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ment, as some of the other gentlemen have been in, that we were 

 going to read somebody else's paper, the Secretary of the Cape May 

 County Commission, of which I happen to be the gentleman, is part 

 of a sort of Poobahism, holding public offices in which he gets very 

 little time in which to write up on mosquitoes, and so occasionally 

 he puts a squib into the paper. 



Up to the time in which the mosquito work began in Cape May 

 County it was scarcely bearable in the summer time. I believe I 

 recollect a little incident of a friend of mine that used to come down 

 to Cape May Point. I think I related this last year. He is a 

 musician, a man older than myself, at least by ten years. He used 

 to come down to a place known as the Delaware House, at the ex- 

 treme point of the cape. It became infested with mosquitoes. At 

 that particular time there was a bar ; prohibition was not in existence 

 then ; and the gentlemen, musicians, used to invite themselves up to 

 the bar, and when the beer was on, the foam reaching to the top, 

 he immediately discovered that it was black with mosquitoes and 

 he had to blow them off with the froth. Over there they sat in a 

 little open pavilion and it was necessary to cover it around with a 

 mosquito netting so that they could play without so much discomfort. 

 But now you can go anywhere in Cape May City, and about three 

 times in the summer you may have mosquitoes, but not more. Even 

 last summer, with all the disadvantages of weather, we only had 

 two severe infestations, of about two nights each. Fortuntaely the 

 wind was in our favor, but unfortunately it was not in favor of the 

 last gentleman, but so it was with us. You know a southeast wind 

 does not give us many mosquitoes ; it takes a westerly wind to do it. 



Now if it is not imposing upon you, and as the Secretary wishes 

 this paper read, we will proceed. There is a certain creed in certain 

 churches like this : ''Whosever will be saved, before all things it is 

 necessary that he hold the Catholic faith." I want to paraphrase it 

 this way; *'Whosever will be saved must believe in mosquitoes ex- 

 termination." 



Mr. William Porter : As we review the work of the Cape May 

 County Mosquito Commission for the season of 1920, we feel more 

 than satisfied with the results, although we fully realize there might 

 be a difference of opinion if the matter were taken up with those 

 not connected with the work. 



In spite of the weather conditions and the great storm late in 

 the winter ; which damaged all our drainage systems, this commission 

 reduced the Aedes sollicitans to the point where they were only a 



