Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-12
MOSQUITOES THRIVE.
The Insects Do We'll on Oils Spread
 for Their Destruction.
New Jersey Town Goes to Greal Trouble to Destroy the Pests, But
 They Multiply and Become a Plague.

Science, sc far as the extermination of mosquitoesfis concerned, has received 8 severe blow in South Orange, N.1J-, a little but very aristocraties and select village. The home of millioHaires, it was not to be supposed that it would be permitted that their comfort and re- pose should be interfered with by so common a thing as mosquito, says the New York Commercial Advertiser. Con- sequently last year it was determined to exterminate and forever prevent the multiplication of the strenuous little pest
 $ A mosquito committee was appointed, consisting of scientists, reformers and members of the First Presbyterian church, the last being the original re- igious home of all that is good in South Orange. The committee promptly got to work, and, having secured the nec- essary money, they laid in a supply of crude oil and proceeded to have allcess- pools, ponds and streams well deluged herewith The work made the hitherto fragrant village smell in spots very
 much like a section of Bayonne or Hun ter's Point, but the committee asserted that the village was free from mos quitoes last summer On this point there was conflict of opinion. There is no conflict of opinion, however, on the question this summer. The committee is humbled to the dust.
 Never before in the memory of the oldest inhabitant--and there are some pretty aged ones in this viIlage-were there so many mosquitoes here as there are this summer Where there was one years ago there are millions now, ac- cording to the most veracious citizens. Not only have they apparently been in- creased in number by the liberal sprin- king of crude oil on the waters and marshes, but they have seemingly so thrived on the diet provided for their extermination that they have waxed fat, grown larger in size and more brutally voracios1s in their habits. q Were South Orange not law-abiding community 1t is dificult to say what might not. be the fate of the mosquito committee.
 The plague is on, however, and the only persons who are deriving any bene- fit from it are the owners.of drug stores. The supply of joss sticks has given out and the druggists are kept busy selling p6nlyFOyal, Olf OL CGT at30 CltIOAGfiG OH for peopletoa nnointthemseiv with be- fore retiring, SC. as torget scuRe sleep. Tn some stores thesupply fss exhausted. It is impossible to<sits ont of doorsand even in church devout worship is almost out of the question. The buzz of the mos Quitoes almost drowns the chofrs.
 There is another and perhaps more serious feature connected with the at tempt of the. committee to suppress the mosquitoes and which may result in someone having to pay damages for one of the results of their good intentions. l It seems that COWS which have drunk of the ofl-sprayed streams or ponds have l proved more vulnerable than the mos 1 quitoes. Atleast one COW has died, it is said, as result thereof, and the milk of other cows is favored with the oil | and is unstable. On the whole, there l fore, the mosquito committee is coming l in for good deal of unfavorahle criti- l cism and not little chaR.