PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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ORNAMENTAL SCULPTURED FOUNTAINS for PARKS 
Another work completed by Augustus Saint-Gandens, the 
third to be unveiled since his death, is the Magee Memorial 
Fountain in Schniey Park, Pittsburg, dedicated recently with 
impressive ceremonies, at which Mrs. Saint-Gaudens, the 
sculptor’s widow, her son, Homer Saint-Gaudens, and Mrs. 
Magee, the widow of the honored citizen, were guests of the 
day. 
The memorial consists of a large bronze tablet twelve by 
five feet in size, bearing a beautiful low relief representation 
of “Plenty,” set in a perfectly proportioned granite stele. The 
modeling and all of the details are executed with that delicate 
distinction and decorative appropriateness that make them 
seem a part of the work, admirably harmonizing with the 
simple dignified lines of the fine granite basin. 
It is a beautiful and appropriate work, and as the only 
great public example of Saint-Gaudens’ work in low relief, 
will stand as a companion piece to the Shaw memorial and 
round out a very complete public record of our greatest 
sculptor’s work. The work cost $40,000. 
A sculptured fountain of rare beauty, and of interesting 
local historic significance that is nonetheless useful as a thirst 
quencher for man and horse is seen in the Kirkpatrick me- 
morial illustrated here, which was unveiled in Washington 
Park, Syracuse, N. Y., in July. 
The main structure is a cylindrical shaft of granite 15 feet 
high with three low drinking bowls, seen in the illustration, 
built out from the base for horses and on the other side a 
higher spout for pedestrians. 
Around the upper part is a wide bronze frieze that portrays 
the sculptured story in a group of figures in high relief 
modeled by Mrs. Gail Sherman Corbett, formerly a Syracuse 
girl. 
KIRKPATRICK FOUNTAIN, SYRACUSE. 
Mrs. Gail Sherman Corbett, Sc. 
DRAPER MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN, HOPEDALE, MASS. 
Waldo Story, Sc. 
The central figure is Father Simon Le Moyne, the discoverer 
of the Onondaga salt springs. He is dressed in the costume of 
a priest, wearing robes, beads and cross. At his right stands 
an Indian chief, holding in his hand a bowl of salt, just boiled, 
out of the Indian vessel at the right, which is seen heated on 
an Indian fire. An Indian woman stands behind him, carry- 
ing the receptacle in which she has brought the salt water 
from the spring. To his left stands the trapper who has 
guided Father LeMo^me to the Onondaga district. Back of 
the trapper is an Indian canoeist. 
Father LeMoyne is portrayed as the ideal missionary and 
the trappers are men of perfect physique. They are standing 
under the trees of the forest which are cleverly worked into 
the background. The trapper’s gun, the canoeist’s paddle and 
the chief’s arm all point toward Father LeMoyne. On the 
back of the frieze is tha inscription, worked in bronze capitajs, 
which reads as follows : 
“Dr. William Kirkpatrick was superintendent of the Onondag’a 
salt springis during the years 1805-6, and from ISIO to 1831. This 
fountain has been erected in accordance with the last will and 
testament of his son, William Kirkpatrick, dated October 11, 1889. 
T direct that my executors shall erect or cause tn be erected in 
Washington park in the First ward (where I was born) of the city 
of Syracuse, a memorial fountain, the general design of said foun- 
tain to represent or symbolize the Onondaga Indians discovering ter 
the white men the salt springs as related in the historical narra- 
tives of the relations of the Jesuits and later by the historian, 
Parkman. I do this to perpetuate the memory of my father, the 
late Dr. William Kirkpatrick, and his long relation with the early 
history of the Onondaga salt springs.’ * * ♦ The Jesuit mission- 
arj', Pere Simon le Moyne, under date of August 16, 1654, nar- 
rates as follows: ‘We arrive at the head of a small lake in a 
great basin, half dried up. We taste the water of a spring which 
the natives dare not drink, saying that there is within it a demon 
which renders t foui. Having tasted of it, I find that it was a 
fountain of salt water, and, in fact, -we made some salt from it 
as natural as sea salt, a sample of which we are carrying to 
Quebec.* ’’ 
The last of the inscription is translated from the French. 
The total cost of the memorial was $10,000. 
The elaborately carved marble fountain shown in the other 
illustration is a gift to the town of Hopedale, Mass., by Mrs. 
Susan Preston Draper, and stands on the grounds of the 
public library in that town, the library building forming the 
immediate background which may be seen in the picture. 
The work was modeled by Waldo Story, the American 
sculptor in Rome, and executed in Carrara marble in Italy. 
The carving is unusually profuse and handsomely executed, 
.the grotesque dolphin’s heads beneath the drinking bowl being 
particularly well conceived. The surmounting statue typifies 
Hope, a subject selected for its appropriateness as a gift to 
Hopedale. 
