PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Eighth Annual Meeting 



OF THE 



New Jersey Mosquito Extermination Association 



HELD AT 



Atlantic City, N. J., April 28-29, 1921 



THURSDAY EVENING SESSION. 



(The meeting was called to order at 8.45 P. M. by President 

 Rider). 



President Rider : The meeting will come to order. We have 

 taken Atlantic City again by storm if not with a storm, as last year. 

 The Mayor sends us his regrets that he is not here to welcome us, 

 but he has sent a gentleman, Mr. Joseph A. McNamee, to extend a 

 welcome to us to Atlantic City. 



Mr. Joseph A. McNamee : Mr. President and gentlemen of the 

 Mosquito Convention : It is a great honor and privilege to welcome 

 you to Atlantic City on behalf of the Mayor and the citizens of the 

 city and to commend you for the splendid work you are doing. It 

 is because of this great work that Atlantic City has attained the 

 eminence that it has today. We are proud of our resort. I have 

 heard expressions of pride tonight and, with the consent of 

 my good friend City Clerk Hand, of our neighboring residential sec- 

 tion, Ventnor City, I am going to take the opportunity to paraphrase 

 them. Mr. Hand had a British friend who had traveled all over 

 the country, going from California to the Atlantic and from the Gulf 

 to the Lakes. On being asked which city in all of his travels in this 

 country impressed him the most, he replied, after studying a little, 

 "'Atlantic City." "Why," he was asked. "Because," he replied, 

 "while I find Atlantic City the quietest city I have visited, I also 

 find it has an awfully strong undercurrent." (Laughter). 



I think that it is this undercurrent which has gone far to make 

 our city famous and to make it successful. 



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