In this portion of my reading, the Pittsburgh engineer perseveres in resubmitting his Eiffel-tower like structure. He is given the concession to build the design and the engineer who is awarded this task is George Washington Gale Ferris. Meanwhile, Emeline and Holmes’ relationship seems to be changing. She had disappeared after having produced a wedding announcement and nobody knew why nor expected her to have left without saying a goodbye. Harry Codman had also been in the hospital and meanwhile everyone thought that he was recovering, in fact he did not and died shortly after his appendectomy. Holmes was becoming really successful; he owned a legitimate company in part, and a mail-order company. He had a building for which he had tenants pay him rent and he also owned two houses. There were people on the verge of accusing him of Emeline’s murder. A big problem that Holmes noticed was that his job required a secretary.
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“Olmsted, in Brookline, got the news by telegram: Harry Codman was dead. Codman, his protégé, whom he loved like a son” (Larson 194).
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I thought that this was very unfortunate; Harry Codman was only at the very young age of 29. He had been in the hospital for a while and everyone was expecting him to be recovering. He did not; and died shortly thereafter. It’s interesting how Codman dies and also Emeline disappears. This in-fact does foreshadow for the dangers that have yet to come for Holmes in the near future. What also got my attention from this quote was the method of communication. They used telegrams and we have just finished studying how communication got revolutionized in the mid 19th century! Telegrams were electronic signals that transmitted Morse code. This kind of communication was vital for people like Burnham and Holmes at the time. Of course, telegrams evolved into the telephone and then things such as the typewriter also emerged.
what was Olmsted doing in Brookline?
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