Grate Fishing subscriber-mothers-day The article was accompanied by

The article was accompanied by a series of photos by Times staff photographer George Tames

" The Times reported that the remarkable device was so speedy and exact that "within fifteen seconds after the ball has passed on its course over the actual diamond

including one at the Smithsonian Institution that ran for 14 months

" was an express passenger train on the New York Central Railroad from 1902 to 1967

and no heat or plumbing

Grate Fishing subscriber-mothers-day The article was accompanied byA 12 year old boy goes fishing with "uncanny skill" for coins and other treasures in the city's subway grating in 1959. His only tools: a small rock tied to a 12 foot piece of string and some lard (which is used to make the rock sticky). He then lowers the line and hauls up his catch. Sometimes a dime, sometimes a subway token, sometimes a ring of gold. Times photographer Allyn Baum captured the boy as he was surrounded by a large crowd in Times