Show Liberty Bell Workers W Had Good Appetites An odd memento of the Liberty bell ben whole replicas on every side today remind us that the battle for freedom has once more to be fought is the bill for food served ed the workers w who ho set it Itin itin in m place It lt was first fust hung in the I steeple of or the Pennsylvania statehouse I according to a claim filed tiled by Edmund Wooley dated April 17 1753 for sun sun- drys advanced for raising the bell ben sun sun-I and frame and putting up the bell I Wooley declared that he had on that date dat supplied food and anti other refreshment refreshment refreshment refresh refresh- ment to the workmen engaged in the task the list including the following four Forty-four pounds beef 4 gammons 2 pecks of potatoes limes 36 loaves of bread of Lacy ye Baker 3 gallons of or rum of John Jones mustard pepper salt butter a cheese cooking andwood and andwood wood earthenware and candles candies and a barrel of or beer of Anthony Morris This formidable list cost the province a total of 5 pounds 13 shillings 10 pence or about 27 2775 75 a modest figure Judging by present day prices Later the bell was recast from the same metal but with slightly different com corn combinations combinations to give a better tone The bell itself cost a a. little over |