The evening world. Newspaper, March 5, 1903, Page 13

9 iuAmeg » OEP eds! cH WORLD: (THURSDAY RVGRENG, MAROH 8, 1000 ae WORD DS = HOME THE NERVE-RACKING NOISES OF NEW YORK; < HOW GHEY INCREASE GHE DE_ATH RATE THE FINISH OF THE MEN WHO RUN “ CORNERS.”’ . ti HAT was that low, rumbling sound I heard yeneday atiats ) noon?” asked the Cigar-Store Man. “That was the explosion of the cotton market,” replied the Man Higher Up. “One more bright man has tried to corner a ‘ ~ @ecessary of life, and, from the way it looks now, the most he will be able to | way when they finally dig him out of the discard will be ‘Where am I at?’ By the time he gets the lint brushed off his clothes there ought to be a dinge * Postmaster in New Orleans. “This thing of running corners {s calculated to put a crimp én a man’s favorable hunch on his own judgment. It looks as though the country has got ‘po big that a man trying to corner a commodity 1s like the man who tried to drirfk up the river to keep himself from getting drowned. About the only @uccessful corner that can ‘be run these days {s in something that nobody ‘will buy, and I don’t know of anything that nobody will buy, from gold bricks to garlie. “The corner {s an ancient institution. It was run in times that you and I don't know anything about, but the first successful corner that was run in this country was that fn oll. This was put through by that eminent philan- ¢ thropist and dyspeptic John D. Rockefeller, and, as he had the advantage of hoking the original privilege, he won out. His Standard Ol corner has given him such a large stack of blues that he has been able to make bets on the side, and now he runs a gas and electric light corner In New York City. “The difference between his corner in ofl] that was successful and the eorners that have been unsuccessful {s that Mr. Rockefeller went into the , ®orner business without taking a chance, while the speculative guys of recent 4 years take more chances than a woman going past the Flatiron Building on @ windy day with a gauze skirt on, And Rockefeller, being the pioneer, has | Discordant Street Sounds Are Not Only an Unpleasant Phase of \ bad 80 many decks pass through his hands that he has them all marked. They tell me that it was his money that made possible the explosion on the City Life but Are a Grave Menace to Health, Cotton Mxchange yesterday. “Coming down to the speculative corner, the orfginal was a Chicago gharacter known as ‘Old Hutch,’ who was a great deal of an originator in his | wey. He framed up a corner in grain end got away with it because the galls Van Vaknava | Culosaniacstocly ia lengih (Genin Protts of ile cormer enabled th oldman to wear hat tat n Dower” at London, with twice the population of New Yor, 6 Gut ee a ee ot aia reat the seeter ta handler would throw into the nearest ash barrel and have men copy them; |stave {n comparison with either American city, and, notwithstanding the inert eatnadniinte againt aoe ce Sekai 1S reporcer, ‘Wkewlce he was enabled to buy the best chewing tobacco in the market and |Vivacity of the French nation, Paris is less nolsy than London. . z Ral it wherever tie saw AE 5 Business pressure is undoubtedly greater in New York than in any THE TEN CITY COMMANDMENTS AGAINST NOISE, It te forbidden for any person owning, occupying or having chargs of an “After the success of his first corner the old man conned himself into the {Other city in the world. The American metropolis is the nofstest contre} it. to keep or allow therein any dot, cat, jackass or other animal, which Delief that he could run another, and what thoy did to him was a shame. If |Within the bounds of civilization. whall by noise disturb the quiet or repose of any one therain, or in the vicinity, they had a hospital for people hurt in a corner he could have had a ward all Now, the superlative appeals to New York to be the most advanced, most |to the detriment of the Mife or health of any human being.—Section 172, Sanitary] street tn the ity or in any public placo.—Section 687, Corporation Ordinances, to himself, Even this didn’t cure him of the corner habft, and when it came |bustiing—yes, even the most noisy—anything that implies the distancing of Code, It Js forbidden for any peddler, vender or huckster to ery or sell his or how It ts forbidden to play a hand-organ in any street in the clty, or in any public] wares after 9 o'clock P, M., or to ory his or her wares before 8 o'clock im the to a final showdown his former fortune looked lke a ghost. other big towne-—seems, fo the average joltizen who does not atop to think, |= ‘segarei9/A:, 36, or, efter. 11P, Oks Or bo pias, within @ distance of(M0 fest ot | merton of may GayTaléent @atorcan’ when’ they: are ellowad ito walt) Ciera 2 “Young Joe Leiter tried to run a grain corner in Chicago along the lines |® good thing. ‘any schoolhouse or house of worship, or any hospital, asyium and other public] or merchandise until 11.80 P. M.—Section 629, Corporation Ordinances, : Jaid down by ‘Old Hutch.’ He went up so high that {t continues to be a But in the last week several persons have died in New York City, and | institution, or to play within 250 feet of any dwelling-house if the player thereof The Commissioner sald: “Every year we receive innumerable com= wonder to many people that he ever lit. Nobody knows how much it cost |thefr death was attributed by relatives directly to the discords of the GY RN cll ‘fon plaints trom persons charging that their friends or relatives have beem his pa to settle. John W. Gates and his partners were the next to try a cor- |city streets. No Ucensed peddier, vender or huckster shall try in any way to attract at-|mado 1! or sometimes killed by nofses of their vicinity. These eomplaipts mer, after a young man named Phillips had hit the ceiling so hard in the At firet glance it would seem that the claim that @ human belng| tention or to eell his or her wares in any place in the city or in any public place| are always investigated, and, while I cannot recall a case where it Was ~ wame game that it jarred his teeth loose. They stopped the Gates corner by could be done to death by noise is an ebsurd one. But science and medicine | on Sunday.—feotion 529, Corporation Ordinances. proved that death was actually caused by city notses, there is no doubt that lare upon the side of those who make it. Tt ts forbidden for street venders or hawkers of clothes-lincs to shout or cry an peiumetion, and the happiest people about the injunction were the Gates alee ee eee meiee BR ae ment thet the {Ut ter wares end occupaidons in back-yards of eesidences (fine $10 for each| It 1s frequently hastened by them. peop! le. Wart 24 reepo! state! offense).—Section 639, Special Ordinanca. ‘There are many preventable noises in New York City, and I aan "Young Mr. Price, who applied the match to the cotton explosion yester- |death of hundreds of persons In New York is hastened annually by the It ie foctiacen for any peddier, vender, hawker or huokster to blow upon or| heartily with any attempt to diminish their number, We did a good ‘worle @ay, tried to run a corner himself three years ago, and when he came to casit |death-dealing clamor of the city streets. use, or suffer or permit to be blown upon or used, any horn or other instrument last summer by abolishing the nolse caused by the “fat wheel,’ that a ue was $16,000,000 to the bad. Being wise, he cut the corner business out, | _ Commissioner Led le, of tho Board of Health, told an Tventres World |* "0 purpere of drawing notice 19 his traie.—Seotion 3, Speotal Ordinance. | viieels on elevated or surface cara which had been flattened Uy long use EW YORK is the noisiest city In the world. Following close upon the Empire City in the number and volume of Its classified diecords- made a bluff that he was starting another and roped in Mr. Gully, of Provi- |reporter yesterday that there is no doubt that the many preventable nolses jin the cy without @ permit therefor, and for euch tbell to be tolled or rung at any produced unnecessary noise, The railroads are now obliged to substitute dence, R. I., who is the latest corner man. My sincere hope {s that they will jof New York do incalculable damage to the public health. other UUme therein, to the prejudice or peril of the health of any ‘human being.— new wheels whenever there {s the least sign of Aattentng: living on tel let Sully off with his shoes, at least, because he is a game young man.” Stop a minute and think how many different noises there are in New | Section 177, Sanitary Code. The street-car gong 1s a nuisance, especially to persons Hving e: " ts w but to abolish it would endan| * “You don’t seem to care much for corners,” sald the Cigar-Store Man, York, Have you ever paused in the midst of the deafening chorus of pa deg gielaide eluate (pba and eobiaes of fron, atest as ouher racer iad ae eee ‘hich the cable cars pass, ger “The only corner I care anything about,” answered the Man Higher Up, |blended sounds to trace the source of each? any other manner, unless iy Ans ee aee a ea ania a) oa aiieg Tec “There is no reason why the factory whistle should ex in ae age bs $ ‘lg the corner of Thirty-sixth street and Broadway after the matinee.” What kept you awake Iast night? Or what kept your elck neighbor |noises, ynder penalty of $25 each io 7 ‘ration Orai-|the World. It 1s a survival of the time when clocks and watches were f 2 : ‘ prem Ae Ear offetiae. Bee aan: STB | Cor porassoe luxury, But I would have to look up the law before I could glye an opine awake? When you heard the midnight yowling of the assembled felines on P2nces.- CoP 2 It ‘s forbidden for any hucksto1 Alor om other trader to ery his wares at|!0n as to whether {t Is a preventable nuisance. >be 7 rofessor S Lowe, the back fence, did it ever occur to you that no one should be allowed to| any nour within a distance of 20 pene ape Piirsutasiee onan: lowe: hospital “There are too many noises in New York, and the public can lessen the ~ keep a cat in a big city? or ollie public dnstitution.—Section 590, Corporation Ordinances. number {f it wants to. Any crusade to make New York a quieter, and B VY Cc E Banks. What woke you up this morning unless you ‘had an alarm clock set for ‘orbidden for any itinerant musi or ahow to beat a drum or play any therefore a healthier, elty has my hearty indorsement,” : AGirl’s Cruel Joke that Led to an Cdd Romance. an earlier hour? The 7 o'clock factory whistle; those shrieking, howling Ra vata i tetas Una agencies of torment that serve apparently no useful purpose. | Amusements. Amusements. Amusements (Copyright, 1908, by Dally Story Pub. Co, ° him to do such @ thing,” eaid 7 (TRE, Droatw F Mm “DAY, . BRE wiover was a inore delightfully |Afien Fentheratone with heightened color.| _ useful Bervent of humanity once compiled a list of the principal atty ‘a Ca err maren : | exe ech ROCTOR Siok, fn Te Emmet Celebrations mischievous gir! than Maze Ap-| “Won't 1? Just you wal and see." (Poses. He declared they were: 2 THE UNPORES BN, | sity The coming of the professor put an| Old-clothes men, fruit hawkers, street-car gongs, junkmen’s bells, cats, If You Will, but That | ACADEMY OF MUSIC, end to further remarks; but he hed/barking dogs and granite pavements; factory whistles; church bells; ? Next Stomtay Aftornoon and , Sunday Evening, March8 — Pleby, Everybody in the boarding- be lace be- , 35th St, Bway. exely: wanton Saenecls tn: fee-9 roysterers (men end Women coming home at the small hours from @peial] DOn't Cure Dronkenness! | ANNIE RUSSELL in MICE AND MeN | ‘WAS IT A DREAM?” HON, yOHN GO house ked her, and many were the plans and subtertuges invented by the boarders of both sexes to sit at her tabler Mazie's only rival in this Ittle] you nave a valentine, professor, the entertainments, shouting and singing in the streets); the peanut-man's LAND MOLINE! WiLL PRESIDE, olony of tollers i the Pe somniann only ono at the table, We have taken |Whistle (this ubiquitous source of torture serves no purpose, and for its aizo satin masta scaenaed | NEW PAVOY UMEATRE, | Ey. ie he By ae ine UX, JUDGE O'NEILL RYAN, of St. Louis, office buildings was Grace Featherstone. Se . nerves of 5, wel x hae abot ered ericire a vote and decked that you must pay |does more to distract nerves than anything else); the dude in the rumble of Peete nae te TINE, MARCH 23 s0u RS ‘alt Ave. a WILL DELIVER THE ORATION. . ‘| the penalty of the day and read it tly tally-ho, who thinks it sport to blow his strident horn up and down the Vocalists: Andrew Mack, Mra, Helen ‘pose of Miss Feathers Archer or Miss MeGowan and Armigh 0’ Donahoy. us. No, we will accept no excuses, will 100 Mabon Tite repay “te “Tht GIN Will Ihe Green EYCS wi.ovndoot | aaa THEATRE, - 7 Oo iL ee @er figure that spoke of family. H eanilementt street before reasonable people are out of bed; the intolerable sheet-iron ibe (alk beam elon principl = Howard akgee y : It was pretty well understood among ra ig ae sd eit the reporter, |oal-chute (this {s wholly without excuse; It might be made of wood, or lined [2 lerayann, Dhralten) patie ea Erocinen 815. Mats, Wednesday & Saturday es sudewitie, ) Reserved Seals, 50¢., 750. ond $1, Gaileiy, 2. Py: ie SPORE SER RE, ie spine poakes “It fe the custom in all countries," /with some solft matertal; in its presont state the coal-chute 1s a nuisande | oforiess, olor JAMES T. POWERS THE JEWEL | oth SL}! + Kel . iCIRCLE#=*= Daily Mats, 215 added the insurance agent. wholly beyond endurance). best st \Le Roy, Ta: erstone, mithough he seldom found cour- Win apieey, [MEK oite red | QARDEN THEATRE, BIth St, & Madteon ave. Bge to address her the simplest remar,| | (Hapa aus itean oaks bul Ite ele ‘This list of city noises was shown yesterday to Dr. J. Mount Bleyer, a| somnen end « Eveniage at. but, Batur’ay et 2 | Me prkopoLitay opERA-nousE. | ii" “STAR |Kellete @ Livisy Are ference," said the pi 1 W ah + ; | 4800 1908-290, Guyer & Daly, Louise Mls shyness was the eurce of much) Meher, vou aro welcome to it, Miss |SPecalist in the pathology of noise, and to Ernest J. Lederle, Health Com- |, met WONERE | nate ‘ihe eisenion uf ir, Maurice Oran. Ss YAUDENI Ei 1 Hogs fon, missed accopportanlty t0 embarrass him|Appleby." He handed the missive across |missioner of New York City. Dr, Bleyer sald: ry OL OND eas MON BY. 308 HmsOAY NEXT, XTRA MANLET MATING, | 70 oi BVO,, at 8.1L, FLAUTO MAGLIO | Jack ore gwith a sudden question when he seemed] the table and bent over his plate, glad “Hundreds of deaths occur annually In New York which, !f not ectually |\: womnanes? taile to destroy xii desire tor| MADISON SQ. THBATRE, 2ich ot,20.1" way, | Sat, Eva 1 Price | ute’, 260. @ Goe. !A' Erp tothe’ alte Peete | sun. Kvi to still the comment, caused by one or all of these noises, are undoubtedly hastened by them. Mquor, Sealed booklet matied free on request. | Evenings, B1f, Mats, To ‘day & wat, 2 en. BYE EW YORK, Pivar,& t18 2 Ey ost preoccupied. y ; "Thomas 6. Hopkins, ‘Peat Cor fhe | Anguatue Th ROGER-MICLOS, PARP She Mt See Mee fall = Fim $8 ir ae expecially true of persons suffering from nervous diseases, Noise is ‘Ai. Woshinpom, D.C, writen: "Pore Grestoat Comedy THE EARL OF PAWTUCKET | Marilly; og Companert. Puts oricen, 3 3, oe ei At such times Miss Featherstone yrould come to the rescue with an in- a. Woah ngcom, B, c. ton hi anal” invent open it and be the first to gaze upon beat that M! ith BI nabeth Tyree and Lawrance D' Oreay, si thent erefore to consumptive patients | ‘ORRINB’ cu: Miduor habit, “Y think . war, |e DOUBLI fereuption that tended to change the| Me pretty verses.” She Uroke ithe, seal, fatal to a sufferer from neuras| henia and therefore to ptive pi [SOMRIN ED! ‘cures abil cniek | KNI KERB CKER rr Aye Mar. Ets at Ba POUR, BE WILLIAMS & WALKER “us topic, ‘The gratefy) look with which | then, rising, read: as well, For all consumptives show neurasthenle symptoms. ‘The worst |thould vie it Cc 0 wway aint be BER PIANO USED, the professor was:sure to reward her fas Grae senid lhe yponsbciest na' noise in New York is the awful cable-car gong. eealed, Wri ' Beltane (h apboriel ys m % walestiC = QRAND CIRCLE, Bway @ Goth papanese wee rd TORR ath pest ashy an mallee gall Gay fe wear “I have known of cases where patients have fallen into @ sleep, some- ate | HO, Bi OE, 1, o ae oi ee Bhet the blush was o: ‘anstorre ‘h rosebud 1a her hair, times natural, sometimes induced hy anaesthetics, which if prolonged |} bar WIZARD OF OZ. |e his cheeks to hers. MADISON $9. (ARDEN. * "An, if he could only have known how | ,tbere Wis a momentary buat of ‘augh-|might have been a favorable turning point in their dieases, but who were | hihave..cor.s4 # , followed b; uh . Bol M. 424 St. and 31 whe longed for him to speak to her, te Hilénce that the profe par eaeant ny suddenly avvakened by the clanging of the cable cars, us barry Pat? ia” Adm.50c, AMERICAN OLIVER Twist” loome to her side and demand her voice, | Ms plate startled. A “Discord drives people insane. Not only human beings, but the lower [HERALD | Bye 016 Man tat, 236, | ttncmpe Mont 256] wy, J g . 8 » 2M. | Bxcept Mon., ext We—-Daagers jore.at her eyes, yes, oven her lips! But a wo. | it all eves were red on Miss és THE MOST NUTRITIOUS, | Bye 6 Meh Oat 2M | Rees Nee aid Comune en canst (all'a man acne things aac |ie tere tenes tamath <. Seng ionimels.’ It hae sieo an) inlurique effect on Ananimete tides, I have! 4” sa tate food, arith all Thiesa' ree 08 NO Agnew “HE ee” ly when they are boarders under #0, his feet, pale y ‘no dowbt that @ discord might occur in the vicinity of Brooklyn Bridge which ‘ite natural qualities intact, nger the game root and she is looked up toy reaching ‘a 0 cnet he cried, hoaewely, would snap that mighty structure to atoms. And the buman system '§ fttea to build up and dl ord 44 Ge paragon of propriety. table, Saive tH ft to me! How dare you infinitely more delicate and complex than this triumph of mechanism, ? t! €t, Valentine's Day was approaching Featnerstongy 1° aia not” Indeed, Mies)" ““«t experimented several years ago with the effect that pleasant and E P > Ss’ Ss GASINO. Gach. CHNESE METKON HERONS TRE VOLE ‘it nin (MATINEE TO-DAY. | agama oe os DEMEY Vanity Fair Burlsquers Cotiean on Fai CrfL wiecs & TH T WVBRY BUNDAY NIGHT. f, Grand Concert, We. | Next week—VIOLA ALLEN. Seats new the Uttle god of Love whispered to . sy snidentie “araity torepnter what vinty ittien “Be,,,Aeket: unpleasant sounds have upon the lower animals; monkeys especially, My | ‘fe,,do. gus fomembering |subjecta were & very intelligent monkey, @ dog and @ cat. Attaching the| Gives Strength and Vigour. ks A : - _ gl ian pepe ae Ee. om aga fi indo barat, when te ‘ding, “would, have ne er repeater of a phonograph to.the monkey's ears by @ eort of harness I pro- fue ERY RE WALLACK’S aco ase, Mutloal 6 4 cS Chen “isan “pis Si aotad be batter, A Qonit know det froce she room 4 not the pudent 48-|duced musical sounds. The monkey was plainly pleased, He eat perfectly O A Achiesvon Rian —————. Wray haha SHLTAN OF suLU. Posie, Sar Zr, Onten ‘What will happen, but there is gure to eran de SS Mipe Freatheratone, x tg still, with a bappy grin on his face, and at times uttered a dry chuckle of | 4th St, & Irving Place, ol! @ Gat..2.% o: 1" a sho Lax, Ave. & 10 ns be @ scene with lots of fun in we care? 1 love you with all h any heart, delight. The dog and the cat were moved in the same way, ‘robust health, and to resist FLO R OD O RA Manhatt gan iets. er and, rf A Next act SS el ee te Bo it came about that as Miss Feather-| all my being. I have drea: of noth- Jinders oh: 4 with le-car Winter's extreme cold. It is Pier andtc ing bat yours es ff pom. Then I tried upon the same animals cy ange cab! ricoh Btu rand san the Orietnn He PHOMPHON P ot Nr mae eri orn ap ee son ‘be men ne aid ory Da eof tay [gong notes aud other sounds that daily offend the ears of the New York ® Valuable diet for children, | ric Botts iat Wed OUt.2 B & The Bishop's Move” Heel tec, BIJOU|M MARIE C: Ay hall, book 1 have, eanl 20u5 voles in every titinen, ‘The nolso made them perfectly erasy, The monkey acratched and | _GRATEFUL-OOMFORTING. __ [DALY'S tims Ret it, 4 Pate aa ve ot race!" d beautlful, : ; aml Meath Merry Musloal Phe 4 b ive Seen IY aries tha anreenion i. baa grt I didn’t send the vaj- SAdbered furlously; the dog bit and pene trying to pe away, and tho Bit’ y Musloel Play 3B Rei GRAND- WARDS 8 4 VOKES Ruth atl aes ay cz a Vook in that gows! You lack only one| fait ty mecimrnees Wee Placed dn my jeat arched her back, I could do nothing with them at all. Amusements, IL LIONAIRE S$YKES | Natw'k—Kelory_& shonaon tn sherlock Holmen sEDAVE Soe Today, MUA A thing to make you fetching beyond ex-| everthi I love you,” he griea, “I was Jed to make these experiments when my attention was called - ——— K at A beat tae pd : es You should have a bit of color| igh Fue’ Atin Moreusor: and T 8 Ieeveral years ago to the pathology of sound by a trip I.made down the bay | PASTOR’ S BEPASCO THEATRE tite teria! “Meber & Fis iP eae A Brooklyn Amusements, rr your hair, You must have. Wait!) emine, but—now I wish I he: ito meet 14 Hung Chang. On this trip 1 saw several persons made violently | e Y ¥ a8 i “Via Banana ALBCRDITY, 1 10m oo" ‘And that evening, while the aig ‘batroched he neeler igs aoa Ha. t ons and “sen, Roce lttae ney : {ll by the noise of the Chines? gongs and fiddles with which bis com- OF ap WILE ‘8 STRTEON. | Vietoria. 42 ot. Dy, By 816 wr eee at Site, MONTAU: Sis wh ” evor sen! 5 4 ~ ¥ y TR! - polor, anyway. There! That ts perfect.| hoart. 1 ¥ ‘patriots welcomed the great Chinaman, 14th BL Theatre, voar Ki Sat, | gy Pianobe BROADWAY ques . IN “The Moorea] Bieamng of fa ¥ life. “It the cable-car gong were abolished there would be a marked reltef aa ey SMART iit |WALSH RESURRECTION ag Le peeeblt hd malt wu lattorded to sufferers from all nervous diseases and to consumptives, to i ED FAVORITE. inh jb iow io lwhom noise is death-eallag, for a conmumptive's eleep is always fitful wanelige ree srvenuwse es. Mantels XB es | pace a, “us owt owned, Tek tn, dagiea tudinal ad eo | ye SPE TE ate ha a nwes'y “w A rate TIN.