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except myself, Mrs. Moskowitz, Shientag, Ida Blair and a few others.

As a reflection of Smith and the kind of man he was, I want to tell this. He asked us to dinner. The date was made and the place set. After dinner we were to come back to his office in City Hall and spend the evening discussing these matters that were in this little now two-paged outline memorandum. We assembled at the restaurant. There he had his wife and his mother - old Mrs. Smith. I was somewhat surprised at seeing these two ladies there, but he didn't wait for you to say you were surprised and of course you wouldn't. I was the first arrival, I think. He introduced me to his mother, whom I had never met before. Of course I knew Mrs. Smith. He said to me, “There were to be ladies present at this meeting tonight” - me and Mrs. Moskowitz and Mrs. Blair - “so I asked me wife and me mother to come.” He was the soul of propriety. He wasn't going to take Mrs. Moskowitz, Mrs. Blair and me to dinner with a dozen other men without ladies of his family being present. He had that complete propriety which was so impressive to me at that time and all through Smith's career. He had the most delicate taste about things of that sort.

At any rate, they were very nice. They took no part in the conference, but I became acquainted with old Mrs.