New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-04-25
MAYOR E|BNER ACTS QUICKLY
Asks Council For Funds For San
Francisco.
Three Hundred Dollars Voted and
Telegraphed.
New Ulm Among the First to Send
Money to Sufferers.

the city of New Ulm comes to the aid
of those who are victims of calamity |
the like of which has never before been
known in this country, the sufferers in
the earthquake disaster in California.
Realizing that immediate action
would be necessary if aid was to reach
these people at time when it would
do the most good, Acting Mayor
Elbner called the council together Sat
urday morning and presented the mat
ter to the members in the light of a
great necessity and they at once re-
sponded to his request by voting the
sum of $500.
This amount was turned over to the
city attorney who Immediately tele-
graphed it to the mayor of San Fran
cisco after first asking Governor john
son as to the method being adopted by
his department in the receipt and dis
tribution of funds for relief.
In the afternoon of the same DAY
Mayor Eibner received a telegram
from the governor to the effect that he
had appointed the mayor and the cash
iers of the different banks as COM
mittee to solicit funds. This being the
plan already adopted by the council
they were within the plan as arranged
by the governor.
The following telegram was sent:
ITO Mayor Schmitz, San Francisco:
New Ulm sympathizes with your citi-
zens in distress. Draw on us for three
hundred dollars. W. Eibner, Acting
Mayor"
This telegram was taken by Mr.. Nc
Hale, the operator and sent through
free, he going on the assumption that
his company was willing to do that
much for the cause. The calling of the
council and the appropriating of the
money was all done in remarkably
short space Of time.
Aside from that appropriation of
this amount of money. Mayor Eibner
issued the following proclamation to
the people Of this city:
'HROCLAMATION!''
~'S'Fo tbs, Citizens of New Ulm:-
''From the coast of California come
reports of a calamity by means of
earthquake and fire that are appalling
to every human soul. Hundreds of
people have been killed, thousands are
homeless and property worth millions
nf 1n1Jarc hac bonn 1actrnvo6
''The news from the stricken city
brings back to our mind the memory
of ruin and desolation wrought in this
city many years ago by a cyclone,
when the state at large and the North
west in general, so nobly came to the
rescue of our citizens.
SIN such time as this sympathy
can do nothing unless it be expressed
in financial way, and the extent OF
the destruction calls upon every citi-
zen to contribute according to his
means toward the relief Of the suffer-
ers. The people of New Ulm have ever
been charitable and hospitable and I
deem it necessary only to call atten-
ton to the manner in which their feel
ings may be substantially expressed.
| therefore have appointed and do
hereby appoint as public committee
to receive contributions to aid the citi-
zens of California in their dire distress
the following: Citizens Bank, Brown
County Bank, State Bank, City Clerk
I am sure that all donations how.
ever small, will be gladly received
and placed to the best advantage.
dated April 81. 1906.
''WILLIBALD EIBMER,
Acting Mayor
AS soon as the matter became known
to the management of the Eagle mil
S164 was raised in that institution ant
deposited with the Citizens bank
Other amounts have come in since
swelling the total to the sum of nearly
100000
Calamity so appalling as that which
has overtaken the people of San Fran
cisco is something the terror of which
it is impossible for. the mind to grasp
This city in 1881 was visited by
cyclone and distress followed; man,
people were injured in the catastrophe
and the people of the state were quicl
to come to the aid Of the city. w
have not forgotten that, and that i
one of the reasons why the people o
New Ulm are quick to be touched witt
a fellow feeling for those in distress
Back of that lies the massacre,
different and even more terrible calmi
9ty and its dim memories still Turk i
the corners Of the hearts of those VII
passed throughit all, and the appea