OCR Text |
Show LIBERTY BATHED IN LIGHT. French Citizens Provide Funds for Permanent Lighting System. New York. President Wilson gave the wireless flash which bathed the Statue of Liberty in light at 6 o'clock Saturday night. Bartholdi's famous symbol of American freedom, which has been for thirty years a token of welcome to the United States to millions mil-lions of immigrants from every land, will be illuminated every night hereafter here-after from top to bottom. Funds to install the permanent lighting system for the statue, the gift to the United Unit-ed States of 400,000 citizens of France, were provided by public subscription. |