East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-07-05

house tower, until 1S46, and then re-
moved to another part of the Hail.
At the time Pass and stow were
engaged in recasting the Bell, the As
sembly of the Province, believing
that the task of the Philadelphia
bell makers was hopeless, ordered
another Bell, an exact replica of the
original Liberty Bell. This was re-
ceived, but after a comparison the
locally made bell was hoisted to
place. What happened to the English
made bell, which was retained and
paid for by the Province, is unknown.
The Liberty Bell is twelve feet in
circumference around the lip and
seven feet six inches around the
crown; it is three feet following the
line of the bell from the lip to the
crown, and two feet three inches. over
the crown. 1t is three inches thick
at the thickest part near the lip, and
one and a quarter inches in the thin
nest part toward the crown. The
dength, and the whole contrivance
weighs 2OS0 pounds.
The model was one cast by order
of Henry III in the early part of the
thirteenth century in memory of Ed
ward the Confessor which was hung
in the clock tower of Westminster
and was named St. Edward, but gen
orally KNOWN as the great Tom of
Westminster"
Calls Assembly Together.
On August 23, 1853, the bell called
the Assembly together in the State
House for the first time, and there
by inaugurated its more than eighty
years Of service. Public occasions,
the announcements of procalamations
of war and treaties Of peace, welcomes
1 to notables. proclamations Of acces-
sions Of the English royal family and
host Of other events were marked
by the tolling of the great bell Its
chief use in the early part Of its his
/ tory, however, was to call the mem
/ bers Of the assembly together and tC
announce the opening of the courts
When, on May IS, 1855, the Assem-
bly, declared they would not make
laws by direction" the Liberty Bel
rang out. announcing to the resident;
4 OF the city that the Assembly had Ia
/ ken important action. 1t sounded
j again when the province sent "Mr
franklin" Home to England" to So
licit redress for their grievances or
February 3, 1851.
Franklin, on october 26, 1894, wa'
] bidden "Bon voyage" by the bel
4 when he was sent to Great Britain
to transact the affairs Of the prov
ince.
j On September O. 1895. when thc
j Assembly considered a resolution fol
Il a congress Of the colonies, one Of thC
! most important stages in the prelim
\ mary events leading up to the Revo
luton. the bell sounded again. j
I called together the meeting when th'
ship Royal Charlotte. bearing stamps
I for Pennsylvania. New Jersey ant
Deieware. reached Philadelphia, OF
] October 3, 1865.
u For this occasion the bell wal
"muffled and tolled." At the meetini
the demand was made and enforcet
that the stamps should not be land
] ed but transferred to his Majesty
royal man-of-war. the sardine. to b.
returned to England
Mourned over Stamp Act
With its tones muffled a secont
time. the bell was tolled all day lonl
on October 81, 1895. when the stamI
Act was put in operation. Some o
, the people Of the city stayed in thei
houses mourning the death OF liberty
] while others in the street met togeth
: q and burning the stamp papers a
! the coffee house.