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the line where the people coming and going from the platform passed and where it was very easy to get to the platform if anybody beckoned you or wanted anything. I sat beside Virginia Potter, who was Bishop Henry Codman Potter's niece and joined with him in all kinds of good works such as the “subway tavern,” which was Bishop Potter's experiment in taking the curse off too much heavy drinking - the theory being that men went to saloons because their homes were so dull, dreary, dark and gloomy. Once they got to the saloons the dark lights, gaiety and the bartender's well known capacity to sell his goods led them to take too much. They would probably prefer to go to a nice respectable place, have bright lights, comfortable chairs, some music playing, where nobody was pressed to drink liquor and there was only good beer anyhow and not too much of that. The Bishop inaugurated it and a lot of people put some money in it. It was a total failure and all it proved was that most of them preferred the saloon, they wanted more than a glass of beer, and they were really not such temperate objects. They wanted to get drunk sometimes and it wasn't possible at the Bishop's tavern.

Anyhow Bishop Potter and Virginia were greatly respected because of that. They had at least had a sympathy with the fellows. She sat beside me and we sort of held each other's seats during the rushes. I think I went to it almost every