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AUGUST . 1 gog be surprised, however, if a man of Dr. Du Bois' importance can be secured at the small salary which the University is able to pay. ~ shall talk with you further when I see you. I understand there is to be a meeting of the board on the ~ fist clef September and I hope to be present. I very much hope your health is improving. Yours very truly, Booker T. Washington TLS Jesse Edward Moorland Collection DHU. A press copy is in Con. 395, BTW Papers, DLC. ~ Arundel-on-the-Bay, on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, was a summer resort where a number of leading black Washingtonians owned cottages. In 19~z it was incorporated as Highland Beach. To Hilary Abner Herbert Huntington, L.I., N.Y. August ~2, igO9 My dear Sir: It has been my purpose for sometime to write to thank you for the wise, generous and brave decision reached by you in determining the protests against the employment of black men an the Georgia Railroad.i The Negro people everywhere feel under the greatest obligation to you for the position taken by you and Chancellor Barrows at that time. I think that I can say that every one of them with whom I have talked feels that this decision rendered by Soughed men will be as far-reaching in effect as any single thing in helping forward the progress of the Negro people. Yours truly, Booker T. Washington TLS Hilary Abner Herbert Papers NcU. A carbon copy is in Con. 39~, BTW Papers, DLC. ~ In May of 1909 white firemen of the Georgia Railroad struck against the employment and upgrading of black firemen who were non-union. Herbert was one of the three arbitrators who on June 26, Hog, found against the union and in favor of employment and equal pay for black firemen. (For a detailed account of the strike see Matthews,''The Georgia 'Race Strike' of 1909.'') ~ BTW wrote the same letter to another of the arbitrators, David C. Barrow, on the same date. (Con. 387, BTW Papers, DLC.) Barrow replied: ''I am afraid that we have done a vain thing, but I tried to give justice. It was sworn in the case that no 155