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people;" that the action of the seven members who voted 

 to sustain the Mayor's objections was "an affront to the 

 people by whom they were elected to office and that, "by 

 some mysterious influences/' these men had "experienced a 

 change of heart and literally stultified themselves by facing 

 about without giving a single reason for so doing." 



But the action had been taken. The parkways ordinance 

 was dead. The curtain had been again rung down; now 

 with the corrupting forces representing private gain and 

 corporate greed, at the expense of the people and of the 

 park system, for the second time triumphant. 



