Noises

New Zealand Tablet, 24 September 1908, Page 23

Noises

far-reaching one. In some of our New Zealand ports The screams o steamer whistles arc forbidden except for pu'o ■£ of nay.gat.on. A few. weeks ago ( as we learn trom the Mv N^^cn 7/C - C T" ) ' POIiCC <**»***»« Bin g ha e m Ml i i£ dt y> - a gGneral ° rder dsreCtin 'g the mo « sweepelhoaMof3^ I '^ Umie T ary rac^t hat any American J ever hemd of. Here is" a lisfof the noises which the New York pohce have received specific orders to suppress :-' Noisy XuKn* of street hawkers of all kinds. „ nnee'essary shouti g, y^l n / Unnecessary blowu lg of factory and steamboat whistle S s * n * skating on the streets or sidewalks, to the interruption or inter ference of traffic. .Whistles on peanut roasters. Unneces ary Wowing of whistles on auto. Letting the exhaust escape from motor cycles or autos without Mng muffled. Blowing ho™, o buges or ringing bells by scissors .grinders. YellL of old clothes men. Yelling of " extra " newspapers. K^ti" ca « CardagG aA ° telS Ol • Cities ' (says the CM**) ' are, primarily, places of abode clusters of homes for women and children, where families may

mLufact P'" a " d qUlOt - Trade and com '" e «c and manufacture , are not the end, but the means; they help to give uinaf m *, C thSt mas "tain" tain homes - They are subor! dnate and subservient to the home- interest, and must never be wl?: d tO CnCrOa , Ch UPO "' SUperSCde ' ° r Precedence ta way or manner of the thing- they merely serve and minister to "