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on factory buildings and all kinds of buildings. Charles Israels was a very fine, able and promising man. I met her as his wife when we were working on the Committee on Safety, which was after 1911. I think Israels, as all decent people were, was interested in the Fusion movement in New York City.

The Bureau of Municipal Research had terrific influence all through that time and all through William J. Gaynor's administration. It was during that period that I became acquainted, one by one, with some of these people who were concerned with fusion. There was such difference of opinion as to how the movement ought to be set up, who ought to be its leaders, who ought to be the nominee. To this day I can't remember how, but I suppose I was brought along almost accidentally, probably by Paul Wilson, to a conference in the Brevoort Hotel at which George McAneny was present. Henry Moskowitz was there. Charlie Burlingham was there. Leo Arnstein was there. I couldn't say whether Henry Bruere was there or not. I don't have a picture of him there. Charles Stover, who was a great settlement worker who later became Park Commissioner, was there - a lovely man.

There were quite a good many people, but not too many to sit around a table. There must have been some women, as I wasn't the only women there. It was mostly over my head;