FRIDAY EVENING SESSION 



(The meeting was called to order at 8:30 P. M. by President 

 Rider). 



President Rider: We have with us Mr. Nyhen, of Brookline, 

 Massachusetts, who is engaged in the work of dispensing with flies 

 as well as mosquitoes ; and the automobile has done so much for us 

 in the way of destroying flies that we have less to look after. The 

 horse and stable and stable manure that we used to have so much 

 of is partly eliminated, and it would be an easy matter, if we could 

 give the same attention to flies that we do to mosquitoes now, to get 

 entirely rid of those. 



Mr. Nyhen : Mr. President and gentlemen of the New Jer- 

 sey Mosquito Extermination Association : I am going to tell the old 

 old story, that I have come to learn, come to hear what you 

 have to say rather than to deliver any prepared report of what we 

 have done up in Massachusetts. As I have sat here and listened 

 to the papers which have been read the last two days it has struck 

 me forcibly that I have little to tell you that you have not presented 

 in a way which was so instructive to me that I can go back home, 

 after twenty years work, with new ideas, with a renewed courage 

 and feeling that New Jersey is leading the states of the Union in 

 this particular kind of an anti-mosquito campaign. 



It is refreshing to get down here and meet men who will work 

 for a substantial appropriation that is worth while, who be- 

 lieve in the movement and know its value from an economic and 

 health point of view. I look into your faces and see that you are 

 here for business, that you are giving your time and paying out 

 good money to get new ideas, to push this work for the benefit of 

 humanity, and for the municipalities that you represent, so that 

 your people may enjoy the health-giving pleasures and relaxation in 

 the sunshine free from the mosquito pest. And it is worth while 

 doing something good for your neighbors and your state. 



I am going to bring back the history of this convention to 

 Massachusetts ; I am going to show the public at home that the 

 people of other states and municipalities are thinking intensively 

 and accurately about the solution of the mosquito problem. 



Now the work that we are doing in Massachusetts may be con- 

 sidered under three heads ; work done by the state, work done by 

 the various municipalities, and work done by private individuals. 



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