The Great Bridge (80 page)

Activities of Matthew J. O’Rourke: Lynch,
“Boss” Tweed,
pp. 354, 361.

Watson the nerve center of the Ring: Werner,
Tammany Hall,
p. 209.

“You must do just as Jimmy tells you”:
Ibid.,
p. 161.

O’Rourke’s estimate of Ring thefts:
Ibid.,
p. 160.

Attempt to bribe Jones:
Ibid.,
p. 210.

Attempt to bribe Nast:
Ibid.,
pp. 211-212.

Times
attack: Callow,
The Tweed Ring,
pp. 256—261.

Orange riot: Lynch,
“Boss” Tweed,
pp. 367-369; Swanberg,
Jim Fisk: The Career of an Improbable Rascal,
pp. 234—240; Strong,
The Diary of George Templeton Strong,
entries for July 1871.

Cooper Union meeting of September 4: Lynch,
“Boss” Tweed,
pp. 370-371; Werner,
Tammany Hall,
pp. 217-218.

Cartoon of Tweed in the shadow of the gallows:
Harper’s Weekly,
October 21, 1871.

“At home again amidst the haunts of my childhood”: Lynch,
“Boss” Tweed,
pp. 377-378.

George Templeton Strong on the “Boss of New York”: Strong,
Diary,
entry for January 27, 1871.

Elections in Brooklyn: Syrett,
The City of Brooklyn, 1865-1898,
pp. 56-60.

Accident: C. C. Martin interview published in the
Eagle,
May 24, 1883.

“This has been the case from the first”: Kingsley,
Report of the General Superintendent of the New York Bridge Company,
p. 32. LER.

Six thousand illegal votes: Syrett,
The City of Brooklyn,
p. 59.

Kingsley interview in the
World:
Quoted in the
Eagle,
December 15, 1871.

Kingsley’s name a football: Beecher at Kingsley’s funeral, published in memorial book,
W. C. Kingsley.
LIH.

Tweed’s appearances at the meetings of the Executive Committee: “Exhibit J; A Full Synopsis of the Minutes of the Respective Executive Committees Thereof, From September 1869 to June 1st, 1883,”
New York and Brooklyn Bridge Proceedings, 1867-1884,
pp. 526-566.

“Resolved,
That fifteen per centum on the amount of expenditure”:
Ibid.,
p. 552.

“I had no understanding with him, sir”:
Testimony in the Miller Suit to Remove the East River Bridge,
“Exhibit A,” February 15, 1879, p. 62.

Kingsley’s “claim…liquidated”:
New York and Brooklyn Bridge Proceedings,
p. 572.

Erasure made in the records: “Exhibit No. 4,”
Minority Report
by Demas Barnes, December 16, 1872,
New York and Brooklyn Bridge Proceedings,
p. 96.

Tweed indicted and arrested: Werner,
Tammany Hall,
p. 233.

Death of Fisk: Swanberg,
Jim Fisk,
pp. 271-278.

12 How Natural, Right, and Proper

“Although the bridge from every element of its use”: “Exhibit No. 4,”
Minority Report by Demas Barnes, New York and Brooklyn Bridge Proceedings,
p. 100.

“It is true that Tweed, Connolly, and Sweeny are among the subscribers”:
Eagle,
April 10, 1872.

Kingsley’s letter to the
Eagle
and
Union appeared
April 17, 1872.

Committee of Fifty’s letter in answer to Kingsley:
Eagle,
April 22, 1872.

Kingsley’s second letter:
Eagle,
April 29, 1872.

Replacements for Tammany quartet: “Synopsis of the Minutes of Proceedings of the Corporators, Directors, and Stockholders of the New York Bridge Company and Also of the Trustees of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, Comprehending a Period of 16 Years, Viz.; From May 13th, 1867, to June 1st, 1883” (“Exhibit I”),
New York and Brooklyn Bridge Proceedings,
p. 332.

Hewitt swings into action: “The New York Bridge Company and the Trustees of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, A Full Synopsis of the Meetings of the Executive Committees Thereof, From September 17th, 1869, to June 1st, 1883” (“Exhibit J”),
New York and Brooklyn Bridge Proceedings,
pp. 575—577.

WAR’s report:
Report of the Chief Engineer on Prices of Materials, and Estimated Cost of the Structure, East River Bridge, June 28, 1872
(“Exhibit No. 2”),
New York and Brooklyn Bridge Proceedings,
pp. 74—83.

Barnes called an ass and a quack:
Eagle,
June 22, 1872.

Kinsella faces down scandal: Syrett,
The City of Brooklyn, 1865-1898,
p. 95.

“…He is the thinker who acts”:
Eagle,
June 22, 1872.

Predict bridge to cost forty million dollars:
Scientific American,
July 15, 1872.

Kingsley’s “agreement” at an end: Directors’ Meeting, November 4, 1872,
New York and Brooklyn Bridge Proceedings,
p. 334.

Beecher scandal breaks: Johnston,
Mrs. Satan,
pp. 159-178; Shaplen, “The Beecher-Tilton Case,” Part II.

Majority report: “Exhibit No. 3,”
New York and Brooklyn Bridge Proceedings,
pp. 84—89.

Barnes’s minority report: “Exhibit No. 4,”
Ibid.,
pp. 90-101.

Executive Committee report: “Exhibit No. 5,”
Ibid.,
pp. 102-131

“This Company was chartered as a private company”:
Ibid.,
p. 109

Kingsley back at ten-thousand-dollar salary:
Ibid.,
p. 336.

Kingsley takes leave of absence:
Ibid.,
p. 586.

13 The Mysterious Disorder

“Knowing from the reports of other similar works”: Kingsley,
Report of the General Superintendent of the New York Bridge Company,
p. 33. LER.

“To such of the general public”: WAR,
Third Annual Report of the Chief Engineer, June
1, 1872, p. 7. LER.

“Considerable risk and some degree of uncertainty”:
Ibid.,
p. 8.

Depth of bedrock:
Ibid.,
p. 9.

“The great timber foundation was now complete!”:
Ibid.,
p. 13.

Paine’s mechanical signaling system: Collingwood,
Further Notes on the Caissons of the East River Bridge.
LER.

Caisson sinking six to eleven inches a day:
Ibid.

Sand pipes: WAR,
Third Annual Report of the Chief Engineer,
pp. 18-20, LER; Farrington,
Concise Description of the East River Bridge,
pp. 25-26; Collingwood,
Further Notes on the Caissons of the East River Bridge.
LER.

“The downward movement of the caisson”: WAR,
Third Annual Report of the Chief Engineer,
p. 26. LER.

Change of work shifts: Collingwood,
Further Notes on the Caissons of the East River Bridge.
LER.

Dr. Smith’s nine rules: Smith,
The Effects of High Atmospheric Pressure, Including the Caisson Disease,
p. 13. LER.

“The habits of many of the men”:
Ibid.,
p. 14.

“The utmost efforts of the expiratory muscles”:
Ibid.,
p. 15.

“Hence, the pulse is small”:
Ibid.,
p. 16.

Experiment with pigeons:
Ibid.,
p. 20.

Experiment with dog:
Ibid.,
p. 28.

Sample case histories:
Ibid.,
pp. 35—37.

“When it is severe, local numbness”: Sodeman,
Pathologic Physiology,
p. 238.

Remedies employed:
Ibid.,
pp. 32—33.

Walter Reed at Brooklyn City Hospital:
Ibid.,
p. 39.

“Indeed, it is altogether probable”:
Ibid.,
p. 30.

“Experience teaches”:
Ibid.,
p. 7.

Smith rules more time in the lock:
Ibid.,
p. 30.

“The natural impatience of the men”:
Ibid.,
p. 30.

Theory of “special predisposition”:
Ibid.,
p. 29.

“The testimony of all observers”:
Ibid.,
p. 27.

14 The Heroic Mode

Smith’s explanation, “overpowering physical force,” blood “retreats,” etc.: Smith,
The Effects of High Atmospheric Pressure, Including the Caisson Disease,
pp. 25—26. LER.

Prior discovery by Paul Bert:
Ibid.,
p. 27.

“It frequently happened under my observation”:
Ibid.,
p. 34.

“by applying the heroic mode”: WAR,
Third Annual Report of the Chief Engineer, June 1, 1872,
p. 24. LER.

Difficulty of taking patient into the caisson: Smith,
The Effects of High Atmospheric Pressure,
p. 34. LER.

Death of John Myers:
Ibid.,
p. 41.

Death of Patrick McKay:
Ibid.,
p. 40.

“Perhaps if they had known”: Josephson,
Al Smith, Hero of the Cities,
p. 20.

Caisson workers strike: Kingsley,
Report of the General Superintendent of the New York Bridge Company,
pp. 34-35, LER;
Eagle,
May 8, 1872.

“The surface was evidently very irregular”: WAR,
Third Annual Report of the Chief Engineer,
p. 21. LER.

WAR estimates a hundred lives to go to bedrock: EWR, unpublished biographical sketch of WAR. RPI.