122 FIRST COUNTY PARK SYSTEM 



but a park at this point would, like Eagle Rock Park as a 

 terminus at the north, greatly accentuate the attractions, 

 not only of that crest parkway and the approaching park- 

 ways, as proposed from the east, but of each of the parks 

 as well. 



Moreover, this site would make a direct and convenient 

 park and parkway entrance to the Great South Mountain 

 Reservation, which the members of the first commission had 

 from their earlier investigations also favored. 



In August, 1895, this subject was brought regularly be- 

 fore the board for consideration in a resolution offered by 

 me, "that it is now deemed expedient to acquire for park 

 purposes : 



"First, suitable areas of park lands and parkways on and 

 adjacent to the crest of the Orange Mountains. 



"Second, that such locations be selected with regard to 

 convenient approaches; that the crest of the mountain be 

 followed as far as practicable, and with reference to obtain- 

 ing the best east and w^est views. 



"Third, that the total area be not less than 2,000 acres, 

 and that the architects and engineers proceed to locate the 

 above parks and parkways connecting with Branch Brook 

 Park and prepare the necessary maps and plans." 



PARKWAYS TREATED SEPARATELY. 



These resolutions were afterward modified, in accordance 

 with the "piecemeal" or sectional policy already referred to, 

 and the park locations were treated separately from the 

 parkways. 



As the subject of the parkways was such an important one 

 to the whole enterprise, and for years occupied so much 

 public attention as well as the attention of the commission, 

 the progress of those events will be consecutively stated in 

 succeeding chapters. 



In November, 1895, the question of locating a park in 

 what had then become known in the boardroom of the sec- 

 ond commission the "cable road tract," and as "a counter- 



