The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-04-26
MOIJS FUNNY MEN.
nvenai Gossip About Our Most
Noted Humorists.
I QUAD TO LEAVE DETROIT.


49, S.
I11non, April 0.-fSpecial Correspon-
So 3-For the past decade Detroit has
- hnous as the residences Of the most
e funny man In the United States
-. surrounded BY the cold breexes Of
- neat lakes, his ears dinned by the
IDS Of the hundreds Of mighty
-. which plunge their way mast De-
- lkom Montreal to Duluth. be has
,S.111d his steel stub pen into the sif1es az
s. 15s eveat American public and tiekled
- into commissions Of iaueher. Here
- Farmers Lime Kiln Club was born
s ~ lin As its father. and out Of his
q $50 rurarg the old negro Biiah- Who vii
8. Aovu into literary hisforv A one If
4 = strongest characters Of American
IS - II was he Who originated The ter
s s13e Mr. Bowser. and vho keeun our IL
s 1000 n, order sfill nv rrsailipv his
S. 5s-nase~ NTH his vile II Z. he rho
4; sr,,s1S. III the v;de1v roy,;ed tr.r.I..
8 - frcm The x,;-o.r Y:rk.- .rd = !.
1 { s.,hc f,r /. d<,rer vesrs .rd more r..
|<sss - 80 .,..h-s- - -:-...-.L- !. -
- - a.l, u
oos .ua pa1ne.c arncies when
I've given the Detroit Free Fress mighty
SIA1&&0u II tkC Cutt<A 6t8tG9. IN
Z~1nnd and in Australia This mans
aS*Se. a far m the world knovs him. Il
r o. nj. r~.I r.,re !. ~ frh.va.-
- - -s:-.s--s.4 RI - :
-. - 80 49,. 49, 1919 = - 80
I Dele interesting juW nov that ne Is shout
= lave Detroit Tor the wider held OF New
Yeek. His last contract of i've years with
& - Detroit Free Press expires in May, and
= has received two offers from New York
- SIC. 400 4 year each. am told his
Iary With the Free Press has been only
eO year, and in moving he win have
y1ce the salary, and what he cares more
new ned.
HOW =. QUAD KEEPS oUT or xUr.
N. Lewiss greatest horror is that he
= nav ret into : mt. He has seen the other
fanny men Of his generation rise and fall
B nom not varying their fields and subiecfs
ma he has learned . lesson by their en-
<nnple. bob Burdeffe vss s erest man for
J. -. ~, - - -. e-s~.e --.s.
e.-sr o1s ", ~ lO'c
himself out petroleum Y. Nasty funny
oslness practacaiiy stopped WITH the war,
ana even our own Bill Nye has but one
6eld n Quad can write story that will
make vour eyes yafer. and With the same
ren On the esme si.v he viii de.rr;l,e I. doc
e-hs sh.t iii 49,. 80, .,s~-;.n 49,
Wuen ue ~ 1ae LINE AHn Sauo -
xne nea&ntn o. ifs popularity ne dropped II
1or fear be would tire hfs readers. and !
sfon told that be adopts all sorts Of methods
II life to keen himself fresh. an Quad -
IA one AZ the netro;t e<,iHcr~ =, m. I..t
& sss5S5ke g.s;. -. &c ~. 49, 5..~.s:-.- -
-, -. - - s- =.
&. 49, - =, .ous 'nc csses
come oesose tne ponce mere. ana ne
- . Woe knowledge OF ali classes
~ people. / went into = hat store
- other day, and found him behind 4
xennter selling hafs- The halter told M
1. - h.d .cld Nat. shere for n hcrr "a
n -. -, 49,. 49, -. - 80 49, -.
%-. 49,. sA e1as - n4s
= one " INC most Proilnc WRITER'S In
- oounry, ana ne turns out from ten to
eHelve columns every week for the Detroit
~ hsn The most Of his matter is un.
0|xned but IL is all widely cDnied- In AL
lif;m IN this he vrifez for other c.vt;es
~ 6. -. E. -
nd ne mas Tor years written the adser-
saents ioI one "a ou. iat Sest HrMs mere
re does the most OF his work at home,
writes rapidly. and makes few corrections
h his manuscript He is q very modest.
unassumine man, and the fact that he has
Ienained In Detroit so long shows that he
~ not fully appreciated his value in the
me1ary market. When l saw him few
days ago he told me he had not vet de-
eSded which of the two offers he would nc
cent bat he had decided TO take one Of
them. Both were 500 q week on a yearly
contract, but one was from leading New
York newspaper, and the other was from
Z big newspaper syndicate. He is not q
nch man, though he has saved money