Show Many Writers Join in Honoring Creator of Little Lord Fauntleroy w I tE I tL tk I I A group of bronze for a bird-bath bird and fountain sculptured by Bessie Potter right will be placed in the Central park childrens children's garden garden gar gar den arranged as a tribute to Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett famous author inset A NEW EW YORK CAP AP AP- AP Frances Prances Hodgson Hodgon Burnett famous as the thea theauthor a author thor of Little Lord often quoted When you have ve a Garden You have a Future Futuro And nd when you have a Future You are Alive With these words she laid down the pen that had given to the world The Secret Garden The Shuttle Shuttle Shut Shut- tle tie That Lass o 0 and best known of of aU J Little Lord Fau Fauntleroy r r- iv Ii The words are the keynote of the Childrens Children's Garden designed for Central Central Central Cen Cen- park as a memorial to the fa famous famous famous fa- fa author Mrs Burnett was a garden lover wherever she dwelt she planted The rose garden at Maytham England the sea-girt sea flower beds of ot her Long Island home were as truly her creation as her stories No fiction so o enthralled her as a florists florist's catalogue e no neighbor was more congenial than the one who paused beneath the shade trees to discuss herbaceous borders or the blue ways of delphinium delphinium del del- no guest so welcome as the robin nesting there FITTING MEMORIAL It has lIas seemed therefore to the committee In charge that no memorial memorial me me- morial to Mrs Burnett could possibly pos pos- sibly be as fitting as a Childrens Children's Garden A site has bias been assigned by the park department an oval plot of ground on a height at Seventy-second Seventy street near Fifth Filth avenue and just beyond the little lake where children sail san their bo boats ts The plan has been developed for tor fora tora a garden planted with shrubs and hardy flowers inclosing a bIrdbath birdbath birdbath bird- bird bath and fountain and a storytellers storyteller's story story- tellers teller's bench from which talks and stories on nature will be given Charles Downing Lay landscape architect has drawn up a comprehensive comprehensive compre compre- plan for the garden while the sculptor Bessie Potter has made mado a gro group p in bronze for a bird-bath bird and fountain WRITERS INTERESTED Many actors and writers at one onetime onetime onetime time associated with Mrs Irs Burnett 1 in her work as author and playwright playwright play play- wright are interested and lending their aid to the project Among them are Mary Pickford whose film version erslon of ot Little Lord Fauntleroy y was so popular Annie Russell Un UnA In InA A Lady of Quality Mrs 1 August I Belmont who created Glad in inThe inThe inThe The Dawn of a Tomorrow Tommy Tommy Tommy Tom Tom- my Russell original Lord Fau Fauntleroy tle- tle roy Otis Skinner Beatrice Herford Her Her- ford Daniel Frohman George C C. Tyler and Cyril Maude Among mong the authors Kathleen Norris Elizabeth Jordan Fannio Hurst Harriet Comstock and Ida rda Tarbell are prominent |