The evening world., 1908-12-02
MAYOR WILL SIGN
)LAW AbOL|SH|NC
TICKET EXTORT|oN
Relief Promised Soon From
W. Sidewalk Spectator
~ Nuisance.
EVENING WORLD WINS.
Ordinance Wiping Out Hold
Ups at Theatre Doors Adopted
by Aldermen.
VENlNG WORLD WINS.

Mayor Mcclellan will. It is expected,
within day or two sign the ordinance
unanimously adopted yesterday by the
Board OF Aldermen. wipng theatre
hcket speculation out of business. This
10 the ordinance which The Evening
World presented to the Board for adop-
ton through Alderman James w. Red
mond. OF Brooklyn, several weeks ago.
Several public hearings were held and
overwhelming testimony was adduced
Importing the contention of The Even
ns World that the sidewalk ticket spec
iiators were common and public nui-
sance and an intolerable element. Alder
nan Redmond and the members of his
committee on Laws and Legislation went
further They amended the originally
proposed ordinance making theatre
ticket speculation in any guise breach
Of city law and even added clause
regulating practically that theatre tick
cts must be sold only at theatre box
Ipffces and only at the price printed on
the face of the ticket
Y me ordinances in this form were
edopted only after hard fight, but
Nnally the one absolutely putting side
as passed by vote of 81 to !, Alder
an Mulligan alone voting in the mega
g. subsequently the ordinance abol-
ning the sale of tickets IN. hotels and
elsewhere at above the printed face
/ price was adopted by vote OF 81 to O.
TWO reports We're presented TO the
Board. Aldermen Sci.!oss and Srhue-
der. In minority report from the com
mttee on laws and legislation. advo-
Gated the passage of ar ordinance aool-
:shiinS uchet Speculation on the side
that the Aldermen had no more righ.
90 regulate the price theatre tickets
should be sold at In hotels or elsewhere
than they had 10 dictate the price OF
Aldermen Redmond, Kavana4,h. De-
lany. Walsh, Reardon, Mccain and
Gaynor joined In report to wipe out
speculation eyeryw
II was finally decided to separate the
blanket ordinance prohibiting specula-
ton into two distinct ordinances, one
AIMED at the sidewalk SpeN Ila OrS. the
other at the hotel agents. The minority
report of ScAlOSs ANA Schneider wa
beaten by big vote, tie Republican
members joining with Tammany Hall IN
voting It down.
Then came the vote on the ordinance
70 repeal the ordinance OF two years ago
licensing, sidewalk spectators Alder
man Mul!gan, in casting his vote, said
he was as much IN favor Of abol. shing
spectators who fleece the public as any
other Alderman, but he did not believe
suit. Little Tim sullivan did not vote
the ordinance.
When tie second ordinance aimed AZ
the hotel SPECTATORS, came up Alderman
Brown Republican, offered a substitute.
which provided that theatre managers
should be licensed and that, as a condi-
ton of receiving a license, they should
agree not to sell tickets to any specu-
lator. He said the Aldermen undoubt-
edly had til epower to regulate the sale
of tickets in this way, but he doubted
hA nF InaF- B..
demanded a roll-call on his substitute
but no one backed him and II was lost
by large vote. Brown then io!ned with
me Tammanv men and helped pass the
i resolution as originally reported by o
!. majority Ar the Laws and Legisla ton
,ommtttee.