Focus on Catholic Total Abstinence Union Fountain and explain the Creation.
The fountain was intended to symbolize "the power of religion, the virtues of temperance, and the Irish Catholic love of patriotism and liberty."It was designed by German-born-and-trained Philadelphia sculptor Herman Kirn (1847/48 - 1920).  Kirn came to the U.S. at age six, then returned to Karlsruhe as a young adult to study under Carl Johann Steinhäuser for six years.  Steinhäuser provided letters of recommendation for this commission.   Kirn's other work in the park includes the 1883 Willian Penn statue atop Mom Rinker's Rock, titled Toleration, and his Orestes and Pylades drinking fountain of 1884, cast in bronze from a Steinhäuser original design.  During the erection of this last piece, Kirn lost the use of his right arm to a falling piece of stone.  He was thereafter employed by the Park.Kirn exhibited a 12-foot diameter plaster of Paris model of the Catholic fountain as early as February 1874, at the city's Academy of Music. Fund-raising for the project was slow, and it wasn't until the following autumn that Kirn formally received the commission. Tyrolean marble was chosen for the statues, and Kirn moved to southern Austria to carve them at a quarry in Laas.
Pylades Mom Rinker's Rock Laas Tyrolean Philadelphia Orestes and Pylades drinking fountain Carl Johann Steinhäuser Karlsruhe plaster of Paris Academy of Music