Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-02-20 | Page 19 | Borglum Designs Huge Monument

BORGLUM DESIGNS HUGEMONUMENT Bronze Figure for Military Memorial Largest in UrS.T NEW YORK, Feb. lH.Announce-mcnt lH.Announce-mcnt has been made by Italph H. Lum, representing the executors of of Newark, that Gutzon Horplum had been chosen to make the sailors' and soldiers' monument, for which Mr. Van Horn set aside $100,000 In his will. Mr. Burglum's Idea, of a hemic bronze group was chosen by a committee from among dozens of dea!i;ns. "The Mobilization of America" a the title Mr. Ilorglum suggested for his group. The bronze will bo forty to forty-three feet lonfp, eighteen feet high twenty'-four feet with the pedestal ped-estal and wil Icon tain forty-three figures. The figures In the group will be seven feet eight inches high. "This is the largest group ever built i or poproaed in America," Mr. JJorglum ' said. "It tells the complete story of a nation's effort no other monument monu-ment has ever attempted t do. The front of the group ts conipositl of j several men, fully uniformed and dtf- , inttely at the ede of th hattle in the! presence nf danger. This in nhow n by their attitude, by the general m ruc-ture ruc-ture of the ground, by the agitation of the hoif,es and by th" rounding f one of the men engaged in harnessing the horses. iack of the entire group is solider bidding goodbye to hi, wife and children, indicating in a very simple and descriptive maimer th-rriotive th-rriotive which induce ft a i aceful nation na-tion to trtke up arms."