The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-29
! THE HOW ARDS
saTgs " NoBLY An WORK FOR THE
m0oR, SICK AND SUFFERING.


Ths Howard Association. it is almost needless
gas s,ay, had on their hands an almost Hereulean
qaast Yesterday to visit the patients already
IN their books to hurry to tho sudden calls for
aid, To furnish nurses where wanted. and to see
shat at svery place matters we're working har-
ANONYMOUSLY and the sick were placed in the best
xossihle conditions under the circumstances,
Nm the frst place, there we're nurses to select
4 hiear eyed woman, with O. breath that well
fTfstilJedwould turn out almoet straight Monon-
aalsIa would ask for "a good. quiet place 10
nurse d ohe-ild:' then brazen negress would
demand a. position to caro- Tor the SICK bec1use
her grandmother had nursed Gen. sonethlng-
ssr~othar In yellow fever in 1Bt7. They came I'D
nstttalione, but. thanks to tho Judgment OF the
Association only those fitted to ill such oner-
aus positions were chosen. ... n-...
No ono who IL not thoroughly ACQUAINTED
with the work the Towards have on mana can
appreciate the anxiety, the care and the annoy
anoe to which each member Is SUBJECTED. IL IL
i. Jnhor or love anu in that labor tho gentlemen
d,f the association have waived ease and every"
thing, their aim being TO help the suffering ana
S1cGpr the needy sick. 4nu IN. wi. aA.~
VT was not unexpected that yesterday 1t was
learned. through Capt. W. Fl. Manning of the
CRESCENT City Police force. that there were q
number Of impostors going about soliciting aid
for tho Howard Association. In all great ohari"
ties this OCCURS Our people know full well that
the Howards depend only In their cause upon
Ehe contributions Of friends. unsolicited. we
TsRru our oitizsns not to give any aid to any one
applying In the name OF the association.
Ths following dispatches have been received
ND to last night; ,s.ua A,,ors, 10 1919
j.. H. southmaYd, Secretary Howard Associa-
send us two nurses Immediately, Fever in
President Howard Association.
PonT GrDsoN, August %, 1878.
R. n. Southmayd Secretary:
Dispatch received. Many thanks for kind
atffefs Fever very fathl and no abatement'
Two hundred and thirty five cases AND thirty r,
1--WE deaths to date Tee y wanted a, mo Ore ta aa
s,aSsaa nre si5o nor day. New York. St. Louis.
jackson and Columbus are aldlng. ! BY nt one or
President Howard Association.
CANTON, Miss. August %. 1878.
ID. ID. southmayd, Secretary:
Please send two more nqrgss M n ndHES e TO
President Canton Howard Association.
GRENADA, Miss, August 2s 1873.
u. II. southmayd Secretary. New Orleans
Narses and everything else arrived, and ma
sin anN yesterday. Weather bad. Keep me well
supplied with be6fs cant u9 Wltnout IL, " ~
haze e s rely upon Wv h iii sf6N IL "
The following letter shows how earnestly our
river men feel towards our sufferers. me
small aud yet amongst them all s5b was raised
for our sufferers. One little cabin hoy could
not raise more than fifty cents, and with that ne
cTae mallfully forward and put 1t In the hat for
ode poor fellerB."
OFvrcE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY Transportation J
Company, I
New Orleans, August %. 1878.
From the crew of the Mississippi Valley
Transportation Company's steamer Grand Lake
No. q. to the Howard Association OF New Or
leans: Put the inclosod $55 where 1t will do the
gnost good.
Mr. Charles Bornwasser, the popular confec-
Sioner Of No. 65b Magazine street. near the mar,
Eet, sent down large box of deliciously toasted
ME-. j. A. dalpin. whose ice depot Is at the
corner Of 81. Mary and st. Charles streets, also,
with his famiys wonted generosity offered
free Ice Tor the sick from his vaults 1t is sin
guar that with all Of our large lce Companies g
none Of them. to be the pioneer In this needed
and good work.
-Four nurses left last night for Canton 70 assist
the sick, and two to Plauuemine. The latter
wore accompanied by Dr. Courier VINO hopls
volunteered.
IT is with pleasure we chronicle the able SER
Vices already rendered by DR.. John Martin, y
N. NJ. who preferred his services when the cpl
demc first commenced here Dr. M 9Ia IT. Is one
vrk,o ia thoroughly acquainted with yellow fever
and in many cases his treatment has proved
annst ef1cacious. ,4..,o
the skill of the other physicians attached TO the
Howards. They are, oil doing their work, o ar !,
AYR d11fv to correct an error in an evening con
Temporary, which gives the credit to Pr. Car
son for discharging already thirty-hve pa
xphn nt honor T.
Jarnison, We do this at the request oil DR.. Car
son himself,