Women & Railway Smoking Carriages

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 50, 22 November 1932, Page 11

Women & Railway Smoking Carriages

Sir, —It is good news, to hear that our railway business is looking up, but while that is so, I should like to call the attention of the powers that be to an undesirable custom which seems to be increasing, and tha-t is the invasion of the smoking carriages by women. No one would make the slightest objection if they were there to enjoy a pipe or cigarette; but they do not, and further, it is not a case of jumping into the. first carriage you can through -being a bit late and shifting after finding out the mistake. It is no uncommon thing to find almost all the single seats' appropriated, and often mothers with children in the double seats. What the attraction is I do not know, but it leads to men smoking in non-smoking carriages among the women and children, which should not be allowed, but is rapidly becoming a common practice—in fact, off the main lines the practice seems to be to go as you please. . Might not a polite request be placed in the smoking carriage to the effect That non-smokuig ladies and gentlemen are requested not to use the carriage while other seats me available—l am, ete. TRAYBLLER November 18.