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"Surgeon-General Wyman, Washington, D.C. The citizens of New Orleans 

 pledge themselves to secure and furnish all the funds necessary to pay the expenses 

 which your service may incur for labor and materials in dealing with situation here. 

 This in accordance with Dr. White's telegram to you. Martin Behrman (Mayor), 

 Charles Janvier, Gus. Lehmann, Sr., Wm. Adler, W^ G. Tebault, Citizens' Com- 

 mittee." 



This telegram was sent to President Roosevelt, at Oyster Bay : — 

 " The President, Oyster Bay, New York. We heartily thank you for your prompt 

 and generous action which, though expected, was none the less most gratifying. We 

 pledge ourselves to do our share, and have wired Surgeon-General Wyman that we 

 would secure and furnish all the funds the service may require. Martin Behrman 

 (Mayor), Charles Janvier, Gus. Lehmann, Sr., Wm. Adler, W. G. Tebault, Citizens' 

 Committee." 



These telegrams were followed by the following from Dr. White to Surgeon- 

 General Wyman :-.- 



" New Orleans, Aug. 6th. Citizens' conference wires to-day that if you furnish the 

 officers they will furnish §3,000.00 per day, if needed. They begin with sixty-odd 

 thousand in hand and can easily raise the rest. They give us authority to discharge 

 and employ and in no way tie our hands. No offer could be more frank, and I 

 unreservedh' recommend that we accept the trust at the earliest possible moment, 

 because time is extremely valuable. J. H. White." 



" New Orleans, Aug. 6th. Funds promised for work by bankers, merchants and 

 Mayor, will be disbursed by Colonel Janvier and rolls kept under his orders. Mayor 

 verbally promises in open conference to supplement if need be, and to give full police 

 authority. The Committee's telegram to you, signed by the Mayor and several 

 wealthy men, sufficient written agreement. Citj' ordinances, including one recently 

 passed, are sufficient. J. H. White." 



The Finance Committee prepared and had published in the newspapers the next 

 morning the following appeal to the people of the City : — 



" New Orleans, La., Aug. 6th, 1905. To the Citizens of New Orleans : We respect- 

 fully ask your earnest attention to the telegram from Surgeon-General Wyman, of the 

 United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, in which are stated the 

 conditions under which the Service will assume control of the fever situation here. As 

 immediate action was imperative. Mayor Behrman agreed at once to these conditions, 

 and in your behalf we gave the pledge that you would contribute the funds which 

 might be required in the prosecution of the fight. The undersigned Committee has 

 now in hand about §70,000.00- A very much larger sum than this will be needed, and 

 we should be able in a few days to place at the command of the Federal authorities at 

 least $250,000.00. The State and City can be counted on to do their duty, but the 

 individual citizen must do his. The people of New Orleans, in times of emergency, 

 have never faltered or failed and we appeal to you to indorse and redeem the pledge 

 made by us in your behalf. Not one dollar of the funds contributed will be spent 

 except under the direction of the United States Public Health and Marine Hospital 

 Service. Contributions will be received by Charles Janvier, Chairman, at the Canal 

 Bank and Trust Co. Charles Janvier (Chairman), Gus. Lehmann, Sr., Wm. Adler, 

 W. G. Tebault, Finance Committee, Yellow Fever Fund." 



The responses to this appeal were prompt and liberal and in a few days the fund 

 had increased to §100,000.00. The Governor of the State had promised that when 

 called upon the State would help, and on the 7th of August I wired His Excellency as 

 follows : — 



" To Governor N. C. Blanchard, Baton Rouge, La. We appeal to the State of 

 Louisiana for financial aid in the present emergency. The citizens of New Orleans 

 have given their pledge to the United States Government that the funds required by 

 the United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service would be furnished and 



