Show MONUMENT E nr alfor FOt je J ua TEXAN WHO IS PREPARING TES ALTO TO rockefeller A AG G lee of denton gather ng stones one for each good ded of the 0 1 I king and he Is gettin getting 9 qu te a pile the great john D is not w aitho aitho it friends even in texas neither will ha he have to wait until he lie reaches the land to enjoy the sen sensation satio of having bavun I 1 a monument he Is to have a anon ment raised to his virt virtues kies while whilo ire he Is 45 yet alive he has raised costly tures which stand to day as bonu ments to his philanthropy but this particular monument will be different mr rockefeller knows nothing of ito it he was not consulted in the matter and the memorial will rise as a volun tary tribute from one oi ot his admirers who believes in deeds of praise rather than words A G lee ot of denton texas Is 19 the man who Is erecting the rockefeller monument somebody asked him why the other day and mr lee showed that his ideas on the subject were em phalle and deeply rooted why he answered why because john D rockefeller is the greatest man in the world mr lee Is tall and straight keea keen eyed and shrewd looking he ile is rich too and is looked upon as a person of non consequence sequence in his home section he I 1 dresses plainly explaining that he to I 1 too busy to bother about clothes but there is something in his bearing which marks him as a man above the ordinary mr lee has strong ideas about how the monument should be built in fact he has superintended the work as far as it aas ass gone and he has helped with his own hands on the foundation for months mr lee s teams have been busy hauling stones stories of all sizes to a farm iwo two miles from denton where the memorial nie morial Is being erected it was hinted by a frivolous and slangy person that the multitude of rocks might well be symbolical of the richest man s pile but mr air lee is seri serf oua ous and he declines to notice the sug surmounting the rugged toun foun dation will be a heroic latue of mr air rockefeller and about its base four tablets will tell of bis his good works mr lee expects to spend 15 15 on the statue itself he has ordered the statue from a bronze bronze casting firm in new york but of this particular tea fea ture he nes to talk it is evident that he is planning to surprise hia his neighbors when the statue comes along the unveiling ceremony is to be one of texas great occasions according to mr lee it Is to be held next spring and it if present plans of the monument builder out mr rockefeller and his family will be present at the ceremony mr lees lee s office at his hotel where he has his business headquarters la s littered with plans for the demor memorial 1 a designs for the statue and suggestions cor for the tablets which are to stand at the base jokers have had their tun fun sending in inscriptions which they think ought to be placed on the tablets but mr lee himself will attend to that without outside aid border lines of dollar marks are favorite decora decors eions with the volunteer inscription writers and references to standard oil make up a large percentage of the suggested tributes but the monument maker will have none of them he does admit however that it is 1 difficult to inscribe a monument erect ed to a living man he complains that the style in these matters Is based up on the proposition that monuments are for the departed only and as he is a pioneer in upsetting this tradition he will have to solve the problem to his own satisfaction inasmuch as mr air lee says that his monument Is in part the result of a desire to refute the harsh things said against mr rockefeller by his critics it is quite likely that the inscription work will be devoted to a defense of the subjects methods |