The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-07

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| from the car. But the bell itself. when
taken of at st. Louis, will be unbolted
from the pak beam and lowered to a
heaVy- woodeni carriage, with steel
wheels. which is carried on. the car.
Two men representing a Philadelphia
saIe company travel with the bell for
| the special purpose of effecting its re-
4 movai in safety.
| Across the transverse beam of the
| Dell frame lis inscribed in gilded let
ters, Proclaim Liberty, 1776." Two
signs on each side bear respectively.
IN git letters, the names 'PhiIadel-
phia"-''St Louis"
Description of the Bell
The bell itself is steel black in color.
with mild luster. It's surface is more
or less pitted, the result partly of time
| ana accident. but chiefly Of inexact
castlns. The lower edge or lip is
chlpped off all the way around, having
thus been mutilated, it is said, by relic
hunters during the days when the bell
was not We'll protected.
On one side, under the name of the
makers. Pass and Stow, Philada.
| MDGCLIII." Q753), appears the YER
tlcal crack which silenced forever the
voice of the ancient herald, when. in
1883, II tolled for the last time. Then
mourning for Chief Justice John Mar
shall, the last prominent Revolution
| ISL, the Liberty bell ceased to proclaim
llperty firmly established. The crack
is half an inch wide UP to within a
few inches of its top. The metal was
mus drilled out to keep the crack from
| extending under stress Of travel when
| the bell was taken to New Orleans in
| 1885.
The we'll known inscription encir-
ellng the crown of the bell reads:
Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all
| the LAND unto all the inhabitants
thereof, Lev. XIV. v. K" the last ssy;' W
being a composite character standing
apparently for land verse"
Directly beneath the text from the
ben is lettered, also in line encircling
/ it's crown
by Order of. the Assembly of the
province of Pennsylvania for the State
House in Philada7'
Bell on Sixth Trip
| Six times the Liberty bell has left
| Philadelphia
In September, 1777, it was taken to
Allentown, Pa, to prevent its falling
into the hands of the British.
! In january, 1885, it went to the New
! Orleans exposition
worlds fair at Chicago.
In October, 1895, it was loaned to the
| exposition at Atlanta.
In 1902 it went to the Charleston
| exposition
| Last year the bell was taken to Bos-
! ton on the 12Sth anniversary of the
| battle of Bunker HILL
On its present journey, the sixth,
| this most picturesque and poetic me-
! T0AntO "A history hlnn
brought to the Northwest for the first
/ time, to transmit its great message,
none the less eloquent after a silence of
siXty-nine years.
| Committee Is Entertained
| While thousands of school children
were viewing the Liberty bell, st. Paul
| citizens, represented by a committee
| Of the Commercial club. were extending
the hospitality of the city to the official
/ party of Philadelphians who accom-
panied the bell on its Western trip.
| When the members of the party
| emerged from their sleepers ia the
union depot yards, at 8 O'Clock, they
were met by the Commercial club
were taken for carriage drive about
| the city. There were, including the
| hosts, sopae eighty in the party, and in
! twenty carriages they were driven past
| the old and the, new capitol, through
! Como park and across the city, to the
! hill district, where the beauties of
| Summit avenue ELECTED many express
sions Of appreciation. The party
reached the Commercial club rooms at
IL: 80, and here the eity'S guests were
/ entertained informally.
The committee in charge of the
| function had as guests, in addition to
| the PI1iladelphians, party of military
1 ~
! ton to Gen. c. C.. c. Carr, commander
! Of the Department of the Dakotas,
/ there were present Col. Charles A.
| Williams, Lieut.. Col Cornelius Gar
dener and Capt. William M. Morrow.
/ The party following the brief rest
| at the Commercial club, was driven to
| the station, where the car containing
| the Liberty bell was attached to the
special train of Pullman cars in which
| the PhiladelphianS are making the trip
4 to St. Louis, and shortly before 1
o'clock the special was taken to Min
neapolis, where the afternoon and
| evening was spent as guests of that
municipality. A committee of Min
| neapolis Sons of the American ReVo-
! luton, under whose auspices the bell
was shownNin that city, spent the fore
noon in ST. Paul and accompanied the
visitors to the up-river city. The
committee consisted of Mayor j. G.
Haynes, F. G. Mcmillan, William Re
gan and Henry Deutsch.
The original plan for the entertain
ment of the visitors in ST. Paul con-
| templated two brief stops, at the city
| hall and the new state capitol, where
Acting Mayor Henry Haas and Pri-
vate Secretary Robert Jamlson, re-
! spectivelys were to have spoken. An
interchange ofsverbal courtesies at the
Commercial club was also scheduled.
but at the request of Mayor Weaver,
Of Philadelphia. head of the party, the
speechmaking was omitted and the
| visitors spent the entire time Of their
stay in St.Paul in seeing the city.
| The Commercial club committee VINO
| looked after the comfort and pleasure
/ of the guests was composed OF Judge
John w Willis, E. S. Chittenden, A. e.
Horn, D. F. Reese, Charles Stees, F. NJ.
Wheeler and President L. +. Smith
and Secretary c, P. Stine.
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