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width of the bridge before the specifications were agreed to 
by the freeholders, or what the “much-counseled” counsel 
was doing, entrusted as he was with the legal matters of, 
and~drawing a salary from, both the Board of Freeholders 
and the Park Board, in approving those specifications, 
which were sure to throw upon the taxpayers of the county 
the entire fifteen or twenty thousand dollars’ expense for 
making the necessary changes afterward, is a matter re- 
garding which I do not think any satisfactory explanation 
has ever been attempted. 
SMALLER PARKS. 
Besides the parks now under the control of the Park 
Board and already referred to, there were two small areas, 
transferred by local authorities, which have received park 
treatment, or are in process of improvement by the com- 
mission. Early in 1898 the-authorities of East Orange de- 
cided to turn over to the permanent care of the commission 
the land comprising about fifteen acres on the border line 
of Bloomfield, which tract had been formerly used in con- 
nection with the local sewerage system as disposal works. 
The proposition was to transfer the land without cost to 
the county on condition that it should be made a park. The 
matter was afterward submitted to a vote of the city elec- 
torate and approved by a liberal majority. The tender was 
accepted by the commission December 10. On October 28, 
1900, $5,000 was appropriated for improvements. The 
grounds have been laid out and planted and now constitute 
Watsessing Park. 
It was also at the same time proposed to transfer the 
small unimproved tract in the southern part of Hast 
Orange, known as Elmwood Park, and an ordinance was 
drawn for that purpose. The commission, however, did not 
accept it. 
At the Park Board meeting of August 15, 1902, the com- 
mission voted to accept the thirteen acres of park land 
which had been presented to Montclair Township by C. W. 
Anderson, and which, in turn, had been offered the com- 
