Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08
To
TELL PROGRESS
IN CANAL ZONE
History Of American Development
viii Be Depicted in Stone at
Panama Pacific Exposition.

SAN FRANCISCO. June THE
sculpture of the Panama Pacific Ex-
position viii carry out the note Of
the exposition in celebrating the
opening Of the Panama Canal The
spirit OF achievement as exemplitied
by Americas work at Panama will
be idealized through the works Of a
number of Americas greatest sculp-
tors. who are now engaged in COM
pleting the models
Figures Of the early explorers Of
the oceans, statuary symbolizing the
struggle to pierce the rocky backbone
Of the continents, masses Of glori-
fed workmen, the human bulwark
of the canal and the great groups
ideaizing the browning success at
Panama will be among the important
sculptural works that win bring home
to everyone the world significance OF
the Panama Canal
statuary On Vast Scale.
The staiuary viii be executed upon
vast and wonderful scale and in
its complete presentation Of sculp-
tural art will carry forward the work
Of the great expositions Of the past
each of which has marked a distinct
advance IN the popular appreciation
Of sculpture.
The sculpturaI plan will be easy for
any one to comprehend The sculp-
ture is designed to form a sequence
from the moment the visitor first en-
ters the main gates of the exposition
until he has made the circuit OF the
exposition courts and of the enclos-
Ing walls. Entering from the city
by the main gate the visitor viii first
be confronted with a huge equestrian
fountain symbolizing the creation Of
the Isthmian waterway between the
oceans.
The fountain will be outlined
against the opening Of the 11O-foOt
archway Of the Administration Build
ing which viii rise 10 a height of 400
feet. An epic equestrian group rep
resenting Energy. the Lord of the
.sthmian Way will be the main motif
Of the fountain. A colossal figure Of
a splendid nude youth mounted upon
Homeric horse will be depicted as
advancing steadily through the waters
Of the dam.
Canal Workers Pictured.
The pedestal itself win be extreme
ly simple, recalling the constructive
elements Of the canal and win be
planned to permit the flowing Of water
down its sides in four great vertical
sheets which will empty into large
horizontal basin. Grouped in serried
ranks about the piers Of the pedestal
beside the falling waters viii be fig
ures of canal workers In the basin
before the pedestal an exultant Vic
tory will be perched upon a huge
winged sea monster
Passing beneath the arch of the
Administration Building the visitor IN
1915 viii arrive In the vast oval
courtyard OF the Court Of sun and
Stars around which Colonnades sweep
to the right and to the left
Before the sightseer, 1,5G0 feet 20
the north, viii be a vision Of the
flashing waters of San Francisco Bay
seen through the 300-foot wide en-
trance of the Court, with the column
of Victory on the waterfront stand
ing out as its central feature. on the
west side Of the court will be the
great triumphal arch. the Arch of
the Setting Sun, 80 feet high and
cleft by an arChway 80 feet In height
and Stars will be seen an arch of
equally magnificent proportions. the
great Arch of the Rising Sun.