The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-07-03
MANY PRICELESS RELICS
COMPOSE THE COLUMBIAN LIB
ERTY BELL.
Mrs. Cleveland Touched the Button and
the Meneily Bell Foundry Did
the Rest

were So many tnelnenlOeS Oh country
history gathered together and wrought
into one thing as is being done now to
make the Columbian Liberty Bell
Every day there is received at the
Meneily Bell Foundry, here in Troy,
scores of packages containing historic
heirlooms to be cast into the bell. The
packages of historical objects that have
already arrived number several hundred,
and so busy have the foundry managers
been attending to the correspondence
relative to the bell that half of them
have not even been opened.
The interest is not confined to any
one class or section-all America evil
IDENTITY means to take a hand in the
making of this second national bell
A scrapbook will be made, probably,
containing a description of every article
that goes into the bell, also photographs
of some of the more important objects.
The money to pay the $1,000 that the
casting will cost is coming In at good
rate. A great share of it is in pennies
contributed by school children. The
educational institutions of nearly every
State have contributed. Citizens have
subscribed sums of a substantial sort
The Columbian Liberty Bell Com
mittee will hold its first meeting in In
dependence Hall, Philadelphia to.mor
row, June 7, and on the following day
will come to Troy to be present at the
casting. June s was chosen as most
appropriate time for the event, for it
was on that date in 1916 that a com
mittee was appointed by the Continental
Congress to draft the Declaration of
independence. Mrs. Cleveland has
promised to touch an electric button at
Washington that will release the molten
metal into the molds, and Mrs. Madge
Morris Wagner, of San Diego, Cal,
anthor of the poem "Liberty's Bell"
will ring it for the first time in Chicago
on Independence Day.
So great is the number of contribu-
tons that a complete enumeration of
them would require many columns,
Here are some among the important
ones: ]. Alderman Coles, Scotch
Plains, N. J., piece of bust of Ben
jamin Franklin, made in France in
1878; Miss +. l.. Shaw, Troy, N. Y,
a piece of the old bell in the first Dutch
church at Schenectady, imported from
Holland Alexander Miller, Culpeper,
Va, medal given to his grandfather
for valiant conduct at the battle of
Waterloo, and also pair of silver sugar
tongs, owned by the Rev. Mr.. Blair,
the first Presbyterian minister in Vir-
ginia ; Mrs. James Lyons, a key of a
desk used many years by Patrick
Henry Thomas N. Emley of Cooks
town, N. J., piece of surveyors
compass used by William Gurley,
who came to this country from Eng
land as commissioner in 1867
Miss Elizabeth H, little of Johns
town, Pa, gold and silver jewelry
that passed through the food at
that place H,rold A. Lawrence OF
West Philadelphia, an English coin of
I775, formerly belonging to Robert
Hall, the great-greatg great grandfather
of the giver, an associate of William
Penn and signer of the Declaration
of independence Gertrude B. Garlock
of Little Falls, N Y, a bronze lock
fixture from the residence of Gen.
Nicholas Herkimer; Mrs. Prince, wife
of Governor Prince, Of New Mexico, a
piece of copper pipe taken from the
Governors palace erected in Santa Fe
in 1898; Edward G. Porter of Boston,
a piece of the first church bell cast in
Boston by Paul Revere; Mrs. w. H.
Hyatt of New Orleans, medal given
Isaac Van Wartz, one of the three men
who captured Major Andre; Patrick
Calhoun of Atlanta, Ca, silver spo n
which belonged to United States Sena-
tor John c. Calhoun; William King OF
the Atlanta Constitution, silver spoon
of Henry w. Grady, the famous South
ern editor; Mrs. +. R. Jones of Holly
Springs, Miss, knob from a clock
given by Thomas Jefferson to Mrs
Nicholas Lewis; Richard S. Bayham
of Troy, silver shoe buckle, worn by
Capt. Jacob Poole of Abingdon, Mass,
who, with four sons fought at the battle
of Bunker Hill, and was member o
the Boston tea party; Mrs Andrew
Refs of Baltimore, Md, piece of a
silver spoon, once the property o
George Washington; Mrs. l.. H
Stone of Kalamazoo, Mich, pin mad,
in Greece from mites, such as tn,
widows cast into the treasury as com
handed by Jesus.
Colonel DIN Scott of Bennington
contributed piece of the original bel
in Independence Hall, Philadelphia
Mrs. George Babcock of Troy, N. Y.
piece of the original Atlantic cable
Mrs. Julia G.. Pelton of Hartford
Conn, piece of metal from the oldes
house in Newington, Conn, which wa
built before 1908; No. fire compan.
of Sunbury, Pa, piece of cannon
from Fort Augusta, used in the Frencl
and Indian war of 1856; Mrs. c, II
Kenney, Philadelphia, French coin c
1892, presented to her grandfather
Captain w, H. Fevey by Genera
Lafayette; Mrs. Clark Waring Of Colum