The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-25
SCULPTOR PLANS TO CH|SEL GIANT
 FIGURES ON HILL
Everlasting Memorial to Con- federate Dead Will Be Carved on Stone Moun-
 tain, Near Atlanta

ATLANTA. Ga, Feb. 24.-If the plans of Gutzon Borgium, well known sculptor, do not go. awry, giant-siz figures of Gen. Robert E. Lee, Jeff erson Davis and Gen. Stonewall Jack son, heroes of the Southern Con- federacy, soon will be outlined on the blank face of Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, as an everlasting memorial of the Lost Cause.
 Work of installing huge project ing lamp, something new in the world of science, at the. foot of the mountain now is being completed and when the Georgia Railway and Power company extends it's power lines from the end of the street car line to the mountain, MT. Borglum intends to come to Atlanta and att tempt to fasten the likenesses of the Confederate leaders on the side of the great mass of granite. That of Lee alone Is intended to be about S3 feet high. while the head of tho horse he will be shown riding will be 30 feet in length. These dimen- sions of the central figure of the proposed picture give an idea of tho inmensity of the sculpture which will extend, when completed, across 700 feet of the face of the noun tain. .tt,f.3..,L>,l Throw Pictures on Mountain.
 In the event the great machine fails to print a picture on the stone wall, just as a picture is printed on paper in the dark room of a pho- tends to use his lamp to "throw" the pictures on the mountain side as . picture Is thrown on the screen In a motion picture theatre. Then he will have himself lowered from the top of the mountain in swing ing seat, and working in that dan gerous position, will spend an hour or two each night until he has. suc- ceeded in outlining with white paint the figures In the memorial.
 That the work of carving the gi- gantic picture will be a dangerous one is acknowledged by experts who have contemplated the task. The steep side of Stone Mountain rises 300 feet in height with no foothold' from top to bottom. The only way the work can be accomplished Is by low ering the workmen from the top of the cliff. After tho figures are sketched in the men who do the ac7 tual carving will be lowered in steel cages to carry on their labors.
 The projecting lamp was built for Mir. Borglum in New York at cost of $2,500 and weighs 91o pounds. It is supplied with 150-ampheric arc and this, with set of condensers, gives it the power to project a pic- ture farther than any other lamp ever built, it is claimed.
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 Discusses Photographs.
 Discussing his plan to photograph the picture on the mountain, MT. Borglum said:
 "First, by several nights work I will determine the exact location for Gen. Lees figure. I will make this spot on the mountain sensitive to light by pouring sensitizing chemi calls over it, then working by night, for the night Itself will be my dark room. I will let the rays of the lamp shinesa2a inst--th zrl oAntAinz for several hours. After that l will pour developing fluid.-.then fixing fluid over that part where the light has been shining. After thls is done I will wash away the chemicals. By morning I will have my picture ready for my workmen tosbegin carv7 ing. I will proceed in this way with the other figures until finally I will have the biggest photograph ever made. printed on the granite face of the memorial" s
 Plans are being made for great memorial meeting at Stone Mountain in the near future, when surviving leaders of the Confederacy and the union armies, President Harding and other governmental heads will be in vited to visit the mountain and view the scene of the projected memorial.
 Work on the Stone Mountain me- morial was first begun in 1916 and since that time has been largely fl- nanced by Mir. Borglum. personally and Sam H. Venable, representing the Venable estate, which owns the mountain. Mir. Borglum was first brought to Atlanta by the Atlanta chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy and since that time the Atlanta chapter has been actively at work on the project. Between s20,000 and s25.000 already has been ex- pended before the World war brought an end to activities. The Daughters