Liberty's Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty (45 page)

At age eighty-two, the great writer: “Our Paris Letter,”
Amsterdam (NY) Daily Democrat,
May 9, 1885 [no page number visible].

Hugo followed Bartholdi: Victor Hugo, “Il Visite à la Statue de la Liberté,” in
Actes et Paroles
(N.p.: Library of Alexandria, 1937).

Bartholdi’s mother: William James Potter and Benjamin Franklin Underwood, [no title],
The Index,
vol. 17 (Boston,1885–86), p. 213.

Before he departed, he gave permission: “Victor Hugo’s Sentiment,”
Buffalo Evening News,
December 1, 1884, front page.

Chapter 12

As of January 10, 1885, Congress:
Congressional Record,
48th Congress, 2nd session, HR, p. 2259, January 10, 1885.

he seemed beset, paranoid: McDougall,
This Is the Life!
p. 216.

“[The reporters] had a kind of nervous”: Theodore Dreiser,
A Book About Myself
(New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922), p. 470.

Pulitzer first checked in: Cara Sutherland,
The Statue of Liberty
(New York: Barnes & Noble, 2003), p. 51.

The donations began flooding in: “‘Liberty’ in Bronze,”
Erie County Independent
(Hamburg, NY), 1885 [no page number visible]
fultonhistory.com
: Hamburg NY Erie County Independent 1885–1888 Grayscale - 0496.pdf

Two months in: “The World Frees Its Mind,”
Boston Evening Transcript,
May 9, 1885, p. 5.

Victor Hugo had died: “Victor Hugo Dead,”
Buffalo Evening News,
May 22, 1885, front page.

In New York, General Stone: “The Bartholdi Statue,”
Daily Graphic,
April 25, 1885.

Adolph Sanger, president: “Reception of the Bartholdi Statue,”
New-York Daily Tribune,
May 28, 1885, p. 8.

Stone grew depressed: “Liberty’s Statue,”
Evening Post
(New York), June 19, 1885, front page.

Word came that the
Isère
: “Navy Yard Notes,”
Brooklyn Daily Eagle,
June 8, 1885 [no page number visible].

glimpsed a vessel: “The Isere,”
Brooklyn Daily Eagle,
June 17, 1885 [no page number visible].

a rendezvous with the long-awaited
Isère
: “Arrival of the Statue of Liberty,”
Scientific American Supplement,
No. 495, for the week ending June 25, 1885 (New York: Munn, 1885) p. 400.

The
Isère
had been tossed around: Ibid.

Now the
Isère
was here: “The Great Statue Here,”
New York Times,
June 18, 1885.

“Please jump”: “Miss Liberty Arrives,”
Newtown (NY) Register,
June 18, 1885, front page.

“like kingbird after a crow”: Ibid.

By the next day, the citizens: “The Statue,”
Brooklyn Union,
June 18, 1885, p. 8.

On the stock exchange: “French Fun in the Stock Exchange,”
New York Times,
June 19, 1885.

A full four thousand spectators: “Liberty,”
Brooklyn Union,
June 19, 1885, front page.

waited for their moment to board: “Liberty’s Statue,”
Evening Post
(New York), June 19, 1885, front page.

“Don’t you think the American workmen”: “The Bartholdi Statue,”
Daily Graphic
(New York), April 25, 1885, p. 450.

Garczynski sought to ask a few questions: “The Great Image,”
Evening Telegram
(New York), June 23, 1885, p. 2.

publishing an actual affidavit from its reporter: “General Stone’s Interview,”
Evening Telegram
(New York), June 25, 1885, p. 2.

“an action unworthy”: Ibid.

“But what we love better still”:
Annual Report of the Corporation of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York
(New York: New York Chamber of Commerce, 1886), p. 21.

Only $9,900 had been raised: Evarts speech, “Liberty Enlightening the World;” in Thomas Brackett Reed, ed.,
Modern Eloquence: After-Dinner Speeches
(Chicago: Geo. L. Shuman, 1900), p. 49.

Chapter 13

“They seem more appreciative”: “Bartholdi’s Big Girl,”
Holley (NY) Standard,
n.d.,
fultonhistory.com
: Holley NY Standard 1878-1886 - 1234.pdf.

“These drummers have had”: “From Our Regular New York Correspondent,”
Geneva (NY) Gazette,
July 24, 1885.

“ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS!”: Morris,
Pulitzer,
p. 238.

“This statue has awakened a great esteem”: “The Liberty Statue,”
Brooklyn Union,
July 9, 1885, p. 3.

a shed to protect the crates: “Work on the Pedestal,”
Niagara Falls (NY) Gazette,
July 21, 1885, front page.

puttered about with little to do: “The Liberty Statue,”
Brooklyn Union,
July 9, 1885, p. 3.

In Paris, Bartholdi fumed: “Our New Statue,”
Daily Saratogian
(Saratoga Springs, NY), November 25, 1887, p. 6.

“It consequently loses its character”: Letter of F. Auguste Bartholdi to Richard Butler, July 21, 1885, NYPL, American Committee of the Statue of Liberty.

“Think of employing nine men”: “Liberty’s Pedestal,”
Evening Post
(New York), August 18, 1885, front page.

“vapid nonsense”: “Breakfast Table Gossip,”
Utica (NY) Weekly Herald,
September 1, 1883, p. 2.

The list of more than thirty-five: “Liberty’s Pedestal: The Charges Against General Stone,”
Evening Post
(New York), August 21, 1885.

Stone took a tougher stance: “General Stone on His Report,”
Evening Post
(New York), September 3, 1885 [no page number visible].

“the eminent Engineer-in-Chief”: “The Bartholdi Statue,”
Evening Post
(New York), September 7, 1885, front page.

Bartholdi would be arriving in early November: “The Statue of Liberty,”
World
(New York), October 20, 1885, p. 8.

Stone had one last trick: National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, “Liberty Enlightening the World: The Statue of Liberty National Monument,” Historic Structure Report, 2011
http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/stli/stli_hsr.pdf
.

On November 5, 1885, the
Transcript
: “The Bartholdi Statue’s Electric Action,”
Boston Evening Transcript,
November 5, 1885, p. 6.

Bartholdi and Jeanne-Émilie arrived on November 4: “Arrival of Bartholdi,”
Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle,
November 5, 1885, p. 2.

brought with him two four-foot models: “General Washington Despatches,”
New York Herald,
November 11, 1885, p. 6.

“There were a great many difficulties”: “Arrival of M. Bartholdi—To Explain to Gen. Stone How to Mount the Statue of Liberty,”
New York Times,
November 5, 1885.

“America is slowly developing a taste”: “Bartholdi’s Studio: Theodore Stanton Visits the Great French Artist,”
Daily Democrat
(New York), April 3, 1886, front page.

“I have put many years of my life”: Ibid.

“What this Committee is doing”: Letter of F. Auguste Bartholdi to Richard Butler, December 21, 1885, NYPL, American Committee.

“It seems to have fallen dead”: Letter of Henry F. Spaulding to Richard Butler, March 11, 1886, NYPL, American Committee.

“I believe it necessary”: Letter of F. Auguste Bartholdi to Richard Butler, April 2, 1886, NYPL, American Committee.

On May 11, President Cleveland:
The Public Papers of Grover Cleveland: Twenty-Second President of the United States, March 4, 1885 to March 4, 1889
(Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1889), p. 87.

Stone was requiring an additional salary: Index to the Reports of Committees, House of Representatives, 49th Congress, 1st sess., Congressional ed., United States Congress,
Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World
(Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1886), p. 6.

“The passing clouds appeared to be still”: “Great Bartholdi Statue,”
Auburn (NY) Morning Dispatch,
July 1886 [no page number visible],
fultonhistory.com
: Newspaper Auburn NY Morning Dispatch 1886 - 0167.pdf.

copper sheets had melted out of shape: “The Statue Is Unveiled,”
Livonia (NY) Gazette,
October 29, 1886 [no page number visible].

When the arm and head went up: Lois Wingerson, “America Cleans Up Liberty,”
New Scientist
112, nos. 1540–41 (December 25, 1986–January 1, 1987): 31.

That caused an imbalance: “Liberty’s Alignment,” Empire Report,
Citizen
(Auburn, NY), March 9, 1964 [no page number visible].

“swayed quite perceptibly”: “The Statue of Liberty,”
Weekly Auburn (NY),
October 29, 1886, front page.

The House adopted the report: “Mr. Holman Converted,”
New York Times,
June 19, 1886.

“I have heard with great pleasure”: F. Auguste Bartholdi to Richard Butler, June 25, 1885, NYPL, American Committee.

“At the ocean gateway”:
Address Delivered by Abram S. Hewitt on the Occasion of the Opening of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, May 24, 1883
(New York: John Polhemus, 1883), p. 26.