The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-11-07
MOBILE APPEALS
TO BRUNSWICK.
Colonel TOmpkins Here to Receive
Subscriptions for the
Fever Sufferers.
SENT BY "CAN'T GET AWAY CLUB"
Endorsed By Mayor JOhnsOn-Will Receive
Donations at the oglathOrpe-What
HO Has to Say.

nS AolAOWAbS appear 10 IHe people
of Brunswick from TIE people of Mo-
bile explains itself:
To THE PEOPLE OF BRUNSWICK:
l come to you in behalf of the yell
low fever sufferers Of Mobile. [ have
been out of that stricken city long
enough to enable me to pass quaran-
tines. L am sent here by the Cant
Get Away Club" an ASSOCIATION of our
best citizens engaged for over fifty
years in caring for the poor and des-
titute during epidAmics.
Our people, until now, have borne
the burdens of our affilctlon without
appealing outside for help. We had
hoped to do this to the end, but our
burden has grown heavier than we
can bear alone.
L am sent to Brunswick, first, be-
cause Mobile has some claim upon the
generosity OF her people, as we have
upon other places outside, more than
mere considerations of humanity and
charity. Several years ago when con-
ditioDs were reversed and the sable
wings of the same pestilence tapped
over your homes and hearts, Mobile
remembered you; and with other ma
terial aid, sent you one of the best
yellow fever physicians we had in the
person of DR.. Iglebsrt, who remained
with your sick to the end of the epl-
demic, and is doubtless remembered
by many of your people living today.
But the appeal come to make to you
Is one Of a common humanity, and
rises above any considerations of graf
itude or the cancelling of obligations.
1t is the cry of suffering humanity
appealing for human sympathy and
help. 1t is not alone the cry of the
sick needing medicine and creature
comforts in life, and burial in death,
who may be counted in hundreds,
but the cry of the families of the la
boring classes thrown out of employ
ment, crying for bread, which number
many many thousands. Men and wo-
men of both races have been thrown
out of werk by the suspension of in
dustries which gave them employment,
and the children, borrowing the touch
ing words Of Mrs. Browlng:
"Do you hear the children weeping, my
Ere the sorrow cometb with years?
They are leaning their young heads against
their mothers
And that cannot stop their tears.
The young lambs are bleating in the meadows,
The young birds are chirping in their nests
The young fawns are playing with their shad-
OWs,
The young flowers are blowing towards the
west;
But the young young children, my brothers.
They are weeping bitterly
Weeping in the playtime of others,
In the country of the healthful and the free"
These citizens Of Brunswick are
nd roin
sisted you unsolicited, when condI-
tions were reversed, Help them
now!
Any contributions (in any sunny for
their relief left on Monday to my ad-
drese at the Oglethorpe, or with Mayor
Johnson, will be promptly acknowl-
edged and reported with the names of
the givers. Help them for your own
sakes, for theirs and Gods.
JNo, r. TOMPKINs,
Of Mobile, at the Oglethorpe.
FROM THE MAYOR.
Col. Jno. r. Tompkins comes fully
endorsed to me as prominent citizen
and lawyer Of Mobile, working for the
relief of his suffering people. 1 here
attach letter to me as mayor of this
city, and commend Col. Tompklns and
his praiseworthy work to the favor of
our people.
OWENS JOHNSON,
Mayor of Brunswick.
CAN'T GET AWAY CLUB.
MOBILE, ALA, Nov. l, 1897.
To His Honor the Mayor of Bruns-
wick, Ga:
Honored Sir To you, and your
good people, the Cant Get Away
Club" of Mobile IS known. When the
shadow fell upon you, as well as upon
ourselves, you not only had words of
cheer and comfort from US, but prac-
tical and material response, in the
person of DR.. o. S. Iglehart, a noted
yellow fever ply ysician of Mobile, than
whom no nobler representative of his
profession ever lived.
Now am candid iu saying our peo-
pie are in great distress. The fever,
while not an epidemic, has made con-
siderable inroad. The vast number of
our laboring classes are out of employ
ment, and need the Decessaries Of
life. II your benevolent and oharita-
BILE people can donate anything for
the general relief, l can assure you
it will be sacrsdly applied. [ am
yours, with esteem and respect,
Z, WILLIAMS JR,