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that it will be quite unobtrusive. After 
careful study, it has been decided to group 
the terminal station and the needed new 
buildings ; the site selected is a natural 
amphitheater, near the center of which, 
and at considerably lower grade than the 
other buildings, is placed the station. 
South of this a curving retaining wall 
gives ample accommodation for the wait- 
ing crowds. Above the wall and station, 
in the center of a nearly level, tree-shaded, 
fan-shaped area, is placed the band-stand, 
from which broad paths radiate to the 
One of the most interesting studies in 
the design and setting of monumental 
fountains ever held in this country was re- 
cently completed iri New York City to se- 
lect the design for the Pulitzer memorial 
fountain to be erected with a bequest of 
$50,000 left by the late Joseph Pulitzer, 
publisher of the New York World. The 
plan embodies a complete, carefully stud- 
ied and elaborate rearrangement of the 
entire plaza entrance to Central Park, at 
Fifth avenue and Fifty-ninth street. 
To obtain designs for the fountain a 
limited competition was held between five 
of the leading architects of New York, 
who have done considerable work of that 
kind. To them also the Municipal Art 
Commission referred the designing of the 
new plaza. The firms chosen for the work 
were Carrere & Hastings, McKim, Mead 
& White, John Russell Pope, H. Van Bu- 
ren Magonigle and Arnold W. Brunner. 
These firms selected as judges of the de- 
signs Charles A. Platt, a well-known land- 
scape architect of New York; Paul Cret, 
a French architect of high standing, and 
the Municipal Art Commission added 
Whitney Warren and George B. Post, both 
architects, and Herbert Adams, a widely 
known sculptor. 
This jury decided in favor of the de- 
signs of Carrere & Hastings, both for the 
fountain itself and for the improvement of 
the plaza. 
Carrere & Hastings’ plan for the devel- 
opment of the plaza provides for a park 
to occupy the center of the space from 
Fifty-eighth to Sixtieth street and between 
the Plaza Hotel and Central Park on the 
west and east side of Fifth avenue on 
the east. All about this park, which, of 
course, will be intersected by the Fifty- 
ninth street surface line, will be a road- 
way, in its narrowest part as wide as Fifth 
avenue and in its wider parts to be more 
than double this width. 
Outside of the park, and bordering on 
the east and west a walk that will surround 
it, are to be planted Oriental plane trees. 
Provision is made for having the park 
brilliantly illuminated by night. Stone 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Pavilion and Restaurant to the east, and 
the modern Natatorium to the west. These 
two buildings are connected by a Pergola 
fitting the natural curves of the hillsides, 
and there is thus formed here a Music 
Court — a place of entertainment for thou- 
sands of visitors. All formality is to be 
concentrated in this comparatively small 
area near the necessarily formal buildings. 
The remainder of the reservation is to be 
kept as absolutely natural as possible. 
Narrow roads, trails and paths fitting the 
natural contours of the ground, are pro- 
benches will border the walks at frequent 
intervals. 
The fountain at the lower end of the 
south plot consists of a series of basins 
coming toward the center of the plaza from 
the south end. The fountain itself, con- 
sisting of three lower basins and five up- 
per basins of stone and surmounted by an 
allegorical figure not yet determined upon, 
is in the Renaissance style and in keeping 
vided, enabling the public in an agreeable 
and convenient manner to reach the Falls, 
the Mountain Summits, the Springs, the 
Picnic Greunds and other points of inter- 
est. Every effort is to be made to con- 
serve, renew and increase the native trees 
and shrubs. In closing his report, Mr. 
Child makes recommendation for interest- 
ing parkway approaches to and from the 
town, and the commissioners thus have a 
comprehensive plan which may be ex- 
ecuted at their discretion. 
CENTRAL PARK 
with the character of the Sherman monu- 
ment at the other end of the parkage. 
Really it will consist of a number of ba- 
sins on a series of terraces with the water 
running toward the north. The fountain 
itself is a large Italian basin with a statue 
in the center, the upper basin sixteen feet 
in diameter and the head of the heroic fe- 
male figure of eight or nine feet, reaching 
thirty feet above the pavement. The alle- 
NEW PLAZA AND FOUNTAIN FOR 
ARNOLD W BRUNNER’S DESIGN FOR PULITZER MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN. 
