56 riRST COUNTY PAEK SYSTEM 



On April 18 the appointment of the new commission was 

 announced. Of this and of some of the conditions incident 

 therewith, I shall treat in the next chapter. 



The following day — the afternoon of April 19, 1895 — the 

 first commission met for the last time. The financial state- 

 ment was then submitted and approved. The total expendi- 

 tures, including architects' fees (as before stated), 

 $2,372.13; counsel fees, $450; printing and stationery, 

 $172.55; rent, secretarj^'s salary, telephone, etc., and all in- 

 cidentals, were $4,474.25, which amount had been received 

 from the freeholders and the account closed. The board, 

 by resolution, then authorized "all maps, plans, reports and 

 other property turned over to the commissioners appointed 

 April 18,'' and then adjourned sine die. 



The record was made. The die was cast. The book was 

 closed. Yet, as the people had voted for the parks and the 

 way was at last open to secure them, the scene had shifted, 

 and a larger book, with vastly greater possibilities, was 

 opened. 



