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The President — Gentlemen, you have heard the report of 

 your Committee on Resolutions. What action will you take 

 about it ? 



Mr. Brooks — I move their adoption. 



(This motion was duly seconded and carried.) 



The President — I would like to call upon the Director of the 

 Hudson County Board of Freeholders. I understand he is here. 

 If he is here, we would like to hear from him. If not, I would 

 call on Mr. A. J. Rider, of the Atlantic County Commission, who 

 requested a few moments, and it gives me pleasure to introduce 

 him. 



Mr. Rider— Mr. Chairman, it is not often I request to be 

 placed in a position of this kind. I am sometimes forced to talk, 

 with no possible avenue of escape, and I have to talk. This time 

 I asked for the privilege of saying a few words because I thought 

 possibly I had some information which would be useful to the 

 members of this Association. I always wondered why Judge 

 Kalisch took the trouble to write me a personal letter, and ask 

 be to accept the position on the Commission of Atlantic County. 

 It occurred to me last night why it was — they had five doctors 

 on the ^Commission and they had one man whose name was Rube. 

 That man Rube resigned from the Commission. I thought the 

 Judge probably was thinking that, as* they had lost one Rube, 

 they had better get a real Rube, and so he appointed a farmer 

 on the Commission. 



Ever since that time I have been trying to discover what serv- 

 ice I could be to the Commission or in the eradication of mos- 

 quitoes. I haven't found anything though. When I came to meet 

 the five doctors of this Commission, my good friends Dr. Dar- 

 nall, Dr. Pollard, Dr. Guion, Dr. Fish and Dr. Garrabrant, and 

 see them with their rubber boots on, up to their hips, wading 

 through the mud, I could not see need of another Rube, but I 

 could see the reason why they have succeeded so well in their 

 work of exterminating mosquitoes in Atlantic County. 



Now, coming to the point that I said I thought maybe I had 

 some information that would be valuable to you, I brought along 



