Show I 1 61 6 1 att CAM J Q KIDDIE KAPERS even hit and run drivers are going miniature I 1 over in brooklyn patrol woman winifred lanthan was felled by a alt and run kiddle kiddie car just as she was leaving la hospital after questioning a woman patient she was but a short distance from the building when a kiddie car plated by an unidentified youngster with ith a fondness for breaking all kiddie speed limits knocked tier her oil off her ift if t and whizzed away being conveniently near the hospital I 1 she retraced her steps and lec elved I 1 treatment for a lacerated knee I 1 II if IFFY NEW YEAR VEAR it was a 9 gibat day tor for tourists feb when all chinatown celebrated the coming of the new year two silk dragons carrying the leaders of the two tongs concealed within them stalked through the streets into the mouths of the hideous looking creatures were tossed dollar bills wrapped in cabbage leaves a quaint chinese no not spanish custom of collecting tribute tor for the tons tongs gaunt musicians struck brass cymbals together in monotonous rhythm a bass drum kept up a steady booming and a boy marching at the head of the procession pulled a chain through a perforated sheet of tin policemen from three prec precincts ints stood ready to quell a possible tons tong war but none occurred A tong member I 1 interviewed fa said that they afford a war now anyway on account of the business depression we aint got no money for a tong war was the way he be put it j ALLS NOT QUIET they found that out by setting up their instruments in a car hitched onto a regular train they took along a noise meter a sound filter and two microphones for recording purposes the mike inside the car le ie corded more noise than one set up on a station platform j but a few more rattles and bangs TOO MUCH in spite of the gaudy display a spokesman of one of the tongs declared that it was not an authentic festival he said that the flags were made on sixth ave nue and that some of the men who car ried banners wore wrist watches and said 0 K when told to lift them higher he also complained that the children in the streets merely laughed at the dragons and were more interested in the preserved strips ot of ginger and cocoa nut which they were given to eat cat alter after the celebration was over the glass topped buses from uptown began to arrive sightseers swa seamed in ed into basement restaurants and an automatic piano began playing A little kiss each morning chinatown became once more just another section ot of new york TR TRAVELERS AM AIT sixty motor cars were formally blessed end and sprinkled with holy water by group of priests at the church of the th holy family it Is the first time that such a ceremony has been held in t th hi city although some motorists follow tilt european custom of placing a medallion of 0 the patron saint of travelers on the dashboard as a protection against accident to the edifice has been nicknamed church of the motorists since the installation stal staI lation of a shrine there to saint christopher motorists may make appointments point ments with the priests at the church to have their cars blessed at other times the shrine was erected in conjunction unction with w ith the founding of a confraternity of saint Chil chirstopher stopher most of the members aie garage and repair men who work in tile the vicinity ILS AS nil AS IT ROUNDS acoustic engineers are now working on a three months investigation of 1 subway noises they are trying to find out what ahat it if anything can be done about them their first ie leports ports ho however hever are not so encouraging A while back the noise abatement commission reported that the I 1 loudest ordinary noise in the city was made when an express train passes a local station no athe sound experts say that the noise Is even worse inside the train W E 9 |