The advantages of developing Grant Park as the intellectual center of Chicago cannot be overestimated; for art everywhere has been a source of wealth and moral influence. Already the students at the Art Institute number more than four thousand, and as art collections and opportunities for study increase Chicago will draw pupils from many states. The influence of this training in raising the standard of public taste and in creating demands for better physical conditions must be manifest. The possession of Saint-Gaudens’ statue of Lincoln is a distinction to the city of Chicago, in the same sense that the Sistine Madonna enriches Dresden. Take the Louvre from Paris, the Rubens collection from Antwerp, the National Gallery and the British Museum from London, the Public Library and the Art Museum from Boston, the Metropolitan Museum from New York, and the Library of Congress from Washington, and the commercial loss to those cities would be very considerable. When Chicago realizes all the advantages of the location in Grant Park of three great groups of buildings devoted to the intellectual and æsthetic cravings of man, it must be apparent that the city will have a great asset in the gifts of those public-spirited citizens who have found satisfaction in leaving to the public useful memorials of the successful lives of the givers. Public-spirited citizens have left precious legacies by providing for the intellectual and æsthetic needs of the people; and it should be esteemed a high privilege as well as a sacred duty to administer those gifts in such a manner as to accomplish the most effective results from the benefactions. So to manifest appreciation encourages others to emulate the good example; and simply by taking thought the city gains constantly by the addition of monuments which benefit the whole community. South of Grant Park, and extending along the lagoon between Twelfth and Twenty-second streets, the plans show a great meadow developed as an athletic field, with central gymnasium, outdoor exercising grounds, swimming beaches, and such other features as have been found advisable in the playground parks. Another great opportunity comes from the fact that the river flows through the center of the business district. It has been the experience of European cities that the banks of a river, although at first devoted only to commercial purposes, sooner or later are transformed into places which combine business uses with drives and promenades for traffic and for the pleasure of the people. The treatment of the Thames in London, the Seine in Paris, the Danube in Vienna and Budapest, the Scheldt at Antwerp, the Riverside Drive in New York, and the proposed Potomac Quay at Washington are, all of them, instances of a development which indicates clearly what must also result to the Chicago River when the city comes to give attention to other needs in addition to those of commerce and manufactures.