Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1902 — “The Colored Troops Fought Nobly.” [ARTICLE]

“The Colored Troops Fought Nobly.”

A raoe war has been in progress for some time, on the north side of Washington street. The parties are the colored girl that cooks at Goff’s restaurant and Jerry Karpner, who does choring around the place. Hostilities have been frequent, and in which the white forces have generally been defeated. In one of these late encounters Jerry got a pelt over the head with a potato masher whioh laid him out for a spell, aod it is said he has received several other knockdown blows at various occasions. This morning however, Jerry bad his innings, and at the very beginning of the battle he gave the girl an ugly slash with a knife. It cut a deep gash on her left arm, above the elbow It is three inches long and deep in proportion, and Dr. Berkley, who sewed it up, had to take several stitches in doing it Jerry hiked out as soon as the girl was out, or it is said she would have “fixed him good and plenty.”

The scenes along the river front and elsewhere, in New York used in “The Tide of Life” are all exaot copies of the localities represented. The artist took sketches of them, and then painted and built the places just as they are. Those who have never been to ihe metropolis may thus be sure that they are seeing the real thing, and those who have been there will recognize the docks, Dan’s old junk shop, and other places, as soon as they see them in the play. At Ellis’ Opera Honae, Thursday, Deo. 18,