The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-06-11
The Sacred Old Relic Given a Noisy
Welcome Upon Arriving In the
St. Louis Terminal Yards.
TAKEN TO WORLDS FAIR GROUNDS
BY MILITARY and civic ESCORT.
Grand Parade Through the EXPOSE
ton Grounds Followed by n Pro-
grnmme of Exercises At the Foot
of the Louisiana Monument, Then
to Pennsylvania Building.

ST. Louis, June 8.-The historic Lib
erty Bell, which came to st. Louis in
response to the petition of $4,000 public
school children of this city, reached
the Exposition oity this morning after
a triumphal tour of half a dozen states.
The bell passed through Illinois Tues
day, where, at Galesbnrg, Springfield
and other cities, it was accorded a
great reception, patriotic songs being
sung by the school children and ad-
dresses delivered by prominent citi-
zens.
Upon it's arrival in the st. Louis Ter
minal yards the sacred relic was greet
ed with a chorus from every locomotive
whistle and bell in the yards.
There were over 10000 people at
Union station to meet the bell, more
than half of whom were children. They
stood about the station gates for over
an hour, awaiting the arrival of the
belated train, but entirely too patriotic
TO move away from watever position
they had gained.
When they heard the engines in the
yards whistling and ringing their well
come to the cracked old symbol of lib
erty, they raised their voices in an
other chorus of welcome, and kept it up
until the bell was backed in against
the midway.
The bell hung safely in the center of
its 1ag-bedecked fiat car, with the four
big Philadelphia policemen, who are its
bodyguard, standing linke blue-coated
statues at the corner of the car.
No one was allowed to approach it.
The Reception.
Mayor John Weaver of Philadelphia
and other city officials, including a
joint committee of the Quaker City
councils, are escorting the bell. The
party was accompanied from the sta
ton to the Hotel Jefferson by James G.
McConkey, private secretary to Mayor
Wells. At l p. m. Mayor Wells, COM
mittees from the city council and the
house of delegates, members OF the
board of police commissioners and of
the reception and entertainment COM
mittees of the Louisiana Purchase ex-
position called upon Mayor Weaver
and the other Pennsylvania at the
Jefferson and accompanied them back
to Union station, where the bell had
been placed on a float provided for the
purpose and taken to the Worlds fair
grounds. The parade started from the
station shortly after 1870 O'Clock. 1t
was made up as follows:
The Escort.
Detail of mounted police, Eighth cav
airy band, troop of United States cav
airy from Jefferson barracks, Liberty
bell, Mayors Weayers and Wells, select
and common councils of Philadelphia,
city council and house of delegates
of st. Louis, board of police commits
sioners of st. Louis, reception and en-
tertainment committees of the EXPOSE
ton, in carriages.
From the station the procession
marched to the parade entrance to the
Worlds fair grounds, where all of the
military organizations encamped in the
grounds fell in line and escorted the
Liberty Bell to the plaza of st. Louis,
in the following order:
The Procession
Detail of Jefferson guards, mounted
police, grand marshal and staff, West
Point band, cadets United States mil