or any asistance that you will do for me or tell me.

NEW ORLEANS, LA., 5-5-17.

_Dear Sir_: Am applying for a position in your city if there be
any work of my trade. I am a water pipe corker and has worked
foreman on subservice drainage and sewer in this city for ten
(10) years. I am now out of work and want to leave this city. I
am a man of family therefore I am very anxious for an immediate
reply. Please find enclosed self addressed envelop for return
answer.

NEW ORLEANS, LA., 5-5-17.

_Dear Sirs_: I was advised by the Chicago Defender to get in
touch with you if I desired to locate in or around Chicago. I
write this to find out what kind of work that you have on slate.
I expect to locate in or around Chicago by the first of June.

ANNISTON, ALA., April 29, 1918.

_Dear sir_: I read a peas in the defender about the member com
north I shall be vary glad to com in touch with you, as am
planing on coming north and I riting you that you mite no of som
good town in that secson I am a carpenter by traid and I would
like for you to locate in me as I should not like to com in that
secson with out no enfremation.

CHARLESTON, S. C., Feb. 10, 1917.

_Gentlemen_: Upon reading the N. Y. age, have seen where there
are need of employees in some sugar concern in New York. Kindly
answer this letter, and tell me the nature of the work.

As I am from the south and it is an average difficulty for a
southerner to endure the cold without being climatize. If it is
possiable for you to get any other job for me regardless to its
nature just since the work is indoor I'll appreciate the same.

As it is understood the times in the south is very hard and one
can scarcely live. Kindly take the matters into consideration,
and reply to my request at your earliest convenience.

CHARLESTON, S. C., May 25, 1917.

_Sir_: Having been informed that you can secure jobs for people
who desire to leave the south, I would like to get information
about the conditions and wages either in Niagra or Detroit. I
would prefer work in a factory in either town. Also advise as to
climate.

_Dear Sirs_: Havin