When doing this I sometimes speak before as many as four organizations in a single day.
Three years ago, at the suggestion of Mr.Morris K.Jessup, of New York, and Dr.J.L.M.

Curry, the general agent of the fund, the trustees of the John F.Slater Fund voted a sum of money to be used in paying the expenses of Mrs.Washington and myself while holding a series of meetings among the coloured people in the large centres of Negro population, especially in the large cities of the ex-slaveholding states.

Each year during the last three years we have devoted some weeks to this work.

The plan that we have followed has been for me to speak in the morning to the ministers, teachers, and professional men.

In the afternoon Mrs.Washington would speak to the women alone, and in the evening I spoke to a large mass-meeting.