The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-30
WORLDS BIGGEST BELL
TT IS PLANNED TO PUT TT AT AR-
 JUNCTION..
Congress is to Be Asked to Give the Funds Necessary to Transform Old Guns Into . Load
 Sounding Instrument.

Washington Special.
 IT the plans of leading members of the Grand Army of the Republic In this city come to fruition the largest bell In the world will be placed at an early day on commanding eminence in Ar lington Cemetery, where its deep-toned tolling can be heard for miles around. This matter was brought prominently to the attention of Lafayette Post, No. go. G. A. R., at its last meeting in Spanish War Veterans Hall. No. 71s Sixth Street, northwest.
 The subject was introduced by De- partment Inspector J. Tyler Powell, who paid an official visit to Lafayette Post He said the proposed bell at Arr ltngton had originally been suggested by former Confederate soldier, Frank Hume of this city. It is intended, ada ed Mir. Powell, to placeNit in a special building In "the silent city of the na- tion's dead across the Potomac" and to have 1t properly inscribed as a monu- ment or memorial to the American pri- vate soldiers.
 The bell, as indicated, is to be larger than any other on earth, surpassing in size and volume of sound the great bell as Moscow, Russia. It is also proposed to have it tolled on Memorial Day and whenever a soldier is buried within the cemetery.
 The to1ling of the great memorial bell will, it Is conceded, be heard far away into Virginia and throughout the District of Columbia; "so," as a mem Der of Lafayette Post expressed it. the people will know when another boy in blue has answered the last call of taps on earth and taken his departure to the grand army above, there to fall in at the call or 'reveille.'"
 Inspector Powell said action has al- ready been taken on the memorial bell proposition by the Department of the Potomac, G. A. R. The matter was off, cially brought to the attention of the department by a resolution offered in Potomac Post by Mir. w. A O'Meara, senior vice-commander. It favored the introduction of the big bell in Arling- ton and was unanimously adopted. Then MT. J. Tyler Powell, as command CT of Potomac Post, forwarded the res- olution to the department commander.
 The matter was considered favorably, 1t is stated, at a recent departmental meeting, and was placed in the hands of a subcommittee of the general Me- moria1 Day Committee of the Depart ment of the Potomac for report at a future meeting of that body. Inspector PoweN said that correspondence has already been entered into with some of the largest bell manufacturers in the United States. and that Congress will be asked at its next session to pass a bill donating to the department a suffi- cient number of captured or condemned cannon to be melted and nodded into ''the biggest bell in the world"
 At the meeting of Lafayette Post last night Inspector Powell complimented the post on it's fine personnel and it's manner of conducting business.
 Dr. Lawrence Wilson, who attended the recent reunion of the Army of the Potomac, at Manassas, gave graphic description of the great battle-ground and of the recent reunion there. Re- marks of interest were also made by Messrs. W. T. Foster, Briscoe Good heart, H. c. Campbell, H. W. Burns and Lewis Mundheim.
 The announcement was made that Lafayette Post will send large delega- tions of its members to participate in the Memorial Day ceremonies at Fred ericksburg and Winchester, Va.