The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.11, page xx, in Introduction, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers the hose] where he generally stayed during his frequent trips to New York refused him accommodations after the Ulrich incident, on the ground that the swarm of reporters disrupted the work of the hose! and gave it a notoriety it did not want. Washington got little rest at his summer home, however, for he brought with him an entourage of secretaries and stenographers to keep up with his heavy correspondence and to prepare a number of articles. Washington was busy in these years with the promotion of many enterprises of the Tuskegee Machine. He continued to lead the Jeanes Foundation in the improvement of teaching in the black rural schools, continued to select the small industrial schools to receive contributions from Jacob Schiff, and began a close collaboration with Julius Rosenwald, who became a trustee of Tuskegee Institute in egg a. He advised the Census Bureau on the gathering and classification of racial data. He encouraged and secured financial support for the efforts of the alIblack town of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, and spoke at the dedication of its cottonseed-oi! mill in November 19~. He secured the appointment of the black Boston lawyer William H. Lewis to the highest federal post held by a black man prior to the New Deal, as assistant attorney general In the Taft administration. Continuing the educational speaking tours of previous years, he traveled through Texas in ~ 9 ~ ~ and Florida in ~ g ~ e. Washington also broadened his interests to include other continents. He organized the International Conference of the Friends of Africa in the spring of Am, attracting to it missionaries and spokesmen of the black people of western and southern Africa. In Go he toured England and the continent of Europe In order to study conditions of life among the working classes of London, Liverpool, the Sicilian suIphur mines, the Warsaw ghetto, and various places in the AustroHungarian Empire. His observations led to a book, The Man Farthest Down, published the following year. While Washington's main interest was the working class In Europe, he also took the opportunity to dine with the king and queen of Denmark. In 1 Washington published My Larger Education. The autobiographical parts of this volume have been reproduced In the first volume of The Booker T. Washington Papers. The sociologist Robert E. Park was the principal author of The Man Farthest Down (` 19 ~ 2 ), acnd it was Park who held the copyright. Included in this volume of the xx