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Rossville on the north, and Pleasant Plains, Prince's Bay and 

 Huguenot on the south. Would select property near the Powell 

 Mansion, and running along the Green Ridge Road. It is a 

 beautiful site for a park, having an extended view. Would sug- 

 gest the selection in this locality of say approximately 300 acres. 



RECAPITULATION. 



PLAY-GROUNDS. PARKS. 



First Ward 41 acres. 248 acres. 



Second Ward 10^ " 1,645^ " 



Third Ward 63^ " 75 



Fourth Ward 21 " 792 " 



Fifth Ward 74 " 775 



Total .... 20934 acres. Total 3o35/2 acres. 



CONCLUSION. 



For fuller description of the different parcels enumerated 

 above, see map attached to this report, as well as the maps at- 

 tached to the reports made by the different Ward Committees, 

 which are in charge of the Secretary of this Committee. 



Suggestions were made that some of the parks should be 

 named after former prominent residents of Staten Island, and in 

 that connection the following names were mentioned: 



Daniel D. Tompkins, who was Wee-President of the United 

 States for eight years, and Governor of New York for four years; 

 Major Theodore Winthrop, the novelist and soldier, who was 

 killed while leading a charge in the first battle of the Civil War, 

 the battle of Big Bethel; George William Curtis, the distinguished 

 scholar and writer; and Erastus Brooks, the editor and patriot. 

 And while your Committee feel that such names would be most 

 appropriate, they think that it may be premature at this time to go 

 into the matter of names, and therefore do not in this report 

 seek to give names to any parks, or parkways ; merely to fix their 

 locality. 



Respectfully submitted, 



CHARLES H. BLAIR, Chairman. 



Cornelius G. Kolff, Secy. 



