Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-28
LIBERTY BELL THRILLS
400 WOMEN DELEGATES
TOBIG AID CONVENTION
Ladies From Other Cities Visit
independence Hall and
View Many Historic
Relics
VISIT CURTIS BUILDING

| Four hundred women, who came to the
| city for the advertising convention, will be
able to go back home with the boast that
| not only have they seen Philadelphia's most
sacred relic, the Liberty Bell, but also
| touched the precious piece of metal which
proclaimed the birth of American liberty.
The city showed its hospitality to the
visiting women this morning by allowing
the glass case which surrounds the Liberty
Bells frame to be lifted that they might
have an obstructed view and that the usual
don't touch" rule. which OF necessity af-
fects the Liberty Bell, might be waived.
For one hour Independence Hall and Con-
gress Hall were jammed by the visiting
women and 1t Is safe to say they didn't miss
thing. From the first minute they were
made to feel at home Mrs John C. Martin
and large committee welcomed them on
behalf of the Poor Richard Club Wilfred
Jordan, curator of the halls welcomed them
on behalf of the city, and Falter p. Mil
Ter, of the Chamber of Commerce, well
coined them on behalf Of the city's biggest
business organization. #N..-t .-.. n
Mr.. Jordan and Mr.. Allen addressed the
ladies in the Supreme Court Room on the
first floor. Gazing down upon the visitors
were the canvassed likenesses of such men
as Yeates, Allen and Breckenridge, who
graced the bench of the highest tribunal
in the United States, which once held its ses-
sions in that room. A wave of enthusiasm
was plainly manifest when Mr.. Jordan told
the ladies he had ordered raising the glass
frames surrounding the Liberty Bell.
Through the rooms and up and down the
stairs they tramped They saw the room
where sat once the Continental Congress,
and where the Declaration of Independence
was signed. They gazed with interest on
the historic furniture in which almost a
century and a half ago sat such men
Franklin and Jefferson and the fiery Patrick
Henry, And they stood clustered about the
statue of Commodore Barry in Independ-
ence Square while group of photographers
focused their cameras upon them.
When they had seen all the sights In
independence Hall they went next door to
Congress Hall. and there they filed slowly
past the historical paintings in the Ferris
collection. There they had crystallized as
never before by the bright-colored works
of art their ideas of the events in the
progress OF this nation.
Women from all parts of the country
were present and even the women from
Boston, famed likewise as the maker of
history, stared with interest at the various
sights in this city's historical shrine.
After the inspection they went to the
Curtis Publishing Company. After a brief
reception on the first floor at which Cyrus
H. K Curtis. president OF the company was
present for a few minutes, they had lunch
con, and were taken on . tour of inspec-
ton of the tremendous building in which
100000 complete magazines are printed
every working day of the year. Special
preparations had been made by the editors
of the Saturday Evening Post, the Country
Gentleman and the Ladies' Home Journal to
receive the visitors. and ther wasn't any
thing that they missed, They saw editorial
offices and composing R1oms and presses,
lunch rooms and the auditorIums and the
employees rest and clubrooms and every
other thing In the building that might have
been of interest to them. They found the
paintings by Maxfield Parrish specially at
tTactiye.
AT 8 this afternoon they motored out to
Wyncote as the guests OF Mrs. Cyrus H.
X Curtis, who entertained them at tea
After the tea some of the visiting women
will come back to the city and others will
go 70 Willow Grove, where the convention
folk will make merry tonight.
Assisting Mrs Martin in receiving the Wis
itors were the following of the Poor Richard
Club ladies: Mrs. Rowe Stewart, Mr.. Theo-
dore Il. Ash, Mrs. Richard A. Foley Mrs.
f. H Riordan, Mrs. T. ]. Devery. Mrs g.
w. Wilson, Mrs. w. b. NJ Tracy, Mrs.
Charles Blum. Mrs. T. A. DAILY, Mrs ]. H
Pickett, Mrs Thomas j, Mulvey, Mrs.
Charles w. Beck Mrs. G. Theodore Ket-
terer, Mrs Russell Berger, Mrs. A. A. Chris
tian, Miss Christian, Miss Adeline Klein.
Mrs l. F. Pasehall. Mrs Leon Beck Mrs
Thomas Martindale, Mrs. Richard H. Dur
bin. Mrs. Albert Turner and Mrs. Franklin
Mood