THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 403 



General Army Order No. 3. 



This is a photographic copy of General Army Order No. 3. I have 

 introduced it here for an especial purpose. On the map that has just 

 been removed from the screen Monterey was marked as a port of call for 

 United States Army transports, but the regular army transport docks are 

 located at San Francisco. To our personal knowledge certain poorly 

 informed persons circulated the report that vessels from foreign ports 

 were landing at Monterey and that no official w^as present to prevent the 

 fruit flies from being brought into the State at that point. Such are not 

 the facts. United States Army transports from Manila via Honolulu are 

 the only vessels arriving from fruit fly regions that land at IMonterey, 

 and only one of these has done so during the past fiscal year. Any one 

 who has knowledge of how army orders are expected to be obeyed need 

 feel no apprehension on this point, and our own experience in searching 

 every transport that has arrived at San Francisco since this order Avas 

 issued, proves clearly that it produced the desired effect. 



Map of the World. 



Every locality indicated by a name on this map excepting only San 

 Francisco, is knowTi to be infested with different species of fruit flies. 

 At the quarantine office we have records of all these several places ; of the 

 various kinds of fruit infested ; of the different species of fruit flies 

 infesting the same, and in the great majority of instances specimens of 

 the actual flies themselves. The specimens were collected, their method 

 of attack studied and the data furnished by George Compere. This map 

 is shown here for a dual purpose ; flrst, to show to you the different 

 steamship routes having connections with California and the fruit fly 

 regions at which they call during each voyage. To begin with, here is 

 the route from the Hawaiian Island direct. Hilo is now as badly infested 

 as Honolulu. Over this route comes at least one ship a week of the Mat- 

 son Navigation Company's fleet, and one ship a month of the Oceanic 

 Steamship Company's fleet. From Sydney via Wellington, Rarotonga 

 and Papeete comes one ship a month of the Union line. These vessels do 

 not touch at Hawaiian ports, but the point of departure, Sydney, at 

 which they obtain their supplies, is as badly infested with the Mediter- 

 ranean fruit fly as is Honolulu, and further, they call in at Rarotonga 

 where there are at least three forms of fruit flies at work on the fruits 

 of that island, one of which, Dacus melanotum, attacks alligator pears 

 very badly. The next stop is Papeete on the island of Tahiti, and at 

 quarantine we have not as yet been able to find any evidence of fruit flies 

 in material from that location. This fact complicates matters a great 

 deal, as it is practically impossible to tell from a superficial appearance 

 the difference between fruit from Rarotonga and that from Papeete, so 

 the ruling has been adopted at quarantine that no fruit shall be landed 

 from these vessels excepting only that set forth on the ship 's manifest, 

 which is a sworn statement of the port at which it was taken on board. 

 From Sydney via Samoa and Honolulu comes one ship a month of the 



