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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
WALL, FOUNTAIN, CHICAGO ART INSTITUTE. 
Florence Wjie, Sc. 
DRINKING FOUNTAIN, BEVERLY FARMS, MASS. 
KIMBALL MEMORIAI, FOUNTAIN, ROANOKE, VA. 
PARK DRINKING FOUNTAINS 
Public drinking fountains may be both useful and beautiful, 
and need not be the less useful for being the more beautiful. 
As has been noted before in this pages, European cities are 
more appreciative of the beautiful in their public works 
then we in America, and this picture of the children’s foun- 
tain in the Royal Park at Brussels, shows how very daintily 
attractive a little drinking fountain may be made. Whoever 
may be the sculptor of the graceful little surmounting figure, 
he has certainly caught the spirit of his work. It is a tempta- 
tion not only to drink there, but to linger and look. 
Sculptured fountains of such beauty as this are rare in 
this country, though granite fountains of substantial and not 
unattractive architecture are frequently seen. 
A recent example of this class is the fountain at Roanoke, 
V^a., erected in memory of F. J. Kimball. 
It was designed more especially for animals, and is in- 
scribed with the very appropriate line from Coleridge’s An- : 
l ient Mariner : “He prayeth best who loveth best, all things 
both great and small.” 
It is of North Carolina granite and was designed by George 
N attress & Son, architects of Philadelphia. J. H. Marsteller, 
of Roanoke, was the contractor for the work, which cost 
$3,000. 
The marble fountain by Miss Florence Wyle, is an origi- 
nal and charming conception for a wall fountain, and is 
to , be erected permanently at the Cihcago Art Institute, 
where Miss Wyle is a pupil in the sculpture classes. It 
was shown in the recent exhibit of Chicago artists. Miss 
Wyle did the finishing touches on the marble herself and the 
preliminary work was done by J. W. Wyckoff, a student of 
the sculpture classes, who is practical cutter of long ex- 
perience. 
The Bacon Memorial fountain, shown here, perpetuates the 
name of the pioneer jewelry manufacturer of Plainville, Mass. 
It is cut from a single piece of granite and is inscribed: 
“Joseph Turpin Bacon.” Below is the name of the donors, 
the Ladies’ Chapel Aid Society, and the date. A bronze green 
gas lamp will be placed on top of the fountain and will be 
lighted during the early hours of the evening. 
The dedication was one of the season’s great events in 
Plainville. 
The other fountain is a plain polished granite basin for 
horses with an urn rising from the center and bearings spouts 
in the form of dogs’ heads. 
It stands in the center of a little square at the inter- 
section of streets at Beverly Farms, Mass., with open area 
for horses on all sides. 
TO MICHIGAN’S FIRST GOVERNOR 
With appropriate ceremonies, witnessed by several thou- 
sand people, Michigan’s monument to her first governor, 
Stevens Thompson Mason, was recently unveiled in Capitol 
Park, Detroit. Miss Emily Mason, aged 93, a sister of the 
honored governor, drew the unveiling cord. 
The memorial, shown on the cover of this issue as it 
appeared during the unveiling exercises, is a graceful, well- 
modeled portrait of the governor as he appeared in his 
younger days, the tight-fitting statesman’s costume of the 
time lending itself better to the uses of sculpture than the 
modern clothes. The statue was modeled by Albert 
