The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-20
LOSERS GET POSTAL R
THB ELETITED ROADS sYsTEM FoR
RESTORING LOST PROPERTY.

Hr Your Nane ana Address Are on an Art,c,.
Found In n Train, You Are Asked to Caii a,
the Lost Property Room-How $1,000 WA,
Mistaken for = Parcel or
II you lose anything with your namc and nd.
dress on IL in an elevated road train. and tho LOST
article Is found by o conductor or brakeman. YOU
will get o postal card the next day asking you to
please call" at the lost property room OF tho
Manhattan Railway Company at Greenwich and
Morris streets. Tho nature Of tho article is not
specified. and you must describe It with great
minuteness in order to get It back. You are 70
questcd to bring tho postal card with you.
As this shows, the system of tho elevated rail.
way to recover lost property and find owners for
Il Is quite complete. Several men are employed
for tho express purpose Of collecting tho stray
articles which have been picked up In tho train,
and delivering them at the property room.
Everything OF any value left behind In a train
is handed in by the conductor or brakeman who
finds 1t at the terminus Of the different roads ho
first reaches. With 1t IL filed a memorandum
giving the time and tho train on which 1t wa,
found. The terniini arc visited the next morn.
ing by tho mel employed for the purpose, who
carry daily heavy loads to the property room.
Umbrellas naturally form the chief part OF their
burdens. On q single day recently thirty-seven
umbrellas were brought to the property room.
Al tho VI U OuA tho utho vi uhlDTGIlAI
unclaimed reaches well up in tho thousands. All
sorts Of things arc left behind in tho elevated
trains, and the yearly sale Of those not claimed
comprises nearly everything that q person can
carry about with him.
Money is often found, and II Is apparently an
sure of reaching its owner, II he inquiries after
It, as something moro easily identified. Queer
stories are told Of the finding OF money. Once q
brewery collector left behind In a Sixth avenue
train 81, 500. which he carried in q brown paper
parcel. The conductor got the idea for some
reason that the parcel contained sandwiches,
and. not thinking them worth preserving, threw
irving at the 155th street station. 1t barely
missed falling into the street after hitting hin.
The porter tossed the parcel into a receptacle for
waste paper. The brewery collector arrived on
wanted to know IL any one had seen a brown row
paper parcel containing $500. The parcel was
fished out of the waste paper receptacle, and,
after he had given the denominations Of the
having to go through the formality OF applying
at the lost property room. He gave $50 to tho
conductor who thought the parcel contained
sandwiches, and 80 nearly caused its loss.
Formerly the owner OF a lost article which had
terminal station at which 1t was turned in. as
tho brewery collector did. This convenient sys-
TEN was abolished because an unusually expen-
sive pair OF opera glasses was delivered 10 q per
son who did not own them. He took q good look
at them when the conductor picked them up in q
train, and going to the erminus OF the road
later, described them 30 well that they were
given to him. When valuable articles are found
nowadays the owner. when he applies at the
minuteness that leaves no possibility OF a mis-
take in order to get them