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I think that Henry Bruere was about as responsible as any man in preventing that.

He did a great deal to introduce good and modern methods of administration, because the Mayor told him to go ahead with this or that department. He kept the departments on their toes and kept them interested in doing that.

At the same time he was making a great impact on people generally in the city as to what you could expect of your government - what's a municipal government for; what should New York City be like; what should New York City government be. He could think very clearly even then, put it together, make pattern and make an idea that would attract people and make them see what was among the possibilities for a good city. He knew all about this business of transportation, housing, replanning of the city. Charles B. Stover depended very much on Henry Bruere. Stover was an erratic personality - a good, sweet person who had been a social worker, but was very erratic and hard to handle. The great headway that was made on the parks at that time was made by virtue of the fact that Stover would follow Henry Bruere.

Bruere was definitely the most useful man in the whole administration.