34 FIRST COUNTY PARK SYSTEM 
be happy to receive from you at an early date any sugges- 
tions that occur to your honorable body as to particular 
localities in your section you think could be practically ac- 
quired by gift or otherwise for park purposes, either sepa- 
rately or as part of a county system. We further invite any 
other recommendations or objections that you may deem 
of importance bearing on this question. 
“Presuming you have in your vicinity lands considered 
specially suited for a local park or parks, we should esteem 
any suggestions as to these; also as to what proportion of 
the cost of such lands and improvements you would think 
equitable to be borne by your own city, or adjacent property, 
or both, and what proportion, if any, by the county at large. 
“Hoping we may be favored with your early reply, 
“Yours very respectfully, 
“ESSEX COUNTY PARK COMMISSION.” 
Replies were very generally received. Many were sent 
promptly. All were in hearty accord with the aims and 
objects of the commission. Some of the suggestions were 
practical and of value; others were visionary or too elabo- 
rate. Each bore the imprint of good wishes and good will. 
Mayor Lebkeucher, of Newark, was one of the first officials 
to respond. He expressed the intention of co-operating 
with the commission in its work and stated that he would 
take up the subject with the Common Council and the 
Board of Street and Water Commissioners. Mayor Gill, 
of Orange, sent a similar reply. 
The majority of suggestions favored the location of the 
large park sites on the Orange Mountain. Montclair, East 
Orange, Millburn, Bloomfield, Belleville, South Orange, and 
other places were soon heard from. A number of civic as- 
sociations, improvement societies, and citizens in various 
localities throughout the county also responded and ex- 
pressed a desire to co-operate in some way in the work of 
the commission. 
Indeed, the recommendations became so varied and ex- 
tended as to the matter of park sites that the commissioners 
