Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1910 — Matorman Picks Up Money [ARTICLE]

Matorman Picks Up Money

knvelope and Roll, Covered With Mud, Big Help in Financial Straits of Worker. Chicago.—"lt is not collectors of old rags alone who find valuables in odd places.” This confession was elicited from a Chicago street car motorman the other day in a discussion of ttte unusual good fortune of a New York rag dealer who discovered money and diamonds in the old clothes which he had bought for a few cents a pound. “It’s a funny thing,” said the motorman, as the car whizzed by Diversey boulevard. “Running past this corner reminds me of what happened here about a year ago. I was especially hard up that month and was wondering how I’d be able to raise enough money to make payment on a mortgage coming due. “I needed about $25 more than I knew I could spare from my pay check and I was at a loss to discover how I’d arrange it. “Well, one morning I was running by this corner and I saw what looked like an old envelope, all fcovered with mud, in the street. It looked as if it might contain almost anything except money, but something led me to stop the car, get out and pick it up. After brushing off the mud I put it into my pocket and forgot all about it until that evening. When I reached home

I opened it. In the envelope were three five-dollar bills. I knew then how I’d meet the payment. “Three days later, 1 " ha added, “while crossing this same corner one rainy evening the searchlight of my car fell on something that looked like a little roll of bills and I stopped again to pick it up. I examined my second find and discovered that it was a two-dollar bill. That evening at home I unrolled it and prepared to clean the mud off as before. To my surprise I discovered a five-dollar bill and another two-dollar bill wrapped up within the outside bill! I guess that’s luck for you, ehl And I wasn’t looking for ‘paper* like the rag dealer in New York, either.”