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ciation is a very progressive organization, and they have never 

 gone for anything until they are sure that it is something good 

 for the community in which they live, either locally, for the 

 city, county, or State at large, and for that reason the Clinton 

 Hill Improvement Association has very nearly always got what 

 it has gone after, because it goes very loud and strong and con- 

 tinuously until it gets it. 



Now, two* months ago, or at our January meeting — we have 

 monthly meetings — a notice was received by our President, Mr. 

 Theadene S. Fettinger — and I would say that I have the honor 

 to be the Third Vice-President — that this convention would be 

 held, and the question was brought up as to whether we were 

 interested, and there was a discussion on both sides of 

 the question, and we all, in fact unanimously, came to the con- 

 clusion that we were very much interested, that ten million dol- 

 lars' worth of property in that section of Newark was very 

 much interested in the elimination of the mosquito pest, and that 

 they should send a representative here to press their views, to 

 offer to you their moral support, to offer to you the fact of 

 their willingness to pay their part of the taxation necessary to 

 carry on this work in Essex County, to show their approval of 

 the work that has already been done, and to bid you Godspeed 

 on your work, to try to put more energy into you, if possible, 

 to keep you on the job. 



We believe that this work can be done and accomplished to 

 such an extent that the mosquito will be practically nil in the 

 State of New Jersey. I want to say for my friend Dobbins over 

 there that we scarcely saw a mosquito until after that very heavy 

 rain the two weeks in the latter end of July and the first of 

 August, never saw one myself, but a few people said they did see 

 a few of them, and I consider the work Mr. Dobbins has done as 

 extraordinary, and if the rest of the State will go on and carry 

 out this work in the same efficient manner that it is being done 

 in Essex County, I assure you that the Clinton Hill Improvement 

 Association will use every effort, not only in Essex County but 

 with the Legislature, to assist you in every way possible in accom- 

 plishing your work. I thank you, gentlemen. 

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