The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-08-26
SEEING THE FAIR
In DETAIL

Mosquito Display From Jersey--Classi-
fled Among the Fishes--Jersey Has
Spent Thousands Upon a Pest That
Is Universal and Generously Tips OFF
the World With Her Knowledge--Th
Riches OF Haiti - Island Seeking
American CaPital--A Nation Of Good
People, Says Commissioner Romano.
| ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS BY
MARK BENNITTl
! Tie mosquito never had such honor
since the world began as he has now
at the worlds fair. In the great
Palace Of kioresty, Fish ana Game,
amid the profoundest of exhibits and
most stately neighbors, the Jersey mos
quito may proudly say Here ann
one O. ye, goi dern We" OF course lie
belongs 10 the Electricity building In
the exhibits of electric buzzers, Or IN
the Palace Of Liberal Arts, among the
surgical instruments. Chief Smith
might claim him in the Palace Of
Transportation in the airship section.
But no pE Bean has him N For
esfry, Fish and Game first, suppose,
because he is a tish Immediately after
Matching and then a game bird for We
fanda sIttcrs Who are dexterous with
the palm Of the hand in bringing him
down in the dark
The great state of n. ]. had long
been N. g In some parts as a place Of
residence. The Jersey mosquito had
become an intoIerable curse. known
far and wide on account Of size, III
dustry and strenuousness generally.
| Therefore Jersey makes this exhaus-
tive mosquito exhibit as an adyer-
tisement Of her enterprise in com
batting pest that she could not con
ceal.
Mr. Mosquito Is here in bottles some
hundreds in number. He is impaled on
pins nunsoered and otherwise labeled
till he looks like the trophy display in
| a village OF head hunters. on other
shelves and in other cases and bottles
we are shown all the kinds Of fish,
bugs ana beetles they have In Jersey
to eat mosquito larvae. dismem-
bered mosquito is magnifed and
| spread over space as large as the
side Of newspaper. every part mum
bered and named till he looks as mag
nifcent and important as the diagram
| of man, his mere victim.
| Still another case contains d salt
marsh in miniature showing how pools
Of water gather in low places when it
rains and furnish breeding places for
myriads of mosquitoes. Photographs
show experiments with castor beans as
preventive Of mosquitoes near dwell
ings, but which proved to be but homes
for more mosquitoes.
The scientific results are that mos
quitoes do not breed in ponds where
there are fish or beetles or other bugs
to eat the larvae; that the country
must be so drained. that there can be
no pools or other stagnant water to
furnish breeding places. Even the
pitcher plant of the lowiands or toma
to cans iii the back alley or anything
that VIII hold water for a few days,
rain barrels and cisterns, are prolific
of the pest. New Jersey has therefore
done the world a service, and her dis
play Is full of interest and worthy Of
examination BY the methods proposed
Jersey hopes to overcome the mosquito
pest in ten years
How little we know Of Haiti, but
three days run from New York by
fast steamer, yet a land unknown to
most Of us! we read her story ID her
several exhibits at the worlds fair
but it is more interesting If you can
have NJ R0maine tell ii to you with \
his brilliant digressions and enthust
astle emphasis Ask a few questions
In the Haitian exhibits In the Palace
Of Forestry, and you will spend an
hour listening to his fascinating nara
tive Haiti is but one-third Of the
great island as to territory, but three
fourths Of ii as to population. Half
as large as Missouri, Haiti Is the Pearl
of the Antilles The name is Indian or
Caribbean, and its meaning Is trough II
land or mountains" But Haiti has
valleys and table lands, mountain
slopes and river deItas that yield 50
bountifully that many times her pres
eht population might thrive IL her
lands were all cultivated.
What Haiti seeks Is American CAPT
tai to develop her copper. iron, plat.
mum and other deposits Of useful mla
erals Her vast forests Of mahogany
and other cabinet woods still await
the coming Of enterprislng peo3le to