The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-08
new YORK CITY GOSSIP
WAR OF DETERMINATION BEGUN
AGAINST MOSQUITO.
System of Watch Inspection Installed
on Central Railway Disiiked by En-
pioyes-InternationaI Committee of
NC. A. Pledged Million Dollars.

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-THE board of
health is marshaling its forces for a
wwarfare against the mosquito. A spe-
cialty is to be made of the Bronx in
sect. because it is there that its OPP
erations have been most noted. There
are crusades pending elsewhere, how
ever, including Central park.
Headed by Sanitary Engineer George
A. Euper and Psychologists William
F. Klein and William N. Buckley, who
have made the life and habits of the
mosquito a special study, the favorite
haunts of the pest are to be sought out
and life to be made q burden to both
the misunderstanding anopheles and
the less dangerous culex.
The wholesale determination Of the
mosquito has become regular study
of health. This year DR.. Lederle will
have splendid opportunity for pur-
suing the war, because about twenty
trained inspectors, who have for weeks
been active in the Tenement House
department, have been again turned
over to him and will assist him in his
anti mosquito crusade.
There will be three methods en-
ployed. Either objectionable pools will
be filled up or theywater win be drained
from them, or oil will be poured on
them. The board has already ordered
twenty-five barrels of petroleum for
this purpose. The petroleum will be
Sprinkled sparingly upon the surface
of the stagnant pools from the edges.
Sprinxling cans purposely fashioned
for the purpose, and which the health
department already has, are to be used
for doing this.
It is DR.. Lederle's opinion that pool
in which the little "wrigglers' which
develop into the mosquito exist, is a
public nuisance. Circulars explaining
the duty of citizens in this regard are
now being printed, and are to be dis
tributed throughout the various bor-
oughs. The inspectors will also be
called together soon to ~~ten to lee
ture upon the subject of the mosquito.
In the boroughs of Richmond and
Queens the field of operation has al
ready been laid out and the inspectors
have received some instruction upon
their duties. At several points on
Long Island, notably at Cedarnurst
and Flushing, the work of mosquito
extermination has already been begun
by private enterprise.
Install Watch Inspectors.
An order has been issued requiring
employees of the Central railroad of
New Jersey to equip themselves with
watches that will not vary more than
thirty seconds a week. The require
ment, which has already gone into eff
feet, has aroused a storm of protest.
The men say that compliance will
put them to great expense. 1t is said
that the tower men have refused to
buy new watches.
A circular distributed among the en-
ployes by the company explains that
for the Improvement of its service it
proposes to have watches of the grade
known among jewelers. as nickel
17-jewel, Patent Regulator, Adjusted to
Heat and Cold and Three Positions .
the variations of which must not ex-
coed thirty seconds per week in uni
versal use on the road. and it prescrib-
es the names of five firms whose time
pieces must be bought in order to full
fill this requirement. A paragraph
states that the company does not in
tend to compel men who have watches
that come up to the new standard to
buy others, but some Of the men say
that few such watches are in the serv-
ice.
Others declare the company's state
ment insincere, and say that good
many who own watches that cost from
500 to 5000 will find it necessary to
buy new ones owing to the exacting
requirements.
In connection with the scheme the
Central has installed a number of syn
cnTODlZGQ S0lI-Wl11dlLS CLOCKS along us
lines with which the trainmen are to
compare their watches, and it will also
institute an elaborate system of watch
inspection. The men are strictly for
hidden to interfere with their time
pieces, and inspectors only may regu-
late and set them. The circular also
states that the new watches may
be purchased from the company, but
does not give their price.
Y. M. C. A. Million Dollar Fund.
The international committee of the
Young Mems Christian association has
announced that 1t has been pledged
the million dollar endowment fund for
which 1t has been striving, and for
which the impulse had been given dur
ing the Jubilee year by the promise
of $3.50, 900 from one of its best friends
OF the amount pledged six persons
gave $4,000. Only $50 persons beside
association secretaries were asked to
subscribe, and of that number fifty-six
contributed. "a
The payment of subscriptions to the
fund was begun last month. The COM
mittee in it's announcement says that
little financial aid will come this year
from the fund, as Tess than one-f fourth
of the $150,000 necessary to maintain
the international work can come from
the fund after investment.
Harry Tracy's Career of Crime.