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SMOKING MOTOR CARS.

Publication: The New York Times Date: 29 April 1910

It is useless to tell a chauffeur who delights in ejecting smoke from the exhaust pipe of his car that this practice is injurious to the health of citizens. Have him arrested.

Health Commissioner Lederle, at the instance of Col. E. S. Cornell, who heads the Nuisance Committee of the National Highways Protective Society, introduced on Wednesday, and the Board of Health adopted, an amendment to the Sanitary Code that makes this a misdemeanor, whether indulged in by owner or chauffeur. The code provision speaks of “dense smoke.” The officials know, of course, that a certain amount of smoke is emitted unavoidably by most gasolene motors. It must be dense smoke like that discharged from a building, vessel, stationary or locomotive engine to constitute a nuisnce. The rigorous enforcement of this provision will be just and deserved.