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He was Scotch and came from Canada. He was somewhere in the administration, or perhaps had been head of one of the charities. All of a sudden in Albany we became aware of him. He was a very, very good man, an excellent man, who in many ways was the same type of man as Hopkins and William Hodson who had an untimely death or we would have heard of him since. Hodson died soon after this and was a great loss to American social work. He was among those who recommended Hopkins and he knew Hopkins very well. They were quite close.

I'm sure Homer Folks also recommended Hopkins and the Governor often consulted Homer Folks about all kinds of matters having to do with charity, state hospitals and things like that. Folks was a Republican, but had been everybody's adviser. He was certainly a very good and useful citizen of the State of New York.

Hopkin's great asset was his capacity to organize in a field where there wasn't anything, or where there was a little something, but tremendous additions were needed, bringing in all elements of the population. As I remember, that's exactly what he did. He had money to spend and he went right at the communities where there was heavy unemployment, therefore a heavy demand on relief, and where there was in most instances at least some kind of a charitable society. He operated through that. He had a faculty of