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earnest of its intention.” This, it was urged, should obtain 
in a request to the freeholders to complete the Hast Orange 
transfer, so that that portion of the avenues could be im- 
proved. The commission complied, and, on March 20, 1900, 
adopted a suitable resolution toward carrying the desired 
object into effect. 
On May 22 following, the Road Committee of the Board 
of Freeholders gave a hearing on the commissioners’ re- 
quest. About fifty persons were present. Able present- 
ments for the parkways were made by Messrs. E. O. Stanley, 
A. P. Boller, F. H. Scott, H. Wallis, C. G. Kidder, G. F. 
Seward and others. W. Whittlesey and one other speaker 
openly favored a trolley on Central avenue. The opposition 
was, for the most part, however, under the usual cover. One 
of the speakers declared “there was nothing to show that 
the park commissioners were not willing for a trolley line to 
be constructed, should they take the avenue for a park- 
way.” Another opponent was most solicitous about “ordi- 
nary traffic matters.” 
APPLICATION REFUSED. 
The sequence of the meeting was, that the Road Com- 
mittee, on the advice of Counsel Joseph L. Munn, reported 
to the full board adversely, and against granting the Park 
Board’s application, notwithstanding the fact that a con- 
ference between that committee and the commission had 
been held with the object of coming to an understanding 
in the matter. Counsel Munn’s opinion, as quoted by the 
committee, was that, “under the law, the Board of Free- 
holders had no right to make such a transfer ;” but, “by the 
consent of all the municipalities through which the avenues 
ran, the board might make the transfer without leaving 
itself liable.” The committee in turn gave as its reason for 
adverse action that the authority of the board “under the 
provisions of the park act, to take the action now requested 
is so far doubtful that such action should not be taken under 
the conditions referred to.” 
As the policy of that same freeholder’s board had all 
