148 



this little tool that I devised and have found serviceable in my 

 work. I think that with it you can remove the ooze from ditches 

 or running water where ordinary shovels or drags are inefficient. 

 My foremen agree that one man with this tool does the work of 

 three with ordinary shovels, and without getting in the ditch. It 

 is a case where pull is better than push, and I think you will find 

 it as useful as I have. There is no patent on it, anybody can use 

 it, any blacksmith or shovelmaker can make it. 



The: President — I understand the Bound Brook Board of 

 Trade has a representative here, and we will be very glad to hear 

 from him. 



(No response.) 



I understand Mr. S. R. Morse, the Ex-Curator of the Museum, 

 is here, and we would be glad to hear from him. 



Mr. Morse — Gentlemen, my whole heart and soul has been in 

 this work for more than twenty years. When I was appointed, 

 twenty years ago, Curator of the New Jersey State Museum, I 

 wanted to make a collection of the insects of the State. I wrote 

 down to Washington to find the best man I could to assist me, 

 and the reply came, "You have him at Rutgers College, Prof. 

 John B. Smith." From that time until his death John B. 

 Smith and I worked together. When I had the State exhibits at 

 St. Louis and Jamestown, and I wanted to get up an exhibit 

 showing how to exterminate mosquitoes, I asked John B. Smith 

 if he could do it. He said, "Yes," and he did it in three weeks. 

 We made the exhibit in St. Louis and also Jamestown, and it 

 was so interesting" to people that they came from, France, England 

 and all over the world to examine the exhibit "how to ex- 

 terminate mosquitoes." I think it was the first exhibit of the 

 kind in a World's Fair, and I have been to all of them in our 

 country. It is. now established, and has been for some time in 

 the New Jersey State Museum at Trenton. It can be seen by 

 all of you if you go there. It has all the different mosquitoes 

 of New Jersey and many outside of the State, and tells just 

 how, with the illustrations and descriptions, to exterminate them. 

 I think it would be of advantage to the Commissioners to go 

 and study it in the New Jersey State Museum. 



