CHAPTER III.

ANOTHER DISTINGUISHED ARRIVAL.

Independence Bell — Its progress from Philadelphia to Chicago — It receives an ovation all the way — Cannons
and speeches by day and bonfires and red lights by night — The venerable relic seen by great crowds of
people — It shares the honorable welcome paid to President Cleveland and the Duke of Veragua upon its
arrival in Chicago — Received by military and music and escorted to Jackson Park by a procession two
miles long — George Lippard's vivid picture of the revolutionary tones whose echoes have never died
away — Its sounds still listened to by the American people 151