High Steel: The Daring Men Who Built the World's Greatest Skyline (40 page)

Arthur Andersen building

Brooklyn Bridge

compensation and

Delaware River Bridge

early ironworker

Empire State Building

falls and, (
see also
falling)

George Washington Bridge

ironworker jobs and

Mohawk

Newfoundlander

Quebec Bridge

reduction of ironworker, (
see also
safety)

Verrazano-Narrows Bridge

World Trade Center

fearlessness, Mohawk

field day competitions

fighting.
See
violence

Firth of Forth bridge

Fish.
See
Newfoundlanders

fixers

flanges

Flatiron Building

float

Floaters

floors, skyscraper

fog

Fortune, Bill

framed tubes

Frick, Henry Clay

Frielich, Morris

Fuller Building.
See
Flatiron Building

Gaffney, Joe

gangs.
See also
raising gangs

General Specifications for Iron Railroad Bridges and Viaducts

George A. Fuller Company

George Washington Bridge

Gilbert, Bradford

Gilbert, Cass

Glasgow (Missouri) bridge

going into the hole.
See also
falling

Golden Gate Bridge

Gompers, Samuel

Gosselin, Victor “Frenchy,”

Grace, Patrick

graft, union.
See also
Parks, Sam

Grand Central Building

Grant, Luke

Grottle, Mike

Haley, D. B.

Hall, Ingwall

Handsome Lake

Hansen, Harmon

happiness

hard-hat riots

hard hats

harpies

Harriman, Job

Hartley, Hal

Hartley, Pat

heat

heaters

Hebler, Henry

Hecla Iron Works

heights.
See also
falling

ironworkers and

Mohawks and

helicopter cranes

Hell’s Gate Bridge

heroes, ironworkers as

Hine, Lewis Wickes

Hoare, E. A.

Hockin, Harry

hole

Homeguard

Home Insurance Building

hooker-ons

Hoover, J. Edgar

Horn, Ky

Hot Wrench connectors

housesmiths.
See also
ironworkers

Housesmiths’ and Bridgemen’s Society.
See also
Parks, Sam

Housesmiths Mutual Protection Association

Iannielli, Edward

Icarus high up on Empire State

ice

idleness

illegal immigration

injuries.
See
accidents; falling; fatalities

Institute of the Ironworking Industry

International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Ironworkers

International Association of Bridge and Structural Ironworkers

Irish

iron.
See also
steel

ironworkers

accident dangers for, (
see also
accidents)

bars and drinking

beating the wow

bridgemen as early, (
see also
bridgemen)

climbing columns

B. Conklin’s life as

dangers of falling, (
see also
falling)

deaths of (
see
fatalities)

diversity of

first steel-frame skyscrapers and

frustrations of

gangs

on George Washington Bridge

golden age for

as heroes

New York City, (
see also
New York City)

Monday mornings for, at Time Warner Center, (
see also
Time Warner Center)

Mohawk Indians as (
see
Kahnawake [Mohawk Indian reservation]; Mohawk Indians)

Newfoundlanders as (
see
Newfoundlanders)

raising gangs, (
see also
raising gangs)

as roughnecks

skills

skyscraper building boom and reputation of

status of, after fall of World Trade Center

superintendent job

unions of, (
see also
unions)

on Verrazano-Narrows Bridge

violence of (
see
violence)

union walking delegate Sam Parks (
see
Parks, Sam)

walking boss job

walking steel

at World Trade Center (
see
World Trade Center)

young men as

Iroquois Confederacy

I-shape

Jacobs, Paul “Punchy,”

James, Henry

Jay Treaty

Jazz Center

Jenney, William LeBaron

Jerome, William Travers

Jeter, Derek

Jocks, Joe

John Hancock Center

journalists

jungles

Kahnawake (Mohawk Indian reservation).
See also
Mohawk Indians

collapse of Quebec Bridge

drive between Manhattan and

history of

as home for Mohawk ironworkers

memories of oldest ex-ironworker

Mohawks as bridgemen

move of Mohawks to New York City

search for K. McComber

welcome of World Trade Center workers

kangaroo cranes

Kelly, James L.

Kennedy, Joe

Kennedy, Pat

Kent State University

Keystone Bridge Company

Khan, Fazlur

Kilgore, Howard

Killarney

Kirby, Frank

Kugler, Matt

Labor Day parade

labor unions.
See
unions

Lachapelle, Theodore

lacrosse

Lajeunesse, Delphis

Lajeunesse, Eugene

Lane, Frank

Larrasey’s general store

Lawson, John

leading edge

Lebarge, Oscar

Levin, Gerald

Levy, David

Lewis, Beverly

Lewis, Henry Harrison

Lewis, Joe

Lewis, Moses and Bride

Lewis and Clark Bridge

life insurance

Littell, Edmund

Llewellyn Iron Works

locals, union.
See
unions

Loop, Chicago

Los Angeles

Los Angeles Times

luck

“Lunchtime on a Beam” photograph

Lutheran All-Faiths Cemetery

Lynch, Bernard

McClintic-Marshall

McClure, John

McComber, Alec “One-More-Piece,”

McComber, Dominick

McComber, Gerald

McComber, Keith “Bunny Eyes,”

McComber, Kenneth “Weedy,”

McComber, Robert

McCord, Robert

McCullough, David

McGlade, Arthur

McKee, Gerard

McMahon, John

McManigal, Ortie

McNamara, James

McNamara, John

Maennerchor Hall

Mahoney, Frankie

Maloney, Joseph

Manhattan.
See
New York City

Manhattan Bridge

man-hoists.
See also
elevators

“Mannahatta,”

Manning, Cork

Marcus, Silvian

Marsalis, Wynton

Martin, Jeff “J. Kid,”

Martin, J. J.

masonry skyscrapers.
See also
skyscrapers

masts

matrimony.
See also
women

mauls

Mendelson, Richard

“Men on a Beam” photograph

Metropolitan Life Tower

midair murder

Mitchell, Joseph

Mitchell,Tommy

Mohawk Indians.
See also
Kahnawake (Mohawk Indian reservation)

Black Bridge and rites of passage

K. Brown and M. Davis as

as early ironworkers

hard hats

history of

K. McComber as (
see
McComber, Keith “Bunny Eyes”)

Monday mornings for

move of, into New York City

in New York City

Monadnock Building

monday mauls

Moore, Billy

Morgan, J. P.

Moses, Robert

movie, ironworker

Mullet,Ray

Mumford, Lewis

Munch Chunk.
See
Woodring, William “Munch Chunk”

murder, midair.
See also
violence

music

National Erectors’ Association (NEA)

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

Neidig, Robert

Nevins Bar and Grill

Newbury, Charles

Newfoundland.
See also
Newfoundlanders