'The Ornamental Movement of IVater in City Streets 
AN ARRANGEMENT OF THE CHAMP DE MARS 
FOUNTAIN OF S. COSIMATO ROME 
the large streams, as well as falling from a 
height, are projected nearly horizontally, 
giving them as long a flight through the air 
as possible. In the Schlossplatz fountain, 
Berlin, four large jets send their waters from 
a low level into an upper basin, thus utilizing 
them in both directions. A more refined 
Seen from the Eiffel Toiver 
application of the same principle is seen in 
the fountain of Jacques d’Amboise, at Cler¬ 
mont, France. The Place de la Concorde 
fountains have jets playing almost horizon¬ 
tally upon the central figures. A less honest, 
though sometimes legitimate device, was used 
successfully last summer at the Pan-Ameri¬ 
can Exposition to secure the full value of the 
water sent through the chateau d’eau. The 
various surfaces over which the water flowed 
were colored a delicate blue-green, reinforc¬ 
ing and magnifying its apparent volume. 
It was a sheer optical illusion, but neverthe¬ 
less was not to be despised. 
More dignified, though this method has 
its limitations, is the use of sculpture and 
architecture to enhance the consequence of a 
small water supply. The early fountains of 
Paris, erected before the present facilities 
were obtained, show towering classic struct¬ 
ures, or groups of figures, with water care¬ 
fully distributed in meagre quantities. Often, 
as in the fountain of the Rue de Grenelle, 
the thing was carried too far; it is sometimes 
hard to tell whether the structure can longer 
be considered a fountain or has become a 
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