| Show On the Bridge Gen Sherman admires the Brooklyn bridge lie spoke of it glowingly at the dinner of the N E Society in Brooklyn AN When I crossed that beautiful bridge dun this evening I felt as though I were in some holy temple for nothing more ma St JPstic t has the hands of man wrought t in Whether it pays two per cent or three percent I or five per cent interest to me IS a mere nothing The mere thoughtS thought-S the mere conception of the thought is something so pure and so magnificent that t I would banish all ideas of profit Each time I sit with my friend Gen Hancock on Governors Island and look across at the beautiful stream called the o East Hirer not a river at all but an arm of the sea and behold the lines of pro Wrt1on strength and durability of then t the-n Bridge I admire it more thane than-e nost beautiful pictures I have even ffl im n he galleries of France Florence L I w London |
