The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-02-11

The Variety Of Cries, HOwls and Jinglings
With which the Citizen Is Afflicted
EGorts at Abatement Of the Nuisanoe-
lLoudon Standard

Efforts Mt Abatement Of the Nuisance
LONDON Standard.
The numerous letters which have been
addressed to as on the subject eff street
noises, prove how widespread and intensified
this nuisance of unnecessary din has become.
Day after day we are inundated with appeals,
all couched in the same strain, from nearly
every district of the metropolis, and from
almost all conditions of men and women.
To publish q tithe Of the correspondence
would be impossible; but from the selections
which we have inserted as specimens of
more il will be seen TO what pass the help
lessness of the police and the powerlessness
of the householder have brought the "quiet"
streets of the metropolis. One correspondent
writes from Marlborough road, in Holloway.
This locality is tar from the vicinity of the
mighty current of life that rolls from
Hyde Park to Mile-End. but it is not quiet
Every morning before o'clock,
10 milk men yell frantically, though
they know all their customers. Then
come two milk-csrts, who drive as If milk
were the proper fluid with which TO extin-
guish the distant fire TO which they seem
Fastening. Three strange milknen follow,
who shout on alternate sides of the street, as
if the residents Of Marlborough road did
n.
milkmen return, as if afraid that they had
not sufficiently made the "Molokni" of Hol-
loway conscious Of their presence
The cat's-meat followsman with savory
barrow. During the day brass bands
BRAY out their discordant clamors;
as evening closes in, from six to ten organs,
sometimes two at one time, make night hor-
rible, and if by chance there is an interval
of quiet, fresh installment of from six to q
dozen s'bull-throated Germans" assert their
| right TO bring the music of Hermann's land
| upon the tired tympana of the long-suhering
| "Englander." A professional man writes US
| that by medical advice he has been forced to
| leave London, to avoid the organ men who
haunted his neigbborhood. They planted
| themselves in front ofhis window, and laughed
| contemptuously at the suggestion that
| they should go away. To tell them that there
| Is a sick person in the house is only a hint
| for them to raise their demands, for before
| the police can be found and the charge"
| taken, the sleepless patient msy be beloved
/ TO death Hence the distressed relatives pre-
fer TO bribe the pc secutors To move on 70 an
other neighborhood, there again TO black
mail the unhappy people. who pay high
| rents ia order 10 have the privilege OF living
| in ''quiet street "a term which these for
| eign pests have gone far to make Jest OF
and a mockery. Sunday brings no relief, for
| a kensingtOn correspondent assures that the
| first day of the week is in that neighbOrhooG
| the worst of the seven. From to 8 there are
a score of milkmen shouting through the
streets; gangs of men and girls, with voices
altogether dlsproportionate to their size and
| sex, shrek out the fact of their having her
rings. bloaters, haddocks and watercresses 70
4 of 70 l OF arr ~ h.
and girls elect to noisily dispose of the sun
| day newspapers, while the rear
guard of milkmen form ready
chorus to the juvenile vendors of Sunday lit
| erature And the afternoon is devoted Ia
"Oranges," Nuts" Wrinkles" water
crosses" ''BlOaters," "Haddocks," and the
"Milkman' again.
Some faint approach 10 sympathy may be
felt for these bawlers in the street, on the
ground that they are of English birth and
are trying to earn their living. But none
whatever can be extended by any REASONABLE,
parsonage to the lounging, lazy Italian scOun.
drels who have now Overspread the whole
land with their wretched barrelorgans arc
pianos, drowning peace and quiet in every
Street, preventing the brainworker from
earning his bread, and sending the sick, OF
whom their demoniac din acts like poison, Il
| their long home sbefore their hour has come
These hulking rascals are the offscourings
most frequently of the Roman Campagna o
Sardinia, Sicily, and of every Italian town
Many of them are criminals of the worst de
scription, murderers and escaped brlgands
who carry to this country their vices anC
their passions their filth and thei
diseases, and their presence ought al
most 10 be prevented in the in
terest of public morality and decency. Th'
lairs in which they huddle together are dem
of vice, such as can be seen in few Continen
tai cities, save, perhaps, in the wo-st parts o
Naples or Rome. Not content with living
themselves like the lower animals-only les
clearly and with more danger to society
they have for some time past been in tn,
habit of decoying away English girls anC
dressing them in the fnery of dead italian
women. Henceforward the daily work o
these girls is to drag about the barrel-orgaI
for the benefit of the ear-ringed ''padrone,
who treats them in much the same manne
as he does the boys whom he has Dough
from their parents TO beg for him. Findin,
/ that there are English people of soft heart
: and softer brains, who give money NOR,
readily if the beggar is deformed, they hav
| lately started q brisk trade in importing tn
| hslt and the manned and the deformed, unit
5 the thOroughfares of London are infested b,
the purchased chattels grinding out their din
; leaping in meaningless dances" screechinj
7 ditties which luckily are not under
stood by most Of those compelle,
3 to hear them, and, in short, making
9 themselves an intolerabs nuisance 70
2 the profit of the padrone rufians who ar
| permitted to own them. The patience whic
could bear much longer with this pest an
scandal would cease TO be a virtue. n
Italian city would suffer from its own cour
trYmen what we tolerate from them. Onl
last year the bsgpipe players, who for age
had been IN the habit of crowding into tn
capital during the Christmas week, wer
prohibited from droning out the contents {
goat-sacks on the refined ears of the Roman
Paris would not tolerate for an hour tn
stolidly insolent Germans who, after bray
ing out the "Wacht am Rhein" in oppositio
| IN three other hands stationed q few hund ra