Chicago
March 10th 1869
Dear Rosa
I do not kow as you will be glad to get another letter from
me so soon for I suppose you have got the one I sent you the other day I wrote
it Sunday and put it in at Ottawa the next morning We thought that the car went
at the Oclock and so we went down as far as Ikes Williams brother in law
and went into that shop to stay until two oclock gohng you know had to go an to
see Wife Canles (?) and he found out that the cars did not go until six in the
morning so he come back to the shop and told us and we had to stay until
morning but that was not the worst ofit you would have thought we was somebody gr
to see the folks after us I will till you why this is a larg body of shoes
makers or most all of them that have formed themselves into a Lodge or Society
in the U.S. and they say that they will not work until they can have a
good price for this work and they do all they can to stop others that do not
belong. From marking if we had knowed about it we should not have come for we
side with the shoemakers of sourse Will we had not been in the city a half a
hour before they was after us not to go to work for you see it was like this if
we went to work it would gain in strength to the manufactures and weeken the
shoe maker or if we did not it would be the other way they met us at every
place and they came nary near haveing a fight at our boarding house the first
night some of the boarders belonged to the Lodge (but we did not know it) and so
one of them asked father out doors and this was one yong man sides with the
manufactures and so he told father not to go out with him then the other man
got mad and they had it I thought they would fight but they did not by and by
father went out and thir was about a days men at the door and on the street
some of them was heade men of the Lodge and they was gentlemen and smart
men and they talked with father and told him just how it was and they sent in
for me and they talked with me they sead they would pay our fare back home and
then just as soon as shoemakeing did start up or that is so soom as the
manufactures would do right they would send for us so the rest went back and I
am agoing to stay and get a job as soon as it comes all right the manufactres
do not want to be gavernd by the shoemakers because they look on them as little
better than dogs Of corse this does not interest you but perhaps you will read
it through and I wished you to know how I was getting a long that is if you
care I feel bad abut it for I thought I should do so well and make a good
lot of money you know the reson I wished to make it but it seems that Palnays have bad luck but I shall
doc the best I can and If I don’t git anything to do here in three weeks I
shall go east and see what I can do I am writing a long letter you can take yr
time to read it but I have not got anything else to do.
Note: upside down on the top of the letter:
Be sure and address it to
E. White
Chicago
(North. Wells. Street 533) Illinois
And then it will come right to the house please write soon.
Eb.
Added to the letter from March 10, 1869
I have got a good boarding place now (I left that one that
whare they came so neare fighting I did not like it) with a private family they
have a nise little house and I like the folks vary mutch they have only one
little girl and one boarder as I sead in the first port I do not know as you
will be glad to git another letter so soon from me but I hope you will write me
one as soon as you git this and send it to me for I want to hear from you and
would like to all the time, I have a chance to look around the city and see a
good meny pretty girls but they are all made up paint and false hair and
thir is not one that I think so pretty as somebody that I know of
Do you think a little of me some times Rosa I hope so and I hope thir is
no yng man out thir that think that somebody is a very good girl or if thir is
I hope the one I speek of wont think he is vary good for if you do what
shall I do about it I shall have to stop now so good by Eben White.
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