Job Hunter

The great army of unemployed, the requesters of jobs which never materialize, may take comfort from one who was in their predicament 30 years ago. Last week the following letter dated Aug. 30, 1895, to the late Senator William P. Dillingham (TIME, July 23) of Montpelier, Vt., and never answered, was made public in Cleveland :

Dear Sir: If I could get into a good office I am thinking of reading there for some time or perhaps finishing my preparation for the bar, rather than going to a law school. Is there a vacancy with your firm?

If there is any hope of your considering the proposition favorably, I should be pleased to go up to the city to talk with you, or you can advise me by mail as to the terms you would make if you ever bother with students.

I am just out of college and am somewhat undecided between the school and the office. Can you give me any suggestion?

Could you take me after I had spent some time, say a year or two, in a school?

Truly yours, (Signed) J. CALVIN COOLIDGE.

Plymouth, Vt.