The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-26
ADUMB SHOW and NOISE OPUS
mi RCH STREET POLICE DIS
COVER THEIR SPECIALLY.
Tidal wave Of culture Vets Their Feet and
sets Their lseads working Result q
y, mpnOny Of Fiat wheels Car Gonxs
and Elevated Railroad brake SuuenIs.

H1l NatN NaNNt - ttIughtbs
Il IL commonly said OF the Church street
rolce station that you cannot hear yourself
,hink there for the noise, and this Is literally
true. one might. in perfect safety. go eve
further and say you cannot hear yourself
about. such IL the continual racket made
nv speeding surface cars and the roaring
sleyated overhead.
When hat spontaneous stream OF culture
arst cushed forth over the police precincts
NJ lower Manhattan as the water glshes
from a street cleaners hose, the Church
stree, station was inundated along with
ali the others. Capt. Edward Gallagher
act his wits to work to discover what the
church street cops could specialize in. and
though he couldn't hear himself thinking
Il appears that he got there just the same.
The captain explained last night.
After no end OF cogitstiou," he began,
taking The SUN reporter carefully by the
ear az he would talk into the mouthpiece OF
A telephone. I've hit upon what believe
ia the proper thing for us TO work upon.
II Won have noticed" pause for a north
bound sixth avenue elevated train TO pass -
the most salient characteristic Of this pre-
cinct :" pause for a southbound-@is noise.
Therefore, on the face OF II. we should
.pecialize in noise. There is already in
existence a society for the suppression OF
unnecessary noise"-loud assent from the
fat wheels IN an Eighth avenue ar-"so
we're stalled on that line. What In the best
and highest form OF noise? Music!
Yes. sir, music is not only the most re-
fined noise in the world. but also a distinct
line Of culture. It's the natural thing for
us 10 study. Ive appointed Lieuts. Harry
Nugcnt and Paddy Lane a committee Of
two to arrange the details. I'm satisfied to
have evolved the general idea. Now you
Just get into long distance communication
with those two l~ieutenants and they'll tell
YOU all about it
The committee of two was discovered in
the ofing refreshing itself with a delightful
leverage from a tin mug. To make This
Leverage you first get a large pitcher and
I'D n up with milk. Then you mmerse in
il q blg chunk ~ ice and flavor the whole
with a cup Of black coffee properly sweet
ered The committee was divided against
itself as 20 whether the chunk of ice should
Re broken mp in small bits or left in block.
Lieut.. Harry Nugent, who was strong for
one big lump, readily consented to explain
the music idea.
Were going to study music here all
right enough. he said, and I tell you how
we're going about it,. You know the COM
poser Richard Strauss?"
'Salome' ?" asked the reporter.
The same" replied Lieut.. Nugent with
Ilsto. Now Strauss il considered the
creator ~ a new form OF music, If I'm not
mistaken, a form Of music based on what
"a called cscophony. which is a kind Of dis
sonance. or what TO most of us appears 10
he just plain discord. which any one can get
by banging the piano. or course it's not
discord at all: it's real music. and you've
got 10 educate your ear TO appreciate il.
Strauss wrote a sy mphony called the
symphonic Domestica.' and all IL tells
about is papa. maInma and the baby. In
this symphony he merely tries to cast into
music a piece out Of the days happenings
In any we'll regulated family papa coming
home from work tired out and RrImbIing
because supper isn't ready on the jump.
mamma telling about her shopping trip
and how the butcher didn't come with the
meat, and baby crying with the collie.
Well, sir. Strauss wrote all that into one
al music and got away with II. III he
can do that, why, there's all sorts Of posi-
bilities for us. There must be u~nreoognized
in the noise OF these elevated trains
and surface cars.
We're going 70 write a symphony here.
into music the rumble IT the L
the grinding OF the brakes. the tink-
ling of the bells from car 70 car. the throb-
hing OF the motor while the train stops at
cortlandt street, the fiat car wheels on the
cars. the rising electric hun az the
motorman turns on more power, the clang
~ the gong TO warn pedestrians. and ever
the Earring Of h loaded trucks as they
hump along the cobblestones.'
And the joke of il all is" Lieut.. Paddy
Lane exclaimed as he finished q tin mug
ful. that people will pay IS a seat at the
opera house 70 hear II whr1t they could hear
II Town here for nothing