Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-20
SEEING THE FAIR
 IN D DETAIL

fled Among the Fishes-Jersey Has
 Spent Thousands Upon a Pest That Is Universal and Generously Tips Of
 the World With Her knowIedee-The Riches of Haiti = Island Seeking
 American Capitai-A Nation of Good ] People, Says Commissioner Romaine. l ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE BY MARK BENNITTl
 The mosquito never had such honor l since the world began as he has now
 at the worlds fair, In the great
 Palace of Foresty, Fish and Game,
 amid the profoundest of exhibits and
 most stately neighbors, the Jersey mos quito may proudly say, Here am
 one O ye, gol derp ye" Of course be 1 belongs to the Electricity building in l the exhibits of electric buzzers, or in
 the Palace of Liberal Arts, among the
 surgical instruments. Chief Smith
 might claim him i'll the Palace of
 Transportation in the airship section.
 But, no. Dr. Bean has him in For
 estry, Fish and Game-frBt, I suppose,
 because he is fish immediately after matching and then a game bird for ve-
 randa sttters who are dexterous with i the palm of the hand in bringing him down in the dark
 l The great state of N. J. had long
 been N. c. in some parts as place of
 residence. The Jersey mosquito had become an intolerable curse, known l far and vide on account of size, in- l dustry and strenuousness generally. 1 Therefore Jersey makes this exhaus- l tive mosquito exhibit as an adver-
 tisement of her enterprise in com I batting a pest that she could not con- I ceal.
 l MT. Mosquito is here in bottles some
 hundreds in number. He is impaled on pins numbered and otherwise labeled
 till he looks like the trophy display in l a village of head hunters On other shelves and in other cases and bottles l we are shown all the kinds of fish,
 bugs and beetles they have in Jersey to eat mosquito larvae. A dismem- bered mosquito is magnified and spread over a space as large as the l side of newspaper, every part mum bered and named till he looks as mag l niicent and important as the diagram of man. his mere victim.
 l Still another case contains salt marsh in miniature showing how pools of water gather in low places when 1t l myriads of mosquitoes. Photographs show experiments with castor beans as I preventive of mosquitoes near dwell ings, but which proved to be but homes for more mosquitoes.
 The scientific results are that mos l 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 l furnish breeding places. Even the 1 pitcher plant of the lowlands or toma- to cans in the back alley or anything that will 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 in her several exhibits at the worlds fair. but it is more interesting if you can have M Romaine tell it to you with his brilliant digressions and enthusi-
 astie emphasis. Ask a few questions in the Haitian exhibits in the Palace oq p1 ar n hour listening to his fascinating nara tive. Haiti is but one-third of the great island as to territory but three fourths of it 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 rough land or mountains" But Haiti has valleys and table lands, mountain slopes and river deltas that yield so bountifully that many times her pres ent population might thrive if her lands were all cultivated.
 What Haiti seeks is American capi- tal to develop her copper, iron, plati- mum and other deposits of useful min erals. Her vast forests of mahogany and other cabinet woods still await LuS cOullLB OL cAtCkpI4S1AS PCOPAS " claim them and market their riches.
 we came late to the fair,' said M. Ronaine, the Haitian commissioners, t'and were denied the space we sought, so that what you see is very little of what we might display.
 There's a bit of cloth that took a first prize at the Columbian exposi- tion. 1t is hand woven and most skill fully done. While we sell to France almost our entire coffee crop, we buy our supplies from America. We use your flour, soap, hardware, cloth all the staples, in fact. We want to see a closer commercial relationship with the people of the United States. At this moment can point to $2,000, GOO worth of copper ore above ground but twenty-five miles from the sea coast. You can blast it down, smelt 1t and market the product at a profit oP 1On vonw o0ot RnOoath fh{a 0Y1f-