Excerpt from On the Wing of Occasions: Being the Authorized Version of Certain Curious Episodes of the Late Civil War, Including the Hitherto Suppressed Narrative of the Kidnapping of President Lincoln I saw an announcement the other day to the effect that the old hotel had been closed to the publrc, and by thrs trme no doubt 1ts place has been taken by one of those unsightly and rrdrcu lous structures wh1ch stand for pretty much all that IS concrete and real ln our commercral envr ronment In that event the old burldrng has been demolrshed and carted away as so much rubbrsh but If that rubbrsh should find a vorce, how many strange storres 1t could tell' The at roof covered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."