The Ornamental Movement of JMater in City Streets 
A ROADSIDE FOUNTAIN 
IN ALGERIA 
the second, a wall fountain. The jets in 
St. Peter’s Piazza reach a height of 45 feet. 
The Acqua Paola, on the slope of the 
Janiculum, was the ancient Acqua Trajana, 
supplied by the Lago di Bracciano, thirty 
miles away. Rome’s most elaborate foun¬ 
tain is, of course, that of Trevi, erected 
against the south side of the Palazzo Poli, 
at the apex of a triangle jutting into an 
open square. Completed in 1762, it uses 
the main stream of the old Acqua Virgo, 
which, with a total daily flow of 13,000,000 
cubic feet of water, supplies also the 
fountains in the Piazza di Spagna, the 
Piazza Navona and the Piazza Farnese. 
A good recent example is in the Piazza 
delle Terme, with Santa Maria degli Angeli 
in the background. It stands at the 
head of the Via Nazionale, near the 
Grand Hotel and the Teatro Costanzi. 
Just ofl' the axis of a cross street, out 
of the way of traffic, this fountain com¬ 
mands both thoroughfares. It sends up a 
copious and lofty jet, said to be especially 
effective at night, when the Piazza is lighted 
by electricity. 
While several of the fountains here illus¬ 
trated bear no direct relation to American 
municipal conditions, all suggest the refresh¬ 
ing influence of water in the highways and 
byways of cities, which is the point aimed 
at in the present paper. Once let the 
municipal art movement in some important 
city take up seriously the project of street 
fountains, and it is safe to predict an increasing 
following. The elasticity and adaptability 
to specified conditions, of these decorative 
objects ; the feasibility of using wall spaces as 
well as open plots, the advantage of com¬ 
bining utility with beauty—these have been 
dwelt upon as practical matters. In another 
paper, considerations of individual design 
will be discussed. 
Samuel Swift. 
To be continued 
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