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The original idea to secure an Egyptian obelisk for New York City came from the March 1877 New York City newspaper accounts of the transporting of the London obelisk. The newspapers mistakenly attributed to a Mr. John Dixon the 1869 proposal of the Khedive of Egypt, Mehmet Ali Pasha, to give the United States the remaining Alexandria obelisk as a gift for increased trade. Mr. Dixon, the contractor who, in 1877, arranged the transport of the London obelisk, denied the newspaper accounts. However, in March 1877, Mr. Henry G. Stebbins, Commissioner of the Department of Public Parks of the City of New York, undertook to secure the funding to transport the obelisk to New York. However, when railroad magnate William H.Vanderbiltwas asked to head the subscription, he offered to finance the project with a donation of more than US$100,000 (equivalent to $2,400,938 in 2019).
The obelisk and its 50-ton pedestal arrived at theQuarantine Station in New Yorkin early July 1880. It took 32 horses hitched in pairs to bring it from the banks of the East River to Central Park. Railroad ramps and tracks had to be temporarily removed and the ground flattened so that the obelisk could be rolled out of the ship, whose side had been cut open once again for the purpose. The obelisk was carried up the East River and transported to a temporary location off Fifth Avenue. The final leg of the journey was made by pushing the obelisk with a steam engine across a specially built trestle bridge from Fifth Avenue to its new home on Greywacke Knoll, just across the drive from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It took 112 days to move the obelisk from Quarantine Station to its resting place.
Jesse B. Anthony,Grand Master of Masons in the State of New York, presided as the cornerstone for the obelisk was laid in place with full Masonic ceremony on October 2, 1880. Over 9,000 Masons paraded up Fifth Avenue from 14th Street to 82nd Street, and it was estimated that over 50,000 spectators lined the parade route. The benediction was presented by R.W. Louis C. Gerstein. The obelisk was righted by a special structure built by Henry Honychurch Gorringe. The official ceremony for erecting the obelisk was held February 22, 1881.
https://www.nytimes.com/1880/10/10/archives/laying-the-cornerstone-masons-preparing-the-obelisks-foundation.html
LAYING THE CORNER-STONE; MASONS PREPARING THE OBELISK'S FOUNDATION.
Oct. 10, 1880
The Phaenicians came into frequent contact with the Babylonians. They not only maintained a commerce with them by means of the Euphrates River, but they also were their rivals and co-operators in the Indian Ocean. Indeed, one of the traditions preserved by the historian Herodotus in regard to the origin of the Phoenicians brings them from some islands in the Persian Gulf in close proximity to the early maritime cities of Babylonia. It is not unlikely, therefore, that these enterprising navigators should have borrowed for themselves some of the best features of the Babylonian law. But with this conjecture, and with these general remarks, we must dismiss the subject of Phoenician law from our further consideration. One of the most interesting chapters in the annals of time was closed to us forever, and became a sealed book, when Alexander of Macedon completed the work of Nebuchadnezzar and laid Tyre in ashes.
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