The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-10
ARCHDEACOKS
MEMORY TO Be
Fifty H0N0REO
South Orange Citizens to Dedi-
cate. Field to Late Rev.
Lewis Cameron. )

Az a memorial TO the ven, LEWIS
Cameron, late rector of the Church of
the Holy Communion, South Orange.
and archdeacon in the Episcopal do
cese Of Newark. 1t was decided at a
meeting of citizens in South Orange
last night to purchase a flve-acre tract
of land for a public playground to be
known as Cameron Field. 1t was de-
cided to purchase the land by popular
subscription, and $1,000 was subscribed
at once.
The property to be purchased is To-
Gated south of the South Orange Field
Club n north of the Kraus Nor prop
erty and is bounded on the east by
the L~ackawanna railroad and on he
west by the east branch of the Rah-
way river. 1t is now the property OF
the Meadowland Society. 1t had orig
inally been intended by the citizens
present at the meeting last night to
purchase the land as a memorial to
President Lincoln, upon the suggestion
of the late Archdeacon Cameron.
As a member of the Lincoln Me-
mortal committee appointed at a pub
lie meeting held in South Orange on
Lincoln's birthday last February, Mr..
Cameron proposed that a playground
or athletic field should be secured. He
said that 1t seemed that a memorial
which would work out INTO the lives
of the people would be in reality much
more satisfactory h one which is
only a mute testimonial and which
does not effect directly any improve
ment in the life of the community, as
had previously been intended in pur-
chasing a statue of Lincoln and placing
it on the village m
The development of the project had
been somewhat delayed through the
summer. Mr.. Cameron, however, spent
considerable time upon it. n just be-
fore his illness was making arrange
ments to secure the property, which he
said is most admirably located and
compares favorably with the field oc-
cupied by the East Orange playground
at the Grove street station. 1t is capa-
BILE of development in very much the
same manner.
Since, Mr.. Cameron's. death a very
strong sentimenth has grown in the CON-
munity that the project proposed by
Mr.. Camefon should be carried out and
that it should be made a memorial to
the late rector himself. A meeting of
the Lincoln memorial committee was
therefore called by the chairman. AL
bert c.. Wall, to be held at the Office.
of the Board of Education last night.
At this meeting there were present Mr..
Wall, Francis Spier, r. S. Allen, Charles
G.. Fielding, Edward Self, the Rev. Rob-
ert II. Nichols. r. S. Sinclair, w. F.
Allen, the Rev. George Mooney, Charles
1. Beck, Harvey !. Und, hill, Ira A.
Kip, Arthur Babson, Spencer Miller,
Everett Yeaw and H. W. Foster.
Spencer Iiller is of the
committee. He reported thai s., 400 had
already been subscribed for. the purpose
of establishing a Cameron field and
that the esponse of the ~ 1ple ap-
preached upon the subject was en-
thusiastic and generous. The COM
mittee determined that it was desirable
to work directly for a memorial to Mr..
Cameron and to postpone for the pres
ent the Lincoln memorial, which will
be taken up later and on a less ex-
tensive scale. 1t was decided to incor-
porate in the name of the Cameron
Field.
After securing a sufficient subscrip-
ton to insure success a public meeting
to complete the Incorporation n by
laws and to add to the funds required
will be held. The articles of incorpora-
ton prepared by Mr.. Wall We're adopt
ed n seven trustees were named, as
follows: Mr.. Allen, Mr.. Spier, Mr.. Mil
Ter, Mr.. Kip. Mr.. Under,.ill, Mr.. Self
and Mr.. Sinclair.
Mr.. Spier, Mr.. Babson and Mr.. Field
Ing were appointed a committee to pre-
pare bylaws. Mr.. Miller was appoint
ed chairman of the finance committee
to secure subscriptions, with power to
select his associates.
Mr.. Beck was named as agent of the
corporation and a copy of the subscrip-
ton list will be found at Mr.. Beck's
place of business in South Orange ave-
nue.. An immediate effort will be made
by the finance committee to interest
everyone in the community In the
project. Only so much formal organi-
cation has been provided for by the
committee as is necessary to make a
beginning. At the public meeting to be
held later the cooperation of everyone,
of all classes, old and young. and of
every opinion, will be sought.