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of these organizations had, in November or December, 1901, 
adopted resolutions favoring the parkways, and authorizing 
the appointment of special committees to co-operate with 
other organizations having a similar object in view. The 
following were the committees: From the New England 
Society, E. O. Stanley, Archer Brown, G. H. Austen, Will- 
iam J. Baer, H. G. Atwater, F. W. Baldwin, J. D. Everett, 
C. W. Baldwin, Ira A. Kip, Jr.; from the Avenue Associa- 
tion, F. W. Kelsey, D. S. Walton, F. H. Scott, J. F. Free- 
man, H. T. Ambrose, G. F. Seward, W. H. Baker, H. H. 
Ward; from the Town Improvement Society, H. H. Hall, 
G. R. Howe, Hugh Lamb, Alden Freeman, J. S. Richards. 
There were but few changes made in the committee other 
than the loss by death two or three years later of Archer 
Brown, Henry G. Atwater, John 8. Richards, and Hugh 
Lamb. In March, 1904, W. H. Burges, G. W. Fortmeyer, 
B. F. Jones, A. C. Smith and T. A. Davis were added to the 
New England Society’s committee. 
From the time of its organization in 1901, the joint com- 
mittee took an active and earnest interest in parkway af- 
fairs. Its direct purposes were to secure, if possible, the 
preservation of the parkways. It favored the lines of trolley 
extension west to the Orange Mountain, but contended that 
the routes should be located on parallel streets or through 
private property, if need be, outside the parkways. The 
committee was optimistic. It held, not only that a commis- 
sion created by law with unusual powers and then solely 
entrusted with the expenditure of $4,000,000 of public 
funds, should have the ability for leadership and decisive 
action requisite with the great resource at its command; but 
also that such a board would or should respond to any co- 
operative effort toward~completing the park system from 
an organization of the probity and standing of the commit- 
tee. In conformity with this view the committee, early in 
March, 1902, wrote the commission : 
“For some time past reports have been current through 
the Oranges that your board was indifferent to the present 
parkway situation and to the use of Central avenue as the 
