The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-07
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| farthest point of land and then drown
ed the whole bunch, surprised his
| brother members by walking in upon
them with photographs of his drainage
systems and many tales OF the hunt.
Comptroller Metz. who goes in for
anything that savors of bloodshed since
he got a staff appointment in the Old
Guard couple of days ago. was also
on hand, Other prominent bugsters
present were Vice President Walter c.
Kerr, John Clafiin. Stewart Hartshorn.
Colgate Hoyt. Roland r. Conklin, DR..
H. B. Gibson, Henry Clay Weeks. Dr.
C. B. Davenport of Carnegie Institute.
Prof. Hooper of Brooklyn, r. c. Beach
of the Scientific American, George II.
Frost of the Engineering News, the
Hon. L. l.. Tribus, Spencer Miller.
Judge Seaman. August Heckscher and
Z, NJ. Bently.
The ladies' of the Anopheles maculi-
pennis sub-family. who, fly from board
er to boarder crying ''Stung!" and rub
ting in a few malaria germs for fear
they haven't been overheard, got theirs
both ways across the board. The en-
tOnolos SITS didn't want to be put down
as a crowd of knockers. but-the
Anopheles maculipenn:s girls are no
good.
DIR. L. o. Howard. the Governments
chief entomologist, who was about the
first to begin to put it all over the ma
laria spreaders, was present at the din
ner As DR.. Howard will sail today on
a tour of investigation for the Agri-
culture Department the dinner took on
somewhat the nature of a sendon to
the distinguished bug chaser.
When the doctor was called upon to
speak he told OF the interest he had
taken in mosquitoes back in the days
of his boyhood and how he has sought
ever since to make them come right up
and eat out of his hand. DIR. Howard
reviewed the early work of mosquito
determination and congratulated the
society for the good work done not
only by the organization as such but
by the individuals.
The anti-mosquito movement" sad
DR.. Howard. lis one Of worldwide in
terest and Importance. I should mem
ton especially the admirable results
obtained recently under the Colonial
Government of England in the aboI-
sion of malaria and mosquitoes from
Port Swettenham and Klang in the
confederated Malay states. There. BY
ire expenditure of comparatively
small sum i'm the way of original eN-
pense and a much smaller sum for an
nual permanent expenditure-the latter
ann la "A ~
500 for Port Swettenham-these towns
in the tropics were made healthiul anu
free from mosquitoes.
DR.. Howard had much praise for the
work OF the Suez Canal Company for
its war of determination at lsinaila
and for the big work of Improvement
lust begun by the Lake kopais com
many and the Antimalaria League OF
Greece to wipe out the malaria when
has been so widespread in That couh-
try and which has so serious an erect
on its economic forces.
There are so many excellent ana
most practical and convincing eVlden-
ces of the possibility of the extermina-
ton of malaria through the destruction
of the MOSQUITO" concluded the speak
err. that it is now obvious not oniy
that with a certain expenditure Oh
money the disease can be wiped out IN
a country like Greece but that in our
own territory the question has come I
to be simply one Of funds ana an en-
lghtened public spirit.
DIR. +. Porter Felt, the State Ento-
mologist at Albany, who has chased
all over the lot SAID thal .
there should be a state appropriation 4
to make a proper study OF the pest.
Their night habits are not suilclehtlS
well known. said DR.. Felt, or dehnlte
enough to secure encouraging Local ac-
ton. particularly in the case or the
salt marsh varmints. We nave ABOUT
6ftv kinds of 'em in the state, al
though here and there you will ma
one who is not a maneater. DIT. Feli
said that he now has II all framed up
to make thorough study OF the MI
vra+ions of some fifty-seven or less va
rieties of stabbers and would take
.ool into some of their other habits.
Such a study would have a big effect
said the speaker, in stimulating local
interest and cooperation and would
help. also, to boom the real estate that
he girl mosquitoes now put a crimp
INTO.
DR.. Felt said there is too much diff
ference of opinion about the habits OF
certain of the summer songsters OF the
biting bill. and that these differences
.ause serious hindrances to united
work. He said he would take advan-
age of the data the State Board OF
Health can place at his disposal and
would cooperate with that department
The proof OF the transmission Of ma
aria has been made against only one
species, concluded the speaker. but the
have the names and num-