The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-19
NEWARK WOMEN
WILL MAKE WAR
ON NOISE EVIL.
Barking Dogs, CackIing Geese
and Rambling Wagons Are
to Be Eliminated.
CIVIC CLUBS MEET TODAY
TO PLAN FOR CAMPAIGN
Improvement in School Chill
dren's Curriculum Also to
Be Sought After.

"A crusade against unnecessary noises
is being planned today by well-known
club women of this city.
AT one of the most important meet
Ings of the Civic Club, of Newark, IN
the home of Mrs. James C. Corlies,
president of the club. at 20 East Park
street, this afternoon. the fight will be
started. Besides the prevalence of
useless noises in the centre of the city,
the wasting of school children's time
with the study of branches that will
be Of no eventual service to them will
be among the important matters dis
cussed. Local option will also be n
sidered. Representatives of all other
women's clubs were invited to attend.
Mrs. Corlies has been gathering a
quantity of facts concerning noises in
the city, and these will be laid before
the club. with the motion that action
be taken to suppress them. 81
why. the most of Newark will
doubtless. be surprised 10 learn she
said to an EVENING STAR reporter
tOudy, tltdt Nllllln a QudttcI VI ~
mile from the corner of Broad and
Market streets 1 can point out a num-
Der OF poultry yards where chickens.
ducks and geese are raised for the mar
et. Such is a fact. Any one who
lives down town will testify to hearing
the unearthly growing of lusty-lunged
ROSTERS before daylight every morning.
/ have followed those c%rowings and l
have discovered many things which the
Board of Heath should suppress.
Another thing, the police should sup
press the early morning discs on the
streets. These are made mostly by
great trucks, big milk wagons and their
l~oud-voiced drivers whose vocabulary
is mostly of the profane variety. These
street noises. start after midnight and
continue well along into the day. They
are unnecessary and should be stopped.
Noises Getting Worse.
"Of late these noises nave been get
ting worse, and now it is practically
impossible for a person living in the
downtown section to get any rest at
midnight. =
t'There are also down town any.
number Of great ST. Bernard and, New.
foundland dogs, animals which are en-
t.rely too big to be housed. in "a fat
or the downtown residences. They are
certainly entitled to sufficient room in
whiehstd move about, and should have
homes where there are large yards and
plenty of ground. The Society for the
Prevention f Cruelty to Animals
should take up this matter, n the
Civic Club proposes to see that the
proper authorities a k a proper inter-
est in all of these abuses"
In. a paper on Industrial Education
Mrs. Grenville Weeks will discuss the
abuses of our public school curriculum.
She and other members of the Civic
Club hold that a great part of the
time Of the children of the working
classes is deliberately wasted in the
study of such topics as algebra, geome-
try, physics and such, which can be of
no possible service In later years to
these children. Mrs. Weeks contends
that the great majority of the children
of the working classes leave school
when between IA and 16 to go to work
in the mills and factories, where never
again will they ever be bothered by
geometry or other such trying sub
JCCts. Oilc DclcNeo tidt tHo tihlc WlicI
is employed in teaching such studies
should be devoted to the teaching of
something more practical, something
which will be of daily and practical
service to the children of the working
classes when they leave school.
~ To Discuss Local Option.
Mrs. Ella Clifford will discuss local
option.
II am of the opinion" said Mrs. Cor
lies today, that a majority of the mem
bers of the Civic Club are in favor of
each community making it's own excise
laws. e
at is not right that the people of an
other locality should ave a Ia n in the
making of our excise laws, u w
local laws. 1t would not be right for us
to tell the people of Jersey City or
Trenton, for instance, what they SHOULD
do or what they should not do on Sun
day or on any other day. Therefore, 1t
Is not right that they should have a
voice in the local affairs of our CON-
munity.
IT do not think that the saloons
should be open at all on Sunday. They
should be closed on Sunday, and all
day. That the strict enforcement of the
excise law has been beneficial is indi-
Gated by the large increase in the num-
Der of depositors and the amount of de-
posts in our savings institutions"