Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-04
Making Money Killing Pests at
Four Cents a Hundred.
MOTHERS HAPPY IDEA
Rewards Lads for Kidding House
hold of Disease Carriers.
BITE FATAL TO JERSEY MAN
Poison Left by Fly in Scratch
Wounds Causes Death of
Edward II. Pratt.
SWAT THE FLY =!

One cent paid in cash for every twenty
in the Northwest is encouraging her
young f1ykilling sons to rid the city of
the typhoid breeding house fly.
1t is an unfailing means The boys
go to their work of slaughter with great
glee. The price of flies, however, is go
ing to suffer a skyrocket movement, for
the pests are getting scarce enough
around that house.
Probably if every boy in the city should
go to work killing flies on this basis the
pests would be exterminated in short
time
when l first noticed the different
plans for the killing of fiies, said this
mother, Il was unable to try them but
l knew that if l could get the boys of
the family interested there would be no
further trouble. So l made them the
offer of a cent for every twenty-five dead
flies.
The plan worked very we'll. There is
scarcely a fly in the house. The spat of
the fly swatter has been heard every
hour. Flies are so scarce in the house
that the boys have taken to the alley and
watch the back fence like hawks.
They earned considerable money last
month"; one of them bought a bathing
suit with the head money of slaughtered
files
Fly Causes Mans Death.
In the enormous amount of fly data
now being collected and assorted by
Richard r. Watrous, secretary of the
American Civic Association, the arch
enemy of the typhoid fly. and whose Of
flee is in the Union Trust Company
building. is an account of the death of
Edward H. Pratt of Jersey, who went
to his grave as the direct victim of fly,
according to the memorandum in posses
sion of Mr.. Watrous, which says:
"Prau's hand was scratched by pet
kitten. A fly lit on the wound and be-
gan drinking the blood. Pratt slapped
the insect and crushed it into the wound
I'm this way he inoculated himself
with the rare poison known as the gas
bacillus. The hand swelled frightfully.
The skin inflated with gas.
THE hand was amputated, but the poi
son had spread through the body I'D he
died in fearful agony
Another memorandum of interest con-
Germs an experiment scientist made with
flies:
"A busy New York scientist snatched
few weeks away from work and went up
into the mountains for recreation. But
even there he couldn't abandon work al
together.
Carried Germs Two Miles.
when typhoid broke out in the cottage
Of a mountaineer about two miles from
the scientists summer home the latta e.
tried to see whether he could capture any
of the germs from the mountaineer's cot
tage from the typhoid carriers, the flies.
He had not much hope of success, for
it is generally supposed flies pass their
lives within circle of half mile radius.
But the scientist prepared sope sticky
plates. baited them with sugar and set
them on the window sill. Next morning
he had some flies. He examined the stick
EN- on the plates where the feet had ad-
hered and found it swarming with typhoid
germs.
1.-The scientist guessed that every bit of
milk that the flies get at v. hin two
mile radius was even then loaded with
typhoid germs