DR. THOMAS C. RAINEY FATHER OF THE QUEENSBORO BRIDGE
A VENERABLE man, wearing a dark tweed suit, a skull cap and a pair of house shoes, slipped out unnoticed from his home at 349 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, on May 12, 1909. His tall, spare frame was bent with 85 years of strenuous life. But behind his gold-rimmed spectacles a pair of blue-gray eyes flashed determination, and the spirit of adventure swelled strong within him. Boarding a surface car, this elderly, white haired man rode north as far as Fifty-ninth street. There he alighted and walked slowly toward the East River.
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