In July 1903, Pastor was assigned to interview James Graham Phelps Stokes, known by friends as "Graham", a prominent, wealthy, upper-class businessman who supported a settlement house on the Lower East Side. He had gained media attention because of his high social status and his charitable work for the needy. Descended from families prominent since the colonial history of New England, Stokes was a railway president and prominent in high society. He gave up his mansion at 299 Madison Avenue to be closer to the work he found most satisfying, that of social projects. Stokes moved to the University Settlement on the Lower East Side, which ministered to the masses of new immigrants from Europe. It was near the "Jewish Daily News". Pastor praised Stokes' ideals in her article.