Show A LIBERTY BELL I How the American People c Make ItBy Walter J XeGrys TROT N Y May 28 Never before were so many mementoes of a countrys I history gathered together and wrought J into one thing as is being done now to make the Columbian Liberty bell Every day there is received at the Me I neily Bell foundry at Troy scores of packages pack-ages containing historic heirlooms to be cast into the bell The packages of his I I torical objects that have already arrived I number several hundred and so busy have the foundry managers been attending to the correspondence relative I rel-ative to the bell that half of them have not even been opened The interest is not confined to any one class or sectional America evidently evi-dently means to take a hand in the making of this second national bell A scrapbook scrap-book will be made probably containing a description of every article that goes into the bell also photographs of some of the more important objects The monoy to pay the 6500 that the casting will cost is coming in at a good rate A great share of it is in pennies contributed by schoolchildren school-children The Columbian Liberty Bell committee will hold its first meeting in Independence Independ-ence hall Philadelphia June 7 and on 19 iLKHT LL1 I THE CENTENNIAL LIBERTY BELL I TH CEENNA LmERT the following day will go to Troy to be present at the casting June 8 was chosen as a most appropriate time for the event as it was on that date in 1776 that a committee was chosen by the Constitutional Constitu-tional Congress to draft the Declaration of Independence Mrs Cleveland has promised to touch an electric button at Washington that will release the molten metal into the moulds and Mrs Madge Morris Wagner of San Diego Cal author of the poem Liberty Bell will ring i for the first time in Chicago on Independence Inde-pendence Day So great is the number of contributions that a complete enumeration of them would require many columns Hero are some among the Important ones J I Ackerman Coles Scotch Plains N J apiece I a-piece of a bust of Benjamin Franklin made in France in 1778 Miss E L Shaw Troy N Y a pieca of the old bell in the first Dutch church at Schenectady imported im-ported from Holland Alexander l filler Culpepper Va a medal given to his grandfather for valiant conduct at the battle of Waterloo and also a pair of silver ver sugar tongues owned by the Rev Mr Blair the first Presbyterian minister in Virginia Mrs James Lyons a key of a desk used many years by Patrick Henry I i Thomas Emley of Cookstown N j a piece of a surveyors compass used by I William Gurley who came to this country I coun-try from England as ajcommissSoner in 1607 Miss Elizabeth H Tittle of Johns town Pa gold arid silver jewelry that passed through the flood at that place Harold A Lawrence of West Philadelphia an English coin of 1775 formerly belonging to Robert Hal the greatgreatgreat grandfather of the giver an associate of William Penn and a signer of the Declaration Declar-ation of Independence Gertrude B Gar lock of Little Falls N Y S bronze lock fixture from the residence of General Nicholas Herkimer Mrs Prince vie of Governor Prince of New Mexico a piece of copper pipe taken from the governors palace erected in Santa Fe in 1598 Edward Ed-ward G Porter of Boston a piece of the first church bell cast in Boston by Paul Revere Mrs W H Hyatt of New Orleans 1 Or-leans a medal given Isaac Van Warts one of the three men who captured Major Andre Patrick Calhoun of Atlanta Ga a silver spoon which belonged to United States Senator John Calhoun William I King ol the Atlanta Constitution a silver spoon of Henry W Grady the famous I southern editor Mrs E R Jones of Holly Springs Miss a knob from a clock I acock given by Thomas Jefferson to RlrsNicholas Lewis Richard S Bayham of Troy a silver shoe buckle worn Captain Jacob Poole of Abmgton Mass who with four sons fought at the battle of Bunker Hill and was a member of the Boston tea Hl party Mrs Andrew Reis of Baltimore Md piece of a silver spoon once the property of George Washington Mrs L H Stone of Kalamazoo Mich a pin made in Greece from mites such a the widows cast into the treasury as commanded com-manded by Jesus Colonel Olin Scott of Beunington a piece of the original bell in Independence hall Philadelphia Mrs Gprge Babcock of Troy if Y piece of thij original Atlariticcable Mrs Julia G Pelton of Hartford COM a piece of metal from the oldesthouse in Newing ton Conn which was built before 1693 No 1 Fire company of Sun C I c I < 7 S l j < Jir l bury Pa a piece of cannon from Fort Augusta used in the French and Indian war in 1756 Mrs C H Kenney Ken-ney I Philadelphia French coin of 1792 presented to her grandfather Captain W H Fevey by General LafayettejMrs Clark Waring of Columbia S 0 seal of that state made by General Wade Hampton Hamp-ton Mrs Henry Rives of Eureka Nev a piece of copper from the United States steamship Hartford famous in the civil war also a piece of copper from the ill fated steamer Jeannette and another from the United States steamer wrecked at Samoa MissJ A Lansing of Albany silver teapot used in Washington during Washingtons administration also apiece a-piece of the private seal of Abraham Yates a member of the first Congress of the United States from Boston comes a pair of gold snuffers said to have been used by Barbara Fritchie another interesting gift is an earring worn by Mrs Parnell mother of Charles Stewart Paruell the Irish agitator And so one might go on with the list which is only partly complete as some ofthe states I I c Ls4 d W O MCDOWELL AN THE FIRST CONTRIBUTORS CON-TRIBUTORS have not forwarded their contributions yet There are rings bracelets pens pencils parts of cannon powder flasks and guns kettles cups eyeglasses thimbles watches and other things sufficient to fill a curiosity shop Besides gold silver copper and tin ores are sent from the western mines The federal government will do its share by contributing two canons one used by the Union troops and the other by the Confederate President army Cleveland Mrs Cleveland and tooThese baby Ruth are to give something I I These historical and personal ingredients ingredi-ents will however form only an inconsiderable I I incon-siderable part of the composition of the big bell whose total weight will be 13000 pounds The metal will be composed of I seventyeight parts of Lake Superior copper cop-per and twentytwo parts American tin I Its composition it parts be seen i will be American I The bell will be a counterpart the one I cast for the Centennial at Philadelphia The height will be six feet and six inches and across the mouth one foot more The I i1 i4i SHE CLUNG TO THE FLYING TIMBER top will be encircled with the words I Proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all the inhabitants thereof and near the bottom will be inscribed Glory t God in the highest and on earth peace good will toward men Between these two inscriptions will be a third appropriate I appropri-ate to the Columbian celebration |