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