The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-11-21
MOSQUITO WORK
SETTLING DOWN
Organization Has Dropped Into
Steady and Effective
Routine.
(From satarday,a Advertlaer.l }

The receipt NJ the headquarters OF
the antimosquito campaign yesterday
Of claim for s42s damages created
the only discussion Of any consequence
at the meeting Of the citizens com
mittee yesterday afternoon. The
prospect of receiving more pointed 70
the necessity of a claims department to
handle them all and gather the neees.
sary data in regard to each. The propo.
Hitions of referring them to the attor-
ney general to a special representative
of the committee and to the board Of
health were discussed in turn, the latter
method being finally adopted, in view
Of all claims being, of necessity, ad-
dressed against that body. The com
mittee will probably arrange TO have
an agent of its own handle the matters
from the committee 3 end.
Another letter was received from A.
v. Peters of Peters Drug Company,
protesting against the cutting of his
bananas and in lengthy communica-
ton setting forth the attitude of the
American people in regard to the con-
stitution. They "who have never stood
for piracy" he said. This letter was
endorsed with the usual note by the
lieutenant of the apana with the fact
that the plants of the complainant had
been cut down.
These represented practically the
full number of complaints received al
though it is fair estimate that the
workers visited six hundred places dur
ing the day, making the percentage of
actual objection remarkably small.
More Cooperation.
Officials in charge Of the campaign
believe now that most of the Chick
ers," (by which term they have come
to designate those who would have
kicked anyway, if not over one thing,
! then another), have been disposed Of
AT least, they say, the number of
favorable reports from the field out
number the reports of objections and
resistance great deal and the active
! assistance being rendered by the com
} munity stands out more plainly, than
it did.
5 In the morning the committee re-
: ceived notice that Mrs. Thomas R.
= Lucas, after having cut down her ba-
g mana plants, had examined bed of
+ lilies and had found every plant there
to hold water full of wrigglers. She
then cut these down also and sent
{ word to the overseer, of the discovery
+ of larvae in those plants.
!, "That's what 1 call cooperation.
J, commented Doctor Blue when he re
}. ceived the report. "She ought to bt
o given vote of thanks"
\. Doctor Marshall commenced yester
If day on his examination of othei
e. plants and several bottles of h,ies Will
., the wrigglers that were taken ont OF
Q them have joined the collection al
!, headquarters. Among those examined
! were the spider lily which. yielded q
! plentiful amount of wrigglers. A
e pineapple lily was also examined and
y while great deal of water was taken
/. from it there were no wrigglers found
v Entomologist Swezey brought in @
!. bottle of wrigglers which were handed
h him labeled as coming from the leaf
@ sheath of a royal palm.
II Mosquito Reports.
IT The committee received letter from
the planters association yesterday noti
flying them that Mr.. Swezey, its ento
no mologist, would be able to devote 9
p portion of his time for a week or SO tC
v the assistance of Mr.. Fullaway who il
I handling the mosquito survey.
p DIR. G. A. Peterson, superintendent OF
e the insane asylum, reported having
e secured specimens of the Stegomyia
It calopus and having identified them
e mieroscopically to his own satisfaction
The report was given to Mr.. Fullaway
: who corroborated the statement that
e the Stegomyia was plentiful in that
district and stated that he had secured
9 many of its larvae, but could not deter
mine whether they were calopus ol
! seutellaris until they bred out.
: Mr.. Fuilaway's and Mr.. Swezey q
4 purported statements in the Star were
= discussed and neither of the entomo.
logists confessed to them.
Thousand to One Bet.
"lt is not always possible to avoid
reporters, said Mr.. Fullaway. FSpeak.
ing for myself certainly have never
4 had any intention or said anything to
hinder the work of the committee. ]
u have been misquoted and l believe Mr.
Swezey has been misquoted, as was
shown by the corrections he had "a
- make over his own signature. | was
> called up this morning from the Star
n office. Doctor Wilcox answered the
l. phone and than called me and l had to
n talk, but when requested that the
reporter ask questions and take down
my answers verbatim, he rang of. ]
o haven't seen a copy of the paper vet
g but am willing to bet one hundred
a dollars to ten cents that have been
misquoted.
a ~ certainly don I want 10 be made
: the eatapaw to be used by any news
= paper IN any fight Of It's own hs
= afterwards added.
. Mr. sweEey also thought that tn,
banana fight was purely a news
~ paper discussion as he had not seer
any signs OF Il outside OF Newspaper
Z More Deluded People.
~ Chairman Dillingham; Announced thai
y be bad been notified By ths Japanes,
Merchants Association that d nieetins
d had heep held the day previous and thai
,e resolution had been passed contract
lhg toF ten single hnFse carts 10 he "
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