New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-16
AFTER GAYN0R NOW
row OF MRS. RICE.
Misery for Mayor Unless He
.fcts for a Sane Fourth.

Mrs Isaac L. Rice stood up in meeting
last night and vowed before all the Society
for the Suppression OF Unnecessary Noises
then and there assembled that she would
make Mayor GaynOr's life miserable until
he saw things in the light OF reason regard
ing a safe and sane Fourth e July.
And Mrs. Rices four beautiful daughters.
who are as accomplished between them az
the nine muses. ever were. all vowed 20 help
her with the Mayor. though the members
Of the society were moved calamity. 70
question whether they could make anybody
miserable.
The occasion was the annual meeting Of
Mrs. Rices society with the merciful pur-
pose and the unfortunate name.
Fourteen stories underneath cars were
roaring over the crossings in long rolls
OF sound. like heavy surf suffering from
heart failure The room was the great
hall OF Mrs. Rice's apartment IN the An
sonia. where quiet was invoked with rose
coIored tapestries. shaded lights and broad
stretches Of sOmbre paintings.
Against the rose cOlored background sp-
peared the moving form OF Alderman
Courtlandt NicOlI bearing IN his hand a
huge hrecracker Of flaming, Oriental sun
burst hued red When one caught the
fash OF II against the color OF the wall
there was a very unnecessary noise 20 be
suppressed
The alderman opined that as an alder
man he was a member OF the house which.
with the House Of Lords. was the most
execrated legislative body in the world
That frecracker. which was fourteen
inches long, held latent within IL untold
suffering for any unfortunate small boy
who might fall in It's way. He deplOred
the letter Mayor GaynOr wrote the noise
society expressing a sympathy for the
present traditions OF the Fourth OF July
and declared he believed the Mayor could
be brought 20 see the light.
I'm sure" he said. that If you put 10
right up 10 Mayor GaynOr-appeal % him
straight. Just make his life miserable. any
thing like that-then he'd come out for
safe aud sane Fourth. That is only reason
able
Then Mrs Rice assumed the drecraker
and the speakers place. and assured her
hearers that the Mayors life would be
made miserable 70 his hearts content.
Then she passed from ner testing mood
and said some exceedingly pertinent things
about the new campaign Of the society.
which Is an attempt TO establish nOiseIess
zones about the public schools. such as are
nov kept about the ettys hospitals
Or. William II. Maxwell. Superintendent
Of schools; Miss Idalette Carpenter, princi-
pal Of The Washington Irving High school.
and Miss a. McAleer. principal Of Public
School lAs. al ID and Lewis streets. almost
turned the evening into an experience meet
ing with recOunting the terrOFs OF teaching
and learning in the midst Of elevated trains.
trolley cars. brewery wagons and granite
block pavements
IL visited No. .. IN The Bronx. at i73d
street and Third avenue" Or. Maxwell
said, and / Was sStOnished al the coudi-
tiOns there II was almost impossible for
me 10 make my voice heard at the rear OF
the assembly room. The pupils there spoke
hsbitually in a shout. They were straining
their voices badly. and disturbing the pupils
in adjoining rooms. trying 10 make them
selves heard
Or. McAleer found encoura cement IN his
hope for mitigation OF the noise around
some OF the schools in the advances which
have been n AIDE toward furnishing Police
Headquarters with a uOiseless pavement IN
the adjoining streets