New-York tribune., 1908-07-24
KEEPING CITY QUIET
Police arrest More Noisy IndiUid-
uals-Bingham Gets Complaints.

Mike PsfoIie a musician Of No. 90 Baxter
street started in to entertain the transfer passen
gers at sth street and Broadway last evening His
special forte is the organ not the pipe. puI th7
grind and he was industriousIy cranktng out I m
Afraid to Go Home In the Dark" when a patrol
man happened along. and. frnbued with tne Pfo-
visions of Commissioner Binghams ant-noise or
der escorted the artist to the Mercer street sta
ton There the latter instructed that altnoush
his organ might make -museek'' before o'clock,
after that hour it Immediately became noise
Magistrate Breen in the West Side court yes
terday. in fnng a scissors grinder 81 LOT pio"lhs
a horn, denounced the streetcar companies, saying
the police should arrest those responsible for h&
wheels" Property along Broadway will depreci-
ate in value If these awful noises are allowed 10
continue" said the magistrate. at seems shame
TO fine these men, for their noise is so petty But
fat wheels are real nuisance to the community.
/ don't. know anything about those receivers who
cut off transfers. but 1 think they could employ
their time to better advantage taking fiat wheels
of their cars
Justice Gon in the Supreme Court. has refused
to grant the Fort George Amusement Company,
which runs Paradise Park, an injunction restrain
ing the police from entering the resort after II
O'Clock at night. at which hour Captain Krauscher
of the West 152d street station has been stopping
all the noise making agencies there.
Commissioner Bingham's anti-nose crusade Is
the very mother of discrimination. as he has SO
often wished 1t to be. In lower Sixth avenue Just
Hudson tunnels gangs of laborers are repairing
the surface trolley tracks. 90. just after an ele-
waited train has thundered by and before another
along. if passerby listens oarefuliy' ana
the pump for the Hudson tunnels is not pounding
too hard 18th street, he may hear the musical
anvil chorus of steel striking steel.
little distance away IT has a cool tnkllng
sound, and seems to help make bearable the hot
Ifeless air But the inhabitants do not recognize
it as a part of home and a complaint has been
lodged with the police. patronan was sent over
the Mercer street station last night to MI his
ears and report but as elevated trains and the
pump drowned Gut the cause of complaint so much
OF the time. no effort made TO stop the work
Since the Commissioners order vas issued many
letters have been received at Police Headquarters
complaining of rest disturbing in particular
neighborhoods Some OF these letters. in condensed
form. have been sent 20 precinct commanders
Captain Cooney of the East 9th street station,
received several Of them last evening. One was
signed "A Hard Working Man and requested
Commissioner Bingham to have the gongs on the
patrol wagons passing through seth street muffied
Another. signed Peaceful Citizen, requested that
the aborers in the New York Central tunnel near
73d ordered to quit work after dark still
another. who described himself as "A Law Abiding
Citizen begged the police to investigate the back
ward Of house in East street. where the writer
said chicken farm was in full blast and the
roosters crowed Justify between and 3 o'clock
in the morning that sleep was impossible. Two
detectives were detailed investigate the chicken
farm.
white haired man asked Lieutenant Cahi1l of
the Arsenal station last night why he did not stop
the roaring of the lions in the lion house in Cen
tral Park The lieutenant suggested that the roar
ing of the lions was educational. and. therefore
not unnecessary, but the aged man could not agree
with him. since it disturbed the rest of any one
who essayed to take a nap one Of the benches
adjacent the lion house The old man will lodge
his complaint with Commissioner Smith to-day
Four young boys ranging in from sixteen 20
seventeen years were arrested by Patrolman Tor
BUSH of the West 6sth street station at sd street
and Broadway last night for making unnecessary
noise. Magistrate Cornell, in the night court, dis
charged them with a reprtmand. Two negro boys.
arrested at Morningside avenue and 126th street,
were also discharged but Peter Johnson. twenty
wears old OF No 4s3 Central Park West arrested
at West End avenue and 102d street, fined 81
for singing and Shouting.