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VOL. XXV. NO. 204
• 1 FIREMEN PLUNGE
INTO BIG OIL TANK
AND IRE DROWNED
...
Two Captains Die With
Aides as Pittsburg Plant
t Burns—Cold and Ice Hin
der Fighting of Blaze
PITTSBURG, Ta., Jan. 21.—Seven
\ men were drown in oil, two cap
1 ins and five hosemen of the Pitts
burs' fire department, while fighting
a fire at the Butler street plant of
the Atlantic Refining company to
day. The bodies were recovered aft
» er the fire had been brought under
control, with the monetary loss un
estimated.
The dead are: Captain Edward
» Jones, Captain Rudolph Bliske, I
Roseman Harry J. Frazier, Patrick
Abbott, Robert Smith, Jotyri Mark
ham and Samuel Bollinger.
A number ‘of firemen also were in
jured.
The fire broke out in a tank con
s taining 10,000 gallons of oil, shortly
after 5 o’clock. Seven companies an
swered the alarm and fire lines were
thrown out for four or five city
blocks on each side of the refinery,
.which adjoins a residence district
and has been the scene of a num
ber of costly blazes. Many families
deserted their homes and additional
fire apparatus was summoned as the
morning wore on.
'■ Shortly before 9 o’clock the cap- ■
tains and their men were on a lad
der which extended above the top of :
a. tank adjoining the burning oil ,
The oil in this tank was being drawn |
off when the ladder broke and the :
men fell into the tank. A chemical '
extinguisher, automatically released
by the heat of the burning oil near
by, the authorities said, covered the
oil, and fumes arising from it was
believed to have overcome the strug
gling firemen. They sank almost at
once and the bodies later were re
covered through the manhole at the
bottom of the tank.
The other firemen suffered seve
ly because the mercury was two de
grees below zero as they fought the
• flames.
All of the injured were firemen
who fell from the icy tops of the
tanks to which they had climbed.
The cause of the fire has not been
determined by officers of the com
pany, nor would they venture an es
-3 • timat.e of the logs, which consisted
of two buildings and a considerable
quantity of oil.
s Gen. Lee Christmas,
Soldier of Fortune,
Claimed by Death
NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 21.—Gen
eral Lee Christmas, noted soldier of
fort inc, died here today after a long ’
’ Illness.
General Christmas was a victim
of acute anemia, the result, of a dis
ease known as “tropic spruce” con
tracted in the jungles of Central
America. He returned to this coun
try from Guatemala some, months
• ago for treatment, but his condi
tion failed to improve, and on three
occasions blood transfusion was re
sorted to in order to save his life. .
The condition of the general be- ;
came critical late last week, and for .
days he. had been so weak |
could not take nourishment, nor
Y -was he able to recognize anyone.
• General Christmas leaves a widow,
many years younger than himself,
and a son by an earlier marriage,
who is a resident of Memphis. Tenn.
Dismantling Work
On King Tut’s Tomb
Makes Rapid Progress
LUXOR, Egypt. Jan. 19.—The
work of dismantling the shrines in
the tomb of Tutenkhamun is making
good progress. Howard Carter was
able today to remove the roof oi the
bird shrine to the ante-chamber.
* Like every other part of those
wonderful caskets, the roof is richly
decorated, the underside bearing the
figure of the king, surmounted by
five hawks with outspread, proteo
i tive wings, figures of the hawk
headed god Horus, serpents and a
representation of a monkey-headed
god.
William Whiting Andrews, first
, A Secretary of the American legation
In Cairo, visited the tomb in com
pany with >is wife this morning.
lowa Physician Makes
4 Startling Offer to
Catarrh Sufferers
Found Treatment Which Heal-
* ed His Own Catarrh and
Now Offers to Send It
Free to Sufferers
Anywhere
Davenport, lowa. Dr. W. O.
Coffee, Suite 784, St. James Hotel
Zldg., this city, one of the most
widely known physicians and sur
-4 geons in the central west, announces
that he found a treatment which
completely healed him of catarrh in
the head and nose, deafness and
head noises after many years of
suffering. He. then gave the treat
ment to n number of other sufferers
and they state that they also were
completely healed. The doctor is so
f proud of his achievement and so
confident that his treatment will
bring other sufferers the same free
dom it gave him. that he is offering
to send a 10 days’ supply absolutely ;
• free to reader of this paper who
writes him. Dr. Coffee has special
ised on eye, car, nose and throat
"-diseases for more than thirty-five
years. and is honored and respected
by countless thousands. If you suf- ■
fcr from nose, head or throat va- j
tarih. Catarrhal deafness or head I
nnlses. sen-1 him ynut- name and ad
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Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
NEWS OF THE WORLD
TOLD IN BRIEF
BERLlN.—Germany’s unemployed
number 3,000,000.
PARTS—Chamber of deputies gives
Premier Poincare another strong
vote of confidence on his foreign
policy.
WASHINGTON. American fleet
is beaten by the “enemy’ ’in sham
battle to deter- ‘ if Panama vanal
defenses are adequate.
PARIS. Poincare wins another
victory for his foreign policies when
deputies give government a vote of
confidence, 415 to 151.
NACO, Ariz. —More than 1,500
Mexican federal troops cross the
boundary into the U. S. here, and
entrain for El Paso.
LONDON.—Scheduled strike of
British locomotive engineers and
firemen starts at midnight, efforts
at mediation having failed.
PHILADELPHIA. —E. -L Henning,
assistant secretary of labor, says that
cheapest worker for United Stages . s
man born unc>c American flag.
MOSBACH. - Lieutenant Corliss
Griffis, serving prison sentence for
trying to kidnap Grover C. Bergdoll.
is no longer in solitary confinement.
BOSTON. —William H. Vanderbilt,
son of late Alfred G. Vanderbilt, has
take na job paying $8 a w-eek in of
fices of Lee, Higginson & Co., bank
ers.
PHILADELPHIA.—A carpet tack
is removed from the lung of eight
months old Cletus Moore, of St.
Louis, and there is every indication
he will recover.
WASHINGTON.—Attorney Gener
al Daugherty reverses the tariff
commission in its first report to the
president under flexible provisions
of tha act.
WASHINGTON—Indentity of the
Bok peace award will be revealed
on the night of February 4. at Phil
adelphia and $50,000 check will be
presented to the winner.
WASHINGTON. President Cool
idge and his advisers devote almost
al lof cabinet meeting to considera
tion of delicate Mexican situation,
but no action is announced.
NEW YORK. —Mexican rebels re
cently demanded $400,000 from Mex
ican Petroleum company under
threat to destroy property at Tam
pico, company officials announce
here.
LAKE HURST, N. J. Captain
F> ank R. McCrary, commandant at
the naval air station here, issues
complete denial of reports of fric
tion among the officers at the sta
tion.
WASHINGTON.—An average of
$68.37 in taxes for every man. wom
an and child in the United States
was collected last year making a
total of $7,433,081,000, census bu
reau announces.
PITTSBURG. Charles S. Succop,
James A. Clark and Harry J. Bovard,
former officials of the Co-operative
League of America, are arrested on
indictments alleging fraudulent use
of the mails.
NEW YORK- "J. S. Attorney Hay
ward starts action against the Live
Poultry Dealers’ Protective associa
tion, seeking to stop alleged prac
tices that affect prices throughout
the country.
VERA CRUZ—U. S. cruiser Rich
mond lies off Vera Cruz in silent
warning that Mexican revolutionists
are not to interfere with American
vessels in attempted blockade of
Tampico harbor.
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11 NEW ORLEANS. —Albert B. Fall
| declares here that he has no inten
i tion of taking a sea voyage until
’ ' senate committee investigating the
' I Teapot Dome situation has com
i I
' pleted its work.
ATHENS. Athens newspapers
| say the Greek cabinet has decided
1 j to report recommendations virtual
-1 I ly favoring a republic, opposing a
| monarchial regime as the cause of
• i all the country’s evils.
' J ATLANTA. Governor Neff, of
\ Texas, while here, says he must
avoid comment until he reaches
, home on refusal of Acting Gqyernor
Davidson to allow Mexican federal
i troops to pass through Texas.
NEW YORK.—John D. Rockefel
> ler, Jr., tells the Women's Bible
class cf the Park Avenue 'Baptist
, church that love is the greatest force
in the world and cites the example
of his parents in support of the
’ theme.
. >
J WASHINGTON. —Presidential ac
tion hi Teapot Dome controversy will
await formulation, of report of senate
5 investigating committee report, it is
said at White House. Whether ex-
■ ecutive action is contemplated even-
• tually was not disclosed.
WASHINGTON.—David J. Price,
! engineer of the department of agri
' culture’s bureau of chemistry, an
' nounces his investigation showed an
overheated bearing in. a starch con
. veyor caused explosion in Pekin, 111.,
t Corn Products Refining company
plant January 3, with loss of 42 lives.
Marathon Reading
Os Bible Rapidly
Eating Up Pages
5
COUNCIL BLUFFS, lowa, Jan.
19. —At 1:15 o’clock this afternoon
. the Marathon Bible reading in the
I Broadway Methodist church of this
city had reached the twenty-first
chapter of St. John. It was expect
i e I to complete reading of the New
Testament, which was begun at 6:30
this morning, at 10:30 tonight. Six-
■ ty-four members of the church, no
one reading more than once, are tak
ing part in fifteen minute periods.
The general public was invited,
i and as the reading progressed the
number of interested listeners is in
creasing.
Mrs. Montgomery Ward
Gives Fourth Million to
Northwestern College
1 CHICAGO, Jan. 19.—Mrs. A.
- Montgomery Ward, of Chicago, who
3 a month ago announced a gift of
• $3,000,000 to the Northwestern uni
. versify. tonight at a banquet given
by the university in her honor an
nounced her intention of adding sl,-
000,000 to the donation.
All the money will be used for
the construction of a medical-dental
center on the McKinlock Memorial
campus, the university’s downtown
grounds.
The Weather
FORECAST FOR TUESDAY *
Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina and Georgia; Fair, con
tinued cold.
Florida: Fair and colder; cold
wave in north and central portions
Extreme Northwest. Florida, Ala
bama and Mississippi: Fair with
rising temperatures.
Tennessee, Kentucky: Fair and
warmer.
Louisiana: Fair and warmer.
Arkansas: Fair, rising tempera
ture.
Oklahoma: Fair, warmer in east
portion.
East Texas: Partly cloudy, warm
' er except in northwest portion.
West Texas: Partly cloudy.
BOK TELLS GENITE
PROBE COMMITTEE
IDEA OF PRIZE PLAN,
Declares Contest Independ
ent Move and Not Po
litical Maneuver in Cam
paign for League of Nations,
-
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—A sen
ate committee for two hours today
exchanged views on international
peace with Edward W. Bok, donor
of the SIOO,OOO prize contest which
was won by a plan proposing Amer
ican co-operation with the League
of Nations.
Senator Moses, Republican, of
New Hampshire, and Reed, Demo
crat, Missouri, both irreconcilables
in the Versailles treaty fight, led
in the questioning, and. as the hear
ing progressed, Mr. Bok himself
showed a disposition to turn in
quisitor. Some of the queries put to
him went unanswered, as did some
of those he fired at committee mem
bers.
The witness declared every cent I
of the expense of the contest had .
been defrayed by him personally, ,
but when he was pressed to name ;
the total amount expended he re- .
peatedly told the committee he re- .
garded that as his own affair.
To Take Stand Again
Mr. Bok again will take the stand ■
when the hearing is resumed to
morrow.
Mr. Bok told the committee that !
he personally selected Elihu Root to
serve ori the jury which made the .
award.
"I did not give my approval to
the other members," Mr. Bok said
in reply to questions by Chairman
Moses. “I was not asked to approve
them.”
The Witness said that “co-opera-1
tive agencies” had sent in the names
of several hundred persons as eligi- *
ble to act as jurors.
AJr. Bok said he did not know the •
name of the winner of his award, j
“Do you know his characterise I
tics?” asked Chairman Moses.
"No,” said th witness.
“Couldn’t you describe him in gen
eral terms?” the chairman pursued,
amid laughter from the crowd which
packed the hearing room.
“No.”
Answers Declined
Asked how much money was in the I
trust fund which he created to de
fray expenses of the award the wit
ness replied:
“I prefer not to discuss that.”
“You are familiar with the stat
utes?” asked the chairman.
“No, I am not.”
Senator Moses, then said it was his
duty under the statutes to inquire
whether an answer would “tend to
degrade you.”
“I decline to go into that,” was
the response.
Senator Reed. Democrat, Miss-;
souri later pressed the same ques- '
tion and Mr. Bok then said he did
not think it would “degrade me.”
He added that he regarded the
amount of money in the trust fund .
as solely his own business.
Senator Greene asked if there ;
might not be circumstances under I
which such a fund would prove Ij
“something of a moral menace.” I
“No. not if rightly administered,” j
was the reply.
Mr. Bok said he hoped to affect j
public opinion by his award, but I
declared he never had seen any I
literature issued by those in charge
of the award urging persons to write |
to their senators and representatives ’
in support Os the prize peace, plan.
"You probably are the only man
in the United States who hasn’t seen
it,” said Senator Reed.
Answers Are Declined
Senator Caraway, Democrat, Ar
kansas, later led the witness back I
to the question of the amount of the '
trust fund created by him with the j
Girard Trust Company of Philadel- ’
phia, but Mr. Bok again refused to I
state it.
“I don't see that the amount has |
any interest further than to satisfy |
curiosity. It's purely a personal
matter.”
“Don't you think you have hurt j
your award by declining to say how
much you have expended? - ’ asked
Senator Caraway.
“I do not.” replied Mr. Bok.
‘I trust the American people, and
believe they trust me, and are not
interested in what I have spent.”
Applause which greeted this state
ment drew a warning from Chair
man Moses against further demon
strations.
“I don’t think the American peo
ple are as much interested in what-:
I have spent as the committee is,” j
added the witness.
Senator Greene asked Mr. Bok if
he did not consider the law requir- I
ing publication of campaign expenses |
good for the public.
"I’m not a candidate for office,” i
said th- witness.
"When a man’s a candidate to reg- |
ulate the whole government, he does
not need to be a candidate for office ” I
the senator returned.
Coolidge Aid Pleased
At Political Feeling
Through Middle West
CLEVELAND, Jan. 19.—C01. '
Carmi A. Thompson, associate man- .
ager of the national pre-convention
campaign of President Coolidge, re
turning to Cleveland from Chicago
headquarters, where he has been in
conference with Republican leaders
of the middle western states, ex
pressed himst-’f as well pleased with
reports of political sentiment in that
section.
The work of organization for the
Coolidge canvas, he said, soon will be
under full headway.
Carmack Statue Ordered
For Tennessee Capitol
NASHVILLE. Tenn., Jan. 19. I
Announcement is made here today
that ft contract had been signed for
the statue of late Senator Edward j
W. Carmack, which is to stand in
front of the entrance of the s<at?
r-apitol. The statue w-ll be the wo; - -:
of Mrs. Nancy Cox McCormack.
LEE’S SCULPTURED LIKENESS,
GREA TEST OF MEMORIALS,
UN VEILED ON MOUNTAINSIDE
A STRIKING SCENE AT STONE MOUNTAIN SATURDAY AFTERNOON when the
head of Robert E. Lee was unveiled. Mrs. H elen Plane, a true daughter of the old South,
who unveiled the memorial, being’ lifted to her seat on the speakers’ platform at the base of
the mountain by Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor.— Staff Photo by Winn.
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ATLM FOBECIST
IS CONTINUED COLO
FOR SEVERAL DAYS
A sudden cold wave even more un
expected than that which gjjpped
Atlanta two weeks ago, rushed the
mercury down from 30 degrees at 6
o’clock Sunday evening to 11 degrees
at 7 o'clock Monday morning, a drop
of practically 20 degrees in thirteen
hours, it was announced Monday by
C. F. von Herrmann, head of the
local weather bureau.
Mr. von Herrmann says It will
continue cold for several days with
an accompaniment of clear skies.
He predicts that temperatures will
not be lower than those recorded
Monday.
Many Atlantians failed to profit by
their experience of two weeks ago
and as a result there were many
frozen pipes in residences and many
cracked automobile radiators Mon
day morning.
Only slight damage had been re
ported Monday to the Georgia Rail
way and Power company and to the
city water works office.
The following table shows the
range of temperature from midnight
Sunday:
Midnight Sunday 20 degrees
1 a. m. Monday J 8 degrees
2 a. m. Monday 16 degrees
3 a. m. Monday 15 degrees
4 a. m. Monday 14 degrees
5 a. m. Monday 13 degrees
6 a. m. Monday 12 degree. >
7 a. m. Monday Il degrees
8 a. in. Monday • 15 degrees
9 a. m. Monday 14 degrees
10 a. m. Monday 15 degrees
(OLDER WEATHER TONIGHT
FORECAST BY WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—The
northwestern cold wave has spread
rapidly eastward anti southward, and
this morning all districts east of the
Mississippi and the southern states
were under its influence, the weath
er bureau reported today. Tempera
tures were below freezing this morn
ing along the gulf coast and in
northern Florida, and below zero in
the region of the great Jakes and
the Ohio and upper Mississippi val
leys. The lowest temperature report
ed was 58 degrees below zero, at
White River, Ontario.
The temperature has moderated
materially over the northwestern
states, and there have been rains
within- the last twenty-foiv hours in
the South Atlantic and east gulf
states-
The outlook is for generally fair
weather tonight and Tuesday in the
Washington forecast district.
Th® temperature will be lower to
night in the Atlantic states and
Atlanta, Gd., Tuesday, January 22, 1924
Run-Over Necessary
In the Gubernatorial
Race in Louisians
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 19.—Re
; witt Bouanchaud, lieutenant gover
nor, and Uenrv L. Fuqua, for sev
I eral years superintendent of .staff
i prison, loading candidates in las
; Tuesday’s Democratic primary, wil
'enter a run-off on February 19 ts
I determine the winner of the guber
, i natorial nomination. Huey r. Long
; i chairman of the state public utili
ties commission, the other contest
’ i ant, was eliminated on the face o:
> ' official returns from 25 primaries am
; i virtually complete unofficial tota
- I from the remainder of the state.
Correction of an error made in tht
' latest newspaper tabulation of th*
■ vote gave Bouanchaud a lead of ap
I proximately seven hundred ovei
! Fuqua.
The • Times-Picayune's compilatior
' j this morning divided the vote as fol
' lows: •
1 Bouanchaud, 83,287; Fuqua, 82,
' 556; Long. 73.762.
j ;
- Grand Jury Indicts .
Two Mobile Officials
For Attempted Briber)
‘ MOBILE, Ala., Jan. 20.—Arthui
, Boyles, federal district attorney, anc
Harry G. French, a federal prohi
; bition agent, were indicted or
i I charges of attempted bribery by a
circuit court grand jury here
The indictments 1 car out charge?
made several weeks ago when
Boyles and French were arrested.
Boyles is charged with attempt'
, ing to bribe a deputy sheriff and
member of the legislature if, acting
as a deputy sheriff, fie would col
lect funds from violators of prohi
bition laws, with French.
It is said that promises of SIOO,OOC
.; proceeds wore made.
‘ freezing temperatures will occur as
f’ar south as central Florida. The
L temperature will rise Tuesday in the
lower lake region, the Ohio valley
’ . Tennessee and the east gulf states.
.MERCURY AT 12 BELOW
AT ( HII AGO; ONE DEAF
CHICAGO. Jan. 21. —Intense cold
i weather, with ft sharp west wind
i brought suffering to Chicago today.
The thermometer stood at 12 below
• zero. The cold is general through
: out the middlewest and Great Lakes
region.
I A baby girl, found abandoned in
. an elevated station, froze to death
; before relief could be administered.
A series of fires over the week-end
' in Chicago caused total property
damage of approximately $1,000,000.
The greatest single loss was at the
“Plant of Sherwin-Williams, paint
manufacturers, where the blaze gain
ed considerable headway. Damage
was estimated at $500,000.
TmWF
■ FOB PRESIDENT HELD
j UNCONSTITUTIONAL
it
1 MONTGOMERY. Ala., Jan. 19.
° Act of the 1923 Alabama leglsla
r- tore, providing for a presidential
r, preferential primary election in Ala
’’ bama, is held by Attorney General
f. Harwell G. Davis to be unconstitu
tional and void, according to ruling
announced late today.
Five candidates, three Democrats
and two Republicans, have already
e qualified for participation in the
e 1 primary that had been set for March
v 11. Those qualifying were: Senator
, r Oscar W, Underwood, Democrat,
Alabama; L. B. Musgrove, Demo
n (’rat, Jasper, Ala.; M. A.
! Democrat, Birmingham; Senator Hi
ram Johnson, Republican, Califor
nia, and W. Ij. Chenault, Itepub
’ I lican, Russellville, Ala.
j Under the ruling laid down In a.
' formal opinion rendered by jXttor
ney General Davis, at the request of
Judge Charles E. McCall, chief ex
aminer of public accounts, the at
torney general holds that the coun
ties will not be authorized to incur
n the expense of the execution of the
/ | election which is provided for in
r i the act.
£ ' The primary law was admittedly
. I passed by the legislature last sum-
■ mer for Senator Underwood, who
„ was indorsed at a. mass meeting
held in the house of representatives
' 1 chamber.
Attorney- General Davis, in his
n i opinion, calls attention to the fol
, : lowing provisions of the Alabama
constitution that the legislature
’ rr shall also make provision by law,
” ' not inconsistent with this article, for
the regulation of the primary elec
‘ ■. tions, and for punishing frauds at
n I the same time, but shall mot make
primary’ elections compulsory. He
_ pointed out that the p |- eferential
presidential primary- act'is compul
s sory, and is, therefore, in direct con
flict with the constitutional provi
e I sions quoted.
The opinion. It is pointed out, dogs
not affe<-t any primary Jaw of the
state except the one designated.
■j
!• Superior Court Refuses
New Trial for Slayer
Os Talbotton Man
h I COLUMBUS. Ga., Jan. 19.—Dr. C.
i M. Black, of Talbotton, under sen
d I tence of from 19 to 20 years on a
y I charge of manslaughter, growing
i. j out of the fatal shooting of J. C.
e ' McGuirt, on th» streets of Talbot
t i ton. July- 5 of last year,,was refused
i-la new trial here this afternoon by
e I Judge George P. Munro, in superior
court.
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GRANOEDRBF SIGHT
SWEEPS THOUSANDS
INTO MIGHTY GHEEB
South’s Dream of Immortal
ity for Heroes of Sixties
Comes True—Distinguish-
• ed Visitors at Ceremonies
I
BY (). B. KEELER
The dream of the world’s greatest
memorial began to come true Satur- |
day afternoon at 3 o’clock, when
with a stately dignity that held
something of a caress, a bright,
broad national emblem was lifted
and gathered as a flowing coronet ij
upon the majestic brow of Robert
E. looking out now anq for
evermore from the sheer wall of
Stone Mountain—the first of the
mighty group planned, by Gutzon
Borglum, the sculptor, after the
dream of Helen Plane, a daughter of
the Old South.
Mrs. Plane herself, leaning on the
arm of Mr. Borg’.uin, gave the sig- v --
nal for the unveiling of the head of
the “knightliest leader,” and under >
the gray sky of a January afternoon
10,000 reverent witnesses of that
epoch-making event stood hushed in
awe and admiration.
"In the presence of many sublimi
ties,” sai.l Dr. Plato Durham in his
address, the drcam was coming true,
and he made a plea that the assem
bly should close the ears and eyes of
the flesh and with these of the spirit
harken to the “rhythnjlc tramp of
the generations that are to come
marching down,” and follow with
the eyes of the spirit th e unending
procession, out to time’s ultimate
horizon.
Dawn of a Great Dream
The skies were tenderly gray: and
even the chill breeze out of the north
seemed tempered, while a trace of
the “gentle rain from heaven” wa«' •
in the air, as the distinguished gen
tlewoman of the Old South, her blue
eyes sparkling with the fire of the
spirit and with tears, waved a tiny,
glowing flag of the Confederacy, tlie
signal for the thunder of
boulders down the sheer face"of the
mountain, and then the slow lift- i
ing of the national emblem that dis
closed the face of the great leader
of the Lost Cause, sculptured in
heroic bas-relief upon the living
stone.
The dawn of a great dream coming
true lighted the towering granite
wall of the mountain, and under its
more than royal coronet the calm
face of Lee looked out across the
gray landscape, keeping watch now
and forevermore over the Southland
that he loved and the Nation that
he truly served.
A pause of reverence, of homage
—and then the roll of the handclap
ping swept across the hillside to
the mountain and echoed back
again, end its light spray, touched '
here and there with a true old “reb
el yell,” must have reached to flret
member of that mighty group of
heroes to come forth from the liv
ing granite. Then like the resound
ing surf on a rockbound coast, the
clang of a thousand motor horns
went, rolling down the mllelong
lines, heading in along the lictl*
road, or parked in the clearing.
A band had been playing, but the
band could not be heard just then.
The dawning of the memorial dream
of a. people was upon the mountain
side. An epoch was In the mak
ing; no longer merelj' talked of rev
erently.
Great Pilgrimage
Since before noon a pilgrimage
had been under way, from Atlanta
and from all around, heading for
Stone Mountain. The roads were
dark with motor cars and persona
on foot, seeking that gigantic
shrine. So prodigious was the presa
of vehicles that a line more than a
mile long never reached the scene
of the unveiling—hundreds hack of
hundreds of motor cars still were
headed toward the place, stopped In
their tracks, when the first trickle
of cars back to the city began, at
3:30 o’clock, after the brief and im
pressive exercises and the tremen
dous address by Dr. Durham.
It was estimated that anywhere
from ten to twenty thousand persone
set out to attend the unveiling; and
if many failed of their object, most
of them were in their places on the
hillside, facing the world’s greatest
monolith, when Hollins Randolph,
president of the memorial associa
tion, stood up with bared head to in
troduce Dr. David Marx, who de
livered the brief and impressive In
vocation.
Mrs. Plane, 94 years old, widow
of a Confederate colonel killed In
action, was carried up on the ros
trum by Mr. Borglum, the sculptor
whose genius had laid out the gigan
tic work and whose indefatigable
toil had brought forth from the
granite the head of Lee in less than
six weeks, and with bared head he
stood beside her as the stately lady,
attired in a costume of the ’sixties,,
waved her command to the moun
tain to give forth the head of Lee.
On the seemingly tiny platform, a
thousand yards away on an air- j
drawn line, incredibly tiny figures J
of men moved here and there, be
neath the two vast American flags fl
hung like a curtain. Answering the fl
signal, boulder after boulder of
granite slipped from its resting fl
place under the flags and flashed
down the sheer drop of the precipice,, W
one—two—three —sour—five seconds ■
by the watch from the flags to the h
base, and then two seconds more
before the dull thunder of their im
pact, rolled across the valley to the
multitude on the hillside. ||||||
Applause Thunderous
And the giant flags part and rise,
parting and the thunder
<.f fF/i.- c-;-'i - e, the majestic head Wfl
of Lee appears.
A long intak® of breath, as
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