The Great Bridge (90 page)

killed

at marriage of Tweed’s daughter

Tweed and

Flad, Henry

Floor

planking for

widening

See also Roadway

Floor beams, steel

Flower, Roswell P.

Flume of Pittsburgh aqueduct

“Flying Pendent Lever Bridge” (Rainbow Bridge)

Foley, Antoine

Folger, Charles J.

Footbridges

of Brooklyn Bridge

of Cincinnati Bridge

Farrington and

of Niagara Bridge

Ford, Gordon

Foundations

of Brooklyn Bridge

for approaches

going below riverbed with

projected depth of

J. Roebling on

wooden (for towers)

of Cincinnati Bridge

for St. Louis Bridge

See also Anchorages; Caissons

Fox, Richard K.

Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper,

Franklin, Benjamin

Frederick the Great
(Carlyle)

Frelinghuysen, Theodore

Frémont, Gen. John (Pathfinder)

Fulton, Robert

Fulton Street (Brooklyn)

Garfield, James A.

Garvey (Prince of Plasterers)

General Slocum
(ship)

George, Henry

George Washington Bridge

Gilded Age, The
(Twain)

Gill, Washington

Gleizes, Albert

Godkin, E. L.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Golden Gate Bridge (Calif.)

Gould, Jay

Grace, William R.

audit of New York Bridge Company and

Brooklyn Bridge inauguration and

removal of W. Roebling and, 491

Grand Central Depot

Grand Pont (Switzerland)

Granite, use of

Grant, Julia

Grant, Ulysses S

Beecher compared with

Brooklyn Bridge and

at Centennial Exhibition

in Civil War

St. Louis Bridge safety and

Tweed Ring and

Warren and

Great Blowout

Great Bridge,
see
Brooklyn Bridge

Great Central Railroad

Great Eastern
(ship)

Great Railroad Strike

Great Western Canada Railroad

Grecian Bend

see also
Bends

Greeley, Horace

Green, Andrew H

Greene (professor)

Greenwood Cemetery (Brooklyn)

Guglielmi, O. Louis

Haigh, J. Lloyd

bankruptcy of

cable contract award and

jailed

wire fraud of

Hall, A. Oakey

Harbison, Massy

Harney, Gen. William S.

Harper’s Monthly
(magazine)

Harper’s Weekly
(magazine)

on Avondale coal mine accident

award of cable wire contracts and

breakup of Tweed Ring and

on Brooklyn caisson

Harpers Ferry bridge (Va.)

Harris, Frank (worker)

Harris, Frank (writer)

Hassam, Childe

Havemeyer, William

Hayes, Rutherford B.

Heffner (worker)

Hegel, G. W. F.

Hemp hawsings, iron rope replacing

Henry, John

Henshaw (doctor)

Herting (grandmother of John Roebling)

Hewitt, Abram

award of cable wire contracts and

breakup of Tweed Ring and

at Brooklyn Bridge

inauguration

at 1882 Democratic state convention

Rink Committee investigation and

as Tilden’s campaign manager

Hewitt, Charles

Hildenbrand, Wilhelm

designs of New York anchorage and

trusswork and

Williamsburg Bridge built by

Hill, Albert

Hoffman, John T.

Hoisting engines

double

for positioning cables

to raise stone blocks of towers

Honeymoon Bridge (Niagara Falls)

Hook, Mrs. (sister of Emily Roebling)

Hooker, Gen. Joseph (Fighting Joe)

Hoosac Tunnel (Mass.)

“Hospital lock,”

Houses built by J. Roebling

Howell, James

Howells, William Dean

Huckleberry Finn
(Twain)

Hull (manufacturer)

Humphreys, Gen. A. A.

Hunter, John W.

Hunter, W., Jr.

Husted, S. L.

Hydraulic jacks for excavating for caissons

Immigration, German (1831)

Inauguration (Brooklyn Bridge)

Brooklyn prepares for

ceremonies described

electric lights turned on

excitement in New York

invitations to

planning of

reception following

speeches made at

Inclined stays,
see
Diagonal stays

Income tax, introduced

Independent
(newspaper)

Injuries,
see
Casualties

Inman Line (ship line)

Innocents Abroad, The
(Twain)

Intelligencer
(newspaper)

International Suspension Bridge, see Niagara Bridge

Investigating committees,
see
Investigation, Committee of; Rink Committee; Seventy, Committee of

Investigation, Committee of (New York Bridge Company)

Iron Age, The
(magazine)

Iron buildings

Iron ropes, first manufactured

Iron superstructure, weight of
see also
Superstructure

Irving, Washington

Jacobs Creek chain bridge (La.)

Jacobson, Andrew

Jackson, Gen. T. J. “Stonewall,”

James, Henry

James, Jesse

Jaminet (doctor)

Jarvis, Charles H. (husband of Josephine Roebling)

Jarvis, Josephine (daughter of John Roebling)

Jay Cooke & Company

Jefferson, Thomas

Jenkins, J. W.

Jenks, G. T.

John A. Roebling’s Sons

award of cable contract and

bought out

Hildenbrand’s work for

incorporates

W. Roebling in charge of

size of

wire fraud and

Johnson, Andrew

Johnson, Gen. Jeremiah

Johnson, Samuel

Jones, George

Journal of Commerce
(newspaper)

July Revolution (German; 1830)

Jumps from Brooklyn Bridge

see also
Suicides

Kalbfleisch, Martin

Kearsarge
(ship)

Keefer, Samuel

Kenney, Abner

Kelly, “Honest John,”

at 1882 Democratic state convention

withholding of funds for Brooklyn Bridge by

Kelso (New York Police superintendent)

Keystone Bridge Company

Keystones of Brooklyn tower arch

King, Major W. R.

Kings County Democrats

breakup of Tweed Ring and

at Brooklyn caisson launching

at Democratic state convention

Kingsley, William C.

breakup of Tweed Ring and

Committee of Investigation

New York World investigates

Rink Committee investigates