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Mr. Judd — Mr. Chairman and gentlemen: As Dr. Darnall 

 has said, I represent the CHnton Hill Improvement Association, 

 and, as I stated last year, an association of about 850 members 

 now, representing a taxable valuation — I said last year of over 

 $10,000,000, but I was advised by the Board of Governors that 

 I could more than double that as the amount of representation 

 of taxable valuation of the property owned by the members of 

 the Clinton Hill Improvement Association. 



The Clinton Hill Improvement Association is composed of 

 business men, manufacturers, merchants and professional men 

 in all lines of endeavor. They are watching this mosquito ex- 

 termination work, and they are vitally interested in it, and so 

 strongly interested that they feel they should have a representa- 

 tive here at this meeting to express to you how well they appre- 

 ciate the work that has already been done. 



In Essex County we have a good Commission, under the able 

 leadership of Mir. Dobbins and Mr. Becker. They have accom- 

 plished wonders. Last season we scarcely saw a mosquito any- 

 where, very few, and those only in spots. But the object in 

 having me come here is to encourage you and to show that we 

 appreciate the work that you are doing and to encourage you to 

 go on further in this work, to ask you when you leave here and 

 go back to your work to go out with an earnest endeavor, with 

 a greater endeavor than ever before, with the feeling that this 

 work can be done, that it should be done, that it is one of the 

 most important works that ever was undertaken in the State of 

 New Jersey, and that you are not to be satisfied until you have 

 the mosquito under control throughout the entire section of five 

 hundred miles around New York. 



PrKSidknt Darnai,!, — We have now come, gentlemen, to the 

 close of the program. I want to say just a word as we close. 

 I want to thank you in the first place for honoring me with the 

 position of presiding officer, an honor that I fully appreciate, 

 and I believe that this meeting has been perhaps the most enthu- 

 siastic, the most far-reaching and the most splendid meeting that 

 we have had since we formed this organization. We have ac- 



