NOISY NEW YORK

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17522, 2 August 1922, Page 12

NOISY NEW YORK

EVERYONE DOES HIS "BIT,"

(By Mordaunt' Hall iii tciin "Evening News.") v •

Tli© New York o! 0." H«toyi dt)i has vanished, and it weoa to i» ftUi if (hat remarkablo writer vti« ilfn to-day he would ha7B a diflMt tiw getting inspiration froja thU atj'rf noise. He wrote ''TheVoitejft City." It is a roar of ttatiij ift, night and day.

The underground or sulmiy j| foj. I ening, and iow one longa, for | gliuing of the trams in 1 tta' Uan underground. Where then 'is Attn to mane a noise it is done, and apt talk their parents aa if ; w v ffi people were deaf;. The tumM'# face cars, aa they are called hm| : Mfyf along making a thunder ,at tuptio to tbe banging of cannon. ; If a man has a big Mh-cnto plw on the pavement he does ftOt.jptJt down, but adds to the it down. Everybody, ing or shouting, seems todo'tWf level best to make the noia»i»pfr feet as poesible. V ■ f, No, "The Voice of never fit New York now.. Sobn ftf that they have become w to the noise that the citinss ioiiM not live without it. I beHww.ft. * man walking along Broadway w pro avenue alone appears to be sorry tut he is not dojng his ebw® of niiMl a noise. . <. . The lifts in the hotels are dwwi and banged at each floor, with all sons in them shojitteg to thejpwf' the number of wish to got out. . Afcfct<« If you speak in modukted-twwii. you will when just arriving land, the man whom you are Mfflif' sing eyes you with' sufipicioni•• l wtft;Bß - jaws, puts his ear nearer. toioa/W then suddenly appears to wish to confide some secfw ■ w As I write on tKe of the Commodore Hbtel| with W *>*"•• dow wide open, because it is the ordinary English Bummer, WW » a constant banging of th 9 ojft «} clanging of their bells, steamer whistles, the hooting cabs, and now and ing of a passing fire engine )4L» quick ringing or an ambulano?, wvk, I can hardly picture th# P®w,r» quiet-loving 0. Henry quietly thinking in the pbwM#W£ ; tily served with grass and rounded by the hum, bn»> jSjti. ssizp, and rattle of New Yore to-night. . UTmmml**fftf fA WfllXt!

| tfUSfilUg UW .1— • i The "stranger from our ocean would iind it impossible to and if he Has an inswc room_Jt» £ hot that that is probably, pafc "r----pheasant than the bedlam. . AAd on my right; s.de, oppose window, at regular intervals ten lifts going to all floors, Hud* .?T its doors, and then ia shut Jjw noise as the attendant can this ia at nino o'clock at , most of the noisemokers axe home, iu the restaurants, or » theatres, so the roal noise, music of i>ew lork, comes inhabitants jazz to work tow*• of that which I vo . w L do *?l»v oM: Added to the noise in the 6UBO has the discomfort of being tho cars literally lilw aaI< V D ?, ;t 5 people.would never standi w., the Interborough pany scoffs at the passengers, aily has men who might bo ly fj, ers, for they push m nwMJfrwrj with a vigour which in any cw would be tantamount to assauiV -packers" are huge a scowl from a nun and he is then handled • venom. , T .11 jj. In the restaurants and I «> ■ ing to places which are by cheap—there are waiters doing B "bit" to add to tho roar, that is not enough they tlirofl' , and cut.ery in such a way to# with a wonderful show of Every vehicle has ite noise when you arc inside, oM eludes the rattling tux'-caba. . the noisiest undergrounds is tj» runs under Broad\«iy. _ Tho steel, and the road-bed ia such a way that it will addlt lam. Jt is wipotsiblo ior ® t i on ii American to carry on u tlio underground without f! 6

Ji.oa.rsc. „„ n bnno id 6' I Aud at every stop ft niesapn<»« ' phone announces tho name o tioa in a noisy but indistinct _ Jfe gmu'd Ims chargo of three • presses a button to open v"0 +k« 'naiO® »<<:;• ti his teloohone, announces of the station, and then your step," and closes the gre»t r J"he noise of New York a ptart that it is a relieftogct , 0 like tho Produoe Exchange, wo on!j shouting m «- & ooa ■ way. is tli® Tho quietest spot I ft> ur grill-room of the Lotos Clu , unof lis last night were able to} disturbed by nothing mO JL r.j pavin? ber singing old songs. 1 id ot tne streets adds to tno - jj e my old Madison square, ,:A jg w* tined: to go ;md sit in tlw fl B ni most os noisy as I'orty-ioc j 9 inBmadumy. In Iho ijytiir t ha ' cidentally ndded lo tho "® uma tic extra good work of *ho p , conon tho new biuldingß. m oro stantly replacing any thing ten years old. ~ . tendon WK*. So you who dwell in yoa «f° grouse, take heed lion PP/j yotff* m a gU many ways, fa i solves especially iorfcuittte ■ l «-om ilia lisdlam af N«W *<«*• .