Argus-Leader from Sioux Falls, South Dakota • Page 13

hgJay, April 19Z7. THE DAILY ARGUS-LEADER. SIOUX FALLS, S. D. 13 .1 be tnush of the same nature as at StonS I Mountain and his experience there wilt especially qualify him for this work, He served in the engineers during the I war, and had somewhat unique fence in France.

He is a member ot the American Legion at Rapid City. Assistant Sculptor Hugo Villa has for seventeen year been Mr. Borglum's studio superintendent, Borglum says of him that "Villa-is not equalled In the exact duplication of models." UndeQ Borglum's superln. tendence. Villa will have charge of the actual creation of the portraits on the mountain from the master models as they come from Borglum's hand.

Borg. lum entrusted Villa to take his models for the massive "Wars of America" containing two horses and forty-two men all of heroic stature to Vienna where he made the pattern, models and superintended the casting of the largest bronze ever produced. He brought the finished sculpture home where it met the approval of the master, and of the critical public. THE BIO RISK The greatest risk Involved in the production of the memorial is in the health and life of Mr. Borglum.

He is a strong man physically and has the promise of many useful years. Should he for any reason fall to complete the memorial, there is not a doubt that from the master models Villa can finish it in a way that will be as effective as if done under the direction of Mr. Borglum himself. From EverLvting t'nto Everlasting Men love the permanent: They like to feel they have contributed to the Cato's Vagabonds, novelty orchestra, a peering at the Staia theatre on Sun day REGINALD DENNY ATTHJEEGYPTIAN Tie Cheerful Fraud" and Llojd Hamilton Comedy Film Feature Organ Feature There Is nothing more entertaining 4fcn wen-performed farce comedy. And there Is no better example of momedy weU done than "The rheerful Fraud." the Unlvereal-Jewel -reduction starring Keginald Denny, which opens here at the Egyptian theatre tomorrow.

Any farce must necessarily start with the star becoming involved Ifa an em-barrassine or difficult situation, and rttin in deeper than ever, when be fries to straighten It out. And if you think anyone has ever had troubles, Just go and see what happened Mr Denny in "The Cheerful Fraud." The whole production, plentifully with novel situations and suborn "eaes" is a tribute to the directional skiU of William Belter, who ets credit for making the production. There are no big mob scenes, lapses of time or spectacular settings for comedy. Instead, there are only six persons pending a week-end at an English country home and from this modest sit-uation, the director has wrung a wealth of comedy to move one into almost dan-serous stages of laughter. Mr.

Denny is surrounded by supporting players who provide excellent foils for his comedy antics and themselves contribute many touches of comedy. Gertrude Olmetead is charming in the feminine lead and Otis Harlan, Gertrude Astor, Emily Fitzrqy, and Charles Gerrard are splendid in supporting roles. Lloyd Hamilton comedy, "Here Comes Charlie," and Catherine Giillaple, featured organist, in a novelty organ number, "Sweet complete the kill. 5. Ofis S'W -i i frQ few- REGIN40OENNY.4jJ5CcCHERFULFRAUO; placed undor the control of Custer state park board.

It Is nearly three miles from patented ground and therefore there will be no opportunity for land speculation about the site. This is a very important advantage. Real estate speculation has wrecked more than one great enterprise intended wholly for public enjoyment. NATIONAL IN SCOPE THE MEMORIAL IS NATIONAL in scope and without a single local impli cation. Its appeal is to the patriotic and cultured people of America whoBe appreciation of art and sense of patriotic devotion- leads them to welcome every important creation that is conducive to national pride.

That the location may afford some profit to South Dakota is an incident. Not the least of its attractions is its permanence; Forever and ever. THE NAME Rushmore Mountain was named for Charles E. Rushmore of New York City. Forty years ago, Mr.

Rushmore, then a young lawyer, was employed by Har ney Peak Tin Mining company to visit the Hills and perfect titles to certain lands the company was acquiring and he remained for a considerable period. One day driving from Hill City to Keystone he observed the great heap of Granite in the distance and asked what its name might be, "Mount Rushmore," replied his quick witted companion and Mount Rushmore it has continued to be, Mr. Rushmore is now the head of the important firm of Rushmore, Bisbee A Stern, 61 Broadway and is naturally greatly interested in the development at his mountain. The Name of the Memorial There has been much discussion of the name which must ultimately be adopted for the memorial. It is intended primarily as a memorial to the Territorial Expansion of the United States and its name should suggest this intention.

There are so many national memorials that that name is not quite significant. Liberty magazine has been considering offering a prtee for a name for it. It has not yet made an announcement. There is an opportunity lor me ingenious to xercise their Ingenuity in fabricating a name that expresses the purpose and at the same time will be crisp, popular and dignified. THE SCFLPTOK Last autumn the Cockloft devoted an issue to the history of Gutzon Borglum, sculptor, whose genius has developed the plans and models for the memorial.

There is little to add to what was then said. Mr. Borglum's position as a sculptor is thoroughly established among the first of -every period. He has completed more heroic works than any other mdern. He is Just past his sixtieth year and in the prime of his career.

THE CONTRA ICTOR Major J. G. Tucker of Bradenvllle, Florida, has becoma the responsible contractor for the work at Rushmore. He was Mr. Borglum's superintendent at Stone Mountain, and is nationally known as a successful wbrker in granite.

The engineering at Rushmore will Reebiald Denny who will be wen at latest comedy "The Cheerful Fraud." novelty by Catherine Gillisple complete imperishable. Rushmore has stood un daunted through eons of time; tha storms, of countless centuries have-scarcely graven a wrinkle on its massive, granite brow. By tho same token the memorial we shall erect in this year will endure through other eons, bearing the fame of the men who shall rear it to generations of the remotest future. At the annual salon of agricultural Implements held in Paris recently, there were 16 American exhibits. U.

B. PORT OFFICE CT. SIOUX FALLS, SO. MARCH 43. 1627, OFFICH OH TUB CUSTODIAN.

SEA LKD will received at this office until 2:00 p. April 80th. 1927. and then puttllnly opened for INTERIOR PAINTINU ItKl'AlKS. at thia building In aroordancw with the eperlMcadon, coulee of -which, may be obtained from the Custodian only.

i. C. SEALS, Cuatodian. (March 2-3-AprIl 2) KOTICK OF HKARIM1 APPT-TCATIOX tOK KXKCLTOB'8 IKE1 State of South Dakota, county of Minnehaha, aa. Jn County court.

Wllhelm Moettcher, a I no known at William Moettcher. deceased. The atate of South Dakota aenda a-reet-Ine to Alvlna Hoettcher, Emma Acker, Hilda Acker. I.ydia Acker, Alvlna Ueler. and Meta Wahlatrom.

Kdward Boettcher. heir at law and next of kin of Wllhelm Boettcher, known alao aa William Boett lier, deceaaed, and to alt whom Jhese preaenta may come: Notice ta hereby riven that Ben Zweep hae tiled with the clerk of thla court a petition In which he praya that H. A. Meier, executor of the estate of Wllhelm Boettcher. known alao aa William Boettcher, de ceaaed, ba authorized and directed by thla court to make, execute and deliver to Ben an executor'a deed conveying to aatd Ben Zwcep tha following- described real property situated in Minnehaha county, Kouth Dakota, to-wit: The aouth half (Hit) of the southeast quarter (SB) of section twenty-seven 27), and the north half (N'i) of the northeast quarter (NKVi) of soo tlnn thirty-four (34), all In township one hundred three (103).

range forty-eight (48), pursuant to a written contract of sale of said premises entered Into by aaid deceased and aald Ben Zweep during decedent's lifetime; and that Thursday, the 14th day of April, 1927. at two o'clock In the afternoon of aaid day. tha offlca of the countv Judge In the court house In the city of 8loux Kails, Minnehaha county. South Dakota, haa been set for hearing said petition, when and where any person inter-ested may appear and show cause why said petition should not be granted and why said executor should not be authorised and directed to convey, execute and deliver to the aaid Hen Zweep hla executor'a deed aa prayed for In aald petition. Dated at Sioux Falls.

South Dakota, thia 17th day of March. 1S7. By the Court: Attest: Lewis. Larson, Eugene I. Foster.

Clerk. Judge. By Roland Rooks, Deputy. Johnson Simons. tjloux Falls, South Dakota, Attorney for petitioner (March 19-28 April -) THE COCK LOFT Will Rogers who will appear at tlte coliseum April 8 IT rt Rushmore is heard, forever forward thn memorial will ha a.

commercial suc at -1 the Ervotian theatre tomorrow in his A Lloyd llamilton comedy and orean the bill. ROBINSON the precipice at about the waist line. The top of the mountain will be cut away back of the heads, so they will stand upon the sky line in the finished work. Vantagepohit Directly south and in front of Rush- more is another mountain about 2.000 feet from the precipice and about 6,600 reet altitude. The new highway, designated by the state highway commission, as surveyed by Scovel Johnson engineer of the Needles road, runs di rectly across the top of this smaller mountain.

This top will be worked off into a parking place where many cars can assemble. It is lust the right distance from the statuary to afford the best view of it. In truth if the setting had been made to order it could not have been improverd upon. If it were nearer the eye would be unable to en compass the whole of the massive figures; if it were more distant something in the lines would be lost: if it were higher lower the perspective would be less effective. As it is one stands half way up the figures which are im posed directly before him.

THE ENGINEERING The creation of this statuary is an Interesting, but not especially difficult problem in engineering. Beginning at the top of the mountain the work is all done upon top of the rock; that is the work win be finished as they go down and the rock Itself will supply the necessary staging. No powder is used, but the work is done with jack-hammers operated with icompressed air. One compressor will drive eight hammers and each will drill a hole two in ches deep in a minute's time; wedges are driven into a line of these holes bored near the edge of the rock to be removed and by lightly tapping these wedges into place with repeated blows, the section outlined soon breaks off. Thus there is no grfeat concussions which might shatter the ledge.

One Figure at a Time The first figure will be most difficult and most expensive for the reason that the rock must be cut away on both sides of it. In doing this one side of each of two other figures is cleared. In the contract, which has been entered into one figure is to be completed in each of the next four years, and the entablature is. to be made in the fifth year. theTost The contracts with the sculpture and contractor provide a maximum cost of 437,600.

The contractor receives an attractive bonus for reducing this figure. This cost is much less than I had been anticipating and critics of the enterprise have talked of "millions of dollars." The low cost is due to the skill displayed by Mr. Borglum for getting the maximum of effect for a minimum of rock cutting. Tho Appeal Being a sentimentalist the appeal of this, project has to me been almost cess, drawing to it its thousands and its hundreds of thousands. It will be a Treat, productive agent, self maintain ing and self operating, There will De never a question of its success once installed.

UNIQUE AXDEXCLUSIYE The memorial will be unique and exclusive. It is not a thing to be dup Heated elsewhere. When Mr. Borglum first came out he told me that he had made a life study of rock and had traveled very extensively in America and knew of no other granlto compar able to the exposures in Mount liar ney range. Since that time I have twice crossed the continent and have dili gently studied the rock formations.

Nowhere have I seen or been able to learn of granlt of great dimensions presenting a face for sculpture. If it exists it is rare and remote. It certainly is not mid-continent. I think we can say that we have the only granite that will support such art as is contemplated for Rushmoro. Not Specdatlv The memorial will be located upon public, (government ground in that portion of Mount Harney National Forest which has been set aside by act of congress for a game sanctuary, and mm.

TOM STARTS TOMORROW TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY IN THE ARGUS-LEADER Tombs physician and many prison officials at New York City, go on the stand in the Thaw case and swear that they have not noticed anything In his actions which would lead them to believe that he was not of sound mind. President Theodore Roosevelt today made a most emphatic denial of the statement that he had requested E. H. Harriman to raise a campaign fund to he used in the interest of Roosevelt's 4 candidacy for the presidency. The Rock Island railroad company blocked the street in rfont of the Bridge barn laet night when It dumped a car from its tracks into the street at that point.

A force of men was set at work this morning replacing he car on the track. John Emmke of the Cataract hotel, which hitched up with the municipal water plant a couple of days ago, is greatly pleased with both the service and quality of water which Is being furnished his hostelry. The city of Sioux Falls has commenced an action against Artemus Gale for personal belongings of the late Mrs. Helen McKenmv which the latter had willed to the city but which Mr. Gale is accused of having removed from the McKennan home since her death.

Word came from Fort Dodge last evening of the death from heart failure at Fort Dodge, yesterday, of J. F. McNamara, cousin and partner of J. V. Hickey of this city.

Mr. Mc-Kamara was well and favorably known In Sioux Falls where he had visited on numerous occasions. C. H. Winsor, representing 3.

11. Jones of Chicago, appeared before the city council Monday evening and Mated that in esse -the '30-yeaf: fran chise asked by Mills was voted down, Mr. Jones stood ready to enter into a contract on the part of Chicago parties who would agree to install an electric line in this city at once. J. A.

Ross appeared before the city council with a protest against granting a saloon license to Nick Goebel for the opening of a saloon next door to Mr. Ross' place of business. The alder men paid no heed to Mr. Ross' protest but went right ahead and granted the saloon license. Postmaster Stltes has asked Superintendent Symms of the municipal water Bjstem to make an estimate of the cost of furnishing water for the federal building.

Sioux Falls council of the U. O. T. will hold its annual memorial services In memory of departed members on Sunday next at the Congregational REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS TAKEN- FROM THE GETTY AB. 8THACT CO.

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to Anton 1 Will vii V-bl, $8,800. ft. TlaI, i BL IU AStt l. ,28, blk. PT add, ii wlfe t0 Jerome De ba'add bIk 16i John' LAST TIME TONIGHT! MY STEWART in rE LADY FROM HELL" Man Langdon Comedy HE Fire tieuTcDu 18.

Evening 6. 20e tomorrow-Leo MAL0NEY LonjrLoop of the Pecoi" Mack Sennett Comedy' And "ON GUARD? BY DOANE Rl'SIIMORE Ancient, awesome pyramid, Unsolved mystery, the Sphinx, Druid fanes in dank fens hid, Riddles to confound the Jinx, Each have flourished but a day. Ad-measured by thy endless stay. The Memorial I think I mav now sav with a good deal of assurance that the carving of the great memorial upon Rushmore mountain will be under taken this season. The financing of the enterprise has gone far enough to Justify this conclusion.

It has been the policy of the committee in charge to attain a position where they could finish anything undertaken. Ferhaps a summary of some of the details, at this time will be pertinent. THE BIgTroCK Rushmore proper la a great lump of granite the top of which is, according to the government contour map, 6,800 feet above sea level; this rock is about 2,000 feet long and the sheer precipice of its front is between four and Ave hundred feet. It Is located in township 2 south, directly upon the line dividing ranees live and six. It faces Boutn oy east.

It is a part of the Harney range and is three and one-half miles slightly north of east from Harney peak, which is 1,400 feet higher than Rushmore. In approaching the Black Hills from the east Rushmore 19 tne Dig snouiaer Been on the northern slope of Harney, and is visible as far away as Wasta Hill. The Staines THE FIGURES OF THE MEMOR- lal will be upon the southerly end of RuMhmore. facing almost directly souin- east. Mr.

Borglum's sketch models of these figures have been widely pub lished and are more or less familiar to most readers. These models were made before the exact measurement, or tne rock was undertaken and the arrangement will be somewhat different from the showing of the models. Washington and Lincoln will Btand side by side In front center and equally prominent: Jefferson will be at Washington's right and Roosevelt at Lincoln's left. THE ENTABLATURE On the southwest exposure, to the right of Jefferson and somewhat lower upon the mountain will be an entablature, 80 feet wide and 120 feet high, upon which will be deeply incised the history of the founding and territorial expansion of the United States. It is not at all improbable that ten thousand years hence, when these United States "are one with the perished empires of the prehistoric era," this entablature will be the last surviving relic to Inform humanity far down the corridors of time, of the glory that once was America.

SIZE The four' figurea will be scaled to the proportions of men 465 feet high. A single face will be 60 feet high and about 40 feet wide. The figures all shade Into the wall of Will Rogers America's Greatest Humorist in Penon Coliseum Friday NisH, April 0 SEATS NOW 8ELLINQ $1.10, $1.65, tax included JJSS. W. H.

Booth 1K IT'S A RIOT OF LAUGHS AND THRILLS! Just the type of a show for an opening! THIS GENTLEMAN PRE-FERRED BLONDS BUT IN A PINCH THE SHADE MADE NU DlrrtKtNtfc! IF YOU WANT A REAL nj LAUuH DLlV wholly upon artistic and patriotic lines. To have in my state, in the very heart of America the most colossal statuary ever conceived by man; a group of the most Important Americans; in fact an heroic, illustrated history of the United States, all done in the exquisite art of which Mr. Borglum is the master has meant very much to me and of itself to completely Justify the production of it. If it did not promise a penny of return I should still be wholeheartedly for It and ready to make any sacrifice to secure it. ANOTHER APPEAL But there is another appeal that, cannot be Ignored.

Commercially it will justify itself a hundredfold. When a community secures the investment of a large sum of money In an industrial plant there always remains the problem of successful and profitable operation. Experience shows that a very large percentage of such plants prove failures. That problem is not before us In considering the Rushmore project. We know in advance that it will be a tremendous success; it matters not whether we are able to complete only the head of Washington, or to go on until the entire dream is realized.

Indeed we will not wait for tho completion of the first unit to begin to realize upon It. The day the first tattoo of the jack-hammer' upon the brow of 4 DAYS STARTINfl TODAY! OF THE VIUIAM you've ever Another Wonderful Doe in COMEDY! Buster, Mary Jane and Tlge, in "Buster, Look Out" Fox News aaawa. The Little Theatre ln.1 lth the big shows" STOR rVtAWaiaW.KDaOSf HERE'S A great action galore! One of the actresses on the which appears intelligence. After you see of a dog's THE be all The key that wins The titoucSlnghumanitnryqfagiHiimanantlti RUSSEIi VIRCWIA BROWN LAIRJE REED H0VK oJcnartolf DOHOtln TOSt m4 tp-WCIt' i J.G.BimOM.JVfl(ufflo tffvinr. FILM which smacks of the forest country.

It has action, and more actionl And comedy most beautiful and talented screen today heads the cast with a dog with almost human It you'll vote this great recital regeneration one of the finest films viewed. 0 I SPECIAL ADDED FEATURES IT'S A SCREAM! And lvVTlSPfffiA S'oux Falls' premier Or-I jTflaVVtreJ! fl.an' doing the organ spe- Mm ADELINE" another Splendid Do? Drama KEYS WILL gone tomorrow! holder of the lucky unlocks the lock Scooter No. 1. holder of the most keys wins 8cooter No. 2.

No Advance in Prices! Show starts every day at 12 noon, continuous to 10:30 p. m. SHOWS AT 12, 1:45, 8:30, 5:15, 7:15, 9:00 PRICES ALWAYS THE SAME-ADULTS 25c, CHILDREN 10c Prices U. 1 11 mil 1 1.