N. J. Mosquito Extermination Association 87 



THURSDAY EVENING SESSION. 



(The meeting convened at 8:15 P. M., President Charles 

 Lee Meyers presiding.) 



President Meyers — The meeting will please come to order. 

 The first paper at this session will be read by Mr. Peter H. 

 Woodward, General Passenger Agent of the Long Island Rail- 

 road Company, who has been very much interested in mosquito 

 control. The same problem we have had is his problem in Suf- 

 folk and Nassau Counties, Long Island. 



I take great pleasure in introducing Mr. Woodward who will 

 speak on 



The Value of Mosquito Extermination Measured in Dollars 



and Cents. 



Mr. Woodward — Mr. President and Gentlemen : It is quite 

 an honor for a railroad man to be allowed in such a circle as 

 this circle of experts and crusaders, I will say; in other words, 

 a council where you plan for war. 



The magnitude of the work done by the New Jersey com- 

 missions and the work they are doing is a great revelation to 

 me because I am unacquainted with what you are doing. I have 

 lived on Long Island a good many years and have always thought 

 it was a necessary part of living to be pestered by mosquitoes. 

 I didn't know, however, until the other day that in Suffolk 

 County where I live we had the king stinger and the king bee of 

 all these different kinds of mosquitoes I have heard of. I learned 

 that from one of your own associates, Mr. Dobbins, of Essex 

 County. He told me that out in Suffolk County the other day 

 and I believe it. 



The paper that I have prepared is very simple and will hardly 

 be interesting, I am afraid, to most of you, because you are 

 experts and technically interested, but it is from the standpoint 

 of dollars and cents, as I put it. That is the view that I am 

 taking of it, as a passenger traffic official of the railroad; and 

 this is what I prepared in connection with this meeting. 



The medical profession, the skilled drainage engineers and 

 experienced commissioners from various counties in New Jersey 

 and neighboring states, will tell the members of this associa- 

 tion of the wonderful results from their work in the extermina- 

 tion of the mosquito. They will dwell on the work from the 

 standpoint of health and general happiness. 



