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Show Whole Country Is Laughing at Gotham In sackcloth and ashes as official "goat" for an error that bad set pro and even anti-smoking women on the warpath from the Battery to the far reaches of Harlem. McCoy, It was explained, was charged with clipping the official city record .for resolutions and ordinances that have been adopted and approved by tbe mayor and sending them along to the proper officials for enforcement He was still trying to explain how the anti-smoking bill was sent along when City Clerk Cruise rallied to his support with a broadside against Commissioner Com-missioner Enrlght's staff for falling to examine the purported ordinance carefully care-fully enough to see that It was not properly, stamped and Indorsed. News that It was all a mistake came like a reprieve from the gallows to proprietors of scores of places where gratification of milady's passion for the soothing weed was the chief source of bread and butter revenues. Fashionable Fashion-able smokeshops for women had sprung up in Fifth avenue, Broadway i tiu other feuvauceu centers, while Greenwich village had come to depend largely on smoke rings to produce an atmosphere of Bohemia. Nuiw xuiitt. uowam nas me uneasy un-easy consciousness that all tbe country Is laughing at it Probably It Is. There's reason. All of a sudden tbe police discovered an ordinance forbidding smoking in public by women. wom-en. They hustled out and mad arrests. The whole country gasped. Police Commissioner Enrlght tbe next day lifted the ban on smoking by women In public as suddenly as he clamped It down the night before when he learned that Alderman McGuinness' anti-smoking ordinance had never been pasited by the board of aiuvruitu or signed by Mayor Ilylan. Daniel W. F. McCoy, an employee In the city clerk's office, was led forth |