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PAGE SIX It will be the most enduring and beautiful shrine of the ages, a temple of sacred memories in the breast of a granite mountain. 1 - 1 3<2 1-0 " - 1 (. 48-0" * t .. f Z3-6 —/5-0 T GEORGIA if Lo hall fcSSJ _ * . A;. VEMDLE HALL Jf •* ff| *¥>f)+ * * .PI ;lj| ¥*¥ ¥ ¥ -Iff r 9 9-) -i <:< r -i+°>- -H . — p, o n n r“A ■ T | I .'A i=i^ * i : -i > A / V A ' : ■■■■■■- r 1 1 ■ ' - 11 ■ • -, ' ’ (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 WATCH OUR NEW STORE GROW % J. B WHITE & CO. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. 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 J 1 "1 23;! 1 1 1 %-M *lll 111 1T' ® , .. — ——— . 1 1,1,, i 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 SHAPIRO’S sth Avenue Shop 1036 BROAD ST. AUGUSTA, GA. ANNOUNCE DRASTIC REDUCTIONS ON ENTIRE LINE OF OUR EXCLUSIVE LINES IN DRESSES, SUITS, WRAPS AND MILLINERY If you are interested in clothes for immediate or future use, you cannot afford to miss this great Money Saving opportunity Our entire stock of High Class Ladies and Misses Annarel at V and in many instances «/ 2 off the regular price A below the Blunders Roll tablets will be dis played Confederate documents, flags, uni (Continued on page 15) EVERY SMART COAT DRESS AND HAT GREATLY REDUCED “YOU'D BE SURPRISED - ’ RUBENSTEIN’S DIRECT FROM PARIS AUGUSTA, GA. Some of the Activi ties of the Georgia Division U. D. C. (Continued from page five.) 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.