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ments and the constantly recurring reports and insinua- 
tions against the counsel demanded attention. That 
the traction people were much encouraged by the 
“Orange conference” was indicated by the formal ap- 
plication directly afterward, on January 19, 1898, of the 
Consolidated Traction Company to the Board of Freehold- 
ers for a franchise and permission to locate tracks on Park 
avenue and on Central avenue through Orange and East 
Orange, and by a statement from Manager David Young 
before the Ampere Improvement Association of Newark on 
February 10 following. 
A NEW APPLICATION. 
After then explaining how “we came here, trying to get 
Central avenue, but the people kicked us out, and wouldn’t 
have anything to do with us, but we are coming again some 
of these days,’ Mr. Young made this prognosticating state- 
ment: “The way in which residents in this beautiful town- 
ship are to reach their homes is to have the trolley on the 
avenues, Park and Central, and then get off at the cross 
streets and go to their homes. You cannot have a park- 
way on a one hundred-foot roadway. It is out of all 
reason, never has been done, and never will be.” 
When it is remembered that it was on March 15, 1897, 
less than eleven months previous, that the East Orange 
authorities had, in response to the emphatic mandate of 
public opinion, and without a dissenting vote, passed the 
parkway ordinance and rejected the Consolidated Traction 
Company’s application, and that these statements were 
made within thirty days after the parkways conference in 
Orange, and the new application for the avenues above men- 
tioned, the coincidence was indeed significant. 
Whatever may have been the intention of the Park 
Board’s counsel and the opposition to the parkways, or, 
perhaps, more correctly speaking, the forces working for the 
trolley interests, the practical result of befuddling the whole 
question, was, apparently to those favoring that course, 
most gratifying. Some of the members of the Orange 
