The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-06-17
LIBERTY BELL ON SPECIAL. TRAIN

The Southern Pacific company ha
handled many shipments Of extraor
binary value since the last spike wa
driven in its transcontinental line il
1869, but not quite so valuable as the
liberty bell, which it will bring into
California and to the Panama Pacifi,
international exposition at San Francis
60 next month. Consequently the mos
elaborate precautions are being taker
to insure the safe transportation of thu
priceless relic,
The bell will be handled on a speeia
train. 1t will be under guard every
!moment from the time it leaves Phil
adeiphia until it is returned there. II
VIII be carried on special gondola
freight car, equipped with all the
safety appliances necessary to enable
it to be moved as passenger car. at
the rear of the train, that the resi-
dents of the cities and towns through
which it passes may view the bell
There are six other ears - sleepers.
diner, ete--these to be occupied by the
exposition dignitaries, Philadelphia of
ficials and Others making up the es-
cort committee of sixty or seventy per-
sons.
The bell will leave Philadelphia on
July 7. Safety of transportation and
the population of the country travers-
ed by the railroads determined the
routing. 1t will pass through Chicago
and Kansas City, and thence be trans.
ported to Omaha, where it will be TAX
en- in charge by the Union Pacific. The
latter road will carry it through Denver
and Salt Lake City to Ogden, where the
Oregon Short Line will assume charge
and bring it to Pocatello and then to
Boise. From Boise it will go to Port
land, after being on exhibition there
six hours, the Southern Pacific, be-
comes its guardian. This will be on
July 10. On that day the Southern Pa
cific will begin its transportation to
San Francisco via the Shasta Route, the
residents along which will be given an
opportunity to view the historical re-
minder of the War of Independence.
The bell will leave Portland at noon.
July 10. 1t will reach Salem, Ore, at
: p. m. of the same day, be on exhibi-
ton until 2:30 and will then be moved
to Eugene, Ore, arriving there at p.
M The people of Eugene will have
10 minutes in which to view it. Ar
irving at Roseburg. it will be on dis
play the same length of time, arriving ,
there at Sis p. m.
On Friday, July l6, the bell will be
in California. 1t will reach Marysville |
at 1915, and be on exhibition fifteen
At p. m, it will be in Sac
where it will remain for one
hour and then be moved to Oakland
and San Francisco. July II will be
Liberty Bell Day at the exposition and
people from every corner of the state
Ire expected to visit the fair on that
lay.
Every precautiOn will be taken by
he Southern Pacific in transferring
he bell across the bay from Oakland
o San Francisco. A special barge
will deliver it to the San Francisco
reight slip, where a special freight
or and switch engine will be waiting
o take it to Third and Townsend
treets. Here it will be placed on
ruck and carried through the streets
t the city to the fair grounds.
The total mileage covered by the
berty bell's westward journey is
"a. The average speed per hour
ill be % miles, the railroads handling
ne movement having decided that to .
aul it faster might endanger it's safe
Y. The bell already has one large
rack in it. The itinerary for the re-
urn movement has not yet been decided
pom.