The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-07
IN ITS FINEST DRESS
SAVANNAH WILL RECEIVE THE
LIBERTY BELL VISITORS.
STREETS WILL BE CLEANED.
EVERYTHING sPICK AND SPAN FOR
THE PHILADELPHIANs.


Have His STRENGTHENING Force
Put Them in Order-The Route to
BE Followed in the Drive-Invita-
tiOns to the Fish supper at Isle OF
Hope Sent Out-Superintende mt
Ashmore to the Mayor.
Not only the glad hand" but a
front will be presented by Savan-
nah to Philadelphia tomorrow. The
director of public works was yester-
day provided by the Committee on En-
tertainment. appointed from the City
Council to look after the Liberty Bell
visitors, with list of the streets con-
stituting the route over which the
party is to be driven. The director
of public works was requested to have
his STRENGTHENING force work on the
streets and have them as clean as
possible. An impression is to be Gre
ated, if clean. attractive streets will
serve to do it.
The Liberty Bell party will arrive in
Savannah tomorrow afternoon at 3:45,
city time. In waiting at the Plant
System station viii be the committee
from the City Council, with carriages
for the Philadelphians escorting the
bell on its way to Charleston.
The following route has been made
up by the Committee on Entertain
ment, of which Alderman Dixon is
chairman: Plant System station to
Liberty street, to Drayton, to Bay, to
Bull to Congress, to West Broad, to
Indian, TO Water, to River to the Cen
trail Railway wharves, to Wadley
street, to Bay street extended to Farm,
to West Broad, to Liberty, to Bull; to
CASTOR, to Whitaker, to Gwinnett, to
the water works, back on Gwinnett to
jefferson, to Henry. to Bull, to Thirty
eighth to Jefferson, to Fortieth street
where cars will be taken at o'clock
for the fish supper to be given at Bar
bees restaurant at Isle of Hope in
compliment to the Philadelphia Wis
itors.
In the Liberty Bell party will be the
wife, the daughter and the sister of
Mayor Samuel H. Ashbridge and, pos
sibly, other ladies. The entertainment
at Isle of Hope will be a stag affair,
OuI Tic lduiSS Will OC
with a box party at the theater, where
Viola Allen will be seen in I'm the
Palace of the King"
The following is the invitation that
was sent out yesterday to some thirty
Savannahians, heads of the CONNER
cial bodies and of the railways and
officers of the courts:
1.-THE Mayor and aldermen of the city
of Savannah request the pleasure of
your presence at a fish lunch compli-
mentary to the Mayor, aldermen and
other officials representatives of the
city of Philadelphia, accompanying the
Liberty Bell, at Isle of Hope on We'd
nesday, next. Cars will leave the Isle
of Hope junction, Whitaker anu
Fortieth streets, at o'clock. p. m. city
time"
The Liberty Bell will be free for the
inspection of all who may care to see
it. 1t will be on exhibition at the Plant
System depot, whence it will leave the
next morning for Charleston. The
school children will not visit the bell
in body, as Supt. Ashmore has writ
ten the Mayor that a meeting of the
teachers of the public schools consid-
cred the matter. but found that 1t
would be impracticable to get the chill
dren together in the afternoon for that
purpose. The Mayor was greatly dis
appointed to learn this, as he had
hoped that an opportunity would be
given the children as body to see the
bell. He fears that many parents
would object to their children going to
the station unless they were under the
care of teachers. Supt. Ashmore wrote
the Mayor that especial instruction in
the history of the Liberty Bell would
be given in the schools anent the pros
pective coming of the relic.
The North American, a Philadelphia
paper that is against the machine"
treats the trip of the Liberty Bell party
with a fine sarcasm. Under the head
ing, Home Comforts for Faithful
Servants" and a picture of the interior
against the possibility of thirst, it
prints the following:
Friends and admirers of the officials
who sacrifice their leisure and personal
interests to accompany the Liberty Bell
to Charleston will be relieved to know
that the members of the committee
will not entirely cut themselves off
from civilization. 1t is customary, of
course, for such expeditions to carry
commissary and medical stores, the
latter consisting chiefly of recognized
and popular tonics. Heretofore, how
ever the supplies have been carried in
rather haphazard fashion and served
in a casual way. But the arrangements
for this trip will be memorable.
I'm one car of the train there has
been erected an ornate and commodious
bar, which will be presided over by a
skillful person in white apron.
Against this homelike piece. of furni-
ture the travelweary patriots may
lean when so disposed, absorbing their
favorite nourishment while admiring
the passing scenery, finding themselves
served with all the accuracy, dispatch
and ceremony observed in a stationary
cafe.
"This car. the Atlantic" lay in the
yards at Thirty-second and Market
streets yesterday, undergoing altera-
tons necessary to fit it for its high
purpose. It will be the center of So
cial life during the trip. The forward
part lis fitted luxuriously as a smoking
room, with laather-covered easy
chairs, dlvans and lounges. upon
which the populace of various towns,
during the passing of the train, may
observe reclining the forms of repre-
sentative public men of Philadelphia.
Back of the smoking room is bou-
doir. where the guardians of the bell
may remove the dust of travel or lave
their brows when they flush with the
patriotic feelings incident to the trip.
Still back Of that is a private bath
room, wherein any member who is
quite overcome may immune himself
until he has restored his wonted equa-
nimity.
And still back of that is a large
compartment, ordinarily used for the
storing OF baggage. which has been
transformed into a rough but inviting
cafe. In one corner is built a bar eight
or ten feet long, with room behind Il