PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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JUDSON MEMORIAL CHURCH 
FOUNTAIN WITH IRON 
PROTECTING BARS. 
appeals to the benevolent for con- 
tributions. The Art Commission dis- 
approved of the inexpensive but prac- 
tical type of fountain which had been 
used in the past; and also disapproved 
of twenty-nine of the forty-five loca- 
tions for the three accepted designs 
which the Society proposed. 
As may be seen in our illustration, 
the prize design is very neat and 
workmanlike; the basin will serve two 
teams at once, and when the bronze 
begins to wear and polish in places, 
the whole assumes a mellow and har- 
monious effect which makes it very 
suitable as a street fixture. Examples 
of this design may be seen in Bryant 
Park and on the Williamsburg Bridge 
Plaza, Brooklyn, and at the junction 
of Broadway and Amsterdam avenue. 
Six fountains of this type have been 
ordered for the city of Omaha, and 
one has been erected by the Society 
of Colonial Wars at Jamestown Island, 
Virginia. Examples of Mr. Hum- 
phrey’s more ornate design, somewhat 
modified, have been erected in front 
of the Grace Church Parish Buildings 
on Fourth avenue; at Central Park, 
West and 10th streets, and at 107th 
street and Broadway, gift of Mr. F. 
Augustus Schermerhorn. Mr. Sanger’s 
fountain, the simplest in design of the 
three, is located on Coenties Slip, on 
Rutger’s Slip and on Battery Place. 
The Society has also in course of con- 
struction several handsome fountains 
of special design. It has been per- 
mitted by the Art Commission to set 
up on the southern boundary of the 
Chelsea district a memorial fountain 
to former pugilist George Dixon. 
Since the beginning of the present 
year it has installed four new drinking 
fountains and is building seventeen 
more. The number now in actual op- 
eration is given as thirty-six. 
A very good example of the applica- 
tion of sculpture to a modest wall 
drinking fountain may be seen at one 
of the many angles of the Jefferson 
Market Court House on lower Sixth 
avenue. As may be seen it is Gothic 
in style, not very severe and as an 
instance of adaptation to the general 
style of the building the fountain is 
quite satisfactory. 
Still simpler is the neat little basin 
GOTHIC DRINKING FOUNTAIN AT 
JEFFERSON MARKET COURT HOUSE 
with its twisted dolphin water spouts 
at the corner of the Judson Memorial 
Church in South Washington Square, 
but unfortunately the marble of which 
it is constructed is not of the hardest 
and the neighborhood, of a swarming 
Italian quarter, renders it necessary to 
defend the fountain as shown in our 
photograph. The chipping and stain- 
ing of the stone, the breaking off of 
the metal, if possible, and always its 
polishing by undue familiarity, are 
among the many trials of our public 
monuments. 
A very simple fountain is that 
erected at he northern end of Long- 
acre Square, in memory of Air. Carroll 
Livingstone, a sportsman, and breeder 
of fine horses and dogs. From the 
center of the circular basin rises a low 
granite shaft which supports three 
bronze dolphins, on the uplifted tails 
of which rests a large granite ball. 
From the open mouths of the dol- 
phins the water flows into the basin, 
and — for the benefit of those drivers 
who may wish to avoid any possible 
danger of infection for their stock — 
the curled and uplifted noses of these 
marine animals are arranged to sup- 
l)ort the handles of water buckets. 
The basin is supported on a molded 
and paneled base, which presents a 
curved front to the street, and there 
is a screw attachment for rubber hose, 
with which horses may be sprayed on 
hot days. At the bottom, at either 
side, are troughs for dogs and cats; 
the central shaft bears an inscription, 
and on the sidewalk are two upright 
drinking fountains for pedestrians. 
The whole was designed by Charles 
R. Lamb, and received the approval 
of the Municipal Art Commission, 
which, in these designs, as in all 
others which come before it, insists 
on both beauty and fitness. 
Alore monumental designs, in which 
the art of the sculptor is given much 
fuller play, may also be seen in these 
public fountains. One of the most 
ambitious, on which Air. Allen G. 
Xewman is now' at work, is to be 
erected at the intersection of the 
Riverside Drive and 165th street. The 
sculptor calls it ‘‘The Alusic of the 
Waters,” as the stream from above 
falls into a large shell. A mermaid, 
attracted by the sound, is a prominent 
feature of the work. 
LIVINGSTON MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN. 
Charles R. Lamb. Arch. 
