Liberty's Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty (46 page)

Stone’s wish list:
Congressional Record,
House, p. 6417.

Hewitt was facing a fight: “The Belmont-Hewitt Episode,”
New York Times,
February 28, 1884.

The Bartholdi statue would not receive a dime: “The Bartholdi Statue,”
Albany (NY) Evening Times,
July 2, 1886, front page.

“No doubt the appropriation”: “Nothing for Liberty,”
World
(New York), July 2, 1886, p. 4.

The only hope left for Liberty: “The Bartholdi Statue,”
Albany (NY) Evening Times,
July 2, 1886, front page.

voting discrepancy: “Forged Votes: Who Answered for the Brooklyn Congressmen,”
Brooklyn Daily Eagle,
July 6, 1886 [no page number visible].

“The generous attendance”: “Washington, a High Old Time in the Capitol/on False Votes/Perspiring and Very Indignant Congressmen/Recalling the Bartholdi,”
Evening Telegram
(New York), July 7, 1886, p. 4.

his friends said he was present at the vote: “The Crooked Tally-Sheet,”
Brooklyn Union,
July 7, 1886, p. 4.

on July 10 the Senate Committee on Appropriations: “For the Bartholdi Statue,”
New York Times,
July 11, 1886.

that none of the sum be used for wines or liquors: “The Great Statue,”
Pacific Rural Press
(San Francisco), October 23, 1886, front page.

The president signed the bill: “The Sundry Civil Bill,”
Democrat Chronicle
(Rochester, NY), August 4, 1886, front page.

Chapter 14

“even on the darkest nights”: “The Great Statue,”
Pacific Rural Press
(San Francisco), October 23, 1886, front page.

“Societies of every sort”: Beatty,
De Lesseps of Suez,
p. 280.

Thirteen of the thirty engineers: Ibid., p. 299.

“Despite the darkness”: “Off for America,”
New York Herald,
October 17, 1886, sextuple sheet, p. 13; “Our French Guests,”
New York Herald
, October 25, 1886, p. 3.

“This is a very strange country”: “Welcome Piled on Welcome,”
New York Herald,
October 27, 1886, p. 3.

“This mass”: “Delegates from France,”
Democrat Chronicle
(Rochester, NY), October 26, 1886, front page.

Tototte begged a piece of granite: “Guests of the Goddess,”
New York Herald,
October 26, 1886, Triple Sheet, p. 7.

“When I first came to America”: “Bartholdi Well Pleased,”
New York Times,
October 26, 1886.

“It may be said”: “Guests of the Goddess,”
New York Herald,
October 26, 1886, Triple Sheet, p. 7.

“under great pressure”: Chauncey M. DePew,
My Memories of Eighty Years
(New York: Scribner, 1921, 1922),
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2045
.

At 10 a.m., President Cleveland waddled out: “Booms on the Road,”
Public Opinion
2 (October 1886–April 1887): 49.

Bartholdi appeared to be near tears: “A Gala Day,”
Lockport (NY) Daily Journal and Courier,
[no date visible, no page visible],
fultonhistory.com
: Lockport NY Daily Journal 1886 Jul-Oct - 0413.pdf.

Bayard took photographs: “Liberty Unveiled,”
Sun
(New York)
,
October 29, 1886, front page.

a spectacle was unfolding, created by the Wall Street employees: “The Sights and Sightseers,”
New York Times,
October 29, 1886.

“Soon, out of the mist”: “Liberty Unveiled,”
Sun
(New York),
October 29, 1886, front page.

“strange fat woman”: McDougall,
This Is the Life!
p. 222.

“Steam, which has done so much good”: “Clear Visioned Liberty,”
New York Herald,
October 29, 1886, p. 8.

“He waited for nothing”: Ibid.

entered the statue and began climbing up: Ibid.

He would send the signal up: “Liberty Unveiled,”
Sun
(New York), October 29, 1886, front page.

“[Senator Evarts] smiled pleasantly”: “Clear Visioned Liberty,”
New York Herald
.

The crowd’s exodus: “The Bartholdi Colossus,”
Syracuse (NY) Standard,
October 29, 1886, front page.

the celebratory party at Delmonico’s:
Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the Corporation of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York
(New York: Press of the Chamber of Commerce, 1887), p. 63.

Epilogue

“In the crowd on ‘Bartholdi’s’ day”: W. to the Editor Engineering News,
Engineering News and American Contract Journal
14
(July–December 1886), p. 301.

In June 1887, eight months: “An Incident of Liberty,”
New York Times,
June 30, 1887.

“I often visited Bartholdi”: Marguerite Steinheil,
My Memoirs
(Paris: Sturgis & Walton, 1912),
p. 34.

“The sculptor . . . said he could no longer realize”: “Bartholdi and the Torch,”
Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle,
November 8, 1886, p. 18.

“It is proper that the torch”: “Postponing Bartholdi’s Statue Until There Is Liberty for Colored as Well,”
Cincinnati Gazette,
November 27,1886, p. 2.

“Few are willing to subscribe”: “Liberty’s Torch Not Yet Lighted, ”
Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle,
November 12, 1886, p. 2.

“It is said by some experts”: “New York in December,”
Geneva (NY) Advertiser,
December 14, 1886 [no page number visible].

“I may tell you frankly”:
Annual Report of the Light-House Board of the United States to the Secretary of the Treasury for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1887
(Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1887), p. 126.

“Few big undertakings”: “Statue of Liberty,”
Mount Kisco (NY) Recorder
[date not visible]
fultonhistory.com
: Mount Kisco NY Recorder 1886–1887 Grayscale - 0642.pdf

Francis Longo: “City News Items,”
New York Herald,
September 3, 1883, p. 4.

Charles Stone packed his trunks: “The County,”
Yonkers (NY) Statesman
, January 13, 1887, front page.

that southern city held the best hopes: “Gen. Chas. P. Stone Dead,”
World
(New York), January 25, 1887, front page.

He never rose again: “Obituary. Gen. Charles P. Stone,”
New York Herald,
January 25, 1887, Triple Sheet, p. 10.

“The death of General Charles P. Stone”:
Daily Journal
(Syracuse, NY), January 26, 1887 [no page number visible],
fultonhistory.com
: Syracuse NY Daily Journal 1887 - 0356.pdf.

her husband’s personal estate: “New-York City,”
New York Daily Tribune,
February 5, 1887, p. 8.

“wanted to get rid of that dirty piece of paper”: Paul R. Baker,
Richard Morris Hunt
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1980), p. 322.

“It is interesting to know”: “Alexander Gustave Eiffel,”
Illustrated American
13 (1893): 116.

Both sentences were eventually overturned: “De Lesseps Sentenced,”
Republican Watchman
(Monticello, NY) [no date visible, no page number visible],
fultonhistory.com
: Monticello NY Republican Watchman 1892-1893 Grayscale - 0313.pdf.

“one never saw a trace”: “Mme. Bartholdi,”
Havana (NY) Journal,
January 9, 1892, front page.

“desecration”: Blanchet and Dard,
Statue of Liberty,
p. 111.

neither the gilding nor the Pantheon could happen: “Erect a Pantheon, Says Bartholdi,”
New York Herald,
October 15, 1893, p. 12.

“I have been deeply moved”: Richard Butler’s Memorium book (RS001), including Bartholdi’s letter written to Richard Butler’s widow from Bartholdi (RS003), Butler Museum, Butler, NJ.

“Monument des Sports”: Pierre de Coubertin, “Why I Revived the Olympic Games,”
Fortnightly
90 (1908): 114.

light up the Place Pigalle or the Square St.-Pierre: “Paris Lighting,”
Electrical World and Engineer
42 (1903): 1060.

“Miss Ruth Law”: “Ruth Law Flies as Light Appears,”
New York Herald
December 3, 1916, p. 2.

celebratory dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria: “Liberty Sole Hope of Peace, President Says at Dinner to Mark Lighting of the Statue,”
New York Herald,
December 3, 1916, p. 2.

the greatest water-walking ever accomplished on rough seas: “Walking on the Water,”
Auburn (NY) Dispatch,
December 18, 1886, front page.