New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-26
NOISES.
WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THOSE IN
THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF WALL STREET.
The following letter has been received In Thu.

THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF WALL STREET.
The following letter has been received In thi,
Office:
To the Editor of The Tribune
the corporation OF Trinity Church TO have their
SnS oPd dunS the IS mr. b nbs se
the office windows nre all OPEN the chimes are most
exasperating to men who are Obliged to attend to
| No. 10 Wall-st.. June a. 1897
| As fact It IL not the chimes as chimes that are
objectionable. They are exasperating because they
| interfere with the contemplation of other things
audible and visible in the neghborhood of old Trim
! iy. AZ most people know Trinity stands in Broad
way, directly opposite Wall-st. Could the edihce be
removed Wal-st. might be extended to the North
River under the river TO Jersey city and thence
| 10 San Francisco AS the splre In which Trinity's
bells are hung commands Wall-st directly. the notes
o. the bells penetrate that thoroughfare unerringy
and enter all open windows, whether provided with
wire screens or not. Il may be injected here for
the benefit of the genera! public tina people in Wall
ST. do not board up doors and windows and fee in
the heated term. the way uptown residents do. They
occupy offices. supplied with electric fans. from 10
Il. IN to 3 p. m, and then depart in steam yachts
FOR seaside Villas
To convey proper understanding OF the manner
IN which Tr!nitys chimes distract attention from
other sounds which appeal to the ear and from
sights which fiji the eye, these sounds and sights
VIII be enumerated in the order o, their consequence:
Frst-There are the yellow ca5le-cars that run up
and down Broadway. They supplied with bells
which arc intended for everybody to hear. The
bells are brazen and keyed up to G., or even a
higher point They are operated by foot power
There is knob the platte oil each car connect
Ing with the bell, and when a grpman wants 20
make music ne bangs this knob with the heel OF his
shoe rule OF the company Is that when cars
gong IN opposite directions pass each other the bells
must he sounded vigorously The result Is Il Wag-
merriam crash that is warranted to make a dog
hon puf fs foil hatur n
legs and scoo for dear lie Since the introduction
O. rhe ciolecars dogs have kept out Of Broadway
d" se %TIdsG G IN nineteen times minute
Cbnrcbsi hSre t are inc eieyated railway cars In
naus up at the Rector-st. station there is a gusn
ttain Is taking on passengers stem accumuates in
dne Doi.er ana the Pop-valve gets in its work. As
the ear as the pop-vaive CT a locomotive. 1t IS
great for driving away care. one cannot think OF
s!ructed pop,,yaIve is demonstrating its capa-
the Station heTe Ehf h S n r0
c ct' cnooAy-choQk thar comes from the smoke
when the wind is in the right direci ' W' il
usually is-arc carried into Wall-st. ana into the
Third-Wal-st and the adjacent streets have
TS or r are beng paved Ttn aSpha When new
pair so that the asphalt company's forces ever
use portable stove to reduce the asphalt TO
LIQUID state before applying it to the surface Of the
hand asphalt, with the result that the stoyepipe
emts a yellow smoke so thick that it hardly be
cut with an AK. The smoke streams straight for
open windows. Not only is the smoke dense. but
rodolent II smells as II something had crawlei
into The stove and died.
Fourth-The foundations for several new build
ings IN the neishtorhood are being prepared. IS
rock bottom Is many feet be ow the surface of the
earth, caissons are sunk TO provide base for the
structures The caissons are Of boiler iron, and
are put together In sections. When two sections
Joined they have TO be rveted. Then there is d
sort Of anvil chorus. There is also be the
outpourrg Of mud from the caissoEs. The mud is
sucked up by vacuum process, and after each
discharge air is let in. There is accompanying
sound much as might be imagined Ike that which
followed when a prehistoric mammoth drew its
hoof out Of n bog.
Ffth--There street vendors galore the live |
tong day with squawking toys and peanut roasters |
with whistles attached In this category should he
included the messenger boys. who put their be-
Grimed fingers in their mouths and emit screech |
that might reasonably be believed TO be sigma to
other boys I'm Yonkers elsewhere up the Hudson !
Sixth-Fnally, there the brokers in the New
York Stock Exchange and the Consolidated Stock |
Exchange, who yell for five hours Saturday only |
two hours II they were undergoing the fortunes
of the lnqusi.iOn The curbStone brokers in New
TT. help them in making noise by calling out in |
spccu alive argon the prices Of tho puts and calls
they have for sale
Ia upon these things Trinity's chimes break I'M |
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