The grand opening march over the Brooklyn Bridge / F. Opper. Creator(s): Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937, artist Summary: Illustration shows a large procession crossing the Brooklyn Bridge, at the front, dressed as policeman with nightsticks, are several newspaper editors, among them are James Gordon Bennett, Oswald Ottendorfer, Whitelaw Reid, Murat Halstead, Joseph Pulitzer, Charles A. Dana, and Carl Schurz. Puck follows at centre on a white horse, with a group of dandies on the right, one labelled Freddie, and a group of Political Tramps on the left, including George M. Robeson, Ulysses S. Grant, Thomas C. Platt, James G. Blaine, and Roscoe Conkling. John Kelly is at the lead of the Tammany Heelers, followed by Hubert O. Thompson with the New York Street Cleaning Department, behind them comes Pucks Monopoly Target Company with Russell Sage, William H. Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, and Cyrus W. Field. On the left is a masonic group labelled F. & A.M. carrying a goat on a pedest