A MEDLEY OF NOISES
New York* has an odd medley of sounds. The less musical ones, conforming to jazz age orchestration, break out! without rhyme or reason and usually j remain completely unexplained. The occasional sharp cracks that startle the pedestrian on Fifth Avenue usually can be identified aa "uitomobilo back-fires, I but there is an intermittent round of shrieks, blasts and rappings on tho pavements, about which the resident must stiilo Ids curiosity. At busy corners, such as Forty-second and Broadway, the medley of sound is so intense that V~' pedestrian hears no individual part of it, and is only conscious of it, perhaps, when he' finds his companion shouting an answer to his question. Near tlio tops of high buildings, particularly along lower Broadway, tho vast welter of sound of the city below becomes composed, and is like tho rumbling of a, kettle drum, with occasional heavy beats and now and then somo shrill but far away note as from a piccolo. There ono can listen in peace, and dream rich roinanco when tho commanding tone of a big liner announces that flic is faring forlh to sea.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 135, 9 June 1928, Page 11
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190A MEDLEY OF NOISES Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 135, 9 June 1928, Page 11
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