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the avenue, so that it may be laid out under our direction in a way 

 that we firmly believe will not only help the park, by giving it 

 proper approaches in every direction, but will enable our whole 

 scheme to become a really comprehensive project for the advance- 

 ment of the prosperity of Brooklyn, and at the same time establish 

 it on a thoroughly satisfactory basis as an investment of city funds. 



Wo are, however, now as heretofore, open to any new conviction 

 that will enable us the better to perform our trust, and only ask that 

 the question shall be discussed in a candid spirit, and on broad pub- 

 lic grounds. 



