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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
a fountain. The great bowl is grace- 
fully poised in relation to the hand- 
some symbolic figures, and the three- 
Agnes V. Fromen’s marble fountain 
group “The Spring,” shown in its final 
material, at one of the recent ex- 
out of a spring cut from the rock. 
He is lying almost prone and beneath 
an overhanging cliff. This is to be 
AN ARTISTIC GERMAN FOUNTAIN IN MUNICH. 
sided arrangement of the pedestal 
with the triple-basins is a very success- 
ful fountain composition. 
BAND STAND 
The demand for music for the 
people seems to be insatiable, and one 
of the first things usually done in a 
small town with a small park is to 
stick up (I use the words advisedly), 
a band-stand, and call in a band to 
dispense music. 
We all acknowledge this demand for 
music in the parks, admire it as an 
evidence of good taste and culture in 
the masses, and try, as far as our 
means will permit, to satisfy it. 
And “first of all,” we “stick up,” a 
band-stand. 
From a landscape point of view 
there is no park building so much 
neglected as this. The building itself 
usually evolved from the wild flights 
of some individual into the realms of 
architectural fancy, and is often 
dropped in haphazard fashion in the 
worst possible location. 
Does anyone know of, or has he 
hibitions at the Chicago Art Insti- 
tute, is a happily conceived and nat- 
urally posed boy, kneeling to drink 
AND MUSIC I 
ever seen a band-stand which is satis- 
factory from every point of view? 
I must confess that I have not, 
though I have seen many, some mag- 
nificent, many mean and ugly, many 
ornate and ugly, many really hand- 
some, but badly placed, and a few, a 
very few, that were all that could be 
desired from an architectural point of 
view, well placed amid appropriate 
surroundings, and yet even these few 
were a failure from the band-master’s 
point of view, as the accoustic proper- 
ties had not even been considered. I 
have seen two or three band-stands 
which were pronounced to be perfect 
so far as accoustics were concerned, 
but the architectural and aesthetic 
properties possessed by these few 
musically perfect stands was abso- 
lutely nil. 
The matter is one that well merits 
discussion, and it is in hope of pro- 
placed as a permanent drinking foun- 
tain in one of the Art Institute corri- 
dors. 
N THE PARKS 
voking one that this is written. There 
are, no doubt, perfec f bandstands 
from every point of view, and 
many of us would like to hear of 
these, and better still to see photos 
of them in Park and Cemetery. It 
would also be very interesting to hear 
the views of our park band-masters. 
G. Champion, 
Winnipeg, Can. Supt. Parks. 
* * * 
The use of residues from asphaltic 
varieties of petroleum as binders in the 
surfaces of macadam roads in order 
to prevent their rapid deterioration from 
automobile traffic is increasing. The 
asphalt used for this purpose showed a 
gain in quantity from 159,424 tons in 
1910 to 234,951 tons in 1911. It is not- 
el also that the importation of soft 
asphalt from Venezuela, which is ad- 
mirably suited for this purpose, is also 
on the increase. 
