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The Smith Monument , Urbana, III. 
“Not Built in a Day” 
<1 That is what the old proverb says about Rome. It took a good 
many years to complete all those marvelous structures. In our 
own country, too, the early days of the marble industry were 
marked by uncertainty and discouragement. 
But the last fifty years have brought labor-saving improvements. 
We build monuments today in a fraction of the time and we lose 
nothing in workmanship. 
•I Think what it would mean if the marble for this column monu- 
ment had to be hauled from the quarry by oxen and cut entirely 
by hand. 
t| There would be delay in getting the marble into the shops and 
delay again in getting it into the hands of the purchaser. 
<1 In this case the purchaser happens to be C. N. Clark of 
Urbana, 111. 
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