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' May 11, 1928 WILMETTE LIFE 71 such places they will confer a great favor to not only the Mosquito district organization, but to the entire community as well, by telephoning Mosquito Abatement district headquarters, Glencoe 314. DYNAMITE AND OIL TO CHASE SKEETERS Abatement District Gets Job Under Way in Township; Ot~er Agencies Give Aid The mosquito warfare, preparations for which have been unclerwav for a long time. is now in full swing. ·according to Superintendent \Villiam Edwards of the North Shore 'M osquito Abatement district. A crew of fourteen men is working south from · County Line road to v Howard street, Evanston. the southern limits of the district, draining and oiling. These men are unckr the Mosquito Abatement district, and their number is being gradttally augmented, the plan being to use the recruits, as soon as they become familiar Yith the work, to go into other sec tion s of the territory, including the villages, 011 special cases, where th e trucks cannot do the work. · Oil Trucks on Way The four special oil trucks, each with 300 gallon capacity, the truck company announce~. will be ready for delivery 11ay 20. Each truck will be manned hv a driYcr and a helper. Truck Xo~ 1 will he assigned to the territorv between the south line of Evanst~n to Lake street. \Vilmette; truck Xo. 2 will operate from Lake treet to the Countv line· truck No. 3 will ser\'e all the ,:illages ,,·est of the Skokie in the district; truck l'\o. 4 will supply oil to any point in the district, \\·here needed. Township Highway Commissioner ] . :\. \\' illiams is co-operating effectively in the work, hy deepening and widening the channel at the bridges on \Villo ..,· and Happ roads and \Vinnetka avenue . Sanitary District Helping In hearty co-operation \vith the North Shore Mosquito Abatement district, the Sanitary district has started the 'vork of dynamiting the ri\·er channel. There· arc three gangs of dynamiters. \\·it h six e::-..perts in each group. All arc under the direction of Tony Ronzani, a man who has had years of experil'ncc in this kind of \\'Ork. TheY 1rn into the middle of the chann~l, ~nd '"ith steel rods jab holes about t\n1 and one-half feet deep in the river . bottom and itLert a stick of dynamite. The holes arc about three feet apart. Ahout 200 feet is thus prepared. when one stick is "toucherl off," the cnncussion thereof e-xploding the rest. thl' result being the OJH'ning of a deep. ,,·ide gap in the center of the riHT. insuring a free no\\' ot \\'atcr . :\iter the ditch is thus bombed o'ttt. men \\'ith shovels, from the .\l'osquitn :\hatt'n1l'nt district force. \Yill keep the channel open. The dynamiting crew began work last ).f one! a,., south of Glenview. and will contint~e north to the County Line. follo\\'ing the t'ast branch of the Xorth Chicago ri,·er ttp through the Skokie. · Superintendent Ecl\\'. trds sa\'s it is assumed the\· \vill be in the territory west of here· next week, ai1el the, blast. ·which north shore residents haYe been h aring, but . omewhat faintly, may become more pronounced. Know Their Business "Do not be alarmed." he says, "there is no danger. Tony anr! his men have all been apprond by the Dupont Powder compan)r, understand thoroughly the dynamiting game in which they are engaged and their work cannot he accomplished without a little noise resulting from the explosions, but there is absolutely no danger. "Be a little patient while the noise from the blasti11g is going on, keeping in mind that this is, in reality, the first and foundation step in real accomplishment of that fnr which the finances did not make the latter availentire north shore for so maHy years able sooner. ·And, in the meantime, has been clamoring, eradication of the there was also a vast amount of premosquito menace . liminary work to be done in the way "The hoards of trustees of the sev- of organizing, laying out plans, and era] villages, as well as the North obtaining equipment. Shon' :Mosquito Abatement district, apVillages Promise Help preciate the co-operation being given , . Practically all the towns have writin this work · by the Chicago Sanitary ten to the Mosquito Abatement disdistrict." trict assuring their support and coSuperintendeht Ed,,·ards regrets ' the operation in every way. District· was late in getting started. Superintendent Edwards again urges The work should have been under all householders to do their part in way in April, he said, but the delay seeing to it that no mosquito breedwas due to the fact that the election ing places are permitted to exist about creating the district, and providing the their premises. Should they know of BROADCAST PROGRAM New Trier Glee clubs and orchestra were presented in concert over WLS; the Sears Roebuck radio station, last vVednesday evening. The selectjons were presented under the leadership -?f Mrs. Marian Cotton, director of mustc I at New Trier High school. 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