Show I 1 MONSTER BELL I 1 i the gestand Big probably the sweetest ever cast t IN AN AMERICAN FOUNDRY I 1 1 an absolutely unique feature this bell and a chime ot of twenty six other will bo connected Conn eced with the organ oran end aud used to reinforce the choir process ot of casting it all ti requires extreme care card t copyright I 1 ISS bra br ell chalier ch elier johnson ile lor I 1 liberty bell Is at last to have a rival not indeed in tame fame nor in tile the hearts of oc the people in those respects it will ever stand unrivalled hut but in size at least a rai or rather a ru KU herfor ls Is now being made ready for or the massive belfry in the suburbs ot of cincinnati where it is soon to swing I 1 and ring out the loudest that aas is ever vibrated upon the free air ot of america doubtless mu by th tho time lime these words appear I 1 in ts the iti ollon metal will vill have flowed hissing lussil ng donn clown tile the channels into the curiously constructed mould and the biggest alel ball ever eve cast on an this side bide of tho the atlantic anllo will nil be cooling in the great pit constructed to that support the stars stairs and v m bich faiet all in grace Brace braceful ful tul enolds oda on either cither s aldo do and beneath this Is the real ceal of 0 the ally it Y io 0 f C cincinnati no dallons ot of tile deceased donor and nd amaly family I complete lf I 1 t N 1 I 4 I 1 I 1 y I 1 C 3 r 7 A 1 L ai 4 3 az z 1 5 11 I 1 i 0 or at I 1 41 vr jiz 3 A ae T 11 Z r 1 I 1 I 1 1 0 t 4 4 eq 4 y 4 it P 1 I I 1 Q L I 1 I 1 aa kii I 1 11 V G A 1 A aj I 1 I 1 I 1 P 1 i I 1 v 7 lz q ill I 1 wa t I 1 V I 1 4 ia rl ao 1 1 4 1 f Z X an I 1 it N I 1 I 1 I 1 11 Q I 1 coro cora of mould in casting pit the on oil the ecclesiastical balf of oc the bell under the surmounting surmount lne tiara la Is a nip dallon of 0 pope lo lee 10 XIII with hla hia seal julit below Is the in daHon of 0 tile rt et rev william glenry elder archal bod of 0 cincinnati through which are crossed the staffs staffa of till tile papal banners right and left of 0 this ine dallon axe two others of archbishop I 1 urcell and of bishop als hop ten fell wick vick elie art bishop of 0 cincinnati beneath the central mo m dallon Is out one of 0 genci al albrink around the crown or upper part in gothic relief are arc two vet verses be s ot of meli 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 l 1 II 11 tk I 1 f I 1 I 1 I 1 ap I 1 E LA 1 hii ll 11 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 i I 1 I 1 ai ia I 1 1 1 31 w I 1 I 1 11 A I 1 r t I 1 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 V 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 N IF I 1 i t N I 1 7 N i I 1 V I 1 F 2 I 1 1 rh I 1 ma 1111 r 1 11 I 1 1 X 5 ae 0 2 ai I 1 I 1 1 ai I 1 il aa I 1 k I 1 ir I 1 I 1 11 i w I 1 6 1 Z 1 l 1 1 1 4 MR i 37 Z tar I 1 I 1 I 1 an J i I 1 A I 1 1 Z i A I 1 I 1 V k I 1 1 I 1 I 1 ia I 1 r I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 T 1 I 1 polishing the interior receive it for the now new bell Is to I 1 weigh nearly fifteen tons and the great bell in tile cathedral at montreal I 1 i hitherto the largest on tho the american continent D Onti nent weighs rather less than elili leon tons tona it will take rank therefore V very crar creditably among the largest bells belli of the world the largest in III england like westminster bell weighing I 1 about the same while one in vienna tile largest li iri actual use in europe is abo about u t t wenty twenty tons it Is true th that at the monster at moscow which lies betoken and prostrate weighed moi more a than tons but it was simply a huge mistake which having failed as a bell is in now used as it a chapel it Is stated i too loo that there Is a monstrosity somewhere somei I 1 in china that weighs about a sixty I 1 tons but its shape ia 13 abominable I 1 and its tone excruciating to any but IL a celestial ear car but these of weight convey but a very vague idea ot of size elite tho the i great chinese catcall cat call Is ia said to la I 1 fourteen feet in height but it la Is shaped like a barrel the cincinnati bell I 1 which la 11 cast in tho the tr true proportions for beauty and melody being modeled after a bell in erfurt prussia which Is 1 accounted the sweetest la ia the world Is seven feet in height and nine in diameter da meter at the base that Is to say eay 11 if 11 1 rested mouth downward on the ground the tallest man could stand upright under it and it it were set on edge and it a school boy were to cn clans bilth his hands bands to the upper llin his feet would dangle about wl lore the clapper will hanz bang when the bell Is finally in position thle clapper will i weigh no less th than an 60 0 pounds imagine the effect when it comes in collision I 1 with fifteen tons of resonant bell metal nowhere else in the world Is such a mass actually swung the diameter ot of the wheel Is fifteen feet and two amo ropes will vill be attached it it stipulated indeed I 1 that the bell shall be so eo polled that one man can ring it but unless I 1 the services of sandow could be a secured q as sexton the task would bo be A altogether i too arduous hence tile the double I 1 rope bells have been cast which re deval hexameters meters relating to bells which read as follows tol lowa laudo deum verun vocal con grego cherum I 1 i funru juran arango goll ulf fura frango franco sabbata I 1 bango this may be approximately though not completely rendered by the quaint old english lines to calle ye oldo aide atto atte meeting tyme wo live me when joo and myrth are on oa yo ye dynge we X a eryngo yn when wi n vo jo a soule coule wo we tollo folio it mill be noticed that great symmetry lias has been attal attained ned by tills this arrangement ament the eagle Is opposite the tiara arid and the american flag to the papal ensign the seal peal ot of the united states corresponds to that of rome and the I 1 same artistic balance Is maintained in all the parts the designer la ia a cincinnati cin cinnoti tiati man mr A nut chork tills this of bells Is a pc do ell cullar ilar and difficult task the decorations must be in relief to avoid inter lerinc with the tone the me meda dallons lions for or example atter after being designed by the aigist and passing through a whole series cerles of transformations must at last be accurately impressed upon tho the clay ot of the mould an operation requiring great dexterity the general form of the churchwell church bell was perfected by mediaeval media eval founders oun dera and no radical change from this has ever been made with good results jt has been argued by some that bells of hemispherical shape without the usual flare at the bottom woula give a purer tone lone hut but this theory ignot in accord W with ith the facts the ancs of the new bell differ quite considerably from those which are usual the portions port lons were determined by yr F P lotz superintendent of 0 the buckeye foundry where the bell Is cast according to a rule of his own devising but tills this rule Is cal caie tully guarded as I 1 a trade secief too valuable tor for publication boet ilin tha lie metal used Is the usual alloy of copper and tin in the ratio of 0 as to 22 no other metals or proportions give I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 4 e it P I 1 I 1 4 A 1 I t I 1 ai 11 1111 1 7 so I 1 1 I 1 I 1 0 L W e t 44 4 rp r p 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 fj 24 I 1 qa I 1 ill I 1 1 I 1 i r I 1 71 i I 1 P I 1 ill I 1 U ra T 7 11 i vi k NV 11 4 f I 1 V I 1 I 1 11 ll 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I I 1 I 1 I 1 11 kair I 1 r I 1 I 1 I 1 IX I 1 f 4 11 1 fg p 6 t y i 1 I 1 J I 1 ik 1 il S I 1 1 I 1 5 3 1 P A ft W 1 a I 1 wr r r lit 13 s 1 ek 1 14 23 I 1 2 1 the critical moment quiren the combined effort of 0 more than twenty men to swing them but hell bell hanging as well as bill founding has ha trade arail no small progress and such cucil cumbersome arrangements belong to tho the says days of et creaking ex carts and wooden plows the ornamentation of 0 the th wit ell Is ballo ta f lis k mars lavorata lak orata I 1 bin that of any la ia Ox stence civic aad decorations will both have place making it at oneo once an emblem of patriotic feeling and a consecrated instrument ot of worship erich clinar the body ot of the bell just above the rounding bow la Is the latin text ot or tile lords prayer in li true gothic chat chai acte baters at aut atut ut seven inch hilgh aboe abo this r ll 11 civic half lite lilt Arneri cati rny y over tile the great br lt ot of the lt y an impression of 0 chice which h I 1 I 1 ertly f arom 10 m the white 11 1 1 I l this thin Is the seal of 0 tho the by the s I 1 nl ll 11 M so satisfactory natla factory a result the idea th that an admixture 0 of silver wl will 11 sweeten tile alio tone Is 15 a popular delu de luelon alon to produce such buch a casting requires when nil all in 1 ready arward is of 0 eighty hours and nd th slightest rn athe merit ment would uld result in fallu r a even th the knuit be b eare easefully fully s teal thero there la Is perhaps i but one ona other ether fou foundry adry in the united that at troy N X y where libere the columbian liberty lluc raf loll 1011 11 was cacatin CIS tin t in which such ouch a boil could be fully carried through th joush arrom tho the foun roundly dil tile the bell will bo be taken to a vacal vacant it space adjoining federal squall there to b 1 exhibited for a mouth to tt tile the school childr Lit ot of elio DIB city nud ill vicinio Vicin if Eif lOKO sic lie acl lots are re tn lie alati ibula 1 antill be run na ill th a for sot some no di distance e from slid and other public demonstrations will bs bo made before b fore being placed placiel in r in the belfry the great bell will lie ile with impressive ceremonies according to the roman catholic cue cu toni tom the sponsors will mill lie be numerous including both state and ecclesiastical the I 1 IN 11 II will then be railed to the belfry where it Is 1 to be mounted in c connection on n action with cl a chime ot of inertly ix sn la I 1 ter bolls bells yet to be wl cast A novel re feature I 1 I 1 t in the proposed peal ot of bells wiil I 1 be its connection by tin an in gellous device with tho the organ in uch such a manner that it m III be under tho the control of tho the organist and may IM be used to r reinforce 7 the rendering of tile the solemn n I 1 n anthems of 0 the church mr frank wits allson on the org organist anist in question la Is e aberly inching forward to the time w when lien ho he will ho he enabled to achieve something absolutely unique in the history of 0 music the I 1 pastor a stor of 0 the church ot of the bells Is 18 the rev hev A 11 Quart nian A parishioner ish ioner loner joseph 0 Bud delce bequeathed thed to defray the cost or tills this great work but at least more will be e expended x before Cincinnat Cincin natis ts boblo be bell I 1 bounds from rom its lofty tower |