Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1913 — AND MR. VANDERBILT PAID [ARTICLE]

AND MR. VANDERBILT PAID

"Get the Very Beat," Was His Instruction—Bequsl Became Only a Matter of Course. This is how the late Cornelius Vanderbilt found himself riving to an in stltutlon the same costly carpet be had just selected for his palatial New York home: Saint Jobnland is a church community on Long Island, where differ eases at faith play little part in the v. -

admission of some 200 children and old people. Mr. Vanderbilt, its vicepresident, offered one day, through Dr. Henry Mottet, to give the chapel a much-needed carpet, and told Dr. Mottet where to buy it The article continues: "Get the very best” said Mr. Vanderbilt, who had just finished his new house at 1 West Fifty-seventh street. Mr. Mottet accordingly looked ovei 1 carpets and selected a costly one of red velvet He told tt|e clerk it was for an Institution, gave its rather gen-

erous dlmenslonss-to-be, and added that the bill should go to Mr. Vanderbilt The clerk had some difficulty to recover his composure. “I don’t suppose you know,” he volunteered, “that this is the identical carpet selected by Mr. Vanderbilt for his new house!” The Vanderbilt carpet is still in the little chapel.—The Churchman.