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sion, to be improved and beautified for parkways, that the 
people may receive the benefit of such action. 
“Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be sent to the 
Common Council of Orange, the Board of Chosen Free- 
holders, and the Essex County Park Commission, and the 
local press.” 
About this time, October 6, 1898, the City Council 
adopted a resolution, stipulating that the avenues, in the 
event of transfer, “should not be widened or any assessment 
for their improvement levied upon abutting property own- 
ers, this being in consonance with the views of the present 
commission.” The resolution further suggested that “the 
clause referring to prospective park commissions be stricken 
out,” as was done. A clause was then added “reserving 
police jurisdiction and control of franchises ;” also a stipu- 
lation that “the ordinance must be accepted within sixty 
days,” but should be “inoperative until the regulations em- 
braced in the ordinance are adopted and ratified by the 
council and the commission.” This resolution was sent to 
the Park Commission. 
The reply of October 17, 1898, stated that “your pream- 
ble and resolution, so far as they relate to this board, are in 
consonance with its views and purposes; so far as they relate 
to our successors, we are powerless to act. If your resolu- 
tion can be amended by the omission of the words ‘now or at 
any time hereafter’ and a simple resolution substituted in 
place of that clause in the ordinance, the transfer will be 
acceptable to the board.” 
The ordinance was, by the City Council, amended in ac- 
cordance with this request, the objectionable clause was 
stricken out, and on October 18, 1898, more than a year 
after its introduction, was finally and unanimously passed. 
This action met with general approval. But those who had 
hoped that the controversy was at last ended misjudged 
alike the reserve power of the traction company and the 
evident determination of the Mayor and his friends to de- 
feat the parkways’ plan. 
In én interview in the Newark News of October 22, 
