New-York tribune., 1922-03-29
Right of Every Female to
Her Cigarette Conceded:
Laugh at lisy's Blunder
Is Echoed From London
Vetcrass Clerk. Who
Mixed Bills. Goal
Broadwa. Gets a Bigger
Shock Than the Dry Act:
Crusader VIII Try Again

Is al reh. girls: th- Females
Sust Nc, Smoae To right Ordnance
does %
= ~ q. "a ia.5,a>c. The ordinance
d. pas, .o Il never va an ORD.
naacs: tic ordcr issued b. the Police
Department enforcing TIC ordinance
was issued m error, as any order cn.
forcing A. ordinance which isn't an o-di.
nance must be The order enforcing the
ordinsnce which isn't really an ordi
vance vas roscindod Just as soon as
Police Commissioner Enright could get
- bis office yesterday morning and
ceii in 7le Ie.ciCdinS stenographer
For twelve hours IT was Law, although
It vas never law. and then it finally
WASN'T law. That's the story II any.
oody car make sense out of It.
It all goes to show that This old town
goes plumb to rcrdition the minute
MS honor turns his back. Unless
Mayor HyIau hustles home from chi.
eago most anything is likely to happen.
Lady Lady. What Fuss.
But during the twelve hours that the
Jaw, which never was law, was law
what commotion, Oh. lady. lady,
Embarrassed police ofiicers oxpostu-
iating persp spiriugly with bewildercd res
itauratours, erfranchsed women blow
jbs cigarette smoke in the face Of the
New York Police Department, scores
OF other enfrsnchiscd women telling
reporters TO tell The world all the
nasty things they could think of TO say
shout the ordinance, hotel proprietors
wondering how much it would cost
them TO pull up stakes and move to
Paris or London or some place where
they would not be harassed by the i'm
possible alternatives of insulting their
women patrons or going to jail, loud
eheere from Miss Lucy Page Castor,
tho worlds champion hatcr of Gig
Pease, cha a.lenger for Miss Gaston's
land and from Londonerg in New York,
irroans from Broadway, sinitter sneers
from Greenwich Village, delicate and
non committs interview with Mayor
Hrlan in Chicago. ordinations Of de-
light from Peter J. McGuinness, Alder
man OF Greenpoint. who introduced the
ordinance 20 the Board of Aldermen
and was under the impression that it
had been neatly tucked away in the
mausoleum Of lost causes; exclama-
tens Of grief from the same Alder
man McGuinness upon discovering that
his fret impression was the correct
ono, vigorous denials from John +. Sin
mott, who as secretary to the Mayor
was positive that his honor did not
4 gn the ordinance which he did not
sign, running to and fro in the City
Eall and finally crashing whirlwind
tons, slibis and discussions seething
dizzily around the grizzled head Of
Daniel Washington Francis Mccoy, as
s'sant chief clerk TO the Board of
Aldermen. whose fling system had
rodded for the first time IN twenty-five
years ard had invoked chaos with its
rod
Daniel Is the Goat
Daniel Washington Francis Mccoy IL
inc goat For 8 quarter of a century
Clerks office has been checking and
fling ordinances passed or rejected by
The Board OF Aldermen. Those passed
he clipped from "The City Record" and
forwarded to the Police Departme ent,
The city magistrates and the Law De
partment Those rejected he marked
For file and later filed them in their
respective tombs. Since March 8, 1898,
Mccoy has been doing this, and this
Is his first bobble.
ITS such q silly thing" Mccoy said
yesterday. I'D rather it had happened
with almost any other ordinancethan
thls one. | suppose there wouldn't have
been such fuss about any of the
others that have handled in my quar-
Ter Of century of service. It's very
unfortunate. but no real harm was
cone, was there?
~ got the two ordinances mixed.
The one that was introduced In 1921
oy Alderman McGuinness was the one
which wss sent by mistake to the Po-
ice Department. marked the 1922 or
dinsnce For file but when ] went
through the drawer later the ordinance
latroouced in 1921, which | had
through some ght neglected to
mark For file got mixed up with the
ordinances which had been passed. |
SneV that had put the 1922 ordinance
away and | did not particularly note
'he introduction OF the 1921 bill. There
sre great many of these documents
20 be stamped and sent out and there
= not time to read through every one.
rat vas how it happened
NeFcrtheless. says Michael j. Cruise,
(contjnuso on rsgs sis)