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of sacred memories in the breast of a granite mountain.
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(By Rogers Winter.)
How is the work progressing? How is the
fund progressing?
These are the questions most frequently
asked in connection with the great Stone
Mountain Confederate Memorial. It is well,
therefore, to inform the friends of the Me
morial concerning these points oefore going
into a description of the Memorial plan.
The central group of the Confederate mili
tary panorama was selected as the first to
be carved on the precipice, and the head of
General Robert E. Lee was selected as the
first detail of this group to be carved. Gen
eral Lee's head was finished and unveiled
on January 19th, Lee’s birthday, with cere
monies attracting world-wide attention. Since
that time the great stone face high up on
the mountain has been acclaimed by thou
sands of visitors as a masterpiece of aculp
ture.
The heads of President Jefferson Davis and
Stonewall Jackson, who will ride alongside
of General Lee in the central group, were
ABOUT OUR NEW STORE
(Into Which We’ll Move About the Middle of July)
This building, which was designed by Willis Irvin Augusta
architect, and which is being constructed by C. H. Van Ormer,
Augusta contractor, will when completed be one of the best com
mercial buildings in the city. The structure is designed for ul
timately four stories, but at present three stories, and delivery
basement will be erecteld. The building faces seventy-six feet on
Broad and Ellis Streets, and is two hundred and seventy-one feet
deep.
The structural frame is steel with outside walls of brick, terra
cotta and tile. The main front on Broad street is in polychrome
terra cotto and granite, and is designed along the lines of Italian
Renaissance architecture. The four large show windows of
heavy plate glass are set in copper frames on marble bases, and
are approached under a large glass arid copper marquise. This
makes a most attractive setting in which to display merchandise.
The building will be thoroughly sprinkled and brought in line
with the best practice for fire protection and safety.
BE SURE TO ATTEND ITS OPENING
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Floor Plan of Memorial Hall to Be Quarried Out of Stone Mountain
selected as the next to be carved. They are
now in progress and are going along rapidly.
Mr. Borglum's schedule calls for their com
pletion in the summer of 1924 after which
he will go to work on the body of General
Lee and carve it down to the saddle before
the winter sets in. When that is done, he
will either finish Lee's figure and horse
down to the horse's fetlocks, or go back and
bring down the bodies of Davis and Jackson
to their saddles, depending upon which pro
cedure is the more expeditious and econom
ical. Mr. Borglum's working schedule and
contract with the association call for comple
tion of the entire central group by the spring
of 1926. He plans to carve the entire pano
rama within ten years.
Immediately after carving the central group,
his plan is to begin the tunneling for Me
morial Hall, an immense granite shrine to be
cut into the breast of the mountain directly
underneath the central group. It would be
impossible to start this work while the cen
tral group carving was in progress, because
of a continuous cascade of falling stone which
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rolls down from the carving across the area
where the incisions will be made for the en
trance and windows of Memorial Hall.
As to the fund, it is making progress
equally as satisfactory. On May 1, 1923,
the association started without money and
with a considerable debt for preliminary
equipment placed on the mountain. One year
later, at the annual meeting of the associa
tion held April 23. 1924, the officers were
able to report upwards of $450,000 in cash
and gilt-edged subscriptions raised at an
overhead cost of less than nine per cent, and
to report that plans were set up whereby
the whole estimated cost of the Memorial,
$5,000,000, can and will be raised.
These plans consist of the following:
1. The “Founders Roll’’ for individuals,
family groups and organizations who con
tribute SI,OOO to the Memorial. A “Found
ers Roll" subscriber receives a bronze tablet
in Memorial Hall, to be inscribed with the
name and war record of any Confederate
soldier of Confederate military unit in whose
memory the subscriber elects to dedicate
TILE TRUE CITIZEN, SATURDAY, JUNE 7TH, 1924
In this vast vaulted recess quarried out of solid rock will be perpetua
ted the story of the Confederacy until the end of time.
the tablet. There is wall space in Memorial
Hall for 2,500 of these tablets. They are
being taken at the rate of more than twenty
a month without a paid agent in the field.
Lining the interior of Memorial Hall like a
band of gold .they will form the most beau
tiful and magnificent tribute ever rendered to
the soldiers of any war.
2. The “Children’s Founders Roll” for
boys and girls up to eighteen years of age
who contribute one dollar to the Memorial.
Their name will be enrolled in an immense
Book of Memory, made of the most enduring
parchment science can devise, bound in bronze
plates, and mounted upon an altar constructed
for the purpose in the center of Memorial
Hall. Opposite each name will be recorded
the name of any Confederate ancestor or_ kins
man the child selects. Ten thousand children
all over the United States and in foreign
countries enrolled in sixty days after the
“Children’s Founders Roll" was opened. The
roll is growing by leaps and bounds, and the
association definitely expects to enroll a min
imum of one million boys and girls.
3. The Stone Mountain Memorial half
dollar, authorized by special act of congress
passed by unanimous vote of the House and
Senate and approved by President Coolidge.
The act provides for the issuance of five mil
lion of these coins. The association will
take them from the mint at face value (fifty
cents), and distribute them nationally as
souvenirs of the Memorial on a basis of one
dollar each, thereby bringing into the asso
ciation treasury a gross revenue of $2,500,-
000. They will be ready for distribution in
about sixty days, and will be on sale at
banks throughout the South and in other sec
tions of the country.
Tn addition to these plans, the association
is receiving subscriptions of miscellaneous
amounts from individuals and organizations
all over the South and in other sections. A
-contribution of any amount by anybody is,
of course, gratefully appreciated.
Stone Mountain is situated sixteen miles
east of Atlanta in DeKalb County, Georgia.
As its name implies, it is literally a mountain
of stone, eight thousand feet long, seven
miles around the base, and a mile to the
summit up the sloping side. It is the largest
solid body of granite in the world, contain
ing 7,543,795,950 cubic feet of stone above
the surface. Its foundations underlie almost
half the state of Georgia. At varying denths
the sub-strata of Stone Mountain grr. nite
have bee nencountered in borings as far n h
as the Blue Ridge Mountains, seventy-five
miles distant, and as far south as the coastal
plain, one hundred and fifty miles distant.
Time has not produced the slightest decny
in this colossal monolith during all the ages
since “a laboring earth disgorged it bare to
sun and storm.” A thousand centuries of
erosion have touched it as lightly as the
clouds touch the sky. Since the dawn of
Creation it has stood unchanged, unchanging,
imperishable.
On its northern side Stone Mountain drops
in a sheer, perpendicular precipice almost a
thousand feet from summit to base.
Across this mammoth background of gran
ite* Gutzon Borglum, greatest living sculptor,
is carving the supreme monument of history
in memory of the men and women who dared
all, suffered and sacrifice 1 all for the South
ern Confederacy.
His plan provides for three main features:
1. The Panorama.
2. The Memorial Hall.
3. The Amphitheater.
Beginning on the right of the precipice
near the summit and sweeping downward and
across it a distance of 1,350 feet, will be
carved in full relief, and upon a scale in
keeping with the immensity of the mountain
a Panorama representing the Confederate
armed forces mobilizing around their lead
ers. At the top will be artillery, appearing
at the summit as if coming over the moun
tain, and dropping downward and toward
the left across the precipice in a life-like
procession of men, horses and guns. On
the left of the artillery will be Confederate
cavalry in full forward motion. In the cen
ter of the precipice, where it bulges forward
in a great promontory, will be carved a col
ossal group representing the Confederate high
command. Swinging around the central group
and far away to the left will be column upon
column of Confederate gray-clad infantry,
carved in the gray and everlasting granite.
Without the Panorama of which it will be
a part, the central group alone would sur
pass all other monuments. It will consist of
General Robert E. Lee, General Stonewall
Jackson, President .Jefferson Davis and four
lieutenant-generals now being selected by
an historical commission composed of the
state historians of the thirteen Southern
states. All of the seven will be on horse
back.
General Lee will be approximately one
hundred and sixty-five fet high from the crown
of his hat to his horse’s hoofs, or almost as
high as a fifteen-story office building. Gen
eral Lee’s head and hat cover an area twen
ty-,five feet square. A dozen men can be
seated comfortably on the brim of the hat. A
luncheon for thirty people was given by Mr.
Borglum on January 18th, the day before
the unveiling of Lee’s head, on a ledge of
granite which will form Lc’s shoulder. The
head of General Lee’s horse will be more
than forty feet from the tip of the nostril
to the tip of the ears. President Davis, Gen
'eral Jackson and the other figures of the
central group will be of the same immense
proportions.
No sculptured figures of ancient or mod
ern times begin to compare with those in
magnitude or grandeur. The great Sphinx
of Egypt if placed up against the precipice
on General Lee’s shoulder would conceal only
a part of General Lee’s head and neck. The
Colossus of Rhodes, which was not a carved
figure, but a rather clumsy structure of tim
bers overlaid with sheets of brass, was not
as large as any of the figures will be in the
central group of the Stone Mountain Confed
ate Memorial. There has never been in any
country in any age any work of sculpture
which approached a single figure of the cen
tral group. Therefore, it can be said without
exaggeration that the central group alone,
were nothing else carved, would immeasurably
.surpass every other monument of history. _
As pointed out by Dr. Hight C. Moore, in
a very interesting article comparing this Me
morial with other monuments of ancient and
modern times:
“Trajan’s Column at Rome, the chief work
of Apollodorus, is only one hundred and thirty
feet high, so that it would look like a cane
in the hands of Lee. Transport Bunker Hill
Monument to a level with ‘Traveler’s’ feet;
the climb two hundred and twenty-four stone
steps winding upward within it, and you
would be almost in easy down reach of Lee’s
hat. Let Washington Monument, towering
five hundred and fifty-five feet, take its stand
on the level beside Stone Mountain, rnd
though it would rise slightly higher than the
central group, it would not be wide enough
to conceal a single mounted chieftain of the
Confederacy, and would leave quite exposed '
the entire cavalcade on the right and every
column of infantry on the left. Even the
great Pyramid of Gizeh would appear humbly
beside Stone Mountain, althoueh from a base
seven hundred and sixty-four feet square,
covering more than four acres, and requiring
five million tons of hewn stone, it rises to
an altitude of four hundred and egihty-eight
feet. Beyond a doubt, the Stone Mountain
Memorial is one of the wonders of the world.”
Each figure in the central group will be,
of course, an individual portrait of the man
it represents. The likeness of General Lee
will be carried out not only in the face, which
has been carved, but in every detail, and
the same with the others. But these seven
figures will not be the only portraits in stone
carved on the mountain. Each of the states
which composed the Confederacy has desig
nated, through a commission appointed by
the Governor for that purpose, its five most
distinguished Confederate generals, and all
of these, sixty-five in number, will be carved
to likeness in the Panorama. Mr. Borglum’s
plan is to place them wherever they nat
urally belong, according to whether they com
manded artillery, cavalry or infantry.
Mr. Borglum estimates that the working
out of the whole Panorama will involve at
least seven hundred carved figures, counting
artillery guns and gun carriages. All figures,
naturally will not be as. large as those of
the central group. These seven figures will
form the dramatic center of the great en
semble; but every group and every figure,
from the farthest gun carriage on the right
near the summit, to the farthest marching in
fantryman on the left extremity of the Pano
rama, will be in scale with the central group.
Hardly less imposing than the stupendous
military Panorama sweeping across the preci
pice. will be Memorial Hall; a vast, vaulted
recess quarried out of the solid rock imme
diately underneath the central group; the
most enduring and beautiful shrine of the
ages, a temple of sacred memories in the
breast of a granite mountain.
Memorial Hall will not be a structure, but
an immense grotto formed by tunneling into
the mountain. Mr. Borglum's plan of opera
tion for the Hall is strikingly simple. He
will pierce an incision thirty-six feet wide
and forty feet high in the center of the area
selected for the front facade. He will cut
this into the mountain to the depth of the
Hall, sjxty feet. On either side of the cen
tral incision he will cut six other and smaller
incisions and carry them back to the depth
of the Hall. Then he will cut to the right
and the left from each incision until the
whole interior has been hollowed out, after
which he will cut down Hie overhead granite
until he reaches h height of forty feet from
the floor, and the ceiling will then be groined
and arched, and columns will be cut from
floor to ceiling at appropriate locations.
The center incision will form the entrance,
which will be dedicated to Georgia, and in
it will be mounted two immense bronze doors
artistically wrought in grilwork. The six in
cisions will form twelve windows, each one
dedicated to a Confederate state, and each
adorned with bronze grills and stained glass
windows.
Approach to Memorial Hall will be up
ward Horn the base of the mountain by a
majestic night of granite stairs terminating
in a broad esplanade which will run along
the entire front facade,
Memorial Hall will be three hundred and
twenty feet long, running parallel with the
face of the mountain; its depth will be sixty
Feet; its interior height forty feet. Floor
walls and ceiling will consist of the solid
living granite of the mountain.
In Memorial Hall will be gathered for
perpetual safekeeping the records and relics
of the Confederacy. As mentioned before
the bronze tablets erected by members of
the Founders Roll, each tablet bearing the
name and war record of a Confederate soldier
or Confederate military unit, will form a
Interior ba f d J lke g ° ld encir(,lin g the whole
interior. In bronze cases built into the walls
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Some of the Activi
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Division U. D. C.
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we of the present day who need it, who need
to translate the spirit of these matchless
heroes into the tasks and duties of today
It has been the custom of the Daughters
of the Confederacy for many years to give a
Cross of Honor to the Veterans of the Sixties
and we hope every Veteran or his family now
has'his Cross. This year for the first time
a Cross of Service is offered by the Daugh
ters of the Veterans of the Confederacy. On
these Crosses the following inscription ap
pears, “The Brave Give Birth to the Brave ”
Tt is the desire of the Daughters that everv
World War Veteran who comes of Confed
erate lineage shall have one of the Crosses.
It is only in recent years that it has been
possible to arrive at a true history of the
days of the Confederacy. Much ignorance of
the true facts and much prejudice has been
in the way. The Daughters of the Confed
eracy are striving to teach the children of
the South true history and true history only
Our splendid historian, Miss Mildred Ruth
erford, has built an everlasting monument to
herself and to the Daughters of the Confed
eracy in her untiring efforts along this line.
The American egion has undertaken to write
a history of the United States. They have
appealed to the Daughters of the Confederacy
for co-operation in preparing this hook which
is planned for a text hook.
Yale University Press is undertaking to
present American historical motion pictures.
The United Daughters of the Confederacv
have been asked to assist in this and to sug
gest some man capable and impartial to rep
resent the South in this work. This has
been done.
Our educational work is very closely allied
to our historical work. Books on Southern
history and literature are being supplied not.
only to our own, but to foreign libraries. The
work of which we feel most proud is our
scholarship work. We have not only a large
list of Gift Scholarships, but what is better,
a oan Schlarship B’und, available to any boy
or girl of Confederate lineage who wishes an
education; and these scholarships are given
at the best colleges in the land. We are most
anxious to see our young people avail them
selves of these opportunities.
The sehoo lat Rabun Gap is a constant
source of congratulation to Georgia Daugh
ters. We have worked hard for this school
for the mountain children of Georgia in the
past and it is now independent of us and
self-sustaining.
Relief work for Veterans and needy Con
federate women is a sacred obligation and
all Chapters and Divisions, U. D. C.. are
very liberal in discharging it.
U. D. 0. organizations are formed on ac
count of a common purpose and a common
love.
“The ideal is that every woman who is
entitled shall become an active worker in the
United Daughters of the Confederacy. It is
only in this way that she can express her
devotion and respect for the principles held
by her ancestors, and her real fidelity to the
interest of this nation.”
MRS. WALTER GRACE,
President Georgia Division, United Daughters
of the Confederacy.
June S, 1924.