A Whisper in an Age of Shouting

A Whisper in an Age of Shouting
In 1886 he was a co-founder of the University Settlement House — the first settlement house in
the United States — from which he spearheaded the growing reform movement in New York City.
As parks commissioner, Stover created the Bureau of Recreation, which built dozens of playgrounds
in its first three years, including DeWitt Clinton Park, Seward Park and Jacob Riis Park.
So in 1936, when Moses was parks commissioner, he dedicated the 20-foot curved granite bench
that is situated on a rocky outcrop in Central Park’s Shakespeare Garden, a garden that Mr. Stover himself commissioned, to his friend
Many of Stover’s friends and colleagues — people like Jane Addams, Samuel Gompers and Jacob Riis — remain well known today, even as .
The article mainly concerned the day in 1913 that Stover, after three years as
New York City’s parks commissioner, went out to lunch … and didn’t come back.