THE MORNING HERALD

Uniontown, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

1 July 1925

(page 4)

MISS LIBERTY’S NEW GUARDIAN.

By order of the President the Island of which the Statue of Liberty stands has been transformed from the department of war to that of the interior and henceforth will have the status of a “national park.”

Now that this little bit of island changed its character, if only in a technical sense, perhaps some inhabitants of this city will take the trouble to go down and look it over—something that they have usually left to persons from out of town to do.

The island has few traditions apart from that associated with the poet Alistair [sic] Crowley, who set off with some friends in a motorboat one night to proclaim the “Irish Republic” there, only to be warned off by a government watchman from County Cork with the stern command, “G’wan about your business, an’ stop foolin’ around here!”