The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-16 00:00:00

SMOKING IN RAILWAY CARRIAGES.

At the Marylebone Police Court, yesterday, a
summons was heard in the absence of a person
named Augustus E. Tamplin, for that he did, on
the 4th April, unlawfully smoke in a railway car-
riage on the London and North-Western Railway,
contrary to the statute, &c.
Mr. Adam Rivers Steel, a solicitor, said—On the
day named I was coming from Kilburn by the Lon-
don and North-Western Railway in a first-class
carriage. Defendant was smoking, and I complained
of it. He would not desist, and I spoke to the ticket
collector at Camden, and he requested me to speak
to the guard. On our arrival at the platform I did
so, and the person gave the name of Augustus E.
Tamplin, 107, Cambridge-street, Pimlico. He was
smoking when I got in, and I said, " Do you know,
sir, you are infringing the laws of the company ?"
and he said "No," and another young gentleman
said, " How is he to know that ?" I said, " He can't
help seeing, for it is up in the carriage."
He then
made use of bad language. I said to them, " Do you
young people think to make old people
, and flooslsaiPd"
They said, "Do you mind smoking p,
" No, only the ladies ought to be thoughts coming of."
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they said ladies
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spoke to the gentlemen about it,a
d one.no right to come by that as it was a busi-
ness:
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s tobacco.said_
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°siherewas a very stsroonaneggsumeesltlioofn
up,
platform.
m Steel— Yardley—
.
puttinginterro interrogatories is to see
people do theirg duty. I think
w hAeftrh.eYr Yardley, after
lawftaeyr
peop
lack of duty on the part of railway offi-
cials ei ni naot puttiisno.naat,
and I
in my opinion, throughout
can say there b stop to
the kingdom, a railway exempt from this
do their du at the y
railway officials do not
is well known
that the first class carriages are'th e that
meut
nt say
aonsdl
most of tobacco smoke. 'f
he I he second-class
carriages
ate far to be preferred in respect of being free from
smell. I must say that when I travel in a first-
class carriage I i •
nvariably suffer from headache
through parties smoking,
and perhaps it has been
through a moral cowardice on my part that I have
not taken the matter up
as this gentleman has done.
I won't specify
any railway that this disagreeable
practice is not carried out upon. It seems to me
that these gentlemen of all
others ought to be the
parties to uphold the law and not break it. It has
just occurred to me that en ono occasion I put my
head into a first-class carriage and saw a gentlet..an
smoking. I asked the porter if it was allowed, and
received for answer, " Oh, sir, ho is a director."
Mr. Cleather—lt is not allowed on our line.
Mr. Yardley—lt is a fine thing for the directors
and managers to be exempt from their
own bye-laws.
I think, Mr. Steel, the ladies
ought to be obliged
to you. I shall line this young gentleman 208. and
costs.

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