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Pelhani Bay Park, four miles distant, to which we are soon 

 to travel. I cannot but think that New York is very generous 

 to our neighbor cities just over our northern line. We give 

 three great parks, comprising over five square miles, or over 

 3,600 acres, to be enjoyed by their citizens as by ourselves. If 

 ever we want to annex those towns, with their hundred thou- 

 sand people, we have only to restrict the park privileges to 

 New Yorkers. They will then all want to come in within 

 thirty days. 



' The four parks I have named are the only ones in The 

 Bronx having more than fifty acres each. They deserve the 

 name of The Big Four. Crotona, the smallest of them, has 

 154 acres. 



' This is the place and the time to take a snapshot view of 

 our whole park property. Besides the Big Four I name The 

 Little Four. Two of these are included in the six parks ac- 

 quired by the effort of thirty years ago, namely Claremont and 

 St. Mary's, to the south, which we shall visit next after leaving 

 Claremont. The one has thirty-four acres, the other thirty- 

 eight. With these two I name, to make out the Little Four, 

 McComb's Dam Park, of 27 acres, and the University Park, 

 which measures but three acres, but which has as an annex New 

 York University campus, to which the public have had free 

 access for walking, driving, and motoring for the last twenty 

 years. The three acres are some day to be made four or five 

 by an extension northward. This will happen when New 

 York City fulfills its sacred pledge to give commodious access 

 to the University Heights Station and Bridge, as compensation 

 to our professors and students for the special station and 

 property which were taken from the University by act of the 

 City. This pledge, made under Seth Low, and partly ful- 

 filled under Mayor McClellan and Vice-Mayor McGowan, 

 will be met some day by New York City, just as such a pledge 

 would be met by any honest man. 



" To the Big Four and the Little Four I have only to add 

 the ' Small Six,' and then I shall have named all the places in 



