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ent commission will be reappointed to prosecute the work 
so well begun.” 
The Newark Call of March 24, said editorially: “The 
plan proposed is the best that can be devised under the cir- 
cumstances. It is a novelty in some respects, as park re- 
serves, under county control, have not been attempted. The 
necessities of the popular conditions which prevail in Essex, 
however, make the plan most desirable. The sites for the 
parks will, in some cases at least, be in townships which 
would not dream of such a reservation at their own expense, 
and the county plan, in any case, will prevent conflict of 
interest and secure systematic arrangement for care and 
maintenance as well as location. The scheme is, in short, 
not only feasible and practical, but is probably the only one 
that could be carried through.” 
PARK BOARD'S COURSE COMMENDED. 
The Orange Chronicle, one of the most earnest exponents 
of the park system cause, in an editorial February 16, 
stated that “A number of improvement societies and public 
boards throughout the county have passed highly compli- 
mentary resolutions relative to the work of the Board of 
Park Commissioners, as shown by the report recently 
published.” 
Even the Essex papers printed in foreign languages did 
not neglect the subject. In La Montagna of March 31, 1895, 
appeared a plea “For Public Parks,” in which, after refer- 
ring to “the very important question the voters of Essex 
County will be called upon to decide April 9,” and 
saying “No Italian need be told of the advan- 
tages and pleasure derived from public gardens,” 
and “that thepark scheme is always the poor man’s 
benefactor,” it adds: “America is far behind the 
Old World in the matter of park development, and this 
county has only twenty-five acres devoted to such uses—a 
less number than any other community of like population 
in the world.” An interesting and evidently well-meant 
statement, but quite too flattering as to the European parks 
