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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
in the held where you get an im- 
petus that makes j’ou a better citizen 
and a lover of your home commun- 
ity’. 
Comparatively few people realize 
just what an influence the parks and 
boulevards have upon the people. 
One writer has said that it was the 
reconstructed boulevards that made 
Paris. Parks enhance the value of 
property, and create residence com- 
munities. They make your city a 
pleasure ground. I har'e in mind a 
certain sub-division of eighty acres 
or more that lay vacant for a num- 
ber of years. It bounded one side of 
a large park which for years was 
poorly kept and badly managed. 
Owners of homes in this locality 
were selling their homes and going 
to other parts of the city and not 
infrequently going to other cities 
where these matters were better 
The number and variety of public 
drinking fountains, for man and beast, 
in New York City, is constantly in- 
creasing, and the general artistic 
quality is being elevated. Architects 
and sculptors have vied with each 
other in producing simple, practical 
and not too costly designs, which 
when carried out in metal and stone 
would dot the streets and avenues 
with neat little municipal monuments 
worthy of the ideal city of the future. 
In fact, the standard of artistic qual- 
ity and practical usefulness set by the 
city’s aesthetic guardian, the Art Com- 
PRIZE DESIGN, DRINKING FOUNTAIN 
H. Van Buren Magonigle, Arch. 
managed. But enough public spirited 
men saw the trend of events and a 
radical change was the result. The 
park was reconstructed, walks and 
drives w'ere put in order, new build- 
ings were erected, a new and honest 
policy in management was adopted 
and in a short while this same sub- 
division began to build up very rapid- 
ly w'ith buildings costing eight thous- 
and dollars and upwards. One can 
not say to just what extent this com- 
mercial activity was directly due to 
the interest that was taken in this 
public, institution, and one so peculi- 
arly correlated with the environment 
of the home. But the facts go to 
show that this influence went a long 
ways towards creating a home feel- 
in this communit}' and raising real 
estate values. 
No great amount of argument 
ought to be necessary to convince 
mission, has been so high that the 
number of these municipal fountains 
has not increased as fast as planned. 
Our illustrations show the three de- 
signs decided to be the best at the 
competition held last year under the 
auspices of the American Society for 
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 
— the prize design by Mr. H. Van 
Ruren Magonigle and the two which 
received “honorable mentions,” by Mr. 
John S. Humphreys and by Mr. Wil- 
liam Sanger. These can be erected 
wdth the necessary additional ap- 
purtenance for spraying horses if de- 
sired. The cost, in bronze, is given 
DRINKING FOUNTAIN DESIGN. 
AWARDED HONORABLE MENTION. 
John S. Humphreys, Arch. 
an interested citizen or a live munici- 
pality, that aside from the esthetic 
and moral influence w'hich they exert, 
they very materially enhance the 
value of property and enlarge the 
grandeur of the city from a material 
standpoint. 
This manner of bringing these 
matters before the public would re- 
sult in untold good. A great many 
of the popular magazines are will- 
ing to publish articles of this nature 
for they can be made very interest- 
ing. I do not think they ought to be 
written in a fault finding way. Just 
simply tell the whys and wherefores 
of park administration, pointing out 
all that it means to the city beauti- 
ful. The ultimate end of an appeal 
to public spirit of this character will 
help greatly to solve the problem of 
a more beautiful America. 
Chicago. A. A. Fisk. 
IN NEW YORK 
by the Society as follows: For Mr. 
Magonigle’s, $529; for Mr. Hum- 
phrey’s, $965, and for Mr. Sanger’s, 
$350. These figures do not include 
the cost of any inscription, of erecting 
the fountain and making the neces- 
sary plumbing connections, which 
latter naturally vanes somewhat with 
the location. The Board of Managers 
of the Society have established a 
fountain fund, to which will be cred- 
ited all special gifts for the purpose 
of erecting and maintaining such 
fountains, and have appointed a Com- 
mittee on Fountains which earnestly 
DRINKING FOUNTAIN DESIGN 
AWARDED HONORABLE MENTION. 
William Sanger, Arch. 
PUBLIC DRINKING FOUNTAINS 
