. Chicago. d gladness, it is to-dayquite as much of a playground as apark, with tennis courts, baseball fields, 107 Chicago golf courses, yacht harbors, and bathing-beaches, and I doubt if in all the worldthere is a civic domain so widely or sodemocratically used. Indeed, during thesummer months it is difficult at times toperceive the grass of its broad meadowsat all, so thickly is it strewn with coat-less human beings. Lincoln Park is the oldest of our breath-ing-spots of more than a hundred acres inextent and the one most widely used bythe people of the city; it is the most cos-mopolitan, to
. Chicago. d gladness, it is to-dayquite as much of a playground as apark, with tennis courts, baseball fields, 107 Chicago golf courses, yacht harbors, and bathing-beaches, and I doubt if in all the worldthere is a civic domain so widely or sodemocratically used. Indeed, during thesummer months it is difficult at times toperceive the grass of its broad meadowsat all, so thickly is it strewn with coat-less human beings. Lincoln Park is the oldest of our breath-ing-spots of more than a hundred acres inextent and the one most widely used bythe people of the city; it is the most cos-mopolitan, too, in its aspect, the regionin which our patricians dwell being buta small part of one of the six wards ofwhich the North Side is composed; foralthough this is by far the smallest divisionof the city, it houses, nevertheless, closeto half a million people, barely more thana third of whom were born in these UnitedStates. Indeed, I venture to say that inLincoln Park upon a Sunday afternoon io8 In Lincoln Park. The North Side one may see disporting themselves in ac-cordance with their racial predilectionsmen, women, and children of quite asmany nationalities as there are kinds ofwild animals pacing to and fro in thecages of its zoological garden. Although we Chicagoans are inordi-nately proud of the chain of parks andboulevards encircling our city, we havefailed to pay due respect to the mem-ory of John S. Wright, the pioneer citizenwho conceived its glories. I foresee, hesaid, when the city numbered less thantwenty-five thousand souls, a time notvery distant when Chicago will need withits fast-increasing population a park, orparks, in each division. Of these parksI have a vision. They are all improvedand connected with a wide avenue, ex-tended to and along the Lake Shore onthe north and south, and so surround thecity with a magnificent chain of superb 109 Chicago parks and parkways that have not theirequals in the world. The man who made this amazinglytrue prophecy built at his o
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