New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-05
hot Time IN OLD TOWN.
Mrs. Johnson, Singing, Waves
Sons Picture at Crowd.
Negroes Gather Before Home
and Make Welkin Ring
with Old Tune.

Chicago. July 4.--"Gracious me. II thsrs
isn't moor Old Jeffries now. To look al hin
Won would not think he would refuse u
shake hands with my boy.
Mrs. Johnson, Jacks mother, vas speak.
ing She was sitting IN her home ira.
lacks prowess had made possible Shs
was surrounded BY many admiring friends
and she was the happiest woman IN ths
world. although she said. deeply offended
because Jeffries, she had been told, had re-
fused 10 shake hands with her son when
the fight began.
4 beggar with his face svathe6 in band
ages had vorrn-d his way through ths
crowd asking aims When he got close
enough to her, Mrs. Johnson saw that h.
was white mai, and her reference 70
..noor Old Jefrfes'' was made ABOUT tha
dflapidafeG beggar. Mrs johnson fisaed
out a. dime and handed it to the man.
saying:
II ought not TO do this, but YOU look
so much like Jeffries must look that you
probably need even the sympathy OF
poor old coiored woman
Mrs Johnson had never wavered n her
belief that her brawny son would defea.
Jeffrfes. a woman living near Mrs. john
son had so much farth in the belief Of the
fighters mother that she HloTtgagsd her
household furniture and staked everything
on Johnson.
Mrs Johnson is as game as her fshtins
SON On the stage Of d theatre largely
patronized by negroes she heard the re-
turns today She was the coolest OF the
hundreds present. As round Dy round came
in, every one saluted her with deafeniaz
cheers. but she smiled only once and that
was when the fash came that her Jack had
Won It was minute before she could find
her voice Then she exclaimed:
II knew il all the time He said he'd
bring home the bacon and the honey beg
has done it
Then Mrs Johnson was lifted N tbs
shoulders of friends and carried 70 her
automobile When she arrived home. sra
was carried triumphantly into the house.
Thousands Of negroes gathered in front Of
| her abode They insisted that Mrs. john.
son show herself. She did.
| She went UP 10 the second toor and. car.
| rying z life sized poster picture Of her son
| Jack stepped out en- the roof OF the front
! porch. Waving the picture in on hand and
a bunch of flowers in the other. SIZE hesa-
the song: "There'n Be a Hot Time in the
| Old Town Tonight The Immense crowd
, Joined in The woman stood waving ths
picture and flowers. and sang 50 long tha-
/ hoarseness robbed her Of her voice. 20 sEs
| lust stood and cried. The tears strea1st
down her face and half the crowd gaa
| CRYING with her. Earlier in the day Mrs
Johnson had received her last telegraE
| from her son before the fight 81
Don't worry about me" the n1essass
read Il feel great Will win sure Re-
member the watchword is win and sheU:
| IL from the housstops.
AS she was carried into her home from
| the automobile Mrs Johnson said.
All the North and ell the South asve.
| turned out such a hero as he is TO-DAY.
( You know Jack is Texas boy. and re vas
| hghting when he was fifteen years old. but
YOU bet he never les me know about il, and
| I was as SURPRISED as ANYBODY when :
| found out he was the best human fshrinss
machine in the world There we're etghTJ
| million people against him to-day. but ~
! heat them all. II his father had only lived
| TO see IL, II is certainly grand 20 &c t17
mother of real hero