The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1924-04-10
OKLAHOMA WOMAN
TALKS ON STONE MT,

lISHeu Dy Lne OuIpnur DemOcraC, VII
prove interesting to the readers OF
the Journal. Mrs. Slover's ancestors
were pioneers of Cobb county, main,
tanning a residence here on the At.
lanta road as late as the sixties. The
article reads in part:
when we came in view of this
eighth wonder of the world greater
than Gibraltar, at the base seven
miles around and nearly thousand
feet from base to summit at the
northern face where the memorial is
carved, it stirred all hearts with emo
ton that is indescribable.
when we realize that it is the
greatest memorial project of the ages
we feel that in our own country, at
our own doors, something is being
done that rivals the ancient wonders
of the Greeks and the Egyptians.
Nowhere can this be duplicated, for
In no nation on earth is there such a
granite mountain. In countless ages,
when other memorials have crumbled
into dust, this will remain, bearing
upon its face the record of deathless
memories.
"The originator of this memorial
is Mrs. Helen Plane, "a years of age.
She was lifted from her car in the
arms of the sculptor, Gutzon Borg
lum, and placed upon the rostrum,
which was situated some quarter of
mile from the figures on the noun
tain face. The autos were about half
a mile on each side of the rostrum.
Twenty thousand people stood to
watch the unwilling of the great head
of the grand man and hero. Not
sound was heard in all that vast CON
course there was no talking, not even
whispering, no moving or sound of
cars, no smoking of cigars, pipes or
cigarettes-a silence that was felt as
we feel the silence around the be-
loved dead. But when the flags were
drawn from each side, and the white
veil underneath was slowly pulled
away, shouts filled the air, cars
honked their horns, and the refuse
rock from the excavations came
pouring down the mountain front in
an avalanche of roaring sound.
"Then came the classic speech of
the talented DR.. Plato Durham, in
which he paid the highest eulogies
to the hero and his armies, which
were meritoriously deserved.
The finished head of the hero as
1t stands today, covers a greater area
than the Lion of Lucerne. 1t meas
ures "a feet from the collar band to
the top of his hat, an equal distance
from the front of the brim of his
hat to the back edge of the brim.
Sixteen ladies ate breakfast on his
shoulder that morning. The horses
legs are like barrels. If nothing else
were carved on Stone Mountain but
the figures of Lee and his faithful
Traveller" it would surpass any 9TH
er sculptured figure in the world, but
this is only beginning.
From the mountain we were in
vited to Piedmont Driving Club,
where was served a most wonderful
six o'clock dinner. Then there were
more speeches by governors, and by
the renounced and talented minister
of Atlanta, Rev. Ashby Jones, son
of Robert E. Lees chaplain.
Il visited the monument of Henry
Grady In 1889, just prior to his
death, l heard one of his wonderful
speeches on The New South He
was one of Georgia's great men-but
Others have sprung up. Near the
farm of my uncle, is the home of
Cora Harris, of whose fame Georgia
IS justly proud
One feature of the memorial will
be a huge colonnade of thirteen col
umns, one for each of the Confed-
crate States, carved from the solid
granite of the mountain. Behind
these columns will be excavated a
great hall, which is intended to in
clude a memorial to the women of
the South. Itwill be fifty feet across
and will extend two hundred feet
back into the mountain. This will
serve as safe deposit place for doc
umeRts and other mementos gathered
by the Daughters of the Confederacv
In this hall will be placed The
Founders ROLL which will be com
posed of the names of Confederate
soldiers. Any one wishing a rela-
tlye's name placed therein will COM