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The Bronx which are most worthy to be named parks. To 

 help you remember the Small Six I will offer you a rhyme: 

 " ' Saint James ' and ' Devoe ' 



And ' Edgar A. Poe,' 

 With ' Sigel ' and ' Bridge ' 

 And ' Echo ' on Ridge : 

 These make the ' Small Six.' 



" I trust you will keep in your memories, hereafter forever, 

 in logical order, the names of the fourteen great and little 

 parks of our grand Borough of the Bronx. 



" And now, Mr. Commissioner, by the direction of the 

 Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences, and in its name, I tender 

 to you this Bronze Tablet, in memory and in honor of the gen- 

 erous, wise, and perpetually fruitful gift of thirty years ago, 

 made by the people of New York City and by the seven citi- 

 zens who, without pay, fulfilled the responsible duty of Special 

 Park Commissioners." 



Park Commissioner Higgins formally accepted the tablet, 

 thanking the Society and saying that not only the citizens of 

 The Bronx, but those of Manhattan and Brooklyn as well as 

 the neighboring Westchester cities owed a debt of gratitude 

 to the Commission who acquired the parks. 



Rev. Henry M. Brown, D.D., a member of the Council of 

 the Society then said : 



" Claremont Park is not a very large piece of land. On the 

 map it looks like a small green college pennant. One edge is 

 Teller Ave. The other edge is Clay Avenue, Belmont Street 

 is the stick, and the point flutters in 170th Street, only three 

 blocks to the south. The building on which the tablet has 

 been placed by the Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences — the 

 Zbrowski mansion — was the home of one family; and the 

 present park was their grounds. Less than forty acres are 

 here; and that was never a very big farm. 



" Now this little farm has become ours. It is a park, set 

 aside for the recreation and enjoyment of the people of New 

 York. Was it wise to turn it into a park? Did the Com- 



