Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-13
BAR NOISY RELIGION
Commissioners Get Complaint
Against Outdoor Exhorting.
SAY 1T MUST NOT BE
Neighbors May Give Permission for
Early Meetings.
ADJUSTMENTS ALSO IN IT
To Regulate Outdoor Singing, Play
ing of Musical Instruments,
Dancing, Lecturing, Etc"

The anti-noise crusade goes merrily on.
Judge EimbalI stopped the tickling of
the worries after midnight and muffiers
and automobiles Now the Commission
ers have decided to adopt a police regu-
ation prohibiting open-air preaching or
exhorting services, band concerts. dances
or noisy amusements on private prop
erty to be conducted after 10 o'clock at
night Unless the consent of three
fourths of the residents in the block
where the open-air noise is to be made
and of the confronting blocks, there will
be no preaching or exhorting service,
band concert or other amusement at all.
The proposed regulation, which has
received the approval of Commissioners
Macfarland and West, provides:
Harken to This.
NO vacant lot, temporary structure of
any kind. or lot or part of lot appurte-
nant to any building, in the District of
Columbia, shall be used or permitted by
the owner or person in control thereof to
be used for any kind of amusement
performance. singing, playing of musical
or other instruments, dancing. preaching,
exhorting or lecturing without first OBJ
tanning the consent in writing of three
fourths of the residents in the block
where the same is to be conducted and
in the block or blocks confronting the
said block, nor shall the same be con-
Quoted after 10 o'clock at night or in a
manner to disturb the peace or quiet of
the neighborhood within any of the
blocks above mentioned.
ANY person violating any of the pro-
visions of this section, whether owner
or person in control of such premises, or
managing or participating in any of the
actions mentioned, shall be liable to the
penalty provided for in section Z of
this article.
Violations are punishable by fine of
not less than 81 or more than $40
The adoption of the regulation followed
the receipt of complaints about some
church socialS.
Protests Against Squatters.
1T is again my necessity which COM
pels me to protest against the continu-
ance of the unnecessarily loud noises of
the camp which has squatted within the
last two weeks under a shelter tent in
the lot adjacent to my home" W. f. AL
len has written to the Commissioners.
Under ordinary circumstances the
church organization which is apparently
responsible for it is regarded somewhat
as a neighbOrhood nuisance. At the pres
ent. in an open tent, with its sermons
and prayers yelled and screeched at the
top of the voice in any but a reverent and
religious manner and the one-line chorus
es howied and groaned sometimes for
half hour at time and the services
prolonged in this fashion until way after
the time that respectable people are sup
posed to be in bed. generally until II 30 or
II pm, every night in the week and on
Sundays opening up before am, the an
noyance has become positively dangerous
to health.
Sick Girl Can't Sleep.
Il have had a three-year-old girl i'll
with fever for two weeks and she has be-
come broken of her rest on numerous &C.
casions each night by the unearthly and
alarming screeches referred to and rem
dered highly nervous. There are three other
families with sick children that are hav-
ing the same experience and all the neigh
bors are complaining to each other of the
nuisance -