Imagine this supremely beautiful parkway, with its frequent stretches of fields, playgrounds, avenues, and groves, extending along the shore in closest touch with the life of the city throughout the whole water front. What will it do for us in health and happiness? After it is finished will the people of means be so ready to run away and spend their money in other cities? Where else can they find such delightful conditions as at home? We should no longer lose so much of the cream of our earnings, now spent in other lands. When this parkway shall be created, our people will stay here, and others will come to dwell among us—the people who now spend time and large amounts of money in Paris, in Vienna, and on the Riviera. It will turn back the stream of profits which have to such a large degree gone away from us, and every one living here will feel the result of this change, for between prosperity and bad times there is often but a small percentage, and the community which can keep its earnings at home prospers. In order to appreciate the recreation which the Lake front when properly developed will afford, one has but to recall the pleasure which similar waters afford to the people of other countries. For example, the clusters or fringes of islands in the vicinity of Stockholm form a favorite resort for the yachtsmen of Sweden, their chief rendezvous being Sandham, a pilot station on the margin of the Baltic. Tourists enjoy the exhibitions of swimming given in the public baths of Stockholm, and the canoeing on the numerous lakes and waterways. The winter sports and competitions—skating, skee-running, skate-sailing, ice-yachting, sledge-kicking, and toboganning—are famous the world over; and the Sport Park (Idrottsparken) at Stockholm is one of the features of the city. [Illustration: XLIV. CHICAGO. TYPICAL VIEW ACROSS THE PROPOSED SOUTH SHORE PARK, FOR EXAMPLE, AT WOODLAND PARK. COPYRIGHT, 1909 BY COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO ]