Echoes

Last week appeared three items of news, each a distant echo of the roar made by Sculptor Gutzon Borglum when ousted last winter (TIME, Mar. 16) by the Stone Mountain Memorial Association:

In Atlanta Sculptor Augustus Lukeman, chosen to succeed Borglum at his task, finished a plaster model of what Stone Mountain will look like when his men have hacked and drilled it. Jefferson Davis, in a flowing riding cape, rides into eternity across the mountain-front, closely followed by General Robert E. Lee astride his famed "Traveler", with General Stonewall Jackson pressing on his flank with a detachment of eight tattered troopers.

In Rapid City, S. D., Gutzon Borglum, seeking occupation, conferred with leading Dakotans on the advisability of their employing him to carve historic figures out of Needle Rock, a steeple of granite in the Black Hills. Several wealthy persons listened sympathetically to the plan. When asked to suggest what national heroes they thought would best become this lonely summit, they named Washington and Lincoln, two favorites with the public. Mr. Borglum began to make designs.

In Stamford, Conn., several companies to which Borglum owes money instituted actions to foreclose upon his country estate.