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all for your information regarding Ocean County. We are getting 

 along all right. We need more money, and as our enemies are 

 dying off one by one, or being converted, which is much the same 

 thing, it is going along all right. We have some flourishing resorts 

 down there that are holding their heads up now and are forgetting 

 what the old mosquito used to do to them. It is an unfortunate 

 fact, however, that there is just as much fuss made over six mos- 

 quitoes as there used to be over six hundred. (Applause). 



Secretary Headlee: Relative to the outlet of those glades, 

 last June, nearly a year ago now, a wooden trunk was installed 

 running from back of the sand rim at the mouth of the pocket, 

 entirely under the sand, being kept about eighteen inches under the 

 sand, out into the bay. This was carried out something around 

 one hundred feet, and at the end of that hundred feet a box, still 

 being under the sand, an upright chimney was placed, which came 

 about six inches above the sand bottom of the bay. Now a tide- 

 gate was placed on the inner end, which allowed the water to go out 

 but was planned not to allow the water to come in. 



Now this was an experiment and it was hoped that this tidal out- 

 let would stay open. Ever since that time the thing has been under 

 observation, so we have all last summer's experience, we have all 

 last winter's experince and all this spring's experince on it. We 

 thought at first that the seaweed would be sucked into the tube, 

 because we soon found that this gate, instead of closing, because 

 the difference in tide level was small, it simply flopped back and 

 forth except on exceptionally high tides. In order to keep the moss 

 from the glade from going into the trunk and the seaweed from 

 sucking into the drain, at the other end we placed wire screen, 

 quarter inch mesh, over each opening, and within a week of that 

 time the entire outlet was absolutely plugged as tightly as could be. 

 Mr. Walden was observing it. He went down there and found 

 that condition and finally decided to investigate the screen. He 

 pulled the screen off the chimney at the outer end, let it go down 

 the tide gate well and pulled the screen off the inner openmg; and 

 as soon as he pulled the screen off the inner opening he found the 

 screen was absolutely felted into a mass so that no water could go 

 through it. As soon as he pulled the screen out the water shot down 

 the tube and shot back immediately, struck the center plug, shot 

 back immediately and wet him from head to foot; and by the time 

 he got his head out of that tide gate well the sea water was coming 

 up on the outside. As soon as the plug had been blown out there 



