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627 PARK AND CEMETERY. 
PIONEER FOUNTAIN, DENVER AND SCENE AT ITS UNVEILING. 
Frederick MacMonnies, Sc. 
DENVER DEDICATES GREAT MacMONNIES FOUNTAIN 
The great Pioneer memorial fountain in Denver, model- 
ed by Frederick MacMonnies, has been finally dedicated, 
and is generally regarded as typical of the quality of 
decorative imagination that dominates the work of this 
gifted sculptor. 
It is an elaborately sculptured story of the Pioneer and 
stands opposite the state capitol grounds. Four dominat- 
ing figures tell the story of the early western pioneer. 
At the top is the scout, an equestrian statue, showing Kit 
Carson, the noted scout, pointing the way to the western 
empire. At the base of the fountain are the three other 
figures representing the Pioneer mother and her child, the 
prospector and the hunter. 
Further ornamenting the fountain are mountain lion 
and trout heads from which water spouts into the basin 
and horns of Plenty and Buffalo heads complete the dec- 
oration on the main shaft. The fountain, the ground 
plan of which is hexagonal is raised on five granite steps. 
The stone structure is 25 feet high to the base of the top 
figure and the latter is 12 feet higher. 
The fountain measures 36 feet across the base and all 
of the stone work is executed in Colorado granite. 
The water spouts from trout heads below the top fig- 
ure and from 9 jets in the main basin at the bottom an.d 
out of three mountai.. lion heads into three separate 
smaller basins at the bottom. 
The fountain was modeled by Mr. MacMonnies in 
Paris and the detail plans for the stone shaft and base 
were made by Maurice P. Riscoe, the Denver architect. 
The stone work was constructed by the Ladd-Sanger 
Contracting Co. of Denver and the b .nze figures were 
cast in France. 
The statue was set in place by the Duffy Storage and 
Movii._ Co., of Denver, and one of our pictures shows the 
critical stage in the hoisting of the surmounting eques- 
trian group. Our other views show the scene of the un- 
veiling and a more detailed view of the fountain. 
The unveiling was made memorable by one of the most 
elaborate pageants ever held in Denver. There was a 
parade, addresses by the governor, the mayor, and other 
distinguished citizens and a great gathering of “pioneers.” 
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