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Show VOICE IS SILENCED ' BUTMEMORYLIVES i M.l. ITI amm. nNOU .XM(n,H MIIKHTl HHI.U TIkmimimN l nntl.rr Snlt X.aUr nty vt smtr Vrnm Htprr VtK)U nn.1 Corner i,r tl,P smte to View Old Time AnnmmiTr of (Jtvnt Ihrntx In Wirlr Hl.tory of Aiiierlea. On fjundaj next, nil Utnli will pny homage t.i th imtton'a prcehHis I.lli. j-rt) 1WI n travcrM the Hate on flrt trmiMwntlncntal jnurno)' to nrtlrlpflti. In tho n orlil's grcnlMt ex-Hitlon ex-Hitlon nt Kan Krnntlnou. Happll) niiproprlnte. ptculUrly slg-niflinnt slg-niflinnt la thin, the longpot nnd tho mt rxtPtmitr ttrlili pilnrtmage rtr made l the Mlmrlw. Hell It Journey from the mother Tity of the repuMii to the Uolden flute to glorify aehlecmrnt of the worlds groateet rnglneerlng triumph, the completion f the I'nnamn ennnl The Iwrnd of pHtrlntlum uhleli unltea the Kant nnd tho Went tho highway of Bimmerre which unite the Allnntle 1? ..,hc !'n,iri ,,",W! nrc "ln lene-dletlon lene-dletlon b) the rllent hut eloquent pretem f tho ,P nml Itn proelam-Mlon proelam-Mlon I.ll-rt throughout nil the land, untl, u ,t,p mhaLltanta there-of" there-of" niorlmu is the hlator) or the I.lli-riy I.lli-riy Hell, nlnK tho olcc of freedom. World Important ere Ita tienla. They ailed to the Mate hqune. nnd nfter-ttnrda nfter-ttnrda to Imli pendente Unit, n fnr gri-ntrr toncotir of pontile than that which iiMM milled there .Jut) 8, I77. to nmiwer Ita aummona. No oeinelon atanda forth In hlmory. howewr. na niiijmtlrnll) on that People Wrtf horlou. And tt nt the time of iiovurrcnrn It was of no great wldeaprend Intereat. No great multitude gathered liehlnd the atate hnure, around the platform which had been ael up In the north-enat north-enat corner In nlwnc the trnnalt of Venua, Kniu and fktlon hne pnlnt. ed the wene In high colora. fait mndn It sombre The little throng breathed the ntmoniihrre of aerloumieiM, eolem-nit), eolem-nit), gruMly Ita thoughts were ton profound m tud how lllnrtj could be won ngalunt Hpparentl lniuiHr-nhle lniuiHr-nhle odila to lnTome erMntle nir re-olullona. re-olullona. Through the MMn of years the worda of Jefferon seem of dln Inaplrdtlnn The throng whlih convened con-vened at the bell's will rereUed them rmrrentl) Hut Ita Ihnughta wiro on deeda ruther than wordr Imp nnd reerenec for the 1.11m rt Hell have, of truth, been pvldenoed during nnl n romparatlvel few of the lutir enra of the bells exlrtence. In Ita etirl) nays 't vvaa merel i plain bell and, ngitnlid na a bull i jrel), wna not ionldred n er Khu one. Ita nutlunlU liltor la brief Annals and legend have been woven to amplify amp-lify facta. Yet the dr records made In the diija wlu n tho nation wiui In Its fnrinntlvi pirlnd weuve themselvea. In the light of priacnt dn affeitlon for the Ml, Into it Mor whlih thrills oven ov-en Ami rlenu In Plilladeliililn, mat of government govern-ment o' the Hrlllidi crown iirovlniK of Penna)lvnnla, the naaemldy had been contemplating, na the midyears of the elghtunth iintury were iiinudng, a I ullding for Its regular meeting plate In due tours the building was computed, com-puted, und ua the jeiira piiKatd It wna further ditermlued thut u dltlnctlvel iiKemlil) bell should be provided to aupplant the ordinary bell drought from the mother countr) And so. with Utile thought thnt hUtor) which nil the world would rend wna bolng made that n bell wna about In tio provided whoe peala would willlid nruund the globe, nnd jit with u pro-phtllc pro-phtllc prevlalnn the hglalatnra ordered or-dered In 1711 that u bell should lm cunt In Hngland nnd thnt It ahnuld have around It tho wonla from the Hook of Iev Ulcus "Proilulm llUirty throughout nil the bind, unto nil the Inlmhltiint thtreof." The model dt elded upon wna "Oreat Tom" of Weslmlnattr. which Henry III. had cant und hung In the rloek tower aa u memorial to Kdwnrd the Confessor The commission was duly oxetutrd, but, fortunatel), not well. It wua foreordained that the bell, uftur-vvnrd uftur-vvnrd to bctome fnmous na the Liberty Hell, should be ivwtntlall) Amerltan, not KnglUh Iiiotriinicnt N C'rni Uctl, The Ml nrrlud In America on tho ship "Matilda" or "Mrlllln." In Au-aunt. Au-aunt. 1752 Hut the members of the aiuvinbj) cxpriixcd themMdves as deepl) mortified when the bell trunk-id trunk-id with the stroke of the clupptr nnd without any othir violence when It was hung to tr the wiund. It wns broken up nnd mast In Philadelphia with u mixture of one nnd ono-hitlf ounces of toppir to eaoh pound of the old bell. Hut when the new- hell was rung Its tone were not tlenr Tho people irltldted und the tvM workmen, work-men, Pass und 8tuw, limlrted on nn-other nn-other oiportunlt). und In June, 1753, the bell was reeaat nnd again hung In the atetplf I'm und Htow produted In Amcrba the hell which ever) Armrlcun holds Bttred Hut In tho olden tlas there was nothing sacred ubout It. The pi opt were not quite KitlsfU'd und nnother boll wns ordorrd from lAin-don lAin-don When the now bell arrived It was found to be about the some as the one made In America Tho American Amer-ican bell remained In the steeplo nnd the Mtoml bell from Kngland passed out of hUtorv t'nllcil otttl Meeting. The bell rullid the uMttmbli toge-thf-r to muny sessions during which tho foundations of American liberty were laid summoned them In 176J to the meeting at which It was resolv-cd resolv-cd f ontlnue the lasuanco of Prov Inee none) and again In 1755. when the ii.emll)mtn Informed tnn proprietary pro-prietary governor that they would maintain the right "to judge for ourselves our-selves and our oonatltuents of the utlllt) and proprlet) of laws nnd nover will oblige us to make laws by dlrcu- tlon It eonrent ths nw.etnbty that In 1717 sent Mr franklin home to Kngland' to semre rettrsas for grMr-aneM- It railed the assembly together In 174 to rerelre the notification from Massa hueetts Imy that the colonists col-onists there were determined to or-poso or-poso nn rnt.Uh stnmp Act and. again, when Penrnqrlvnnln Joined with the Hay state. It railed the ftgHatora to-gethcr to-gethcr to preiwre for n congress of e rnkinle. snd n little Inter to net stamp and other duties on his majesty majes-ty subject in America " Thn odious stamps enmo 'nln port aboard the Ho) si Charlotte nnd in n toter I7 the liell. 'muffled nnd otled " .-alld together the town mcU Ing which resolved that tho rtnmpa should not land In Philadelphia Hut the stamp net wna enforced, and so tho Ml, muffled again, tolled the "death of liberty." tho people mean while burning the detested atamps. In toptember. 17. It convened the ns-sembly ns-sembly which voted four thousand iwunds sterling lo the king- the Inst large appropriation made for null a purpose. AunoiiiHvil "Ten Party " At the call of the Ml Philadelphia merchants assembled In April 1768 to protest against the restrictive legls latlon li) tmrllament. Then followed the cirs rail for meetings to petition ror tepenl of tint) on ten. to denounce tho hucra of such ten as enemies of the new country, and to exprers tie termination that the "detestable ten which the ship 'Toll)" brought over should not bo "funneled down our throats with parliament's dub mixed with It" lllMorlo oernslnns then irowded esoh other Tho bell announced that the port of lloston had been ilosed. and then that the battle of Islington had been fought. It summoned patriots pa-triots to the memnrabln meeting of June 7. 177. when Itlebnrd Henry l.ee offered his resolutions. "Hint there united colonics nro nnd ought to be free nnd Independent stntes nnd as rurh the) have nnd of right ought to h-ve full power to make war" And then It convened congress for tonslderatlon of n dectnrntlon of Independence, In-dependence, and on July t, 1776. Instead In-stead of Jul) tth, na popularly accepted, accept-ed, It sent echoing n round the world the proclamation of Anurlrnn Independence Inde-pendence Then tho stntn house Ml became tho Liberty Hell. Then enmo the war of tho revolu-Hon, revolu-Hon, the flight of the belt to Allen-town, Allen-town, nnd Ita return In Philadelphia and Ita old home In the steeple until 1711, when It was lowered nnd rshung In tho tower below v Anuouiitttl niMliigiiUlicil Men. Hen; thn l.lbert) Hell announced on October 14, 1711. tho surrender of Cornwnllls nnd freedom from Kngland. Kng-land. It weltomcd "If it Kxcsllenc) tho cominander-ln-thlef and lad)." In Xnvtml'cr, nnd In April, 17S3. It proclaimed ptaco It sounded tho alarms of war In 113 nnd rung for peace In IMS. Thn I.lberl) Hell tolled toll-ed the funeral knell of Wuahlnglon. Its penis welcomed Uifn)ette to tho Hnll of Independence when he returned re-turned to America In IS2I. and, pro-needing pro-needing "under arches wreathed with flowers;" It ushered In the fiftieth nnm.cri-ar or the republic; It olled for Jefferson nnd Adams when they entered Into rent, "lo Its deep tone the low measures of Its tolling giving u ery lolemn Imprerslon." It mng In sorrow agiiln when Charles Carroll of Carrollton died, und when the great !,nfa)vttn pased uwa) Hut once more It wna to toll for n great American for John Marshall, last survivor of thn great characters who madn the nation Ho died In Philadelphia, July 0, 1135, nnd on July Hth, the very day of tho nnnlver-sar) nnnlver-sar) of tho proclamation of Indepen-deiite, Indepen-deiite, ns the Liberty Hell lolled solemnly sol-emnly while the funeral cortege mov-d mov-d down Chestnut rtreet on Its way to Virginia, Its rides parted. Its volte be-enmn be-enmn muln nnd It entered with thn grent expounder of the constitution Into silence. Homo In n (ilii-x Cow. Toda) the bell Is gtinrdcd with In-cessnnt In-cessnnt turn. Its home Is In a glass cose In thn hallway of Independence Hnll, but a few feet removed from the tier It on which thn Duularutlon of Independence In-dependence was signed, nnd from the corner of the court) urd where, on July X, 1770, It wns proclaimed to the multlludo ussembled while the Ml, thin In tho tower, rang out tho freedom free-dom of a nation. Ileven limes has thn bell made trips from Philadelphia, this Is thn eighth, It went to Allnntown In 1777. New Orleuns In 1KN5, Chicago In 18113, Huf-falo Huf-falo In !0I; CharleMon In lltUS, Hos-ton Hos-ton In 1903 nnd KL Louis In 1904. What a contrast It afforded hutween this, thn lull's triumphant Journey to the Pacific, nnd the first one It made from thn security of Indeptndeutc Hull sanctified trudle of patriotism? Thn first Jnumn) was one of prert nation; na-tion; the last, one of patriotism Tho bull liecamo an exile on that first Journey, The Imttlo of Ilrunfly-wlnu Ilrunfly-wlnu had been fought; tho Ilrltlsh wern marching on Philadelphia Patriots Pa-triots determined to save tho bell from rtptiire und possible iteitruttluu Uw fore Howo nnd his troopers marched Into Philadelphia loving hands lowered lower-ed tho bull thn state hnusn bell It was then, despite thn prophetic Inscription In-scription of Libert) and It was placed on a truck It moved from Philadelphia Philadel-phia Keptejnber II, 1777, and found refuge In plan's churnli, 'Allentbwn, where It remnlned until nfter Washington's Wash-ington's victory at Monmoulh Then It war taken back to tho state houso in Philadelphia to Mvliajr now Is Independence Inde-pendence Hall thf nation r bollent shrine In holt Luke C'lt) Next fumdii). The siieolnl train over the I'nlon Pacific and Oregon Hhort Line tarrying tarry-ing tho bell nnd the representatives from tho city of Philadelphia Is duo to arrive In Halt Lnke City ut 9 o'clock next Hunduy morning and Is to Jeove at 3 o'llciuli In the'aftarnbon. Upon the arrival of tho train with the bell a saluto of fort) -eight guns will be flr$d b) .tho hitter) of the National Uuard from mhAb tpnvcnlent point not far dlMunt from Ploiuer I'nrk The National Ouurd will pro-vdo pro-vdo for tho ball thn guard of honiu of one officer, two nnu-oommlstdonrd officers of-ficers und ton prlvutes Two of the noil-commissioned officers or privates will bo telected from each of the organizations or-ganizations other thun tho battery This guard will he with the bell from I he time It Is received by thn representatives represen-tatives of the tlty until It leaves. Ah soon ns practltahlo nfter thn nr-rlvnl nr-rlvnl of the enr cnrrlng the bell It I will bo switched to the spur track west of Pioneer Park nnd placed ut the I southwest corner of thn park nnd there It will remain until tlmo to make up tho train fnr Its departure. Ccuivi'iili'iit Platforms Arranged, A platform nearly thn height of thn enr will bo constructed the night before, be-fore, so that when thn car la In position posi-tion there will be n wnlk around three sides of the enr. This platform will bn rcaihcA by nn Incline on rourtli Houth street nnd Incline from the platform will bo upon Third West stret I. It Is Intended thnt tho children bo given thn first opportunity to view the Imll nnd for their convenience the following arrangements have been made, nf which O. II. Chrlstensen, superintendent su-perintendent of tho Halt Ijike City schools, has charge. Children will nssemblu In Pioneer Park nt 9 30 o'clock In thn morning. Ko fnr an prmtlculdn they will approach ap-proach tho park on Third Houth street. Thn gala at the northeast corner of thn park vvll bo used oxcluslvel) for entrunie to the park The gate at the northwest und the southwtst corners unci tho cui-t side of tho park will be closed and kept oloted during thn time children nro viewing thn bell. limtrin-tloiiK In Children. Children In viewing thn bell will puss out of thn paik by thn south gute; theme wilt proceed west on the sidewalk on thn north side of I'ourlli Houth street to tho umthwest corner of the park, where the cur bearing thn bell will be placed; thence to thn idstforms tonrtructed on eneh side nf thn car; thence from the platforms tn thn sidewalk on thn east side of Third Wecl rtreet und along this walk to tin' west cntrunco of thn park; thenco 'through thn west entrance Into the ( park, diagonally ncrors the sninn and i through thn north gate of thn park to Third West street, from which point they will disperse us rapid!) as possible The foregoing movements of tin-children tin-children will bo supervised by thn committee und a sufficient number of competent Assistants to Insure order und rapldlt) of execution. Thn general public Is requested to time Its view of tho bell from II o'clock on. and to approach tho park on fourth South street. Tho eon-veiilenio eon-veiilenio of oil will 'be itdvuntid If adults do not nccompany children unless un-less It Is necessary for them to do so Tho general public, ufter leaving the platform. Is requested to pass along Third West street to Third Houth, leaving the park entirely for tho use of children. Kicuolnii unci Ilctltul. A band contort will be In progress nt tho park near the bell during thn time It la on view Tho governor and committee will leave! Halt Lnke City by special train In the morning to meet the visiting committee at Ogden, accompanying tho vltltors from there to Halt l.uke City Upon their arrival thn visiting party will be taken to Saltnlr depot i nnd a visit to Haltalr will be made J Thq itute officers, city und county offlctrs and others forming tin e-' ccptlon committee, not member of tho general committee, are requested I to jojn the party ut the Haltalr depot Ut 91B The train from Haltalr will arlvn In Zlon n 11 4C nnd the patty Will go Immediately tq tho organ re-, Cltal ut tho tabnrnaoln After tho ro-iltal ro-iltal luncheon will ho senod at the1 roof garden of the Hotel Utah, where i appropriate addresses will bo made. After tho luncheon the party will take such no automobile trip around tin olty us time will permit before th parade. l'arado ut 3 O'clock, Thn porado will move promptly at 3 o'clotk Tho route of thn linn of KSII march will bn from fourth Houth HbH street on Htntn street north to Houth BmiiI Temple street, west on Houth Temple HEI rtreet tn Main street, routh on Main HkH rtreet to I'ourth Fciotli i-treet, west on K9til fourth Houth t recti turning nt the In- JBclPB tersettlon of I'ourth Houth irnd Third HWiM West rtreet, there passing by tho bell t (HUlil on Third West street, thence north on . HUI Third West street l Third Houth I ; HH street, where nil local organisations HMH except the escort of thn guests wilt , HatH turn east on Third Houth, and thcro- i BflH dlahnnd. taking thn mort convenient p ticiiiHH streets In so doing m ns not tn cause ( congestion. I H It Is expected that thn parade wilt I iH be of consldrrnbln length and nil or- ' H ganlxatlons participating must be nt I iWS the locality nrlgned them nt 1:16 ) 9kMH o'clock. KMPiiccccccccccI All Orgniilmtloiis Invllecl. v i HSil Invitations to participate In thn- Pl parade have been ictnt to all organl- ' C'tH snllons, thw addresses, of thn offices x, ll'-jH of whit h were known to thn commit- F F 4fH tee Hevernl urganlxntlons have, i MSIH Ihcirefore, not received Invitations to ' fiSSiieeeeeeeeel portlolpate nnd tho fnvltntlon to par- iS9tH tlclpato la extended by thn committee , EnWiTaH und such ns desire to participate are- ' BREH Invited tn send their acceptance to ' KvH K. A Wedgwood. 1101 Walker build- K- M Ing, stating the nnnici nf tho orginlsa- ' ITH tlon, tho name und address of One OftH party rcprrrontlng It nnd tho number ; itUMiH that will bn present. r tWbSR Tho high school cndvts will not ns IfhIH escorts nnd will move out on state CwM street from I'ourth Houth street. ImLH . In . BXaiccccccccI |