The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-09-23

such is the bare record of fifteen years
Of newspaper sketches, books and plays
and the result of it is George AIDE, 80
years old, rich, beloved-and unspoiled
His hair is turning gray and he be-
gins to look his years In spirit he is
as big a boy as ever loving simple
ways and simple people knowing every
body and allowing everybody to think
they know him. His friends range from
the bartender at Turner Hall, tn clerks
in the drug store on the corner and the
little restaurant man next to the drug
store whom he used to know fifteen
years ago when he lived at 2GS Chest
nut street, to theatrical magnates, men
of letters social leaders, politicians
and all the notables of the great world
He forgets nobody and maintains an
unaffected interest in the affairs of all
the figures in the panorama of city life
that ever interested him or ever were
friendly to him. Success is apt to
make enemies, and this man has been
enormously successfully; but there Is
yet to be found a man who will express
anything but admiration mingled with
personal affection for George AIDE. He
clings to his old friends makes new
ones wherever he goes and sides along
through the world in his quaint, lank
way, peering out from under his eye
brows, smiling that slow, big smile of
his, and storing away all the odd hu-
man things he sees. He is the ac-
cepted American dramatist of the types
of men and women who are ludicrous
without knowing it, and he presents
these people without carcature because
he loves them and can see what is
worthy and fine in them beneath their
. eccentricities.
/ Having won fame and a fortune OF
several hundred thousand dollars, AIDE
| has gone back to the land that bore
| him. In 1898 he began buying farm
/ land near Brook Ind, a village a few
miles from the town Of Kentland, where
| he was born February 9, 1866. Today
/ he owns 900 acres i'm Newton County,
/ one of the richest agricultural regions
/ in the Middle West. The place is call
| ed Hazelden, and there he raises corn
and oats, blooded cows, hogs and sheep.
The farm is not plaything, but a big
8 per cent investment. The corn just
now looks like regiments of Prussians
i and the yield of oats runs from fifty
( to fifty-five bushels to the acre. A
residence in the old English beam and
/ plaster style has been built and there
is always a house party, small or large
in session. The diversions of the own
err are baseball, tennis, automobiling
and almost daily trips to the parental
home at Kentland, thirteen miles away.
Recently the breeding of Boston ter
riers has been added to the activities
of Hayselden. Up to date only one
dog has been sold. One of the terriers
has killed a prize pig and another at
tackled a sheep and bit one of its ears
off. But the investment in other res
poets looks promising. All the pup
pies are being named after characters
i'm Mr.. AIDES plays A mother bears
the name of the heroine of The Col
lege Widow" Jane and her litter is be-
ginning to answer to the call of STUB
"Matty" and Murphy There are
also a Peggy and a Lutte
After the "Artie" book appeared a D.
cent cigar was named after the hero OF
those sketches. This was George AIDES
first taste of thefame that cheers.
Now the Big Four Railroad is running
a new branch through a part of New
ton County and the president of the
road says he is going to have one of
/ the stations not far from EaZelden
named George AIDE. The permanency
of the dramatist's place in American
annals is therefore assured even If he
never writes another line.