Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-12-18

inittee' coinposeu OF w. Is, Westlake, III
Edwin n. smith, capt. W. 1. Cnampe'.,
u. g. NJ. and Mr.. Shut. was formed.
| The committee has worked out It's plans
and at last Is ready to begin It's public
work. The members have consulted with
national officials and with experts at home
! and abroad Members of the two branch
es of Congress have agreed to sponsor
the measures making II possible for the
committee TO secure the metal for the
bells. while arrangements have been
made with the Fine Arts commission to
select the site for the tower and approve
! It's design. Perhaps the most trouble
some question has been the proper To-
cation for the tower. The French and
Belgian embassies In Washington have
urged the committee not to locate the
tower in the center Of the city, asserting
that this Is the great mistake made by
their home countries. The committee and
the commission are inclined now to Sc
lect a plot of land on Sixteenth street
Heights, near the center Of the popula-
ton but still removed from the noise Of
the business section
! SOMETHING THE WORLD HAS
I NEVER HEARD"
One Of the first men to write the COM
mittee was Joseph Dcnyn. who may give
the first concert in Washington. with
my apologies for replying in French" he
wrote, 81 have the honor to advice you
that consider the firm of John Taylor &
company, bell founders, Loughborough.
England, the most capable to perfect the
installation Of the contemplated carlton.
I think now that should call your at
tertion that II is necessary. that the
architect. before deciding definitely on
the plan Of the tower, receive certain in
structions from the bell master. You
may depend upon my collaboration to
assure final success"
/ Accepting the advice of NJ Denyn. the
committee communicated with the
Loughborough concern, which replied
that the carlton should be chromatic up
wards from a largest bell % 2240O pounds.
Your inquiry" the letter continues, las
to scale of fifty-four bells just fits in
this. for it suggests at once the increas-
ing of the sca.e Of a carlton of forty-nine
bells, similar to that which we are found
ing now for the city hall of Rotterdam.
by five lower semitones. The additions.
notes you propose would make the grand
est carlton in the world. The musical eff
feet would be something that the world
has never heard before. The total
weight of the ffty-four bells would be
about 145,60O pounds, and the cost, includ-
ing fittings, framework. connections.
clavier, delivered f. o. b.. English port,
would be about 10000 pounds. Relative to
the dimensions OF the bell chamber we
would recommend that the internal size
be not less than thirty feet square py
thirty feet high, the floor level of the bell
chamber to be about 200 feet above the
ground-foor level.
There are many important details In
connection with this chamber which
should be debated with the architect.
Mr.. f. D. Taylor was present at the con-
secration of the Queenstown Cathedral.
(The Queenstown Cathedral was conse-
Grated August % ,asD. NJ. Nauwekaetrs'
magnificent playing displayed the beau
tiful round tone of the bells and the con-
summate perfection of the tuning. At
Queenstown the is perfectly at rest
as far tune Is concerned. The bells
are in absolute accord in any key the
player wishes to use. and the mind Is at
liberty to enjoy to the full the efforts of
the artist at the keyboard"
TUNED TO A SINGLE VIBRATION
The installing of the carlton in WASH
ington should be of great interest to
musicians and music lovers % the coun-
try, for 1t coulc have no other influence
than that of musical uplift and educa-
tion making music Of the highest quality
familiar to all within hearing distance.
Most Of us have heard chimes, some
bad, but real music of the bells should
not be judged even by he best Of chimes,
and certainly not by bal or Indifferent
ones which are jangling or discordant.
Van der Straeten says: "a fine carlton
Is as precious as violin by Stradi-
varius." Moreover. the best of modern
bells are now timed with such a degree
of accuracy as was not possible many
years ago. In these days, methods of
determining the exact number of
vibrations produced have enabled the
great bell founders to work with a GER
tainty and precision that their pre-
decessors never dreamed Of. The carlton
at Queenstown is tuned like a modern
piano and is chromatic throughout so
that music may be played with equal
facility in any keys and with unlimited
powers of meditation. The forty-two
bells OF this carlton are said to be tuned
to the accuracy of single vibration.
TO COMMEMORATE HEROES OF
RIGHT
| The committees desire 20 have the bells
cast from metals salvaged from the bat
tletields was based originally on senti-
mental grounds. BY study, they have
found that their proposal is not new
that bells have been cast from cannon
for centuries past. More than 800 years
ago. in ITO to be exact. Emperor Joseph
l.. OF Austria. had great bell cast from
Turkish cannon and placed in the tower
of st. stephens at Vienna. This, known
as the Emperor Bell, weighed seventeen
tons. But the bell although it symbol
lied triumph OF the Christian over the
TURK. was also meant to glorify the
emperor's military might. Again, in 1887
no less than twenty-five French guns
were used to cast the "Gloriosa," anoth
great bell that was raised with much
ceremony to its place in Cologne
Cathedral there to join the Emperor
bells In derision over defeated France
The carlton proposed for Washington
has an entirely different purpose namely,
to commemorate the heroes Of allied
lands who fought for right. not might.
VERMONT BUCKWHEAT BATTER
,By Daniel L. Cadyl