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Show Stone Mountain. ! Stone mountain, on whose granite wall Is to be sculptured a memorial to the Confederacy, is 16 miles from At-' At-' lnnta, Ga. It will be the largest monu-! monu-! ment In the world. The space cov- ered will be about eight hundred feet j high and fifteen hundred feet wide, j The project first attracted attention in 1015, when Mrs. C. Helen Plane, then eighty-eight years of age, a leader lead-er of Southern women, sent for Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor, to come to Georgia, to consider the feasibility of a great sculptural monument to the Confederacy on the wall of the mountain. moun-tain. Mr... Borglum made a .careful study of several plans. The plan adopted represents nn army marching Into battle. It will comprise portraits of nil the Confederate leaders. |