Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1913 — CRIES FOR HIS NEGRO CHUM [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CRIES FOR HIS NEGRO CHUM

Son of His Father’s Coachman Sent on Flier to Palm Beach to Play With Vinson McLean. Washington, D. C.—" Send for ‘Jack’ Johnson,” said Vinson Walsh McLean, the $100,000,000 baby, as he gazed disdainfully at his expensive toys and other allurements of Palm Beach. "I want ‘Jack’ Johnson to play with me.” Of course "Jack" Johnson was wired for, with instructions to start at once. By the way, he Is not the pugilist, but a seven-year-old Washington darky boy. When the message summoning him arrived “Jack" almost rolled his eyes out of his

head. He often played with Vinson In the private park at Friendship, but, to go to Palm Beach and play with him wi'. beyond his wildest dreams. To « mqueror entering a captured city ever was as proud as "Jack” Johnson appeared as he waved good by to envious friends from the window of a Palm Beach filer. He had a good cause for pride, for In Vinson’s acquaintance in Washington are scions of millionaires and youthful sprigs of foreign nobility. But he passed them all by for the fun of making sand castles with "Jack” Johnson, the son of one of his tar tiler's stablemen.

Vinson Walsh McLean.