NEW YORK SUBWAY

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 January 1939, Page 2

NEW YORK SUBWAY

THEFTS BY EMPLOYEES

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NEW YORK, January 1G

The theft in the last three years of 24,(>O0j)O() nickels (1,2(10,0(10 dollars) from lhe New York Municipal subway system was revealed with the arrest of two change-booth clerks, who are alleged to be members of a ring of 3<> employees. The District Attorney (Mr. Tliormis E. Dewey) said ihe conspiracy, which netted its members 1500 dollars a day. al iis height, was carried out through co-operation among a number of maintenance men, who turned back (lie turnstile indicators before handing their collect ions to rhe clerks. The thefts involved 15 subway staiions. Addiiioiial arrests are expected.

ELEVATED LINE CLOSED.

NEW YORK. Decern tier I

One of Now York's curiosities, lhe Sixih Avenue Elevated railroad, ceases to exisi. ai. midnight to-night. Prom lhe lime. (i(l years ago. wlioii. in face of violent opposition from property owners, ihe overhead railway was built above lhe streois on stool si ruts, i( has always been rm-ognisml as one of New York’s unique features. Pew visitors failed to take ant least one ride in tiie dingy steel cars that rattled along over the heads of pedestrians on the pavements below.

Many New Yorkers to-day took :i sentimental farewell ride on the trains, or visited the stations io warm their hands for the last time at. the old-fashioned pot-bellied iron stoves, still used Io heat lite waiting rooms. The demolition of the iron ami steel structure will start immediately, ('banging traflic conditions ami financial ditliculiies necessitate lire removal of the railway.