52 FIRST COUNTY PARK SYSTEM 
full consideration, all things have been harmonized so that 
when the ballot was taken every vote of record has stood 
5 to 0. 
“T do not recollect a single instance since the organiza- 
tion of the board in June where there has been an exception. 
“A permanent commission, it would seem, should have a 
like result, as the ground work is now laid and some of the 
intricate questions already passed upon. 
“The cordial public support given the commission, and 
its report and proposed bill (conferring, as the latter does, 
ample powers and a large appropriation) is, I think, owing 
to the fact that we have avoided local and sectional ques- 
tions throughout, and have treated the county as an entirety 
on the lines substantially as outlined at the inception of the 
enterprise. It has not been the question of section, faction, 
or particular locality, but what was the best system which 
could be devised for the whole, considering topography, ac- 
cessibility, convenience to population, ratables and other 
resources. ‘ 
“In this way every section has been represented. No 
locality in the county, available and desirable, has been over- 
looked. Each section has received as careful consideration 
as though a member of the board were a resident of that 
locality. 
“While Mr. Bramhall and myself were supposed to rep- 
resent the Oranges, generally speaking, we have both given 
really more study and thought to the other portions of the 
county where we were less familiar and saw greater oppor- 
tunities for effective parking for the county as a whole; 
also the entertainment given at the Country Club by myself 
in November was not to advance the interests of the 
Oranges at the expense of any other section, but solely to 
enlarge the acquaintance and interest and cultivate the sen- 
timent for the enterprise in its broader sense. 
“The representative element of Montclair is, I think, in 
accord with the work of the commission, and some of the 
members of the Township Committee, and others there, will 
co-operate with the work of the new commission as con- 
