The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.12, page 324, Oct. 1913, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers P.S. ZeDer was formerly counsel for the Brewers As's'n and since he has been on the bench, has never held a bartender or a proprietor of a hotel or restaurant or saloon for refusing to serve colored people. These were the cases ~ brought to the attention of the Bar Association. TLS Con. 64 BTW Papers DLC. Postscript in Anderson's hand. ~ William Dameron Guthrie (I859-I935) was a Wall Street lawyer and Ruggles professor of constitutional law at Columbia University from 1909 to Ig22. 2 Warren William Foster (I859-I943) was judge of the Court of Genera Sessions of New York County from 1899 to 1914. ~ Charles Cooper Nott, Jr. ~ I 869-~957), a graduate of Williams College and Harvard Law School, was judge of the Court of General Sessions of New York County from I9I4 to 1939. 4 Near the end of the campaign to defeat Judge Zeller, Anderson wrote to Scott: ''From the time I rise in the morning, which is quite early, until I retire at night, which is quite late, I am busy on Zeller.'' Anderson told Scott that when the election results were in ''be sure and take a drink on the result, and be assured when you do it that there will be an answering hiccough from New York.'' (Oct. 29, ISIS, Con. 470, BTW Papers, DLC.) To Sartell Prentice [Tuskegee, Ala.] October with, 19~3 Dear Mr. Prentice: ~ SHALL BE WRY MUCH DISAPPOINTED IN THE COLORED PEOPLE OF NYACK IF THEY DO NOT PLACE THEMSELVES UNRESERVEDLY ON THE SIDE OF LAW AND ORDER AND TEMPERANCE. WE HAVE NOTHING TO GAIN BY LENDING OUR INFLUENCE TO THOSE WHO WILL DEGRADE AND IMPOVERISH OUR RACE BY TAKING FROM THEM THEIR HARD EARNED MONEY FOR DRINK. I VERY MUCH HOPE THAT OUR MINISTERS AND OTHER LEADERS WILL COOPERATE WITH THE LEADING WHITE PEOPLE AND CAST THEIR VOTES IN FAVOR OF THE CLOSING OF THE SALOONS. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON IWSr Con. 542 BTW Papers DLC. 1 Sartell Prentice ( 1867-I 937) was minister of the First Refonned Church of Nyack, N.Y., from I 905 to I 923. 324