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So while the whole state, including the coastal region, in- 

 creased 307 per cent, the coastal section increased 414 per cent. 

 It may be retorted that a quarter-inch of adipose spread over 

 the human body would not be very conspicuous but on the end 

 of the nose it would be. The comparison has its lesson, never- 

 theless. 



Every state has certain assets peculiar to itself, others in com- 

 mon with sister states. For New Jersey we would claim : soil 

 and climate for agricultural development, opportunity for sub- 

 urban homes, commercial possibilities based on location between 

 two large cities, opportunity for port and harbor development, 

 waterfront, having in mind the Hudson, Hackensack and Passaic 

 rivers, Newark and Raritan bays. 



Great as they are to-day, the possibilities have hardly been 

 drawn upon. But when the salesman from New Jersey describes 

 our ocean-washed shores with the long string of pleasure bays 

 just behind them, connected the entire length with navigable 

 water, which from nothing have grown to be worth $300,000,- 

 000.00 with less than 10 per cent, of the ground even plotted, 

 but which has grown 100 per cent, faster than the rest o-f the 

 state, he is describing an asset as great, and with as many pos- 

 sibilities, as any of those above mentioned. 



New York may have her Adirondacks and Niagara, Colorado 

 her Rockies, Montana her Yellowstone,. Cahfornia her Yose- 

 mite, Arizona her Grand Canyon, but New Jersey takes no 

 second place when she invites the world to come and play on her 

 beaches. 



I should like to know how this seashore playground asset com- 

 pares with the others in growth, and I suppose further research 

 would inform us, but enough has been said to indicate, I think, 

 there is another candidate for Cinderella's slipper, and the sooner 

 it is recognized the more complete and happy the family will be. 



Now what has the mosquito to do with all this? Well, its 

 mighty sure she hasn't helped any. What we have we have in 

 spite of the mosquito. She has always been in the way and has 

 obstructed every move, whenever the winds and restrictions of 

 incubation permitted. 



There was a time when our forefathers, who were natural 

 pioneers, wanted to fish and bathe in the ocean so badly they 

 would endure the ride through the Pines in the de luxe article 

 of the times, whatever it was, and did not mind if the breaths of 

 salt air were pretty well mixed with ''sollicitans/' 



I do not believe that in 1870 many of the then palatial hotels 

 were screened, and even when they were enough mosquitoes 



