Froman actual photo of Cleopatra's Needle being rigged into place onto its original base as it is supported by Gorringe's Trestle. It is the exact same trestle that he used to dismount the obelisk from it's original home in Alexandria, Egypt. A copy of this photograph was cast in bronze and fixed to his gravestone. It is a tribute to it's designer that both operations came off without incident. The trestle was built at The Phoenix Iron Works, Trenton, New Jersey.

"It is something to have witnessed the manipulation of a mass weighing nearly two hundred and twenty tons changing its position majestically, yet as easily and steadily as if it were without weight. It was to me an inexpressible relief to feel that my work was complete, and that no accident or incident had happened that would make my countrymen regret that I had been intrusted with the work of removing and re-erecting in their metropolis one of the most famous monuments of the Old World and the most ancient and interesting relic of the past on the American Continent." –
H.H. Gorringe.

As the obelisk was lifted into place and set upon its original pedestal, they sang the old Protestant hymm by Martin Luther: "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God" with the following blatantly Masonic new lyrics

"Great God, to Whom since time began,
The world has prayed and striven;
Maker of stars, and earth, and man -
To thee our praise is given!
Here by this ancient Sign
Of Thine own Light Divine,
We lift to Thee our eyes,
Thou Dweller of the skies"