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PARK AND CEMETERY, 
^ * * SOME RECENT MEMORIAL FOUNTAINS. * j * 
The accompanying illustrations represent three memorial fountains, recently erected. There is no 
class of adornment of our public places which combines the useful and ornamental in a more satisfactory 
manner than fountains, and they form excellent memo- 
rials. They can be designed on artistic lines to meet a 
moderate outlay, or they may be carried out to include 
the costliest of art accessories. 
The gift of Mr. C. Bowditch Coffin of Newton, Mass., 
to that city, is a bronzed iron lamp fountain, twelve feet 
high, on a granite base. It is elaborately decorated with 
reliefs of flowers and fruit in clusters and festoons. The 
water is supplied through a dog’s head, and overflows 
from the first basin into those designed for horses and 
dogs. Above the dog’s head is a copper plate bearing 
the inscription, “The gift of C. Bowditch Coffin, a citi- 
zen of Newton, 1897.” Two aluminum drinking cups 
with original inscriptions are attached The column is 
surmounted by a handsome square lantern with frame 
of oxydized copper and lights of beveled plate glass. It 
will be lighted by electricity. The fountain was de- 
signed and made by M. D. Jones & Co., Boston. 
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The Stevenson fountain, erected in memory of Robert 
Louis Stevenson at San Francisco, Cal., is an unpreten- 
tious affair twelve feet high, consisting of a marble pe- 
destal with two bronze inscription tablets, the fountain, 
appurtenances and a bronze ship surmounting it. On one 
of the bronze plates a verse in Samoan from Ruth’s ad- 
juration to Naomi; on the other Stevenson’s own epitaph: 
FOUNTAIN AT 
NEWTON, MASS. 
'Under the wide and starry sky, 
Dig the grave and let me lie. 
Glad did 1 live and gladly die, 
And 1 laid me down with a will. 
“This be the verse you grave for 
me, 
Here he lies where he longed to be. 
Home is the sailor, home from the 
sea, 
And the hunter home from the 
hill.” 
Cut on the Kearney street 
face of the pedestal is the 
name of the author and an 
inscription containing his 
simple ‘‘rules of life.” Bruce 
Porter and Willis Polk, archi- 
chitects, were the leading 
spirits in the memorial. It 
was cut by J. D. McGilvray, 
and the bronze work was ex- 
ecuted by Whyte & DeRome. 
THE STEVENSON FOUNTAIN, SAN FRAN- 
CISCO, CAL. 
MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN, 
DENVER, COLO. 
The Hurlbut memorial 
fountain is a gilt to the Young 
Men’s Christian Association 
of Denver, Colo., by Mr. 
and Mrs. Hurlbut of that 
city in memory of their son. 
It is between five and six feet 
in height, and was cut from 
an original design by Henry 
Read by J. A. Byrne in Car- 
rara marble. It consists of 
an upright slab, having a con- 
ventional design, cut in a 
low relief about the lion's 
head, from which the water 
flows into a shallow basin. 
The shaft is entirely de- 
tached from the back. The 
style is Seventeenth Century 
Renaissance. Appropriate 
inscriptions explain its pur- 
pose. 
