THE PAEKAYAYS 



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South Orange to the foot of Bear lane at the Eidgewood 

 road, and thence to the South Mountain reservation as a 

 western -terminus, and with the mountain crest parkway 

 there. 



While these designs for the future parkways were in- 

 formally approved by the first commission, the whole sub- 

 ject was tentatively considered with the view that the fu- 

 ture, and the future alone, could determine what portion 

 of the extensive plans should be finally adopted, and indi- 

 cate the opportune time for carrying them out. 



FOR A PARK AXD PARKVTAY SYSTEM. 



WTiat the commission of 1894 did, however, intend should 

 materialize, and be put into practical form at the earliest 

 possible date, was the plan for the parks and the parlr^vays, 

 as outlined — "a system of parks in its entirety,^' as prom- 

 ised in the commission's formal report in 1895, already 

 referred to. It was for this purpose that the liberal charter 

 for the second commission was prepared; and had all the 

 members of the first commission in 1895 been reappointed 

 on that board, and the personnel and policy of the com- 

 mission remained unchanged, I have now no more doubt 

 that these plans would have been carried out and promises 

 fulfilled, than I have of any future event which is consid- 

 ered a certainty, yet not having transpired. 



A^liat did occur regarding the policy of the first com- 

 mission as to the parks has been indicated in the preceding 

 chapters. What results, in tum, followed regarding the 

 parkways, I shall endeavor in this and succeeding chapters 

 to correctly but briefiy state. 



As the second commission, immediately after complet- 

 ing its organization, proceeded vigorously with the selec- 

 tion of park sites to the exclusion of any consideration of 

 plans for a park system as a whole, the question of park- 

 ways was hardly broached for months. Indeed, under the 

 local or piecemeal sectional policy of locating parks, why 

 should it be? 



