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or six people and had a very pleasant time. You walked around in the garden. It was very nice.

There was something wrong about that place during the First World War. There was some connection with the Germans in the war. I don't know whether anything really was wrong, or whether there was just suspicion, but I remember someone saying one night, “Let's go to Claremont.” Someone like Dan McCormick said, “I don't think we'd better go to Claremont. There's a story around that they're signaling to the Germans from Claremont and that there's an underground connection.” That story spread until I think it probably hurt the business very much. Whether it was true or not I have no way of knowing. I don't know whether there was any truth in it, or whether it was one of those imaginary stories that got into circulation at that time.

Moses promoted the city's taking over Claremont at the beginning. He thought that was good. He promoted this expensive restaurant at Jones Beach. He had a real instinct for giving the upper classes a chance to enjoy themselves. At the beginning of Jones Beach he made a great drive for the patronage of the beach itself and of the bathing facilities by all the Long Island summer residential set. They went in great numbers at one time. I don't know whether they still do or not, or whether the hoi polloi coming out from New