THE PARKWAYS 177 
South Orange to the foot of Bear lane at the Ridgewood 
road, and thence to the South Mountain reservation as a 
western terminus, and with the mountain crest parkway 
there. 
While these designs for the future parkways were in- 
formally approved by the first commission, the whole sub- 
ject was tentatively considered with the view that the fu- 
ture, and the future alone, could determine what portion 
of the extensive plans should be finally adopted, and indi- 
cate the opportune time for carrying them out. 
FOR A PARK AND PARKWAY SYSTEM. 
What the commission of 1894 did, however, intend should 
materialize, and be put into practical form at the earliest 
possible date, was the plan for the parks and the parkways, 
as outlined—“a system of parks in its entirety,’ as prom- 
ised in the commission’s formal report in 1895, already 
referred to. It was for this purpose that the liberal charter 
for the second commission was prepared; and had all the 
members of the first commission in 1895 been reappointed 
on that board, and the personnel and policy of the com- 
mission remained unchanged, I have now no more doubt 
that these plans would have been carried out and promises 
fulfilled, than I have of any future event which is consid- 
ered a certainty, yet not having transpired. 
What did occur regarding the policy of the first com- 
~mission as to the parks has been indicated in the preceding 
chapters. What results, in turn, followed regarding the 
parkways, I shall endeavor in this and succeeding chapters 
to correctly but briefly state. 
As the second commission, immediately after complet- 
ing its organization, proceeded vigorously with the selec- 
tion of park sites to the exclusion of any consideration of 
plans for a park system as a whole, the question of park- 
ways was hardly broached for months. Indeed, under the 
local or piecemeal sectional policy of locating parks, why 
should it be? 
