Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-07-13
KILL OFF MOSQUITOES
CONNECTICUT CLAIMS
TO HAVE A WEAPON
And it Does the Business--E
With Guarantee--Gets $500
for q Starter
on il.

Fairfield, Conn, June 22.-This town
has a mosquito plague that is making
life unbearable for the many New
Workers who come here to rest and re-
euperate during the summer, and for
the thousands of townspeople who are
here the year round. They tell all
sorts of stories about the industrious
qualities of this breed of mosquito.
Most OF these yarns one would not
question SO very much after spending
night or two in parts Of the village
where the mosquito is particularly vo-
racious.
For fifteen years or more the towns
people every summer have had this
question brought home to them by the
mosquito: How can we get rid Of the
nuisance? About all the response that
came was the purchase Of more screen
uetting or an extra bottle or two Of
liquid camphor to rub over the spots
where the mosquito had landed.
Straneg to say, what was first feared
when the reports Of the mosquito pest
were sent out. namely. that the town
would be Stunned by the summer tour
list. has not happened. All the summer
people come here lust as of old
But this year band of public
spirited and long suffering and patient
citizens decided that II fifteen years of
annual agitation of the question CT
eradicating the evil wasn't warning
enough for the MOSQUITO, material
steps should be taken to put the pest
out OF existence. The town has a VII
lage Improvement society and this Or
ganization determined to get after the
MOSQUITO in dead earnest.
This decision was perhaps FASTENED
by the fact that this year the mos.
Guitoes started in business earlier by
couple OF weeks than ever before and
that their bite appeared to have more
sting to It than formerly. II was de-
cided to invite the most expert mos
quito annihilator in this part of New
England to come to town at once and
begin his deadly work. DR.. VIII.
Donaldson. one of the leading physi-
clans of Fairfield, presided at the
meeting at which this decision was
taken, in the absence of the society's
president. Benjamin Belts. The secre-
tary of the meeting was the Rev. A. E.
Beeman of the Episcopal church of
Fairfield, one of the most even temper
ed gentleman in all Fairfield county,
but who has suffered SO much from
mosquito bites that he has Joined
heartily in the war of determination.
A Mr.. Hopson. who will have a
monument erected to commensurate
his good works II half Of what he
promised comes true, told the Improve
ment Society that with $1,000 for a
starter he would Danish so per cent
Of the mosquitoes this season. He has
been killing mosquitoes for twenty
years. II is a profession with him.
His guarantee to the suffering Fairfield
people was his record as head ex-
terminator In neighboring localities.
He made a speech 10 that meeting
which within twenty-four hours
brought $500 to a subscription list for
money to aid in killing mosquitoes In
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| Hopson's knowledge of the mos
quito. as his talk to the society indi-
Gated, has been gained by years of bat
tie against this pest along the shore
front in Fairfield county. He knows
where the insects go to sleep for the
long winter, where they have their In.
cubators that hatch out millions of the
tormentors in a night, and he can put
his finger right on their breeding dis.
tricts. His campaigns against the mos.
quito In Stratford have been SO sue.
cessful that the people of that place
revere his name. They have an occa,
sional delegation of mosquitoes there
on visit once in a great while, but the
community is practically free from
them.
The Rev. Mr.. Beeman explained
how HoEson will go to work to rio
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