Show I LIBERTY BLAZES II IN WHITE LIGHT Barth s Statue I Ilium Illuminated i for lor First Time in ill History History His His- I tory lory Wilson Gives Flash I Continued From Page Pae 1 1 high officials of or the time arm army ani and navy and representatives CR of or several nations I lI light ht this statue said the Pros Pros- with tho time thought ht that it HIll may I always 9 stand as a n symbol of our purpose pur lur- pose to throw upon liberty out ut of c mir own life lIfo as a nation a 1 light ht which shall reveal re its dignity Its serene seren power JOiser lt Us Its h benignant hope and amid spirit of guidance I i The Tho great guns of ot a n division of tho the i Atlantic fleet boomed a U salute a aa as the flashed Into view outlined In I white lI lights highs Tho The whistles of or count countI I less harbor craft shrieked In lii on tumid and flares of r red d lI light ht blazed up imp alon along I tho the Now Kew York and rind New Jorj Tor ey cy shores There was a lash flash h of ot name flame hl high h I above e the tue statue and Ruth Law in hr 1 I I aeroplane aC a added ded a a. spectacular touch I to tho the ceremonies of ot Illumination I Spouting sparks and fire from the tall of her hor machine she Rh circled tho the lower j end of Manhattan Island inland A roar of ot cheers cheel's from the thousands gathered In Battery Batter park greeted g her ns as the letters let let- I lera T E Y outlined in electrIc electric elec dee lights wore ore revealed re on tho the bottom bottom bot bot- tom torn of or the airplane Tho course courso of or tho the Mayflower was marked by tho the rays of tho the most powerful powerful powerful pow pow- erful searchlight In the tho world as the yachts yacht's anchor was aR hol hoisted ted an and the i presidential party Ivirty headed for time the Battory Bat Bat- j J I ter tory to disembark for the tho motor car cu i para parade e which preceded a dinner hinner In honor honor hon hen or of or Mr Ir Wilson and Ambassador Jus- Jus I j City's Skyline c. The party part eu on the Mayflower looked out upon a city It of lights New low Yorks York's skyline was literally I ablaze Electric lamp gleamed through I countless windows In scores of sky iky skyscrapers scrapers A searchlight p played aed upon a proudly floating fla flag atop the White White- hall hail building almost at the tip end of Manhattan and golden olden li lights gleamed alon along the sea wall of the thc Battery haven of immigrants The parade passed Into the Ule canyon catlon of or Low Lower Lover r Broadway across the plaza of City Hall hail park where the time stars and stripes outlined In In reel red white and blur electric lI lights gleamed on the front of oC I the tho City hall halt and on urn through h Washington Washing Washing- ton square Into Fifth Firth n avenue The aye ave nile had been converted Into u Ll golden olden i way ay y Ix Lon Long ribbons of specially specIal erected I lights gleamed on either cither side of the thoroughfare as far tar north as Thirty third street There Thele the tho President and his party entered the time hotel where her the banquet was hold held under an electric lighted canopy of red white arid and blue The illumination of ot Liberty was viewed from points of ot vantage e b by man many thousands of New Yorkers Thousands Thousands Thousands Thou Thou- sands more lined the time streets through h which the President passed and antI cheered cherod him lustily Mr Ir Wilson arose frequently frequently fre fre- and doffed his hat in acknowledgment of ot the salutes Climax of ot Flood Lighting The Thc illumination of oC the statue Is re re- re I b by electrical experts exports as the cli climax climax cli- cli max of ot development In the tho art of oC flood lighting For Eor the time bronze torch Liberty ha has had meld held aloft was substituted a n. glass lass torch held together tog by y the I same lines To put life or ora ora a quiver into the time simulated flame Clame of ot the torch fifteen candlepower OO I gas-filled gas electric lamps w were iere ro placer placed upon a series of lashers flashers The Time I sources of ot the light which will 11 LI- Ithe I- I luminato the entire statue are fifteen batteries of or projectors Tho The current Is I carried b by submarine cables under the channel between New Jersey and Bed- Bed loo's loos Island Besides the tho President the speakers at the dinner tonight were Ambassador dor former United States Senator Chauncey Chaunce M. M 1 Depew Mayor M Ralph of the time New York World orld Henry Hemy L. L Dou Dougherty presIdent pres pres- ident blent of ot the Society of Electrical Development Development Development Devel Devel- and Col John Millis corps of 01 en engineers U U. S S. S A A. A The French ambassador after reaca readIng reading read read- Ing a message e from tho the President of oC Franco France dwelt at len length th on the friend friend- I ly 13 relations existing between his imis country coun coun- try tn and the United States He Ire detailed tho the history of ot tho events that l led d to I the modeling of the statue by the time contributions con on of his countrymen lId and stress on tho the fact that Bartholdi the evolved the time Idea as a result 1 j lof of the impression left upon him by the he war of ot 1870 which deprived him of oC Alsace his na native land and enabled i him to find liberty lIbert at its best In this countr country to I ideal den INot I. I Not to a man not to a nation was the time statue raised raised not not to a man mami famous and useful as he lie may ha have hae e been heen not to to a nation as great as she may maJ be 1 1 the ambassador sa said 1 1 It was raised to an Ideal an Ideal an ideal Sr greater ater than timan an any man or em- an any nation greater eater than France or the United States State States the ideal of ot lib lIb- lib lib- erty Still bleeding from recent wounds France FranceS then a republic thought ht of the theother I other republic on onu the opposite shore end amid said sald Sister let us raise an emI em em- I blem to what in the midst of ot conflict of appetites dc desires and passions is I uppermost in our minds liberty I am tho the older country you ou aro are the older oIlIer republic Wo We were friends from tho the I f earliest I days v e t. t fought together for o independence Let J-et us liS to what has caused our friendship to endure that is to our common love of lIbert liberty On the other side of oC tho the ocean tho the theother other republic has been for over two ears shedding her best blood I was asked some time ago wh why she did so why wimy she sue persisted My Iy answer ns I J said said Is the tho same saimie as ali tho the Inscription under one of the drawings presented to America by French artists artista as a a. tol token cn of gratitude g for their American brethren's brethren's breth breth- rens ren's sympathy and now preserved in iii the national museum at Washington In tho time foreground round tall and erect her hor cap of ot freedom wreathed wreathe with laurel the time French republic is seen fighting In Iii the time dim distance across the tho waters Is discovered erell a pale outline of the time subject subject sub sub- of or thi this gathering the tho Statue of ot Liberty The he Inscription is 18 and m my answer was That liberty may continue to light the time world Former Senator Depew who was tho the orator ot ci the da day on omi the tIme occasion of the time dedication of or the time statue thirty years ago abo gave hi his reminiscences of ot the celebration Ho Ito said that of all the famous company compan who vho participated participate he Is time the only survivor Ho Ito told of oC the thereat great reat debt that the United States owes France for lor her iier timely assistance in their hour of or trial and characterized Frances France's part in the world war war ris 1 hr r rebirth Speech of or the President President Wilson who was tho the last speaker at tho the banquet spoke of ot the time significance of or the Statue of Liberty Libert to the tho immigrants He lie said lie he wondered whether the spirit typified by tho the statue is trul truly represented here The Iho President said he ho noticed that the tho source of oC light for tor the tho statue comes from the thc outside The Time on light he lie added adde that we can contribute to the Illumination of time the world is the time I light ht that shines out of ot our own o lives We e must illustrate liberty In Iii our lives lIes With ith all aU due duo re respect ro- ro for tor those who vho represent our nations nations na na- na- na not governed a as ours I do not think that nations ruled b by small groups groups' of ot men can cnn ho he successful Tho Time world he declared Is enlightened ened by ideas and ideals and the sacrifices flees of or men inca enable the world to go forward rd h |