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place for women and children, an outdoor play ground for the children who were detained there, a good clean commissary where people could buy themselves something to eat that was good and properly done. He did a great many things to make Ellis Island better. He also was the one who ruled that all these immigrant altruistic societies could meet the ships, which meant that people who spoke the language of the immigrants went in a kind of missionary way. Of course, they had to be reputable organizations, but they could have contact with the people detained on Ellis Island. He did a great many very good deeds and I always had great respect for him.

But for the most part the commissioners of immigration did nothing and were just supernumeraries. I had seen that comment in the Wickersham Report and also knew it for a fact. Among other things that I had realized was that here was an opportunity to cut out those jobs. We didn't need them and I thought I could cut them all out. We were pledged to reduce expenditures.

Well, I discovered to my distress that I couldn't cut them all out because some politicians had staked them out and promised them to various people. Even so good a woman as Mary Dewson had staked out a couple of them where