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the vicinity of Eleventli street, Seventeenth, street, and from 

 Sixteenth to Eighteenth avenue would provide. 



DE3IAXD FOE PAEK. 



During April and May, 1896, four petitions, with aggre- 

 gate lists of 1,T17 names, were received: and during the 

 summer various delegations of citizens and associations 

 from that district attended the meetings of the commission, 

 urging favorable action. On October 29, a request from the 

 Xewark Board of Works for a ^'conference'' was received. 

 This was arranged for Xovember 9, when Commissioners 

 Van Du}Tie, Stainsby, Burkhardt and Ulrich again urged 

 favorable action, recommending a location "somewhere be- 

 tween Springfield and South Orange avenues, west of South 

 Tenth street and including the Magnolia swamp.'' 



At the meeting on October 2, President Robertson, of the 

 improvement association, and Messrs. Twitchell and Kuhn 

 appeared and reiterated the claims of the West End Asso- 

 ciation and the people of that district generally; and later, 

 during October and Xovember, there were other delegations, 

 including one from Irvington, on November 19. All urged 

 that the locality favored should not be overlooked. How 

 could it be? There was the commission, with petitions to 

 the right of them and petitions to the left of them, while in 

 front of them delegations had "vollied and thundered." 



The board had been reminded that, by its own official ac- 

 tion, it had established a precedent favorable to the West 

 Side cause. 



"You have located a park on the East Side," said the 

 West Side people ; "why should you not now follow the same 

 precedent for the same reasons for our side ? We, too, have 

 a large industrial population, and why not do something for 

 us also?" 



WEST SIDE PAEK. 



Early in Febman^ 1897, the commission having decided 

 to locate a West Side park, the requisite maps were ordered 

 ■and land ap-t-irKiq% and purchases were authorized. At last it 



