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populated, and too lacking in objective and connective 

 points to warrant favorable consideration. 



FOR A RIVER P.IRKWAT. 



The largest petition for any one improvement which I 

 think was ever received bv the commission was that urging 

 a parkway location along the Passaic River. Attached to 

 this document were more than 3,000 names, and with it was 

 also presented a resolution from the Xewark Board of 

 Trade of similar purport. While the first park commission 

 had looked with favor upon the west bank of the river as a 

 desirable parkway for the future, the condition of the 

 stream has, from that time to the present, precluded favor- 

 able consideration for any kind of park treatment there. 



On May 29, 1900, a delegation of Roseville citizens advo- 

 cated the accjuirement from the Xewark city authorities 

 and the extension and improvement of Second avenue as a 

 parkway from Branch Brook Park to the East Orange 

 parkway. Other delegations from Bloomfield, Montclair, 

 the Oranges and the various wards of Xewark have at dif- 

 ferent times waited upon the commission to urge park or 

 parkway improvements in their locality. On April 4, 1905, 

 a committee representing the South Orange Improvement 

 Society — Messrs. H. S. Underbill, Ira Kip, Jr., Spencer 

 Miller, S. M. Colgate and E. E. Clapp — appeared to again 

 urge parkway improvement from the Orange Park to South 

 Orange avenue, and offering to donate the entire right of 

 way. On June 19, 1905, a committee from Montclair — ^W. 

 B. Dickson, E, 0. Bradley and D. M, Sawyer — advocated 

 more small parks for that locality. Likewise on the same 

 day delegations of Xewark citizens from the Fifth and 

 Twelfth wards urged that a small park be established in 

 the northern section of the "Down Xeck'' part, or ''^Iron- 

 bound District"' of the city. 



The chief engineer formally called the attention of the 

 commission on December 12, 1899, to the fact that "the 

 sidewalks fronting the parks were in many instances dis- 

 figured by trolley, telegraph and telephone poles.'' These 



