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for the women to sit. They sat on the grass and on the rocks that had been laid out for landscape purposes. There was no water or no comfort station easily available to the children and their mothers. Stover proposed this idea, and had all the plans drawn up for it, of a shelter. It was just a simple Shelter, but there was a place where you could go in if it rained to get the children out of the wet and a place where women could wash the diapers of the children and dry them - a place to dry them inside. As it was they were washing them in the drinking fountains and drying them on the grass.

The New York Times editorials were terrible about this idea of Stover's. It was frightful and would destroy the beauty of the park with these utilitarian structures. Moses entered into the fight at that time. It was one of the first times that I ever saw him in a scrap. He made speeches, appeared before the Board of Aldermen, and indicated in the most picturesque style just where the diapers were without the shelter. The diapers would be better under control and out of sight if you gave the women a place to hang them. It was very amusing really.

He hadn't begun to be a figure by the time that Al Smith was running for Governor, at least not much of a figure. I doubt if Smith knew him, or more than barely had seen him.

Smith's campaign for Governor was made almost along