Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1894 — Good Value hi an Old Carpet. [ARTICLE]

Good Value hi an Old Carpet.

A very much worn and sadly dilapidated carpet covered the floor of the cashier’s office in the Mint. A new one involved the of perhaps |75, and for weeks Superintendent Townsend has endeavored to secure permission from the department at Washington to buy one. The mass of red tape and the difficulty of obtaining jnoney for any purpose balked him, but he pegged away patiently, and a day or two ago had the satisfaction of gaining permission to buy the needed carpet, which cost him a little more thin S7O. The wretched old covering was burned; the ashes were refined, and they yielded S4OO ol ffold.— fPhiladelohia Record.