Under the terms of the Act, the commission was required — if 

 it should decide in favor of creating a reservation to preserve the 

 Bronx River — to prepare a map or plan of said proposed reserva- 

 tion, showing the lands necessary to he taken, and to include in 

 its repoii an estimate of the cost of taking the lands necessary 

 to constitute such reservation, and to report its views as to how 

 such eost should be met. 



Saving unanimously decided that the reservation should be 

 created, the Board instructed its engineer to prepare a map or plan 

 following certain boundaries as to extent which were indicated by 

 the ( lommission. The area taken being limited by the consideration 

 of the cost which the acquisition of the land to be taken would 

 entail, but always including such amount of land as was neces- 

 sary to carry out the purpose of the Act under which the Com- 

 mission was appointed. This map or plan was not completed until 

 the Commission had obtained full information as to the proposed 

 plans of the New York Central Railroad Company, which oper- 

 ates the Harlem Railroad, running along the bank of the river 

 almost its entire length, and which proposes a widening of the 

 roadbed of its railroad and of the plans of the New York, New 

 Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, which has recently ac- 

 quired a large tract of land lying on either side of the Bronx 

 River between Woodlawn and the northerly line of Bronx Park 

 in the City of New York, and of the Bronx Valley Sewer Commis- 

 sion, which is working upon a plan for a great trunk sewer through 

 the valley of the river from White Plains to Woodlawn, and of 

 the President of the Borough of the Bronx, in whose office plans 

 have been prepared for a boulevard to be known as the Bronx 

 Boulevard, running parallel with the river and some few hundred 

 feel eastwardly therefrom, from Bronx Park to Woodlawn in the 

 City of New York. The map or plan prepared by the engineer 

 shows all of these proposed improvements so far as they had de- 

 veloped at the time of the preparation of the map. Conferences 

 were held by the Board with representatives of the Sewer Com- 

 mission, of the New York Central Railroad Company, of the New 

 York. New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, and of the 

 President of the Borough of the Bronx, and all of these represen- 

 tatives heartily approved the general plan of the Commission and 

 assured it of the hearty co-operation of their respective principals 

 when the matter should come before them officially. 



In determining, as it was bound to, the cost of taking the lands 



