Read the excerpt from "Opening Ceremonies of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge" by Hon. Seth Low, Mayor of the City of Brooklyn.

Which of the following best summarizes the central idea of this excerpt?


In the course of the construction of the Bridge a number of lives have been lost. Does it not sometimes seem as though every work of enduring value, in the material as in the moral world, must needs be purchased at the cost of human life? Let us recall with kindness at this hour the work of those who labored here faithfully unto the death, no less than of that great army of men who have wrought, year in and year out, to execute the great design. Let us give our meed of praise to-day to the humblest workman who has here done his duty well, no less than to the great engineer who told him what to do.

Answers:

Low explains that it took Roebling fourteen years to design and build the Brooklyn Bridge.

Low celebrates the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge and the hard work that went into building it.

Low takes credit for managing the planning and construction of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Low complains that the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge took much longer than it should have.