The evening world. Newspaper, December 7, 1914, Page 3

RE. Isaac LC, AUTOMOBILE 1S what y | THE WORST OFFENDER joa rie! ‘he"Héaring Before Board of Aldermen. : ftuadred men.and women for t the, Proposal to make per- ‘ep ordinance, the free public at at Fort Lee ferry, Third) “Bridge and Queensboro | Simmed the Aldermanic | im City Hall this afternoon | hearing on the question. | opal Pure Milk and ) through its President, | ard W. Hooke, led the it favoring the legal per- rabttenty of the markets. Mra. Hooke Uh nll of Ge organieation. * Among. the large nuinber of women pfebent also in favor of the proposi- tdon to make the free markets per- rigneat institutions were Mre. A. M. Paliner, President of the Rainy Day Chub; Mrs. Charles Hii President of; the Daily Food Alliance; Miss Milife Thorne of the Stage Chil- dé@n's Club; Mrs. Richard W. Meade, Automobiles Worst Offenders, With Their Terrible Horns and Muffler Cut-Outs—Poor Greatest Sufferers, She Says, Because They Are yer, representing the Women's Demo- cratic. Club; Mra. James Frances Boe aki, We meee, Mar Forced to Keep Windows Glosed in deoita hi Order to Be Able to Sleep. free Party; Miss Mary Wood, Miss Asine Rhodes, Mre. Marcus M. Marks, Mts, R. KE. Fletcher, Mrs. Francis br mao Cabot, Mre. Lawrence Greer, award MeVicar, Mrs. Alfred Bly’ ir, Mrs. Robert Cartright, Mrs, Hobart Porter, Mrs, Guy Wilkinson ana Mra. Florence Speigelberg. ‘The opposition was represented chiédy ‘By ‘the Tenth, Eleventh and Seyenteenth ‘Wards Taxpayers’ As- sociation, the Harlem — Property| Owners’ Association, the United Reai| Wetate Owners’ Association, the Hai- By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Hundreds of New Yorkers are dying of noise. Tuberculosis, insanity, neurasthenia, vocal paralysis, insomnia and deafness may all be traced to the noise nuisance. What are we going to do about it? ‘That 1s what Mrs, Isaac L. Rice would like to know. Mrs. Rice is founder and President of the Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise, To her I sub- mitted certain pregnant paragraphs from a recent anal- ysis of the effect of noise on the public health, made by Mrs. Morgan B. Oakley of Philadelphia, before the American Civic Association. is still unenforced in the neighbor- hood of many schoois,’ IL “In many classrooms I the windows tightly closed, Te FACTORY CLOSED. NOISE tS NOT CFRICIENCY WHITES ARE MORE OF Ad ADVERTSEMENT THAN ANYTHING ELSE NOISES, MaKe | ich ‘ oh ‘land panic started among the two " . fi Then Sue travelling for his health, and his tour | hundred employeen. Miss Antoinette Walker Witte, THE, Windows | |has been successful. | While the operatives were # Appearing jn “Mr, Wa" ing down the fire escapes and a os her pleasure in any lang of course she has black hair and | black eyes.s She is the tintest Peceue "aca of royalty and is most grectows charming. There in little of the Orient “about the Prince except his brown skin and bing the perfume he carries, “Ia thie your regular weather? he asked. “No? You have had much nice weather? Well, then it must be my fault. Wo had a rough sea voyage, but we're both good sailors and enjoyed it,” _——_____ 'S INTOWNWITH HIS WEE PRINCESS en King’s Brother From Faraway Siam Doesn't Think Much BOILER HURLED MAN hd Princess Kampengpeten | Engineer Throws Coal on Fire and got their first glimpse of! Explosion Throws Him Twenty. thie morning through the Peta five Feet. America windows of their suite in the Plasa Motel. ‘The Prince remarked it wasn't Just as Joseph Cambes, much of a glimpae and that ho wanted !foy the six: aiery watiding of Hlee & to nee more of the city, He and the | soohster, collulokd manufacturers at Princess arrived from Penden last Gri and Mulberry Streets, turned Ca Pie cing + Mang 289 from the bollers after throwing Nebas bibititsisg Mids Marista dith coal in the fire box to-day an ex- Vajtravuth, King of all the Stamene, | plosion cartied out. the whole front who has been on the throne a little |of the boilers, threw Cambes twenty- over four years, and who in thirty-six | five feet and showered him with brick and mortar, Almost every pane of engineer London Feather Hat, 06 to 910. Levin foctterG Brvokive, Nt. Sven et, trouble with my throat" he/ Ways firemen. came under Deputy | nd I went to Egypt to xet rid | Chief Langford, Some of them found | e trouble, The dry air of As-|Cambes wandering dared but other- wan is a wonderful remedy for | Wise eae te fe Mons was a " no fire and aside fro t ural throat ailment. 1 belleve T have been | Or ‘the boiler and the destruction | completely cured, for the fox of Lon- | wrought by it in the don had no ill-effect on me damage. The Prince is no stranger in E explode Is a mystery. He was educated at Cambridge, Eng- spected recently. \¢ It wi ranklin Simon & Co. Fifth Avenue, 37th and 38th Sts. An Important Sale of Furs “ FOR (Tomorrow) TUESDAY lem Board of Commerce and retail dealers. Comiptrotier Prendergast, at the gpa of the hearing, declared ihat markets ought to be either or abolished. dteted unlawfully, and that, sat, . unfair ida not NG not delieve that bu ‘bur led to submit to a Machiog, ste one time a mem- the Board of Aldermen and pall in the pvat business, declared itonly gone ahead ond th ‘ weal al conducting markets in direct violation of the ef » and thet he has not en eae oon e peopl r@neh, opposing the markets fairly beaten in a game and that their big profitn ehown up. President Marks to-d: scorreapondence show!: tw it thae:iCompttolier Prendergast com- | to the markets last “The letters follow a Aug. “Wiliam ~ Prendergast, Wen Mr, Pre lo have made arrangements butchers,; grocers and Gen teReen keep their minds and bodies busy. not the idle rich; they are the tolling peop to do. they are dying of noise. “My numerous suffering elie oni thy the theory. They are Many of them never heard the word: offensive sounds.” “Apologists for noise say that those who differ with them are nervous cranks; that they imagine dis: | comfort where noise exists; that they are the idle rich who would not hear the noise of they had something to they have more than enough ervous invalid,’ but they say When they claim! that constant noise is under: mining their health they are simply in accor@ with the best medical science, grievous wrong, “The ear, logically, should receive most protection from the law, since | Anas fe governed by no par- | It fe Aefenseless, We can use deodorizers against foul smells, we can close jour eyes to offensive sights; but our ears must remain open to the most dren flushed and apathetic, Mie tens ers weary and the air sufficiently foul to sicken those entering from with- out. Inquiries as to why free venti- lation was not resorted to bring forth the reply that so much noise enters whenever the windowa are opened that instruction is rendered impossi- ble. Even with the windows closed so many sounds float up from the street that lessons are heard imper- fectly and concentration is rendered difficult. “The teachers (eal ‘what . their pupils, who, st wit vastly increased mental effort in ja lam, ai whose physical well-being seriously menaced (7 oO a ieee being herded inventilated room: accomplished some things,” ended Mrs, Hive with & pas tient smile. “We have juced by 86 per cent. hoodlum whistling on the water front. We have campaigned successfully for the safe and sane Fourth of July. We have formed the Children's Hospital Branch of our society, with tens of thousands of children pledged not to play near hospitals. Through our educational work I belleve we have converted many individual nolse-makers—milk- wagon drivers, garbage collectors and wphdy are finding that they can be busy without being noisy; in fact, that with a man, as with a machine, noise denotes waste of energy. But Neckpieces ; 5.00 Regular price $8.75 10.50 Regular price $16.50 Newest Models in All the Fashionable Furs Best Values Ever Offered : ° IRs Fur Muffs and Neckpieces Mufts. Regular price $14.50 8.50 Regular price $16.50 10.50 Natural Raccoon Natural Raccoon Marks has boone , 1914, “Is it really the case,” I asked Mrs. Rice, “that people in New York are dying of noise?” We were in her delightful home on the fourteenth floor of the Hotel Ansonia, to which only the merest trickle of street sounds my penetrate. But in her own comparative immunity she doesn't forget the less fortunate, and her face was very grave as she answered: “There is no question thi many deaths and of much d | of | health in two ways: It prevents sleep. the most wonderful of nature's curative and preventive agents. And the torture of superfluous noise leads to the closing of windows and the hygienic menace of impure, con- taminated air, that breeder of tuberculosis. . “In residential sections throughout suffering to the mentally exhausted | ‘ in window after |@Nd to the insane.” Shee: yay nae ake Bi “What is the worst noise nuisance window closed tight if you p ¥iNin New York?" Tauked: late in the evening or early in the UNe athen sures af nel morning. The residents have un- causes quite as much distress as tojdoubtedly heard much talk of the ay ing “Make your snowie,” decorate it with holly and cute little Favors so that it fairly breathes the spirit of Christmas. a miniature table Christmas tree trimiaed like the big one in until we hat Noise Inspector the law behind Yor! Christmas Favors as Dinner table dainty and white and all In the centre, place the parlor. Visit our large store with its ta- ble after table of Christmas decorations and favors and novelties that are so different and unique—really a wonderfully complete as- sortment of everything that is needed for regularly appointed with the power of hem, we shall tiever properly protect the health of New four open markets in Manhut- Very likely they on, sept Bept. 1, at the fol- | ‘wospel of fresh alr.” and ‘would like the) believe in it. But they cannot sleep rod Barks “naar your ampere: for the noive, unless their windows cc Bridge, Waa] are ehut as tightly ax possible, I gion Bridge, First] myself could not sleep with open win- af TARY ninth ree dows if I lived on the third floor in- at twenty fyeninth Street and "Mt Fort Lee Ferry, One Hundre orwenty-sieth Street and to the present food Third] stead of the fourteenth. | TWO EMINENT AUTHORITIES ON Huda- EVIL EFFECTS OF NOISE. condi-| “Dr. John H, Girdner says: ‘City and the fact that we are open- | noises exert a deleterious effect on the mark it Sema provisions, which" we human system. ‘Thin is espectally latherwise have desired, we) marked in the case of invalids and to ask no fees better ecient per paving Pe place Ksdy J markets after 1 remain, cordially Your let vip tear Anat oe by very gla - starting the open a stomach ‘isn’t just if o t tongue, feel distressed after eating and have Frequent headaches, just | Aistueh This nt tone up your Satna aid digestion, promote bod the food conditions be- MARCUS M. MARK ! President Borough of Manhattan, | persons than any other man in the Aug. 26, 1914 President, | cally ax to the baneful effect of loud been received, and| monly act as inciting causes of ner- indeed to know that market "Re, ime, very truly yours, ed) W, A. PRENDERGABT, * / Comptroller. One Ten Cent Box of EX: +,.,, The Famous Chocolate Laxative will regulate your bowels and relieve you of the miseries of Constipation children, Noise is « most potent fac- naw in producing functional diseases nd draining, w of the brain and nervous system.’ | "Dr. M. on & the resident you valuable ©0-|ajienist of Bellevue Hospital, who 32g" | probably examines more mentally ill city, has expressed himself emphati- op|Noises. He says that they very com- ter vous breakdown, and, by disturbing the rest of the patients critically ill with typhoid, meningitis or other or even death. They also cause great right, it yousaave a bad taste in the mouth, | il tem. You will be surprised to see pose coer. ambition and appetite will come back to you, ious complaints, they cause relapses stance, rromi.se * blast that can be h voluminous for mil ‘ac act of noise,’ while 8 that its ‘sound will carry from three to five miles.’ And these instruments of torture, tens and hundreds and thousands the Christmas Tree, Dinner, Dane: oAtek, Horner Pies that jaew, tinsel taney B. SHACKMAN & Co., “The Unique Favor and Novelty House” or Party. ake beautiful COMP ant Kings filed wit olsemakern now F Your selection, 906-006 Breedway, N. Y. Bet, 20th and ale Se. of them, are in daily—and, unfor- out the city. “As for the muffler cut-out, al- (hough some claim that it is employed tunat n nightly—ure through- \ lage A ng i Will continue, ., stated that on a resi- dential str between the hours of midnight and two in the mor ing twenty-three automobiles pass stain spot with open mufflers, An- wed thirteen cut-outs i minutes be lock in the mornings ddening to clear report sh I . | Silks and Velvets, > Commissioner | ||| s Gen. m has ordered his | |)|/ men to enfores the ordinance amainat ||! ; necessary Noise in hospital streets,” > dighed Mra: Rice, "L-wan in @ hos | Women’s about three years ago and the p to set! |Ii! " & large electris | II) drowned the many other ZONES OF QUIET” ARE STILL || “NOISE ZONES.” } “Your society established zones of quiet around tho public schools, did it not?” | asked, * “She wes passed, but it, Lace Curtains Stern Brothers to obtain greater speed, the gain is |so slight (only 2 per cent, to 8 per 42nd and F3rd Streets, West of Ath Avenue. jeent), that it is apparently used ehilefly as listance to-morrow, in the following departments, their sales of articles specially } desirable for holiday at extraordinarily low prices: Jewelry, Beaded Bags, Leather Goods, Silver Plated Novelties, Art Objects, Lamps, Women’s Blouses, Suits and Coats, French Art Novelties, Neckwear, i Linen Handkerchiefs, i remembrances, wo: Silk Umbrellas, tt and Cushions 9,50 Regular price $16.50 Black Wolf Regular price $21.50 14,50 16.50 Regular price $24.50 Hudson Seal Regular price $24.60 18.50 16.50 Regular price $29.50 Natural Skunk Regular price $30.50 25.00 17.50 Regular price $24.50 Black Fox Regular price $24.80 17.50 26.50 Regular price $39.50 Black Fox Regular price $30.50 26.50 18.50 Regular price $26.50 Taupe or Sitka (dyed) Wolf Regular price $20.50 22.50 _ 18.50 Regular price $26.50 Blue (dyed) Wolf Regular price $29.50 22.50 19.75 Regular price $29.50 Mole Regular price $29.50 19,75 20.00 Regular price $35.00 Beaver Regular price $39.50 25.00 18.50 Regular price $24.50 Fitch Regular price $39.50 28.50 27.50 Regular price $35.00 Black Lynx Regular price $35.00 27.50 22.50 Regular price $29.50 Pointed Fox Regular price $39.50 27,50 18.50 Regular price $29.50 Silvered Kit Fox Regular price $49.50 35.00 27.50 Regular price $39.50 Ermine Regular price $65.00 50.00 Hudson Seal Coats ssa eof ce of Sa Pict 'or Stenk ec a ia rand c 1s of 5 i « Sitk lined Regular Price $85.00 58.00 Regular Price $60.80 45.00 | | Coats French Seal Coats ° ee Seator Regular Price $138.0 85.00 Regular Price ian, 57.00 | French Seal Coats i 1 Coats a Hue we ara Rotel caller Exlncilla Squirrels cute of Sea. bam tha "Regular Price $135.00 100.00 Regular Price $110.00 75.00 , Caracul Coats Hudson Seal Coats OF light-weight Ce Caracal shins, Light weight. well matched ski 45 incl es lon, ‘ collar 5 of Wabarece contrasting and cuffs Daan eee 48 00 f as Regular Price $175.00 | 35.00 Regular Price $60.50 eeu Caracul Coats ‘ Hudson Seal Coats | Persian Lamb Coats Cross Fox Sets Large handsome animal muff with large animal scart. 95.00 Reg. price $145.00 White Fox Sets Large handsome animal muff, with large animal scarf. Set 85.00 Reg. price $125.00 Women’s Fur Coats French Seal Coats New flare model of light weight ft i rade cont 5 , seal. "Regular Price $250.00 185.00 Regular Price $95.00 70.00 Leopard Coats Full length flare model of real Leop- ard skin; collar and cuffs of Hudece Seal Regular Price $2: New flare model, 45 inches long, of well matched skins, Leipzig dye, soft silk lining.Regular Price $250.00 185.00 <3 195.00 | Men’s Fur Lined Overcoats Men's Fur Lined Overcoats of black Kersey, lined with Natural Muskrat, including sleeves; collar of real Hudson Seal or real Persian Lamb. et 65.00 at 35.00 at 45.00 Value $50.00 Value $60.00 ho