Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-02-26
Stone Mountain
Photographic Plate

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Atlanta. Ga, Feb. 25.-If the plans
! OF Gutzon Borglum. well known
sculptor, do not go awry. giant sized
1sures OF Gen. Robert +. Lee, Jeffer-
! son Davis, and Gen. StOneWall Jack
son.. heroes Of the Southern Confed-
eracy, 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 noun
tain now is being completed and
/ when the Georgia Railway & Power
! company extends its power lines from
! the end of the street car line to the
mountain. Mr.. Borglum intends to
come to Atlanta and attempt to fasten
/ the likenesSes Of the Confederate
leaders on the side Of the great mass
Of granite. That Of Lee alone is in :
tended to be about SO feet high, while
the head Of the horse he will be
! shown riding will be 80 feet in length.
! These dimensions Of the central fig
| ure Of the proposed picture give an
idea of the immensely of the sculp-
ture which will extend, when COM
pleted, across 700 feet Of the face of
the mountain.
In the even. that 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 n photog
raphers studio, Mr.. Borglum intends
to use his lamp to throw" the pic
lures on the mountain side as a
picture is thrown on the screen in a
motion picture theater Then he
will have himself lowered from the
top Of the mountain in a swinging
seat, and working in that dangerous
position, will spend an hour or two
each night until he has succeeded in
outlining with white paint the figures
in the memorial.
That the work OF carving the
gigantic picture will be a dangerous
one is acknowledged by experts who
have contemplated the task. The
steep side of Stone Mountain rises
900 feet in height with no foothold
from top to bottom. The only way
the work can be accomplished is by
lowering the workmcn from the tor
Of the cliff. After the figures are
sketched in the men who do the
actual carving will be lowered il
steel cages to carry on their labors.
The projecting lamp was built fol
Mr.. Borglum in New York, at cos,
Of $500 and weighs go pounds. II
is supplied with 150-amphere arc
and this with a set of coadensers
gives it the power to project p pic
ture farther than any other lamI
ever built, it is claimed.
Discussing his plan to photograph
the picture on the mountain Mr.
Borglum said:
First, by several nights work
will determine the exact location foi
Gen. Lees figure. l will make this
spot on the mountain sensitive tt
light by pouring sensitiZinS chem
icals over it. then working by night
for the night itself Will be my dark
room, I will let the rays of the lamI
shine against the mountain for sew
eral hours. After that l will poul
developing fluid. then fixing fluid ovel
that part where the light has beer
shining. After this is done | vii
wash away the chemicals. BY morn
ing l will have my picture ready fol
my workmen to begin carving. VII
proceed in this way with the Other
figures until finally I will have thu
biggest photograph ever made
printed on the granite face of The
memorial
Plans are being made for n Erea
| memorial meeting at stone mountain
in the near future, when SURVIVING
leaders of the ConfederaCy and thu
Union armies, President Harding ant
other government heads, and leaders
Of patriotic organizations through
out the country will be invited U
visit the mountain and view the Sccn'
of the projected memorial.
Work on Stone mountain mcmorla
was first begun in 1916 and sine
fthat time has been largely financed
by Mr. BorGlum, personally ana san
II. Nenablc, representing the |enap i'
estate, which owns the mountain
Mr.. Borglum was first brought 7
Atlanta by the Atlanta chapter
United Daughters of the Comcder
acy and since that time the Atlant'
chapter has been actively at work OF
the project. Between 100000 an'
So. 900 already has been expended
before the World war brought an enc
to activities. The Daughters OF th'
Confederacy. whose membership Il
said to approximate 100000 hav'
again taken up the work of sponsor
ing the material. according to Mrs. L
r.. stevens. of Atlanta, vice preslden
of the Conf aderatc Memorial assocla
ton. AS means to TINS end IN
DAUGHTERS of the Confcderacy ar
considering using 4 plot of Eroun'
at the foot of the mountain decided u
them by Mr.. Nenab!c. as an outdoor
auditorium