Economy, as well as effectiveness, dictates the adoption of a group plan; for the buildings have kindred uses, and should express relationship both in their architecture and also in their landscape settings. Indeed they may well be bound together by porticos to protect the visitor against sun and rain; and such porticos would offer abundant means of adornment by statues, paintings, and commemorative inscriptions. One has only to recall the impressiveness of the Peristyle at the World’s Fair to understand the value of the colonnade as an adjunct to buildings beautiful in themselves. The landscape setting of the Grant Park group offers opportunities of the highest order. The broad terraces need for their relief the green of trees and the judicious use of parterres; and the walks and driveways, if well located, will give the sense of unity, while at the same time adding to the convenience of the visitor. It should be realized clearly that as Michigan Avenue is widened and extended, the great traffic which this thoroughfare is sure to bear will come to require large open spaces for gatherings of people to witness parades and pageants and for similar occasions. Much of the passing from north to south will utilize the lakeside drive; and at gala times, when the harbor is illuminated, the terraces of Grant Park will afford unsurpassed views of the spectacle. Such pleasures make a universal appeal, and give charm and brightness to the life of people who must of necessity pass long summers in the city. The yacht harbor, planned to extend the entire length of the park, is enclosed on the north and south by broad recreation piers stretching for a mile and a half into the Lake; and provision is made for transit lines reaching to the ends of the piers, so as to make these places parks of decided value. The movement among the yachts and small craft; the life of the clubhouses by day and the bright lights by night already lend interest to the Lake front; and as the city grows, the increased boating facilities will afford opportunities for indulging in one of the most universally popular sports, while at the same time imparting life to the otherwise monotonous stretch of water. Such a treatment for Grant Park is not only feasible, but it requires no radical change in present procedure. It is the obvious and natural manner in which the work will be conducted unless some violent change or some regrettable failure to act shall work distortion in a plan that must commend itself to the judgment of those who study the whole problem of the development of the Lake front in its relation to the city of Chicago. No additional expense is involved; for public money is being spent continuously to accomplish the same ends. The plan merely provides for the most effective and satisfactory manner of expending that money.