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Washington to permit the government to accept and agree to maintain a floodlighting system. Then the fund raising began, and George produced for it an almost end-less string of ideas-always with ways to execute them.
Such, for example, as replicas of Liberty, in bronzed metal and in plaster, from 12-inch miniatures to 8-foot models for display in schools, hotel and theater lobbies, public buildings-and for window displays in Cities Service Company's locations in 22 states.
Mr. Doherty himself presented The World's appeal for citizens' contributions before the 1916 convention of the National Electric Light Association.
Athens (Ga.) Electric & Railway Company posed the city's most beautiful girl, Miss Lil Hodgson, as Liberty wearing a crown and holding a lighted torch, to raise Statue of Liberty lighting funds on Flag Day. The Doherty organization in Athens assembled representatives from 140 counties and Governor Harris was the orator.
Preliminary plans for the floodlighting systems were drawn in New York by Bob Carbutt, traction and district engineer of Cities Service. A special cable had to be laid from the Jersey shore to bring in central station power.
Bear in mind that floodlighting was then in its infancy. By the time installation actually started in October, the original estimate of $30,000 was, as I recall it, doubled.
Pennies and dimes never add up very fast. I don't remember how big the deficit was; it was a good many thousands of dollars; but I remember well that Mr. Doherty cheerfully met it and still said, "Keep my name out."
For seven months, May to December 1916, there was never a day or night too busy for Mr. Doherty personally to supply or to find in other organizations of the industry the engineers and the answers to new problems involved in lighting Liberty's varied contours.
Not until after Mr. Doherty's death in 1939 did I feel free to write a letter to the newspapers telling of Cities Service's part in lifting Liberty out of night's dark-ness. In that letter I said:
"To the few of us who knew his part in lighting Liberty Mr. Doherty never concealed his joy in the achievement. When, at last, Uncle Sam refurbished Liberty's gown, brightened her lamp, modernized the illumination and provided for its perpetual upkeep, it gave Henry Doherty a satisfaction second, I believe, only to the happiness that came from the home life of his last years. The illuminated Liberty is his living memorial."
Even in the ceremonies dedicating the illumination of Liberty is his living memorial."
Even in the ceremonies dedicating the illumination of Liberty, on December 2, 1916, Mr. Doherty took only a modest part.

The Atlantic Fleet Was There

To celebrate that occasion the Atlantic Fleet was assembled in New York harbor. From the flagship President Woodrow Wilson flashed on the floodlights by then infant radio. Mayor John Purroy Mitchel attended with a Committee of 200. As secretary of that distinguished Committee, I was relieved of a thousand details by George Williams and his Cities Service aides. Arthur Williams, of the Edison Company, was chairman of arrangements and illumination.
The President's and the Mayor's parties were landed at the Battery and escorted through Washington Arch up Fifth Avenue, illuminated for the first time by amber globes installed by Edison.
At the Presidential banquet in the old Waldorf-Astoria, Chauncey M. Depew, who had been the famous orator at Liberty's dedication 30 years before, was at his best. Others speaking, besides President Wilson, were mayor Mitchel, who served as toastmaster, Ambassador Jules J. Jusserand of France, Henry L. Doherty and Ralph Pulitzer.
Sharing honors at the banquet dais, by invitation of President Wilson, was Ruth Law, famous pioneer woman aviator, who had thrilled thousands on the waterfront and on the battleships by looping in her box-kite plane over Liberty as the floodlights came on.
Miss Law, who has been living in retirement in California since 1921, rode a commercial air line for the first time recently when she flew as D.A.R. delegate to Washington and New York.
"George Williams had my plane so loaded with apparatus to spell LIBERTY in electric lights under my wings and magnesium flares on my wingtips," Miss Law told me as I escorted her on this visit down New York Harbor, "that I really didn't see the floodlighting when it came on. I was worrying about getting up with my load."
And she added: "That was the most thrilling flight of my career. And to see Liberty alight and remember my small part in it is a great thrill."
Possibly, flying up there in what The World called "a bright rain of fire," hers was the greatest thrill of all, but the thousand who gathered on the ships in the harbor and on the shores of Manhattan and New Jersey, also carried away with them the memories of a never-to-be-forgotten occasion. They cheered when, on signal, the Statue was lighted for the first time. They cheered when rockets went up from a half-dozen places at once. They cheered again when the President and his party landed at the Battery for the parade uptown to the Waldorf-Astoria and its culminating ceremonies.
The two men who were, more than any others, responsible for all this went their way through all this cheering as they had wanted, as just part of the crowd. The following day The World devoted column after column to the historic story, but Henry L. Doherty and George Williams were not prominently mentioned. That was the agreement...and as long as they lived, that agreement held. The story could not be told.
Now, finally, and as it should be, the historic record is complete.


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STATUE OF LIBERTY GLOWS WITH LIGHT AT SIGNAL FROM PRESIDENT WILSON

GREECE YIELDS UP GUNS; 200 SLAIN IN ATHENS'S STREETS

Senes of Terrible but Aimless Conflicts Follows Landing of French Marines to Enforce Ultimatum Issued to King by Entente Powers.

PANIC SEIZES CAPITAL WHEN THE FIRING BEGINS.

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LIBERTY RESPLENDENT IN LIGHT: CHEIF GUESTS AT CELEBRATION, AND WORLD'S HOME
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Transformed From Night-Shrouded Bulk to Glorious Goddess, to Permanently Blaze Freedom's Message. While Guns Roar Salute Amid Most Spectacular Illumination of City and Harbor Ever Witnessed -Deputations of Nations, States and Municipalities Honor Celebration of The World's Achievement.

RUTH LAW'S 'PLANE A FIERY COMET. THEN WRITES "LIBERTY" ACROSS SKY.

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