Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1919 — GOLD AND SILVER AVALANCHE PERILS VAULTS OF TREASURY. [ARTICLE]

GOLD AND SILVER AVALANCHE PERILS VAULTS OF TREASURY.

Washington, D. C., Sept. 9.—The government has so much “coin of the realm” that it actually bulges out the walls of- the vaults containing it. The treasury has asked congress to appropriate $1,500,000 to make the vaults secure and provide additional ones. The gold and silver accuniulated during the war.