Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-08-03
DOW'S GREAT BUG TRAP
Suggestions Of Republican Readers
for determination OF CEicAets.

The crickets having refused to leave
after repeated Invitations and threats
the public is now giving them not only
is passing thoughts but close scien-
tfic study, bringing into pla-- all its
/ inventive genius. UnquestionabIy
there is being developed a feeling OF
/ opposition that is destined to be pre-
/ judicial to the interests of these Insects
! To speak plainly there are many who
/ are now advocating the killing of the
cIickets and who are working in di-
Veis ways TO accomplish the slaugh-
ter.
Tuesday night various citizens ex-
perimented with ,he bonfire process
but without satisfactory results They
built fires near the electric lights hop
Ing to draw the crickets into them.
But the cricket is wise in his genera
ton and refuses to butt into am light
that hasn't got a glass over it, They
came out of their hiding places by
millions, approached the bonfire eau
uously, thawed out their frozen toes
and then crawled away again. They
viii come about so close to an open
fire and then they halt
Yesterday II. A. Dow, NJ. T., brought
to The Republican a drawing in ex-
PLANTATION of the operation OF what Prof
Dow calls his great bug trap. The Re
publican's art department was too busy
last night to prepare a cut of the new
device but it is susceptible of explana-
ton without a picture. First a pan
OF three feet or mora in diameter
should be secured and connected with
a sewer pipe by a small pipe in the
bottom. A hose should then connect
a nearby hydrant with the pan so a
constant stream of water would run
through the pan to the sewer. In the
center OF the pan there should be
gas jet or a large oil flame, a foot or
so high, to attract the bugs and scorch
their wings when they approach caus-
ing them to drop into the pan and
thence into the sewer. The Republican
has not tried this experiment. its la
bOratOry corps being now away on it's
summer vacation, but Prof. Dow said
nothing about his invention being pat
ented so ut is likely anybody can try
it who wants to without fear Of prose-
cutlon.
Another citizen called at this Office
last night with a suggestion. He
thought some sort of a big wire net
ting fly trapmight be suspended beneath
each arc light in a way that would
fool Mr.. Cricket. He meant a big re-
ceptacle with a narrow opening in
front of which might be a larger piece !
of netting for the crickets to fall /
against when buzzins round the lights. !
assuming that like flies they would |
crawl along the wire netting boulevard |
to the death trap. one of the hired |
men could be on hand to empty it when |
it got full That is unless the hired |
man got full.
Another scheme that is said to have |
been worked with some success is for
one man to carry a torch on the end |
Of a stick while another goes along |
b. his side throwing flour in the air
above the flame The flour burns like
when not used too freely
and by running the torch along the
walls where the crickets cOngregate
hey can be killed by thousands or
heir wings singed so they can be swept
up in piles and dumped in the sewer.
Various gentlemen have tried smok-
ng them out or killing them with
smoke in their hiding places in the
Tunes that cross the street but with
only limited success and others have
wasted quarts of bi-sulphide of carbon
md other insect killing drugs, in their
var against the crIclIets. They kill all
hey catch but they don't eaten enough
If them to do much good. After all a
nan can kill about as many Of them
" strolling along the sidewalk at
light and stepping on them, as in any
ther way yet discovered.
There seems to be d general impress
ion that if the electric lights We're
urned off for two or three nights the
ricketts, would go away but this is OPP
osed nv, those over. con ScieT1tiO1IS ner .
ons who fes~ that if they were driven
ut of Phoenix they would go to Tue
on and poster the sister city.