The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-06
BIG OvATIONS TO THE BELL.
THE JOURNEY THROUGH VIRGINIA
AN UNBROIxEN TRIUMPH.

LynchburE turn Out I'm MnsSe to
Show Their Loyalty to Liberty and
Its Precious ReIic-The Night spent
at Roanoke.
Petersburg. Va, Oct. 5.-The Liberty bell
was accorded a rousing reception here.
When the train bearing the bell and Off
cial escort pulled into the union station
this morning at O'Clock, fully 5000 peo-
pie were there to get a look at the his
torical relic. The official escort was met
at the station by Hon. Charles f. Collier.
mayor of Petersburg. the city council ana
other officials of the city. An address OF
welcome was delivered by Mayor Collier
and was responded to by Hon. Charles +.
Warwick, mayor of Philadelphia. At 10
o'clock the train with the bell and escort
left on its way to Atlanta.
NOttoway c. H. Va Oct 5-The ten
minutes scheduled for this little town of
! the Liberty bell party was curtailed, be-
cause Of the demand for a stop at Black
stone where the population formed itself
! into reception committee. Little knots
4 or men, women and Children cheered the
relic, but there was no Grafton here.
1nere was goodly crowd, many having
/ come in from the surrounding farms.
| Select Councilman Commissioner Nc
| Coach said a few words in behalf of the
/ Philadelphia escorting party, and there
/ We're the usual cheers for the bell.
Farmville, Va, Oct. 5.-The Liberty bell
/ and its escort completely captured this
| famous spring city to-day. The entire
/ population turned out, and the crowd was
I swollen by hundreds, who poured in from
/ the nearby country. From the stylish car
/ riage to the primitive cart, every known
/ style of vehicle was employed, and it was
/ amusing and impressive by the picnic air
/ that perVaded the place.
The crowd that surged about the station
| Where the bell car was halted was simply
/ immense A company of the Third regl-
! ment, national guard of Virginia We're
] ll0eu hpninN q
I line were 300 lovely young women students
/ at the State Normal School With them
/ We're the students from Hampton Sidney
/ College and the Union Theological Semi
/ nary, and grouped about We're hundreds
] Of the most picturesque darkey men, wo-
/ men and children yet encountered on the
! pilgrimage. There was music by a band
\ flags huttered everywhere and the crowd
/ was brimming over with patriotic en-
! A pleasant address of welcome was de-
/ liVered by Rev. George w. Wray, to which
/ Mayor Warwick responded on behalf of
/ the Dell party. Mayor W. II. Lambert also
/ spoke briefly, and then line was formed
/ and several thousand people, including the
| normal school girls and the college boys
/ filed past the relic, many of them with
/ heads reVerently uncovered Not half the
| crowd mad passed the bell when time was
| up, and the Inspiring strains of Dixie
/ mingled with the cheers as the train start
/ ed for Lynehburg.
| Lynchburg, Va, Oct. 5.-The Liberty
! bell. according to announcement, arrived
/ in the city this afternoon, and remained
here about an hour. Into that hour there
was crowded emotion, enthusiasm and
patriotism.
Long before the arrival of the special
| train, the depot was crowded with people
| determined to see this famous relic.
! The special was a little late and did not
reach the city until about 2:45. When it
pulled into the ueoOt, every available
| space was crowded with men, women and
children, and the mass of humanity pre-
sented solid wall along the side track
on which the special entered. As the train
drew into the depot, it was greeted by
enthusiastic cheers from the assembled
! multitude. Innumerable flags waved from
the big locomotive and the colors of the
union We're conspicuous on the platform
car. The cheers and acclamations were
! prolonged and the party on board the
train must have been convinced of the
true patriotism which filled the breasts of
the large crowd before them.
Mayor Warwick made a brief address to
the crowd and was enthusiastically ap-
! plauded Calls were made for Col. Marye,
and he came forward, expressing the
pleasure felt by the city of Lynchburg
and all Virginians in the presence of the
old bell and its escort in Lynchburg, as
suring the Philadelphians that no truer
lovers of the old bell could be found in the
Quaker City than in Virginia, the birth
place of Patrick Henry who gave utter
ance to the sentiments that caused the bell
to ring out its declaration of independ-
ence Mayor Warwick made a brief reply
to Col Marye's remarks and five minutes
speeches were made by several other men,
bers of the party.
and appropriate speech in his happiest
vein, which was much applauded. The
train pulled out for Roanoke amid the en-
thusastic cheers of the multitude.
Roanoke, Va, Oct. 5.-From Lynchburg
through the beautiful Piedmont and Roa-
noke valleys the southwark progress of
the Liberty Bell was veritable ovation.
Poor indeed was the farm house or cabin
that did not show the national colors in
some form and shouting groups of chill
dren, black and white, marked the very
At Bedford the entire population was
massed under the spreading trees that
lined the railroad tracks. The public
school children carried small flags and
old black mammies waved their turbans,
while brass band brayed out its welcome.
Mayor Warwick again talked for a few
minutes on patriotic lines and the Phila-
delphia escort party was warmly greeted.
At Lynchburg the entire city council OF
Roanoke headed by Chairman r. A. Buck
ner and Mayor S. L. Jones, boarded the
train and told of the royal reception
awaiting the bell in their hustling blue
lick city. Their predictions were glowing,
but no one was prepared for what really
took place. The city was in gala attire,
and as the train entered through several
sharp rocky gorges, it seemed as though
every hillside bridge and housetop swarm
ed with people. From the woods on the
crest of a lofty hill a big cannon belched
out the presidential salute, but even the
boom of the gun was drowned in the ear
splitting Voney of cheers and shouts of
greeting that rolled up from the great
masses of people that stretched out in
every direction.
In a vast freight yard the train was run
and the people packed in and about that
yard must have exceeded 10000 in number.
No member of the escort party can recall
any such crowd on either Of the previous
trips of the bell except in large cities and
the patriotic enthusiasm was indescrib-
able. Red, white and blue bunting COW
cred even the trolley poles, while horses
wore flags tied about their necks, and
women of evident refinement cheered
themselves hoarse and Joined the surging
crowd that pressed forward to get a
glimpse of the relic.
Company G, Second regiment, national
guard of Virginia, was the guard of
honor, but in the crowd and Grand Army
posts stood side by side with confederate
veterans, Baptist boys brigades lined up
with Catholic total abstainers, brother
hoods, unions and patriotic orders of all
kinds haunted their gay banners and
marched past the car in all the glory of
regalia and plumed helmets. There was a
short burst Of oratory, in which Mayor
Warwick. Selectmen Clay, Bringhurt and
McCroach and Common Councilman Hart
man joined, and then the crowd was lined
up to Chamber over the bell car and touch
the bell. The rush was awful and sew
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