The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-22

did not Include theso off,
 fees.
 That is an interesting field for an-
 other to investigate
 | It is amazing to learn from tho | figures of these pages how soon the
 manager of an intelligence office an- nounces a fortune. A fee from every
 unemployed person, a fee from every | employer
 What strikes a Southerner most | forcibly in the book is the repeated
 statements of the inefficiency of the
 negro in an intelligence office, and the frequent ineficiency of the negro help
 that Is offered there.
 To an impartial observer this goes | to prove how much the negro has lost ground in this branch of industry since the freedom of the race.
 The negro trained to service Is the most perfect servant in the world. Where else can be found such industry. affection, patience and tirelessness as l in the negro servant of before the war days. Nor must 1t be forgotten that such service brought forth the affection and care of those served, the constant commendation, well done good and | faithful servant"
 A race, new to knowledge, to the in- | come of industry that generations of skilled labor has given to the white races, must perforce expect to be for many years servants, yet no effort is made to make them skilled servants. It is said that even the negro indus
 trial schoos makle good mechanics. but not domestic servants. Now in town of 5000 inhabitants there is work for probably fifty mechanics and for 600 domestic servants.
 The industrial education is good so far as 1t goes, but 1t leaves the ma jority of the races laborers as yet un- l taught in the only sort of work they can get pay for doing. Of the negro | intelligence offices in cities Miss Kellar states:
 Negro offices are so inferior and present such extremes that an addi- tional note is needed. Since these supply much male help and whites are furnished in, large number. the problem is most serious. Of all the offices, these are without doubt the least at- tractive and least business-like. In New York .thero are seperate waiting
 rooms in but two; 90 per cent. furnish
 lodgings, and all except one or two are in living rooms. Many lodge both colored and whites. So crowded, dis orderly, and dirty are they that even
 the most detailed description would be In oyer one or them there Is no equipment whatever; in others the furniture is so scant that
 one hesitates even to call them homes.
 Strangely enough, immigrant and negro offices which furnish so much unskilled help charge high. oftentimes an ex- orbitant, rate. Of course immigrant
 and negro offices cannot be expected to furnish them. They include among
 their rooms. Not asked Nobody ex- poets much of negroes A number of
 negro officers import girls from the
 South. They have white agents in the large Southern cities whose business 1t
 is to corral girls from the country dis
 trtcts. bring them into the cities, and
 ship them to northern offices These
 negro girls are utterly unfitted to meet
 the conditions of great city, for they know no one but. the employment agent, and as evidence of where some
 of them go the superintendent of the
 Bedford Reformatory says: Almost without exception the negro girls at my institution have been brought North by some employment agency ] Negro offices are so hope'essly immoral 1 that some city authorities think it is useless to district them and argue that they do not effect the whites As a l matter of fact they do for some of
 their best patrons are whites, and they
 have many white girls-sonething
 more than legislation and inspection is required"
 Education. moral and industrial, is re-
 quired. Education such as the old
 regime of the South gave. Where is
 such education to come from? The
 descendants of the old Southern re- gime that once gave 1t are no longer
 here to present the world with the
 best training for domestic service ever given. Those descendants are,