The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19
ID JEWELL STATUE
 ID GEN. GORDON Event Will Occur Next Satur-
 day, May 25 AN HEROIC EQUESTRIAN Georgia Will Assemble in Martial and Civic Strength to Do Honor to Her Dead Confederate
 Hero.

Atlanta Ga. May 1S.-Georgia will as- semble in martial and civic strength upon and about the state capitol grounds next Saturday when there will be unveiled in lasting bronze the heroic equestrian statue of Sen Gohn B. Gordan, soldier, states man and orator. which the people of the state and the south have erected in honor of his memory.
 General Gordon was regarded as the typical Georgia soldier, and there was no man whom Georglans, in fact those of all the south, more delighted to honor. Then, after the war, in legislative halls, execu- tive chair and upon the orators plat forms, he carried the message of peace and fellowship to every section of the country becoming, in fact, national character admired and loved wherever he was known Indeed, not few subscrip- tions to the fund with which the monu- ment was erected came from those who stood in opposing ranks in the sixties, and with each came message of admira- tion and esteem for his nobility of char acter and generosity of heart.
 This monument was built at an approx innate expense of $25,OOO of which Sl0000 was raised by private subscription among comrades and friends, largely in Georgia, but also in other southern states, and in some instances as noted, from ad mring friends in the north The project was first undertaken a little more than three years ago, just after General Cor dons death, and when s10,0O0 had been raised by the John B. Gordan Monument association, the Georgia legislature ap- proyriated the $l5,00O needed to complete the work, taking over the associations fund and naming a commission to act as the states agent.
 In competition entered by half a dozen well known artists, Sculptor Solon H. Borglum of Norwalk, Conn.,. won the award. his work being highly commended by those who best knew and were most intimately associated with General Cor don, among them his wife and daughters. The sculptors task under the criticism of such judges, no easy one, and it's completion has been the almost constant work of a twelve-month. The status was cast in copper bronze in Brooklyn, N. Y, and forwarded to Atlanta, April %, arriv ing here May g. So short a time was given for the completion of the intri- cate work upon the huge granite pedes- tai, that the statue still stands on the car on which it was loaded but will be set early next week. few days prior to the unveiling ceremonies.
 This statue represents Gordon as he is best remembered in the years shortly before his death when almost upon the same spot where 1t will stand for genera tions, he sat mounted and reviewed year after year on Memorial Day, the ever thinning hosts of those who followed him in battle. And there it will stand for years to come upon the northwest corner of the state capitol grounds, in reviewing attitude while past it will march on each Memorial Day to come those who join in tribute to the recollections of the past.
 Upon. the front of the granite pedestal will appear the one word. in bronze let ters: Gordon" Upon either side of the pedestal will appear bronze bas-relief, three by five feet in dimensions. repre- sentative of the most conspicuous feat ures in his career The one represents Gordon at Spottsylvania on the 18th of May, when, before his entire division, he forced Gen. Robert F. Lee to the rear, and probably saved the intrepid Confed- crate leaders life, an act which has fig. ured in poetry, song and story. The other is representative of the three important phases of Gordon's life, soldier, statesman and patriot. He became governor of Georgia and United States senator, and no Georgian has ever been better on the lecture platform than was he up to the day of his death
 The unveiling ceremonies, which will take place at noon, Saturday, May 25, will be preceded by a military pageant in which there will join troops from all parts of the state, while federal officers and troops from the department of the gulf and Fort McPherson will participate in doing him honor, Gen. w. s. Eagerly, commander of the department and staff. having accepted the invitation of Grand Marshal Robert E. Park to take part in this function. The military will break ranks at the capitol grounds and join the vast throng of officials civic bodies