Palisadian., 1925-08-07
RAMAP0 RIVER VALLEY SHOULD Be
PRESERVED AS COUNTY PARK AND
SAFEGUARD FOR WATER SUPPLY
Ex-Sherif Joseph Kinzley Lends His Aid to Movement
for County Parks Sponsored by B. Duncan McClave
and Counsellor Dear-Saddle River Valley Would
Make Beautiful Park.

Urging that Bergen county take
over the Ramapo River Valley as part
of a county park system, ex-Sheriff
and former Director of the Board of
Freeholders Joseph Kfnzley, Jr., this
past week. not only declared for early
action on the county park project but
also spoke strongly for the acquisi-
tion of the Ramapo river to augment
the present Bergen county water
supply.
KinZley is backed up by Republican
County Chairman B. Duncan McClave
and Counsellor Arthur t. Dear of
Ridgewood in their campaign for the
establishment of parks for Bergen
county. Here is ex-Sheriff Kinzley's
statement:
There should be an enthusiastic
response on the part of our people to
organize and popularize the movement
for parks. 1t is regretable that the
great and rich state of New Jersey
has failed to formulate a constructive
policy along these nnes. The counties
of Hudson and Essex have done well
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Now comes the call in Bergen, the
fastest growing community in the
state. Justice Parker awaits on his
tribunal the petition of the people to
function in his judicial capacity. The
people rule and the parks which may
come are for the people of the future
Will these be made possible by the
people of today?
'The Mackay bridge over the Hud-
son will bring to the northern part of
the state of New Jersey an increase
in population like that which changed
the villages of Long Island along the
East river from peaceful hamlets to
teeming cities of skyscrapers almost
as soon as the old Brooklyn Bridge
was completed. So North JERSEY. will
now awaken from its SUBURBAN sliim-
| bers to become part of the great
metropolis in the western hemisphere.
Forward looking men of all munich
palities, anticipating the need of open
spaces for congested humanity, are
endeavoring to wedge in among the
many other insistant calls on the
! financing of communities and COM
monwealths, a reasonable portion of
the ratables for the development of
natural breathing places, broadly
termed parks.
"B. Duncan McClave, chairman of
the Republican county committee, has
set forth the process to start the legal
machinery for establishing park COM
missioners. Arthur T. Dear, of Ridge
wood, has vigorously endorsed Nc
Claves project. Those good women
who gathered on the spacious lawns
of the Easton estate at Arcola, ap-
preciating the value of those beautiful
grounds adjacent to the historic Old
Mill on the banks of the limpid Sad
die river, passed resolutions urging
the board of freeholders to purchase
the tract as a county park.
'It is reasonably certain that JUS
tice Parker will appoint a temporary
park commission as soon as the formal
application is made. In the nature of
things, such commission will report
favorably and a permanent commits
sion will follow. There will then be
activity and results of some kind.
"The people of Bergen have always
been conservative. The old doctrines
of their frugal Dutch ancestry con-
tinues to dominate even though the
ever increasing fiux of newcomers
would at times plunge on development
beyond financial capacities. There is
danger that this thrifty spirit may
Continued on mage z