Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-12-03
STATUE
BATHED IN LIGHT
Great Guns of Battleships
Boom as President Touches
Button Giving Flash.
NEW YORK CITY IS A5LAzE
Spectacular Scenes Attend
Ceremony; Thousands Cheer
Wilson's Remarks.

NEW YORK, Dec. 2--President
Wilson gave the wireless flash which
bathed with light the Statue of Liberty
at o'clock tonight Bartholdi's fa-
which has 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 from top to bottom.
Funds to install the permanent light
ing system for the statue, the gift to
the United states of four hundred
thousand citizens of French were pro-
vided by public subscription
Grouped around the president upon
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.
lusserand, ambassador of France. Nine.
Jussernnd. high officers of the army
and navy and representatives of sew
eral nations.
~ symbol of Liberty
II light this statue" said the presi-
dent, with the thot that il may al
ways stand a3 a symbol of our pur-
pose to throw upon liberty. of OF
our own life as "A nation. a light which
SllfAii l'N'dl itN uiEnllN. llS SERENE
power its benignant hope and spirit
of guidance"
The great guns of division of the
Atlantic fleet anchored in the harbor
rs q guard of honor doomed salute
as the statue flashed into view out
lined in white lights. The whistles OF
countless harbor craft shrieked in
unison and flares of red light blazed
up along the New Jersey and New
York shores.
Ruth LAW Takes Part.
There was flash of flame high above
the statue and Ruth Law in her air.
plane added a spectacular touch to the
ceremonies of illumination Spouting
fires and sparks from her machine,
she circles to the lower end of Man.
haitian Island. a roar of cheers from
the thousands gathered in Battery
park greeted her as the letters
| Lib e -T-Y" outlined In electric
lights were revealed on the bottom of
the airpane
The coure of the .Mayflower was
| marked by the rays of the most pow
erful searchlight in the world as the
yachts anchor was hoisted and tho
presidential party, headed for the
Battery to dsembark for the motor
car parade which preceded dinner in
honor of Mr.. Wilson and Ambassador
lusscrand
MayflOwcr Glidcs Out.
Leaving the statue behind the party
on the Mayflower looked out upon
a city of lights. New York's "billon
dollars skyline" was literally ablaze.
Electric lamps blazed through count
less windows in the ''skyscrapcrs." A
searchlight played upon proudly
floating flag atop the White Hall
building almost at the tip end OF Man
haitian and golden lights cleaned
along the sea wall of the Battery,
haven of immigrants
Close behind the Mayflower steamed
the Dolphin with Secretary OF the
Navy Daniels aboard followed by the
United States steamships San Fran
cisco and Yankton carrying members
of Mayor Mitchers committee of two
hundred and other invited guests.
The passengers were discharged at
the Battery. where electrically pro-
PEELED motor cars were waiting to
carry them uptown. The parade
passed into the canyon of lower
Broadway across the plaza of city hall
park, whore the Stars and Stripes out
lined in red. white and blue electric
lights cleaned on the front of the city
hall and on thru Washington square
into Fifth avenue. The avenue had
been converted In to golden way OF
lights. Thousands of persons lined
the strets and cheered the president
Justify. Mr.. Wilson rose frequently
and DOTTED his hat in acknowledge
ment of the salutes
Climax in Development
The illumination of the statue is re-
garded by electrical experts as the cli-
max of development in the art of flood
lighting. For the bronze torch which
Liberty has held aoft was substituted
n glass torch held together by the
same rivettod lines. To put life" or
a "quiver" into the simulated flame OF
the torch. Is 500-candle power gas
filled electric lamps were placed upon
"A series Of "flashers."
The funds which provided the light
ing plant were raised by popular sub
scription by the New York World
which also raised the money thirty
years ago for the construction of tho
pedestal upon which the statue stands.