Excerpt from Lake Hopatcong the Beautiful: A Plea for Its Dedication as a Public Park and for Its Preservation as a Pleasure and Health Resort for the Benefit of All the People This book is a plea for the life of New Jerseys most beautiful lake, and a plea for the life of the communities around that lake, and a plea also for the life of thousands of people in all parts of the State who, if that lake is preserved as a summer and health resort, will continue to find renewal of health and life in visiting it. This plea is addressed to the Morris Canal Investigation Committee, to the Legislature, and to the people of the State of New Jersey. Lake Hopatcong is threatened with ruination; the prosperous communities around it are threatened with extinction, and our most precious mountain-lake resort is in imminent danger of being wiped off the map. Armed with fore-knowledge of the intentions of the enemy, and having the facts, the truth and justice as my allies, I hope and I trust that I shall be able to convince any citizen of this State that he should join issue with the defenders where also his own interests lie, and help to prevent a great wrong being done to the whole population of the State as well as to the immediate lake communities. People of the State of New Jersey, let it be known to you that there is a movement to take away from you, without any sort of compensation whatsoever, a very valuable lake and summer resort property which belongs to you. Citizen of the State of New Jersey, you are a member of a company, an actual shareholder in a corporation, which is the State, in which also every man, woman and child in the State are shareholders. A part of your annual dividends, due and payable to you, are your rights and privileges in your lakes, public parka and summer and health resorts. There is a scheme afoot to rob you of your best and most valuable mountain-lake and summer resort property, in order to appropriate Lake Hopatcong as a city water supply, which would benefit only about five percent, of the population of the State, at the expense of the rest in other words it is proposed to rob twenty Peters to pay one Paul, and you and I, reader, are among the Peters.

Now, it is your duty to yourself and to your family, and to every friend and neighbor of yours, that you should lend a helping voice of protest to prevent you and them from being robbed. The reasons why you also should raise your voice in defence of your own and the peoples own, are exactly the same reasons which are actuating me to make this plea. It matters not whether or not my interests may be greater or less than yours - our interests are certainly identical and mutual. My sense of duty has led me to make this plea. Your sense of duty should, at least, make you read it. No special activities or efforts are asked of you. If you will read this plea through, your activities and your efforts will take care of themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

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