Liberty's Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty (44 page)

He used the income: Bartholdi, “The Statue of Liberty.”

Chapter 10

General Charles P. Stone: “Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World,” Reports of the Committees, House of Representatives, U.S. Congress, Congressional Edition, vol. 2444 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1886), p. 4.

five hundred dollars a month: “Various Notes,”
Evening Post
(New York), September 4, 1885 [no page number visible].

He began his work: Charles P. Stone,
Cullum’s Register, Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, Since Its Establishment in 1802,
Class of 1845, vol. 2, 1237, p. 214.

The Civil War came next: “General Sherman on the Grand Army,”
New York Daily Tribune,
January 25, 1887.

For several months, Stone had made camp there: “What Put Gen. Stone in Prison, and What Kept Him There,”
Evening Express
(New York), October 12, 1867 [no page number visible].

“Stone was an inveterate”: Joseph Howard Jr. (
Philadelphia Press
), “War Reminiscences,”
Ellicottville (NY) Post
[no date visible, no page visible],
fultonhistory.com
: Ellicottville NY Post 1891 Jan-Dec 1893 - 0446.pdf.

“I trust that you will be refreshed”: “Howard’s Column,”
The Press
(New York City), August 29, 1889, p. 2.

“knew almost nothing”: T. Harry Williams, “An Innocent General—Disgraced,”
Binghamton (NY) Press
[no date or page number visible]
fultonhistory.com
: Binghamton NY Press Grayscale 1961 - 4619.pdf.

Of the nearly 1,000 men: “What Put Gen. Stone in Prison, and What Kept Him There,”
Evening Express
.

Stone considered two options: Ibid.

“Permit me to thank you”: Ibid.

Unbeknownst to Stone, rumors: Williams, “An Innocent General—Disgraced.”

“at this fatal interview”: Ibid.

“Those who heard her tearful”: “The Late General Stone,”
Daily Register
(Hudson, NY), January 28, 1887 [no page number visible].

“he was induced to take the step”: Ibid.

Eventually supporters in Congress: Williams, “An Innocent General—Disgraced.”

no one would explain what happened: Ibid.

“it required more strength”: Ibid.

On February 27, 1863: Ibid.

“I respectfully ask”: Ibid.

denied reports that he had gone insane: “News Jottings,”
Sentinel
(Rome, NY), June 6, 1865.

From Mexico Stone traveled: “Other Foreign Affairs,”
Brooklyn Daily Union,
August 25, 1870 [no page number visible].

became invaluable to the khedive: “Gen. Sherman by the Fireside,”
New York Press,
April 15, 1891 [no page number visible].

Stone also warned the khedive: “Obituary. Gen. Charles P. Stone,”
New York Herald,
January 25, 1887, Triple Sheet, p. 10.

“The chief-of-staff was very suave”: James Morris Morgan,
Recollections of a Rebel Reefer
(Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1917), p. 300.

went out to survey Bedloe’s Island: “Lonely Bedloe’s Island,”
Sun
(New York), July 14, 1884.

“[Eiffel] mentions [the Statue of Liberty]”: Loyrette,
Gustave Eiffel,
p. 100.

The four thousand square feet: “The Statue of Liberty,”
Daily Sentinel,
May 2, 1936, p. 9.

Stone estimated the cost: “Bartholdi’s Statue,”
New York Herald,
May 9, 1883, p. 4.

D. H. King Jr.: “Various Notes,”
Evening Post
(New York), September 4, 1885 [no page number visible].

He shipped a crew to the island: Barnard, “The Bartholdi Statue,” 728.

For mixing the concrete: “The Bartholdi Statue,”
American Architect and Building News,
p. 142.

The committee had only $100,000: “Bartholdi’s Statue,”
New York Herald,
May 6, 1883, Septuple Sheet, p. 15.

The very week that the first shovel: James McGrath Morris,
Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print and Power
(New York: HarperCollins, 2010), p. 126.

He was peering through: George Juergens,
Joseph Pulitzer and the New York World
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1966), p. 3.

Outraged at the falsehood: “Manton Marble, Publicist, Dead,”
New York Times,
July 25, 1917.

“It is almost impossible now”: Walter Hugh McDougall,
This Is the Life!
(New York: Knopf, 1926), p. 208.

found work at a small German paper in St. Louis:
Living Leaders of the World
(Atlanta: H. C. Hudgins, 1889), p. 574.

“the most inquisitive and annoying cub”: “Was an Annoying Cub,”
Hudson (NY) Evening Register,
November 21, 1911, p. 4.

Pulitzer needed full freedom: Denis Brian,
Pulitzer: A Life
(New York: Wiley, 2001), p. 64.

His first hire was John Cockerill: Ibid.

He needed to get Cockerill out: Carol Ferring Sheple,
Movers and Shakers, Scalawags and Suffragettes: Tales from Bellefontaine Cemetery
(St. Louis: Missouri History Museum, 2008), p. 258.

on Park Row: McDougall,
This Is the Life!
p. 208.

On that first day, Pulitzer cut: Ibid.,
p. 209.

“fiery ardent energy”: Ibid., p. 162.

“The Statue of Liberty, the gift”: “The Pedestal Fund,”
World
(New York), May 19, 1883.

Pulitzer changed the masthead logo: Joseph Pulitzer and the World, Columbia University Libraries, Information Services,
https://exhibitions.cul.columbia
.edu/exhibits/show/pulitzer/the-world/the-world.

“gathering shekels here and there”: “Tale of Miss Liberty’s Trip from France Unusual Story,”
News and Courier/Evening Post
(Charleston, SC), June 29, 1986, p. 2-D.

Pulitzer was not accustomed: Brian,
Pulitzer: A Life
, p. 224.

“They are still trying to bolster up”: “New York Letter—From Our Regular Correspondent,”
Richfield Springs (NY) Mercury,
November 24, 1883, front page.

“deeply criminated in Bartholdi statue matters”: “Various Notes,”
Evening Post
(New York), September 4, 1885 [no page number visible].

The results were dismal: “The Bartholdi Statue,”
Daily Graphic
(New York), January 22, 1884, p. 610.

“A few contributions”: “Massive Base for the Statue,”
New York Times,
May 20, 1884.

Chapter 11

models were crafted entirely by Bartholdi: Theodore Stanton, “August Bartholdi: The Remarkable Alsacian Described by Theodore Stanton,”
Marion (OH) Star,
October 17, 1885, p. 3.

Hunt seemed a perfect choice: “Various Notes,”
Evening Post,
September 4, 1885.

Hunt’s first offering: “The Bartholdi Statue,”
Evening Post,
September 7, 1885, front page.

By November 1883:
The Union Signal: A Journal of Social Welfare
9 (1883): 13.

“You know my weakness”: “Mark Twain Aggrieved,”
Puck
12, no. 355 (1883): 255.

people packing the galleries on opening night: “Admiring Objects of Art,”
New York Times,
December 4, 1883.

“I must write again”: Blanchet and Dard,
Statue of Liberty,
p. 118.

The first bid was astronomical: “Bids for the Bartholdi Pedestal,”
New York Times,
March 5, 1884.

“The two schemes”:
The Brooklyn Union,
March 24, 1884 [no page number visible],
fultonhistory.com
: Brooklyn NY Union 1884 - 0281.pdf.

New York legislature had passed a bill:
Public Papers of Grover Cleveland, Governor, 1883.
By New York (State). Governor (1883–1885: Cleveland), (Albany: The Argus Company, 1883), p. 177.

Hunt went back to his studio: “The Bartholdi Statue,”
Daily Graphic
(New York), April 25, 1885, p. 450.

A new modest design: “Work on Pedestal,”
Evening Post
(New York), May 13, 1885, front page.

Stone managed to ferry over: Belot and Bermond,
Bartholdi,
p. 349.

“The committee which has the matter”: “The First Stone,”
World
(New York), August 6, 1884, p. 4.

The fund had only $20,000 left: “Liberty,”
New York Herald,
August 5, 1884, p. 8.

In December 1884, the
World
: “Funds for the Pedestal,”
World
(New York), December 28, 1884, front page.

Other fundraising attempts: “Miss Liberty Will Be Fifty on Wednesday,”
New York Sun,
October 24, 1936, p. 14.

“These Bartholdi schemers”: “Washington Letter,”
McCook (NE) Weekly Tribune
, Red Willow County, Nebraska, December 11, 1884, front page.

“Who and what is Mr. Bartholdi?”: William Howe Downes, “The Bartholdi Colossus,”
Bay State Monthly
2, no. 3 (December 1884): [no page number],
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13864/13864-h/13864-h.htm
.