Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-03
CARLTON TOWER
/ Project PUSHED
o. c. Asked to Raise 100000
Toward Erection Here of
Peace Memorial.

New plans have been laid for both
local and national organizations tt
raise 81 $780, 900 for erection in Wash
inSton of the National Peace Carrillor
Tower, soaring $50 feet in air and con
tanning "a bells, as a great nat1ona
memorial in commemoration of the
sacrifices and Ideals of America IL
the World War"
a committee of prominent Wash
tnstonians has been appointed tt
further the campaign for funds in the
District of Columbia. following which
State organizations will he set up fol
completion Of the necessary fund
This city will be asked for $4,000.
III. X. Bush-Brown Is President.
Arrangements for actively working
now toward realization Of the project
which was initiated some time ago
were completed at recent meeting
at the home of Mrs Robert Lansing
one of the board Of trustees. AT this
gathering of officers of the National
Carlton Association, of which H h
Bush Brown IS president. and others
who are interested, the Washington
committee was named and other
plans were laid down for carrying
the program to the country.
The National Carlton Association is
Incorporated in the District of Column.
MA, maintains offices in the Colorado
Building, and already has on hand de,
signs for "a magnificent tower pre-.
pared my Paul 2. Cret, whose work,
1t was said, 'eXemplitied by the splen-
did Pan-AmeriCan Building, at Wash.
ington, and the Memorial Arch al
Valley Forge, has brought him into
worldwide recognition
The committee of Westinghouse
appointed TO raise the District Of Co
lumbia quota Is as follows:
Mrs. Copley Amory. James VI. Beck,
Godfrey l.. Cabot, Mrs. John c. Boyd
Mrs. Delos Blodgett, Mrs. ]. Davis
Mrs. J. Harry Cunningham, Mrs.
Avery Coonley. Mrs. II. A. Colman
Mrs. James +. Curtis, Alvin E. Dodd
Edward Droop. Thadeus Dulin, John
10y Edison. William Z. Emo. Isaac
Cans, julius Garfinckel. {. G. Glover
II. Robert y. Harper. ColCoran
Thorn, Mrs. Charles Walcott. Edward
\. Hartman, Louis Hertle. Miss
Katherine Judge, Mrs. Robert Ian.
sing. Col. j. f. Reynolds Lands, John
3. Larner, Martin y. Leese, Mrs. Full
on Lewis. Mrs. ]. Jerome Lighttootr
Breckenridge Long, Demorest Lloyd
Mrs Geritt S. Miller. Mrs. Walter
Mccoy, Theodore W. Noyes. James
Parmlee, John Barton Payne. Samuel
!. Prescott, Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe,
Frank a. Simon. Mrs. John y. Speel,
Alexander Blair Thaw. Robert VI.
Thomson and Mrs. Thomas f. Walsh.
Approved by Women's Clubs.
The project has been approved by
rhe General Federation of Women s
Clubs, which VIII help set up the
State organizations.
The carlton tower is not intended
merely to make a commemoration of
triumph, according to the association,
as when of old a Roman emperor
dragged his conquered foeman in the
dust, neither of victory for victory S
sake, nor yet to make a splendid ceno-
taph in honor of the dead alone
Rather said the association in a
statement. cit is to commemorate the
high idealism and useltish striving for
human hctterment, for all that is good
and worthy; that exaltatiOn OF spirit
that reached its highest tide during
those long drawn years of stress and
storm, a period in our history which
Or. Charles w. Eliot has so aptly
characterized as dominated by "a glow
ing outburst of unselfishness and zeal
for liberty and justice among men. "
Featured by Carlton.
While the tower itself would be i'm
pressive to the eye. the association
said the "most significant feature of
this great memorial Will be the CARL
lon itself. for the proper housing of
which this monumental structure is to
be provided.
''Of the 81 bells the first and largest
IS a mighty bell of somewhat more
than 10 tons IN weight, cast and tuned
o sound the pitch of E-fiat. This will
be fittingly inscribed and designated
The Bell of the Allies in honor of
those powers with whom we were as
ISOLATED in the great struggle. and
after this, in ascending chromatic
scale, each State in the Union will be
represented by its individual bell The
bells will be allotted to the States &C
cOrding TO the number Of casualties
suffered IN the war. Thus the second
bell will bear the name and coat-of-
arms of the great State of New York,
whose total casualties were 40,222; this
bell, which sound the pitch of E, will
weigh some 1882 pounds.
Pennsylvania next, with 80, 042 cas-
Ualties, is represented by bell of
about tons in the key Of F, and so
throughout the entire list Of States and
divisions 10 the Philippines, with a
highest bell OF under 20 pounds and a
pitch of A-flat. making a complete
musical instrument of four and one
half octayes, capab BILE of yielding the
most wonderful effects Of melody and
harmony ever produced by bells. AS
The best bells are now tuned to the &C
curacy OF "a single vibration, this in
strument will be worthy of the great
est masters, and the weekly concerts
will be events eagerly looked forward
20 and long to be remembered by Wis
itors TO the Nations Capital.
For State Occasions.
Resides these stated concerts the
bells would ring on all great State
occasions, and what could be more
Ttting in celebration, say OF the
martyred I.iucoln's birth, than the
rendering of his favorite hymns in
the key of the State that gave him
TO the world. or ushering in'the natal
day of Washington with music In
A-fat. the keynote Of Virginia's bell?
A subtle symbolism might thus be
made to enter into every special con.
cert with scarcely a limit to the flight
Of the imagination. When the notables
Of other lands come visiting, the
great bell of the allies would boom
its sonorous welcome. and melodious
rendering of their national airs would
give them friendly greeting and bid
them feel at home.
DAY in, day out, at morning, noon
aud eventide, the subtle influence OF
This great peace memorial should
gently bear on all within the radius
OF it's sound. BY means Of automatic
play these sweet-toned bells will rem
der snatches of the worlds acknowl
edged masterpieces. its best loved
melodies, and thus contribute greatly
10 that desired estate wherein good
music shall be popular and popular
music good