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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
velopment of vegetation. However, ev- 
erything will be done which it is thought 
will be helpful in bringing about the 
best possible results. 
The Field Museum, to be the great 
central feature of the park, as shown 
in our illustrations, will cost $4,000,000, 
and will be a monumental structure of 
great beauty. Work on the new build- 
ing has been delayed pending the con- 
clusion of litigation begun by a single 
property owner on Michigan avenue — 
Mr. A. Montgomery Ward. When the 
new museum is completed the old 
World’s Fair Fine Arts Building, now 
occupied by the Field exhibits, will be 
vacated. 
of the Art Institute, between Madison 
and Monroe streets. 
Mr. John Crerar, in addition to his 
library bequest, bequeathed $100,000 for 
the erection and maintenance of a statue 
of Abraham Lincoln, and about the year 
1896 gave the commission for this statue 
to Augrustus Saint-'Gaudens. 
One of the great works of Saint-Gau- 
dens at that time was the statue of Abra- 
ham Lincoln which now stands in Lin- 
coln Park. The sculptor said he was 
not entirely satisfied with the Lincoln 
Park statue, and that he was gratified 
beyond measure at again receiving a 
commission which he hoped to make the 
greatest creative work of his life. For 
a very short time before his death, he 
is reported to have stated .that he re- 
garded it as the greatest work of his 
life, and one which at last he was willing 
to tender as his tribute to Lincoln. 
Another great work of sculpture to be 
erected in the South Park System is 
Lorado Taft’s “Fountain of the Great 
Lakes,’’ the first work to be authorized 
under the bequest of $1,000,000 left by 
the late B. F. Ferguson for the erection 
of works of public art, commemorative 
of persons or events in American his- 
tory under the administration of the 
trustees of the Art Institute. It will 
cost $60,000. 
This group is a conception scarcely 
ART 
INSTITUTE 
BOULEVARD 
VIEW FROM LAKE MIQHIGAN 
TOWARD MIONIGAN AVENUE 
FIELD 
MUSEUM 
CRERAR 
LIBRARY 
Z.OGAM 
monument 
MODEL FOR IMPROVEMENT OF GRANT PARK, CHICAGO. 
Looking from the Lake Toward Michigan Ave. ; Olmsted Brothers, Brookline, Mass., Landscape Archs. 
The trustees of the John Crerar Li- 
brary now have a maintenance fund of 
$3,400,000, and by the time the new 
building is completed the construction 
fund will amount to more than $1,000,- 
000. In the Grant Park model, the 
Crerar Library is made to balance the 
Art Institute, the Field Museum being 
the central object in the park. 
It is the intention to make the build- 
ing monumental in design, classic in 
architecture, and in every way worthy 
of the city. The present site fixed for 
the library is in Grant Park just north 
nearly twelve years he worked upon 
this statue. His idea, as expressed at 
the time, was to represent, so far as 
possible by the sculptor’s art, the isola- 
tion in which the man Lincoln stood • 
during the crucial period of the Civil 
War. With that central idea the present 
statue is that of a seated figure, flanked 
on either hand by a single plain column 
placed at a considerable distance from 
the statue, which seems to represent 
with striking force, but in a way which 
canont be described, the idea of the great 
sculptor. Upon completing this work 
surpassed in American sculpture, and 
nothing more appropriate could be im- 
agined for the greatest of the Lake 
cities. Charles Francis Browne, in the 
World Today, describes it as “the first 
large and purely ideal group to be erect- 
ed in America.” Continuing he writes ; 
“As Saint-Gaudens’ Shaw in Bos- 
ton stands for the finest embodiment 
of the spirit of our civil war, this mon- 
ument of the lakes will mark a new 
height in ideal sculpture. * * * While 
this group is typically modern in its 
technical expression, there is something 
