The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-19

found his home in the hills of Talla- dega County. By chance MT Moretti
 discovered rich beds of marble in the Carpathian ranges and not far distant
 from the Bessarabian border The Elm
 peror became much interested In the
 discovery and commissioned engineers
 to aid MT. Moretti in his explorations.
 Millions of money were at his dfsposal
 If the marble beds could be developed
 for commercial purposes. The beds
 were remote from transportation fa-
 cilities. A railroad was necessary.
 Tt can never be-" said Francis Joseph when the necessity for a railroad was demonstrated. The reasons were dip lomatic and governmental. Hungary feared to build a line of railroad from the Russian frontier into the heart of its own country; perhaps to its own great city of Buda Pesth, railroad that might some day transport Rus sian hussars and Cossacks and in- fantrymen to the very walls Of the Hungarian palace. Giuseppi Moretti, his heart fired with ambition, had met his first failure. He | turned from the project heartsick and discouraged. He told himself that | America was free. America was bold and daring. He would go to America I and he would find white marble. He would search until he reached his l goal.
 I NOW the TBdutT hioWb tuG tidl ID lin the heart of Giuseppi Morettt. The Longing of seventeen years has been appeased. His search has ended and here in Talledega County he is happy. He has found the finest white marble | in the world here. He will live with 1t and he will die with 1t.
 Hard Life in New York.
 The first years Mir Moretti spent in 1 this country were hard years. He was at h n money and of sordid business affairs. America spells success with dollars. The | Tuscany sculptor had a modest studio on Eighteenth Street, New York He did such work as came to him to do. With a fine sense of humor, he tells of | the tailor who came to have a goose made. MT. Moretti said he could make a goose He made a goose and the tailor paid him s4. That tailor may live to see the day when tho goose carved for him by the sculptor Moretti will be worth more than S4.
 Noted artists, men like Hunt and Remington and Caruso, were the friends of Moretti They knew of his genius. and through them New York came to
 know the Tuscany artist who was pass ing his days and nights on frugal rare in his Eighteenth Street studio. Vanderbilt palace was to be built at
  and statuary to be furnished. The Sculptor Moretti was commissioner to design plans. He did so. The plans | were accepted and Mir. Moretti became a fast friend of the Nanderbllts. Through their influence he was com missioned to do work for mliilonairss | of Pittsburg. The two great play grounds of Pittsburg, Shanley Park and | Highland Park were to be improved and MT. Moretti was commissioned to provide the statuary work m marpie | and in bronze. Among these was a | life figure of stephen Foster, who wrote | osewanee River" and of E. M. Bigelow, l a rich Park Commissioner of Pittsburg. MT. Bigelow gave Mir. Moretu one sit- 1 ting. The figure is one of the few 1 statues of a living man in the world, | and MT. Moretti thinks that tho praise l of MT. Bigelow for the realism of this figure is the highest praise he has ever | received.
 Vulcan Brought Him Here. | The work of Mir. Moretti in New
 York. in Pittsburg, and in Newport caused widespread comment and he
 was commissioned to mould Vulcan for ,he city of Birmingham. When this
 work was completed the Italian sculp- for visitd Talladega, moro by acci- dent than by design. He investigated inc white marble beds. The other part
 of the story has been told
 l This then is the man who proposes l ,o give an artistic value as we'll as a 1 commercial value to the marble of Ta1Iadeea county Right now, MT, Mo- i retti is working on model for bust | of the late Captain J. Harvel Mathis. a-xallsnt Confederate soldier. IL is for l the city of Memphis and the model in