Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-08
Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special correspondence OF The Star.
NEW YORK, October ., 1911.
o New Workers love noise?
1t is the general impression
that they do. Perhaps the gen.
IL eral impression is correct. But
they do not love noise in their
fat-houses. L can -vouch for that, for l
know several scores Of New Workers who
spend nearly all of their waking hours
complaining feverishly of the noise Of the
other folks in their lighthouses. tThey
don't ever by any chance, say anything
about their own fiat noises, but it isn't TO
be reasonably expected that they would)
And SO now the agents of lighthouses
are guaranteeing, in their advertisements,
that the fats they advertise are noiseless.
They dwell insistently upon the point.
They point out the fact that the walls
and ceilings are not only of double, but
of treble and even quarduple thickness
that they are lined with felt and all the
other accepted nose-muffiers; that the
halls are thickly carpeted: that the play
ing of musical Instruments Is stopped
mandatoriiv at 10 O'Clock at night. on
pain of the violater of the rule peins
ordered to leave at the first onense; tnat
No animal. bird. bug or invertebrate Is
allowed to be kept in any OF the mats as
IL
tjaIIv that no children under the age OF
fifteen are permitted to live in the apart
ments.
Out Of this desire of the New Workers
for quiet iats-no matter how trie IL
may be that they want noise, and gobs
Of il. when they quit their homes-has
grown a new trade. or profession. or
what-d ye-call-it. at which half a dozen
They are called FIAT tryers' or noise
detectors.
II isn't hard work. IL consists merely
OF listening. You want a fiat that is alb
solutely dead certain to be noiseless. You
decline TO accept the agents assurance
OF guarantee that the fiat is noseless. for
the excellent reason that you are &C
quainted with New York fiat agents And
so. you summon the fiat tryer' to test
out the fiat that you've picked out for
YOUR occupancy. With the agents per-
mission, the fiat fryer" moves just a
bed and chair into the fiat that you've
selected and she STAYS there and listens
for noise for two days She's on the
listening job day and night.
At the end of the two days she makes
her report TO you, and the report can be
relied upon. You pay her ten dollars for
the stunt. If she says that the fiat is Alb
solutely quiet. you can move into that
nat with perfect confidence II she says
that IL Is noisy, or nearly so, you &c,
your SO worth: you steer clear of tina,
nat and the wear and tear on youl
nerves Is saved. also the expense Of NOV.
ing out after you've discovered for your
self that the fiat won't do on account OF
its noisiness.
A lot of folks who are pretty middiins
weIl-to-do keep the fiat tryers busy al
the time. / know one man who dug III
ninety dollars to fat fryer before III
found, through her efforts. fiat that wa:
absolutely noiseiess. The women who fol
low this odd line of work are entirely
trustworthy. 1t might be imagined tina
they would report flats noisy for the sake
Of the additional jobs they'd thus stane
q chance to get: or that they d get to tho
point where they'd find it a profitable