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parks projects. Stover was an awfully good man and a very imaginative man about the use of parks, but not awfully practical about bringing about the results he thought about. That's been one of Moses's keynotes - practicality. Moses saw exactly how many bricks, how many posts would be needed and how many you should have in one place.

I do remember during the Mitchel administration that Moses entered into a great contest about the erection of some kind of a mother's shelter and public comfort station in Central Park. This was the first time I saw him fighting about anything. These were the days that Central Park was sacred. The plan had been laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted - the trees planted here, the bowers and arbors there were sacred. The New York Times, I think, kept a special editor to write editorials if anyone as much suggested putting up a hitching post in Central Park. What seats there were that had been laid out by Olmsted were sufficient seats. The little summer houses with wisteria growing over them were what the people were to sit in.

Stover was impressed by the fact that the women from the East Side were flocking into Central Park with their children on bright days. The children were running all over the place and the babies were having their diapers changed. There was no place to change the diapers. There was no place