This mountainous market of hopes and of nations, of success and failure, of tragedy and comedy, of ships, steam, mines, and the lives of men, towering phantom-like and vast,—is Wall Street.
VII
THE OLD BRIDGE
BROOKLYN BRIDGE the first bridge between Manhattan and Long Island. The day of its opening was one of great public enthusiasm. Parties were given for walking or driving across the bridge, and that night half New York and Brooklyn were on the house-tops to watch it illuminated by fire-works. In those days it was called “The Bridge.” But now since the Manhattan, the Williamsburg and the Queensboro bridges have been added to the East River giants, it has become “The Old Bridge,” a name meaning many things to those who have known it from its beginning. Its erection was a long step towards close relationship between New York and the whole of Long Island.
