The Disassembly of Lady Liberty

The French were disassembling the statue. They packed it into 214 different crates and they numbered it with an instruction book like a giant Lego project. Enter one Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York world. He came up with a plan to get America to pay for the statue. The $250,000 that the statue cost was paid in by the masses of the French people. Let us not wait for the millionaires to give this money. It is not a gift from the millionaires of France to the millionaires of America. Please give something however little. And then he went on with the clincher. We will publish the name of every giver, however small the sum given.