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Brook location and that of the East Side Park were dis- 
posed of, this was done. Each of the commissioners favored 
the proposition. The only points for determination, there- 
fore, were as to the lines of the park limits, and the acreage 
that should be included. The subject was under discussion 
during the summer and early part of the autumn of 1895, 
and on October 3 the architects and engineers were author- 
ized to prepare a map of the outlines that they would rec- 
ommend for a park, including Eagle Rock. A little later, 
H. D. Oliphant was appointed purchasing agent to look 
after land options and purchases within the established 
lines. These limits included a little more than 400 acres, 
extending along the mountain cliff something more than a 
mile north of Eagle Rock avenue, nearly to Upper Mont- 
clair, and about a mile westward; and besides Eagle Rock, 
containing many of the finest viewpoints in New Jersey. A 
road along the crest, since constructed, has opened up a 
great variety of beautiful views over the hills and valleys 
to the eastward, while from the western slopes the views 
of the surrounding section and of the Second Mountain 
beyond are unsurpassed. 
MONTCLAIR DELEGATION HEARD. 
While it was the intention of the commissioners to extend 
at the outset the limits of this park as far as it was deemed 
advisable to make them, a delegation of citizens from Mont- 
clair on January 20, 1896, urged that the northern limits 
might be still farther extended. The boundaries of the park 
remain to the present time substantially as finally agreed 
upon after a personal inspection by the members of the 
commission in 1896. 
In November, 1895, the announcement that there was to 
be an Eagle Rock Park met with favorable response from 
the public. The press was cordial in its approval. All the 
county papers commended the selection. Some of the New 
York papers were equally outspoken in the indorsement of 
the project. An editorial in the Newark News of Novem- 
ber 26; 1895, on “The New Park Sites,” referred to it thus: 
