Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1916 — St. Paul Cat Adopted Building Site for His Own [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

St. Paul Cat Adopted Building Site for His Own

ST. PAUL. —When workmen began razing the old German-American National Bank building at Fourth and Robinson streets to make room for the Merchants’ National Bank building they found a black cat in possession. He

blinked his green eyes, arched his back and purred in such a friendly manner that the workmen immediately became attached to him and shared the contents of their • pails with him. Tom was no ordinary cat. Falling plaster, the thunder of brick and timbers being hurled to the street —caused him no frlglrt. ; When the last brick and the last piece of timber had .fieen removed

Tom was left without a home. There was a hiatus in his existence after all. The house wreckers departed and soon the house builders appeared. One story after the other of the new building began to go up.— One u hkuvk- nobodv -Feeognkied Btalked unafraid- through the corridor of the first story. He opened bis large, frank eyes as if perfectly at home, but a little surprised at the changes that had been made in his absence. J No one challeneged his right to be there, and Tom became as good a friend of the house builders as he was of the house wreckers. He has been in the building ever since.