And yet there are people who are bold enough to say that race feeling in America is not growing less intense! At this concert the Hon.

Benjamin B.Odell, Jr., the present governor of New York, presided.

I was never given a more cordial hearing anywhere.

A large proportion of the passengers were Southern people.

After the concert some of the passengers proposed that a subscription be raised to help the work at Tuskegee, and the money to support several scholarships was the result.
While we were in Paris I was very pleasantly surprised to receive the following invitation from the citizens of West Virginia and of the city near which I had spent my boyhood days:-- Charleston, W.Va., May 16, 1899.
Professor Booker T.Washington, Paris, France: Dear Sir: Many of the best citizens of West Virginia have united in liberal expressions of admiration and praise of your worth and work, and desire that on your return from Europe you should favour them with your presence and with the inspiration of your words.