122 FIRST COUNTY PARK SYSTEM 
but a park at this point would, like Eagle Rock Park as a 
terminus at the north, greatly accentuate the attractions, 
not only of that crest parkway and the approaching park- 
ways, as proposed from the east, but of edch of the parks 
as well. 
Moreover, this site would make a direct and convenient 
park and parkway entrance to the Great South Mountain 
Reservation, which the members of the first commission had 
from their earlier investigations also favored. 
In August, 1895, this subject was brought regularly be- 
fore the board for consideration in a resolution offered by 
me, “that it is now deemed expedient to acquire for park 
purposes : 
“First, suitable areas of park lands and parkways on and 
adjacent to the crest of the Orange Mountains. 
“Second, that such locations be selected with regard to 
convenient approaches; that the crest of the mountain be 
followed as far as practicable, and with reference to obtain- 
ing the best east and west views. 
“Third, that the total area be not less than 2,000 acres, 
and that the architects and engineers proceed to locate the 
above parks and parkways connecting with Branch Brook 
Park and prepare the necessary maps and plans.” 
PARKWAYS TREATED SEPARATELY. 
These resolutions were afterward modified, in accordance 
with the “piecemeal” or sectional policy already referred to, 
and the park locations were treated separately from the 
parkways. 
As the subject of the parkways was such an important one 
to the whole enterprise, and for years occupied so much 
public attention as well as the attention of the commission, 
the progress of those events will be consecutively stated in 
succeeding chapters. 
In November, 1895, the question of locating a park in 
what had then become known in the boardroom of the sec- 
ond commission as the “cable read tract,” and as “ea counter- 
