The New York herald., 1922-01-19
CATCH TWO FEEDING
SLUGS TO SUBWAY
Brother and Sister First to
Fall Victims to the New
Turnstiles.
600 BOGUS COINS DAILY
Real Money From Every For
eign Land Has Been Found
i'm Machines.

1t was inevitable that sooner or later
some one would be caught feeding the
new turnstiles in the supways slugs in
stead of nickeIs. Virtually everybody
who could muster UP slug has tried it..
They tried it and learned that after all
there is great similarity between a
subway gate and large number of hu-
man beings in that 1t will, swallow any
thing that looks and tastes like the gen.
uine
1t was just Solomon and Freda Bara-
zani's luck to be about the first caught
slipping slugs into the turnstile NAV.
Solomon Is Freda's brother and they live
in 155 West End avenue, Manhattan
Beach. Yesterday fate singled them out
as the inevitable victims of chance. for
John Kearns. a special officer employed
as dietitian fer those turnstiles and who
in this capacity was closely observing
the feeding of the gates In the Brighton
station, arrested the Barazanis and took
tnem before a magistrate.
They pleaded guilty and were held, in
$500 ball for special sessions. Mean
while, doubtless, other folks were drop
Ping other slugs into the turnstiles and
disks that appear every night as /. r. T.
end B. r. T. cashiers count up the days
income.
Nickel n Useful Coin.
In the offices of the two corporations
ii is said the world has no idea how
many things will do the work Of nickel
provided they are lavished upon a ma
chine or blind man. There are only
500 turnstiles in service. When all sta
tons become equipped with them there
Is no telling what will happen.
One way out will be to station a guard
at each turnstile and let him keep a
large, firm hand over the slot. The ap-
preaching patron will hand the guard
his nickel. The guard. having satisfied
himself that It is food producing coin
and not the product of scrap heap.
Will then deposit the nickel in the slot
and hurl its late owner into the train.
This suggestion is rendered to Mr. He'd
ley gratis. 1t will require a lot of new
hands. but so long as guards are honest
the slug will disappear from the gullet
of the turnstile.
Another method of keeping slugs out
OF the gates would be to frisk everybody
before permitting him to enter the kiosks
or stations. Anybody equipped with sub
stitutes for nickels would be deprived
of his or her subway privileges for, say
six months This method. like others,
would have its drawbacks. Compel the
ordinary man or woman to remain out
OF the subways for six months and he
or she would wax strong enough to
jam those Times square guards (you
know, those human catapults who wal
lop you into the first train that comes
along whether 1t Is the one you want
to ride in or MOTTO Jam those Times
square bouncers. to repeat-into the
turnstile slots.
600 SIugs Found Daily.
But to get back to the daily intake
OF the turnstiles. 1t is estimated, how
accurately Is question. that the Inter
borough accumulates three tons of
nickels and substitutes a day. There
are 600 ten pound sacks of them to be
sorted. Never has the lowly nickel
been so fiattered by imitation In col
lections tellers are accommodating are
coins OF every country that has rep
resentatives in New York.
Tellers In Interborough counting
rooms spread the great mass of metal
on tables and sort II by hand.
I'VE fnd." said one of them yester-
day. "about 600 slugs a day. Thar
means n loss OF about $40 every twenty
four hours. Every now and then It's
our turn to laugh. though. Yesterday
one OF the boys found coin. just the
size OF a nickel. that was 1875 years
old. He took II to numismatist who
declared II rare old Russian piece and
gave him 81 for II. He gave the Inter-
borough its bit-5 cents-and stands
1895 TO the good"