The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-03
HURL CHARGES AND
COUNTER CHARGES IN
STONE MOUNTAIN ROW
ROW OVER GREAT CONFEDER-
ATE MEMORIAL MOST SENSA-
TIONAL IN SOME TIME.
WARRANT OUT FOR BORCLUM
Claimed That Sculptor Destroyed
Models When He Was Dismissed.
Little Progress Has Been Made and
Funds Are Said to Be Low

Little Progress f1aS Deen Made ana
Funds Are Said to Be Low.
ATLANTA, Ga.-There is a strong
under-current of charges and counter
charges in Atlanta in connection with
the row between Gutzon Borglum, the
sculptor, and the officials of the Stone
Mountain Memorial Association, with
Mr.. Borglum as the target OF most OF
the musketry.
Little Progress.
Officials of the association hold Mr..
Borglum responsible for the notice
able fact that very little progress has
been made in the carving OF the noun
, tain since the unwilling OF the head
of Gen Robert E. Lee, more than
year ago. Although they claim they
had contract with Borglum to COM
plete the central group, containing
seven equestrian statues l20 feet in
height, within three years most of
that period has elapsed and only the
head of General Lee is completed at
the present time.
Officials of the association allege
that Mr.. Borglum has been drawing
$4,000 per month for his services, but
has not spent seven consecutive days
in Atlanta during the past year. They
also charge him with responsibility
for the long delay in getting the
chi1drens roll medals and the memo
rial coins that are now being minted
by the government. They also claim
that the association has paid the said
Borglum personal o m p en- a t II
amounting to $4,000 labor costs and
other items amount to $76,522, has
provided him with equipment costing
$49,645 and has paid him personally
outside of the contract $24,972, max
ing total payments by the association
of $185,145
Says No Funds.
On the other hand friends OF Mr..
Borglum claim that the association
has not had the funds to go ahead
with the work and that Mr.. Borglum
has personally advanced money to the
association. They claim that the
sculptor has been interferred with at
every turn in his plans for the me-
mortal work
AT a meeting OF the directors OF
the association Borglum was dismiss
ed and few hours afterward the de-
signs and models for the work were
destroyed, at the instance of the
sculptor it is alleged. He had disap-
lpeared, however, and had presumably
gone north.
Mrs. Borglum, wife of the sculptor,
was quoted as saying the whole de-
| sign for the monument originated
with Mr.. Borglum, was developed by
him, and many models made before
any contract was entered into"
Had Right Says Wife.
1T was his exclusive property and
had been copyrighted by him. Many
of the models were made in his studio
at Stamford, Conn, and brought to
Stone Mountain.
This design belonged absolutely to
Mr.. Borglum, the whole conception,
the whole design. Therefore, Mr.. Bor-
glum had a perfect legal right to de
stroy his own property.
Following his dismissal Borglum
declared that the action OF the asso-
citation in dismissing him as directing
sculptor is a blow not particularly
against me, but against the south. 1t
is struck at me because | am north
ern man
| Declaring that he had been unfair
/ " treated Mr. Borglum asserted that
the record of the past nine years would
show that a crime has been COM
mitted today"
Venable Dissatisfied
| Sam H. Nenable, owner OF the
mountain and member of the exec
utive committee of the association, at
tended the meeting but left before the
vote was taken. He declared later that
the memorial cannot be completed
within the next three years as stipu-
lated in the contract and that he would
not cede further space on the noun
! tain for carving or additional ground
around the mountain as long as the
present administration retains control
of the memorial association.
Officials OF the association declare
that the memorial will be completed.
Several members OF the United
DaDughters OF the Confederacy and
the federation of women's clubs have
visited the mountain for the purpose,
they said OF observing the progress on
the memorial and to report to their
respective organizations.
| The association has begun suit
against Borglum Tor $4,000