The New York herald., 1921-01-09
BORGLUM PREPARES
TO CARVE MOUNTAIN
Gigantic Figures to Depict
Memorial of Civil War
i'm Granite.
ATLANTA Dimes SCULPTOR
Funds Subscribed to Begin
Work That VIII Take Eight
Years to Complete.

Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor has
taken up again his plans for carving
vast memorial to the Confederacy on
the face OF Stone Mountain. a great
granite monolth just outside Atlanta,
according to announcement yesterday
from his studio, 166 East Thirty-eighth
street.
Mr.. Borglum now is in Atlanta, where
he was the guest last night Of the State
and city officials and other prominent
Georgians at a dinner for the revival
OF the project. In connection with the
memorial. it was stated. Mr.. Borglum
Will produce a motion picture story OF
the war between the States. setting forth,
from the viewpoint of a united nation,
the spirit of the memorial which he will
carve The picture will show also how
depict from models and from actual
work on Stone Mountain what the me-
mortal will be like.
The scenario for the picture was writ
ten by Prince Alfonso Louis de Bour-
bon. a friend of Mr.. Borglum. who has
made a study of the civil war and in
the delineation of which. il was stated
he has undertaken to set forth the story
with the unbiased view of an outsider
Prince Louis accompanied Mr.. Borglum
to Atlanta and read his scenario to the
Georgians, who pledged their support to
that project as well as to the memorial
itself The proceeds from the picture,
Mr. Borglum said, will be devoted to the
memorial.
Major-Gen. Leonard Wood also went
TO Atlanta with Mr. Borglum and spoke
at the dinner on the interest which the
North has in Mr.. Borglum's proposed
work of art.
II was explained at Mr.. Borglum's
studio that nothing so stupendous as the
Stone Mountain undertaking has ever
been planned in art. Stone Mountain Is
solid block of granite the northern side
OF which is "A sheer cliff nearly 1000 feet
high and 1.500 feet wide. That perpen-
dicular surface. it was explained. is
without seams and even enough to offer
a vast natural canvas for the sculptors
chisel.
The memorial will take the form OF a
big army. composed of more than 1000
figures of Southern leaders, marching
across the fact of this cliff. Mr.. Borglum.
it was stated. will cut the figures in
heroic proportions, forty or fifty feet in
height, so that they can be recognized
for four or five miles. The principal
figures will stand out in complete relief,
through various stages of relief to mere
chisel sketches on the surface of the
stone, thus giving the appearance of an
army fading into the heart of the noun
tain.
Mr.. Borglum plans to use a large
number of artists under his supervision.
The artists will work upon the face of
the cliff from steel cages swung on
cables down the side of the mountain.
Much machinery and paraphernalia 1t
was stated, already has been installed
on the top of the mountain; surveys of
the cliffsde have been completed, a
road has been cut out of the rock to
the mountain top and sketches of the
principal groups have been finished
Mr.. Borglum estimates that IL will
take about eight years to finish the
work. 1t will cost several million dol
lars. Enough money, it is understood
already is on hand to start the work.
and the chiseling will begin about the
middle of the coming summer Mr.
Borglum stated recently that additional
and substantial sums have been pledgei
not only by Southerners. but that !. ary
wealthy Northerners have interested
themselves in the undertaking anu will
support it with donations
Stone Mountain has been decided for
the memorial purpose to the Daughters
OF the Confederacy by Samuel H.
Nenable and the Venable estate, Joint
owners of the mountain. Three thousan4
acres of woodland about the mourta.n
also have been made available for
park. which is expected eventually 10 te
turned over to the Federal Government
for a national mark