The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-14
LIBERTY STATUE WILL HAVE NEW
 LIGHTING PLANT
Symbolic Beacon Will Be Formally Dedicated
 December 2.

Preliminary work on the construc- tion of the food-lighting plant for the Statue of Liberty, for which a fund of $30,000 was raised by popular sub scription by New York World, has begun.
 The contractors, who are rushing the work with all speed, and both the Government engineers and the illum- mating experts who are supervising the construction, have set Nov. 27 as the day when the system will be completed. This leaves five days in which to make any minor changes which the engineers may deem nec- essary before the day of the formal dedication ceremonies, which have been set for the evening of Dec. 2, the opening night of Americas Elec- trical Week.
 The work on the New Jersey shore of the system, which is being done by the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey, which will supply the current for the food-lighting plant on Bed- loe's Island, already has been practi- cally completed. All the wires and the cable required for carrying the current from the sub-station in New Jersey to the place on the water front where the submarine cable to the isl- and begins have been laid.
 During the, present week the sub- marine cable itself, which will be run from New Jersey across the marrow channel to Bedloe's Island, will be laid and the wires carried by the Public Service Corporation up to the power house on the island, where its part of the construction ends.
 The cable has been received from the manufacturers and is now waiting at the New Jersey terminus of the work. The lighter from which the cable will be unrolled as it is laid across the channel is anchored off the New Jersey shore, and. if the wealth CT is favorable work on laying the cable will probably be begun to-mor- row.
 Cable For the Current.
 On Bedloe's Island, where the Statue of Liberty stands, the under ground ducts for carrying the cable from the Government power house to the monument have been put in place. The cable will be drawn through the ducts this week, which will finish the laying of the main feed wires that will supply the current to the giant pro- jectors that are to illuminate the statue.
 The main cable has been run from the power house to the base of the statue, where it is separated into va rious branches leading to the salients of the fortress wall, where the clus- ters of lamps will be placed so that every foot of the huge bulk of the monument may be lighted with equal brilliancy.
 The construction of the stands which will hold the f1ood-light projectors will be begun this week, practically all of the material needed for them already having arrived on the island. Most of these stands will be situated in the saEents of the fortress wall, but a few will be built att other positions on the island from where the rays of the projectors can be thrown with more effectiveness.
 Reports which are being received by the engineers from the manufactu- rers who are to supply the remaining material for the flood-lighting plant are that with the exception of few orders, which must be filled accord ing to special plans made necessary by the system adopted for the illum- ating of the monument, all the orders will have been shipped in time to be received on the island by Nov. 20. which will make possible the compile tion of the plant by Nov. 27, the date set by the engineers.