The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-11-17

Tue opsn mouth shows great teeth
and Q Joyful grin is seen at the cor
ners. The archeologists here say that
this 10 tho simon-pure origin of the
Roosevelt smile. It proves the anti
guilty Of tho genealogical tree Of our
! former President. and it may be that
when the cartoons Of the man who
heads the Bull Moose party are ex-
humed from the debris OF thousand
years hence the psychologists Of the
future may connect the two in their
long narrative Of past civilizations.
Like the Chinese.
Other monuments make me think
! Of the Tartars. They have Tartar
features. and they look not unlike the
giants in stone which guard the Ming
| tombs at Marking and near the Nan
| ko pass through the great wall of
l China. In connection with this is
the evident deification Of the turtle
| which has always been the Chinese
! emblem of longevity. as is shown by
| gigantic stone turtles In many parts
| OF North China. One Of the biggest
l monuments I have seen here OUT
! side the great shafts Is a turtle which
| weighs about twenty tons and is at
| least eight feet IN height. 1t Il en-
tirely covered with hieroglyphics and
Is ono great mass OF carving.
How the Menunenfs Were Built.
These monuments which surround
the ancient city Of Quirigua are said
to be the largest Of their kind upon
the American continent. and the won
der IL how the people OF those ancient
times could have lifted such enor-
| nous weights. We have no record
that they had beasts Of burden. and
! machinery was As yet uninveated
They probably used levers. pulleys
I and cables and rolled the stones into
place upon inclined planes There
| are evidences that the great stones
. were brought down upon RATS at the
time of the floods, and the remains
of an ancient canal Is shown. The
stone itself Is such that it hardens
! with age. being comparatively soft
, when it comes from the quarry. AM
4 the carving may have been done with
. | stone axes and stone chisels. aided by
: knives of obsidian.
t. n QuiriEus City.
. So much for the monuments about
Quirigua- Now let us look at the mali
part Of the city. I found the mer
. | working there when 1 visited it yes
terday They were laboring In ths
heart Of the jungle. Palms and ma
hogany trees, some of the latter l5t
!. feet high, shaded them, and the
trunks Of great trees lay amorS the
debris Of the temple mounds which
they were cutting out
II They have already cleared a spac'
, F., Of six or eight acres which is file
} with great mounds. under which III
. some mighty temples Of the pass. Tn
J mounds are twenty OF thirty feet high
and you can see the stones Of tenn
pies showing out On the tops OF SOM
of them grew trees many feet thfcl
and In mound number I saw negroe:
cutting out the stumps OF mahogany
trees. They were taking away thu
earth in one corner. and there. under
the supervision OF Mr.. Morley. tn;
ancient walls were being relaid. The
temple on which he was working was
labout thirty feet wide and 100 feet
long. The stones taken out were COW
cred with carvings and upon item
iwere the faces Of men and women
There were also Glyphs OF characters
cut In the stone.
The stones ! first saw were part
OF q frieze. and Mr.. Morley showed me
that the wall Of the temple was nine
feet thick, and that the whole Of the
outside fs covered with carving. On<
door has been excavated- and the slab,
over this are seven sfect long. saw
| one piece Of sandstone which had .
hole cut through II. and il seemed Il
. me as though IL might have been the
! TOT Of a letter box.
The Gs.n6 Piass.
From this temple I went to others
} climbing up the steps until I cculS
look down on the great court in which
. the mounds on temples lay. The whol'
made me think Of the stadium a
| Athsns and I can see that when TIE
Garth Is all cleared away the site vii
I be very imposing. Much Of the build
, ings has already been uncovered. and
> Won can walk about through the an.
cient structures and wonder what kine
! of people put them into shape
, There Is no doub. but that the stone
all came from some distance The sc'
, of the cort Is q sandy ioam- and Their
, are no rocks of any kind within thre'
miles Of It excepting those In the TEN
J pies. The chief auarries are three
. miles away. and IL is believed that the
heaviest monuments were brought
here by turning the course OF tn.
Quirfgua River so that u ran past the
temples
The city seems TO have heen laid
with . grand plaza or court with :
smaller court adjoining Tor the TEN
! pleo or main buildings. The main build
inGs surround . court They he'd ter
raced walls from thirty 60 sixty feet
!.hsrh, ana In some Of them are rooms
with walls % square stones ana door
, ways srehed with nat stones To tbs