The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1905-05-18
MARBLE HALLS IN
NEW UNION DEPOT,
Built by Kennesaw rlarble
Company, Marietta
Georgia.
From Atlanta Constitution.

Inc lame OF the Greek sculptors, Phi
dias, Praxiletes and others, has been
handed down through the wonderful
creations in Penetia and Parian marble
which they left as evidences of their
skill. The enterprise of the Kennesaw
Marble Company, Marietta, Ca, is rap
idly making the state OF Georgia fam
GUS for the production of a superior
quality of marble for building purposes.
New York state offers a gray bird g eve
marble; Vermont a black marble.
Mary of the eastern states produce
white marble but it remains for the
coed old state of Georgia to furnish
marble as pank as the blush of maiden
and of this beautiful material, known
as Etowah marble, or pink Georgia, is
formed the walls of the ladies' waiting
room in AtlGnta's new depot.
But this is not the only claim to dis
tinction enjoyed by the Kennesaw Mar
BILE Company. 1t is the producer of a
marble known as Verde Antique, which
is as odd as it is beautiful. A notified
green, it varies in shade from the most
delicate pea green to the color of the
ocean waves when in the tumult of q
storm, OF this decidedly unique and
very pretty stone, are the walls of the
smoking room fashioned, and the effect
is magnificent to behold. This con-
pany furnished all the interior marble
work: including wainscoting, toilet
rooms, etc, A monument to their skill
is presented in the beautiful plaster
fronts which adorn the building. These
are l9 feet in length and but one and
one-quarter inches in thickness. On
account of their extreme thinness, as
compared with their length, these were
as difficult 10 handle aS if made of glass.
Their safe removal from the quarry,
their polishing, Cheir safe delivery
which required q special garland the
successful placing of them in position,
was brilliant series of achievements
of which the Kennesaw Marble Com
pany may we'll be proud. For length
and thinness, these pilasters hold the
record in the United States.
The Kennesaw Marble Company sue
ceeded the American Marble Company
and was established in 1891 It's Off
lcers are: A. V. Cortelyou, president:
II. G. Clement, vice-president; Z. w.
Boone, secretary and treasurer. A
large business was done in monuments
to the retail dealers, while they are
prepared to fill orders from architects
Cor everything in the building line,
both exterior and interior They are
dealers in Italian marble as we'll, i'm
porting three or four cargoes a year,
which reaches them by way of New
| Orleans.
This firm furnished the marble for
the Prudential and Peters buildings in
this city, the St. Charles and CONNER
cial hotels and the Herman building in
New Orleans. They also supplied the
beautiful green marble entering into
the construction of the Wabash station
at Pittsburg Pa. Excellence of pro-
duct, added to fair and honorable deal
| ing, has brought a volume of business
to the Kennesaw Marble Company, ne
cessitating the material enlargement
OF their already extensive plant at Ma
rfetta, ia. At present they are oper-
atlng twelve gangs of saws. three rub
bing beds, two polishing machines. and
| q large HulEDeT OF CQG-OH saws, COun-
ter sinking machines and turning
lathes. Their power is produced by a
Brown engine of 200 horsepower ca
pacity, and all their machinery and ap-
planes are of the modern and ap-
fproved patterns. Employing none but
skilled wnrkmen, and ever alert and
abreast of the times in the adoption, as
we'll as the originating of up-to-date
ideas, their monument department has
gained celebrity which is not cofined
to the South
An interview with tie genial presi-
dent Of the Kennesaw Marble Company
in their sumptuously furnished offices
at Marietta, brought cut much of in
terest on the subject of marble and in
particular, the Georgia product. State
pride alone is not alone responsible for
the assertion that Georgia marble is
the handsomest. as well as the best
adapted for both exterior and interior
work. Examination of testimonials
from owners of buildings all over the
United States in which Georgia marble
has figured, added to the sight of a
we'll filled book of orders for 1905
would lead to the conclusion that the
statements of Mr.. Cortelyou were, il
ANYTHING too modest