Show DEAD HON HONORED REO BY BYI BYS I S- S HUGE BElL TOWER TO VilER English City Builds Caril Carl 1 Hung ng With Bells In Four Octaves taves I I IO I inI O Of all the memorials erected In Great Britain to commemorate the dead o of ot the great war var carillon I of LoUghborough in was v recently un unveiled by byField rheid Marshall hall Sir William Robert Robert- Roberton son Robert on and dedicated by the bishop ot of Pet borough Is said ald b bi the New NewYork NewYork e York Times to be one of th the most interesting A memorial committee was dl- dl di divided vided between three a proposals monument a 11 community center and a tower and carillon The townspeople finally decided by a aI I large rge majority In fa 01 of ot the bells pal as Loughborough po pos pos- pos possesses a famous bell foundry ur DY KI YnO Hn Loughborough has only 26 inhabitants and so the undertaking undertaking ing was big but In spite of o trade depression de work was aas as begun on the tower In 1921 1931 on a 11 site In Jn the cen- cen center center cen center ter of Queen Queens s a Park Parle whence the tho sound of ot the bells would c carry rry to ahi quarters of ot the tile to town 11 The tower tow to er is built of l red redbrick redbrick redbrick brick the covered coppe-covered covered timing to fC feet t Of the three I moms oom In the 10 lower er part two will willbe willbe be set aside as a 3 war mUse museum Ov Over r these Is the chamber I W t mg 1 the keyboard or clavier tor or the I bell player I It Is said eald that this thle I Is probably I tho most pel carillon car kno known n today The bells ha have e been cut cast i iun un and l the put together at atthe atthe the Taylor foundry In Loughborough ough ough where epe mental and In- In Inventive in inventive work ork ha has been carried on for 30 10 years There are 47 bella beils The heaviest weighs more than lour four ton tons tone and stands five feet test high Tho smallest sma weighs only 20 pounds and st stands ani 7 inches high Their compass Is tour octaves chro- chro chro chromatic matic the tile lowest t e sharp DELICATE MECHANISM IU The belt bell has hag been so 80 skillfully designed that the sound lound ot of the tha larger bells belie doe does not over over- overpower overpower overpower power that of ot the tho smaller Ills It Is also stated that for tor pureness ot of intone intone- Intonation Intonation tion and beauty uty of ton tone the Lough- Lough Loughborough Loughborough borough Louth-borough borough belt belle bell have no equals l among their older Belgian and Dutch competitors while the ac- ac actual ac actual mechanism which operates the tha bell ball clappers carillon clappers carillon bells are ara not run rung but from struck from the tho Ico- Ico kay board board la is the most moat perfect In III ex ax- ax Its Ita It touch is le BO so O light IsM that thata thata a could sound the ton tour bell en |