The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-10-21
PLAN CARLTON
AS MEMORIAL
Washington Arts Club Sub
nnits Proposal to WOman's
Clubs Directors.
LOCAL CLUB REUSED

Members of the Woman's club of
Kenosha, who learned the proposed
plan of the Washington peace carlton
at memorial day program during the
1920 season, will be interested to
know that the plan for the erection
OF the musical tower is taking tangible
form, according to the October publ
cation of the General Federation News
bulletin. The proposition was outlin-
ed to the members of the board of
directors of the General Federation
OF Women's clubs at the annual fall
meeting recently held in Washington,
by members Of the Washington
Arts club.
w. B. Westlake, chairman of the
Arts Club Carlton committee, sub
mitted the plan to the directors at a
dinner for which the Arts club mem
,bers were hosts. It is planned that
the carlton shall be the finest in the
world, making Washington a mecca
to which millions shall come to hear
the magic music of the bells as they
chimed daily by the most noted cal
lieur in the world, DR.. Denyn of
Males, who has promised to install the
carlton, to play it daily, and to con-
duct school for players. It is esti-
ated that the carlton will cost
100000 and that a suitable building
and tower to house it will cost
100000. The submitted outline pro-
poses that the building be erected by
the Federal club women of America to
be used as their own national head
quarters and to stand as a lasting
tribute to the men who lost their lives
in the late war and as perma-
nent protest against imperialism which
causes war.
Idea is Practical.
That the idea is not such a daring
one as it first seemed was pointed out
by one enthusiastic board member, who
suggested that dollar each from the
Federal club woman would make the
building possible. The unique feature
of the proposed memorial is that the
tower be provided q bell for each
state, the District of Columbia, Alas
ka, Hawaii, Porto Rico, the Philippines
and Cuba. Each state and possession
is to provide it's own bell. Prominent
citizens, in severals instances, have
guaranteed bell for their native
states.
Each bell, as planned, will carry the
name of the state and an appropriate
inscription. While the bells will vary
in size from smallest of less than
fifteen pounds to a largest of nearly
ten tons, individually they will be
Of equal Importance in the great
musical instrument.
There is no carlton in this country,
and it be built, the Arts club declares;
if not by the Federation-then by pop
ular subscription. 1t is predicted that
the music of the fifty-four bells, heard
over the city would become one Of the
distinguished characteristics of the
capital and perhaps, in the recollection
of the playing of some patriotic piece,
that which would linger the longest in
the memory of the visitor. The near
est approach to the carlton in the
United States are chimes, composed Of
a few bells of narrow musical range.
The bells of carlton, fixed and in
movable, are rung by hammers and
are played automatically or by key
board, like an organ or piano. They
have range of four octaves or more,
and consequently in chromatic power
have a breadth comparable to a piano
or organ, with bells representing the
tones and half tones instead of strings.
Largest in the World.
In the most recent carlton, consist
ing of forty-two bells and dedicated
last August at Queenstown, Ireland,
the achievement was made for the first
time of tuning to equal temperament.
just like a piano or organ, so that mu-
sic may be played with equal facility
in any key. The Queenstown carlton
is soon to be eclipsed by one of forty
nine bells at Rotterdam, Holland.
which will hold the honor of being
the largest in the world until the
proposed carlton of fifty-four bells is
installed at Washington.
Belgium is looked upon as the home
of the carlton, and it is there that
the art of carlton playing reached its
highest development.
The carillons of Antwerp, Bruges,