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He had lots of practical notions. There was always conflict between him and Fred Cleveland, if I remember rightly, in the Bureau. Cleveland was very precise and in a way academic in regard to municipal reform, while Moses was a plunger and imaginative. He is greatly endowed with good, imaginative concepts of what could be done. All of them at that time were pretty much tied to the idea of economical government - government based on honest bookkeeping. They were overcoming corruption that was so broadcast that it didn't even have a name. The heart and soul of the work of the Bureau was to have things done honestly and efficiently. They felt that you couldn't have any social utilization of the machinery of City government if you weren't honest and right. I think they were all what I would call socially-minded men, including William H. Allen and Cleveland. They were in favor of all sorts of social reforms, but they didn't want to see any more money appropriated until they got the hospitals under control so that hospital-appropriated money was spent for the purposes of caring for the sick.

Charles B. Stover was Commissioner of Parks during the Mitchel administration. Moses was still attached to the Bureau of Municipal Research helping out everybody. I think he was interested in parks even then. My memory is that he got assigned by the Bureau to something that had to do with some of these