PEELIMXAEY WOEK COMPLETED ^1 



a misty moming casts a somber aspect, wMch, in turn, is 

 transformed into brightness as the snn dispels the shadow, 

 and the scene changes, refulgent with the warmth and glow- 

 ing tinge of light. The alternating lines of sunshine and 

 shadow, as the fleeting clonds pass over the landscape below, 

 call to mind the words of the poet, when he describes the 

 grandeur of nature's greater mountains, in the lines : 



^^The snow-capped peaks of the azure range. 

 Forever changing, yet never change.*^ 



From these experiences the reader may readily infer why 

 the first park commission favored the accjuirement of liberal 

 areas on the Orange Mountain for parks, and may recog- 

 nize the conditions that controlled such locations as were 

 afterward made there, and which are now a part of the 

 comity park system. 



COZ^IMISSIOJsTIES AS HOSTS. 



In October, while the commissioners were devoting con- 

 siderable time to the Orange Mountain, it occurred to me 

 that it might widen the scope of the enterprise to bring to- 

 gether a number of men, active friends of the parks, and 

 enlarge the acquaintance and congenial interest of some 

 of the earnest supporters of the movement. Accordingly I 

 arranged a dinner and invited a number of those interested 

 in the enterprise. After the commission and its guests had 

 spent the day of October 20 on the mountain, the evening 

 at the Country Club, with the entire party there, was de- 

 voted to discussing with much interest and earnestness the 

 pending park question. 



Mayor Lebkuecher, of Xewark, thought ^'^the work of the 

 commission had thus far commended its recommendations 

 to public favor' and hoped ^'there would be no difficulty in 

 carr}ing out the work so auspiciously begun." Senator 

 Ketcham, after referring favorably to the action of the 

 court in the appointment of the commission, said : 



*Tou have in this undertaking the good will of all classes 

 of our people. Often there are hindrances to public im- 



