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large contributor to Wilson campaign funds. I knew Uncle Henry Morgenthau quite well because he was one of the people who owned a great deal of real estate in New York City and enormous amounts in the Bronx. He was a very successful and rich real estate operator. At the time of the Triangle fire when we were forming this volunteer committee on safety, R. Fulton Cutting having given the first hundred thousand dollars to insure its life and organization, those who were trying to build it up thought of building up a committee which would have in its membership people who represented, or knew something about, various elements involved in the problem, including architecture and building construction matters and including real estate matters, as well as the well-wishers and the good, civic-minded people.

Henry Morgenthau Sr. was picked. I remember the conversation over the decision to pick him - “He is a very successful real estate operator who has made a fortune. They have to respect him. He probably will be all right and be on our side because he's done so much. He's a great humanitarian. He comes of that kind of attitude of mind. He'll probably be for us.” Lillian Wald proposed him. She, of course, was one of the great leaders of social improvement in New York City and he was a director of Henry Street. It was Lillian Wald who vouched for Henry Morgenthau's