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Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 May 1916, Page 3

A work of art so stupendous in its that it will cause the fabJed Colossus of Rhodes to seem like ■a pigmy, and that will make the largest bas-relief ever carved to app ;-ir in comparison like a. cameo, will oom- ; anemorate the great struggle, which the ' .'-South made for its "lost cause" (sajs New York World;). This piece of sculpture will be two miles long. ctarv- j ed oat of a, (single piece of deorgik •niai'iile. without a break or a fissure m j at. it will comprise more than 2000 figures of men, each, about -I.sft tail, j :and each one will (be the portrait of j :a man who served 1 with the Con fed er- j ate Army. It will cost between I ; £320,000 mid £400,000. and 'Ivill con-1 1 tsume eight years. A Now York sculp- j j tor. Gutzon Boglum, who, strangely : | enough, won the commission because j. of a statue lie made off Lincoln, will {do the work. This enormous piece of sculpture, who fcitie to the eighth won- j f der of the world no one can dispute, I wTil (be a few miles outside of Atlanta, i ! sculpture whose title to tlie eighth won- • ! Stone Mountain, a landmark which i i has been donated to the same 'cause by j ! Stiniuel Venabl®.