The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-03-28
WOMEN SMOKING
BAN LIFTED In
new YORK CITY
Chief Epright Enforced
Law Mayor Hyl a n
Claims To Have Never
Reached His Desk

New York. March 2S.-All records
were studied by officials ,oday eager
to determine the truth about he or
dinance prohibiting women from
smoking in public resorts. placed in
effect last night by the police depart
ment.
Although the ordinance was signed
by Mayor Hylan last week. The
manner in which it reached his desk
is a mystery. It's author, Alderman
Peter McGuiness, didn't know it had
passed. and other members of The
board declared they were certain il
had been buried in >he legislative
graveyard and forgotten
The mystery developed after ,he
police department, pursuant to an or
der issued by Commissioner Enright
had visited public amusement places
in Greenwich village, Harlem, The
Bronx and along Broadway. and had
informed managers and proprietors
they were subject 10 a fine and i'm
prisonment if they permitted women
to smoke in their establishments.
1t wasn't joke, exactly, but it ap-
peared somebody had played a prac-
tical joke on ,he mayor. and there
was an inclination on the part Gl
female smokers to laugh.
In the first place. they said they
could not understand the ordinance,
Under its provisions only the propri-
etors of restaurants and cabarets
] ~ ich
woman smoked in their establish
ments. So far as known, there was
nothing in the measure That wouio
prevent woman from smoking ''
she walked down the street.
Meanwhile many copies Of The Or
dinance we're still hanging on me
doors of the city's resorts. =.
New York. March 2S.-News that II
was all mistake came like repr!eNe
from the gallows to proprietors ol
scores of places where qualification OF
milady's passion for the soothing weed
was the chief source of bread ana
butrer revenues. Fashionable smoke
shons for women had sprung up IN
Fifth avenue, Broadway and other at
vanced centers while Greenwich VII
lage had come to depend almost en-
tirely on the pill to produce an at
mosphere of boheimsm-since the
passing of the cup that cheers.
But the ordinance making II a
crime for proprietors of public places
To let women smoke-loo8ed upon a
thunderstruck town last night by
SQUADS of Commissioner Enrights S
finest-did not stop with spreading
gloom in advanced places.
1t even had it's effect on downtown
cafeterias where stenOgraphera and
women clerks gather for luncheon
The smoking "evil" the ordinance was
designed to check has spread to New
York women in many walks OF life.
Taxi cab drivers were beginning to
worry, too for fear their conveyances
might be ruled public places" and
banned az smokeries for fair fares en-
route home from the theater-thus
causing a switch to the subway route.
Alderman McGinniss, father of the
ordinance that had petit life from
sundown to sunrise, was almost the
only New Yorker discoyerable today
who seemed to regret its passing
New York, Mares 2S. - Police com
mhioneT EnIlgM today lifted the
ban on smoking by women in public
as suddenly as he clamped it down
last night when he learned that AL
derman McGuinnes' anti-smoking or
dinance had never been passed by
THE board of aldermen or signed by
Mayor Hylan