Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1914-04-23
GET READY, FOR
CLEAN UP WEEK
STARTSM0NDAY
To Open With All Snap and Vim
the Mayor Can Inject Into
the Movement.
CALL TO ARMS, OR BRUSHES
Mr.. GarretSOn Will Issue Proc
lamation Saturday Asking
the Public to Help.
STREET DEPT. .CO-0PERATES
Residents are Also Requested
to Hold Swat the Fly Cru
sade at the Same Time.

Clean up week will be opened
Monday next with all the snap and
vim that Mayor Ferd Garretson can
inject into the movement. He intro
duced the scheme In this city two
years ago and has since tried to make
each succeeding event more success
full than the preceding one. The call
to clean up was more generally OBJ
served last year than 1t was at the
initial event in 1912 and the city's
chief executive anticipates greater
success this year.
Clean up week will be opened next
Monday morning, and will be OBJ
served throughout the week up to
and including Saturday, May 2. A
sort OF proclamation will be issued
by Mayor Garretson, Saturday, re-
questing the public generally to take
recognition of the occasion and
clean up about all premises, both
residences and business headquart-
ers. AS has been told, the street de
partment will cooperate with the
garbage contractors to remove all
dirt, rubbish and garbage from curb
lines. Such rubbish as is usually
found in cellars, attics and back
yards need not be placed in recep-
tacles. If placed on the curb line
1t will be shoveled into wagons of
either the garbage collectors or the
/, street department of the city.
II 1n-zsS nectfon with the general
clean uf, Sea, the mayor suggests
that the residents heed such slogans
as swat the fly OF course there
are no flies at hand at this time to
swat, but he recommends that the
idea be carried to the killing of cock
reaches, and like bugs which infest
some buildings. The Department of
Agriculture has lent some valuable
suggestions to the construction OF
traps for the pests, which have pleas
ed the executive highly. He handed
them to q reporter this morning and
here they are:
Mix one part of plaster OF Paris
and three or four parts Of -four.
Place this mixture in saucer or on
a fat piece Of wood or tin where
reaches are numerous. Nearby place
another fiat plate containing pure
water. Supply few inclines OF
wood or cardboard from the floor to
the edge of the plate or saucer to give
easy access. Float one or two thin
pieces of wood on the water so that
they will touch the edge of the dish
The insects readily eat the plaster
mixture, become thirsty and drink.
The water makes the plaster set
and kills the roach"
"a deep vessel or jar" he ex-
plains, SIS partially filed with stale
,,al, oh %
a special fondness. A number of
flat strips of rough wood are placed
at an incline against the vessel, and
bent over SO that they project into
the interior few inches. The roach
es climb up the inclined sticks to get
the beer and slip off into the vessel. :"
Here are the details of q French
trap.
Some attractive bait, such as stale
beer, or -four, or sliced raw potato,
is placed in a box, the cover of which
Is replaced by four glass plates, in
clined downward, funnel-like, and
closely Joined except at the bottom
The reaches fall from these pieces of
glass into the box and are unable to
escape"
For the more humanely inclined,
who are satisfied with merely para
lying the beasts, either wholly or
partially, pyrethrum powder is rec
commended, bu such halfway meas
ures are discouraged by comments
on the disadvantages of pyretrum.
Considerable relief may be gained
by liberal use Of pyrethrum pow
der 1t is not perfect remedy,
however, and is at best but tempo
rary expedient, while it soils shelves
and other objects over which 1t is
busted. 1t should be used freely, and
literally applied. Reaches are often
paralyzed by 1t when not killed out
right, and the morning after an ap-
plication the infested premises should
be gone over and all dead or partial
iy paralyzed reaches swept up and
burned.
More exciting sport may be had
with a PHOSPHORUS paste, which is
poisonous for human beings" as
well as cockroaches, and besides 1t
Is highly inflammable" and likely to
start a conflagration, which might be
considered fair substitute for an
exDtoSiOn