Parks and park engineering . a few acres in the city of Newark and a fewother small squares, Essex County had no parks up to theyear 1895. At a dinner in the city of Orange in January, 1894, aplan was suggested for obtaining parks and a meeting wassoon after arranged and held in the rooms of the Board ofTrade in Newark. Park committees from Newark andOrange were present and the plan previously suggested wasapproved. A committee was appointed to prepare a billfor the State Legislature which was promptly drafted andapproved and then presented to the Senate at was passed and signed by
Parks and park engineering . a few acres in the city of Newark and a fewother small squares, Essex County had no parks up to theyear 1895. At a dinner in the city of Orange in January, 1894, aplan was suggested for obtaining parks and a meeting wassoon after arranged and held in the rooms of the Board ofTrade in Newark. Park committees from Newark andOrange were present and the plan previously suggested wasapproved. A committee was appointed to prepare a billfor the State Legislature which was promptly drafted andapproved and then presented to the Senate at was passed and signed by the Governor early in May ofthe same year. The bill authorized the presiding county judge to appointa Commission of five persons to consider the advisabilityof laying out a system of parks and provided an appro-priation of $10,000 to cover the salaries of assistants and 1915ESSEX <®OV/NTY ^jJ^-^^W; ° R /*$ C E//?S • _/ i /.; i ?*4D-j //%V I O*» V Ofev i^fcj^rV \ oRAJjbEijs^fT V / r ;- y fOUNTT J^EW JERSEY ^««owx)«. Courtesy Interstate Map Co., of Newark, N. J., engravers and 2.—A Typical Park System. 11 .: THE FUTURE PROBABILITIES 13 traveling expenses of the members of the first Commission completed its work in 1895, afterhaving reported favorably to the plan for parks, and sug-gested a practical plan. A new bill was passed by the Legislature in 1895 for thecreation of a second Commission to be appointed as bill carried an appropriation of $2,500,000 of countyfunds and a referendum clause. At a special election thebill soon became operative. The necessary moneys wereobtained by county bond issue by the Board of Freeholdersand turned over to the Commission. Subsequent issues ofbonds were authorized, the outstanding indebtedness nowamounting to $6,000,000. There are now five principal parks in the system witha total area of 3200 acres, most of which is mountainreservation. THE FUTURE PROBABILITIES The park movement is thus
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