Eliot, President, Charles W., quoted, 123. Ellis Park, 43. Elmhurst, 40. Eminent domain, exercise of power of, 129, 140, 141, 142; right to take more than necessary lands, 144, 151. England, beginning of national life in, 13; growth of commerce, 19; housing schemes, 21, 128; town planning, 21, 22, 34; holds Northwestern posts after the Revolution, 31; roads, 39; regulation of advertising, 127. Epping Forest, 48. Evanston, 40, 50. Evergreen Park, 56. Euphrates River, tunnel under, 10. Europe, national life begins in, 13; changes in cities, 19, 22. F Federal Building in Chicago, 117. Ferguson Monument Fund, 121. Field, Marshall, gives Field Museum of Natural History to Chicago, 108. Field Museum, the importance of, 108, 114; new building for, 114; location of, 121. Fischer, Prof. Theodore, German city-builder, 21, (note). Flag Creek, 55. Florence, beauty and power of, 13, 20. Folleston, 40. Fontainebleau, Forest of, 48. Foreign peoples in Chicago, 1. Forest parks, 53, 131, 136. Fort Dearborn, 115. Fortifications, in relation to cities, 9; changed into boulevards, 90. Fountains, location of, 86. Fox River, 40. France, beginning of national life in, 13; leads the world in art and taste, 19; improvement of cities, 19; roads, 39. Franco-Prussian war, improvements in European cities since, 19. Frankfort-on-the-Main, 20. Franklin, Benjamin, his connection with the Northwest, 31. G Ganges River, 10. Garfield Park, 44. Gary, 40, 58. Geneva, 40. Genoa, 40. German city improvements, nature of, 20; modification of French system, 20; aim of to produce variety and interest, 20; in Frankfort-on-the-Main, 20; advertising regulations, 127. Germany, beginning of National Life in, 13. Germany, effect of peace on, 19; magnitude of the city-planning movement in, 21 (note); municipal expositions, 21, (note). Gibbs Woods, 54. Gifts by public-spirited citizens, advantage of to a city, 110, 116. Glencoe, entrance to park system at, 54, 55. Glenview Golf Club, 55. Good Roads, economic effects of, 42. (See also highways.) Governor of Illinois inspects work on plan of Chicago, 7. Government, enlarged participation of people in, 1. Grade crossings of railroads, 71. Grant Park, improvement of, 6, 44, 52; proposed treatment of, 108; grouping of buildings in, 109, 114, 115; intellectual center of Chicago, 116. Grant, Gen. U. S., embodiment of the spirit of the Middle West, 32. Great Lakes, 32. Griffith, 40. Gurlitt, Cornelius, as to German city-planning, 20, 21. H Hainault Forest, London, 48. Hall of Records, 116. Halsted Street, longest business street in the world, 106; treatment of, 106; known as the king of streets, 106, 117. Hamburg, 20. Hammond, 40. Hampton Court, England, 48.