Sunday morning the bells of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, Winfield, and the Newtown-Elmhurst church bells, were plainly heard in this section of Newtown. By air line, Winfield is over a mile away, and a large piece of woodland separates the two communities. Newtown-Elmhurst is nearly two miles distant and a long-easy ascendant and descendant altitude of one hundred feet above tidewater is between the two old villages. When those bells are heard in Maspeth a northeasterly wind is blowing up Long Island Sound, and it generally indicates rain or snow from that quarter. The steam whistle blown at Sampson’s Oil Cloth Works, at 6 o’clock in the morning of working days, is heard in most parts of Newtown, and the eastern sections of old Williamsburg and Ridgewood-Brooklyn. The whistle is only blown in case of fire in the works and at 6 o’clock to know that it is in working order. The company’s bell is rung at beginning and quitting time.