The Detroit times., 1910-01-17
FINDS NECKLACE
WORTH $4,000
Poor Working Girl Is Rewarded
With $4,000 When She Returns
Gems To Owner.

NEW YORK, Jan. 17.-Mfs. Irene
Isman, who last October divorced
Felix Isman. the well-known real es-
tate operator and theatrical manager
OF Philadelphia and New York, is the
happiest young woman in the city
The necklace of pearls worth $4,000
she lost In the street had been FOUND
and restored To her.
There is one other woman who Is
very happy from the same cause. She
is the working girl who picked up
the pearls and obtained the $4,000 re-
ward offered for them She was not
as happy as Mrs. Isman, for the pos
session OF SO much money made her
afraid.
Alarmed at Good Fortune.
So alarmed. indeed. is she at her
good fortune that her identity is TO
BE kept secret. Mrs. Isman herself
does not know II. Tiffanys, who
handled the matter. promised the girl
they would never tell any one.
The girl gave good reasons for her
wish She said IL II were known she
had such sum her life would be
made u burden TO her. and as large
as her fortune was 1t would not prove
big enough TO go around.
I'm going to think OF my mother"
she said. Then the promise was made.
The girl IL in her teens, very poor,
lives on Second-ave., and has to main
tain herself and her mother by her
work.
Mrs Isman told the story to re-
porter.
IL had been taking tea with friends
at Delmonicos," she said, land was
walking home along Fifth-ave. | recol-
lected l had to phone TO some one,
and | went into a call station. This
was about half-past six last Friday
evening.
While was phoning | noticed the
reflection OF my throat In the bright
nickel disk OF the instrument and
saw that my necklace was gone.
Search Fails, Almost Faints.
81 dropped the receiver and search
ed my dress rapidly. Then a feeling
of sickness came over me. | sank
into the chair and nearly tainted
"As quickly as | was able hurried
back over my steps, but found moth
ing. went to Delmonieo's; they
searched everywhere. Nothing. | went
TO the police. They showed me over
the new building, explained the
Rogues' Gallery TO me. gave me some
good advice about not paying money
in advance to anybody who might say
he could get me my pearls for price,
and assured me my pearls and me had
parted for keeps. No one. they said.
would risk parting with such a neck
lace In America, but would make
straight TO Europe with 1t. and II
would pay them we'll to go. Then ]
went to Tiffany's and Tiffanys thought
there was just chance, If | offered
big enough reward, but they were
half afraid that 81 coo would not be
enough And so the advertisement
went into newspaper.
Glad News Comes to Her.
when yesterday morning came
and no news. | gave up all hope; my
only consolation was TO cry over the
phoned to me to call upon them. They
had my pearls. every one OF them.
and all safe.
"'Tell me who found them. that i
may thank her A girl oh, let me
go anC KISS neT! l ekclalneu, III my
joy. Then they told me why she
wanted TO remain unknown. and | APP
preciated her reason.
at seems that the girl must have
picked the pearls UP almost immedi-
ately after ! dropped them. She said
she found them between Forty-seventh
and Forty sixth-sts. as she was walk
ing home from work, between half
past 6 and o'clock.
"The pearls appear, to have been n
sore temptation to her; and the temp
tation she said, became much harder
when she saw the advertisement OF
the 81 1000 reward. At last she went
to her doctor and asked his advice.
The poor girl! I can well understand
how she felt Oh, would hate TO
find a necklace OF pearls like that!
THE silken string had broken and
one OF the pearls had rolled away.
But the girl searched till she found
the loose pearl. Wasn't 1t all re-
markable chance?"
Mrs. Isman lives at No. 140 West
Fifty-seventh-st. After the divorce
she decided to return to the stage
under her former name OF Irene
Frizelle. She is rehearsing at the
Lyric and will support Lulu CHASER
in lone OF the Boys" when that play
Is produced In a week or so at New
Haven before II is brought to New
York