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acquaintances were made among people who were interested in the Consumers' League and dear Mr. R. Fulton Cutting helped me out on that. It was quite a lot for him to do because he was very correct and severe. Mrs. Benjamin Nicoll also helped me out. A wonderful person, she was. She lived on 49th Street right opposite where St. Patrick's Cathedral is now. She was the mother of De Lancey and Courtlandt Nicoll. She was a very ardent member of the board of the Consumers' League. There was also Virginia Potter, who was the daughter of Bishop Henry Codman Potter, and she helped me out on Huyler Brothers too - a good church-minded woman. It was really very funny to see them soften under merely social attention from important families.

The Bloomingdale Brothers were also very opposed to this legislation so I went to see Stephen Wise, the rabbi of the free synagogue where they went. They didn't withdraw their opposition until several years later, but they came to it piecemeal. They became finally kind of reformers themselves.

I believed Al had great trust in him because he told me all those unwelcome truths frankly. A new respect for him developed. The next year when we came back into session in January, I went almost immediately to him and said, “Now, see here” - I think he was speaker that year - “I've