When the Iron King Became the River
The telegram arrived at seven minutes past noon on the third Tuesday of October 1883, and Cornelius Whitfield read it standing beside the great bay window of his office on the forty-seventh floor of the Whitfield Building at the corner of Wall Street and William. Outside the glass the city of New York lay beneath a sky the color of hammered pewter, the smoke of ten thousand chimneys rising into...
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