The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-18
rHE HE'LL or NOISE.
Protest OF Nerve Broken Citizen Against
Hariem's Myriad CiamOrs.

appeal earnestly TO you to grant mo space
for a vigorous protest against growing
public nuisance which II not checked bids
fair to render residential Harlem uninhnbt.
able by home working professional men
and brain workers, TO say nothing OF other
peace loving citizens and invallds?
| During the last eighteen months have
tried hard TO live and work In no less than
Ave different purely residential parts OF
Harlem. ranging from lo3d to i32d street.
but life has been made burden and goui
| work rendered almost impossible by tho
hideous pandemonlum Of street noisos that
| obtains from carly morning TO midnight.
For some months the following has been
the average daily program Of rows on this
| block. which by no means Is exceptionally
| favored In that respect:
| A. Mold man pedestrian with colho
| and fox terrier dogs. hiking" them on to
bark and yelp for from fifteen to thirty min.
| utes at stretch
A. M.-Commenoemen OF "buyn' cas-
clo' parade (sometimes a. many as twenty
TO thirty men In the day.. continuing at in.
| tervals till evening.
"A. M.-Commenoement OF concert upon
| the six different pianos and two zonophones
that are audible frequently all at one time!,
from my windows. lasting often until past
| midnight.
$50 A. M.-Commenoeme Of junk,nan
Ing accompaniment. lasting till afternoon.
A. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Of pushcart
parade. Two Tauoous throated human
| fo9horns to each barrow; from ten to twenty
barrows per diem; running well on toward
'v ssS tsTsy Scpm Me- o, procession
OF piano organs automatic orchestras and
various wandering minstrels. running till
.aP. M. till past 10 p. M.-Large numbers OF
children. Of both sexes and all ages. inter-
spersed With FREQUENT gangs OF young hood
PRACTISE Ground of the pub Siep thoro a @
shs sasn Psrf Is sr ne din snd % ss
| timss II IL impossible to make ones voice
heard IN the front rooms of the house twhcre
10 +. M.@RepettIon mot Of the ae Old man and
dogs nuisance. Private remonstrance is
siye \ his tDstnss rous
abouts making night hideous with uproar HS,
swearing, shouting and laughing.
SsTkns and 10 Be taken 9' D
i toeA. M.-lntermittent concerts by some
cats that. both BACK A and 'front.' infcst
ths d ang. why No; license and collar cats
incessant-The .Honk! Honkl" OF con stantly
yeiIs OF sWnx- iresi Hack -sira,oi" and ooca-
SnavoldaSie oIatter Of the regular Ie Vehcuap
trsfho during the day. sometimes consider.
and do the constant ysspab Of
owe. drawn. It Z Imprsetics5ie il This hot
down. and equally with the busy. brain worker
the nervous and suffering invalid must endure
tsossp Whoss S 5ssss ee se sh
town during the day and who are. free and
able 70 g e places q entertainment at night:
may seem very easy for Others to bear: and
. ssd Or r shs: the But eas &c the III.
dent Columbia Is not SO far away, who are
easy work amid the pandemonium, it Is mad:
sG BaT 5s &. F. ndhss Sa III lived
block !s!eeptlns one home rstuTpias one,
sbs Ss hooam a s
9 rsbH N she a rs Land
plsInanss house Windows. II Is puer f e ior
pest cannot pc dealt VIII By i aX Or That il !:
aorF ets Sus o as
Iss shs Soy.
and girls who, at their ages, should be under
ssd s y tan Tsnns hs
sured by friends there. by their absence.
matter: the city and suburban police quietly
after few offenders had been fined heavily
less oapaSe Se oopns With TIE deuty tSa s
ers s snstSss Of tSe tn and to
never have been constitutionally weak.
nervous S,o Or excita6ie but prolonged course
detpriorates in both quantity and quality
alike by day and night. thanks to the never
haust the strength and patience OF the health
p9 s that
ing. my friends and pupils fall away from, mine me
in smazement. Ruin constitutional and pro-
It is not to be 81 SUPPOSED that my case is
the solitary one Of It's kind There must be-
hundreds h,lnd Of . busy. home working profc;s::
would be only too grateful to see this matter
properly ventilated, with a view to discover
Ing some prastloa, means Of remsdynE the
where eise, have moved III five ''V times se a.
that II l wish to escape the nuisance | shall
e: ESesh ea.. Anywey that means q evadnE
% keep the decent, seli.respectins. peacefal
IN sss or the soms
sonable residential field that will be free from
the offensive and the disordcrly in other
words. to place the peace loving taxray"r
ever at the mercy OF those who choose 10
make things Uncomfortable" for him or her
Surely all the old time reasons" tha, used
TO be urged in favor Of permitting pubic
license at the expense of the rights and priv
leRes OF the law abiding individual citizen by
nov must be worn pretty, we'll threadbare.
Either directly as householders or indirectly
land therefore disproportionately heavily
as subtenants. we peace loving residents
pay our taxes year by year without muir
muir. In the hope that decency, law and or
der will be maintained. enforced IL necessary
II this result be not gained. why in the narin
Of common sense must we 90 on paying for
statutes and ordinances that can be uscd
to meet the exigencies Of such case as this
and II there be not any such, and none such
can be made or enforced, will some one kindly
explain why We have to 60 on maintaining
% obsolete and useless a system in a pro-
Eressive republic? Afew determined private
cttlsens,, properly authorized, could make a
better showing In order maintenance than
at present exists In some parts OF Harlem,
and ask no payment for the public spirited
DIsousrED HARLEMuTE, NJ. b., D. So
NEW York, Aug. IT.
Frosted Fingers in August.