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of the Board of Aldermen, which, as I gather, is mostly concerned with public works and maintaining this, that and the other. He talked about playgrounds among other things, about the streets and the cleaning of the streets, about why it was to be to the benefit of the people. He principally reiterated what kind of an Assemblyman he'd been. He got a good, big vote. He was very much liked.

As a matter of fact, he ran for Governor while he was finishing up his term as president of the Board of Aldermen.

I don't think Al Smith became really friendly with Robert Moses until he got to Albany. I knew him at this time very well. He was associated with the Bureau of Municipal Research. It was through that that I knew him, as my husband, Henry Bruere, Frederick Cleveland and that group were in that. Moses was a young squirt just back from Oxford and too big for his boots. He was like that even then. He was born that way. I'm devoted to him. I think the world of him. One may know that when we meet by accident on the streets of New York we kiss. We are real friends. He amuses me. He has the most terrific energy. He's nearly always right. The things that he was progressive about he was nearly always right about.