by Jill Jonnes
218 “I have repeatedly”: Letter from John Burke to Minister Whitelaw Reid, dated Aug. 15, 1889, RG 59, Dispatches from Minister Whitelaw Reid, U.S. State Department, National Archives, College Park, Md.
219 “I stated what was expected of them”: Letter from Minister Whitelaw Reid to Secretary of State James Blaine, dated Aug. 17, 1889, RG 59, Dispatches from Minister Whitelaw Reid, U.S. State Department, National Archives, College Park, Md.
219 “It came from a multitude of throats”: Tate, Edison’s Open Door, p. 234.
219 “The managers took great pleasure”: from F. L. Dyer and T. C. Martin, Edison: His Life and Inventions, vol. II (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1910), pp. 747-48.
220 “the grand orchestra played”: Letter from Margaret Upton to her mother, dated Aug. 20, 1889, Margaret Upton Papers, New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, N.J.
220 “the manager came around ”: Dyer and Martin, Edison, vol. II, p. 748.
220 “It must be cute”: Neil Baldwin, Edison (New York: Hyperion, 1995), p. 207.
220 “the enormous number of cranks and crooks”: Sherard, Twenty Years in Paris, p. 175.
221 “Oh, yes . . . they are grand art”: Ibid., p. 185.
222 “To my mind the Old Masters”: Josephson, Edison, p. 336.
222 “the exhibit of the Kimberley diamond mines”: Dyer and Martin, Edison, vol. II, p. 750.
222 “We had a good library”: Anderson, Experiences and Impressions, p. 47.
223 “To avoid the crowd”: Ibid., p. 32.
224 “It represents nothing”: “An Interesting Talk with Inventor Edison in Paris,” Chicago Tribune, Sept. 9, 1889, p. 5.
224 “Oh, they don’t have inventors”: Sherard, Twenty Years in Paris, p. 190.
224 “The fact is this”: “Troubles of a Millionaire,” Chicago Tribune, July 2, 1888, p. 2.
225 “the usual panicky reaction”: O’Connor, T he Scandalous Mr. Bennett, pp. 206-7.
225 “T his last trip”: “Troubles of a Millionaire,” p. 2.
225 “Then, blazing in diamonds and gold lace”: Tate, Edison’s Open Door, p. 23
226 Coquelin the Younger, who “mounted the stage”: Ibid.
226 “It reproduced speeches”: “Sa Majesté Edison,” New York Herald, European edition, Aug. 27, 1889, p. 1.
228 “with special permission”: Tate, Edison’s Open Door, pp. 242-43.
229 “To the loveliest”: Kasper, Annie Oakley, p. 106.
230 “Is Manet . . . in Paris”: Paul Gauguin: 45 Lettres à Vincent, Théo et Jo van Gogh, Douglas Cooper, ed. (Staatsuitgeverij: La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1983), pp. 124-25.
230 “I am working like one actually possessed”: The Complete Letters of Vincent van Gogh, vol. 3 (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1978), p. 203.
230 “Who is it who interprets”: Ozanne and de Jode, T heo: The Other van Gogh, p. 168.
231 “He occupied three rooms”: Dyer and Martin, Edison: His Life and Inventions, p. 749.
231 “with its powerful electric lamp”: “Scientific Use of Eiffel’s Tower,” New York Times, July 6, 1889, p. 2.
231 “the master of the cable system”: Dyer and Martin, Edison: His Life and Inventions, pp. 752-53.
232 “Pasteur invited me”: Ibid., p. 750.
232 The Paris Herald reported: “The Pasteur Institute,” New York Herald, European edition, Sept. 28, 1889.
233 “ would complicate his life”: Josephson, Edison, p. 336.
233 “At first it was my head ”: Sherard, Twenty Years in Paris, p. 189.
223 “I think Eiffel ”: “An Interesting Talk with Inventor Edison in Paris,” p. 5.
234 “In our little pavilion”: “Échos de la Tour,” p. 1.
234 “to walk on a cable”: “Blondin’s Daring Proposition,” Washington Post, Aug. 11, 1889, p. 12.
236 “Our dear and illustrious master”: “Eiffel’s Toast to Edison,” ARO 1981 IIII a&b, Eiffel Archive, Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
236 “Seventy-five of us”: “Not Spoiled by Honors,” New York World, Oct. 10, 1889.
237 “To M. Eiffel ”: Harriss, The Tallest Tower, p. 119.
237 “The man who could ”: Ibid., p. 140.
237 “The Eiffel Tower”: Ibid.
237 “I am glad to hear it”: Sherard, Twenty Years in Paris, p. 173.
239 “Paris, in the Hotel de Ville”: Anderson, Experiences and Impressions, pp. 31-32.
239 “a feeble mark of his gratitude”: “He Enjoyed His Stay Here,” New York Herald, European edition, Sept. 12, 1889, p. 1.
240 “Hold on there”: “Reminiscences,” in William J. Hammer Collection, National Museum of American History Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; also online at TAED (X098A001).
240 “Every man in the company”: “Honoring Mr. Edison,” New York Tribune, Oct. 7, 1889, p. 1.
CHAPTER TEN: Rosa Bonheur Meets Buffalo Bill
243 “ ‘Why do you want me’ ”: Anna Klumpke, Rosa Bonheur: The Artist’s (Auto)biography (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997), p. 24.
244 “Observing them at close range”: Ibid., pp. 193 and 24.
244-45 “the barking of numerous dogs”: Henry Bacon, “Rosa Bonheur,” Century Illustrated Magazine 28, no. 6 (Oct. 1884): 886.
245 “a huge chimney”: Ibid., p. 887.
245 “Behind the house”: Ibid.
245 “Because of his frequent shows”: Klumpke, Rosa Bonheur: The Artist’s (Auto) biography, p. 193.
245 “more interesting things of French kings”: “Buffalo Bill and Rosa Bonheur,” Galignani’s Messenger, Sept. 26, 1889, from the Wild West Company’s Paris 1889 Scrapbook, McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming.
246 “I hope you will not be cross”: Klumpke, Rosa Bonheur: The Artist’s (Auto)biography, p. 8.
246 “The princes Saïd and Omar”: Le Figaro, Édition Spéciale Imprimée dans la Tour Eiffel, Sept. 30, 1889, p. 1.
246 “Tomorrow begins the last month”: Ibid.
247 “Paris was like some lovely”: Art Young, Art Young: His Art and Times (New York: Sheridan House, 1939), p. 3.
248 “It has become the true crown”: Eugène de Rastignac, “Courrier de Paris,” L’Illustration, Sept. 21, 1889, p. 26.
248 “Just as our driver”: Klumpke, Rosa Bonheur: T he Artist’s (Auto) biography, pp. 8-11.
250 “Eight days on the ocean liner”: Robert Conot, A Streak of Luck (New York: Seaview Books, 1979), p. 286.
250 “I went over to see”: “Not Spoiled by Honors,” New York World, Oct. 7, 1889, p. 1.
250 “I am just as much”: “Edison Back from Paris,” New York Times, Oct. 7, 1889, p. 5.
251 “Edison . . . says”: Ibid.
251 “I did not mind the fact”: “By the Zuyder-Zee,” New York Herald, European edition, Oct. 3, 1889, p. 1.
251 “I have never in my life”: “Whacking Whistler,” New York Herald, European edition, Oct. 4, 1889, p. 1.
251 “We can endure”: “A Question of Taste,” New York Herald, European edition, Oct. 5, 1889, p. 5.
252 “I never allow myself”: “Hawkins Hits Back,” New York Herald, European edition, Oct. 8, 1889, p. 1.
252 “It is a sad shock”: “Whistler’s Grievance,” New York Herald, European edition, Oct. 9, 1889, p. 5.
252 “The truth is”: “A Refusé Speaks Out,” New York Herald, European edition, Oct. 9, 1889, p. 5.
252 “the first papoose”: “Little ‘Red Shirt,’ ” New York Herald, European edition, Sept. 29, 1889, p. 5.
253 “We had never cared ”: Pattie Miller Stocking, “The Big Show in Paris,” Washington Post, Oct. 6, 1889, p. 16.
253 “a splendid trotter”: Theodore Stanton, ed., Reminiscences of Rosa Bonheur (London: Andrew Melrose, 1910), p. 246.
253 “gave me time to study their tents”: Klumpke, Rosa Bonheur: The Artist’s (Auto) biography , p. 24.
255 “the hand of the white man”: “French Talk of
the Time,” New York Times, Oct. 1, 1889, p. 9.
255 “Mr. Bierstadt, a veteran”: H. Barbara Weinberg, Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition (New York: Abrams, 1989), p. 20.
256 “Among other things”: Gauguin by Himself, p. 106.
256 “From time to time”: T he Complete Letters of Vincent van Gogh, p. 222.
256 “I like the wheat field ”: Ozanne and de Jode, T heo: T he Other van Gogh, p. 170.
256 “The main thing”: The Complete Letters of Vincent van Gogh, p. 220.
257 “the perfect healthfulness of the meat”: Letter from Whitelaw Reid to Secretary of State James Blaine, dated Oct. 19, 1889, Despatches from U.S. Ministers to France, M34, Roll T105 RG 59, U.S. State Department, National Archives, College Park, Md.
257 “Business had been bad ”: Oakley, The Autobiography of Annie Oakley, p. 58.
258 “A few days ago he spent”: “Notes from Paris,” Annie Oakley Paris Scrapbook, McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyo.
258 “In the front of the Tonkin village”: Rastignac, “Courrier de Paris,” p. 186.
259 “have given vent to their disappointment”: “The Exhibition,” American Register, Oct. 5, 1889.
259 “For me, it was truly like”: Édmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal: Mémoires de la vie littéraire, vol. 16, p. 154.
259 “We have the Exposition”: Rastignac, “Courrier de Paris,” p. 326.
260 “Cambodian antiquities”: Édmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal: Mémoires de la vie littéraire, vol. 16, p. 156.
260 “A head the size”: Ibid., p. 158.
260 “The Javanese kampong”: “Paris Local,” American Register, Oct. 26, 1889.
260 “strange plants of Mexico”: Édmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal: Mémoires de la vie littéraire, vol. 16, pp. 160-61.
260 “I relented in regard”: The Letters of Henry James, Percy Lubbock, ed. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1920), pp. 154-55.
261 “In this monumental chaos”: Eugène-Melchior de Vögué, “Impressions Made by the Paris Exposition,” The Chautauquan 10, no. 1 (Oct. 1889): 66.
261 “Here all is truth”: Ibid.
262 “T he designs must show a tower”: “London’s Tall Tower,” New York Herald, European edition, Oct. 23, 1889, p. 1.
262 “which will cause the Eiffel Tower”: “To Overtop the Eiffel”: Chicago Tribune, Oct. 24, 1889, p. 2.
262 “To put the comparison in a nutshell”: “Tower to the Clouds,” Chicago Tribune, Oct. 26, 1889, p. 9.
262 “T he rush for the Decauville trains”: “Exhibition Notes,” New York Herald, European edition, Nov. 5, 1889, p. 1.
263 “T he [ fair] grounds”: Ibid.
263 “With a last thank-you”: Eiffel’s Livre d’Or Scrapbook, Eiffel Archives, Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
263 “crowds of people”: “Parisiana,” New York Herald, European edition, Nov. 6, 1889, p. 1.
264 “What a crush there was!”: “The Exhibition Closes,” New York Herald, European edition, Nov. 7, 1889, p. 1.
265 “It was a curious experience”: Young, His Life and Times, p. 14.
265 “shed over Paris a shower of gold”: Editorial, American Register, Nov. 30, 1889.
266 “The Exhibition has brought to France”: “Closing of Exhibition,” American Register, Nov. 30, 1889, p. 5, quoting an unnamed French publication.
266 “The Eiffel suit”: Letter from W. D. Baldwin to Charles Otis, dated November 20, 1889, Otis Corporate Archives, Farmington, Conn.
266 “The boulevards no longer look”: Rastignac, “Courrier de Paris,” p. 418.
267 “Sunday I was at Bilbao Bill’s”: Dore Ashton, Rosa Bonheur (New York: Viking, 1981), p. 156.
268 “Miss Oakley and Johnny Baker”: “The Wild West,” Galignani’s Messenger, Oct. 23, 1889.
268 “Colonel Cody’s Wild West show”: “A Brilliant Close,” New York Herald, European edition, Nov. 14, 1889, p. 1.
269 “the most successful affair”: “The Paris Exposition,” Washington Post, Nov. 6, 1889, p. 4.
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Afterword
271 “I consider such transaction void.”: “Millions Paid in Bribes,” New York Times, Jan. 12, 1893, p. 3.
272 “It may seem passing strange”: “Confidence in the Canal,” New York Times, Jan. 6, 1889, p. 12.
272 “No one ever got to the bottom”: McCullough, The Path Between the Seas, p. 213.
273 “Real French patriots”: “Five Years for De Lesseps,” Chicago Tribune, Feb. 10, 1893, p. 5.
273 “I am a man of order”: Bermond, Gustave Eiffel, p. 337.
273 “Your house will be blown up”: Ibid., p. 338.
274 “A great many people who lost their money”: Sherard, Twenty Years in Paris, p. 165.
274 “ brilliant and dazzling symphonies”: Gayford, The Yellow House, p. 303.
274 “W hat makes his entire body of work”: Ozanne and de Jode, T heo: The Other van Gogh, p. 172.
275 “You could not imagine”: Gayford, The Yellow House, p. 305.
276 “T he sun was terribly hot”: Ozanne and de Jode, Theo: The Other van Gogh, p. 196.
276 “Sad though his death”: Gayford, The Yellow House, pp. 305-6.
276 “These canvases are not the work”: Ozanne and de Jode, Theo: The Other van Gogh, p. 203.
276 “Departure to tropics”: Ibid., p. 205.
277 “Of course I visited Vesuvius”: Oakley, The Autobiography of Annie Oakley, p. 42.
277 “could not believe”: Ibid., p. 40.
279 “the evil resulting”: Maddra, Hostiles? The Lakota Ghost Dance and Buffalo Bill ’s Wild West, p. 63.
280 “ furnished us the same work”: Ibid., p. 79.
280 “The theory of the government’s management”: Ibid., p. 81.
281 “would bring with him”: Russell, The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill, p. 354.
281 “ whites invariably break”: “Buffalo Bill on the Indian War,” New York Herald, Nov. 19, 1890, p. 5.
281 “Of all the bad Indians”: “The Worst Indian of Them All,” New York Times, Nov. 25, 1890, p. 5.
282 “I don’t yet know”: Warren, Buffalo Bill ’s America, p. 378.
283 “[his] superior knowledge of Indian character”: Russell, The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill, p. 354.
284 “At the moment, as far as words go”: Ibid., p. 290.
285 “T hey stand on their heads”: Walsh, T he Making of B uffalo Bill, p. 296.
285 “From the time I enter my grounds”: Letters from Buffalo Bill, pp. 37-38.
286 “reception room”: Weintraub, W histler: A Biography, p. 174.
287 “What a pity!”: Ibid., p. 345.
287 “a tower with a height of 8,947 feet”: Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City (New York: Crown, 2003), pp. 134-35.
288 “T his wheel would carry”: Ibid., p. 185.
288 “I am doing the business”: Letters from Buffalo Bill, p. 41.
289 “offered any kid in Chicago”: Larson, The Devil in the White City, p. 251.
289 “W hen she was in Europe”: Kasper, Annie Oakley, p. 126.
290 “Truly, I long for the day”: Ibid.
291 “We have wandered from home”: Weintraub, Whistler: A Biography, p. 403.
291 “If I can no longer paint”: David Sweetman, Paul Gauguin: A Life (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995), p. 466.
293 “ very doubtful ”: Josephson, Edison: A Biography, p. 392.
294 “My three companies”: Jill Jonnes, Empires of Light (New York: Random House, 2003), p. 351.
294 “left his apartment”: O’Connor, The Scandalous Mr. Bennett, pp. 203-4.
295 “Not to be a ‘chauffeur’ ”: Hebe Dorsey, The Belle Époque in the Paris Herald (London: Thames and Hudson, 1986), p. 179.
296 “During my engineering career”: Harriss, T he Tallest Tower, p. 165.
296 “published at his own expense”: Ibid., p. 166.
296 “experimentally that the generally accepted ”: Ibid., pp. 167-68.
298 “with a single antenna”: Harriss, The Tallest Tower, p. 173.
298 “one would wish it were more beautiful ”: Loyrette, Gustave Eiffel, p. 168.
298 “In these paths”: “Le Gala de Buffalo Bill,” Le Figaro, April 2, 1905, p. 1.
299 “I hope you are happy”: Letters from Buffalo Bill, p. 63.
300 “the greatest land deal ever”: Warren, Buffalo Bill’s America, p. 472.
300 “only 1000 inhabitants”: Ibid., p. 487.
301 “If [the Eiffel Tower] did not exist”: Loyrette, Gustave Eiffel, p. 168.
301 “T he Government has begun”: “Wireless to New York,” New York Times, Jan. 26, 1908, p. 1.
301 “I have just finished something new”: “Edison Off for Holiday,” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 3, 1911, p. 17.
301 “W ho is that shabby little man”: “The Great American in Europe Is Thomas Edison,” Los Angeles Times, Sept. 17, 1911, p. 15.
302 “ impresses me favorably”: “Edison Returns Home,” Washington Post, Oct. 8, 1891, p. 3.
302 “In France, the roads”: “We’re Still Ahead,” New York Times, Oct. 8, 1911, p. 5.
302 “Americans in Paris”: “War News,” New York Herald, European edition, Aug. 3, 1914, p. 2.
302 “In August 1914”: Harriss, The Tallest Tower, p. 173.
302 “an editor kept track”: Seitz, The James Gordon Bennetts, p. 376.
303 “he would keep on printing”: “Bennett a Figure in Many Anecdotes,” New York Times, May 15, 1918, p. 6.
303 “the Whores’ Daily Guide and Compendium”: O’Connor, The Scandalous Mr. Bennett, p. 272.
303 “A woman finds”: Ibid., p. 273.
304 “The old, drunken”: Seitz, T he James Gordon Bennetts, p. 376.
304 “I am anxious”: “From Centigrade to Fahrenheit,” New York Herald, Aug. 3, 1914, p. 2.
305 “All Paris knew”: “French Press Laments Loss of a Friend,” New York Herald, European edition, May 15, 1918, p. 1.
305 “T his has been another long season”: Letters from Buffalo Bill, p. 77.