. Wacker's manual of the plan of Chicago; municipal economy . ectsto their own limits, but must go beyondthem and out into the open country to pro-vide recreation areas for their European capital has its forestparks outside of its limits, but within easyreach of its people. Thus in summer Lon-don, Paris, Berlin and Vienna are on Sun-days desert-ed by theirmillions, thepeople d i s -p e r s i ng tothe 0 p encountry parklands and thef 0 res ts setaside fortheir use andenjoy mentforever. Inthis countryother cities,notably NewYork in itsacquirementof the pictur-esque country along the
. Wacker's manual of the plan of Chicago; municipal economy . ectsto their own limits, but must go beyondthem and out into the open country to pro-vide recreation areas for their European capital has its forestparks outside of its limits, but within easyreach of its people. Thus in summer Lon-don, Paris, Berlin and Vienna are on Sun-days desert-ed by theirmillions, thepeople d i s -p e r s i ng tothe 0 p encountry parklands and thef 0 res ts setaside fortheir use andenjoy mentforever. Inthis countryother cities,notably NewYork in itsacquirementof the pictur-esque country along the Hudson river, areacquiring outer territory for park piir-poses. Thus it has been that in the creation ofthe Plan of Chicago means of securing for-est places for the people have been pro-vided. No more beautiful country existsthan the wooded territory surroundingChicago on all sides. Much of this landcan be acquired now at small cost, and agreat part of the investment would beginat once returning to Chicago in the in-creased health and happiness of her peo-. CHICAGO. Plan of a park proposed at the North Branch of the Chi-cago River and Graceland Avenue. [Copyrighted by the Commercial Club.] pie miTch more every year than the cost ofsecuring it for the use of the people. The spaces to be acquired should be wildforests, filled with such trees, vines, flowersand shrubs as will grow in this roads and paths should be runthrough them and the people should be al-lowed and encouraged to use them search has resulted in plansfor setting aside five reserves for largest of these forest tracts select-ed is that ofthe S k 0 k i evalley, com-prising about8,000 acres,lying to thenorthward ofChicago, andextend ingback fromG1 e n c oe toinclude thevalley of Chi-c a g o river,s t r e t c liingsoutherly in-to the limitsof the thenorthwest it is proposed to secure for theuse of the people a large part of the Des-plaines river valley, thes
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