a week, and in my last letter I said, "Mary Todd is the very creature of excitement." She captivates the fancy of even men like Stephen A. Douglas, but she has always been impartial, never unduly encouraging anyone in their friend- ship. < To Ninian Edwards) Mr. Edwards, had you not better come with me to join the bridal party? If vou will excuse me, Mrs. Mather, I will wait the arrival of Abraham in the hall. (Exit L 1 Ninian Edwards with James Conkling.) BENJAMIN EDWARDS: (drawing John Williams and Pascal Enos aside to L near front.) There have been many surmises concerning the recent rift in the friendship of Abraham and Mary. Some of us are aware of her excitable nature. What do you think, Pascal Enos, would be the reaction upon Abraham if Mary should sometimes be temperamental? PASCAL ENOS: Lincoln told me the other day about a letter he had written to Joshua Speed, who has gone to his old home in Kentucky to stay; in answer to a letter in which Speed was worrying about his own matrimonial prospects. Lincoln wrote, "If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter." WILLIAMS: Gentlemen, I remember another little comment that I once heard Abraham make that might very well apply to such a case as that. He said, "If you have an unruly horse, break it by kindness." (Elijah lies and Washington lies, with Charles Matheny have moved during preceding conversation, casually toward R 1.) Thirty-seven ELIJAH ILES: Gossiping citizens often question marriages between people of different social stations. Many of them have heard only of the early years of poverty of Abraham. All of them who know the Edwards family, are aware of the cultural advantages and social prestige of the Todd sisters in Lexington, Kentucky, before they came to Springfield. CHARLES MATHENY: There is illustrious history back of the families on both sides. It is a suitable union of families that for generations have endeavored to overcome religious and political tyranny. WASHINGTON ILES: Many generations ago, Mary had a Scotch-Irish Covenantor ancestor, David Todd, who fled to Ireland to escape religious persecution in England. Not so long ago, when Daniel Boone gave over command of the Kentucky state militia, Mary's uncle, Levi Todd, assumed command as Major General. All of the Todd sisters were frequent visitors at the elegant country estate, "Ellerslie" of Major General Todd, where they acquired the fine taste that has made their homes here in Springfield so attractive. On his maternal side, one of Lincoln's ancestors, a Hanks, fought in the army of Cromwell against political tyranny. On the Lincoln side, Abraham's grandfather was a prosperous citizen of Virginia. MRS. DRESSER: The hour is approaching, Mrs. Edwards, that you announced for the ceremony. Will you indicate to us where you would like us to stand as the bridal party enter? (Mrs. Edwards begins indicating places to various people at the sides of the stage. While she is doing so, Mrs. Benjamin Edwards, Mrs. John Williams, Mrs. Pascal Enos, Mrs. Elijah lies and Mrs. Washington lies, draw each other into a gossip- ing group front center.) MRS. WASHINGTON ILES: Why in the world do you suppose Mary was in such haste at the last moment to have the cere- mony performed? Of course we all know of a misunderstand- ing that had occurred between Mary and Mr. Lincoln. MRS. ENOS: Possibly Mary wanted to avoid making any more trouble for her sister, Elizabeth Edwards, than was necessary, in providing an elaborate wedding. I doubt if she expected that Mrs. Edwards would invite any of us here tonight. MRS. ELIJAH ILES: Mary might have known that Mrs. Edwards could never be taken so much by surprise but what she would provide abundant entertainment for any guests. It is typical of Kentucky hospitality. (Mrs. Simeon Francis, who had been intently following the conversation of the ladies, joins their group.) MRS. SIMEON FRANCIS: Probably only Julia Jayne and I know how deeply Mary Todd regretted the broken friendship with Mr. Lincoln. She had talked with me about going back to live in Louisville, saying that it broke her heart to see him passing by without any sign of recognition, and that his changed appearance told her that he felt as deeply the break- ing of their friendship as she did herself. Many a night I have spent sleepless hours trying to devise some method of a reconciliation between them. Then, one day, hanpening to meet Mr. Lincoln, in Mr. Diller's Drug Store, the thought came like a flash, "Why not invite them separately to my home?" I told Mr. Lincoln that my husband wanted to talk to him on his favorite subject, government funds used for educational purposes. He agreed to come to see him. From the drug store I hastened over to Mrs. Edwards' home, here, and invited Mary to come to see me that same evening. I will not tell you all that passed then, but you see the happy result now. MRS. WILLIAMS: Anyhow, we are here. We all love Mary, and know that Abraham is one of the finest men in all the world. We will unite in wishing them long life, health and prosperity. MRS. BENJAMIN EDWARDS: Oh, Girls! Elizabeth Edwards has everybody in place for the ceremony. We must not delay the entrance of the bride and groom. (The group of women disperse and join their respective hus- bands.) MRS. NINIAN EDWARDS: I have asked Howard Estabrook, who has organized our first choral society, to have his accom- panist play the wedding march. Mr. Edwards, will you please notify Mr. Estabrook to have the music begin? (Music Starts. Wedding march from Lohengrin. Rev. Dresser opens wedding ceremony book at back center. Enter L 1 Ninian Edwards with Mary Todd's right hand resting on his left arm, followed by the bridesmaid, Julia Jayne. They advance in time to music to front center, turn and move toward back stage. Ninian Edwards a little to left of the minister, facing him. Mary Todd slightly to the right of Rev. Dresser, Julia Jayne to the left of Mary, both facing Reverend Dresser. As they reach their position, Mary hands the floral boquet to Julia. As they assume that position, before Rev- erend Dresser. Abraham Lincoln, accompanied by James Conkling, on his right, enter L 1 over to center and back. Mr. Lincoln taking his position to right of Ninian Edwards, with James Conkling at right of Lincoln. As Mr. Edwards steps back and motions Lincoln to take his place beside Mary Todd, the curtains close.) End of Scene INTERLUDE 9 (Enter Eternity, History and Humanity, conversing in serious mood, moving majestically to front center.) HUMANITY: Three years and three decades have spun their web of fate. Oh! thou foreteller of events. Eternity, since thou the mirror held before mine eyes, of one ordained to break the bonds of slaves, to free the oppressed, to weld a Union beyond fear of future separation. HISTORY: A portion only of that portent now has been ful- filled, Humanity, thou Mother of Mankind. Events more fateful soon their course will run. Eternity will lift the veil that thou may learn the sequel. ETERNITY: Again, Humanity, a woman's hand will lend assist- ing strength. A Mary Todd unites conviction of a Lincoln's power with boundless faith that Providence will lead him on. To highest peak e'er known to mortal aspiration will Lincoln mount with steady tread. On him alone will burden rest, of guiding to safe haven the threatened Ship of State. HUMANITY: The vision thou hast shown. Oh! History! por- trays a nation smiling, prosperous, rich. From ocean in the east to peaceful shore of western sea stretch fertile lands, enriched by Labor's hands; full streams of commerce flow with ever growing founts of wealth. Between thy lines, Eternity, I read prediction dire. Perchance thou wilt unfold great sorrow for the land. ETERNITY: Troublous the times! Fierce conflicts surge; a nation in the throes of overwhelming strife. Dread though the turmoil be, at last solution will be found. HUMANITY: Will my sad children, they of dusky hue. now bound in human slavery, at last be free? Will Union threat- ened now, be saved? ETERNITY: The Omnipotent power that through long years evolved the superman, the Lincoln great, this nation will anew create; all those in bondase will be free; threat ne'er again shall rise of severance of Union ties. HUMANITY: Canst thou predict the time that must elapse before this peaceful nation shall be rent with strife? ETERNITY: In two decades from now a nation's choice will be this superman. With his ascent to power, will discord come. One half the third decade will cover scenes of carnage, tragic, dread. HUMANITY: And at the end of carnage shall further fame to Lincoln come? ETERNITY: Destiny will claim him in his prime. His tasks fulfilled, to other hands be binding of all wounds. Thirty-eight - Scene Ten HOME OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN First Written Suggestion Regarding The Presidency April 16, 1859 CHARACTERS ABRAHAM LINCOLN Richard Morrisey MRS. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Bertha Proska (Hallway of the Lincoln home, dimly lighted, showing hat rack on which hangs Mr. Lincoln's high hat, with small walnut table beside hat rack.) (Enter R 2 Mr. Lincoln. Tiptoes toward rack and takes hat, moves toward R 1 looking over shoulder as though wishing to avoid disturbing the family. Page of an open letter and unsealed envelope in his right hand.) (Enter L 3 Mrs. Lincoln with lighted candle.) MRS. LINCOLN: Why, Mr. Lincoln, where are you going at this late hour? MR. LINCOLN: Oh, I just want to mail a letter that should go out on the early morning mail. I will be right back after I go to the post oflfice. MRS. LINCOLN: It's too late now. You can mail it tomorrow just as well. There is no letter important enough to make you lose your sleep. By the way, what is in that letter that you are so anxious to get it off? MR. LINCOLN: Oh. it is just a letter from Mr. T. J. Pickett, editor of the Rock Island Register, asking me to allow him to submit my name to the newspaper editors of Illinois as candidate for the Presidency. MRS. LINCOLN: (Enthusiastically) Oh, Mr. Lincoln! My prophecy will be fulfilled! I have always said that some day you would be president of the United States and that will surely come to pass. What did you write Mr. Pickett? MR. LINCOLN: (Hesitatindy) Why, Mary, Oh, I just wrote him it was foolish for him to think of such a thing when there were so many more prominent men in the new Republi- can party who would be sure of election and I could only count on a few of my close friends to take an interest in my candidacy. MRS. LINCOLN: Let me see Mr. Pickett's letter. MR. LINCOLN: Oh, you don't want to see it. As you said, it is getting late anyhow. I want to go to the post office and mail it. MRS. LINCOLN: I insist, I must see that letter. MR. LINCOLN: He wants me to come to Rock Island and deliver a lecture, but it is what he said in the next paragraph that will interest you most. (Mr. Lincoln hands letter to Mrs. Lincoln, who places candle on table, and reads.) MRS. LINCOLN: (Reading) "I would like to have a talk with you on political matters, as to the policy of announcing your name for the Presidency, while you are in our city. My partner and myself are about addressing the Republican editors of the State on the subject of a simultaneous announce- ment of vour name for the Presidency." (After reading the letter) Well, you certainly should permit him to present your name. There is no question but that his letter to all the editors of the state will have great weight, and it may be the first shot in a battle that will bring you victory. MR. LINCOLN: Well, I will go on down and mail the answer. MRS. LINCOLN: Hand me your answer. You have not sealed the envelope yet. let me read it. (Mr. Lincoln withdraws the answer from the envelope and hands it to Mrs. Lincoln, who reads aloud.) "Springfield, April 16, 1859. T. J. Pickett, Esq. My Dear sir: Yours of the 13th is just received. My engagements are such that I cannot at any very early day visit Rock Island to deliver a lecture or for any other subject. As to the other matter you kindly mention, I must in candor say I do not think myself fit for the Presidency. I certainly am flattered and gratified that some partial friends think of me in that connection; but I really think it best for our cause that no concerted effort, such as you suggest, should be made." (Mrs. Lincoln, holding the letters in her hands, drops her arms by her side, and stares at Mr. Lincoln in utter amaze- ment.) MRS. LINCOLN : Mr. Lincoln, I will have to tell you that while it does not work to your advantage, your genuine modesty is one of the reasons that your friends appreciate you. You are throwing away a wonderful opportunity, but if sending this answer will make you feel more comfortable, send it along. (Mrs. Lincoln hands both papers to Mr. Lincoln, who inserts the answer in the envelope, and stuffs Pickett's letter on the inside band of his hat.) (Lincoln kisses Mrs. Lincoln on the forehead and exits R 1.) MRS. LINCOLN: Don't forget to seal the letter. (As he departs, Mrs. Lincoln calls to him.) Picket will live to see you presi- dent yet. (Moves to table, lifts candle, exit L 3.) End of Scene INTERLUDE 10 HISTORY: A seeress true was Mary Todd, the Lincoln wife who long foresaw fulfillment of her ardent hopes. Each pass- ing year fresh impulse gave to soaring thoughts, to patriot dreams. In conflicts wide with brilliant wits, with Douglas, worthy of his steel was sharpened sword of burning zeal. ETERNITY: He takes the helm, he steers the course, through wildest tempest known of men! His the acclaim a nation gave, a faith that never was betrayed. Scene Eleven LINCOLN NOMINATED Friday, May 18, 1860 SCENE— In Front of Illinois State Journal Office, North Sixth St. CHARACTERS ABRAHAM LINCOLN Richakd Morkisey JAMES C. CONKLING C. A. Neerman CLINTON L. CONKLING, Son of James, Aged 17 Years Harry Grubb EDWARD L. BAKER, Editor Illinois State Journal Frank Dirke DAVID L. PHILLIPS, Publisher of Illinois State Journal James Aylward CHARLES H. LANPHIER, Editor State Register J. Becer Group of Spiritual Singers, Represented by Lincoln Liberty Chorus Leader of Spiritual Singers, Represented by Jerome Singleton YOUNG AMERICA BAND, Represented by Springfield Colored Municipal Band Leader of Band, Represented by Herbert Allen (Citizens appearing in previous scenes rushing wildly on the stage, waving their arms frantically, and shouting, "Hurrah for Lincoln! Lincoln's nominated," etc.) (Enter Lincoln L 4, telegram in left hand, pushing hastily through crowd to front center, behind him Clinton L. Conk- ling, Edward L. Baker, David L. Phillips. As Lincoln nears front center, a wild shout arises. Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! for Lincoln.) Thirty-nine CHARLES H. LANPHIER : (Pushing through crowd to Lincoln, from L 1 followed by James C. Conkling, extending his hand to Lincoln.) Wonderful day for Springfield, Mr. Lincoln! Your nomination guarantees your election. What does your telegram say? LINCOLN : I will always remember this boy here, Mr. Lanphier. (Places right arm about shoulder of Clinton Conkling, and drawing him toward front.) I was up in the Journal office and Clinton Conkling came running up the steps shouting, "Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Lincoln, you are nominated." LANPHIER: What does your message say, Mr. Lincoln? We want to make a big display of it in the Register. LINCOLN: (holding up the paper and reading) "Mr. Lincoln, you are nominated on the third ballot." (more wild cheering) EDWARD BAKER : We want you to make our office over at the Journal your headquarters during the campaign, Mr. Lincoln. The paper will be all yours from now on, until after the election. DAVID PHILLIPS: We will have an extra edition next Novem- ber, Mr. Lincoln, when we announce your triumphant election. JAMES CONKLING: Yes, and on the 4th of next March we will give you a larger house than the one down on Eighth street, the White House at Washington. LINCOLN: Thank you for that, Mr. Conkling. It reminds me of the house I live in at present. (Turning to every side and extending his arms from his shoulders, as if including all) My friends, I am glad to receive your congratulations. As there is a little/ woman down on Eighth Street who will be glad to hear the news, you must excuse me until I inform her. (Moves hastily away R 4, telegram in hand, followed by the throng.) JAMES C. CONKLING: Clinton, my son, you run over there to the square and bring the Young America Band. Tell the leader we want to go down and serenade Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln. (Clinton runs hastily off stage L 2.) CHARLES LANPHIER: All the colored people in Springfield will be delirious with joy today when they hear about Lincoln. Look yonder, there comes the colored church choir now. Listen, you can hear them singing way off yonder. DAVID L. PHILLIPS : Let's hurry on down to Lincoln's Home. The band and the singers will be there almost as soon as wc wiU. Action : (Exit R 4, Conkling, Phillips, Baker and Lanphier, enter Chorus singing a spiritual. They move toward back of stage, apparently excited by the approaching band. Enter Band L 4, marching to left front across stage, making circle around the stage to a formation across the front to finish their march number. Clinton Conkling precedes the band in entering, hastening to R 4 and exits.) CHOIR LEADER : Let the band play "Glory, Glory, Hallelujah," and we will sing that all the way down to Mr. Lincoln's house. Action: (Band plays refrain of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, "Glory, Glory, Hallelujah," marches off stage R 3 and 4, in formation led by their director. Colored choir singing joy- ously. Glory, Glory, etc., follow off stage R 4.) End of Scene INTERLUDE 11 HISTORY: A village, small when first he came keeps pace with Lincoln through the years. A nation calls, he hears the cry, he leaves the city of his home. ETERNITY: Prophetic words fall from his lips, when farewell thoughts sad Lincoln breathes. With mournful gaze, his longing eyes last look oversweeps the friends of faithful mien in fond embrace. In future years a poet rare, one Lindsay, native of this place, will tell of Lincoln and his town. Quote thou the words. Humanity, that Lindsay pens some future day. HUMANITY: "Let not our town be large, remembering That little Athens was the Muses' home. That Oxford rules the heart of London still That Florence gave the Renaissance to Rome. We must have many Lincoln-hearted men; A city is not builded in a day. And they must do their work and come and go. While countless generations pass away." Scene Twelve LINCOLN'S FAREWELL ADDRESS Station of Toledo, Wabash and Great Western Railroad 10th and Monroe Streets (Parting curtains of small back stage disclose back of rail- road coach.) LINCOLN: (Ascends steps of platform, facing the citizens. Audience represents assembled friends at station. Removing his hat he makes evident attempt to control his feelings, then slowly, impressively he speaks the following words.) "My Friends: No one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, now knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell." Action: (Curtains close at middle of stage.) End of Scene EPILOGUE CHARACTERS HUMANITY Ad£laide O'Brien ETERNITY: In columned halls of marble, gleaming white, within the Nation's Capitol, a giant figure dwells. Content at last, his labors o'er, he looks afar toward glistening spire, a towering monument to one who saw the nation's birth — to Washington. He seems to say, "The Father are you of this glorious land, oh! Washington! You raised it from a vassal state to splendid height, a nation, everlasting its birthright. My blood was shed that it might live." HISTORY: Though in that temple rare great Lincoln sits, his spirit seeks its old accustomed haunts. Read thou. Humanity, what Lindsay wrote. HUMANITY: "It is portentous, and a thing of state. That here at midnight, in our little town, A mourning figure walks, and will not rest. Near the old court house passing up and down. His head is bowed. He thinks on men and kings; Yea, when the sick world cries, how can he sleep? Too many peasants fight, they know not why. Too many homesteads in black terror weep. It breaks his heart that kings must murder still. That all his hours of travail here for men Seem yet in vain. And who will bring white peace. That he may sleep upon his hill again?" HISTORY: Were all the writings of earth's sages swept away, these would remain, engraven deep in human hearts. These three the storv tell! First — Forty THE CHALLENGE "We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. That agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. A house divided against itself cannot stand. I be- lieve this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Unien to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other." ETERNITY: THE PROCLAMATION "That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people thereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and main- tain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, of any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom." HUMANITY: THE BENEDICTION "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness to do the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to bind up the Nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphans — to do all which may achieve and cherish a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." ETERNITY: His task is ended; closed the book; dropped the pen that loosed a mortal race. HUMANITY: What safeguard has this nation great, that foreign foe dare not invade? Has plan been made that future day such conflict ne'er again shall see? HISTORY: New light is shed upon the minds of mortals in our happy land. To guard their homes, defend the right in martial ranks, behold their might! ETERNITY: Sound thou the trumpet, let them come! (Curtains part, showing seated Lincoln.) (Trumpeter sounds the assembly. Curtain is drawn from small stage at back, showing the Washington seated statue of Lincoln. Enter according to previous directions, the color guards with colors, and designated attendants. Audience arises. "STAR SPANGLED BANNER" End of Lincoln Epic Drama Forty-one ILLINOIS STATE ARSENAL October 24, 1937 SPIRIT OF SPRINGFIELD By William Dodd Chenery Scene One THE CREATION Copyrighted Oct., 1937 CHARACTERS ETERNITY Revesend A. Ray Grummon HISTORY Archie Brownell SPIRIT OF MUSIC Norman Davis SPIRIT OF LIGHT Letha Tracy CELESTIAL HOST: Twenty Young Women from Feitshans High School, directed by Josephine Meissner. HISTORY: A thousand years are as a day in His sight! Six times one thousand years have rolled away since History the record first began. Wilt thou. Eternity, disclose what went before? ETERNITY: No beginning was there, and no ending will there be! Omnipotence was, and is, and ever shall be! By His word was chaos ended; at His command an earth was formed, with glittering firmament of stars, and radiant sun! HISTORY: Wilt thou repeat once more the story of Creation's wondrous dawn. Eternity? No error by my pen must be engrossed upon this scroll. ETERNITY: One will I summon from celestial realms, a spirit clothed with prophecy divine. Spirit of Music, voice of the heavenly lands, proclaim once more how earth began. Spirit of Music enters. SPIRIT OF MUSIC: (Singing opening measures of Haydn's "Creation.") "In the beginning God created the heavens and earth and the earth was without form, void, and dark- ness was upon the face of the deep." CHORUS: (Seated in balcony) "And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, and God said: Let there be light, and there was light!" Action: (Eternity and History move from stage.) Tableau: Curtains open, disclosing small stage with tableau of the Spirit of Light.) Action: (As chorus begins singing "The Heavens are Telling," twenty dancers, representing angelic host, enter and inter- pret the music with dance, making exit during last measures of the chorus.) CHORUS: "The Heavens are telling the glory of God, The wonders of His work display the firmament. Today that is coming, speaks it the night, The night that is gone, the following night. In all the lands resound the word. Never unperceived, ever understood." (Curtains Close on Tableau) Scene Two THE DELUGE CHARACTERS ETERNITY Reverend A. Ray Grummon HISTORY Archie Brownell SPIRITS OF THE WATERS Dancers from the Mildred Caskey School of Dancing MAID OF THE MIST ETERNITY: And it came to pass that men began to multiply on the face of the earth. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him at His heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. And God said unto Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, and behold I will destroy them from the earth. Make thee an ark of gopher wood and pitch it within and without with pitch. Thus did Noah according to all that God com- manded him, so did he. HISTORY: Tell me, for my records, Eternity, was this a sud- den wave of water that swept all before it? ETERNITY: Not so. Oh, History. When Noah was having built the ark, the subjects of his mighty realm derided the seemingly needless undertaking. Seven days before the rain began Noah assembled within the ark pairs of all living creatures, before he sealed the doors. Gently the showers began. With jeering cries the people mocked the patriarch. Slowly the waters arose; forty days and forty nights, in- creasing torrents fell; the waters prevailed; high hills were covered; all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both fowl and cattle, beast and every creeping thing, and every man. Action: (Assembled choirs stationed at various portions of the balcony in the Arsenal, supported by the Springfield Munic- pal band led by Homer Mountz, and the electric organ played by Mario Varchi render "Thanks Be To God." from Mendelssohn's "Elijah," while a group of twelve dancers from the Mildred Caskev School of Dancing, interpret "The Dance of the Deluge." CHORUS: "Thanks be to God, He laveth the thirsty land The waters gather, they rush along Mighty their fury, their fury is mighty These stormy billows are high, mighty their fury." (End of Prologue) INTERLUDE NO. 1 CHARACTERS ETERNITY Reverend A. Ray Grlmmon HISTORY Archie Brownell ETERNITY: The waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days, after the forty days and forty nights of fall- ing rains had ceased. And God remembered Noah, and made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters, assuaged, returned from off the earth. The ark rested in the seventh month on the seven- teenth day of the month on the mountain of Arrarat. HISTORY: How knew the Patriarch. Noah, that the earth was dry? ETERNITY: More than once a dove from out the ark was sent by Noah. Once the bird relumed with an olive leaf, plucked off. so Noah knew the waters were abated from the earth. Again the dove was sent, returning not. And God spake unto Noah. "Go forth out of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons" wives with thee." {End of Interlude A^o. 1) FortY-tico Scene Three RAINBOW OF PROMISE CHARACTERS ETERNITY Reverend A. Ray Grummon NOAH H. A. Flock NOAH'S WIFE Mrs. Edward Richter SONS OF NOAH— SHEM John F. Willey HAM Gabriel Bartscht JAPHET Curtis Lavin WIFE OF SHEM Miss Betty Raisch WIFE OF HAM Mrs. Burd Arganbright WIFE OF JAPHET Marie Stevens Action: (Enter Noah R-3 with long staff in right hand. As he reaches center of stage, facing audience, raises left hand, palm up, arm extended above shoulder, slowly turning palm, facing toward audience, and drawing hand as sum- mons to Shem, who enters L-1 carrying small boulder in both hands. Noah changes staff to left hand, repeating gesture toward right. Enter R-2 Ham and R-3 Japhet, each bearing small boulder. Each man carries boulder to the nearly completed altar at back of stage, placing them on the upper edge of the altar. Enter L-2 wife of Noah, bear- ing an offering, which she carries toward the altar in the rear. Enter L-2 wives of Shem, Ham and Japhet, empty handed, advancing toward Noah.) WIFE OF SHEM: Tell us. Father Noah, why should our husbands build an altar to a God who has destroyed all mankind but you and our family? NOAH: It is not for us, wife of Shem, to ask Jehovah's will. You and your sisters His wisdom doubted when the ark was built. WIFE OF HAM: Full well thou knowest. Father Noah, not alone were we, thy daughters, in wondering why an ark be built upon a plain, from water far removed. God sent the answer in descending floods of rain. WIFE OF JAPHET: My sister, wife of Ham, oh. Father Noah, like myself rejoices, now that rains have ceased, and in this pleasant land we refuge find. NOAH: God works in a mysterious way His wonders to per- form. Our mortal minds His wisdom fail to understand, my daughter, Japhet's wife. (The three sons, leaving the altar, approach Noah.) SHEM: Thine altar now is built, oh Father Noah. 'Tis ready for thine offering. NOAH: Well hast thou followed my command, oh, Shem, be- loved son, staff of my right hand. HAM: I too, oh Father Noah, have built with rock a portion of the altar. JAPHET: Scant was the help thou gavest, brother Ham. I shared a portion of the task. NOAH: Thou hast been faithful, Japhet, youngest of my sons, a blessing wilt thou share with all who worship Him divine. WIFE OF NOAH: Should threatening clouds again arise, where shall we refuge find, my husband? The ark that weathered storm and stress lies far above this verdant plain. Vague fears within my bosom dwell that once again the floods will come. Action: (Eternity enters L-4, advancing toward group, appar- ently unseen by all. As Eternity's voice is heard, all bow their heads in attitude of reverence, some with hands clasped on breast, some with hands folded as in prayer. ETERNITY: Fear not, oh! children of Humanity. The Lord thy God thine altar doth behold. Hear thou the message sent from Him. "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake. Neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. "While the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall not cease. Be ye fruitful and multiply, bring forth abundantly in the earth and multiply every thing. Behold, I establish my covenant with you and with your seed after you. All flesh shall not be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there be any more a flood to destroy the earth. This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations; I do set my bow in the cloud and it shall be for a covenant of a token between me and the earth. The bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth." NOAH: The word of the Lord our God is Eternal and un- changing! His mercy endureth forever! Open our eyes, thou Messenger of Jehovah, that through the portals of His Kingdom the bow to us may be disclosed. CHORUS: "Unfold! Unfold! Unfold! Ye portals everlasting, Unfold! Unfold! Unfold! Ye portals everlasting. Jehovah in His might, now disclose to our sight He is the King of Glory, the God of all light. Lift up your voices in high praise Unfold tfnfold! Unfold! Disclose to our sight." (End of Scene 3) INTERLUDE NUMBER TWO Following Scene 3 CHARACTERS ETERNITY Reverend A. Ray Grummon HISTORY Archie Brownell HUMANITY Miss Adelaide O'Brien HUMANITY: When floods destroyed my children, all save Noah and his kin. why could not new generations follow God's commands. Eternity? ETERNITY: To every mortal it is given the choice to make of path he treads. That fallen spirit, Satan, tempting Adam and Eve, still roams unchained, with guileful wiles. Some mortals rise, while others fall. HUMANITY: Created mortals first in Paradise found home. With flaming swords its gates are barred. Where can my children shelter find? HISTORY: Through many generations will they strive, but on a distant day safe refuge will be found. Across a wide- spread sea lies haven for the weary, the oppressed. ETERNITY: Hear now God's wisdom, spread by mortal tongue; list to the words of Patriarch Jacob to his sons! (End of Interlude 2) Scene Four HOME OF JACOB— UNBROKEN RODS CHARACTERS JACOB Shelby Nelson REUBEN Carl Weber SIMEON Frederick W. Reinhard LEVI Clyde V. Neff JUDAH George Arbuckle ISSACHAR Graham Estill ZEBULON Leon Sutton DAN Herbert Havener NAPHTALI Edwin Nagel GAD Gene Havener ASHER Ray Gwin JOSEPH Don Mac Alexander BENJAMIN Donald Pope JACOB: (Enter R-4 Jacob, with staff; the boy Benjamin, car- rying stool covered with rug or animal skin. Thev advance to front center, allowing space in front of them for others to pass across.) Place here the cushion, Benjamin, son of my old age. Thy brethren soon return from harvest toils and shepherd tasks. I wait for their reports. Forty-three BENJAMIN: My father, Jacob, it behooves thee to learn now their woes and ills. Thy wisdom may perchance bring con- cord to avert their discontent. JOSEPH: (Entering R-1, eagerly running to Benjamin.) See, Benjamin, my coat of colors gay! Doth it not pale the rainbow's tints? JACOB: Full fourteen years I served in other lands that I might win thy mother as my wife, beloved son. 'Tis memories of Rachel that inspired this gift to thee. BENJAMIN: I fear. Oh! Joseph, that the gift will only serve to whet the jealousy our brethren show. (Enter L 3, Reuben, Levi and Simeon, apparently in angry mood, conversing with vehement gestures.) REUBEN: (to Jacob) When from our distant tasks we come, our father, Jacob, 'tis always our intent the reverence to show that fills our hearts for thee. If lack there seems this day, not ours the blame. My flocks in yonder vale were sheltered safe, I thought, yet, when at dawn I ventured forth, the Hittites had descended in the night and stolen all. LEVI: My vineyards, too, the Perizzites destroyed. SIMEON: Trampled all my fields of grain have been by lurk- ing Amorites. JACOB: My sons are twelve! Can they not stand against the foe? REUBEN: Our paths in devious ways diverge, Oh! Father! Strong though we be, our foes outnumber each small band. JACOB: Haste, Benjamin, to northern fields, and thou, my Joseph, to the south. Sound each a summoning horn. I would all twelve assenjble here at once. (Benjamin runs away, R 4, Joseph L 4.) SIMEON: (To Jacob, reproachfully) Whence came the regal coat thy Joseph wears? Dost thou believe the dreams he tells will surely come to pass? LEVI: (To Jacob, angrily) We like it not. Oh! Father. Near grown is he, and now ought join us in our toil. JACOB: Time there will be, my sons, for that. Bui still I yearn to fill his mind with the stored wisdom of our He- brew lore. If grounded in the law and precepts of our Prophets, there may come a day when will benefit our race. (Reenter Joseph L 4, with Judah, Issachar, Zebulun and Dan. Enter R 4 Benjamin with Naphtali, Gad and Asher. All assemble about Jacob.) JACOB: A lesson will I teach. To thee, my sons, at first it may be vague. Question not thy Father, but obey. Go each unto a tree of differing kind; pluck off a branch and bring it quickly hither. (All depart hastily, same directions whence they came. In a few moments they return with branches.) JACOB: What tree didst thou approach, Reuben, my first born? REUBEN: The Oak, my father. Emblem it of strength. JACOB: And thou, Levi. LEVI: The Hickory, Father, because 'tis harder than all others to destroy. JACOB: Speak! Simeon! SIMEON: I chose the Elm. Its spreading branches grateful shade bestow in summer heat. JACOB: And thou, Judah? JUDAH: The Maple hard, my father. It flows with sweetest juices in the spring. JACOB: What hast thou, Issachar? ISSACHAR: From Lebanon's cedar have I broken branch. Its trunk is worthy to be temple wall. JACOB: And thou, sixth son of Leah, Zebulon, my son? ZEBULON: I chose the birch. Its silvery leaves and glisten- ing bark illumine even forests dark. JACOB: Son of Bilhah, Dan, what is thy branch? DAN: From trunk of Fir I tore this limb. Many its useful elements of gum. JACOB: Your trophy, Naphtali? The name! NAPHTALI: From thrifty Chestnut came this branch. Food it bestows in autumn days. JACOB: Zilpah, handmaid of Leah, two sons gave me. Gad, being eldest, speak thou first. GAD: The Apple, Father. Generous in its gifts to men. JACOB: Asher, give voice to choice of thine! ASHER: Oft have I heard fall from thy lips. Oh! Father mine, the admonition, that we grow "straight as the Pine." JACOB: Now only Rachel's sons have silent been. Speak, Joseph! JOSEPH: From Tulip tree my branch was plucked. Rarest and finest of all nature's trees. JACOB: Now, Benjamin! I wait thy word. BENJAMIN: I could not reach so high as these, thy sons. So, from a flowering Hawthorn came my gift. JACOB: Form circle half, according to thine ages. Reuben, here at my right, and Benjamin, at other place, the left. Let none speak word till thou the lesson learn. Break each his branch, but throw not down the parts. (Each breaks his branch in twain, retaining the parts.) These broken bits by fire shall be consumed. Take them away. Then hither bring me each a branch from thy same tree. (The brethren leave same exits as before, handing broken parts to stage hand in wings, and return immediately to Jacob, with other branches, forming semi-circle as before.) JACOB: Come, Judah. Stand before me. Let each approach and place his branch on Judah's arms, in order of your ages. (All place branches on Judah's arms, beginning with Reuben, passing around Jacob to original stations.) JACOB: Joseph and Benjamin, take thou this cord and tightly wrap into one band. (The two youths take cord that Jacob unwinds from about his waist, and wrap into one bundle all the branches.) Now, Reuben, do thou and Levi strive the band to break. (Both men advance and apparently use full energy to break the band, but without avail.) JACOB: Hast thou the lesson learned? When singly are the branches grasped 'tis easy to destroy. When union binds them in embrace, unbreakable are they. Yet, though united they may be. each still is as it was when on its tree. Still is one Oak, one Elm, one Hickory. Let all of Hebrew rare remain united evermore. Bring now the bundle, Judah, and, thou, Benjamin, the stool. We now will place this offering upon our altar high. (All follow Jacob off stage L 4.) Scene Five MOUNT SINAI— MOSES AND THE LAW CHARACTERS ETERNITY Reverend A. Ray Grvmmon HISTORY Archie Brownell HUMANITY Miss Adelaide O'Brien MOSES D. W. McKenney HISTORY: From Eden to the flood, two thousand years rolled by. More than six centuries ehipsed when Jacob lived. Then famine came. To Egypt journeyed Hebrews all. On Jacob's son, the Joseph whom he loved, fell regal state. Four centuries passed by. and kings arose that know not Israel's God. Forty-four ETERNITY: Mankind need not despair! When all seems hopeless, lost, He who created man, a leader sends, to light his r»ath. HUMANITY: Meekest of men, favored of God, to the prophet was the law disclosed. (Curtains part, showing tableau of Moses with tablets of stone.) HISTORY: What is engraven on the stone. Eternity? ETERNITY: The words will ring adown all ages yet to come. Commandments ten hold all of mortal's fate. Read what is writ. HISTORY: I am the Lord, thy God! Thou shalt have no other Gods before me. HUMANITY: Thou shalt not make unto ihee any graven image. ETERNITY: Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord, thy God in vain. HISTORY: Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. HUMANITY: Honor thy Father and thy Mother. ETERNITY: Thou shah not kill. HISTORY: Thou shalt not commit adultery. HUMANITY: Thou shah not steal. ETERNITY: Thou shalt not bear false witness. HISTORY: Thou shalt not covet. (End of Scene 5) INTERLUDE NUMBER THREE Following Scene 5 CHARACTERS HISTORY Archie Brownell HUMANITY Miss Adelaide O'Brien HISTORY: As Mortals count the years, since Moses wrote the Law, near centuries three, and one half more, will bring a Psalmist to complete the book. HUMANITY: Where Abraham first dwelling sought, in Canaan land, now David sings. Annointed he by Samuel's oil, while shepherd lad, a king he soothes. (End of Interlude No. 3) Scene Six PALACE OF KING SAUL DAVID THE HARPIST CHARACTERS KING SAUL ElemLavin DAVID, THE SHEPHERD Rev. Burd Arganbright PRINCE OF JONATHAN, Son of Saul Eden Nicholas PRINCESS MICHAEL, Daughter of Saul Greta Wilicinson SAUL'S CHAMBERLAIN John P. Springer SAUL'S GARDENER Curtis Lavin SAUL'S CHARIOTEER Joe Feger (Saul moving restlessly on divan, back center. Jonathan and Michael conversing earnestly, enter L 1.) SAUL: Why stand ye there, mumbling, caring not that I am sore distressed at heart. MICHAEL: (Advancing toward Saul) Aught will we do, our Father, if we know thy will. It sorely grieves us that no more we see thee happy as of yore. SAUL: I know not what the cause. Sometimes I fear Divine favor is withdrawn. Dreams come to trouble me by night, vague fears beset me in the day. JONATHAN: Oft has thy weary soul been cheered by strains of music sweet! Let Michael sing to thee. (Turning to Michael) Thou knowest well, my sister, the songs that have refreshed his lonely hours. (Michael moves toward Saul standing at right of divan. Saul reclines upon cushions stacked at left of divan.) MICHAEL : 'Twill not be easy, Jonathan, my brother, to lift my voice in song while troubled by our father's ill. JONATHAN: Come forth. Chamberlain! Bring wine to cheer the King once more. (Moving R 1, calling to Chamberlain, who enters with vase of wine and a flagon. Offers drink to Saul, who refuses it.) (Michael sings) From "Rubaiyat" by Omar Khayyam, music by Liza Lehmann. MICHAEL: Ah, moon of my delight that knows no wane The moon or Heav'n is rising once again. How oft here after rising shall she look Through this same garden after me in vain Through this same garden after me in vain. JONATHAN: (To Chamberlain) Is it long since the king re- fused to eat or drink? CHAMBERLAIN: Since yestermorn no morsel passed his lips. But, barken! Prince, and thou, too. Princess of the realm. (Michael anxiously approaches them) The gardener told me of a shepherd fair, skilled both in song and harp. His playing oft has soothed a troubled breast. 'Tis Jesse's son, and loved of prophet Samuel. MICHAEL: (Rushing toward Saul) A player has been heard whose skill may banish thy unrest. May we not have him brought unto thee now? SAUL: Bring him to me. Perchance sweet music's voice will break the evil spell. JONATHAN: (To Chamberlain) Call in this man at once that gave thee knowledge of this bard. (Exit Chamberlain R 1) Courage, my Father! Soon the harp will sound its magic notes, to quiet thy distress. (Reenter Chamberlain with Gardener) CHAMBERLAIN: This is the man who heard the song upon the distant hillside, and saw the shepherd with his harp. JONATHAN: How knowest thou that harp can cure a mortal's ill? GARDENER: My wondering eyes beheld the gathering sheep. As though entranced they listened to the shepherd's song. A servant from the home of him called Jesse, told of the harpist's skill in healing ills. JONATHAN: Bring hither now the Charioteer, with swiftest span of steeds. (Exit Chamberlain and Gardener. Chamber- lain returns with Charioteer) MICHAEL: Canst thou the distance span. Oh, Charioteer, by speedy route? CHARIOTEER: The country is well known to me near Jesse's lands. Oh! Princess. A way I know across a shallow brook that soon will bring me to that shepherd's home. SAUL: Go forth at once, oh Charioteer, bring thou the youth into our presence soon. CHARIOTEER: On wing of wind, oh King, I hasten to obey thy will. (Exit Charioteer and Chamberlain) MICHAEL: (Moving to R 1) I'll watch their coming, that there be no lapse of time. (Excitedly) They come, they come! (Calling) Hasten thy steps quickly. (Enter Charioteer, followed by Chamberlain and Gardener bringing a harp. David follows diffidently. Servants leave after placing harp and stool.) Forty-five JONATHAN: Welcome, shepherd, Jesse's son. If with thy harp our Father's ill is cured, within this palace shalt thou dwell. MICHAEL: Let us not hold thee now in idle converse. (David draws stool near King Saul's divan, at right of divan. Saul reclining, with head to left.) DAVID: Not mine the words, oh! gracious Princess, and thou prince so kind. From unseen source they wander through my mind. I'll sing to him the song of hillside birth, when tending Hocks, "The Lord is My Shepherd." (David sweeps hand across strings, sings, "The Lord is My Shepherd". Michael soothes Saul's forehead. Jonathan presses Saul's hand. Gradually a smile breaks on Saul's face. He rises at end of Psalm.) SAUL: Now Praises to Jehovah! He hath sent you to me, David. Dwell thou with me, that daily I thy music hear. DAVID: If ease 'twill bring unto thy burdened heart, most gladly will I tarry in thy court. When the prophet, Samuel, who talks with God, my head annointed with the sacred oil, I placed by life in guidance all Divine. If 'tis God's will that I remain with thee, most gladly will I serve thee. SAUL: (Excitedly) What meanest thou. Oh! shepherd, David, by saying Samuel poured oil upon thy head. 'Tis only thus that chosen of the Lord are honored. DAVID : Unto my father's home the prophet came. Before him passed my brothers all. From them he chose not one, but when I entered through the door he quickly spoke; "This is the one." Perchance he chose me to thy servant be. SAUL: Thy answer doth not quell my doubts. The prophet's meaning will I ask. JONATHAN: Wear thou this royal mantle, David. My brother shalt thou be. (Removes mantle from his own shoulders, placing it upon David.) MICHAEL: Refreshment thou dost need. It would have offered been when first thou came, but Father's need was great. Ne'er can our thanks repay thy skill. Come, David, thou, too. Father, come, unto the banquet hall. (All depart L 3) (End of Scene 6) INTERLUDE NUMBER FOUR Following Scene 6 CHARACTERS ETERNITY Reverend A. Ray Gkummon HISTORY Archie Brownkll HUMANITY Miss Adelaide O'Brien HUMANITY: Long centuries have passed since Palestine its fullest glory knew! My people of the Hebrew race through distant lands have been dispersed. New rulers, new customs, new trials now beset the mortal race. A prophecy. Eternity, thou didst make that in a distant time a new Eden garden would be found. Does that cycle now approach? ETERNITY: The veil I lift, for thee. Humanity. A mortal wise beyond his time, Columbus, has visioned this new Paradise. A spokesman of religion, a Monk, Franciscan, will persuade a royal consort, Isabella, to send forth as messenger of light this man who seeks her aid. HISTORY: New scroll to follow this outstanding plan will find full use. In the verbant heart of this new land another Para- dise will rise. AMERICA its name will be! Down through the ages will the three names ring, COLUMBUS, FERDI- NAND, AN!) ISABELLA! (End of Interlude No. 4) Scene Seven COURT OF FERDINAND AND ISABELLA COLUMBUS COMMISSIONED, 1492 CHARACTERS KING FERDINAND, OF ARAGON Joseph Maurer QUEEN ISABELLA, OF CASTILE Mary Fortune COLUMBUS Edward McCue FRANCISCAN MONK Joseph Phillips KING'S TREASURER Raymond Cicci QUEEN'S LADY IN WAITING Geraldine Sexton HERALD Jack Walsh EIGHT COURTIERS | ^o Dance Minuet EIGHT NOBLEWOMEN 5 ^"^ "^"^"^ ™ "" Directed by Miss Wanda Hartman (Throne back center, with herald stationed beside it. Eight couples, noblemen and high born women moving about, con- versing. As the Herald announces the coming of the King, the four couples station themselves at right, four at the left, the women at the left of each man, and forming a semi-circle with open space at back center in front of the throne.) HERALD: Hear ye the proclamation. Lords and Ladies of the Court! His Majesty, King Ferdinand, and her Majesty Queen Isabella, joint rulers of Spain's Kingdom, approach the throne. Due reverence show. (As Herald makes announcement, enter King Ferdinand with Queen Isabella, followed by King's treasurer, who reniains standing at right of throne, and the Queen's Lady in Waiting who takes station at left of throne, and a Franciscan Monk who stations himself at left beyond the Lady in Waiting. Isabella's right hand and fore arm rest upon the extended left hand and fore arm of the King. They advance to center behind the semi-circle at front of throne, move slowly down the left side in front of semi-circle, greeting each couple, pausing before each couple until the man has bowed and the woman curtsied. As the King and Queen reach the front at left, they cross the stage majestically and greet the front couple at right, moving as before past each couple and then Ferdinand hands Isabella to her seat at his left and takes his place on the throne. Music during King's processional, March Militaire, Schubert.) THE KING: Let music now prevail, the dance begin. (The eight couples dance to the music of the Mozart Minuet. As the dance concludes, the Herald announces.) HERALD: Oh! King! The hour has come for audience thou didst grant the voyager, Columbus, who now seeks entrance to the court. THE KING: (Extending sceptor toward Herald) He shall be heard. Bid him approach. (The Herald moves to L 4 and motions Columbus to approach. Columbus enters bearing chart. Herald returns to station at left of throne followed by Columbus, who moves to station before throne, advances left foot, sinks on right knee and bows his head as the King extends his sceptor.) THE KING: Thy plans amazing we have pondered well, Colum- bus, dreamer, unlike all before thee who have lived. Thou sayest that to the west a passage may be found across the ocean wide to far off Indies. Should that prove true the wealth of all the eastern world would flow into Spain's treas- ury. Our treasurer here declares the cost too great: the lack of any proof that thou canst reach far India, prohibits waste of Spain's resources. COLUMBUS: Though great the present cost, the value gained will far exceed imagination's wildest guess. The wealth of all the Indies thou shalt have. Across this ocean wide, white wings of ships will bear the treasure of the east unto thy hands. Look thou once more upon this chart that hath been made. None have ever lived who yet have followed its design. I pray thee grant me treasure, that the voyage now l)e made. Forty-sLx MONK: In Holy Writ, oh! Queen of Spain, command is given to faithful all. "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to all creatures." Thou shalt he hlessed indeed if means thou find to send forth religion's messenger. Upon the voyage with him I would go. No greater joy to mortal could be given than to proclaim the truth Divine through heathen lands. QUEEN: (To Lady in Waiting) Bring hither quickly from our vaults secure the casket of our gems. (Lady in Waiting hastens away quickly R 1. Until Maid returns the King and his treasurer converse together, the Queen and the Monk, and the Lords and Ladies of the court, who move about in little groups until the casket is brought in.) LADY IN WAITING: The casket overflows with gems. Oh! Gracious Queen. They surely will suffice thy needs. QUEEN: (Almost ecstatically) Oh! Ferdinand, my husband and my King! Look thou within this brimming bowl. Surely thy treasurer will deem it worthy the loan. (King Ferdinand lifts the bowl from the Lady in Waiting's hands displays it to the treasurer. Lady in Waiting remains stationed at left of Queen.) THE KING: Thine eyes will open wide, oh Treasurer. Through many generations have the jewels of the throne been chosen with great care. Will thou not grant a loan unto the Queen upon security so great? TREASURER: 'Tis more than ample. Oh! My King! The funds thou now can grant unto the Queen. THE KING: Declare they will. Oh! Isabella, my Queen, unto this man, Columbus. THE QUEEN: Go forth at once, Columbus, and with thee take this holy man, this Franciscan Monk. This my first command which thou must surely fill: "Immediately upon the foreign land when thy foot doth rest, erect a cross and have the 'Gloria' sung." THE KING: The next command I give thee, Voyager, "Beside the cross uplift Spain's Standard royal." MONK: Thy reign shall surely blessed be! Oh! King and Queen! Ye are fulfilling the command Divine. I go to preach the Word in foreign lands. COLUMBUS: For this great boon. Oh! King and Queen! words cannot fully voice my thanks. Fulfillment of my hopes, I trust, will prove my gratitude. THE KING: Tarry thou with us yet a little while, Columbus. The dance we will resume. (As the first notes of the Minuet are heard, curtains close.) Scene Eight LANDING OF COLUMBUS ISLAND OF SAN SALVADOR Saturday, October 12, 1492 characters CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, Admiral of Santa Maria Edward McCue MARTIN ALONZO PINZON, Captain of Pinta Fred Flesch VINCENT PINZON, Captain of Nina Charles McCue PEDRO NINO, Pilot of the Santa Maria FATHER MONTICASTRI NOTARY L. Dineen JUAN RODRIGO BERMEJO, Sailor First Sighted Land ' R. McMurray TRIBE OF INDIANS. FIVE SAILORS CHANTERS Leo Shea J. IIeffern Carl Reif K. Konrad BEARER OF STANDARD OF SPAIN Tony Betski FLYING EAGLE, Chief of Island Indians John Trutter STAR EYES, Daughter of Flying Eagle Mrs. Helen Mahoney RUNNING DEER, Warrior Dr. Harold Hester Bill Poston John McWhertek Bob Mountz Thomas Moody JiMMiE Evans Larie Crouch Louis Roberts Robert Life George S. Kokenas Bob Haynes Harry Short (Enter L 2 Star Eyes, with spray of foliage in her hand, moving swiftly to center of stage, raising on tiptoe looking eagerly in various directions as though anticipating someone. Raises right hand in trumpet fashion over mouth, singing "The Indian Love Call" by Friml, as though calling someone in the distance, moving toward front. As Star Eyes finishes her song. Running Deer enters R 4 on Introduction to "By the Waters of Minnetonka" by Lieurance. Running Deer advances toward Star Eyes, conventional attitude of Indian lovers. As song nears end Running Deer takes right hand of Star Eyes in his right hand, placing his left hand lightly on her left shoulder, together they move off stage R 1 singing in unison the last sixteen measures of the song. Enter L 4 Flying Eagle followed by tribe of Island Indian youths. They form a council. Flying Eagle suddenly pointing left, speaks with great excitement. Tribesmen all look toward left, breaking up into widely separated little groups looking eagerly toward left.) FLYING EAGLE: White wings appear, my tribesmen. Heaven sent they come! No earthly beings could such wondrous passage make! Look closely, from the sides canoes are lowered. They must be supernal beings. To this Island, Guanihani, where we make our home, great welcome will we show the spirits from beyond the skies. (Enter Columbus and followers.) (The Indians retreat to back corner of stage L 4, looking with great reverence and admiration on the white man.) COLtTMBLIS: This day new history is made! The long succes- sion of strange dreams fulfilled! Not unto man before has this great boon been given. The bridge from Spain to India has been crossed. Possession now I take for Spain. Approach thou. Oh! Friar Francis, that allegiance now be sworn. Thou, Captains, two, and Notary, bear witness that this hour I take possession lawful of this land for Ferdinand of Aragon, and Isabella of Castile, joint rulers of all Spain. (Draws sword and directs the unfolding of the banner of Castile, raising sword aloft.) COLLIMBUS: I now proclaim that I, Christopher Columbus, through warrant granted by their Majesties of Spain, am Vice-roy of this land, and Admiral of the fleet. (Members of crew and chanters move about as though wild with joy.) FRIAR FRANCIS: Hail! Vice-roy of this land! Hail! Admiral of the fleet! Let me recall to thee the Queen's command that thou the cross erect, Te Deum, sing. CAPTAIN MARTIN PINZON: (To Sailor) Seek thou a sap- ling straight and bring it hither. CAPTAIN MARTIN PINZON: (To second Sailor) Do thou a shorter sapling bring. FRIAR FRANCIS: (To third Sailor) Bring thou from yonder boat a rope. (Two men exit L 3, sailor L 1, all quickly returning with two saplings and a rope; these they lash together to form a cross, which is held aloft by Friar Francis. Columbus standing to right of Friar, holding sword with suitable gesture, uncovering his head. Chanters assemble around Friar Francis, Martin Pinzon at right of Columbus, Vincent Pinzon at right of Martin, Sailors grouped beside. Allow ample space between characters to avoid congested appearance.) Forty-seven COLUMBUS: To the Omnipotent Power that safely guided us across the stormy main, we raise Te Deum of Hosannahs! Let it. Oh! Notary, be recorded on this day, October 12th, 1492, praises were sung unto Jehovah. (Te Deum is sung. Curtains slowly closing. Te Deum being finished by unseen voices, while stage is prepared for follow- ing scene.) (End of Scene 8) INTERLUDE NUMBER FIVE Following Scene 8 CHARACTERS HISTORY Archie Brownell ETERNITY Reverend A. Ray Grummon HUMANITY Miss Adelaide O'Brien HUMANITY: Clear was the mirror thou didst hold before mine eyes. Eternity, more than a thousand years ago, when thou foretold a future Paradise in a new land. Fair even as that Eden where God placed his first created beings, in heart of Illinois it lies. A smiling land, a happy land, a land where war and turmoil are unknown. HISTORY: My page doth show folk of another hue, red men are they, alert, tall, straight and keen. Wilt thou, Eternity, relate what god these Red men worship? ETERNITY: The name the Red men hold in reverence deep they call "MANITOU", another name for Him the Hebrews term "JEHOVAH". Peace loving, kindly, now behold them welcome visitors of other race, seemingly from celestial realms; Marquette and Joliet their names. Near two full centuries have passed since Columbus held first worship in America, and now Marquette brings gospel word to Illinois. (End of Interlude No. 5) Scene Nine VILLAGE OF THE ILLINIWEK INDIANS AT KASKASKIA 1673 CHARACTERS FATHER JACQUES MARQUETTE, S. J. Aged 22 Father George S. Link LOUIS JOLIET, A French Explorer and Fur Trader Joseph Ermert PILOT OARSMEN COMMISSARY STANDING OAK, Chief of the lUiniwek Claude Strincham SWIFT ARROW, An Indian Runner William R. Schultz WHITE DOVE, Squaw of Standing Oak Peg Dodson GREYWOLF, Indian Tribesman Tom Bauereiss THE TRIBE OF THE ILLINIWEK Order of Red Men and Daughters of Pocahontas (The lUiniwek tribesmen holding council. Squaws perform- ing household duties. Papooses at play.) .STANDING OAK: Far from out the waving forests, came we where the prairies widen. Near these purling streams and rivers, near the growing maize, near corn fields, find we refuge, find we shelter. Driven were we by red foe men, driven from our ancient home lands, seek we now the things we treasure, seek new hunting, seek new fishing. Yes, my l)relhern, my brave warriors, our great Manitou will aid us; Manitou, Spirit we worship, Manitou our arms will strengthen, Manitou our knives will sharpen, Manitou send them destruc- tion! ( A seated warrior suddenly rises, places his left ear to the ground in listening attitude, rises, moving toward left, and bending down a second time he returns to circle, addresses Standing Oak.) GREY WOLF: Runner coming, coming swiftly, coming without other runner. STANDING OAK: Bearing tidings of great import must this runner bring to us message new. (Enter L 1 Swift Arrow, addressed Standing Oak.) SWIFT ARROW: From the Father of great waters, up the river comes the white man. Comes the Black gown, comes the soldier, comes the oarsmen from the river. WHITE DOVE : Tell us, Swift Arrow, of the white man of the Black Robe known by legend. Loved is he by every nation, loved is he by all the tribesmen of the mighty Illini. Oft the runners from the Mission of the Five Lakes in the north; tidings bring they of the Father, of Marquette, of gentle heart. SWIFT ARROW: Only one of Black robe is there in the region that we know. If he comes. Oh! bid him tarry. Manitou will bless us then. (Enter Marquette, Joliet and companions.) STANDING OAK: Welcome to our burning camp fire, welcome to our tepees warm, welcome to the land of prairies, to the land of waving corn. FATHER MARQUETTE: In the name of the Great Spirh, of the one the white man loves, of the one the red man worships, of the Manitou they praise. In His name we bring a blessing, by His grace we gospel bring. WHITE DOVE: On the journey thou has ventured many toils and hardships came. Rest within our tepees' shelter. Let us give thee food and drink. (At the entrance of Marquette, the Indians form a rever- ential but curious group back of Standing Oak, White Dove and Swift Arrow.) MARQUETTE: For the great hospitality you offer, thanks we tender, full, sincere. Let me speak for white man warrior. Joliet, both strong and brave. He will guard you from red foe men, from black-hearted Iroquois. JOLIET: Standing Oak, like him, I greet you, with thy warriors will I stand. We have heard of mighty fortress, of the rock that solid stands, in the north land as a refuge when fierce enemy shall come. SWIFT ARROW: Ask him Chief tan, ask the Black Robe, how a pale face, beardless youth, speaks so well the Indian tongue. JOLIET: Strange it must seem. Standing Oak, that a white man speaks your tongue, but this Father of the pale face knows six dialects of yours. In the Mission on the great Lake, in the city of Detroit, there he met the many tribesmen, there he learned their dialect. (Joliet motions to the Commissioner who opens a bag of trinkets and begins distributing them among the squaw?, assisted by the Pilot and Oarsman. Great delight manifest by the Indian women who deck themselves with the trinkets.) STANDING OAK: E'er unto the feast we take thee, let me laud thy spirit fair. (Standing Oak crosses the fingers of both hands before his eyes loosely as though dimming the brightness of the sun. but still glancing through between his fingers.) (Historical note: This speech actually taken from Marquette's records.) "I thank thee. Black Gown, and thee O Frenchman, for having taken so much trouble to visit us. Never has the eartli been so beautiful, or the sun so bright as today. Never has our river been so calm or so free of rocks, which your canoes have removed in passing. Never has our tobacco tasted so good, or our corn appeared so fine as we now see tliem. I l)eg thee to have pity on me and on my Nation. It is thou who speakest to Him. and who hearest His word. Beg Him to give me life and health, and to come down and dwell with us in order to make us kno%v Him." (While Standing Oak speaks the white men listen attentively. Indians gather around the other three white men with kindly gestures.) Forl\-rif;ht MARQUETTE : For that kindly speech we thank thee. Standing Oak, we will gladly share thy bounty. Lead us to thy shelter- ing tepee. There we will God's blessing give. (At the end of Standing Oak's last speech, and Marquette's speech, the Indians grunt approval. Standing Oak and White Dove lead Marquette and Joliet off stage R 4. Tribesmen surrounding the other white men, all leave R in little groups various entrances.) (End of Scene 9) INTERLUDE NUMBER SIX Following Scene 9 CHARACTERS HISTORY ETERNITY Reverend A. Ray Grummon HUMANITY Miss Adelaide O'Brien HISTORY: Events in history swiftly move along the path! Col- umbus found no white man on new shores! Now, in less than century and a half, the white men carry words of God throughout the wide expanse. What once was virgin wilder- ness now teems with human life. Virginia's wise Governor, Patrick Henry, Governor in eighteen hundred and nine, set boundaries of territory new, named for the Indian tribes, the Illinois. HUMANITY: Each new created realm must ruler have. Is this man worthy of high trust that Patrick Henry sent to rule o'er Illinois? ETERNITY: Wise was the choice that Governor of fair Virginia made, when he commissioned one of his state's brightest minds. Not more, hardly, than a youth, one Ninian Edwards was the choice. Like Washington, the Father of his country, young Edwards will be known as "Father of Illinois." Kas- kaskia, the early center of the Indian tribes, becomes the Capital of Illinois. Since Marquette's long past visit, no one of ordained right had carried gospel word to Illinois, Come now two men of God, sent from New England's righteous band. (End of Interlude No. 6) Scene Ten ILLINOIS' EARLIEST CHURCH HOME OF NINIAN EDWARDS KASKASKIA, 1814 CHARACTERS GOVERNOR NINIAN EDWARDS .....Beryl Beatty From New England Missionary Societies JOHN F. SCHERMERHORN SAMUEL MILLS Frank Jabusch Kaskaskia Settlers GEORGE CUNNINGHAM, a Godly Man Wilbur Rehwald CHARLES PRITCHARD, an Austerely Religious Man Andrew Santenan EDWARD JACKSON, Innkeeper Edgar Schuch MRS. PARMELIA BURR Betty Neu MRS. SOPHRONIA SAMPSON, A Progressive Woman Dorothy Jabusch MISS MEHiTABLE PERKINS Mrs. Marie Potter (Enter R 2 Governor Edwards with papers in his hand, which he places on the oak table. Loud door rapping heard L 1. Gov. Edwards moves off stage L 1, returning accompanied by Edward Jackson, Innkeeper.) GOVERNOR EDWARDS: Good morning, Mr. Jackson, I have been expecting you, since your message regarding the New England Missionaries. Have you any further news regarding their coming? JACKSON: An Indian runner told me that they were on the way, and will probably be here sometime today. I have been talking with Miss' Mehitable Perkins, and she thinks the time has come when we ought to organize a church. Will you be able to see a committee in regard to that? It would seem to me an opportune time while the Missionaries are here, to start a congregation. GOVERNOR EDWARDS: I shall be very glad to receive the committee, Mr. Jackson, and as the Missionaries will probably visit your tavern as soon as they arrive, you may bring them to see me also. JACKSON: Thank you, Mr. Governor, I will hurry home and prepare a room for the Missionaries. GOVERNOR EDWARDS: Goodbye, Mr. Jackson. (Exit Jackson L 1. Loud knocking heard once more. Gov- ernor Edwards moves to door, enter committee of Settlers, Mr. Pritchard, Mr. Cunningham, Mrs. Burr, Mrs. Sampson and Miss Perkins.) I am glad to see you all. Mr. Jackson has informed me of the project you have in mind for establishing a church here in Kaskaskia. With settlers representing all denominations, it is my suggestion that it be not made in any way sectarian, but a body of believers dedicated to the worship of Jehovah. PRITCHARD : Governor Edwards, ever since Rev. Finley was here, seventeen years ago, we have kept the fires of religion burning in our midst, but new settlers are coming in faster, children are growing up around us. Many of us feel that there ought to be a real church organized, and regular services held. GOVERNOR EDWARDS: This is a subject, Mr. Pritchard, that has been on my mind and heart for a considerable time. There are now about 12,000 people in this fertile territory of Illinois, and yet I am told that there is not one Bible on sale anywhere. What can you suggest in the way of starting a church here in Kaskaskia, Mr. Cunningham? CUNNINGHAM: There are many who want a church and who would join one if we organize it, but the men seem backward about holding offices; some feel that they are not qualified, and others do not want responsibility. MEHITABLE PERKINS: Well, if the men won't serve in such a good cause, why cannot the women take charge? PRITCHARD: That would be contrary to the teachings of St. Paul, Sister Perkins. You know he said: "Women should be seen and not heard." MISS PERKINS: I've heard St. Paul was a bachelor, and maybe that is why he did not know how useful the women could be in church work. Anyhow, that was said about children and not about women. If the chance comes I'll be ready to be an elder, or any other office where I can serve the Lord. (Enter Jackson) JACKSON: Excuse me for rushing in this way. Governor Ed- wards, but I feel you would want to know that the two mis- sionaries have just reached Kaskaskia. They are about through dinner now, at the Inn, and wanted to know if they might have an interview with you right away. GOVERNOR EDWARDS: Bring them right over as soon as they have dined, and I'll ask these people to remain here till they come. (Exit Jackson. Excited talking by the delegation, expressing eager anticipation. Reenter Jackson and two men.) JACKSON: Governor Edwards, this is John F. Schermerhorn, Esq., and this is Samuel Mills, Esq., who represent the New England Missionary Societies. GOVERNOR EDWARDS: Your visit is timely, gentlemen. These good people here have just called to discuss the possibility of organizing a church. Under any circumstances we would welcome you to Kaskaskia, and now you are doubly welcome. This is Charles Pritchard, Esq., George Cunning- ham, Esq., Miss Mehitable Perkins, who wants to be an elder, Mrs. Sophronia Sampson, and Mrs. Parmelia Burr. Forty-nine MR. SCHERMERHORN : Back at Williams College, our head- quarters, the report came that there is no Presbj^erian or Congregational clergyman in all the Illinois Territory. We will be glad to put our hand to a plow in such virgin soil. But I don't know about having women as elders! What do you think about that. Brother Mills? MILLS: Mirian, the Prophetess led the way in praising the Lord when the Israelites crossed the Red Sea, and perhaps Miss Perkins will blaze a trail for women of coming generations, who may feel that women have all the same rights that men assume for themselves. GOVERNOR EDWARDS: We will outline a plan immediately. Mrs. Burr, have you any plans to offer? MRS. BURR: The Missionaries, coming from the New England Societies, will surely have valuable suggestions to make for the organization of the church. My cabin has a larger room than almost any other in the settlement. I will be very glad to have them call a first meeting there to consider the project. MRS. SIMPSON: I will go all around the neighborhood and invite them to come. Can we come to your house tonight, Mrs. Burr? MRS. BURR: Indeed you may. CUNNINGHAM: Some of the settlers live quite a piece out in the country. The roads are so wet that my wagon could hardly get through. I will go horseback and try to round up the outsiders and the rest of you divide up the cabins among yourselves in order to save time. MILLS: The Lord will surely bless the efforts of peoples so eager to receive the gospel. GOVERNOR EDWARDS: You may depend upon me to do all that I can. When you see how the settlers respond, it is probable that we can plan to erect a meeting house at an early time. (They move toward L 1 followed by Governor Edwards, who speaks his last words as he leaves the stage.) GOVERNOR EDWARDS: Let me hear from you as soon as you have some results. Mr. Schermerhorn, please report to me immediately after the meeting how many were in attendance, and what seemed to be the general sentiment toward organiz- ing a congregation. I bid you all good day! (End of Scene 10) 1837 EPILOGUE SPIRIT OF SPRINGFIELD ONE CENTURY OLD CHARACTERS 1937 SPIRIT OF SPRINGFIELD Rev. Burd Arganbright ETERNITY Reverend A. Ray Grummon HISTORY Reverend Vernon L. Shontz HUMANITY Miss Adelaide O'Brien SPIRIT OF THE HEBREW FAITH Morris D. Oberman SPIRIT OF THE CATHOLIC FAITH Frank Dirksen SPIRIT OF THE PROTESTANT FAITH Elem Lavin FAITH Miss Jeanette Harrison HOPE Miss Mary Stevens LOVE Miss Marianna Schroeder SUFFERING Gabriel Bartscht GOOD will'.". Selby Nelson FELLOWSHIP Curtis Lavin THE SINGING VOICE OF SPRINGFIELD A Capella Choir, Springfield High School HUMANITY: One hundred years ago together here we stood. Eternity and History, looking upon the second earthly Para- dise. All now is changed. Where once the wild life roamed, unfearing, free, now massive buildings stand. A city great! A people revelling in all the wealth that nature gives! But oft 'tis said, O History, that they have wandered far from ancient Faith. Do they no longer worship God, O History? HISTORY: E'en as the landscape varies, so have human needs and aspirations changed! Fear not. Humanity, that though new methods come, at heart the people still religious are. List! While I quote what here is writ: "One year ago, in Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-six, nine million members new joined church. The nation numbers many more than one hundred million folk, yet more than half of these are on the list of church. Out of every two who in America now dwell, more than one some church attends. Of those not making open statement of their faith by far the greater number in their hearts believe. HUMANITY: Thy record. History, o'er flows with hope. Fain would I ask thee further of these faithful folk. Are they united in their hopes, or do they differ in their faith as in the days of old, when conflict brought confusion and despair? ETERNITY: Let me the answer give. Humanity. Our friend. History records events long past. The present I behold and also what the future has in store. Thou wilt recall that centuries ago a lesson Jacob taught his sons. Each of the twelve to Jacob brought a staff, plucked from a tree of varying kind. When bound together none the staff could bend, yet each was from its tree the same. The oak, the elm, the hickory, lends each its strength and still retains its name. Now comes the climax of events forever past! A city, proud, combines within its bounds a Spirit wonderful! Its varying groups in peace and concord dwell, each willing to concede due honor and ambition to the rest. When need arises, eagerly they strive, competing with each other for the best. That Spirit now to thee will be disclosed. To it the Hebrew, and the Catholic, the Protestant of all the varying creeds, will bring their boughs to be united into one unbending staff, a staff on which that Spirit may depend. (Curtains part, showing Spirit of Springfield, seated.) SPIRIT OF SPRINGFIELD: (To Eternity) Turn back the clock of time, O Spirit of Immortality! Let Jacob's lesson of the staffs repeated be. Here, in this little town, where hallowed Lincoln dwelt, now happy concord reigns supreme. His precepts honored, his desires fulfilled. Speak now the words, three Spirits thou, that bind still closer all our vary- ing creeds. HUMANITY: Upon my eldest child, he of the Hebrew Faith, I first will call. Thy branch of ancient worship now disclose. (Spirit of the Hebrew Faith enters R 4, moves majestically at right to front, turns, moves up center to Spirit of Spring- field, who descends to lower step of platform, from chair, out-stretching both arms. Spirit of the Hebrew Faith faces audience, raises bough aloft and after speaking, places bough across arms of Springfield. Then stands at left of Springfield.) SPIRIT OF THE HEBREW FAITH: (Before placing bough) As spirit of Judaism, in bringing the white bough of peace, four truths be now proclaimed: Racial, national and religious equality as voiced by the Prophet: "Have we not all one Father, has not one God created us all!" Truth, which is the seal of the Lord! Justice, which brightens the lives of men in their association of one with another! Freedom, wherewith the Liberty Bell is inscribed, in Leviticus, 25th Chapter, 10th verse: "Proclaim Liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof." HISTORY: O Child of Peter, he whom the Savior loved, thou Spirit of the Catholic Faith, I bid thee join thy fellow Hebrew in Jehovah's praise. (Enter Spirit of the Catholic Faith L 4, proceeding as did Hebrew Spirit, taking station at left of Hebrew, after speaking and placing bough.) SPIRIT OF THE CATHOLIC FAITH: As Representative of the Catholic Faith, in presenting this blue bough, emblem of courageous truth, three cardinal principles are proclaimed: "Unity Under God^" declaring the supremacy of God and Man's moral responsibility to Him. "Liberty Under Government — " Asserts the Church can function under any form of Government, but that the priciple Fifty of authority in government comes by consent of the governed. "In all Things Charity — " Manifests contribution in corporal and spiritual works of mercy, expressed in the Church's educational system, and its plans for meeting all human needs. ETERNITY: Third child of all Religion, virile, eager, brave, thou Spirit of the Protestant Faith, with many branching creeds, now add thy bough to these. (Pointing to Spirit of Springfield.) (Enter R 4 Spirit of the Protestant Faith, in same proces- sional from as the preceding Spirits. After speaking, and placing bough, takes stand at left of Catholic Faith.) SPIRIT OF THE PROTESTANT FAITH: Coming in the name of many loyal creeds, united under banner of the Protestant Faith, let this glowing bough of crimson hue, warm-hearted charity, be emblem of four vital ideals: "The Open Bible." "Freedom of Worship." "Separation of Church and State." "Authority of the Individual Conscience." SPIRIT OF SPRINGFIELD: Come, handmaids of all true Religion — Faith, Hope and Love. Thy cords bind fast about these boughs. (Enter R 1, Faith, R 2 Hope, R 3 Love, following each other singly to front center, then back up center stage, forming at right of Springfield in one line, facing audience. Each advances, binds boughs with cord, returns to place.) FAITH: Though trials darken earthly skies, through eyes of Faith we look aloft. HOPE: While Hope survives all mortal spirits onward press their way. LOVE: Love beareth all things, believeth all things, endureth all things. Love never faileth. SPIRIT OF SPRINGFIELD : Though men speak with tongues of Angels, and have not Love, they are as tinkling cymbals. Three other bands there be that further strength will lend. Bring thou the all enduring bands. Come forth unhappy Spirit, Human Suffering, and thou blest spirit of Good Will, and, lastly, highest ideal of them all. Universal Brotherhood. (As each title is pronounced the Spirit enters L 1, to front center, to bough, wraps band and takes stand at left of each other, all at left of the three Allegorical characters, Eternity, History, and Humanity.) SPIRIT OF SPRINGFIELD: Let now the glorious song arise that voices mortals' ardent praise, the wondrous "Halleluiah Chorus". It now in Heaven is guided by its writer, the inspired Handel. (High school choir enters in processional from front lobby, march down auditorium aisles, ascend to stage in planned formation. Music: March Militaire, by Schubert. When all are assembled. Spirit of Springfield speaks. Chorus then sings.) SPIRIT OF SPRINGFIELD : Thus Good Fellowship obeys that highest of all God's commands: "Thou shall love the Lord, thy God with all thy heart; and thy Neighbor as Thy self." CHORUS: Halleluiah! Halleluiah! Halleluiah! For the Lord God Omnipotent Reigneth! HALLELUIAH! END OF EPIC DRAMA SPIRIT OF SPRINGFIELD Fifty-one GROUP PARTICIPANTS "CREATING THE CAPITAL" Prologue SPRINGFIELD HIGH SCHOOL ACAPPELLA CHOIR E. CARL LUNDGREN, Director Warren Adams, Florence AlbrecM, June Antle, Norman Blakley, Bettie Blanchard Kenneth Burch^ ard Alden Canham, Erma Jean Carey, Billy Dial, Alvin Claus, Barbara Endicott, Jack Evans, Eleanor Faris Margaret Frantz, Ruth Giddmgs, Gail Goben, Marv Virginia Grubb, Dolores Hagberg, Dorothy Halligan, Billy Henry, Billy Hinman, Edmund Hewitt, David Highet, Vernetta Hodges, Kathryn Holloway, Pattv Holt, Helen Hovey, Dons Jacobs, Odis Jennings, Dorothy Jones, Betty Kavanaugh, Catherine Kikendall, Eugene Lakin, Alice Virginia Lee Margo Lipe, Lowell Lloyed, James Martin, Joe Mahoney, Herman Maurer, Virginia Mauer, Virginia McCall Sina Jean McConnell, Billy Meek, Catherine Montgomery, Lee Nickelson, Dick Otwell, Art Owen, Ralph Patton, Kathryn Philbrook, Keller Phillippe, Jean Poff Mary Richter, Don Ricken, Evelyn Rittey, Jay Ritter, Don Roettger, Edward Schultz, Herman Schultz, Dorothy Scott, Charles Spauldmg, Ann Squires, Martha Taylor, Frances Thompson, Charles Thornton, Eleanor Valansky, George Westenberger, Alma Jeane Wilson, Jim Winning, Patty Winning Geraldine Wolaver, Marci Wyle, Alberta Young and Joan Young. FEITSHANS ADVANCED CHORUS CATHERINE CURRY, Director Carl Albright, Laura Allen, Louise Allen, Mar- garet Anderson, Warren Andrews, Bonnie Baker, Bettie Baptist, Frances Bartlett, Maxme Bowman, Marian Brooks, Edward Broyles, Arietta Burch, Harold Canham, Lerlene Crim, Donald Denton, John Davis, LaVerne Daugherty, Ruth Eck, Alma Fedora Emma Fortner, Fred Fromm, Bernard Grady, Robert Grandstaff, Ray Gwin, Jack Hall, Herbert Havenar, Dorothy Hedrick, Bob Hurst, Margie Jo^es, Patrick Kane Eugene Klemme, Ralph McCurley, Opal Miller, Helen Nicholson, Mildred Ovca, Harry Patia, Ruth Pendergrass, Daniel Piper, Janes Pope, Bertha Pot- nick Virginia Prinzivalli, Fred Prichett, Honora Rapps, Bell Rring, Glen Rohrer, Ruth Schultz, Lois Shelton, Harry Shontz, Edith Smith, Lawrence Smith Dorothy Sullivan, Leon Sutton, Evelyn Walk- er Ester Washington, Bob Welch, Carl Wieland. LANPHTER HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR VERA E. WHITLOCK, Director Anna Marie Lawson, Elizabeth Le Fcvre, Virginia Morris Pauline Novatnik, Ratha Redpath, Stella Saputo, Eileen Straub, Marie Beck, Ruth Clark, Frances Hendricks, Dorothy LaBenne, Catherine Plain, Valeria Slauter, Lois Young, Wanda June Hendricks (pianist), Jane Brostrom, Dorothy Cole- man, Viola Faizone, Janette Hodge, Martha Huffman, Jacqueline McCarkle, ]\Iary Ellen McCay, Frances Nonneman, Shirley Bolinger, Mary Dillon, Lucille Gentile, Betty George, Pauline Bynron, Noreen Hed- rick, Hazel Morrell, Shirley Race, Lamont Hayes, George Petrelli, Joseph Reynolds, Dick Watts, Law- rence Metzroth, Leno Patrelli, Albert Roderick, Ken- neth Schmeing, Melvin Holsheiser, Gene McCarthy, Tom O'Shea, Thornton Partain, Leonard Pflug, Kenneth Reed, Russell Stickney, Walter Conovay, Lyle Coy, Robert Kornfield, Robert Serra, Ray Stev- enson, Roy Stone and James Whitlock. SPIRITS OF LIGHT FEITSHANS HIGH SCHOOL JOSEPHINE MEIXNER, Director Dancers : Anna Marie Skube, Mary Ann Church, Marian Church, Annabelle Davis, Mary McDonough, Velma Jones, Josephine Drayogo, Betty Da\'idson, Helen Kochler, Goldie Warren, Mildred Bentley, Lucille Mehreider, Lucille Levy, Dorothy Best, Betty Earl, Frances Schueller, Mildred Ovca, Lerlene Crim, Dorothy Hendrick, Mary Ocepek, Eileen Hoffman, Marjorie Moody, Peggy Monroe, Mary Dower, Mar- ion Ihren, June Graham, Betty Morris and Vivian Hill. THE DELUGE MILDRED CASKEY SCHOOL OF DANCING MILDRED CASKEY, Director The storm music from Mendelssohn's "Elijah" sung by choirs in the balcony while the Dance of the Waters is interpreted by the dancers. Julie Eadie, Nina Mary Starkey, Mary El Dry- foose, Betty Neber, Betty Jo Yanda, Ruth Knopping, Francis Nevadunski, Frances Bensch, Jean Maddox, Janice Lush. LAYING THE CORNERSTONE Officials' Wives: Mary F. Kovaly, Mrs. F. W. Raymond, Eileen Goss, Agnes Durako, Anna Durako, Vivian Viele, Mary Lascody, Theresa Taposik, Jane Figueira, Helen Long. EXECUTIVE MANSION BALL Disting-uished Guests: Katherine Kimble, Doro- thy lirunk. Polly Souther, Margaret Ellen Jayne, Eileen Irvine, IMrs. Marjorie Sinister, Emma Louise Jenkins, Dorothy Foster, J\Irs. Conklmg Buckley, Mrs. Oscar Ansell, Jane Culp, Julia Cottrell, Polly Coleman, Mrs. Jean Tliomas, IMary Louise McCreary (chairman), Mrs. Otis White, Margaret Styles. Fifty-two Dancers: Alfred Dhen, Howard Souther, Arden Gustafson, Oscar Ansell, Charles Briggle, J. Parr, T. M. Slofson, W. A. Claton, Charles Klaphake, David Simpson, Robert Logan, Don Cary, Calvin Hugy, Ed Anderson, Richard Meyer, Richard Townsend. Attendants: Arthur Clem, Bertram Singleton, Clarence Higgins ,Edward Gorum. LINCOLN LIBERTY CHORUS OLIVER JEROME SINGLETON, Director ATTENDANTS TO SPIRIT OF SPRINGFIELD Frances Gietl, Antoinette Petrone, Bernadine Dacy, Mamie Montolbano, Eleanor Pinkes, Rose Marie Mathes, Matilda Pinkes, Mary Ellen Feeney, Marion McCabe, Helen Hoffman, Dorothy Kenetski. Attendant States to Spirit of Illinois: Eleanor Mae Hostick, Mary Mullen, Rosemary Ettlebrick, Mary Elizabeth Churchman, Theresa Kenney, Rose- mary Graham, Mary Rielly, Nellie Bretz, Marjorie Blough, Norma Oldridge (page), Elsie Beeger (page), Betty Eggleston, Mary Murphy, Anna Marie Sansone, Mary Jane Halpin, Helen Reynolds, Mar- garet Rielly, Betty Sidles, Eileen Murphy (page), Peggy Shea (page), Marjorie Maroney, Rose Marie Kraus, Margaret Henry (page), Michelina Brasco, Eleanor Jean Walsh, Maxine Young, INDIAN BRAVES ORDER OF RED MEN Indian Braves: A. L. Rupert, Bryan Abel, Wil- liam R. Scholtz, C. C. Niedbal, Alfred Hollinshead, Charles Isenhower, Thomas Bauereiss, Claude String- ham, Jack Slater, Ben Danley, C. W. Davis, William J. Power, C. J. Leemaster, Virgil Graves, Bert Arnold, J. S. Sutton. DAUGHTERS OF POCAHONTAS Indian Squaws: Laura Ehlert, Marie Ehlert, Ethel Mitchel, Nellie Brantner, Ethel Cherry, Louise Talkington, Peggy Dodson, Marie Reavley, Nancy Davis, Margaret Violet, Maude Nix, Susan Bruning, Elizabeth Coon, Minnie Gagon, Margaret Reed, Lucy Harvey, Ina Deens, Helen Japone, Ella Garrison, Mary Egan, Martha Howlesy, Jane Crum, Fanny McCallister, Vivian Bomgarden, Kitty Mae Bobell and Lucille Edwards. Papooses: Dennis Thompson, Harold Williams, Lewis Thompson, Wesley Cherry, Lewis Cherry, Bobby Thomas, Billy Kelly, Billy Jones, Franklin Null, Mariln June Murphy, Helen Maxine Conley, Bett Ann Bobell, Shirley Jane Beatty, Joan Sue Beatty, Roberta Jean Schofield, Mary Joan Lankton, James Thompson, Edna Louise Thompson, Dolores Coy, Violet Mae. Columbus Island Indians : Bill Boston, John Mac- Wherter, Bob Mountz, Thomas Moody, Bob Haynes, Jimmie Evans, Larie Crouch, Lannie Roberts, Robert Lipe, George S. Kokenes, Harry Short. SPRINGFIELD MUNICIPAL BAND HOMER D. MOUNTZ, Conductor Horace Sweet, Fred W. Selinger, Edward F. Wag- ner, Stuart D. Park, Arthur W. Gibson, Frederick Gregg, Wm. P. Gardiner, Robert Kennedy, Arthur H. Irwin, Paul F. Dirksen, Lawrence T. Kraus, Pat- rick L. Hehlick, J. M. McCoy, Elmer Cornet, James E. Brewer, John J. Stevens, George W. Boner, Law- rence Watkins, Lee X. Merkle, Fordyce W. Brown, Adolph Faingnaert, C. P. Seltenrich, Julius C. Skoog, Fred Slater, Ellery L. Elmore, Charles Grigas, Robert T. Erickson,' Terrance J. Keeley, Frank E. Leeder (Manager), Frank Berniker, Alfred Diemer, James Capella, Kent L. Kyes, L. F. Rauzi, John Marx, Larry F. Costello, John A. Layendecker, Alvin Button, Wm. H. Moffett, August Rusch, Owen 0. Squires, Robert L. Lewis (Librarian), Louis J. Rahman, Vin- cent M. Kramp, Wm. H. Moshier, John F. Wicks, Lyle H. Roe (Drum Major). COURT MINUET CATHEDRAL DRAMATIC GROUP SPRINGFIELD MUNICIPAL COLORED BAND FRANK BERNICKER, Director Joush C. Douglas (Manager), George Hasten (Li- brarian), Kennith Barton, Louis Mills, William Mills, Joseph Henry, Menry Williams, Henry Merrifield, Herbert Allen (Drum Major), Jones Wade, John Smith, Perry Osborn, William Hagan, Hobert Rich- ardson, A. W. Charlton, Rollin Barton, Charles Young, Thomas Wright, Logan Artis, Frank Burns, William Lucas, Samuel King, Wellington Ellis, Charles Carter, Harding Long. USHERS From Concordia Theological Seminary: J. Werth, H. Huth, G. Behnke, A. Workentine, J. Werner, W. Tensmeyer, L. Arnold, A. Baldwin, S. Mozolak, A. Drevlow. From DeMolay Order: Robert Springer, 0. K. Warren, Melvin Towsley, James Hamilton, Raymond Reed, James Smith, Ralph Patton, Hobert Dunlap, John Schaeffer, Russel Gillock, Clarence Snell, Robert Cantral, Dan Zahn, Don Smith, Harry Bald- win, Bill Wood, Ken Schmeing, Wayne Dickerson. From Knights of Columbus: A. F. Beudel, Joseph Cadigan, Ray Cicci, John Daughton, Edward Dirk- sen, Paul Dirksen, John J. Donelan, Jr., Oliver Fields, Louis Geitl, Jr., Owen Higgins, Thomas Higgins, Gerald Hudspeth, John Hunt, George J. Kern, John Luby, Joseph Maurer, Lawrence Melton, Walter Ryan, Frank J. Sheehan, Anthony Vespa, Arthur Vespa, Justin Wochner, Frank Dirksen, Francis Cody, Marcus Davlin. Fifty-three SPRINGFIELD CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION COMMITTEES Executive: Maj^or John W. Kapp, Jr., Chairman; Logan Hay ; Michael Eckstein ; R. C. Lanphier ; Mrs. Irby Shepherd ; Judge H. E. Nelson ; Paul M. Angle ; G. W. Bunn, Jr. ; E. S. Perry. Finance: A. W. Shipton, Co-Chairman ; George Clendenin, Co-Chairman ; Robert Irwin ; Fred Shrader; Will McConnell ; John McDonald; Wm. Yunker ; Walter Hagler ; John Luby ; George Bengel ; Goin Lanphier; Herbert Bartholf. Publicity: J. Emil Smith, Co-Chairman; V. Y. Dallman, Co-Chairman ; Robert Woodraansee ; Wra. G. McCloskey ; E. L. Rogers ; Dr. A. W. Kennebrow. New Salem Participation: Judge H. E. Nelson, Chairman; James E. Graham; Isaac Diller; Homer D. McLaren ; H. W. Fay ; D. W. McCoy** ; John L. Walker; Mrs. H. C. Blankmeyer; Mayor John H. Johnson, Petersburg, 111.; Henry Pond, Petersburg, 111. ; W. Y. Ramsey, Petersburg, 111. Budget: R. E. Miller, Chairman; C. U. Luers; Edw. P. Easley. General Plans and Events : Earl B. Searcy, Chair- man; Wm. McKenzie, Vice Chairman; John Mac- Wherter; S. A. Barker; Michael Eckstein; C. J. Doyle; Rev. John T. Thomas; Rev. H. M. Hilde- brandt ; Rt. Rev. Msgr. M. A. Tarrant ; Rabbi Herman E. Snyder ; Rev. Geo. W. Smith ; Albert Pickel ; John M. Tipton; Dr. Elmer E. Hagler; Frank L. Trutter; Roy Troxell; Louis Myers; Herbert Tragethon; A. M. Fitzgerald; Dr. L. C. Esper; John L. Taylor; Charles F. Link ; Will Taylor ; Mrs. Augusta Denton ; Mrs. David McCarthy ; Mrs. Howard Bryden ; Elijah Jones; John Billington; John Dilks; Owsley Brown; 0. L. Parr; Morris Kaiserman; Carlos F. Black; Walter Williams ; Wm. Ashby ; Hayden Davis. Historical Research: Paul M. Angle, Chairman; Dr. H. E. Pratt; Benjamin F. Thomas; Miss Alta Speulda; Mrs. Helen Van Cleave Blankmeyer; Miss Martha Wilson. Lincoln Relic: King Hostick, Chairman; Mrs. David McCarthy, Co-Chairman ; Herbert Wells Fay ; Judge Benjamin S. DeBoice. Talent Committee: Mrs. David McCarthy, Chair- Woman; Miss Mary McDonald, Co-Chair-Woman. Ticket Committee : Homer D, McLaren, Chairman ; Edward Easley; Charles J. Schnepp; Glenn Cole; Lawrence Meikeljohn; John W. Reilly; Charles R. Bean ; Howard Post ; Coy Gilman. MAGNIFICENT WICKS ORGAN The organ used throughout the Pageants at the Illinois State Armory is a product of the Wicks Organ Company, Highland, Illinois, builders of some of America's leading pipe organs. This instrument contains pipes voiced by an inter- nationally famous artist. Voicers of rare ability create in the pipe tones of unbelievable beauty and refinement. Such tones as emanate from the pipes in the Wicks organ are of a type most desirable for accompaniment of voices and for providing the proper musical background for the service. Liquid, mellow flutes, combined with the scintillating quality of string tones and the foundation tone of the dia- pasons, give the organ its individuality. No modern electrical device, though it be very unique and novel, can ever take the place held by the pipe organ— the "King of Instruments". One of the outstanding features of the organ used at the Arsenal, is that it has none of the thin perish- able and troublesome leather pneumatics which we are accustomed to seeing in other pipe organs. Ex- clusive patents held by the Wicks Organ Company, cover a simple direct electric action. This action is heralded as the only really new development in organ actions during the last twenty years. By the use of this simplified action, service expense is almost negligible, an organ will last longer and there is not the usual annoyance because of mechanical diffi- culties. **Deceased. Fifty-four Williamson Press, Springfield, Illinois FURNITURE THAT STANDS THE TEST OF TIME Since 1870 FOURTH AND WASHINGTON ^ SANGAMO ELECTRIC COMPANY Springfield, Illinois Replica of Daniel Chester French's Lincoln in the Memorial Temple in Washington City. Photo by Herbert Georg.