26 FIEST COUNTY PARK SYSTEM 



James E. Fleming, William A. Ure, president Newark 

 Board of Trade; James S. Holmes, president Board of 

 Trade of the Oranges ; F. W. Child, A. Q. Keasbey.'* 



JUDGE NAMES COMMISSIONERS. 



The judge was advised of this action the following day, 

 June 7, but the letter and copy of the act were retained 

 to present to him "in person/' as called for in the resolu- 

 tion of the committee and as requested in his note of June 

 11, for an appointment. 



Judge Depue received us in his private room at the court- 

 house on the morning of June 18, according to appoint- 

 ment. He said: 



"Gentlemen, I sent for you because I desire to consult 

 with you as to the appointment of the fifth commissioner. 

 Four of the appointees I have already decided upon. I 

 have in mind the names of several men outside of Newark 

 whom I think well of or who have been recommended to me 

 as the other commissioner, but I have thought I should like 

 to talk with you before making a further decision. 



"First," he went on, "I propose to appoint my old friend, 

 Edward Jackson, of Belleville. You know him, do you 

 not? 



"Well," he continued, when we had answered him in the 

 negative, "I'll vouch for Ed. Jackson" — which was by com- 

 mon consent acceptably received; and he then said: "I am 

 going to appoint you, Mr. Peck, and Mr. Meeker, of the 

 Board of Trade committee, from Newark, and you, Mr. 

 Kelsey, from Orange. This leaves the fifth member from 

 the county at large, outside of Newark, yet to be selected." 



The judge then mentioned the names of five men whom 

 he had in mind for the place — two from Montclair, two 

 from South Orange, and one from Orange. My own ap- 

 pointment, he said, precluded the consideration of the other 

 resident of Orange. The other names were then gone over. 

 Not one of them had been favorably considered by the mem- 

 bers of the joint committee who had given the personnel 

 ^ the proposed eommissioa earnest thought Whm ailcti 



