Show 4 LIBERTY'S TORCH TO BE SNUFFED OUT 9 44 4 4 4 1 t y NEW YORK Feb 14 Liberty's H.-Liberty's Liberty's torch is 1St to be put out ut Th The The- lofty f 4 light In the tho hand of the bronze goddess standing on island In f ff f 4 Upper New York ba bay that ha has been allowed to grow steadily dimmer f B gave gme the magnificent statue to the United States Is to be f ff f permanently extinguished Sentiment It Is said which has kept the f ff f 4 beacon burning all ll these years can no longer keep It alight and now the f Go will snuff it for all time f 4 ff f News of the contemplated extinguishment of the torch h has s been received re- re ref f ff f here in the form of a notice to the mariners sent out by th the thought lightf light light- f house board of the Treasury department at Washington It states that f ff f 4 on or about M March i- i 11 1 1902 the light will be discontinued f Installed on the Island to furnish furnish current for the torch there is a pow pow- f ff f 4 erful erfel electric plant but it Is unused A few lamps of small power furnish f ff f barely enough illumination so that the beacon can be made out by pass- pass f ft t 4 ting lug ing mariners Lack of a Congressional appropriation Is said to be the f 4 ff f- f C cause for discontinuing the light S ft- ft 4 |