The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-23

show everybody what nad alFeauy peeu
| Mr. Whitney. Mr.. Weeks then showed
OF, maps the scope OF the work in South
! Brooklyn and back Of Coney Island and
I invited everybody to walk out with nun
and see what was being done on the Mm.,
ney place and the Garretson farm by the
! men working under his direction.
| The first place visited was small bog
! back Of the betting ring at the Sheepshead
! Bay racecourse Here a man with can OF
oil on his back was lodging arou,u h y ' no
squirt a ft,e of the oil into the greenish
: water. -.
apetrolizng," remarked Mr.. Weeks,
: WHAT" asked one of the railroad men
! in the party.
/ The scientific persons looked. pityingly
on the railroad man while Mr.. Weeks in a..
/ simple language as he could command
expliincd that pctrolzing bog was pour
: ina Kerosene oil on the larvn of the mos
! quito. Back of Garrotson's Creek is large
! swamp formed and fed by the backing up
! of tidnwater. This is famous breeding
place for mosquitoes and MIR. Weeks mas a
! small army of men at work there. AZ the
party approached II they noticed hundreds
Of little sticks with red and white flags on
! them. stuck about the swamp.
( The white flags mark the lines OF the
bitches we are building explained Mr.
I Weeks "The red ones that stand erect
| are spots not tackled yet. those az s'ghl
( angle have been IeroliZed,
Yes, yes, of course certainly, remarked
! the railroad men. ,,
This swamp has been very much changed
| since we began work here, SAID Mr. Weeks !.
! "Our ditch has drawn of the water SO that
| 1t il quite pleasant walking
Three members of the party sank IN me
mud up to their knees at this point and the
water closed over the shoetops OF two
! others but they got considerable conSoa-
, ton out of the assurance of Mr. Weeks
that 1t was very much worse two weeks
ago. i
| the edge OF the ditch where they got the
! first view Of Mr.. Weekss system Of exter-
| minating mosquitoes. BY means Of ditohes
Mr.. Weeks is draining of the water, from
| the bogs and swamps Men with oil cans
| are on the lookout for larvP. and whenever
they find one they douse i liberally WIN
the water is drained of Of the swamps, the
! land is filed in and made firm and solid.
At places near the coast, like the swamp
! back of Carrot sons Creek, II may be neces-
prevent the water from getting back at
! ahnormslly high tides and recon verting
| the land into swamp.
On the Ciarretson farm Mr.. Weeks has
! under construction almost quarter OF
! mile of bitches. and he believes it will In
very short time result in the complete ex-
| termination of the breeding places in this
| vicinity. All ~ the scientists declared
| that Mr.. Weeks's work was OF he highest
order and that the mosquito was doomed
in that section. but meanwhile there were
frequently slapping Of trousers and scra' En- g,
party, eloquent evidance Of the fact that the
: MOSQUITO may have been knocked out in
, theory, but is still in practice in the neigh
, borhood
The worl, on Mr.. Whitney's place at the
head Of the Fu'urity course was inspected
by the party. and various other qua gmires
and swamps where Mr.. Weeks has been at
work were visited. Mr.. Weeks said there
was still some Of Mr. Whitney's fund left
to continue fighting tho mosquito and the
work would be pushed. in the hope that the
pest would be reduced to minimum befo re
the opening of the racing season next
month.
Before leaving the scientists cong~atn-
lated Mr.. Weeks and said that his work
met their views on the subject Of mos
! quito eStermination. One OF the Govern;
, many photographs, all Of which will be
embodied in a learned treatise on the subject
Of mosquito determination shortly to b. Is
sued from the Government Printing Once