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Show A Marvelous Memorial HPHE 'Daughters of the Confederacy have deter- mined to make a memorial to the lost cause in a most imposing and lasting form. There is a mountain of solid granite sixteen miles out from Atlanta 700 feet in height. The proposition is to carve a frieze 2,000 feet long and 50 feet wide (or deep) across the face of this mountain; this face to represent the two wings of an army, with foot, horse and artillery in motion and made to look as though on the march, passing over the mountain. To correspond with the mountain's height the figures on the frieze the men, horses and guns will necessarily have to be colossal, reaching, including the horses, 30 to 50 feet in height. All the strong men of the south of 1861-'G5, official, civil and military will have places on the frieze, but it will not be a monument to any one man, but a memorial to a cause. The conception of the nature of the memorial me-morial is due to Mrs. C. Helen Plane, president of the Monument association, assisted by Wm. A. Terrill, a lawyer of Atlanta, and the idea and details de-tails are to bo worked out and carried to completion com-pletion by the Danish-American sculptor, Gutzon Borglum of New York City, who expects to be engaged eight years on the work. It is expected to cost $2,000,000. The mountain was owned by Samuel Venable of Atlanta and he and his heirs have deeded it to the association. The sculptor is sanguine in the belief that nothing which has ever been attempted in the way of a memorial will compare with this work when completed. He thinks the men who built the Pyramids had the same purpose in mind, that Greece might have anticipated the work, but neither Egypt nor Greece had the needed mountain. moun-tain. All Americans will be glad to see this work carried to completion. It will not only be a splendor splen-dor to look upon, but it Avill carry lessons to the generations that are to succeed the present one. The first thought will be of the giants of 1861-G5; the second will be that a higher than mortal power watches and directs the destinies of nations and that its edicts cannot be turned aside. Madam De Stael looking upon the exquisite sculptured frieze of a great cathedral, likened it to "frozen music." If the sculptor realizes his idea in the. wqrking out of his design on Stone M mountain, it will bo a funeral march in granite ' M and the refrain will seem to ring out down the H ages from the stone, a requiem over an irresistible valor that was suddenly transfixed. The pyramids , H were built by selfish and cruel men to secure for H themselves undisturbed graves. That fact brings ) M to men who see them something of the mould and H odor of decay. This mountain frieze near Atlanta will be in the open where the lightnings, the tem- pests and the sunbeams can all beat upon tho H moving army. H Below in the forest there will be a temple cut i in the mountain side with a 200 foot front, which ; front will be supported by thirteen great columns H to symbolize the thirteen confederate states, and H the mountain will be cut out fifty feet deep, fur- ', nished in stone and dedicated to the women of H the confederacy. H There will not bo a figure carried to the moun- H tain; all will be carved from the granite. ( H Lower still a great park with walks, creeks and H a lake will be created in the forest. The sculp- H tor believes that when tho work shall be com- H pleted it will make all other attempts in sculp- ' H ture in this country look like thirty cents. |