The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-04-10
TO PREVENT NOISE.
A schsME TO END OR MUeFLE HARSH
SOUNDS IN The CITIES.

y-s~us For an Interesting Experiment.
Be,,s. whistles, Vehicles and Street
musicians Come Under the Ban-Iron
>alreers Must He Packed W ith Buriap.
There are in the city Of New York
Exeat number of odd societies for tie
Frpvcntion or promotion of various odd
things, and soon there is TO be an addi-
,ticn TO the list which will endear il TO
AL those who try to get as much com
fort out of city life as can be had.
The new society is 10 be called the
Society For the Prevention Of Noise,
and il its promoters succeed IN their
undertaking there is little doubt that
ason, hes Of the society will begin oper-
xtions in all the big cities of the world.
The organization of the society is the
result Of the sentiments voiced by DIR.
J. IL. Girdner Of New York in an arti-
sls in a recent number of The North
American Review entitled THE Plague
o{ City Noises "
The comment caused by this article,
hrah in America and Europe, is almost
Incredible. Columns of editorials on DIR.
Girdner's ideas for the prevention of the
puisance have been published in the
leading English. French, German. Ital-
ian, Spanish and Danish journals while
the press of America has taken up the
matter most seriously. DIR. Girdner
has received letters from all parts of the
United States thanking him for his ad-
vccacy of the abolition Of noises, and
many of the writers have offered TO aid
rfse society, both by their influence and
their money.
II is the intention of the promoters of
the society to have introduced in the
Nw York legislature bill for its in.
corporation this spring. and if the char
ter and powers and responsibilities are
conferred upon it by that body IL will
eDdeavor TO cooperate in the suppress
sinn Of noises with the various city de-
partments, and will, in the first place,
make a thorough study Of the noises of
New York.
DR.. Girdner argues that nearly all
the noises which affiict the residents Of
a great city can be done away with,
mch as the noises produced by bells,
whistles, clocks. horses and wheeled We
hicles. peddlers, beggars, street musi-
CLANS, cats, dogs, horns, explosives, and,
added TO these. are the noises which
come from the inside of the houses, such
as those made by persons learning to
play musical instruments and training
the voice
In the first place, the society will use
its influence toward having all the
streets of the city paved with asphalt.
The noises made by heavy wagons, such
rs those used in drawing iron girders,
will receive special attention. 1t is nei
tber difficult nor expensive matter to
pat old sacking or burlap between the
sHderS, ard once IL were made viola
tiOn Of the law Rot 10 Go so this eaI
splitting nuisance would be stopped.
The drivers If carts, if compelled &c
fasten the bcdy Of the carts firmly t.
rfc frame. would socn discover that the
nerve jarring banging of the shafts
wCuld disappear. No more will the
vegetable aud fruit monSers bawl the
variety and freshness Of their wares
through the town, if the society should
have Its way and discordant hand or
gans and cut OF tune piano organs Will
h suppressed and the rag and bottle
dealer he compelled To conduct his bust
ness with proper regard to the desires OF
quiet loving citizens.
Thesociety Will be iconoclastic enough
towigh to do away with the changing OF
church bells. 1t viii, if it has It's way,
have cats licensed as we'll as dogs, and
their owners Will be compelled To keep
their pets within the house, and woe to
the midnight feline which is found per
ambulating the streets after the manner
of its kind. twill. be promptly impound.
ed.
Fire and ambulance bells will have t.
he tolerated, and no method Of dispens-
ing with fog horns and steamboat wbis.
ties has yet suggested itself New York
Journal.