It was one of several fountains installed around that time — at train stations, the city Market House, Paschal Square — that disappeared.
First of two columns Have I ever asked you about the large octagonal bronze fountain the Barnard E. Bee chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected at the Alamo ? I have seen two pictures of it. It had a statue of Hebe in the center pouring water for livestock parked at the Alamo . The fountain was installed around 1903 — there is mention of it in old UDC minutes — but disappeared a few years later. No one knows what became of it.
Celebration of Confederate statue in downtown San Antonio started with the cornerstone “Drinking fountains in the plazas … are a very much needed thing,” said the San Antonio Light, July 8, 1901, pointing out that there were “saloons on every corner, but the temperance people were not provided for. Fountains for horses are scarce, and for dogs, ditto, but for the humans there are none.” The Daughters of the Confederacy rose to the challenge. According to the Light, Jan.
Bake sales, donations helped fund S.A.’s Confederate monument Another donor, Emma Paschal, asked to provide “an ornamental drinking fountain … upon Alamo Plaza” in memory of her late husband, former Mayor George Paschal. “Inasmuch as the Daughters of the Confederacy had priority on the plaza, having asked for the same spot several months ago,” said the Light, July 29, 1902, City Council arranged to have the Paschal fountain placed in Paschal Square .
Suburban street name from 1950s part of Alamo history The fountain got dinged by the animal-drawn carts and buggies pulling in and out of the nearby wagon yard. City Council considered appropriating $100 for a fence around it, since the Daughters had called upon the city for help, since their gift was “being abused and kicked to pieces,” the Light reported July 28, 1903.
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