Why Does Everybody Hate This Drinking Fountain?

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In the late 19th century, a doctor named Henry Cogswell erected a bunch of very strange drinking fountains around the United States
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Sources/Further Reading:
San Francisco Examiner - February 7th, 1925
The D.C. Evening Star - July 24th, 1883
Photo HAM 833, Center For Dubuque History, Loras College
San Francisco Examiner - July 10th, 1900
New York Times - March 13th, 1894
Worcester Daily Spy - January 10th, 1885
Springfield Sunday Republican - July 22, 1900
Boston Daily Advertiser - July 10th, 1900
Rochester Democrat & Chronicle - November 3rd, 1883
The San Francisco Call - June 26th, 1898
San Francisco Chronicle - June 19th, 1904
The Buffalo Times - June 19th, 1884
The Boston Globe - April 29th, 1893
The Fall River Daily Herald - November 5th, 1884
Fall River Daily Evening News - June 28th, 1909
San Francisco Examiner - April 25th, 1891
The Buffalo News - September 20th 1883
Santa Cruz Surf - May 4th, 1887
Glen Innes Examiner - March 24th, 1885
The Fall River Daily Herald - April 29th, 1885
The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle - February 8th, 1885
The Fall River The Evening Herald - July 10th, 1916
The Winchester Argus - November 19th, 1885
San Francisco morning Call - January 3rd, 1894
The San Francisco Call - January 4th, 1894
Democrat & Chronicle - July 12th, 1900
The Boston Globe - June 28th, 1885
The San Francisco Call - March 2nd, 1893
Roseburg Review - January 24th, 1885
Boston Evening Transcript - December 31st, 1884
The Evening Bulletin - November 24th, 1893
The Providence Journal - September 15th, 1947
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@AidanPatko

The man was just ahead of his time. Could you imagine someone doing this today? Legend.

@skeleton_magic

So what your saying is, the townsfolk who installed the fountain with boiling water, failed to do proper plumbing. And then got mad at the dentist for something they screwed up. After all, why else would a fountain shoot pressured water?

@SuperMrHiggins

I actually like the idea of having animals get drinks

@pamgoodridge7638

I love that he was thinking about animals needing some water.

@R0KURU

So interesting to me that people hate these or think they looked bad.. I think they’re unique, which makes them so much more interesting to me. I love that they include places for animals and wildlife to use as well! ^^

@datacentre81

"What? Me? Heavens no! That's my artistic interpretation of the ideal man."

@kendiholloway2378

This makes me chuckle since some were destroyed in our Grandparents era because they didnt like the man, and the same generation says youngsters are easily offended😂

@ukamikazu

So the criticisms of how they malfunctioned was the result of improper installation by the towns? It wasn't that they were poorly constructed, it was that a plumber decided to connect a hot water line with too high pressure that made it shoot contaminated boiling water twenty feet into the road, not Cogswell or the fountain itself? Funny how that kind of thing works...

@lobsterwithoutalife

theyre not even ugly though 😭i probably would have hated on him for putting a statue of himself there too but the actual fountains look fine?! smh they just nothing better to do than to hate

@joebator9858

Thanks Dr. COGSWELL for thinking about others who don't like the taste of alcohol.

@michaelbrown8195

Cogswell was a legend lmao, even if some of his fountains didn’t quite hit the mark.

@JeffinBville

The quality of the water coming from the fountain is only as good as the quality of the water the municipality serves to it.

@ParrotplaySix

To bad some of the fountains were torn down. I really think the artwork was very creative.

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@AbominableFoMan

Hey! This jogged my brain and reminded me of my small town's fountain! It was erected in the early 1900 by the Women's Christian Temperance Union, it was placed in the "most heavily trafficked" area in town. It was then moved to the local park and is still in use today. It's a fairly simple design with a horse relief on one side and a ribbon that was a symbol for the WCTU. It features two fountains for people on two sides and two low troughs and two high troughs for animals which have since been repurposed as flower beds.

@adiuntesserande6893

Oddly, at roughly the same time, and for similar reasons, namely to reduce alcohol consumption, timber baron Simon Benson had dozens of non-ornamented drinking fountains set up around his home town of Portland, Oregon. Everyone

@cappew22

Didn't think I'd enjoy a story about drinking fountains as much as this. Great storytelling!

@Kyle_Spivis

This is such a good story and I love how you make jokes out of day to day things occurring, stuff that’s newsworthy back then. I can’t tell you how much I like the yarns you spin.

@llibertyGamer

Used to walk by the Pawtucket fountain all the time since it's right next to the bus terminal. Never realized it had any sort of interesting history.

@Gryphonisle

Dr Cogswell was a 49er and his fortune was made more from real estate here in SF than dentistry. His one surviving fountain here stands in Washington Square, off Columbus Ave and is topped with Benjamin Franklin. It says it offered two types of water (including Vichy water)but only ever offered tap water which back then was fairly local and possibly still from a reservoir just up Russian Hill, with its source being all the way out at the beach, by the ocean (underground pools right near the ocean) and brought to the reservoir by a series of wooden sluices similar to what the gold miners had used.