The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-06-20
SLAVES BELL tn
be RUNG TONIGHT
WILL TOLL FOURTH GREETINGS
AT STATES BIG BIRTHDAY
PARTY
wheeling Commercial As.oei,,ioc
Completes Interesting Program
for Event

Back in anti-bellum dsys. when
wheeling was a slave-tradfng center
uaners used TO assemble about the
SUCTION block az the old market house.
Auditorium. at the call OF a ereat
prone bell. There they dealt in
human flesh In the years preceding
the civil War. the climax OF the
movement which eventually brought
! ABOUT the abolition OF slavery and
ss n' me ponderous old slave bell
But the bell still remains in Wheel.
ing, relic OF other days; and.
strangely enough, reposes today on
me exact spot IL did duty in the latter
ovs. II occupies place on the
seSOnu floor OF the Market Auditori-
Tonight the historic old bell will
come into its own again AS the
CLOCK hands point to nine its silence
I'll oe broken as IL tolls fourth it's
greetings 10 West Virginia on the
OCCASION OF the States fifty-third
birthday anniversary. IL will sound
toll for each OF the fifty-three years
OF the States age
mus. after years of Punishment
iroh pubic service, the bell will be,
1rIshed Up TO take its part in the
heeling Commercial Associations
Vis west virginia birthday party in
OF soild bronze, and was cast in West
Troy. \. y. in 1854. ID stands nearly
TOUR Feet high. and is about three
Feet IN diameter at the base. IL is
one OF the finest examples OF the now
almost obsolete method OF bell-castinp
10 De found anywhere.
: Arrangements for the Commercial
associations celebration were an
hounced IN detail last night By Chair
man X VI Browne. Of the entertain
ment committee.
Starts at 7:3o Tonight.
The party Will start at Z 30. with
10 minutes OF music by Meister's
orchestra. The noise squad" under
the direction OF Frank kincheloe.
VIII fill the air for the next -
minutes. singing patriotic songs and
parodles At O'Clock Attorney John
comm VIII be introduced as master
OF ceremonies. and viii make the key
: note speech. Fifteen minutes of
entertainment by Mr.. and Mrs
/ hincheloe will follow. The buffet
luncheon will be served and cigars
/ passed during the time that arrange
hlshts are being made for the trans
mission OF President Wilson's greet
I ington.
( -Four hundred guests at the party
0 VIII be supplied with telephone
receivers. enabling them TO hear the
tt i'S4NthA NbiCt as ne SENDS ms
greetings TO the State. Mayor Kirk
then Will transmit q Sword message
10 Chairman Davis Elkins at the
dinner which will be under way
simultaneously in Charleston
After the telephone communica-
tons. Frank Jewel Raymond. or East
/ orange. \. j, will give Commute
talk on Business Mastery Raymond
The Billy Sunday OF Business" is
. bIlled as the headliner OF the even
ing 5 program. lie promises to intro
duce brand new line Of talk in
Wheeling. He will be followed 10 the
platform by General Manager ket-
chum, w. B. Elliott and others, for
brief speeches
There will not be boresome
Z moment during the evening. II the
program can be taken as a medium
by which TO Judge.
, Chairman Browne. OF the entertain
meut committee. laid special stress
last night on the fact that the birth
day party is not for select few. but
4 Tor every man, woman and child in
wheeling caring to attend. All are
invited. II l. the City's tribute 20 the
state, arranged By the Commercial as
sociauon, for the citys populace
There will be special reservations in
the galleries for women. and the pro-
gram has been arranged with a view
or making the affair as interesting
ana attractive 10 them as possible.