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City Council was known. The Newark News editorial the 
day following on “The Inconsistency of the Orange Coun- 
cil” said: “It is difficult to understand, on any ground of 
public spirit or public policy, the refusal of the Orange 
City Council to assent to the transfer of Central and Park 
avenues to the care and control of the Park Commission,” 
and, after answering at length the claims of the Street 
Committee, added: “It would be easy to show the clumsy 
inconsistency of the report and resolutions. It (the Street 
Committee) proclaims that it knows no good reason why 
those avenues should continue to be special wards of the 
county, and just below expresses its satisfaction with their 
maintenance at the general county expense by the free- 
holders.” 
The Orange Chronicle said that the opposition had been 
centered on Central avenue, “the latter being a possible 
plum for a trolley line”; adding, “Will some one who be- 
lieves that the council did right please explain? The 
action was taken without a single word of open debate, 
and in the face of eloquent and able pleas by prominent 
citizens. In language, the report of the Street Committee 
is verbose, ambiguous, and involved in pessimistically im- 
pugning the Park Commission.” 
The Journal also commented at length upon the coun- 
cil’s action, and said, among other things: “The Common 
Council has thus placed the city in a false and embarrass- 
ing position, which would be repudiated by its citizens if 
they had the opportunity to express themselves on the sub- 
ject at the polls.” 
Counsel J. L. Munn, in a statement July 13, the day 
after the council’s refusal to make the transfer, no doubt 
struck the keynote of the whole situation, from his stand- 
point, in saying, as reported in the News: “The root of 
the matter is that the trolley company desires a franchise 
on Central avenue, and there are many who favor it. Per- 
haps, under the circumstances, it would not be best to 
transfer Central avenue into a boulevard for pleasure ve- 
hicles or bicycles. But that is simply one phase of the 
