Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-11
BORG[UM OUTLINES
SCHEME To FINANCE
GIGANTIC MEMORIAL

score of prominent Atlanta men for
the acquisition of a fund to complete
ain Memorial to the Southern Con-
federacy-the sculptured pageant in
imperishable granite, designed and
to be executed by Gutzon Borglum,
as a monument to the Lost Cause"
The plan was submitted by Mr..
Prince Alfonso Louis de Bourbon. art
connoisseur, critic, and dramatist,
who outlined the scenario Of a great
romantic motion picture drama of
"The Lost Cause" leading up to and
including the Stone Mountain Memo
rial.
"This picture, to be produced by
art SITS capable of a work of perfect
sincerity and loftiness of aim" said
Mr.. Borglum, will cost from 100000
to $4,000. I have assurances that
from it can be realized not less than
$3.50, O0O-every dollar to go for the
memorial. 1t is easily possible that
the picture will produce fund suffi-
cient to pay for the memorial com
plete. What we want now is group
of Atlanta men, small group OF
five or six, to back this picture enter
prise, with the assurance OF my per-
sonal guarantee that it will be
dignifled, artistic and appealing pres
entation of the reasons for this
greatest Of earth,s monuments yn,!n1e.1t
Mr.. Borglum then proceeded TO
talk brass tacks" to the assembly
which included Governor Hugh M:
Dorsey, James B. Nevin, Forrest
Adair, Eugene Black, James Floyo'
William Schley Howard, Sam Dobps,
Lee Ashcraft, II. P. Hermance. Arnold
BroyIes, c. F. Willis, w. j. simmons.
Nell r. Wilkinson, Lucian Lamar
knight, DR.. K. G. Matheson, DR.. =.
B. Wilmer, DR.. M. Ashby Jones, , n.
Y Mccord, DR.; j. IL y o H1els; Dr' Hull
General Leonard Wood was in
vited, and had tentatively accepted,
but found at the last moment tnat
he was unable to attend. he sent
this telegram sf to- Mn Eeha that cir
cumstances beyond my control pre-
vent my being with you tonight.
Borglum's conception of the stone
Mountain monument to the greaC
noblest memorials ever, attempted by
man to make eternal the memory OF
the great leaders of people. 1t will
be more lasting, more impressive
and inspiring, than any. monument
Of the past: 1t will register in inn
q people for their leaders. AS a
monument and a testimonial 1t will
endure as long as the rugged earth
itself.
the south will carry out the work
as one worthy of themselves and
those great sons of the south whose
memory they honor"
struck great burst Of applause
from the assembly--in fact, there
was never any doubt that the vast
and romantic project would be per
mitted by those men and other At
lantians to fail of accomplishment,
after tho start already made
Ready to Start Work
II am ready to begin the actual
work." declared Mr.. Borglum. "There
are funds in hand-received, l must
say, from a source outside Of At
lanta-that will enable me to begin
granite mountain pageant of the
the carving in little more than
month from today.
Directly under the scaffolding al
ready suspended from the mountains
crest, I shall begin with the head
of General Robert E. Lee"
evoked another burst of applause.
THAT group will be the first to
be carved" continued Mr.. Borglum.
"a group Of the leaders of the South
ern onfederacy-carved first of ALL
sthey lead from out the living
world to see, for all the future gen
erations to reverence, when Atlanta
itself, a great city of the south, may
have been given to the pillow, and
Richmond to the dust Of memorable
time!"
Turning to the probabilities of the
situation, Mr.. Borglum said that 81
600 had been raised at the beginning
of the project by the United Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy, and that he
had expended in preparatory work
more than $4,000, Of which $4,000
"This monument must bet shall
bew he declared. 'I am merely sug-
costing to you men means OF &C
quiring the funds Immediately. I am
ready at once to put fifty men and
$50, 900 worth of machinery at work
on this greatest Of all memorial
Enormous value to Atlanta
To complete the monument Mr..
Borglum said, would require six. per-
haps seven, years. and upwards OF
one million dollars.
,'I dislike intensely to speak Of its
enormous advertising value to ATTAIN
ta," said the sculptor, "but know of
nothing else in all the world that
would so present a city and sec
ton to the rest of the nation and
to the world at large. 1t would be
the object of actual pilgrimages
from all parts of the earth, as well
as constantly increasing reason Tor
tourists to come to Atlanta"
Prince Louis, in brief address
marked by evidences of deep emo
ton, spoke Of the tremendous appeal
the memorial had extended to him,
before he ever came to America. He
has been in this country year and
a half, studying American history
and the history Of that incompar-
ably romantic struggle" the war be-
tween the states. He outlined the
story of the picture.
'It would begin" he said, with
white day in winter, the trees naked
against the sky, bleak path stretch
ing through them, to bridge. Along
old lady, attended and aided by two
negro servants. At the bridge she
encounters a young man-an artist,
a sculptor, whose great studio is just
beyond He escorts her CALAMITY and
with reverence to the studio.
"Then she says to him: Sir, you
are a great artist sculptor. l am
nv home Is a mountain of granite.
Sir, have come to ask you to go
to this mountain, and on it's face to
carve a memorial; perhaps such
memorial as the wonderful dying
Lion of Luzerne; memorial to
Lost Cause
"Then says the sculptor: But what
is this Lost Cause? Tell me-
"And the sweet old lady-this lady
of the Old South-sits down with
him in the lofty studio, and she tells
him the story of the Lost Cause.
Action Of Drama
"This introduces the action of the
drama. 1t begins in two places on
the American continent-with
Dutch shipload of slaves in the
James River, to be sold to the chew
alters of the Old South, in 1919;
while in 1920 the Mayflower lands
with the Puritans at Plymouth.
There is family of the Old South,
with two daughters. There is fam
lily of the North, with two sons. You