What Is the Statue of Liberty? by Joan Holub

Author:Joan Holub
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2015-09-29T16:00:00+00:00

Finally, in January of 1885, workers took the statue apart again. They unfastened every piece of copper and every piece of iron. The pieces were packed into 214 crates, which each weighed from a few hundred pounds up to three tons. The crates were labeled with numbers so the statue could be put back together properly. If that ever happened. People were beginning to doubt that the pedestal would ever be finished. Without it, the statue had nothing to stand on.

In March 1885, building on the pedestal stopped on Bedloe’s Island. The American committee had run out of money. Bartholdi was really worried. At the last minute his dream seemed to be falling apart.

Pulitzer was determined to fix the situation. He wrote articles in his newspaper that encouraged the everyday people of America to contribute to the pedestal fund. He wrote, “Let us not wait for the millionaires . . . Give something, however little.” He promised to print the name of every contributor in his newspaper along with how much they gave.

To start things off, Pulitzer contributed $1,000 to the fund himself. In the first week, two thousand more dollars arrived at his offices. The donations usually came in coins totaling less than a dollar. Children gave the money they’d saved to go to the circus. Slowly, it all added up.

It was a thrill for people who donated to see their names printed in The World. They were famous for a day! It was good promotion for Pulitzer’s newspaper, too. Hundreds of extra copies sold each day because anyone whose name was printed wanted a copy as a souvenir.

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