New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-21
IN. QUAD" PAID HER BILLS.
.4manuensis, Called Dads Kid"
by author, Wanted Fame.

Charles r Lewis the humorist whose stories
under the pen name of M. Quad are well known.
has another sobriquet. Dad. which he signed only
to letters 90 Dads Dear" and Dads Kid"
.Das.s Kid Calso Dads Dear'O was lis not now
Miss Marie Aieen Billings. Of No rs West Ninety
sixtl-st Her suit against Dad to recover y"
alleged to be due back salary while she was
HIS private secretary and amanuenss was hearo
yesterday before Judge Bennett, and that Is how IL
comes to be known that she Dads Kid She
wore five wells which effectually obscured her
features. Her testimony was that M quad
wouldn't have amounted to much IL it hadn't been
for Miss Marie Aieen Billings. For instance, she
helped him write a prize story. for which he got
$500 hut he gave her only $500. Dad was paying
her rent buying her furniture on the instalment
plan and paying for such incidentals as lobster
and champagne. But what was that and salary
Of SIS a week. when he was signing her stories and
getting all the fame!"
She was rehearsing to 60 on the stage, she sald,
when Mr.. Lewis having admired book she had
written. called her and offered her 50 week
to become bis amapuensis. She accepted the oner'
and helped him the "Bowser STORIES oesiueS
putting the saving touch to several other stories
Last summer they spent three months in the coun-
try. On October Is they quarreIed All TINS ume
she had teen pinng for the stage and Mr.. Lewis
had told her IL she would consent 70 remain ms
amanuensis he would give her $4,000 when a cop
per mine OF ms panned out The letters already
referred to i'm which among other things Dad
told his Kid she must pucker her lips and say
PLEASE d-daddy." II she wanted cocktail. were
identifed by her as written by Mr.. Lewis
Mr. Lewis. alias M. Quad, alias DAD, saio ne
had considered Kid" his adopted daughter Wneli
he the witness stand. When ne nTst caiiea
on her in 1897 she said she alone In the WoIlu
and was planning go en the road with a comedy
connany She was so hard up she could not pay
her rent He gave her Slo She went with the
COMPANY. which stranded. and wrote 10 MIN
for money TO get back. Then they entered into an
agreement by which he to give her 80 each tor
f0llr stories a week. She made several other
theatrical ventures. the only result of which was
bills for him to pay, being surgeons bill for
$50 In 1900 she went abroad He paid her eX-
reuses right along He told about hiring the Ninety
sixth-st fat paying the rent and agreeing to pay
for tie furniture
In describing the quarrel he SAID:
Kid said to her. 1 guess the time mas come
when Dad can put his hat and GO
'DaC can go Just soon he pleases. she
responded I picked up my hat and went to the
door Turning around. [ said 'Cfoodby, Kid.
She did not answer, and / went out That is
the last I saw of her until she brought this suit
against .-,
-s.Navbe ten or fifteen nights in year / stayed
at her fat but il because of stormy weather
and nv rheumatism bothered me l should have
been glad TO adopt her, and always treated her
with fatherly / never agreed to give her
s25.00O from a copper mine that / had a share in.
I will sell nv interest in that mine for $50.
He had a key 10 the fiat. but used it only when
he went out on errands for Miss Billings he said.
Judge Bennett reserved decision.