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Show UN STARTS LIBERTY STATUE ILLliTlfli President Gives Wireless Flash Which Bathes Famous Fa-mous Harbor Mark With Light. MARKS DEVELOPMENT IN ELECTRICAL ERA Tremendous Crowds Cheer Nation's Executive; French Ambassador Reads Note From Poincare. NEW YORK. Dec. 2. President Wil-j Wil-j son, speaking tonight at the banquet i which was the culmination of the cele-; cele-; bration in honor of the permanent illumination illu-mination of the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor, declared that he had thought for the last two years that "peace is going to come to the world only with liberty. " President Wilson gave the wireless flash which bathed the Statue of Liberty Lib-erty in light at. 6 o'clock. Bartholdi's famous symbol of American freedom, which lias been for thirty years a token of welcome to the United States to millions of immigrants from every land, will be illuminated every night hereafter here-after from top to bottom. Funds to install in-stall the permanent lighting system for the statue, the gift to the United States of 400,000 citizens of Prance, were provided pro-vided by public subscription. Grouped around the president on the deck of the yacht Mayflower, anchored off Bedloe's island, as he flashed the signal which turned on the lights, were Mrs. Wilson, Jules J. Jusserand, ambassador am-bassador of France; Madam Jusserand, high officials of the army and navy and representatives of several nations. Makes Speech. "I light this statue,1 ' said the president, presi-dent, "with the thought that it may always stand as a symbol of our purpose pur-pose to throw upon liberty, out of our own life as a nation, a light which shall reveal its dignity, its serene power, its benignant hope and spirit of guidance. ' The great guns of a division of the Atlantic fleet boomed a salute as the statue flashed into view outlined in white lights. The whistles of countless harbor craft shrieked in unison, and flares of red light blazed up along the New York and New Jersew shores. There was a flash of flame high above the statue, and Ruth Law, in her aeroplane, added a spectacular touch to the ceremonies of illumination. Spouting Spout-ing sparks of fire from the tail of her machine, sho circled the lower end of Manhattan island. A roar of cheers from the thousands gathered in Battery park greeted her as the letters "L-I-B-E-R-T-Y, ' ' outlined in electric lights, ' were revealed on the bottom of the aeroplane. Course Is Marked. i The course of the Mayflower was marked bv the raya of the most powerful power-ful searchlight in the world as the yacht's anchor was hoisted and the presidential partv headed for the battery bat-tery to disembark for the motor car parade which preceded a dinner in honor of Mr. "Wilson and Ambassador Jusserand. The party on the Mayflower looked out upon a "city of lights. New York's " billion-dollar skyline" was literally ablaze. Electric lamps gleamed through countless windows in scores of "skyscrapers." "sky-scrapers." A searchlight played upon a proudly floating flag atop thtf Whitehall White-hall building, almost at the tip end of Manhattan, and golden lights gleamed along the seawall ot the Battery, the haven of immigrants. Close behind the Mayflower steamed the U. S. S. San Francisco with Secre-: Secre-: tarv of the Navy Daniels aboard, fol-l fol-l lowed bv the "V. S. S. Yankton, ' carrying" members of Mayor Mitchcl's : committee of 200 and other invited uests. The passengers were discharged at the battery, where electric motor cars were waiting to carrying them up town. Drive Up Broadway. The parade passed into the canyon of lower Broadway, across the plaza of City Hall park, where the stars and stripes, outlined in red white and blue electric lights, gleamed on the front of the citv hall, and on through Washington Washing-ton square into Fifth avenue. The avenue ave-nue had been converted into a "golden wav. ' 1 Long ribbons of specially erected lights gleamed on either side of the thoroughfare as far north as Thirty-third Thirty-third street. There the president and his party entered the hotel, where the banquet" was held under an electric lighted canopy of red. white and blue. The illumination of Liberty was viewed from points of vantage bv many thousands of New Yorkers. Thousands more lined the streets through which the president passed and cheered him lustily. Mr. Wilson arose frequently and doffed , (Continued on Page FI-w.) WILSOfJ IKS OH TEW LIBERTY LIGHTS (Continued from Page One.) his hat in acknowledgment of th,e salutes. sa-lutes. The illumination of the statue is regarded re-garded by electrical experts as the climax cli-max of development in the art of flood lighting. For the bronze torch which Liberty has held aloft was substituted a glass torch held together by tme same riveted lines. To put "life" or a "quiver" into the simulated flame of the torch fifteen 500-candlepower gas-j gas-j filled electric lamps were placed upon a series of "flashers." The sources of the light which will illuminate the en-i en-i tire statue are fifteen batteries of projectors. pro-jectors. The current is carried by submarine sub-marine cables under the channel be-twen be-twen New Jersey and Bedloe's island. The funds which provided the lighting light-ing plant were raised by popular subscription sub-scription by the New York World, which also raised the money thirty ye"ars ago for the construction of the pedestal upon which the statue stands. Besides the president, the speakers at the dinner tonight were Ambassador Jusserand, former United States Senator Sena-tor Chauncey M. Depew, Mavor Mitchel, Ralph Pulitzer of the New York World, Henry L. Dougherty, presinent of the Society So-ciety of Electrical Development, and Colonel John Millis, corps of engineers, U. S. A. Reads Poincare Message. The French ambassador, after reading a message from the president of France, dwelt at length on the friendly relations existing between his country and the United States. He detailed the history of the events that led to the modeling of the statue by contributions of his countrymen coun-trymen and laid stress on the fact that Bartholdi, the sculptor, evolved the idea as a result of the impression left upon him by the war of 1S70, -which deprived him of Alsace, his native land, and enabled en-abled him to find "liberty at its best" in this country. The ambassador said: Not to a man, not to a nation, was the statue raised not to a man famous fa-mous and useful as, he may have been, not to a nation' as great as she may .be. It was raised to an ideal an ideal greater than any man or ' any nation, greater, than France or the United States the ideal of liberty. lib-erty. Thought of America. Still bleeding from recent wounds, France, then a republic, thought of the other republic on the opposite shore and said: "Sister, let us raise an embltfm to what, in the midst of the conflict of appetites, desires and passions, is uppermost in our minds liberty. I am the older country, you the older republic. We were friends from the earliest days; we fought together for independence. Let us raise a merhoria! to what has caused our friendship to endure; that Is to our common love for liberty." On the other side of the ocean, the other republic has been for over two years shedding her best blcod. I was asked some time ago why she did so, why she persisted. My answer, I said, is the same as the inscription under un-der one of the drawings presented to America by French artists as a token of gratitude for their American brethren's breth-ren's sympathy and now preserved in the national museum at Washingr ton. Can See Liberty. In the foreground, tall and erect, her cap of freedom wreathed with laurel, the French republic is seen fighting. In the dim distance, across the waters, is discovered a pale out-outlfne out-outlfne of the subject of this gathering, gather-ing, the statue of liberty. The inscription in-scription is. and my answer was: "That liberty may continue to light the world." Former Senator Depew, who was the orator of the day on the occasion of the dedication of the statue thirty years ago, gave his reminiscences of the celebration. He said that of all the- famous company who participated he is the only survivor. He told of the great debt that the United States iowes France for her timely assistance as-sistance in their hour of trial, and characterized char-acterized France's part in the world war as her "glorious re-birth." "The peace of the world," Mr. Wilson Wil-son added, "is not going to be secured by the compacts of nations, but by the sympathies of men. ' 3 ' The president declared that the "United "Unit-ed States has a community of ideas with France, whose people presented Bartholdi Js statue to the United States because 1 ' one republic must love another. an-other. ' ' Significance of Statue. The president spoke of the significance signifi-cance of the Statue of Liberty to the immigrants. lie said he wondered whether the spirit typified by the spirit of the statue is truly rcpres'ented here. The president said'he noticed that the source of light for the statue "comes from the outside." "The only light," he added, "that we can contribute to the illumination of the world is the light that shines out of our own lives. We must illustrate illus-trate liberty in our lives. With all duo respect for those who represent nations not governed as ours, 1 do not think that nations ruled by small groups of men can be successful. ' "The .world," he declared, "is enlightened en-lightened by ideas and ideals and the sacrifices of men enable the world to go forward." |