DECORATIVE USE OF WATER 



pressing their sentiment: for some inexplicable reason no money has 

 ever been found to defray the expense of having this fountain play, — 

 reminiscent of the horse that could be led to water but couldn't; be 

 made to drink. 



It has been said that great examples in architecture, the most 

 beautiful monuments, the perfect specimens of civic art,, will in 

 time crumble to ruin but that the fountains will remain. The monu- 

 ments of the Forum have long since gone but the gushing fountains 

 of Rome still play. A mortal name may be rendered more eternal by 

 dedicating unto it a fountain than by any other means, for the hand of 

 time seems to pass lightly over these symbols of peace. 



