Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-04-28
every CITY HAS
ITS0WN VOICE
Nerve.Racking Conditions oil
North Almost Entirely Absent
In South America.
OLD WORLD MELODY PREVAILS
Traveller In Havana Misses Shrek
Of Northern Newsboy and Hears
Instead q Mellow Chant
Lima Outlet and Sleepy.

Lima Outlet and Sleepy.
New York.-None but q dead city
Is without it's characteristic voice.
Each has its distinctive symphony Of
sound. changing with the hours from
the roar Of midday to the lullaby Of
dawn, and varying IN locality from
the brawl of factory wheels to the
babel Of busy streets.
North American cities are much
alike In these manifestations. Their
differences lie chiefly In volume.
Remove the traffic din Of North
American city. says the New York
Times, and there would remain for q
time almost dumbness. Most Of the
minor notes are stilled by an over
bearing competition Of noise or made
raucous themselves IN their effort to
be heard. Perhaps this accounts for
the harsh. aboriginal cry Of the North
American newsboy.
It Is in Havana that the southwark
bound traveller first misses the shrek
Of the familiar street arab bawling
his papers. Under the windows, IN
stead, there will be heard a mellow
chant, at a singing rather than q
shrieking pitch, always In at least two
notes, ending upon the higher.
Not that the composite voice Of
Havana is dulcet and low. It Is, on
the contrary, vociferous and loud, the
dominant note in its cacaphony being
the honk Of it's taxis.
Havana, In truth. seems to have
no aversion to noise. It does its ut
most, but from its medley Of sounds
an old world melody has not yet been
erased.
Insensible 70 Noise.
Like the Oriental, the Spanish
American seems insensible to noise.
He Is gregarious In his manner OF
life, and appears to find no need for
the privacy so essential to the Anglo
Saxon.
Outside such cosmopolitan centers
as Buenos Aires there is q vigorous
survival In South America Of the old
Spanish serene. OF his outfit Of keys.
dope, pike, pistol and whistle only the
latter remains. The hour Is no longer
shouted into iron-barred patios, to-
gether with the news Of the night
watches, but police whistles shrill
through the small hours their assur-
ance that the law is alert.
Most particularly may AreQuipa, Of
all the Andean cities, lay claim to the
church bell as its dominant voice.
The newcomer is Jared awake by 1t,
violently, in the misty. shuddering
gloom Of his first morning there. it's
primary tongue being resounding
stroke Of huge gong in the cathedral
tower on the main plaza.
Lima, once capital Of all the South
American continent. has a sedate and
quiet air. 1t Is too aristocratic to be
strident, and too far submerged in the
sleepy afternoon Of its gilded career
to express itself In any striking over
tone Of sound. Its automobiles and
it's three-horse carts 60 about their
business with q minimum of sound.
The street merchant is less vociferOns
and the long siesta interposes silent
midday between the more animated
hours.
Callao is noisome, rather than noisy.
both from proximity to the guano
island that rises at it's front door and
from the sQualor in which q large
part of the population lives.
Callao is a port and it's dominant
voice Is that Of the sea and the sea-
faring activities Of It's water front.
AFFLICTED With Motor Car.
La Paz Is afflicted with the motor
car. which leads q harsh and bois-
ferrous life upon the Bolivian capitals
sharp hills and cobblestones. But in
the early morning, before the tourists
and the handful Of dente decente-
which is to say the decent gentry
foreign. and domestic, have brought
= these anachronist1c chari0ts into req
uisition, a far more fundamental and
characteristic note can be heard. The
donkey trips into view, over the rough
paving stones, urged by his Indian
drivers curious combination Of whistle
and hiss. Llama trains patter by and
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sandals and Of aboriginal bare feet
An Indian village Is free from the
alarums that help so largely in build
ing up the civilized complex. There Is
no clatter Of motor car or wagon in
small town streets, or upon the burro
trails that creep through the high
land districts of Bolivia and Peru.
Buenos Aires is international and
Its streets echo those Of Washington
and Paris. Montevideo Is both a newer
and an older Madrid. Rio de Janeiro
is an artists dream Of Lisbon, al
though In a larger sense 1t Is as in
dividual and national as anything on
, the continent. And as for Santiago,
it is q new and greater Granada
though its astonishing citadel park
Of Santa Lucia is but pale similitude
of the Alhambra.
Greater Sydney includes 100000.