Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-24
HOLLINS RANDOLPH'S FAITH
MOVES MOUNTAIN OF STONE,
TURNING DREAM TO REALITY

doIph started to prove his faith by
subscribing $4,000 to the fund, and
paying it up all at once instead of
in the five years on which the
terms of subscription are based. And
when the funds came in slowly at
times, and the work was going on
steadily, Hollins Randolph again and
again used his personal credit to
gain money for the payrolls.
And from the Gulf to Maine, from
New Orleans to New England and
from the length Of the Mississippi
east over all that half Of the United
States, Hollins Randolph, a lineal
descendant Of old Thomas Jeffer-
son, Travelled in season and out Of
season, and made speeches and talks
by the dozen and by the score, tell
ing assemblies of every character
and kind Of the Stone Mountain Me-
mortal; and truly Matchmaking the
memorial by implanting it's aim and
it's import in the heart of all the
people.
dreatt t Feat in Sculpture
And that's why the association in
tends next Wednesday to make this
further call on the time and devotion
of Hollins Randolph, who for a year
now has abandoned his own bust
ness for the work that to his sincere
mind should go with the faith that
is in him, for the Stone Mountain
memorial. One year more the as
ISOLATION is going to ask of this re-
markable man for this uneXampled
cause.
The estimates are that it will re-
quire from three and half to five
millions of dollars and from seven
to ten years to complete the worlds
greatest memorial, the time element
to be largely decided by the speed at
which the funds are achieved.
The demonstration of feasibility,
of course, was the main practical
point of Mr.. Randolphs first year as
president of the association. AS he
and President Harding agreed, there
was only one way to prove the posi-
bility (Which many experts doubteD
of executing so gigantic a work in
portrait likeness, viewed from the
necessary station a mile from tie
foot of fhe mountain. That proof
was absolutely necessary. If it could
be done, the whole project was feas-
ible. If not not. 1t has been prov
ed. Lees head is on Stone mountain,
as fine a likeness hewn from the Iiv-
ing granite as ever was done in
bronze-and five hundred tons of
living granite were taken from
around it. the greatest scuIptured
achievement thus far in history.
Engineers o. X. Plans
The most practical measures have
been adopted by the association I'M
M mi,
Borglum's work and estimates and
plans all recently were checked over
carefully by a committee consisting
Of Hunter Mcdonald, chief engineer
of the Nashville, Chattanooga and
st. Louis railway; Charles G.. Adsit.
chief engineer Of the Georgia Rail
way and Power company, and L. w.
Robert, Jr., consulting engineer.
Their report was that the plans were
feasible in every respect, and the
cost and time elements reasonable
ana to be relied on. Following this,
Mr.. Robert was retained as perman-
ent consulting engineer to check all
work and to approve all payments
thereon.
All this is hard, practical business.
applied to the expenditure of funds
collected on what probably is the
lowest overhead cost on record for
any similar cause.
But the combination in Hollins
Randolph that carried the Stone
Mountain memorial in less than a
year to where it stands today-a ma
tional pride of America, and a world
size figure looming on the horizon
Of time-was something more than
hard, practical business ability.
When you come right down to it,
you will have a most severe time
improving on that old Scriptural
prescription Of faith and works. 1t
operates just the same today as
when the wise Apostle set worth it's
virtues. And Hollins Randolph, a
modest gentleman with a great
faith, employed also works in good
and just proportion, to the end Of
progress on the worlds greatest
monument that has amazed the
world, and not least those of his
home city, which indicates that Mr..
Randolph is not Of the same fate as