Read the excerpt from "Opening Ceremonies of the Which of the following best summarizes the central
New York and Brooklyn Bridge" by Hon. Seth Low,
idea of this excerpt?
Mayor of the City of Brooklyn.
In the course of the construction of the Bridge a
The mayor gently lectures on the importancell
number of lives have been lost. Does It not sometimes
speaking kindly about those who have died
seem as though every work of enduring value, in the
The mayor commemorates and gives praise to those
material as in the moral world, must needs be
who were killed while building the bridge.
purchased at the cost of human life? Let us recall with
Low gives a monotonous explanation of the costs of
kindness at this hour the work of those who labored
the materials that were purchased for the bridge
here faithfully unto the death, no less than of that great
Low remembers those humble men who labored
army of men who have wrought, year in and year out,
intensely and faithfully to execute this dream.
to execute the great design. Let us give our meed of
praise to-day to the humblest workman who has here
done his duty well, no less than to the great engineer
who told him what to do.