Based on the details in this excerpt, what is the purpose of this speech?
O to demonstrate
O to inform
O to entertain
O to persuade
Read the excerpt from "Opening Ceremonies of the
New York and Brooklyn Bridge" by Hon. Seth Low,
Mayor of the City of Brooklyn.
This Bridge is a landway over the water, connecting
two cities bearing to each other relations in some
respects similar. It is the function of such works to
bless "both him that gives and him that takes." The
development of the West has not belittled, but has
enlarged New York, and Brooklyn will grow by reason
of this Bridge, not at New York's expense, but to her
permanent advantage. The Brooklyn of 1900 can
hardly be guessed at from the city of to-day. The hand
of Time is a mighty hand. To those who are privileged
to live in sight of this noble structure every line of it
should be eloquent with inspiration. Courage,
enterprise, skill, faith, endurance--these are the
qualities which have made the great Bridge, and these
the qualitios which will make our city areat and our