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the window at the left, just at the head of the stairs. It lands on the roof that covers the stairs to the street and the tin sheeting is matted with gray tutti-frutti. It is curious to watch the line of passengers from the train as it files up these stairs, and one after another, with as great uniformity as they deposit their change at the window further along for bridge tickets, take a step to the left and throw away their gum. At the Nostrand avenue elevated station on the Brooklyn line the other day the box that retailed the chewing gum gobbled all the pennies put into it, but with unbending stubbornness refused to yield up the gum in return. One man tried it, lost his penny and remarked: "That makes 5 cents and no gum. Well, I guess I am chewing too much anyway. I don't believe I want any gum." His companion dropped a cent in another of the slits and pulled the knob exactly according to directions. The knob yielded not. This man took a different view of the matter from the other loser, and remarking, "I think I am entitled to that gum," took out his knife and deliberately smashed the glass case.

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On the ground that he had lost 2 cents in fruitless deposits before, the man helped himself to three pieces of gum.

New York Times April 2, 1958 p 33:2

1904 Cars to Quit Myrtle Ave. El

Transit Authority to replace Antiques with part-Wood Models of 1905-1906

The Transit Authority yielded yesterday to time.

It announced that on April 11 it would retire from service on the Myrtle Avenue elevated line in Brooklyn fifty all-wood cars. They were built in 1904.

In their places will go sixty part-wood cars. They were built in 1905-1906.

The change is part of a $2,000,000 modernization program for the line, which runs from Jay Street to metropolitan Avenue. The year long structural work will be completed by June 1. Repainting will be finished by fall.