New-York tribune., 1903-07-19
THE MOSQUITO PEST.
Worse than Usual This YeGr-Try-
ing Experiences in Many Places.

HtS LIT pcItCHICo tie U1 U'oI O'eON"'
And this was the year men Of science said we
would have mosquitoesi
Men Of ecience never made more serious mis-
take Never have the measly little pests been more
numerous or more active. There are decillions of
them, and more. The counting scale does not go
nearly high enough 10 include all of them.
Not only have they filed 10 Overhowing their old
.iule stamping grounds in New-Jersey. Long ISL
and and Staten Island, but they have found new
resorts where there human beings to be bled
All up and down the Hudson River the people OF
the bank towns are scratching. Manhattan Island,
in which Mr.. and Mrs Mosquito and all the little
skeeters usually get lost in the shuttle. is not ex-
empt Even the highest skyscraper does not es-
cape. A stenographer bitten by a Jersey
swamp angel 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon
The ticker is so busy with mosquito news these
days that there is hardly room the tape for
stock quotations. There is vein OF humor In
of the reports but can't really appreciate
St unless itching from twenty-five different bites
George Berdine. of New-Brunswck. sends word to
The Tribune that he killed 1s7 mosquitoes Wednes-
day morning in front of his house Did he use
club or a double barreed shotgun? The weapon is
the important part. for who cares for a dead mos
quito7 It careless of Mr.. Berdine TO omit par
ticulars
There is one part of New-York where the mos
quito pest is hailed with JOY. The willy, sant-eyed
Chinese is sitting back in his Mott Pell street
punk emporium and smiling the smile Of man
with whom opportunity is shaking hands. China
town is so permeated with the odor punk and in
that the mosquito never enters its boundaries.
there is not single rift in the Mongolian Lutte.
Much Chinese punk and joss sticks is going into
the suburbs in the arms Of suffering commuters.
In many suburban town the women go around
looking like Chinese idols, with smoking punk in
their hats in their shoes and other available places
Sling HI. the punk king of Chinatown says that
IL Is good the time of which he once dreamed
when Fourth Of July every day and Chinese
New Years twice Sundays. Mr.. Sling viii put
window Of stained glass in the Mott-st. joss house
In honor Of the mosquito family.
At Watsessing. which is in the town Of Bloom
field. State of New-Jersey, a band Of forty
quitoes entered a saloon just dusk upset the
beer glasses, spilling end Of good liquor. They
carried hatchets and were heading back to Kansas
Just a week ago the pest descended on Albany
and lost time getting to work the State Off
Gals There were 6Ss 72l. .44692 mosquitoes in this
little band, according the count of the State
statstician, who has juggled with figures so long
he can't lie. To date 1,89199S have been killed.
The good folks Of East Orange have quit patting
themselves the head. Their boasted scheme for
fooling the 'moskeat' has failed AS usual the
pesky Varmints fooled them. The East Orange
scheme was to keep the house entirely in darkness
The mosquitoes promptly went into partnership
with the lightning bugs and the good work goes on
In Twefth-st.. this city, a poet has gone
insane from an even hundred bites She started
an an HI4tns MOSQUITO oiTges. Ihen sonnets TO them
which in the blank of her derium began
. IumIny 1ull or gOre'
AT Riverhead, Long Island they have a species
which affords a good substitute for frogs legs
French papers please copy) The breakfast food
them into a new food for dyspeptics. Brooklyn
butchers selling the Staten Island oil-fed Nari
ETY. for dog meat-ten to the pound.
This reminds one Of the TottenviIle woman who
believed IN the oil theory. She out to oil
puddle in the front yard The mosquitoes greedy
things, wouldn't wait until she poured IL out. They
took the can away from her and Tapped up the oil
greedlIy Then they went of to Asbury Park to
lynch a mosquito who had been converted
suicide. over in suburb of Newark there lives a
man who believed in sprinkling oil until he found
Tor the feeding.
At some OF the resorts the mosquito is furnishing
an excuse for women TO smoke cigarettes. Some OF
The best families have taken 1t up. Moralists may
shake their heads. but If the mosquitoes can be
kept away the end justfes the means. At STAN
ford. Conn
Editors Note-At this point the reporter ''passed
on the poison injected into his veins a
through the mosquito infested region of NewJersey
having nnshed him. Poor fellow What happened at
Stamford we have means of knowing. I'm
ooubtedly he was leading to the important dis
coyery made by a bugoiogist of the Public Health
and Marine Hospital Service at Washington, which
was to be the point Of his story.
This discovery is of a noble parasite which fs
sure death to the most energetic MOSQUITO Mos
quitoes who have them don't live long, and. better
Tor the new parasite held early in the week
The name decided is Agamonernis culicis-
formidable enough even for mosquito discovery.
The of fame this +o
DR.. Charles Wardel Stiles. already known TO fame
as the discoverer of the hook worm. or law bug
the germ OF the non-strenuous life The doctor was
trying to graft this oafing bacillus the MOSQUITO
tribe when he discovered the new and sure death
parasite. The government will take steps to grow
few billions OF them. All hail. Agamomernis
culicis!