The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-11
LIBERTY BELL
To COME WEST
Revered Revolutionary Relic
viii Be Seen at the
Seattle Fair.

SEATTLE, January 3U--Ihe Liberty
bell, one of the famous relics of the
national birth, now in the old State
House in Philadelphia, will make
journey acBoss the continent to the
Alaska ukon-P Pacific Exposition at Sc
attic. Aside from the reverent enthu-
siasm the Liberty bell would arouse
during its escort from Philadelphia to
the exposition city by guard of honor,
it would prove an attractive feature for
the fair.
Though on an opposite side of the
continent we are proud of being an in
tegral part of the Republic and our citi-
zens avail themselves of every oppor-
tunity to inculcate the spirit of patrio-
tism,' writes Mayor John F. Miller,
of Seattle, to Mayor John E. Reyburn,
of Philadelphia, in his request on behalf
of the people of this city to have the
Liberty bell on exhibition at the 1909
fair. ESPECIALLY do our people revere
the memory of Washington, whose name
was bestowed upon our commonwealth
with the widest purpose of extending
the spirit of those independence days
to the utmost confines of the nation.
Under the lead of Rainier Chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolution,
the people are providing for fine
heroic statue in bronze of Washington,
continues Mayor Miller. "This statue
will remain permanent ornament on
the campus of the University Of Wash
ington. Thus you will see the kind of
community into which we invite you
to bring the BELL
Philadelphia has always been loath
to allow the Liberty bell to go without
the city," writes Mayor Reyburn to
Mayor Miller, "but on those occasions
which have seemingly warranted the
taking of such risk the bell has been
sent to various expositions. The chief
objection to sending the bell away from
the city is the danger of its being
| injured in transit, as we have learned
| to revere and venerate this precious
relic Of our ancestors.
81 feel that to carry the bell to Sc
atle will be but to carry the message
Of freedom across the continent from
| the East to the West, and if there is
anything that | can do to bring about
/ this end, I assure you that it will be
done. OF course, as I have stated in
/ previous letters to your officials inter
ested in this movement, it is a matter
to be decided solely by the city coun-
ell"
The city council, chamber of com
merce, Commercial club and the Penn
sylvania society, composed of several
thousand former residents of Pennsyl
vania, have passed resolutions inviting
the mayor and city council of Phila
delphia to send the Liberty bell tc
Seattle. The legislatures of both Ore
/ gon and Washington have forwarded
COMMUNICATIONS TO governor Stuart, dno
members of the Pennsylvania legisla
ture asking for cooperation in the mat
ter of having the Liberty bell sent tt
Seattle for exhibition at the fair anc
the Portland Rose Festival. People OF
the Northwest would be interested il
seeing the famous Liberty bell and the
exhibition of the relic at the exposition
would give thousands of loyal American
citizens who will visit the great Pacific
fair an opportunity of viewing the bel
| for the first time.