NOISE IN NEW YORK.
On the ground that property values are being depreciated, and the health of citizens impaired by excessive indoor and outdoor noises in the city, civic organizations of doctors, scientists and property-owners arc supporting the New York municipal authorities in their effort to make New York a quieter place to live, work and sleep in. The municipal authorities and newspaper editors have been inundated lately by letters from annoyed citizens, complaining specifically, among other things, of wagons rattling along early morning streets, garbage cans being tossed about by strenuous col- lectors, cats yowling through the night, dogs barking, ice being delivered, restaurant dishes rattling, hucksters' cries, peanut stand whistles, piano practising, blowing of horns and hooters, shrieking of faulty brakes, ringing of bells, hammering' in construction work, noise from combustion exhausts, loud speakers, sirens, whistles, gongs, electric motors and drills and " all the babel of modern invention." New York is an, exuberant city, and noise is the natural expression of its exuberance.
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