"NON DI-SPUTANDUM."
[To THZ EDITOR OF TH2 " BrzorAmos."1
Sin,—Sir W. Broadbent must have set many owners and managers of public rooms and public vehicles thinking how they can best bring moral suasion to bear on those who zl2oose such places for the practice of "the filthy and un- necessary habit of expectoration" in public. In May, 1887, I travelled from San Francisco to Victoria, B.C., in a coasting steamer, to the mast of which was affixed a metal plate bear- ing the inscription :—" Gentlemen will, others must, use the spittoon." The captain of an Atlantic steamship was at a loos how to induce a passenger to desist from the filthy habit on deck. Among the passengers was a gentleman, well known in Toronto forty years ago, who undertook to stop him if a quartermaster were placed at his disposal. The captain closed with the offer, and the man was directed to fetch a bucket of water and a mop, and to follow the offender up and down the deck. The result was completely satisfactory.—I
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