Reaching home after a long journey I find a telegram asking me to give your Committee at once a statement of my view of the proposed [496]speedtrack on the Central Park; also letters of the same purport from a number of citizens.

The earnings of the people of New York have been put into the Central Park for an object. The question is whether the speed-track would be consistent with that object. If not, it would be as unreasonable, unjust and immoral a use of the Park as any other diversion of public property to an object inconsistent with that for which such property had been acquired.

As far as I have had a hand in determining to what object the Central Park should be adapted, my testimony is that the speed-track would be such a diversion, and that if not unconstitutional and illegal, it fails to be so only because those who give form to constitutions and laws are not in all technical points successful in accomplishing the objects with which they are charged.

The speed-track would thus, in my judgment, lessen the security of every man to the enjoyment of his earnings, and tend directly to anarchy.

Respectfully Yours