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people;” that the action of the seven members who voted 
to sustain the Mayor’s objections was “an affront to the 
people by whom they were elected to office;” and that, “by 
some mysterious influences,” these men had “experienced a 
change of heart and literally stultified themselves by facing 
about without giving a single reason for so doing.” 
But the action had been taken. The parkways ordinance 
was dead. The curtain had been again rung down; now 
with the corrupting forces representing private gain and 
corporate greed, at the expense of the people and of the 
park system, for the second time triumphant. 
