PARK AND CEMETERY. 
INDIAN SCULPTURE IN CITY PARK, PORTLAND, ORE. 
The beautiful bronze statue of Sacajawea, “The 
Bird Woman,” who rendered valuable service as a 
guide to the Lewis and Clarke exploring expedition 
has recently been placed in the City Park at Port- 
land and is particularly appropriate as a memorial 
of historic interest and a finely modeled specimen 
of Indian sculpture. It is the work of Miss Alice 
Cooper, of Denver, Colo., a pupil of Lorado Taft at 
the Chicago Art Institute, and has been shown and 
admired at both the St. Louis and Portland exposi- 
tions. 
Sacajawea stands erect and vigorous, her pap- 
poose strapped to her back, pointing the way to the 
explorers. She is attired in the buckskin frontier 
costume, and her lithe figure and animated counte- 
nance have been faithfully wrought by the sculp- 
tor. It is an embodiment of sentiment and action. 
The figure is mounted on a pedestal of native 
stone, and standing in its secluded nook surrounded 
by native trees, is a forceful and spirited expression 
of the early pioneer life of the West. 
It is a most fitting companion piece to “The Com- 
ing of the White Man,” in the same park, which 
has been illustrated in these pages. 
lows they did. The people lost Central Avenue for a 
parkway, but from that time it is believed that the re- 
form movement has been taking hold so that such an 
exhibition of public official rottenness may never occur 
again. 
The failure of the Park Commission to do its full 
duty has left the park system of Essex County incom- 
plete, fpr the reason that it has failed to secure the 
necessary parkways to connect the existing parks. Cen- 
tral Avenue parkway was lost through its pernicious 
inactivity, and its political chicanery has cost the people 
of Essex County, N. J., a very much larger sum of 
money than an honest administration could possibly 
have expended for the work done. A measure to 
provide maintenance funds passed the legislature 
March 28, 1902, as also a bill for another million dol- 
lars. But on the referendum vote the majorities 
showed a decided decrease. 
Mr. Kelsey’s book is a valuable addition to park lit- 
erature, which all intending park activities should care- 
fully study. While the courts maintained the consti- 
tutionality of the appointive system of organizing 
commissions, the evidence recorded most directly con- 
demns the system. The flagrant disregard of honor 
and duty which for years has marked, undoubtedly,- 
the great majority of office holders, and has tainted 
to an unbearable degree all lines of public life, makes 
the appointive system a dangerous one for the people, 
and the desire of the people to do their own appointing 
is the coming reform in all situations of public trust. 
MEMORIAL TO AN INDIAN HEROINE, PORTLAND, ORE. 
DRINKING FOUNTAIN, ESSEX COUNTY PARKS. 
