Show o oI I Digging Out a Civilization I 1 IBy By FREDERICK L. L HOFFMAN Statistician for the tho Leading Insurance Comp Companies nies Progress s on the work of uncovering and re restoring reo re- storing th th ruins of Americas America's most amazing an ancient ancient ancient an- an civilization is reported here It is being supervised by Professor Morely Merely of the Carnegie institute Dr Hoffman sends his article from the spot When the work near noar the Ule tara Maya village o of is finished Yucatan will wm oC offer r to the Western estern world the greatest t attraction in the silent memorial o of ot the genius of or a vanished race The project itself symbolize sym ym- Americas America's highest idealism In rendering rende aid nid and guidance to another nation not in a position to undertake the work on a scale proportionate to Its magnitude tude Those Thol-e who hl have witnessed what is being done don at Chichen mu mutt mut t feet feel grateful toward the Carnegie gle Institute which Is erecting a monument here re that will never be permitted to perIsh perish per per- ish 1511 or fall Into decay All com comparisons are wanting unless It be with that the grandeur that was nonie and the glory glor was Greece h In the case o of the Maya Mavo ruins ruins' the task tapir Is enormously et complicated b bv absence of oC a p. d definite ground plan or or- symmetrical s conception of or orthe the several leading structures structure They eem to have been cl l without a objective In their relation re to each roch other The Mayas also seem to have had no clear door conception of streets s or Ur ot of roadways roadways road road- ways and avenues facilitating approach from one great building to the other Hence each lach structure pyramid temple or building stands o out i by ly y it 1 lf The first ruin that thit meets etA tho the ee lr fr the grent great pyramid a colo eal pile of earth arth and masonry with more t than an a I hundred steep steps crowned cloWned hv by ft II temple which Is In course o of being restored About the pyramid are other structures but hut the these se are overshadowed dowed by the Castillo a vast at building On the crown of a sort of or pyramid l or an earth cOne edne The effect on the first view o of the on the eye ere is a though some S Scottish Rite Kite temple had been bodily transferred to the Maya Some of of th the frescoes and carvings A are well preserved preserved preserved pre- pre served and here hel o and there are still sUII tices of ancient ancient ancient an an- wall vall paintings In bright ht colors coloN This ture Is now known as aA the Tempe Tempie of the Warrior a. The height of oC the structure Is IA about thirty feet Ceet It Is a dizzy height from to look down but buta a 11 scene of grandeur Structure after aCter structure comes Into sight There I is the T Temple iupe of the Tigress the Temple o of the Tables the Temple of the Cones and in the distance one can see the Impressive Im Im- Im outlines of the Round Tower or and last not least the tile group of ot building known is S the Cast Casa de do or OP the Palace Nunnery Between these those are pyramids and buildings many nany yet covered with debris or undergrowth I Imade Imade Imade made m my way to the Round Tower a a unique structure I ture lure in the Maya faa country It contains a spiral Stairway now partly In ruins It is located on a mound and Is Js easy of access Until the tower Is reconstructed It Is next to impossible le to clearly trace its outlines Wandering among the ruins filled with awe we and for the genius of these ancient builders there likeWise lse came t to hi me tue the thought of und profound resi respect for the ability and daring Imagery of oC those thore who are restoring for the future generations some sohie clear elear picture of the greatest achievements o of the theIa Maya Ia n race The work of ot Professor Morley Is one otle o of the most audacious and toilsome attempts over m nude made de to rebuild the vanished cities of the past Pl Inan in inan an any part of ot the wo vold With infinite pains and extraordinary skill the scattered fragments s are arc being put together and by bv bylow low v de degrees rees rees' the old structures structure are ale being recreated and made comparable with the greatest architectural c- c tural monuments o of European antiquity Cop Copyright right 1026 Cosmos Newspaper Syndicate Inc A |