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illustrated by the foot bridge that forms a part of a 
romantic woodland and meadow path leading to the 
blossoming thickets on Laurel Hill. Pathway and 
MEMORIAL BRIDGE, STOCKBRIDGE, MASS. 
This bridg^e across the Housatonic River forms part of a woodland 
path leading from Laurel Hill down through the meadow, across the 
river and up the mountain beyond, to a beautiful ravine between two 
mountains which is called “Ice Glen.” The bridge was given to the 
Laurel Hill Association by Mrs. Goodrich, the founder of the Associa- 
tion. The path was given by Mr. John Adams in memory of his father, 
the first President of the Association. 
bridge are both memorials. The bridge was presented 
to the Association by the woman who founded it — and 
in so doing originated “something new under the 
sun” — but it also serves as a memorial of her own 
effective work; and the path was given by a son in 
memory of the first president of the Association. 
These examples suggest that such work may take 
various forms, and the selection of something suitable 
and worthy should receive careful and deliberate con- 
sideration. Permanence and fitness may well be ac- 
counted the basic features of such important under- 
takings. Something useful as well as attractive will 
frequently be found desirable, and in any case the 
choice may be as varied in value as in character. 
Individual needs must be met by special jilans, but 
few, if any, places exist that would not be the better 
(where they are lacking) for such improvements as a 
handsome and substantial fence and gates, or by a 
lodge or chapel for its cemetery ; by a park, square, 
triangle, circle or lily pond ; by one or more well- 
designed drinking fountains for man and beast ( not 
overlooking cats and dogs, which are frequently un- 
provided for) ; by a good railway station surrounded 
by shaded grounds ; by a library or a gymnasium, or 
both ; or by tablets and artistic monuments to mark 
historic spots, or grand achievements, or noble char- 
acters. 
Memorial fountains are apjiropriate and not un- 
common. The Ladies Tnqirovement Association of 
Healdsburg, California, has erected a fountain 
( though I am not sure that it is intended as a memo- 
rial), and the Bowles Memorial, erected by the widow 
of the late Samuel Bowles, (journalist), on the Long- 
fellow Drive, Forest Park, Springfield, IMass., is in 
the form of an attractive and unique drinking fountain 
of marble most effectively placed, having an open fore- 
ground of driveway and flowery meadow, and seen 
against a wooded hillside which supplies a fitting and 
necessary background. 
Trees are among the best possible memorials and 
there is no locality without appropriate places and pur- 
poses for their use. To plant one splendid tree or to 
plant every street in a town each with one well-chosen 
variety of tree, would be to create memorials fit to 
mark any event or life, — to hang an annual chaplet in 
remembrance of the dead and to perpetuate their vir- 
tues in the hearts of the living. To choose trees 
wisely is not easy, and is of more importance than the 
world at large recognizes. The growing custom of 
using a noble growing tree as a monument or memo- 
rial should lead to a better understanding of trees, 
their varieties, purposes and limitations. 
There is a suggestive lesson in the picture of the 
Kentucky spring. It is that when something good is 
achieved by the expenditure of time, labor and money, 
it is worth while to preserve the symmetry of things 
MAIN STREET. STOCKBRIDGE, MASS., 
Showing sidewalks, grassplots and trees under the care of the Laurel Hill Improvement Association. 
