Show Lights of New York by bv L. L L. L STEVENSON EVENSON Hurdy-gurdies Hurdy were banished long ago by an order of Mayor LaGuardia LaGuar- LaGuar d dia now dia-now now a-now now and then some bold soul does bootleg a little music musie and takes a 1 chance with the cops cops and and little German bands have disappeared even in Yorkville Bells on the carts of junk dealers are restricted by bylaw bylaw bylaw law to a certain size size many many wagon operators use the legal sized bell but instead of one have a number number- and barkers in front of movie houses and elsewhere must not raise their voices The blaring of loud speakers speak speak- ers on Cortland street the street the Radio Row of the past were past were muted when wireless changed from your build-your- the rest own to occasionally Since the elevated has been razed there is quiet along Sixth avenue In the not distant future there will be similar stillness along Ninth avenue One familiar street noise still re re- re- re mains By judicial decision it is entirely legal In fact it has 1135 been held judicially it is a helpful sort of at sound especially to the ears of housewives The reference is to the tinkle of the bell of the scissors- scissors I grinder The matter came to a aI ahead ahead head recently in Coney Island court I A zealous patrolman brought before Magistrate Jeanette G. G Brill a knife e sharpener hed he'd found in the Fort Hamilton section of Brooklyn The charge against him was violating the administrative code by ringing a a bell to attract the attention of housewives There didn't seem to tobe tobe tobe be much question about the mans man's guilt as the bell had been brought into court with him As a matter of fact he admitted that he had been ringing it when apprehended The scissors-grinder scissors didn't pay a afIne afine afine fine or go to jail however Magistrate Magis Brill found him rum guilty but didn't impose any sentence Her ruling was that housewives welcome the sound of knife sharpeners' sharpeners bells To that she added that New York wouldn't be New York without them And so the culprit went out to ring his bell some more But not in mid- mid town Ive I've been carrying a a dull knife e for weeks just because I haven't heard the tinkle of a bell Midtown Manhattans Manhattan's most dangerous dangerous dangerous dan dan- zone is the area between Forty-eighth Forty and ninth Forty-ninth streets and Sixth and Seventh avenues The assertion is based on a study of Roosevelt hospitals hospital's first 00 ambulance calls made public recently recent recent- ly by Dr Joe R R. R Clemmons director director tor of the hospital Five surgeons attached to the ambulance service which went into effect July 5 said that more calls came from that area than from any other locality be tween Pennsylvania station and Sev Sev- second enty-second street with the busiest time of the entire day between four and six p. p m. m 1 t tA A combination of pedestrian crowds and heavy motorcar traffic was given as the reason for the prevalence of accidents and illness in that section Speaking as one who has been swirled about by midtown crowds after offices stores and other places have closed and especially as one who has escaped taxi death by inch fractions scores of times I am inclined to believe that the analysis is entirely correct As a matter of fact almost always alway when Im I'm in that section in late afternoon I hear the siren or b bell bellof bellof ll of an ambulance i S Returning to street noises for fOI a final paragraph there is the chant I of I cash which is heard so often in the residential sections of the big town The call indicates that there is a market for castoff clothing I UI cash being the slogan of those buy such garments and who in iQ turn sell them to dealers who put t them thorn into marketable shape Some time Im I'm going down to Bayard Bayar street and md write something about the old ld tailors who eke out a living by making making mak mak- ing such repairs Bell Syndicate Service |