Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fifteen miles from Atlanta rises the bleak face of Stone Mountain. Weather-beaten tool houses and engineers' shacks balance precariously on its summit; ladders, derricks, remnants of scaffolding cling to its flank. Two sculptors have blasted and worried a hole in its face into a semblance of General Robert E. Lee on his horse, Traveller. They have left a pile of granite debris at its base which Quarryman San Venable of Atlanta, former owner of Stone Mountain, declares will take five years to remove. To Stone Mountain there returned last week Gutzon Borglum, carver of mountains...
...April 1915, Sculptor Borglum was invited to Atlanta by the United Daughters of the Confederacy to cut a ten-foot head of Lee in the face of Stone Mountain. Within three days Sculptor Borglum convinced the good ladies of the U. D. C. that what they wanted was no picayune head but a frieze, 1,300 ft. long, 200 ft. high, the biggest stonecutting ever attempted, representing Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, "Stonewall" Jackson, leading the armies of the South. Corporations were formed, the inspired U. D. C. went to work to collect money...
...While the damage has been serious [along] the Ohio river, in parts of the Rocky Mountain region, in Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and certain of the southern states, the drought has not been serious in the upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys...
...delivering beer to roadhouse customers. The leader has many activities, was arrested and released for a killing last year in the Hotsy-Totsy night club, Manhattan. He is out on bail pending Federal trial for a narcotic law violation. Since his last arrest he has dwelt secluded in a mountain retreat at Acra, N. Y., where his ten-room house was guarded (until police raids) by machine-guns, is still guarded by flood lights which sweep every approach...
...glare blinds them. They either race in front of the automobile or squat down in the highway. Although New York's wild rabbit death rate is as high as New Jersey's, New York plans this year to stock only with snow-shoe rabbits, which go to the mountain districts...