The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-15
NEW YORK CITY GOSSIP.
PHOTOGRAPHS Air AND CATCHES
GERMS WITH GELATINE
Fashionable Club Annoyed by Spite
Fence Erected Because of Refusal
to Buy NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of
Shrike Bird Worries Park Board.

NEW YORK, July 14-Comnission-
er John McGaw Woodbury., of the
street cleaning department, is engaged
IN taking number Of photographs Of
the air: Air" pictures are being taken
In various parts of the CITY. and the
plants which are being used are s1Is-
pended from one to six feet from the
ground.
Air" photography was conceived bv
the commissioner for the purpose of
ascertaining which portion of the city
is most infested with disease germs,
SO that arrangements can be made
later on to fight the bacilla tooth and
nail.
GeIat1ne plates are being used for
the new Photographic enterprise. The
germs are caught on the plates and
then developed. AS soon as the culture
is complete the plates with the germs
are SUBJECTED to micro photograph
Whlch Will have to be done under the
direction of the board Of health. Com
missioner Woodbury. has placed the
supervision of this branch of the work
OF his department in the hands Of
Lieutenant Commander McDonough
Craven, mechanical draughtsman and
engineer. Prof. James Ewing, Of Cor
nell, is attending to the archaeological
work.
From the experiments thus far made
Commissioner Woodbury. feels satisfied
that the enterprise will prove a sue
cess. When the different sections of
the city have been photographed and
the plates developed the department
can tell at glance what the condition
Oh the air is in various localities.
Mr. Woodbury. said that various sec
lions or the city will be photographed
at regular intervals, with a view to
| showing the changes in the conditions
| of the air.
Club Is Spite Victim.
Members of the fashionable Mont
clair club threaten vengeance upon the
| owners of the lot adjoining their club
house for erecting a five-foot spite
fence within six feet of the clubhouse
Some are thinking of carrying the
matter into the courts.
| The erection of the fence is the out
come of the failure of the club to per-
chase the lot from the Earl estate at
the price demanded. Threats were
made by the estate to cut a street
through the property and to erect tene-
ment houses. This did not scare club
members and nothing more was heard
OF the matter until carpenters began
| to dig post holes and erect the fence.
! The Town Improvement association
and the First Presbyterian church
members are also Indignant and
| threats have been made to tear the
fence down.
Shrike Bird Is Wanted.
| Secretary to the Park Board George
F. Terry is inclined to resent state
| ments that all possible is not being
| done to exterminate caterpillars,
which have appeared as usual in the
summer, on the trees, shrubs and
plants in Central and the smaller
parks. Mr.. Terry said that a systema-
tic war with an increased force of men
and improved implements is being
! waged on the pests in every direction.
1--WE have four times as many men
employed in the chronological depart
ment as ever before" said Mr.. Terry,
land three times more spraying ma
chinery and other apparatus. The
eaterpillars in Central park are being
rapidly destroyed and in the course Of
a few days the trees will be clean.
Then the cocoons will be removed and
that will prevent the August Matching
of the crawlers, for they hatch three
| times during summer"
| The shrike bird, that eats caterpil-
| lars, has not put in his appearance.