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itants, mainly between where we now stand and the Concourse, 

 and every acre of the park will be utilized. 



" How many of the more than one hundred thousand motor 

 cars now listed in this State travel the Pelham Bay Park re 

 it is not possible to tell. It is safe to say that there are ten 

 thousands of motorists that feel indebted for this park. 

 When people want a genuine whiff of real salt air, wafted 

 over the salt meadows, the best place I know for it is this park 

 of Pelham Bay. As a society that takes some note of science 

 as well as art, we are watching the experiment in applied sci- 

 ence that will exterminate the mosquito on the low grounds 

 of Pelham Bay, and we will welcome a prudent use of City 

 money for this purpose. 



" Pelham Bay Park is the only one of our large parks that 

 cannot at this time be reached by a five-cent fare. When the 

 day comes when it is greatly needed by an increasing popula- 

 tion, I am sure that the five-cent fare will come also." 



Comm. Higgins again demonstrated his ability to say the 

 right thing in a few words. 



President Henry D. Appleton, of the City Island Board of 

 Trade, spoke of the very great benefit to the East Bronx of 

 Pelham Bay Park, and especially urged upon the boys and 

 girls present the duty of protecting it. 



Arthur A. Stoughton, a vice-president of the Bronx Society 

 of Arts and Sciences next spoke, saying: 



' I stand here for a moment to focus your thought, as we 

 look back to that far-off time when this Commission did its 

 work so well — when the City and this Borough were not as 

 thickly settled as they are now — and forward to the future, 

 when they will be far more thickly settled than they are now. 

 Then they exhibited imagination and faith and sagacity; now 

 we justify their act as wise; the future will alone realize how 

 well they planned and enter fully into the fruition of their 

 labors. 



" The movement for parks, open spaces and playgrounds 

 is now world-wide, but its growth has been principally since 



