As a fountain, though, it is splendid. The pool and its spouting figures
are glorious. The play of the waters when all the jets are spouting is
not only magnificent but unique. This veil of water shooting out and
falling in a half sphere about the globe has not been seen before. There
is a real expression of energy in the force of the leaping streams.

Mermaid Fountains, by Arthur Putnam.--At the far end of each of the
lovely pools in the South Gardens is an ornamental fountain of ample
basins topped by a graceful mermaid, behind whose back a fish spouts up
a single jet of water. These are formal fountains, but exceedingly
harmonious. Without trying to be pretentious, they achieve an effect of
simple beauty. (p. 99.)

"El Dorado" and "Youth."--Within the colonnaded wings of the Tower of
Jewels are two fountains which carry' out the symbolism of the days of
the Spanish explorers in their themes, the Aztec myth of El Dorado, and
the fabled Fountain of Youth, sought by Ponce de Leon. In their way,
these are the loveliest fountains on the Exposition grounds, though they
differ so from all the rest that comparison is not easy. The naive
conception of the Fountain of Youth and the realistic strength of that
of El Dorado lead visitors back to them again and again. They are hidden
fountains, as their prototypes were hidden. Each terminates one of the
two open colonnades with a central niche composition flanked on either
hand by a sculptured frieze. Each is the work of a woman sculptor, and
both, though very different, are far from the conventional or the
commonplace.

The Fountain of El Dorado, by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, tells the
story of an Aztec myth of a god whose brilliance is so dazzling that the
sun is his veil, and who lives in a darkened temple lest his light