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PARK AND CEMETERY 
PAVILION AND LAKE IN LORD'S PARK, ELGIN, ILL. 
Cord's ParK, Elgin, 111. 
The view in Lord’s Park, Elgin, 111 ., on this page, ment is heated in winter for the accommodation of 
shows two of the finest features of that park, the skaters. 
handsome, commodious pavilion and the clear beauty The park commissioners have long been desirous of 
erecting a greenhouse and a fire- 
proof museum building for the col- 
lection now in the pavilion, which 
includes many rare and valuable 
specimens that could not be dupli- 
cated if lost by fire. This year the 
City Council has been induced to 
appropriate $5,000 for the museum, 
and already the commissioners have 
been offered gifts and loans of val- 
uable specimens and collections for 
the new building. 
A pretty little lodge pavilion, with 
seats for waiting passengers for the 
cars, also stands at the entrance to 
the park. 
Lord’s Park, of which a number 
of illustrations were given in these 
pages some years ago, is a seventy- 
acre tract presented to the city by 
Mr. and Mrs. George P. Lord. It 
is a beautifully diversified natural 
tract, with valleys, bluffs, a natural 
brook and a wealth of oak, hickory and other decidu- 
ous trees. 
The pavilions were also the gifts of Mr. Lord, 
whose generosity has stimulated another prominent 
citizen of Elgin to bequeath a tract of 120 acres to 
be known as Wing’s Park. The work of improve- 
of the lake. The lake is one of two that were made 
by the construction of dams, and the reflection of the 
building, which stands 150 feet from the water’s edge, 
is so distinct as to make it difficult to distinguish be- 
tween the structure and its reflection. 
The pavilion at present serves as a museum in ad- 
dition to fulfilling its usual functions, and the base- 
ment has begun on the new area. 
Landscape WorK at the World's Fair, 
The bulk of the planting most conspicuously placed 
on the grounds of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition 
must be classed as formal and decorative, and there is 
none of that broad effect of purely landscape garden- 
ing that characterized the grounds of the Columbian 
Exposition and constituted one of its chief charms and 
most noticeable educational features. Nevertheless 
there are points in the St. Louis planting scheme that 
emphasize the necessity and advantage of the freer, 
naturalesque style considered by accepted authorities 
as most suitable for general use and best adapted to 
the requirements of the climate and to the spirit of 
the people of the United States. 
That there seems to be less art in the introduction 
and adaptation of this sort of planting to the require- 
ments of the situation at the St. Louis Fair is probably 
largely due to the limitations of climate, to the undevel- 
oped condition of the buildings during the year pre- 
ceding the opening, and perhaps still more to the gen- 
eral plan of the grounds and placing of the buildings. 
Landscape gardening as a fundamental art seems to 
have been overlooked in the preliminary plans. 
Despite the size and character of the site, land- 
scape effects are dominated by architectural effects, 
except at minor points, notably in the region denomi- 
nated the “plateau of states.” 
The planting has been fitted to the architectural 
scheme instead of landscape and architecture being 
considered jointly from the inception of the plans. 
This is but one more instance of the common course 
of events relating to the relative positions accorded 
the sister arts of architecture and landscape gardening 
in this country, but there were those who hoped for 
better things in connection with this great Exposi- 
tion, — even for another, and still more convincing, 
object lesson such as the Chicago Fair grounds fur- 
nished ; another fine example of what can be accom- 
plished when these two arts, represented by adequate 
artists, are placed upon the right footing toward each 
other from the outset in schemes which, from their 
