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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
DECORATIVE AND MEMORIAL PUBLIC FOUNTAINS 
Public fountains are a useful and decorative form of 
memorial that offer rare opportuities to sculptors for artistic 
monumental effects. Many beautiful examples of these works 
in European cities form no small part of the public art that 
delights travelers and excites comment on the lack of such 
treasures in this country. 
Happily, there are growing numbers of instances to show 
that our appreciation of this form of civic beauty is spreading. 
It is announced that the first work to be erected from 
the Ferguson bequest of $1,000,000 for public memorials 
in Chicago is to be the beautiful “Fountain of the Lakes’’ 
blanket is tooth chiseled and the water jars decorated with 
Indian designs. It is cleverly conceived and well executed 
throughout. Mr. Mulligan does his own carving and is as 
expert with mallet and chisel as he is with modeling tools. 
The fountain furnishes ice water which is chilled by passing 
through a coil of pipe, packed in ice. The flow is regulated 
by a spring in the pavement to be pressed by the foot. 
The work is a gift of the Ladies’ Club of Lincoln to the 
town, and cost $750 complete. 
A good example of how elaborate and beautiful these pub- 
lic fountains are in Europe is seen in the illustration on the 
FRONT AND BACK OF INDIAN FIGURE FOR FOUNTAIN. 
Chas. J. Mulligan, Sc. 
MODEL FOR FOUNTAIN. 
Chas. G. Canivet, Sc. 
modeled by Lorado Taft, and previously illustrated in these 
pages. As a particularly sculptural symbolizing of the Great 
Lakes, it is obviously the most appropriate choice that could 
be wished for the greatest of the lake cities, and the selec- 
tion of a site for it in one of the parks is awaited v/ith much 
interest. 
A less elaborate but ingenious and original design is seen 
in the drinking fountain illustrated herewith, modeled by 
Charles J. Mulligan of Chicago and erected in Lincoln, 111 . 
It embodies the picturesque kneeling figure of an Indian 
squaw, holding a bottle from which issues the quenching 
stream. It falls first into a basin, then passes through the 
block and fills two hollows which can be used by dogs and 
other animals. The rear view shows a pappoose strapped to 
the woman’s back in true Indian fashion, with a shawl 
draped above its head. The figure is life size, the total 
height of the fountain being seven feet. The work is cut 
from two blocks of red Tennessee marble, a hard, close- 
textured material, well adapted to its use. The Indian 
cover of this issue of the Fountain of Neptune at Nantes. 
It is beautifully placed and set off by a handsome design of 
ornamental iron. 
Charles G. Canivet, of New York, modeled the fanciful 
conception for a wall fountain, shown in the other illustra- 
tion, which would be well placed in a secluded nook in some 
public park. A beautifully modeled female figure, stooping 
’ over a squirming dolphin, stands gracefully over a basin 
formed in imitation of, a sea~shell. A roughly outlined over- 
hanging canopy gives the effect of the figure emerging from 
a cavern. 
The design shows the sculptor’s thorough training in the 
French school, and a strong sense of decorative sculptural 
grouping. Mr. Canivet has made a number of works for the 
city of Paris and the French government, is a member of 
the Societe de Beaux Arts and has exhibited at the Paris 
Salon. 
More art can be infused into a fountain at moderate cost, 
than can be done in the ordinary statue monument 
