I have been a sufferer of rheumatism for many years, contracted in service. Since I have worn your underwear it has not troubled me at all, though I have been subjected to trying service the last winter.
On Saturday evening, the 6th of October, 1888, I put on your underwear. It was cold and wet, typical New England weather. We had a fire in a six-story building on the water front lasting four hours. I came out of it with the water coming out of the tops of my rubber boots, completely wetted through, so that I had to undress in the yard of my dwelling when I got home. No ill effects were the result of that; when otherwise I would have cough, cold, and surely rheumatic attacks.
About November 15th we had a very bad fire and had to fight it three flights before we got to the top, the sixth story. Usually I get wet at a fire. In this I did not, but instead I became thoroughly overheated from wearing a very heavy pilot cloth coat and the result was, that I got sweated through and through. I did not get home until 3 o'clock in the morning (nearly six hours), but I felt splendid. With other underwear, best woolen, I always experienced a cold wet sensation under similar circumstances, down my back, and generally miserable until I could make a change.
This I consider the most important test for firemen and I feel more than ever that the "Jaros Hygienic Underwear" fills a long felt want in Fire Departments. I cheerfully say: I would not be without it and many of our men join me in this and say money cannot buy it from us.
Wishing you further success in the introduction of a truly meritorious article and one based on scientific principles, I am
Yours truly,
John W. Regan, Ass't Chief.
NEW HAVEN, CONN., FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Headquarters New Haven Fire Department,} Office, No. 15 City Hall.}