Abstract

Notes from The Capital

Many newspaper readers have thought it strange, in view of the recent revival of memories of former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, to see so little mention anywhere of his surviving son. Robert Todd Lincoln is a prominent citizen of Chicago and an officer of several corporations, including the Pullman Company, in which he has been the most conspicuous figure since the death of its founder. The reticence of the press is due chiefly to his intense distaste for needless publicity. Outside of every personal consideration, Lincoln has an especial claim upon the notice of all Americans for the share he unconsciously bore in making his father President. During his residence in Washington and abroad, Robert Lincoln was regarded as a rather handsome man of the strictly worldly type; he has never borne in his face or frame any strong resemblance to his father. His countenance lacks the spiritual light which made the War President's so lustrous in spite of its ugliness of mould.