The New York herald., 1922-03-30
FARE GATES TO SAVE
100000 EACH YEAR
Remaining Halfof Stations To
BE Equipped With Sub
way Invention.
LOSSES BY SLUGS SMALL
Transit Commission Obtains
Mandamns to Collect $780,
600 Payroll.
LOSSES BY sLUGs SMALL

The Transit Commission approved
yesterday the application Of Frank He'd
ley for permission to install 430 addi-
tional turnstiles In Interborough sub
way stations With the 500 in operation
these will be sufficient for tho entire
system. Both Mr.. Medley, president OF
the Interborough. and the Commits
sioners consider that the turnstiles al
ready have proved to be o public con-
ven.ence and an economic expedient.
Mr Hedley wrote that with s34 OF
tho 'featherweight' contrivances in use
by the end oc this year the net annual
saying to the Interborough due to the
elimination of ticket sellers tickets and
t'cket choppers will aggregate approx
imate!y 100000.
The pastime OF feeding slugs in place
OF nickcls into the slots, which was a
fashionable sport when the gates were
novelty. has abated. until at present,
gays Mr.. Hedley, the worthless slugs
average two to each box daily. Thus
Tor 500 boxcs the company's loss does
not exceed $50 a day.
1t is said to have been much greater
when paper tickets were In use, as many
passengers boat the fare by many
tricks such as buying ten tickets in a
string, tearing them off elsewhere than
on the dotted line and then dropping a
fragment In lieu OF whole ticket
Initial cost of manufacture and in
etallation was $500 for each of the turn
stiles. a total OF about $4,000.
100000 Payroll Ordered.
Acting on Mayor Hylan's declared in
sention OF not to permit the Board OF
Estimate ito vote one penny for the use
OF the Transit Commission except on
court order" the commission obtained
from the Appellate Division a writ OF
alternative mandamus requiring the
Mayor and the rest Of the board to
appropriate at once $500, 900 to meet the
payroll and other current expenses Of
the commission for the quarter begin
ing April !. or else to show cause this
morning. The writ will bo served to-
day on Mayor Hylan and his colleagues
The courts order was made without
opinion" the Appellate Division already
having expressed It's views summarily in
like conditions when the Board of Esti-
mate held up the commissions payroll
1T the Christmas season. While the
Mayor was absent in Chicago last Mon
day the Board Of Estimate advanced
the present requisition to the calendar
for action tomorrow.
Representatives of the Manhattan Ele-
waited and of the Interborough have not
come to terms on the modification or
cancellation of the lease Of the former
to the latter. There was another day
OF conferences and OF unanimous silence
so far as concerns the public. 1t is
proving difficult to obtain assent of any
considerable number Of Manhattan stock
holders to a reduction OF the per cent.
rental on the s60.000.000 capitalization.
FYsi- -. - - -.
more than 1000 stockholders, only half
a dozen OF whom hold blocks in excess
Of $1,000. 900. 49,
Comment by a spokesman for one of
these larger interests was that the Man
haitian stockholders would not be In any
hurry ito accept clay brick at the
hands of the Interborough, however
prettily 1t might be gilded."
No Advantage I'm Recefvership.
Sentiment in the financial district was
confident that there was little danger OF
the Interborough going into the hands of
a receiver April 1. Nobody can see any
immediate advantage in a receivership.
Though debtor on Saturday next to the
extent of some s9,o00,0 900. about $4,000
900 of which will be owed to the Man
haitian alone. the Interborough, 1t was
thought, might easily tide itself over the
immediate crisis either with the help OF
banking interests or by utilizing the $4.-
900. 900 cash which Mr.. HedIey has said
the company will have in the banks.
Mr.. Hedley is due at 2 o'clock this af
ternoon TO resume the witness chair in
the Transit Commissions continued in
vcstigation into inadequate subway serv-
ice. In view of the Manhattan lease
negotiations, which involve the possible
purchase by the Interborough OF $50 new
cars. 1t is believed James T.. Quacken-
bush. Interborough's counsel, will ask
for further adjournment.
A similar adjournment Is looked for on
resumption tomorrow OF the hearings
before Judge Julius M. Mayer of the
Federal District Court, in actions by the
American Brake Shoe and Foundry Com
pany and the Continental Securities
Company to force an Interborough re-