Peace Congress Opens.

New York Times 100 years ago today, September 24, 1912:
Members Invited to Attend Congress of Parliaments Here.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    GENEVA, Sept 23.— The nineteenth International Peace Congress was opened to-day with the customary ringing of the little Liberty Bell.
    It will be recalled that on the initiative of Dr. MacDowell of Newark, N.J., Vice President of the Universal Peace Union, different nations contributed small cannon swords, bayonets, and other war relics, which were melted and converted into a large bell of peace, as well as a small model of it. The latter was presented to the Peace Congress at Antwerp by an American woman, Miss Mary Frost Ornsby. Ever since the tinkling of this little bell has opened the peace congresses.
    The American delegates, Mr. MacDowell, John Miller Horton, and Mrs. Elmer Black, extended an invitation to those at the Congress to attend the "Congresses of All the Parliaments of the World," to be held at New York in 1913 and San Francisco in 1915 in the interest of universal peace. The invitation bears the signatures of 302 members of the United States Congress, 404 United States executive authorities, and officials of universities, and patriotic, social, commercial, and other societies of America.
    The invitation was warmly received by the congress.