rges when i come i
will be ther in 4 or 5 days from the date i reseave yor ancer so
pleas ancer as soon as you kin.

NEW ORLEANS, LA., May 23, 1917.

_Dear Sir:_ As a constant reader of your most valuable paper the
Defender and after viewing from time to time the services that
you are rendering not only to the race of which you are one of
its honored leaders but one who are doing services to the sacred
cause of humanity, and your admireable editorials has impressed
me so much until I feal that I know you personaly. now sire I
note with pleasure that you are manifesting a very great interest
in our people from the south and as I am a man of family and are
always willing and ready to grasp any opertunity that will tent
to better my condition I raise my head and I am now looking to
the North of this benighted land for hope there I feal that if
once there that I may be granted the opertunities of peacefully
working out my mission on earth. without fear of molestation. Now
sir I am a painter by trade. I am also a first class creol cook
and as I above said that you seams very much interested in your
newcomers well fare to the extent of trying to place them in some
lucrative position. I ask you one favor and that is this will
you please advise me as to if I come up there will you try and
get me work.

NEW ORLEANS, LA., May 21, 1917.

_Dear Sir:_ As it is my desire to leave the south for some
portion of the north to make my future home I desided to write to
you as one who is able to furnish proper information for such a
move. I am a cook of plain meals and I have knowledge of
industrial training. I recieved such training at Tuskegee Inst.
some years ago and I have a letter from Mrs. Booker T. Washington
bearing out such statement and letters from other responsible
corporations and individuals and since I know that I can come up
to such recommendations, I want to come north where it is said
such individuals are wanted. Therefore will you please furnish me
with names and addresses of railroad officials to whom I might
write for such employment as it is my desire to work only for
railroads, if possible. I have reference to officials who are
over extra gangs, bridge gangs, paint gang