The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1893-04-01

DEPARTMENT OF NEVADA.

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to it. We can do so in no better way
than by giving the circular entire:
EUREKA, NEv., March %, 1893
To the Patriotic Citizens and School Chill
dren of Nevada:
With the hope to establish in the minds
OF all, and more especially in the developing
characters of our children, the precions
doctrine of human liberty, is the plan for
the creation of a columbian Liberty Bell''
in connection with the Worlds Fair at Chi
cago, which shall be duplicate of that at
Philadelphia.
The proposition is, that it shall be placed
in the most appropriate position in the
Worlds Exhibition, and be rung at sunrise
and sunset and at O'Clock in the morning
on the anniversaries of important events in
the worlds progress toward Liberty and
Peace, and at II O'Clock noon, on the an
niversaries of the birthdays of the creators
of our Liberty The plan further, as out
lined by the General Committee of which
William O. Mcdowell of 20 Spruce street,
Newark, N. J. is Chairman, is as follows:
Two kinds of contributions are desired.
second, money to pay for its creation and
care. If the fund received is in excess of
these requirements, it will be used to bring
about in the year following, the Columbian
year, Pan-Republic Congress, the object
and intention of which Congress will be the
maintenance of International peace.
| 1t is desired that contribution be made
! by the Governor of every State in the Union
of something that can be melted into the
bell Next, any metallic material of historic
interest, objects of gold, silver, copper,
bronze, or nickel, all of which will be fused
into the bell.
! 1t is also asked that the owners of mines
in our State producing metals that are
fusible in the bell contribute something that
they have dug from our soil.
AS to money contributions The first great
thought and desire is that the largest mum
Der of people possible shall have part in
creating this bell and above everything
that the children shall not be neglected.
and, if possible, it is desirable that every
child in the land should have a penny or
more in it. The object of such an invest
ment upon the child S after life cannot help
but be beneficial and exert d lasting inhu-
ence for good.
1t is the intention that after the Worlds
Fair the bell will be removed from the
| grounds at Chicago and given some per-
manent place and transported from time to
time to different places as great public oc-
casions of Liberty and peace may suggest as
appropriate.
1t is not so much what is given as the
sentiment that goes along with the giving,
that all these articles are to be used in the
celebration of, and for the promotion of the
the joy which will be experienced by con
seriousness of peace and liberty on hearing
its tones
! 1t IL also proposed to have manufactured
out of the same, bell material number OF
smaller bells, suitable for schoolhouse and
family use, of the same model as the '.Colum-
! ban Liberty Bell" and bearing the same
notices These bells are to be presented
to every school, society or family who con-
tributes $40 to the fund
1t is earnestly hoped that Nevada with her
great variety and store of minerals will bear
an important part in this undertaking, and
that the well known patriotism and public
spirit of her citizens will be exemplitied by
| their prompt action and responses
School teachers throughout the State are
especially urged to interest their pupils in
| this question and help them in the selec-
| ton of materials. Every contribution, no
matter how great or trivial, will be credited
| to the person sending and his or her name
| forwarded to the General Committee to ap-
pear with the Historic Record that is to be
compiled concerning the contribution re-
ceived and which Record is to accompany
| the bell wherever it may be used.
| All gifts or metals should be suitably
marked indicating what event if any the
article represents, together with the name
of the the contributor, and be Immediately
| forwarded to 1. G. C. Whitmore, agent of
| Wells, Fargo & Co., at Eureka, Nevada
The casting of these bells will be on April
| 80, 1898, by the Meneely Bell Company of
Troy, N Y, which has volunteered to
manufacture them without profit.
Contributions should be sent to Mr.. Whit
more not later than April 20, 1893.
Very earnestly,
| MRS. HENRY RIVES,
Representing the State of Neada.