The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-10-13
rs WANT
| TO COME SOUTH


As result Of an article printed in
The Sunday World. Reginald NJ.
Bryan, Governor OF the Georgia
Society. with Offices at No. 30 Broad
way. has been deluged by letters and
calls from men and women seeking
employment down South as domestic
help. Mr.. Bryan says he is no en-
ployment bureau, and that his
regular business is being seriously
interfered with by these applicants.
II was stated that Southern mat
rons were very generally agreed that
the negro and work had become so
incompatible that they intended to
send North for white help. Two
days after this was printed 1913 men
and women called ON Mr.. Bryan.
Since then the callers. have been fire.
quent and persistent.
The article stated that NJ. Bryan
during the summer had received let
tiers from friends all over the South
asking him to get them white house
servants. This MIR. Bryan did. Then
came a letter from r. NJ. Martin.
secretary OF the Dublin. Ca. chamb-
er OF Commerce, asking for more.
Mr.. Bryan called up the employment
agencies. They answered that they
had already sent so many servants
South that None were left.
So Mr.. Bryan had to write the
secretary OF the Dublin Chamber Of
Commerce that there was nothing
doing. incidentally he gave the
facts to The World. And after that
the deluge.
All who eould't call have written.
The World article must have been
either seen or copied throughout
New York. Pennsylvania and New
England. Mr.. Bryan has had letters
from Buffalo. Pittsburg. Utica. syria.
cuse. Rochester. Boston. Philadel-
phia. Albany and Hartford. He has
been attending to his extra CORES.
pondenee with hotel stenographer,
A man from Jersey City writes
that he has been a soldier and "a
engaged during the evenings.
A delegate from the Colored Pro.
tective Union called on Mr.. Bryan
TO make what he called a dignified
protest against the Georgian's de.
probation OF colored help. After d
few remarks he was forcIbly elected
Three negro men and one negro
woman called to tell Mr.. Bryan that
they had learned here In the North
what work really is and they would
like TO 90 South again.
Armand Dreyfuss. a waiter AZ the
Plaza. writes that be is a member oil
the International Geneva Society. i
high-ciass walters organization. and
that he has made so much money
that he can AFFORD to retire. How.
ever. having read OF the Southern
somes Of which Mr.. bryan dIscours-
ed 20 feelingly. he said he would con.
slider position down South as d
butier-for the sake OF the surround.
ings.
Young women from all over the
state are writing Mr.. Bryan their
qualifications. Impecunious gentle.
women seem 10 abound. One or two
sent pictures.
nov street car conductor and wants
TO 20 back South. from whence he
came. as a butler. His wife. he
writes. Is a good cook. and bis other
children he feels sure. can ~ in q
large household as chambermald
housemaid. parlormaid. iady's maid
coaehman. footman and gardner. IN
all there are nine. The man ends
his letter with q postscript in which
he opines that only n household run
on a grand scale would have need
OF his whole family.
Mr.. Bryan Is taking the names Of
all these people or forwarding thell
letters TO various Chambers Of Com
merce In the South. when ths
South Is supplied with a new brand
Of domestic servants and its coioret
help ousted Mr.. Bryan hopes to b.
able 20 devote his time 20 HIS owl
business once more.--New Yori