Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-08-05

The Stars FLYLESS CITY campaign,
which has been in progress since Mon
day, July "A. and in which children of
the capital have waged an unrelenting
and highly successful warfare on the
city's tribe of disease spreaders. came
To close at 1890 o'clock this morning.
DR.. Murray of the health department
this afternoon is counting the last batch
of flies, and the names of the twenty
seven highest contestants, who are to
tomorrow in The Star.
The biggest rush of any day of the
campaign was recorded this morning at
the seven Associated Charities stations,
where the flies have been delivered daily
The estimate on the number of flies
brought in is placed at considerably over
half million.
Today's slaughter and yesterdays will
bring the total destruction of the cam
paign TO the 6,0Oo,OO mark or over.
Changes in Final Count.
That there will be some changes i'm the
standing of the contestants when the final
counts are made out seems to be assur-
ed. Evidences of pooling marked the
closing stages of the fight. DIR. Murray
would not risk a guess as to the winners,
stating that the result will be in doubt to
the last minute.
Layton III. Burdette remained i'm first
place after the recording of yesterdays IS
slausbter. Bessie Fillius held on to sec
ond place, while none of the contestants
succeeded in displacing Lawrence Fitz-
gerald from position three.
However, Mildred Zuschnett jumped
from seventh to fourth place, crowdinS
out Elsie Cornwell who took the latter
position. Edwin Guide cropped from
NTH to sixth place and Mark Trice dis
appeared entirely from among the leading
ten.
Lillian Portion was responsible for Trice s
setback. The Portion girl made good
showing for the day. winning eighth
place. Cora Briscoe advanced to fifth
from sixth position. Wallace Clubb and
Moses McPhearson dropped from eighth
and ninth places to ninth and tenth. re-
spectively.
The entire standing of the ten highest
Ception of the three leaders. This gives
an idea of the extent to which one day 5
showing can rearrange the standing. The
margins Of the three leaders are by nc
means so great that they cannot be wiped
out in today's count.
WILLS 0SOIS against oOYS.
The girls easily outdid the boys yester-
day They secured an additional repre-
sentative among the ten leaders, making
five girls and five boys, and turned ir
14I.2O more flies than did their rivals
This gives them a combined score tnat
is only 2,1m behind that of the boys.
At times during the contest the girls
have had the highest combined score, and
= h2f a-<
between the representatives of the tive
sexes will be close and apt to go eithel
way.
The total slaughter credited to the ten
leaders is l,241,5O0. Six of them have
scores of more than 100000 each Bur-
oette Is above the 100000 mark and
should make a final score of 10000. 1t
is not unlikely that the total score of
the leaders will be million and half.
Long before the hour set for the open
ing of the charities stations this morning
the children gathered at the receiving
points In order TO be sure of having their
flies included in the final count There
were children of both sexes and of every
age. Hundreds of them poured through
hour, ~ o'clock.
Stations Closed Promptly.
Within half an hour all the boxes had
been turned in and the stations were
closed promptly at 1880 o'clock The
boxes were delivered by the wagons OF
the Merchants Transfer and Storage
Company at the District building shor tly
before noon. and the work of counting the
insects began Immediately
Todays showing exceeded Yesterdays
Notwithstanding the count of YESTERDAY
was the largest of any previous day. Fo,
the last five days the slaughter has ex.
ceeded half a million daily
When the final results were in this
morning DIR. Murray stated that the
destruction produced by the campaign had
exceeded his highest anticipation and thai
the children of Washington undoubtedly
have made d record which will win recog
milton throughout the country and te d: fl
cult for any other city to equal.
Campaign a Great Success,
Is DR.. W00dWard's Tribute
That The Stars FLYLESS CITY cam
paign has been great success is the be