New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 10, 1927, Page 21

BORGLUM MAKING GIANT MONUMENT Carving Out Faces of Four Presidents Keystone, 8. D, June 1y—Roaring | jackhammers, splitting the high si- lences of a mountain wilderness, proclaim through the echoing vales of the Black Hills the jnauguration of the greatest sculpture ever con- ceived by man. Gutzon Borglum, sculptor, and his crew of laborers have started the transformation of granite Mount Rushmore into figures of Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and Roosevelt, created on a scale which dwarfs all other heroic sculpture of the ancient or modern | world. The work has begun at the top of the mountain with the head ot} Washington. Jackhammers, run by compressed air, drill lines of holes into which wedges are driven, chipping away the granite. Each figure is to measure 265 feet from the top of its 60-foot head to the point where it merges at the waist into the mountain. The finished group will stand 465 feet above the surrounding terrain and the figures are being carved in the proportion of men that tall. The Statue of Liberty is 305 feet high from base to torcii, the actual figure is 151 feet tall. and the head | measures 17 feet—Ilcss than a third as large as thosc in the Rushmore | group. Lee's head in Borglum's Stone Mountain enterprise is 21 feet high. The Colossus of Rhodes, marvel of antiquity, is 96 feet high and the Sphinx stands 100 feet above the desert. | hopes to complete the, figure this summer. and one a year thereafter. No- where else, he says, is there a rock amenable to such a sculpture, for | Mount Rushmore is of fine-grained, | unstratified granite aj million years old and | young. | The work is to cost $435,000 and is to be finished within five years with an entablature on the moun- | tainside below the statucs, S0 feet high and 120 feet long, containing an account of the territorial «x pansion of the United States. Th part of the mountain behind the atues will be cut av The fnoney is coming from private sub- | scription. The site of the Rushmore sculp- | ture is in the Harney federal fores jpreserve three , miles from Key- | jstone, feldspar mining town. The| mountain was named in 1886 hyj Charles E. Rushmore, now a New York lawyer. It is visible from many points in and about the Black Hills. | Borglum, United States Senator Peter Norbeck, and Doane Robin- ! Borglum Washington —possibly but live HUDSON SUPER-SIX Standard Models Coach - - - - - Sedan - - - - - Roadster - - - Phaeton - - Brougham 5-Pass. Sedan - 7-Pass. Sedan - - All prices f. 0. b. Desraity phus huar excise tax. - 81285 - 1385 Custom Buslt Modals son, South Dakota historian, have taken precautions to assure com- pletion of the project even if Borglum, now 60, 1is overtaken by ill health or death. In that event Hugo Villa, his studio superin- tendent, and Maj. J. G. Tucker, contractor, would finish the sculp- ture from Borglum’'s models. Senators Clinging to | Old Traditional Stuff ‘Washington, June 10 A—The Sen- ate holds tenaciously to its prece- | dents, and the maintenance of an | adequate supply of snuff for fts members is one of them. i Two small, black embossed metal- | lic snuff boxes resting on the wains- coting of the Senate chamber on each side of the Vice President’s| dais have attracted few devotees in recent decades of the once ele- gant custom of snuff taking. But when the Senate extension of the Capitol was constructed shortly be- fore the Civil War, they were re- garded as necessary for the conven- ience of the members, nearly all of whom wre using snuff, and to this day one of the dutles of the pages is to make sure that the boxes are| supplied with the powdered to- | bacco. Despite from common use, efforts to the boxes removed have been sisted by a large majority on ground that it was a Senate custom and should be honored. the passing of the habit have re- the | Harry Lauder Taking | To Role of Gum Chewer London, June 10 (A—Sir Harry Lauder hopes to become a chewing- gum magnate. “I have invested a few dollars in 4 chewing-gum industry in Can- ada, and who knows what will hap- pen?” the Scotch comedian re- marked. * I may build a tower in my old home town of Portobello.” Sir Harry has been engaged for | £10,000 to act in the film version of John Buchan's novel, “Hunting Tower,” a Scotch romance. The outdoor scenes will be done some- where in the South of Scotland. Sir Harry will play the part of a Glas- gOW grocer. Teaches Patriotism in | Little Kansas Towns | Topecka, Kansas, June 10 Mrs. Ida M. 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