House <y Garden 
THE ALBRECHT FOUNTAIN VIENNA 
steep roofed building behind it, may be 
pronounced judicious, though the shaft itself 
wants impressiveness and has a certain touch 
of Belgian grossness. The thick, powerful 
columns of water are not economical, but 
thev count in the architectural scheme, even 
at a considerable distance. Both the Vienna 
fountains shown bear perceptible relation to 
their surroundings. The wall structure is an 
integral part of a symmetrical scheme, while 
the Renaissance portico in the Hohen 
Markt, with its bizarre cockade, and its 
repeated capitals, needs just such sharp and 
incisive treatment if it is to hold its own 
against the heavy cornices and mouldings 
of neighboring buildings. 
For nice adjustment of a street fountain to 
natural and artificial setting, the Pferde- 
schwemme at Salzburg may be studied. 
1 his Austrian city, Mozart’s birthplace, 
“ nestles under the cliffs of the Monchsberg 
in the valley of the River Salzach, hugging 
the sheer rock so closely that it actually 
overhangs the houses in one of the streets. 
Where the valley widens toward Hohen- 
salzburg, crowned by the castle fortress, it 
opens out into squares, each with its fountain 
or statue, that afford approaches to the 
few large structures of the city.” In this 
quiet town of few cross streets and limited 
vistas, the basin of the Pferdeschwemme, 
with its broad low balustrade, and the 
substantial wall behind it, might easily be said 
to reflect the comfortable short-viewed life of 
the place. The familiar Schone Brunnen of 
Nuremberg, slenderly Gothic as any of its 
neighbors, is another fountain admirably in 
harmony with its surroundings. So was the 
handsome fountain of the early French 
Renaissance that used to exist at Autun. 
The third important factor in fountain 
design, to which, of course, the preceding 
conditions must be adjusted, is the water 
itself, its amount and pressure, and the use 
selected for it. Shall the fountain be 
purely decorative, or shall it also be available 
for drinkers ? Up to recent times, the answer 
would rarely have been in doubt ; the 
fountain was once the sole source of supply 
to a community and often enough the center 
of village or neighborhood life. To trace the 
growth of the decorative factors out of those at 
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