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because when I first began going to Albany, the spittoon was a standard part of the furniture of government offices. In the Governor's office at Albany to this day - or at least up to the last time I visited there, which was not over fifteen years ago - there are those handsome, great, two and a half foot high, solid brass spittoons, that must have cost $100 apiece. I think sometime when there was an investigation of costs of running the government they found out that they had originally cost that. They're really two and a half feet high. They stand at strategic points all over the big open Governor's office where the groups come when hearings are held, or meetings are held. They were also liberally scattered around the Governor's inner offices, and of course in the halls. So I was familiar with the spittoon. That didn't horrify me. It just amused me at the moment to think that I was moving into a thoroughly spittooned office.

The furniture was the old-fashioned kind, but that was to be expected. This was a Department that had been created during the First World War and that probably used whatever furniture was available. It was the kind that was later discarded as being costly of upkeep, and so on. It was perfectly all right. The desk was in terrible shape. It needed waxing, oiling, furniture polishing and a few things