Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-28

| to the inside of one of the 1S-inch
barrel hoopes. The open end of the
cylinder is closed with a barrel stave
and the open edge of the cone with
a strip of wood. The trap is then
covered with cheese cloth and held
The trap is stayed with three barrel
slaves and raised from the ground
with three short legs.
BY MABEL CRONISE JONES
The Harrisburg Civic Club has
every reason to he proud of its fly
swatting campaign that ended on Sat-
urday.
Many New England cities, Cleve-
land, Washington, ID. c., many towns
of Texas aind of Kansas, as well as
various other places, have had SINH
lar campaigns that have been run
either by the municipal government
! itself or by the municipality in con-
| junction with some woman's club.
Such contests have, of course, been
abel to offer large prizes, some being
as high as $3.50 for the largest num-
ber of dead flies turned in, and such
contests have aroused the attention of
many college students who have taken
part in the fray. So far as can be
| learned, however, from rather eX-
| haustiVe search of civic records, the
| local contest just ended netted greater
results than any other similar cam
paign conducted solely by a woman's
club without municipal aid.
Between 700 and 500 pints of dead
flies were taken to the committee for
measurement or a total of 5,651, 900
flies. Had they been allowed to live
they would have been the progenitors
during this present season alone of
| {, 1863, sos, $40, 900, 900, fies-enough to
keep every housewife busy. Then, too,
every one of those quadrillions of
pests would have laid eggs to the
number of several hundred that would
have Matched out early next Spring.
The increase would have gone on in
geometrical ratio and the number by
year from now would have been too
huge to grapple with.
Winner Has 1s1 Pints
Harry Lowe Siegmund. who won
the first prize, is only 9 years old, but
he was anxious to have a bicycle so
that he got into the contests to some
purpose. He brought in 1S1 pintS of
| flies, the greatest number ever brought
| In by any one contestant, though he
expects to have more next year il such
| a thing be possible While Harry lives
in Camp Hill, his flies were strictly
Harrisburg flies, being caught outside
butchering places and similar spots
that are apt to attract the jests He
| followed the directions of one of the
experts on the subjec, who advises he
placing of traps outside of houses
and stores so that the breeding places
may be denuded. Harry's trap was
homemade. costing just 40 cents, and
being about the size of a sugar barrel
1t was baited with decaying matter.
| Other successful competitors were
Mary Blair, 321 Hamilton street, So
pints, and it looked for a while on
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prize, as her amount exceeded by ten
pints the largest yield turned in at any
! former contest John Kinder, 230
North street had Sc pints; ]. d. Cook
HOS Capital street 62 pints; william
Reichert, 517 Woodbine, 81 pints.
These were the prize winners, the first
prize being a five-dollar gold piece;
teh second, a two-and -a-half dollar
gold piece; there weer also three one
dollar prizes.
Contestants Do Good Work
Many of the other contestants did
remarkably we'll and in any other con-
test would have borne off prize. All
of the young people received, of
course, cents a pint for their flies
aside from the prizes awarded, so that
the first prize winner came in for
something more than $14.
Harry Kreidler, who won the first
|
time and had good reason to expect
la prize, but there were so many ahead
of him that he only won his scents
a-pint money. Elsie Frederichson.
who was also prize winner once with
1928 points, presented 20 pints this
time;, but while her 2S pints was suffi-
cent once to win her first prize, her
29 pints this time did not win any. OF
course, there were many who had only
few pints, but as there are 1000
flies to the pint, even those who pre-
sented but one pint did well for the
city.
{ Among the others who turned in a
goodly number of pints were: Mar
shall Houtz, 629 North Sixth street,
i40k pints; Mildred Enders, GIG SEN
eca, S5 pints; Allen Collier, Tenth and
State streets, 35 pints; Marie Roden-
haver, 1906 Bailey, 81 pints. Honors
weer about evenly distributed between
! the boys and girls.
The chairman of the publicity work
| said to-day: "Of coudse, we could
never have secured such satisfactory
results without the cooperation of the
local press. 1t aided us magnifcently
so that our thanks are primarily due
the newspapers"
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