AMERICANISING SYDNEY

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 33, 8 August 1923, Page 9

AMERICANISING SYDNEY

The Amencanisation of Sydney is a gradual but sure growth. It is a development characteristic of Sydney, tak-i ing the whole of the States, for tnerea-' son perhaps that, it is the 'terminal port of .the American boats. One sees the characteristic in all directions-in the intense hfe of the city, in the kalekU oscopic whirl of traffic, in the riot of noise and hfe, in the me ] odl , alna of mean streets. One sees it too in tho towering.narrow new, buildings, which cannot climb into the'iky any higher, ionty'because of the building regulations limiting new building* to 150 feetin. height, in the baggy, trousers and otr-e* sartorial eccentricities of the youth who frequent King street and the neighbourhood of the vaudeville shows, in a nervousi facial disfigurement which looks lika MVituss dance of the jaw until you find yourself obsessed with.the same uncontrollable habit of chewing gum and in the custom of addressing one another as brother," and of using other American colloquialisms. The latest sign of this development is the recommendation by the Finance Committee of the City m *° Clty HalI» and the name of the. T?" n Oerk to City Clerk, and l% on', with other officers. , The Tqwn Clerk ; who,.by the way, has achieved fame fon the sesquipedalian- sentences which adorn' his long-winded reports, probably resenta this re?onn, for he remind., the <£amunity that the profession of Town Clerk dates back at. least to the time when the Town Clerk of Ephesus headed, 8* *? ''• Paul on behalf of Diana°bl E^ heslans- And th»t « a long