PLAN FOR ESSEX COUNTY PARKS 13 
what could be done toward carrying the suggested project 
into practicable effect. This was soon accomplished. 
In that brief conversation Mr. Ure then called my atten- 
tion to the fact that the Newark board already had a 
special Committee on Parks; that its report two years 
before, although generally approved in the city, had not led 
to any more practical results than had the earlier efforts 
toward establishing a larger park; that the Park Committee 
and the Newark board would most willingly co-operate in 
any feasible plan for a much needed park system; and that 
anything he could do individually or in behalf of the board 
as president he would gladly do. Both in his bearing and 
conversation, he was cordial, earnest, direct and practical. 
Of all the men I had met since I had been a resident of 
Essex County, no one with whom I had up to that time 
discussed civic affairs had impressed me more favorably 
than did Mr. Ure. His evident sincerity of purpose to have 
something accomplished for the public good, solely for the 
reason that it would be for the people’s interest and for 
civic betterment, was inspiring. The conversation was of 
but perhaps ten minutes’ duration. It has always been a 
most agreeable recollection, leaving a strong impression on 
my mind, and, as it now comes again vividly before me, I 
feel impelled to pay this deserved tribute to Mr. Ure’s 
memory. 
At a meeting of the Orange board a few days after the 
conversation referred to, the proposition to meet with the 
Park Committee of Newark was explained and fully ap- 
proved, and a special committee was then appointed to 
attend the proposed conference. This was the committee: 
F. W. Kelsey, chairman; Frank W. Child, E. M. Condit, 
J. H. Baldwin and J. 8. Holmes. The committee at once 
took up the subject of “formulating a suitable plan,” and 
by the time of the first meeting of the Newark and Orange 
committees, held at the Board of Trade rooms in Newark, 
on April 14, 1894, a definite and complete plan had been 
agreed upon. 
In the meantime President Ure, who was also then pro- 
