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populated, and too lacking in objective and connective 
points to warrant favorable consideration. 
FOR A RIVER PARKWAY. 
_ The largest petition for any one improvement which I 
think was ever received by the commission was that urging 
a parkway location along the Passaic River. Attached to 
this document were more than 3,000 names, and with it was 
also presented a resolution from the Newark Board of 
Trade of similar purport. While the first park commission 
had looked with favor upon the west bank of the river as a 
desirable parkway for the future, the condition of the 
stream has, from that time to the present, precluded favor- 
able consideration for any kind of park treatment there. 
On May 29, 1900, a delegation of Roseville citizens advo- 
cated the acquirement from the Newark city authorities 
and the extension and improvement of Second avenue as a 
parkway from Branch Brook Park to the East Orange 
parkway. Other delegations from Bloomfield, Montclair, 
the Oranges and the various wards of Newark have at dif- 
ferent times waited upon the commission to urge park or 
parkway improvements in their locality. On April 4, 1905, 
a committee representing the South Orange Improvement 
Society—Messrs. H. 8. Underhill, Ira Kip, Jr., Spencer 
Miller, S. M. Colgate and E. E. Clapp—appeared to again 
urge parkway improvement from the Orange Park to South 
Orange avenue, and offering to donate the entire right of 
way. On June 19, 1905, a committee from Montclair—W. 
B. Dickson, E. 0. Bradley and D. M. Sawyer—advocated 
more small parks for that locality. Likewise on the same 
day delegations of Newark citizens from the Fifth and 
Twelfth wards urged that a small park be established in 
the northern section of the “Down Neck’ part, or “Iron- 
bound District” of the city. 
The chief engineer formally called the attention of the 
commission on December 12, 1899, to the fact that “the 
sidewalks fronting the parks were in many instances dis- 
figured by trolley, telegraph and telephone poles.” These 
