New-York tribune., 1922-03-28
proprietors Who Permit 1t
Ordered Arrested Under
Ordinance Hylan Is Said
ToHave Signed by Error
Aldermen Cannot
Recall Passing 1t
M'Cuinness Bill, Supposed
To Have Been Laughed
TO Death, Bobs Up and
Hits Broadway a Jolt

Police Commissioner Enright noti-
FED his inspectors and captains last
night that an ordinance had been
adopted by the Board Of Aldermen
md signed by Mayor Hylan forbid
ding smoking by females" in public
places and ordered that the law be
enforced.
The ordinance quoted is aimed not
At the females" who smoke, but at
lie proprietors Of places where
;noking is permitted. A woman may
stroll down Broadway smoking, as
some do after the theater, and be
immune from arrest, but If one is
caught smoking at the St. Regis the
proprietor may be arrested.
The Police Order
The order as transmitted by CHIEF
Inspector Lehey last night is as fol
logs:
March q, 1922.
Circular No. c.
The following is published for the
Information aud guidance of all con-
eerned.
Female smoking in public places.
Ar ordinance for the preservation Of
good order in the City or New York
Contemplating the provisions Of Sub
DIVISION Ii, Section 40, OF the greater
New York charter.
"Be it ordained by the Board of
Aldermen of the City Of New York.
Section mo person, firm, partner
ship, corporation or association, Of
shatever character. owning or con-
rolling either as proprietor or man
ger any hotel, restaurant, place of
5ublic entertainment, or other public
nsort in the city of New York, in
which people meet and congregate,
whether for the purpose of refresh
1en.s or entertainment, shall allow
any female to smoke in any such hotel
place of public entertain
nent, or ether place Of public resort
such act shall be construed as in con-
lavcntion of the provisions Of sub
Division II, Section 80 Of the greater
New York charter.
Section Amy violation of the
provisions of this ordinance, upon con-
'iction thereof before city magis-
rate, shall be punishable by fine Of
not less than 50, nor more than $25, OF
Dy imprisonment in the city prison or
4owcver, shall exceed the term Of ten
days.
Section 3-This ordinance shall take
effect imme mediately.
Adopted by the Board Of Aldermen
March Ia. 1922 Approved by the May
Or, March 21, 1922.
"RICHARD L. ENRIGHT, Commits
s!oner.'
There is a mystery about the order
which even Alderman Peter J. McGuin-
hess, author of proposed ordinance
10 prevent women from smoking in
restaurants, theaters and similar
places, could not explain except by
suggesting that some one had made q
Clerical error and the Mayor had signed
IN ordinance which had never been
passed.
The ordinance purports TO have been
adopted March IA and TO have been
signed March q. The minutes of the
Board Of Aldermen, as published in
The City Record" OF March l6, fail
TO- show that such an ordinance was
passed. If Mayor Hyan signed such
an ordinance week ago, no announce
uent Of the fact vas ever made.
Alderman McGuinness, who lives in
Greenpoint and objects to having
women smoke in public, because II
shocks his relatives from the country
When he takes them around to show
them good time, was as astonlsned
as ANYBODY. apparently, when told OF
the Police Department order. The last
ne knew, he said, his ordinance was
moribund in committee to whose
care it had been consigned by his
ribald fellow lawmakers.
When the measure was introduced
by Alderman McGuinness with due
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