Annual Report of the Board of CommissionersIncludes: The acts of the legislature of the state of New Jersey under with the Essex County Park Commission is organized. 1899. 25 p. |
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acres addition ALONZO CHURCH Anderson Park assessed attractive beauty Bloomfield Avenue Board boulevard Branch Brook Park bridge building Cash on hand City of Newark COMMISSIONERS construction cost County Park Commission Crest Parkway drive driveway Eagle Rock Reservation East Orange Parkway Eastside electric railway erected Essex County Park field house fish FRANKLIN MURPHY GAME FIELDS Glenfield Park grade Grover Cleveland Park hand December 31st HARDIN improvement increased lake land Lehigh Valley Railroad Morris Canal municipal Orange Mountain Orange Park Watsessing oxygen Park Avenue Park Orange Park Park Riverbank Park park system Park Watsessing Park Park Westside Park Passaic Passaic River planted playground Prospect Avenue Railroad RECEIPTS Received from Essex RESERVATIONS AND PARKWAYS road roadway sand court SANFORD ROSS season SINCLAIR South Mountain Reservation South Orange street summer Taxing District tennis tion track tract Vailsburg Valley wading pool Weequahic Park Weequahic Reservation Westside Park Orange Yanticaw Park
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Page 21 - This is to certify that I have examined the books of the Hawaiian Board for the
Page 30 - No such annual assessment last aforesaid shall exceed the sum of ten cents per front foot of such lots, tracts and parcels of land, according to the frontage thereof on such boulevards, parkways, roads or avenues.
Page 30 - The common council shall also have power, upon recommendation. of the board of park commissioners, and for the purpose of maintaining, repairing and otherwise improving the boulevards, parkways, roads and avenues under the control and management of said board, to levy annually a special assessment on the lots, tracts and parcels of land fronting and abutting on said boulevards, parkways, roads and avenues.
Page 52 - I have long contended that playgrounds and gamefields could be laid out in practically all our parks without detriment to the landscape value of the park, and this the Essex county park system has proved...
Page 31 - ORDERED to comply in all respects with the ordinance passed by the board of street and water commissioners...
Page 1 - The cost of all the parks in the county was $6,029,62547 — say $7,000,000. The increase of property adjoining these four parks alone, beyond what it would have been if the parks had not been constructed, is sufficient to pay for all Additional facts and figures of this sort might be given indefinitely, but there can be no proof to a mathematical certainty that new parks increase land values in their neighborhood, since other factors in these increases cannot be incontrovertibly eliminated or exactly...
Page 22 - County, and if not, what portion is so located, and whether or not it is for the best interest of the people...
Page 45 - X appealing to the people, and arrests have been made. Announcements have been read each spring in every public school in the county and the public press has done all in its power to condemn the evil. The nuisance cannot be entirely stopped, however, until a public sentiment is aroused that will make it impossible.
Page 3 - Report of Olmsted Brothers on a proposed parkway system for Essex County, New Jersey.
Page 17 - ... course, such partial merging of the rights and properties of different railroad corporations for a purpose not originally anticipated, will be difficult — perhaps impossible — to arrange. But there should be no serious difficulty, aside from the cost of construction, in extending this proposed...