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tion. The benefits are really State-wide, and the work com- 

 pleting the initial drainage should be financed and carried out by 

 the State. Then, under the present laws, it will be found prac- 

 ticable through the County Mosquito Commissions to maintain 

 the systems of drainage thus established. 



The President — We have here to-day a representative of 

 one of the large civic organizations of the city of Newark, con- 

 sisting of about eight hundred citizens, who has been sent as a 

 delegate, and we will be glad to hear from Mr. Judd. 



Mr. Judd — Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the Mosquito 

 Extermination Commission : I am placed in rather unique posi- 

 tion. I know nothing about your work. I have never done 

 anything in your line except to overlook and investigate and 

 see what our good friend Mr. Dobbins has been doing for us. 

 I came down here as the representative of the Clinton Hill Im- 

 provement Association of the southwestern section of Newark. 

 Now, there are a lot of you here who know what the Clinton 

 , Hill Association is. There are a great many who do not, and 

 never heard of it before. I will tell you what it is. It is an 

 organization of business men, eight hundred strong, including 

 business men, manufacturers, bankers, wholesale dealers, insur- 

 ance men and every class of business and property owners in 

 the city of Newark. They represent not less than a taxable value 

 of ten million dollars, so that you will know the Clinton Hill 

 Improvement Association is somewhat important in the section 

 where it exists. 



Now, the Clinton Hill Improvement Association is known 

 best for two things, one is its famous dinners and the other is 

 the greatest kicker in the State of New Jersey, and particularly 

 in Essex County and the city of Newark. As a kicker I think 

 the Clinton Hill Improvement Association has no equal. 



I remember one time at one of our banquets Mayor Haussling 

 said that it gave him, a lot of pleasure to come to these Clinton 

 Hill dinners, because the Clinton Hill crowd was the worst lot 

 of kickers that he ever saw in his lfe, and probably I am going 

 to try to register the biggest kick here to-day that we ever did put 

 out if you stop your work. The Clinton; Hill Improvement Asso- 



