REWARDING THE COLORED MAN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 94, 17 November 1916, Page 3

REWARDING THE COLORED MAN.

The man-about-tnwn (says a recent San Francisco "Chronicle") go,t a shock yesterday that lie won't set over until lie reads this explanation of how it happened. Ho was loitering in "Look '-era Over Lane," as he calls Peacock 1 Alley, in the St. Francis, when he saw a beautiful and p?,tjte young woman in earnest conversation with a large colored man who might have been a twin oi' .lack Johnson. Suddenly he saw the girl plant a kiss on the physiognomy of the son oi Ham. The girl was .Miss Daisy .Jerome, an Australian actress, who arrived here a few days ago. Day before vesterdav She lost, a diamond and sapphire' brooch. set in platinum, worth-1 ()0<). dollars. The colored man picked it up i» the gutter on Powell Street traced the o\vi<cr through a "Chronicle" "Lust" ad., and returned it to Miss Jerome at: the hotel. He refused to accept a proffered reward for his pains, whereupon Miss .Jerome presented him with the oscillatory salute hereinbefore described.