Britain Delivers The Goods.

There was recently placed in position on the roof of the Wanamaker store in Philadelphia, U. S. A., the largest bell ever seen in the Western Hemisphere. The bell was made in Britain, and is the heaviest that has so far been cast by British founders. It is nine feet six inches in diameter, seven feet six inches high, and weighs 17 1/4 tons. Under favourable conditions the tolling of the great bell can be heard at a distance of thirty miles. The bell was placed in a specially built tower on the roof of the store in commemoration of John Wanamaker who died in 1922. It is to be known as the “Founder's Bell,” and will strike hourly and be tolled on anniversaries and special occasions.

The bell is tuned to low D bass cleff, a half tone lower than the great bell in St. Paul's Cathedral, London. It is said to be one of the few bells in the world tuned on the five tone harmonic principle, and sounds the deepest tone ever produced under this tuning system. It is the eighth largest bell in the world.