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they had sold nearly 68,000 barrels in 
the first six months in the smaller 
towns for road use. In the smaller 
country towns we have few macadam 
roads. The oil is eliminating the 
dust. There is one other little bit of 
roadway we experimented with. We 
trimmed the surface down to a hard 
sub-grade, rolled and packed thor- 
oughly and spread from four to six 
inches of crushed rock macadam, lit- 
tle finer than ordinary macadam, 
stone one inch in diameter. This 
was rolled and packed and then coat- 
ed with a 90 per cent Standard road 
oil, petrol or asphaltum, the residue 
of the oil, and then that was covered 
with a dressing of washed river sand, 
and on some of it we used a little of 
the crushed stone dressing. This was 
thoroughly rolled and traffic kept off 
a short time. We made a mistake in 
not getting on enough coating of the 
asphaltum. In the edges of the road 
it has broken with the automobile 
traffic, but I believe if spread heavy 
enough that will furnish a hard road- 
way for the ordinary automobile traf- 
fice, but with that I don’t believe it 
will answer in Mr. Zartmann’s city 
or Chicago, where there is a con- 
stant traffic. On the ordinary traffic 
roadway, however, where the traffic 
is not too heavy and only mixed, it 
has proved very satisfactory with us. 
It has eliminated the dust, and the 
street and park superintendents and 
private property owners have taken 
the matter up and oil their unpaved 
roadways. Last year the crude oil 
was used on the roadway. That was 
unsatisfactory. It had a very bad 
odor, did not last and did not give 
satisfaction. I found this, too, m the 
use of this heavy asphaltum oil that 
after heavy rains — this last July we 
have had a great deal in our vicinity, 
over seven inches in July — that the 
water would not stand on the road- 
way. While it is drained very well 
except in a few places, yet these very 
heavy rains have not affected the 
roadway at all. After the heaviest 
rain this oil turned it off, and where 
the fresh gravel is put on it is com- 
paratively dry underneath, except for 
the oil. The - oil has the quality of 
draining the water from the street 
and keeping it dry in a certain way. 
I don't know whether this experience 
in our small way will be of benefit to 
you or not, but it has been our ex- 
perience. 
FORMAL AND INFORMAL 
CHILDREN’S FOUNT AIN- 
Mary Washburn, Sc. 
The two fine sculptured fountains, illustrated here, are 
good examples of two very different types of these park 
adornments. The children’s fountain, of which the model 
was shown at a recent exhibit at the Chicago Art Insti- 
tute, is a picturesque, informal work suited to a natural- 
esque landscape -vyhere it could be built into a rugge.d wall, 
cliff, or hillside. The Kastalia fountain, a beautifully 
scuptured monumental work, is well-placed in a formal 
situation in the court-yard of a handsome public structure. 
Miss Mary Washburn’s full sized model for a children’s 
fountain is one of the most ingenious fountain designs 
that have been shown at any of the Chicago exhibitions. 
Three childish figures and a dog sit beneath an over- 
hanging crag of stratified rock, the water falling in front 
of them and into a roughly outlined basin. The idea is 
very happily conceived. The boy in front dips his feet 
in the basin and the dog follows the trickling stream 
with a quizzical glance. The little one in the rear is 
also interested and starts for the edge but is restrained 
by the protecting hand of the little sister seated at the 
right. One copy of this fountain has already been erected 
SCULPTURED FOUNTAINS 
with proper setting on home grounds in Rensselaer, Ind. 
The Kastalia Fountain in the University at "Vienna, 
Austria, was modeled by Prof. Edmund Heller, at that 
time rector of the Imperial and Royal Academy of Arts 
in "Vienna. It was recently unveiled with ceremony in 
the Arcada Court of the "Vienna University. The figure is 
11J4 feet high, and is executed in Laas marble. The 
pedestal and fountain proper are of Siebenburg marble. 
The entire height of the fountain is 18 feet. It is a strik- 
ing and monumental figure of the severe "Viennese school 
of sculpture and makes an impressive decoration for the 
great open court of the university where it stands. Kas- 
talia, the Nymph of the Sources, sits enshrouded in a deli- 
cate veil, her eyes closed in monumental mystery. Around 
the base is coiled a bronze serpent. 
FOUNTAIN OF KASTALIA, UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA. 
Edmund Heller, Sc. 
