New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-21
Joseph's Fly Trust.

Joseph Palmer, fourteen years old,
rising business genius of Flushing, or
ganized and ably directed a squad Of
young assistants.
Here. you, Tommy. hustle down to tn
deI,cates' shop on tn corner an asst him
rr his dead flies. Git move on y Tony,
an scoot up to some o tn stores on
Main street where they's flies. Git busy,
Sam, an swat some o tn flies on III
wall here"
owing to Joseph's power Of direction
tho last half hour before noon was a hard
one on the flies Of Flushing. Not that II
seemed to lessen their number 10 any
noticeable extent Around No. 10 Union
street they simply swarmed, and Miss
Horizons table, the bier Of their defunct
friends, buzzed with them.
Mrs Boynton blamed the flies on New
York CITY. She said they sailed up TO
Flushing on the scows that carry garbage
from the metropolis TO dump It on the
meadows there.
And seeing what a pleasant place
Flushing ~, they alight at this point, and
stay here" she told the Tribune reporter
At IL o'clock the swatters and their
friends were shooed out Of the place, and
the committee proceeded TO reckon up the
results OF the campaign TO find who were
the lucky swatters. Then the children
were admitted-that Is, Miss Horton
started to admit them, but there was
tense two minutes when tho door stuck
and wouldn't open, and frenzied small
boys. with yelps of despair. hurled them
selves upon It's panels. At last 1t gave
and the mass piled in.
Announcing the Winners.
Mrs. Boynton, mounted on soap box,
read off the names OF the prize winners
The one who caught the most flies after
Frank Seidenwurm was JOHN Palmer
and he got prize Of 81. Lillian kolsch
won g with 2S ounces OF flies, and why
negro boy, Clifton Smith, got the fourth
prize, 81 There was a little negro Girl
among tho winners, too-Harriet Ellis
but a cruel cold had laid her low at the
moment OF her triumph, go her mother
had TO como to get her prize.
Mrs Boynton made the excited young
sters give a round OF cheers for each
prize winner, but the lucky ones didn't
tarry to hear the cheers. With such pre-
cipitation did each and every one leave
for the office Of THE Flushing Journal
which gave the prizes on presentation
Of the order from Mrs. Boynton-that any
devoted satellite who got In their way
ended up by sprawlng OH his back.
Mrs. Boynton had little speech ready.
all about the harm flies do, but when she
had finished giving out the orders for
prizes there we're no children left to- lis
ten. They we're all at the office of THE
Flushing Journal"
Mrs. Elizabeth Gross, who undertook to
dispose of the dead fiies through the
campaign, has had her troubles, The
first lot she tried to burn, and In doing 1t
set fire 10 the grass In her back yard, a
conf,agration she stopped only by the
prompt application OF dish water. The
next lot she buried. And would you be-
lieve It," she said yesterday. though 1
buried them eight inches deep, when my
husband went to the door next morning
he exclaimed: Those flies are resurrect-
ing themselvesr A worm or something
had dug a hole, and flies were crawling
up through It."
On the whole, the committee, which Is
an ofYshoot of the Housewives League,
is gratified with the results Of the swat
the-hy campaign. No one notices any
difference In the number OF live flies IN
Flushing, but the educational effect the
rousing of public opinion against the ny,
~, Mrs. Boynton says, immense.