Popular Science Monthly 



403 



engaged for eight years in carving scores of colossal figures, representing the Confederate 

 Army and its famous generals on the march. The portait studies are all to be likenesses 



window he can increase or decrease the 

 scale of the figtires. 



Cut into the heart of the mountain will 

 be a memorial hall, running the entire 

 length of the colonnade. In this imper- 

 ishable hall will be kept the valuable rec- 

 ords and relics of the Daughters of the 

 Confederacy, as well as records of the 

 Southern States. 



A park of eighty acres will be laid out 

 at the foot of the mountain, and from its 

 path a suitable view may be obtained of 

 the principal figures carved in the rock. 



The cost of the work, which is now es- 

 timated at about two million dollars, will 

 be raised by indixidual contributions 

 from the entire people of the South. It is 

 said that several wealthy people have of- 

 fered to finance the entire project, but it 

 was deemed best to make this a popular 

 undertaking, so that it may more truly 

 represent the spirit of the American 

 South. 



The Bridge That Telephones Built 



THE building of the great railroad 

 bridge which spans Hell Gate, was 

 greatly expedited by the telephone. The 

 work started last January, and in Oc- 

 tober of last year the steel arms that 

 had been insistently creeping over the 

 river from shore to shore were joined 

 with the aid of a telephone system, which 



in itself was a fitting climax to one of 

 the greatest construction feats the world 

 has ever seen. 



Telephones were located in the power 

 houses, the offices, in the erector cabins, 

 at the jacks, at the compressor house 

 and on the structure in close proximity 

 to the boss riveters. 



The critical moment came on the day 

 when both arms were completed and 

 were ready to be lowered into alinement. 

 The completed arms hung in midair ex- 

 actly twenty-two and one-half inches out 

 of alinement. The traveling erectors 

 had been shoved out to the last eighth 

 of an inch, another shove and they 

 would have tipped everything over, and 

 ruined a year's work, to say nothing of 

 some twelve million dollars in steel. 



Gages were aftixed to the sides of the 

 final beams marked off to the thirty- 

 second of an inch, and at the exact spot 

 the foreman stood with the telephone at- 

 tached to a girder directly in front of 

 him and with every station cut in and 

 open. Every man knew his job and every 

 man repeated back his telephonic order. 

 It was a gigantic and res|)onsible task to 

 put up to the telephone, but the 'phone 

 faultlessly carried the orders of the fore- 

 man -over steel girders and under the 

 East River to the men who stood at the 

 pumps, the erectors and the riveting 

 machines. 



