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Show STATUE OF CARRARA MARBLE Shaft of Adam and Eve, Made of Famous Fa-mous Stone, to Grace the Estate of Wealthy American. With the completion of a heroic statue of Adam and Eve, hewn by an eminent sculptor to grace the estate of a wealthy American, what is said to be the largest block of Carrara marble ever brought into this country found expression in one of the oldest, and perhaps the most Influential of the arts. . Since Roman emperors opened the quarries more than two thousand years ago, merchant princes of the Middle Ages, monarchs and the modern mod-ern world have fashioned their architectural archi-tectural dreams in "Carrara." Only In Tuscany, Italy, is it now to be found in great quantities. More than one million mil-lion tons yearly are being produced in the Apuan Alps, where there is a mountain of glistening stone five thousand thou-sand feet high. And, despite the fact that centuries of building and art have drawn upon these snow-white deposits for their uncarved beauty, the supply is little more than touched. Michelangelo, whose sculptures are among the glories of the renaissance worked In Carrara marble, Cellen: used It, and, since before the birth ol Christianity, the quarries have been shipping the matchless stone to all parts of the earth. It is to be seen In the ruins of the Eoman forum, at the still well-precerved Arch of Constan-tlne, Constan-tlne, and beneath the great dome of St. Peter's cathedral In Rome. In most places where marble deposits de-posits occur, It has become split up In the earth and various substances have filtered Into the cracks, giving rise tr the colored veins which make It unfit for statuary use. For some mysterious mysteri-ous reason the Carrara marbles have remained for the most part free from such disfiguring accidents. In this condition the ancients found them. Popular Mechanics. |