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TO THE CITIZENS OF NEW YORK.

The undersigned Executive Committee of the New York Park Association, which has been organized to secure such an extension of the park area of the metropolis as may be adequate to the present and future needs of our rapidly increasing population, respectfully invite the earnest attention of their fellow-citizens to the facts and arguments presented in the following pages.

The Committee feel confident that when the project is thoroughly understood it will receive the hearty approval and support of the great majority of the people.

It is hoped that the application to the State Legislature, asking for the necessary power and authority to accomplish the object in view, will be attended with the desired success.

WALDO HUTCHINS, President.
L. R. MARSH, Vice-President.
W. W. NILES, Treasurer.
JOHN MULLALY, Secretary.

CHAS. L. TIFFANY,
JOHN E. DEVELIN,
H. B. CLAFLIN,
MAJOR-GENERAL SHALER,
W. E. CONNER,
HENRY L. HOGUET,
DAVID DOWS,
S. R. FILLEY,
WM. CAULDWELL,
CHAS. CRARY,
GUSTAV SCHWAB,
LEWIS G. MORRIS,
FRANKLIN EDSON,

GEO. W. MCLEAN,
ISAAC BELL,
LEONARD JEROME,
AUGUSTUS SCHELL,
JORDAN L. MOTT,
EGBERT L. VIELE,
JOSEPH F. WOODS,
J. M. CARNOCHAN, M.D.,
JOHN FITCH,
H. P. DE GRAAF,
LEWIS MAY,
CHAS. J. STEPHENS.

New York, January, 1882.