The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-13
NOISES or NEW YORK.
D,seordsnt Sounds That Mar the Comfert
OF Life In Town.

To THE EpIrop or The SuN-Siri nave
been In New York for nine years, put heyo
been unable TO discover that there In any ooh-
certed movement to lessen the nerve Wearu,n,
age lsssening, sleep destroying noises WIN
which this city Is cursed. A few months ago
A number Of women whose homes are along
Riyerslde Drive got together and started a
crusade against the excessive whisting OF
tugs and steam craft on the North River az
night. The majority Of the New YORK news
papers treated this movement a. q Joke. put
the women, nevertheless. worked the mater
up no well that they got action from the proper
authorities and the nuisance has been con
slderably abated. any
OF the same slze In New York or the world
e. sast 81 n pr It. asad # IN R1't t tsai P'fSs sli. ' sR !ss SSdHis !
Or tSs 'front.' %Ss sh %s. = 4 q s sSr. u K. '' dssllsS 81
e RDalish "" Tor nearly ali these ysndsrs Of traitds
s and ,s ysI Issn tSsI ~ sp fS~ssiNsSsiss; s fsS SH sh sISsS
y aYsSs SsfS i. sSIlIns o S%st q ne %as q s ssss nave s'S' On
'n fho %ss vino live In the rear asss are I ps'stSSrsd
from daylight to dark by scissors sJhaeIs:
s sssS, armed 5sls y YI Ians z trq p%sdPssiad a Ris s siass r" ! !
S SihE Women me with squeaEy 1ddlss and w.orse
'eI Drigen to Sa desperation by the hucksters and
s s%cIsiS sna g TsSt e he so peiisS s " t SSatts 70 see eli i
sso sy sRG Ts Couldn't Be done, The sergeant,
Who was a gentleman as well as z pOlise%an
tfeS' Sut tn he INF Informed me there was no law %
prevent a huckster from crying his wares
20 long % he kept moving. He eyer was
e Eos 81 ' isss tAs g hHS stt : RSl, dIdnt stop e u sse ioSs
in one place. but that did5s last IA if tnfd me-
regaro 70 thmsed cansed oonsiderabie complaint
4, his precinct. He had been arrested, .
dozen times or more. but each time was ois'
ah %Ssss E Y sIs6 sr : %Sth " id % iSSrs around New
yoar ee 70 I; he s s2sss WV nSlsy parrots can NIB b
seized by the health authorities on Ie com =
R E4isnd q z m saseiI II the, R Sssrs q Health sSSesj
this. and he laughed at L; JIG ss dasa aass
= hm tSs n, Dc ' Sosas. pat y for one tR Rsr Poor 0H %orfsl
Who works at night and has to aieep In the
daytime there y nc hO o S,cL stsrs ara to b.
RlveTslde Drive or other parts q The hsos Sis,
Inhabited by BY , the w % them, Ia are sh sws ss'a nine
months in .tSe year and their homes are oceu'
pied only by servants and oaretakers, III oe
al more moderate means who have to live
10 fet houses and in cross %streetsf ....
The phonogTeph 10 nndoSStts ea KY the e,9 SIea y
dow Of q rear lat against ne xsl S OF t Tn,
ssm9%usio.s q ali the worst that q perpstIats<
In, musio's name. has to b Pc, endured tSss r ~ ga 3,
4. Edison. the inventor Of this horror rum
This subject OF the suppression OF unneoes
sary noises In the daytime az well as az nlgh
Is q big and serious one; The rep9vtng O.
as a substitute for asphalt ana Reigian oio 81,
nearly ~ van al fhoS streets 80 treated are n N
downtown business district. where noSod.
lives and the only sisepeTS arg the police
men on duty. The whistlinR OF steamboat
and the changing Of trolley gongs are swee
music compared with the aiiictiSns nav
mentioned. " MIGHT WORKER
NEW YORK. August 10.