26 FIRST COUNTY PARK SYSTEM 
James E. Fleming, William A. Ure, president Newark 
Board of Trade; James S. Holmes, president Board of 
Trade of the Oranges; F. W. Child, A. Q. Keasbey.” 
JUDGE NAMES COMMISSIONERS. 
The judge was advised of this action the following day, 
June 7, but the letter and copy of the act were retained 
to present to him “in person,” as called for in the resolu- 
tion of the committee and as requested in his note of June 
11, for an appointment. 
Judge Depue received us in his private room at the court- 
house on the morning of June 18, according to appoint- 
ment. He said: 
“Gentlemen, I sent for you because I desire to consult 
with you as to the appointment of the fifth commissioner. 
Four of the appointees I have already decided upon. I 
have in mind the names of several men outside of Newark 
whom I think well of or who have been recommended to me 
as the other commissioner, but I have thought I should like 
to talk with you before making a further decision. 
“First,” he went on, “I propose to appoint my old friend, 
Edward Jackson, of Belleville. You know him, do you 
not? 
“Well,” he continued, when we had answered him in the 
negative, “T’ll vouch for Ed. Jackson”—which was by com- 
mon consent acceptably received; and he then said: “I am 
going to appoint you, Mr. Peck, and Mr. Meeker, of the 
Board of Trade committee, from Newark, and you, Mr. 
Kelsey, from Orange. This leaves the fifth member from 
the county at large, outside of Newark, yet to be selected.” 
The judge then mentioned the names of five men whom 
he had in mind for the place—two from Montclair, two 
from South Orange, and one from Orange. My own ap- 
pointment, he said, precluded the consideration of the other 
resident of Orange. The other names were then gone over. 
Not one of them had been favorably considered by the mem- 
bers of the joint committee who had given the personnel 
of the proposed commission earnest thought. When asked 
