Ye Olde Hotel Nachusa - Poem and List of Famous Guests

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YE OLDE HOTEL NACHUSA Erected in 1838-Rebuilt in 1858, 1871, 1914, 1936 THERE'S a haven in a tavern famous as the tourist's joy, on a river swirling, curling, through the plains of Illinois. There the drummer finds his solace in a modern hotel palace, rich, luxurious, antique, curious, marked with fame and ancient lore, holding history in store for its great men by the score. On the pages of the past, we find great men from first to last, who have made our country known throughout every land and zone. There stood Lincoln, grand and great, when he tussled in debate with the "little giant" Stephen, with the honors almost even. Here the name of poet Holmes, down the list is Jenkin Jones, higher up the name of Grant, Madam Patti with her chant. Here they supped and dined of old, guarded in the landlord's fold. Five score wearing years deface, but the tavern, keeping pace, does the modern modes embrace. Art has worked its wondrous change, science brings convenience strange, till the spirits of the dead, should they now engage a bed at this tavern óf tradition, would succumb to superstition. Neatness, comfort, food and beauty, given from a sense of duty, to the worn and weary farer, no place like it, nothing rarer. Up-to-date, with all things nice, furnished by the landlord, Rice. Written by G. W. CONN, Jr., after having read the list of names of famous people who have been enter- tained at the NACHUSA HOTEL, Dixon, Illinois.

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FB 1..so A partial list of names of famous people who have registered at the Nachusa Abraham Lincoln William (Boss) Tweed U.S. Grant Judge Kenesaw Landis Theodore Roosevelt Marquis of Queensbury Wm, Howard Taft Lady McCormick Gen. Leonard Wood Lady Somerfield Medill McCormick Tennessee Claflin Robt. La Follette, Sr. Lady Cook Eugene V. Debs Mme. Schumann-Heink Sam Jones Anna Dickinson Stephen A. Douglas Will Carlton John A. Logan Oliver Wendell Holmes Cassius M. Clay Henry Ward Beecher Bayard Taylor Lieutenant Hobson Horace Greeley George Ade Jefferson Davis Carter Harrison, Sr. Pres. Conf. States Amer. Dwight Moody Gen, Geo. B. McClellan Richard Oglesby (Gov.) Adelina Patti Gen, John D. Gordon Carlotta Patti Wm. J. Bryan Emma Abbott Billy Sunday Ole Bull Dr. Cook Galli Curci Arctic Explorer Helen Keller and Maude Ballington Booth Mrs. Macy Jenkins Lloyd Jones Camilla Urso Schuyler Colfax Elbert Hubbard Vice-Pres. John M. Palmer E. B. Washburne Governor and Senator U.S. Min. to France