New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 24, 1930, Page 21

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1930. CITY NOISE LOUDER THAN LION'S ROAR King of Beasts Couldn’t Hear Himself in Metropolis New York, Oct. 24 (®) — A fe scientific tests by the New York cil noise abatement commission show set up a be primitive that modern man has low worse than man’s most terrific sound—the lion's roar. The lion's roar measures, in cold scientific terms, 87 decibels, 87 times the sound that can barely be heard. A Bengal tiger rates 75. But about 40 per cent of autc horns rate at 101 decibels, one point even ahove riveting with an even 100 Subways, Dlasting, steamboat whistles and elevated trains all out- roar the lion. Motor trucks hold him exactly éven. Steam shovels, whistles and street cars, police “nois r lion, outscreech tiger. And vet the Bengal all of the moutdo thunder at 48th street and Eighth steady 53 to many cities, ratc al of ough the city roar does ngt in-| the terror of the lion's voice, medical men on the commission pre- sented facts to prove that it causes some deafness, incre hlood pres sure and pulse rate, produces irreg- ular heart rhythm, in s bra! pressure, accounts for some of the tatigue at the day's end, slows the fingers of girl typists and interfer serfously with development of babies and children. There is a striking explanation for all this harm. Turn again to the #cientific figures, and instead of dec- ible ratings read the noises in terms of intensity, as 1 ired by elec- trical instrumen "The intensity leaps from 10 to 10 billion while the loudness in decibels is goipg from 10 to 10 Take the intensity for’ the home which rates 30 decibels. The home sound intensity is 1,000, But the lion's roar is times the intensity of the home. No wonder primitive man may have quailed. No wonder stout hearted moder are harmed physically by the babel of voices their traffic created, intensit s flute-1 voices that are just ten million times as in- tense as the sounds in a hom —in roars at a| 170,000 | | To reduce this racket the commis- | sion says will requirc a long edu- cational campaign, but that there | are numerous details which can be put into immediate practic GEODUCK HUNTING " AGAIN LEGAUIZED ‘Puget Sound Residens Eat iant | Clam-like Being f Olympia, Wash., legal to hunt geoducl | viding one uses a stead of am gun” in- shotgun. | For the geoduck—or gooey duck or goeduck, as you prefer—doesn't wings, and never has been | known to quac Some say he's a clam. Others not. But ‘dn}'\\dy,l he wears a gigantic clam-like shell and lives deep in the mud. The creature is indigenous to Pu- get Sound. Its shell is eight or more inches long. Its tough, mus- cular neck pable of extension lof the group, which is slightly mora from three to six feet. | Only in an extremely low tide can | the geoduck be hunted. He bur-| |tows decp in the sand, out beyond | the average low tide. And one | necds to be handy with a shovel ln‘[ get the quarry before it quarries through the mud to China. | Long before the white man came, | | the geoduck was a delicacy with the Indians. Whites learned to relish them as chowder, fried, ground up or as a boullibaise. Two heavy [lavers of skin are removed from the neck and the neck is caten. Even since the white man's con- | ing, the geoduck has been the source | of much railler: sitors insist | there can be no such animal; sto- | ries of geoduck digging are taken as native kidding. But they are real. | IFor several years geoducks were | | protected by state law. Now. their numbers increased. they can be dug |in specitied sedsons. Firemen’s Ball May Set | New Attendance Record 1 Tickets for the annual firemen's ball in the Tabs’ hall on Thanks | giving eve, November 26, are bein pidly taken by all who have been |approached thus far in the city |there is a possibility that it |record of more than tickets sold will be surpassed by at least 150 or more this year. This is the |report the ball committee will r ‘u»l\v‘ today from Chairman .iSug I". Barnes, assistant chief of the d and s | granite [partment. In every community you will find a group of people who appreciate quality. That is why you will find La Touraine Coffee on sale in every grocery store. YOU MIGHT AS WELL omsion oF Lamb Legs........ ... 1h. HAVE [SLES OF SCILLY GREAT HOTHOUSE Tons of Flowers Grown Where Transoceanic Fliers Landed Washington, D. C., o “The Scilly Isles, terminus of the most re- cent transatlantic fight, 1i~ about 30 miles off the southwestern tip of England and London,” says a bulletin from th: Washington, D. C., headquarters of the National Geographic society. “Only five of the islands, Ma Tresco, where the landed; St. Martins, St Bryher, are inhabited. More thar half the total population of about 10 are on St. Mary's, the est flye lary than 4 square miles in area. Town, the capita 200 houses, Hugh . a village of about is located there. Exports Tons of Flowers “Before London's tre bery begin to show signs of life in the spring, tons of Scilly lilies, nar- cissi, tulips and daffodils are for sale in florist shops of the Brilish capi- tal The ways climate on the isles temperate, the Gulf i never letting the thermometer drop {below 46 degrees, although the isles | ing and are in the same lJdtitude as northern tip of Newfoundland. “The Scillies form an archipelago of about 200 islands and isolated rock: all of which lie within an arca of 50 square miles. They are the rugged summits of he same ridge that forms the of Cornwall on the mainland. adition has it that the isles arc remnants of a lost territory which sank beneath the ‘While geolo- ists refuse to be the old fishermen of the Scillies stiil tell of at buildings n under he waves on calm days and ot bringing up bits of ancient furnish- ings on their gear. “A theory onc held that e Scillies were the ‘“Tin lIslands’ of Herodotus, but it is now known they were not. The Scillies have no known mineral wealth. They might have been, however the trading enter where the Phoenicians, thre: thousand years ago, met with th: Britains and bartered the Cornwall mines. “Until the building of the lonely Bishop Light on an outlying rock to the southwest, and numerous othe lightships, the the back- bor sea lighthouses and villies were hazards to shipping between Burope and the Before the | west coast of Lngland. THE are the hothouses or | 1d shrub- | convinced of this, | placgment of | e Two Danes in Pond; Rescuer Soon Rescued \’ Lixcelsior, Minn., Oct. 24 (P— || This is the story or two Danes, | | George J. Dane, and his Great ‘ Dane. George went out with his shot- |{&un and the dog in search of || ducks. The great Dane started | | & dash across the thin sheet of |]ice on a small lake. It broke || and the dog dropped in. | 7he master dropped his gun || and plunged in to rescue his big friend. Soon two Danes were g around in the water, would-be rescuer turned out to be the rescued, for a few minutes later the great Dane swished to shore, its teeth firmly grasping George Dane's collar. Today was declared a- Danish holiday at the Dane farmstead, near here. —_— ) i | flower business enriched the inhabi- | tants, salvaging goods from wreck- ed ships was an important vocation lamong some of the islander: “Scillians were fisher people until an enterprising islander. sent a few flowers to London. The blossoms lattracted such attention that the | flower business was organized and | now several hundred tons of abou: | 200 varieties of flowers are sent to London annually. From December to June practically all the inhabi- tant re employed in picking, pack- dispatching flowers wh are sent by boat to Penzance, Corn- ywall and then by fast train to their jultimate destination. Tourist Trade Increasing “Once the haven of pirates anl |ne‘er-do-wells, the Scillies now boast of the prosperity of the inhabitants, | due to their industry, and as- i.\m that poverty has been eliminat- led. | The boat trip from Penzance to Hugh Town. a distance of 40 miles, was so rough and the Scillies so desolate that tourists formerly {dom wasted time in the neighbo {hood. 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