The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-08
HOUSEWIVES DIARY OF WOE
WHIT IT ~ TO LIVE NEAR
Az INCIPIENT SUBWlT.

Health Beard Asked 60 RIieaee steam
shsveI and PSle Driver EaresssIyuites
who want Their subway Bullt. LIE
sslsmea's Temple. Withsat Nslse.
There arc at least fiftssn folks living
in south Brooklyn who get no sleep nova
days and are extremely bad tempered
in consequence. They we're among those
South Brooklynites who lost sleep trying
to get the Fourth avenue subway. Now
thew lose sleep because they are getting TO-.
Every time a steam shovel clears its
throat the jewellers in the apartment
house at Ss7 Fourth avenus have to rise
and pace to and fro with the youngest
scion Of the family. A. the steam shovel
stationed at Seventeenth street hEppe n
to have the asthma You can snrIniss how
much repose the people in 50T get per
night. Things got so bad yesterday that
they complained To the Brooklyn Bard
% Health. The Board % Health has
promised to quarantine the asthmaiic
steam shovel and undertake a CAREFUL
physical examination o. the pile driver.
This pile driver 10 worse than the steam
shovel Every time IL hits n pile IL makes
a loud metallic NOISE tending TO awaken
and enrage any person within a radius
% 100 feet. A. Il habitUIally strikes blows
with great raPidity It exaspesa'es each
individual something like ITO times
minute. Sometimes oftener.
MR.. {. y. Christensen. who lives NJ 5es
kept diary 81 one eventfh' night within
the last four DAYS. IL 10 so vibrant with
emotion. so colOrful. 80 vivid in It's re-
strlint that no one can fail 90 read u with
interest. after mentioning with poignant
accents the fact that her husband. whose
grocery store 10 ON the corner. was one
| 81 those IN favor - the subway she
continues:
PP M-PW all The BOYS to he'd They
went 10 sleep a. once. I sat down TO read.
bait Nas deferred by The steam shovel. which
couRhed Hu4ptciouslv None Of the boy .
has had whoOpinR cough. shut the win
dow- fclrfuily I WAS 80 worried that !
could not read
II = M-Went to hed Arm 81 the
steam shovel stood poised long before
orr window that thought work had been
abandoned for the night was never
more badly mistaken. had hardly
fallen asleep when the pile driver COM
'renced TO mud met hodicalv. The family
upstairs all woke up ~ once The baby
cried between thuds Its father walked
'he floor his steps keeping time 20 the thuds
The boys upstairs he9an 10 tap MESA gee
90 my bows on the steam pipes
- O'ciock-N pneumatic trip hammer
commenced 70 trip right under our window
I rose and began 10 prepare statistics. icing
holly una bic 20 sleep
Am have ius' hsIrsd that lille
night work vHi buhd the subway IN half
rm@ The physical wear and tear upon ~
vail T,Vobahly shorten our lives twO-thirda.
- hat night construction j. . dist net loss.
Many 81 those who sought the subway Will
IN con~euuence never live Ia ride IN Il 10
. night work CONTINUES.
80 4 ON the other hand no night
work means six wears before ts compile
ion instead ~ three wouldn't those
" hose lives are heing foreshOgteDed fail
% survive anyway
- M am deriving great Consoiati son
from Darwin. ho leads me TO believe that
u - q case for he survival Of the nt'e~t
= M wonderful continuation Of
sounds has iu-t occurred. The steam
shovel chug yed. the trip hammer tTipped
the pile driver D.Ied and drived. the fore
man -wOrs aud the BOYS above started a
IN bucket rolling down The stairs all a. the
-ame time II was almost exactly the same
'ourl effect that pbt aimed bv Strauss
IN the re motif in "flektTa- Everybody
In ne house woke up a. once and yelled
a. u he had been personally smisten.
The cause 81 all this unusual noise at
Seventeenth street seems ~ he the re-
moval of a sewer from The side % Fourth
avenue almost tO the house line A. Sax
tenth and Seventeenth streets IN 10 be a
station some dav and the sewer must be
removed out ~ the way 81 the station.
In the pursuit Of this somewhat delicate
ioh all the noisis'st Instruments happen
10 Ia employed. No excavNting except
for replacing the sewer has begun a. this
ppint on Fourth avenue. The construction
people we're endeavorinR yesterday With
some suoCess 80 Co attune the steam
shovel the pile driver and the trip
NsmW WhaENg IEfuF taaa
and produce a sort % symphony inst ~ad
Of t,stFial f.acoDhonY