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avenues, between the proposed larger parks, well adapted 
for parkway purposes, and already laid out and constructed 
at county expense; and 
Third—Availability. As these parkways, with Park ave- 
nue on the north and Central avenue on the south of the 
populous portions of the county between the Passaic River 
and the Orange Mountain would, with the Branch Brook 
Park on the east and the mountain parkway and parks on 
the crest of the first mountain, constitute a compact, and, 
to that extent, complete “park system” in the heart of the 
county, readily and directly reached from any of the four 
sides of the elongated square of parks and parkways that 
would be thus formed. 
AN IMPORTANT PARKWAY. 
In order to utilize the more accessible and important 
of these parkways, Central Avenue—important as being 
by far the most convenient to the people of both Newark 
and the Oranges—and to avoid the expense of new and 
costly construction, or the removal of the railway tracks 
then on the avenue in Newark, as far as the East Orange 
line, the plan from the southern division of the Branch 
Brook Park included the use of Sussex and Ninth ave- 
nues and Grove street, or Sixteenth street, for the direct 
connection with the park as the eastern terminus, and a 
direct extension by a zig-zag, easy-grade Swiss road up 
the mountain to the mountain parkway, for the western 
park connection of the system. 
The advisability and practicability of this method of 
establishing a convenient and economical county park sys- 
tem—one that could be promptly and at comparatively 
small cost carried out, and at the same time constitute the 
basic framework for the future park and parkway develop- 
ment within the county—strongly appealed to the mem- 
bers of the first commission. J am not aware that any 
doubt ever existed as to the practical execution of the plan 
on the lines indicated. For years the steep grades and “old- 
fashioned” straight up and down roads of the Orange 
