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and others came and had their maypoles. In those days every public school, every Tammany Hall division, every private school, everyone who wanted to could have a May party on the green. When they weren't having May parties, the sheep were on that green. It was very lovely. Actually the keeping of sheep had come to be a kind of anachronism in Central Park with all the automobiles whirling and whizzing around and mobs of people trying to go somewhere on foot, cutting across, the sheep were always being interfered with. The shepherds would sometimes lose track of them. They would get out on the roadway and get hit by an automobile. It was getting to be a problem to herd sheep in Central Park.

While all the rest of us were still intrigued with the romance of the Olmsted layout of the park, the sheep fold, the green, the swan boats on the pond, Moses was thinking in much more practical terms. He said, “What's the sense of all this? Let's abolish the sheep fold.” He had this vision of a medium price restaurant, using the old sheep fold as a basis. He did that.

They abolished and squashed out the Casino. It was a very nice place. If you wanted to give a ladies luncheon to raise money for something or other, you had it at the Casino. It was charming, attractive. One of the first women's Democratic meetings that I went to, which was the upper crust