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and it is a very healthy community. That community is made 

 up almost entirely of people who live there at night and work 

 in New York during the day. While there are a great many 

 people there who during the summer time go off to some other 

 place to spend the vacation season, the town is not deserted, for 

 we have a large summer population which comes from the city 

 and occupies the residences of our citizens who are away. 



Now, in order to have those people come year after year it 

 is necessary to keep the town in the summer time a place that is 

 desirable to live in, and, of course, the work in which you are 

 interested is one of the chief things that will keep our town in 

 such condition. 



That is true also of the seashore resorts, and of our mountain 

 resorts, and I think the efforts that are being put forth to protect 

 the citizens in their property rights from this terrible pest is one 

 of the things which is being gradually but surely realized as 

 most important to the various taxpayers. I thank you. 



The President — We are always wanting to have the coop- 

 eration of the Freeholders in these days. It is their pocketbooks 

 we have to open to get the moneys for our work, and it gives me 

 pleasure to introduce the Hon, John N. Cady, Director of the 

 Union County Board of Freeholders, Summit, New Jersey. 



Mr. Cady — «I want to add my testimony to the good work 

 that has been done by the New Jersey Mosquito Extermination 

 Association, and my unstinted praise of the Union County Com- 

 mission for its great and good work in the matter of elimi- 

 nating this comfort-destroying and disease-breeding pest. 

 They have been persistently and constantly on the job. They 

 have given us such good work in Summit that at the present 

 time a gentleman can sit on his front piazza at night and smoke 

 his pipe in peace. As to the nocturnal visits of these pests, they 

 are almost eliminated. They do not infest the houses at night, 

 the mosquito netting has been relegated to the storeroom, and 

 the screens on the piazzas have almost all disappeared. I will 

 say that they have been economical and have not spent much 

 more than half the money which the law allows them. 



