The evening world., 1911-08-26

New York City 10 without q musical
ear. judging from the hundreds Of curl
Gus complaints that daily reach the
Health Department. Caruso top notes
and Tetrazzini trills seem to be wasted
upon unappreciative nat dwellers. Even
canned music of the photograph, plan
ola and hurdy-gurdy has plainly lost It's
charm.
These summer days constitute the
open season for city music. Open are
the windows and open are the doors,
all the way from the janitor's bell up
10 the roof. And tho happier some folks
are the higher the stack OF mail re-
ceived each morning by Health Com
missioner Ernst J. Lederlc. who has
something TO say about what goes on
between II T. NJ. and s A, NJ. but who
has no authority whatever over "noises'
between 8 A.. NJ. and II p. NJ.
Those letters relating to harmony are
most interesting as indicating the pres
ence in our great city Of what are COM
monty referred to as nerves"
Forty.one occupants Of adjoining nat
buildings united in . round robin which
read as follows: There Is a tenement
house full of furmakers at No. 3l3 Fifth
street. They are all Greeks. They
have Q tremendous big phonograph.
which they hang out into the court. and
they keep 1t going in foreign languages
I'll, all hours Of the night. We protest.
Here is what q feminine complainant
recently wrote: at No. 79 West One
Hundred and Eightieth street some Of
the tenants about midnight commence
to bang the piano n sing coon songs.
II Is always ragtime. One lady who 10
a baby hater bangs the piano and sings
as loudly as possible whenever she
hears a child cry. and other times when
his does not stop he baby she takes
her pet bulldog to the window and tells
him to bark back. which he does as
long as the infant cries. As the dos
barks, she sings and plays in a loud
manner. initiating the other tenants"
OBJECT TO PARROT BARKING
LIKE A DOG.
That dogs have no monopoly on
barking is Indicated from his COM
plant: There is a Mexican parrot at
No. 100 Cathedral Parkway which barks
like a dog and swears In French.
Please stop the barking"
A lady artist living upon an upper
floor In a building near the one occu-
pied by the Health Department at FIJI
tieth street and Sixth avenue called
around early this week and said: You
have a cleaner who insists upon
singing Love me. and the world Is
nine while she works every morning
before 8 o'clock. She usually has about
Atty verses. an willing to hear that
song once, but / certainly shall not put
UP with the voluntary encores."
There were grave faces in the Health
Department when the following m!ss!ve
was scanned by tho male staff:
"will you please inform me II there
ara any means which I can take TO
| compel a woman who talks necessarily
from 6 O'Clock on every morning In the
800 block on West One Hundred and
| Forty-frst street. and disturbs out sleep.
TO stop talking? She not alone talks,
but throws all her windows up and
sometimes she sings. or thinks she
does"
The complainant was Informed: Your
problem Is one that even Solomon failed
to solve
Here is a complaint lodged against
sacred music: I'm the adjoining house,
No. 25 East Broadway. there Is a
prayer meeting where they sing hymns
and a social argument Is carried on o
all hours. They never fall to wake me
and my children and the other tenants"