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the vicinity of Eleventh street, Seventeenth street, and from 
Sixteenth to Eighteenth avenue would provide. 
DEMAND FOR PARK. 
During April and May, 1896, four petitions, with aggre- 
gate lists of 1,717 names, were received; and during the 
summer various delegations of citizens and associations 
from that district attended the meetings of the commission, 
urging favorable action. On October 29, a request from the 
Newark Board of Works for a “conference” was received. 
This was arranged for November 9, when Commissioners 
Van Duyne, Stainsby, Burkhardt and Ulrich again urged 
favorable action, recommending a location “somewhere be- 
tween Springfield and South Orange avenues, west of South 
Tenth street and including the Magnolia swamp.” 
At the meeting on October 2, President Robertson, of the 
improvement association, and Messrs. Twitchell and Kuhn 
appeared and reiterated the claims of the West End Asso- 
ciation and the people of that district generally; and later, 
during October and November, there were other delegations, 
including one from Irvington, on November 19. All urged 
that the locality favored should not be overlooked. How 
could it be? There was the commission, with petitions to 
the right of them and petitions to the left of them, while in 
front of them delegations had “vollied and thundered.” 
The board had been reminded that, by its own official ac- 
tion, it had established a precedent favorable to the West 
Side cause. 
“You have located a park on the East Side,” said the 
West Side people; “why should you not now follow the same 
precedent for the same reasons for our side? We, too, have 
a large industrial population, and why not do something for 
us also?” 
WEST SIDE PARK. 
Early in February, 1897, the commission having decided 
to locate a West Side park, the requisite maps were ordered 
and land optieas and purchases were authorized. At last it 
