239 PARK AND CEMETERY. 

I — puRT ir fountains: 
MCMVI” ; and on the western side ; “Erected to the 
memory of those who lost their lives in the disaster 
to the steamer General Slocum., June XV., MCMIV.” 
The designer, sculptor, architect and contractor of 
the whole is a young sculptor, Mr. Bruno Louis 
Zimm, who has given careful thought and attention 
to the design, construction and choice of material for 
the work. 
The funds for its erection were raised largely 
through the efforts of the Sympathie Verein 
Deutscher Frauen, numbering only twenty-three 
members. The total cost was $3,000. 
The cutting and setting of the work was done by 
John Baillie, of Closter, N. J. 
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SLOCUM MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN, NEW YORK. 
Bruno Louis Zimm, Sc. 
Slocum Memorial Fountain, New York 
Tompkins Square is one of the largest and most 
popular of the minor parks of the Greater New York, 
situated in the heart of the crowded “East Side,” 
provided with simple gymnastic apparatus, swings, 
etc., and thronged in fair weather by hundreds of 
children. In the southwestern part of this enclosure 
was formally unveiled last fall, the modest monu- 
ment erected by private subscription to com- 
memorate the terrible disaster of the burning of the 
excursion steamboat. General Slocum, in the East 
river, two years ago. This monument is in the prac- 
tical shape of a drinking fountain, and is usually be- 
sieged by a crowd of thirsty youngsters of both sexes, 
waiting their turn at the two bronze cups. The little 
ornamental basin, not too high for their needs, pro- 
jects from the face of the single upright block of 
pink Tennessee marble, much in the shape of a Greek 
stele. Above is a carved lion’s head, from the mouth 
of which the water drips in the basin, and above that 
a large panel, in low relief, representing two young 
children watching a steamboat in the distance. Over 
the heads of the children are the words, from Shel- 
ly’s “Revolt of Islam” ; “They were earth’s purest 
children, young and fair” ; on the eastern side of the 
slab, the inscription : “Dedicated by the Sympathy 
Society of German Ladies in the year of our Lord, 
Public Drinking Fountain, Schnectady, N. Y. 
The Women’s Christian Temperance Union pre- 
sented to the city of Schenectady, N. Y., the drinking 
fountain shown in the illustration. 
The fountain is of substantial construction and at- 
tractive design, and makes a distinctly useful adorn- 
ment. It is of light gray Vermont granite with the 
exception of the columns and basin block, which are 
dark Quincy granite, highly polished. It stands nine 
feet high. It is provided with the sanitary drinking 
nozzle, now commonly employed in public fountains, 
instead of cups. It was designed by W. W. Dutton 
and erected by the Flint Granite Works, Schenec- 
tady, N. Y. 
PUBLIC DRINKING FOUNTAIN. 
Schenectady, N. T. 
