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the social work field. He had served on the committees of the Charity Society and other things like that. He was respected in that field.

Neither Mitchel nor Prendergast were known in that field. They were just up out of the government and politics. So McAneny had the ear of the public at first more than Mitchel did. But Mitchel had more dramatic quality. He made a better speech. McAneny did not make such an awfully good speech. He made a very scholarly speech. If he went to Columbia to explain, he made a great hit. But he didn't make a good speech in Cooper Union. Mitchel did learn to make a very good speech in Cooper Union - a very good, forthright, and inspiring speech that people believed in. People believed in him.

McAneny was never open. I liked him very much, but he never so far as I'm concerned - and I think that's true of most people - he never opened his heart. You never knew what really was going on in the background of his mind. There was a tinge of superiority in that. It was the same superiority you saw years later in Samuel Seabury. He was just a little bit above the battle of these ward politicians that were being beguiled into supporting Mitchel against their better judgment.