Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1901 — How Flags Wear Out. [ARTICLE]

How Flags Wear Out.

It costs money to fly even two small flags every day in tbe year. The two small ones on the east and west fronts of the capltol, each about three yards long, which is small for such an Immense structure as the capltol, fray out so fast that it costs SIOO a year to replace them. They are darned every day and on windy days probably two or three times. Even with all these economies SIOO worth of fine wool floats off into tbe air in such fine particles that never a trace of it can be found even at the foot of the two flagstaffs.— Pittsburg