Evening star., 1923-12-02
Confederate Memorial in Georgia
To Be Worlds Greatest Work of Art
Granite Rebrent
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stcTeopticOn Sllue, containing an out
line of the figures. reproduced the
lines on the precipice 1000 feet from
the lantern, in enormously magnifed
scale. Men suspended by steel cables
with buckets Of white paint and
brushes painted the outlines at night.
Progress has been rapid since that
time. The granite removal is
straight quarrying job, but one of
the unexampled difficulties is that the
quarryman must take the stone out
of a perpendicular precipice hundreds
of feet above the plain and an equal
distance from the summit. and can
not use explosives for FEAR OF blow
ing off part or all OF some figure.
cry. especially designed for placing
a large force OF men on the precf-
pice, is under construction in the
works of the Brown Hoisting Machin-
cry Company of Cleveland, Ohio, and
will be donated to the memorial at
a cost of S250,000. This will make
possible the completion Of the pano-
rama within six to eight years, when
without such machinery II would
take five times as long as that.
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THE memorial association, although
1t has received voluntary con-
tributions of various amounts from
all over the world. has only started
headquarters in Atlanta, where $780,
900 already has been pledged. Branch
headquarters at a later date will be
extended throughout the United
States. including the nations capt.
tai. Already Stone mountain. located
sixteen miles from Atlanta by air
line. and by a good road twenty miles.
has been visited by more than $4,000
people every month since the work
first got under way.
The memorial association held tenn
porary headquarters In the Willard
Hotel during the recent convention
of the United Daughters of the Con-
federacy. The Daughters are backing
the association, as it was during one
of their meetings several years ago
that the idea was born. The organi-
cation Is not assuming financial back
ing except through the individual
contributions OF its members.
While In Washington the memorial
association was represented by Hol-
Inns w. Randolph. its president: Capt.
James w. English, former mayor of
Atlanta and Confederate veteran,
honorary president; Gutzon Borglum.
sculptor, and Mr.. and Mrs. Rogers
Winter, assistants. Capt. English,
Mr.. Borglum and Mr.. Randolph made
a call at the White House, where they
told the President about the project
and invited him to the ceremony on
Lees birthday anniversary. Mr.. Borg
lum also addressed one of the meet
ings Of the Daughters OF the Con-
federacy here. outlining the recent
work.
Stone mountain itself is a unique
example of natures handiwork. AS
it's name implies, it is literally a
mountain of stone, 5000 feet long,
seven miles around the base, and a
mile to the summit up the sloping
side, directly opposite the perpen-
dicular facade where human handi-
work is to appear. 1t Is one of the
largest solid bodies OF granite in the
world. containing approximately
7,543, ,75e,s5o cubic feet of stone above
the surface. It's foundations under
lie almost half the state of Georgia.
At varying depths the substrata Of
Stone mountain granite have been
encountered in borings as far north
as the Blue Ridge mountains, sew
epty-five miles distant, and as far
south as the coastal plain, 250 miles
distant.
Time has not produced the slightest
decay in this great granite monster"
during all ages. Many centuries of
erosion have touched it as lightly as
the clouds touch the sky. 1t truly
is perpetual.
Chips of stone drilled away since
the task was commenced have been
cut up into small pieces and boxed
and sent all over the world as SOU
venirs.
1t is on the northern side OF this
mammoth page of granite that Borg
lum will engrave a perpetual and In
destructible monument to the men
and women who fought. suffered, sac
rificed and died for the southern
Confederacy, and this testimonial can
not but be, in the minds OF all peo,
Piles. north and south alike, q lifting
memorial to the lost cause"