The Washington herald., 1908-01-08
ADE LIKES CAPITALS
Indiana Writer Visits the
Capital of the Nation.
TELLS STORY OF A SPACE MAN
ReciteS His Version of That story OF
the school for the study of Art In
COOISing-Once Lived I'm Lafayette,
Ind, and Went to College and
Wrote Medicine Advertisements.

Mr.. George AIDE, who has Used more
Capital Letters than most Any one Alive
and who has more Capital than the ma
jority of Newspaper men in the Country,
was at the New Willard last night Mr..
Ade was Joyful
He was asked If it were True, as New
York Paper said, that he is going to
Back school for Instructing Young Girls
in the Art Of Cooking. lie balanced Lis
nice new silk Tile on the Forepart of
his head and remarked:
"Once upon time there was a Space
Writer on the New York sun who had
read two or three Of my Books. but who
was pretty Good Fellow. anyhow.
His city Editor called him up 60 His
desk one Day and gave him a Clipping
from the Goshen Blizzard, saying that /
was going 10 Start this School. Since
he was Writing on Space he had to get
a Story TO make Good He wandered
sadly out Of the Sun Office and uptown,
because he Knew that I was out in In
diana.
Got Up His Courage.
'This Space Writer got as far as the
Cafe Martin. He went in and waded into
a Few Drinks to get up his Dutch COur-
age-his name was Hoolihan-but that
Story kept staring him In the Face SO
he kept on Thinking and Thinking until
be Finally worked it out. He Wandered
into book store picked UP Book on
Cooking and one Of the Standard Works
on Capital Letters written by an Indiana
Author and retired To Central Park to
Work out his Plot
First he Tore out the pages Of the Cook
Book and then a page Of the Standard
Work. lie Tore out about half the pages
in Each book and Then Shufied them in
a hat. Then he drew out page. II was
a page about cooking. Then he drew out
another page. and 1t was from the Stand
ard Work.
He went back TO the ONCE then and
told the City Edit0.- he had seen Me and
had got that story confirmed. He sat
down 10 his typewriter and Wrote about
a Column az eight dollars per Write.
"Moral-Never leave New York 70 go 10
Indiana or You may be Msquoted.
Moral number two-If you're Writing
on Space have al sorts Of Handy Refer
ence books close by, 50 YOU won't Have 20
Buy them
Lived in Lafayette.
Mr. Ade is a graduate of Purdue Uni
versity. Lafayette. Indiana; erstwhile re-
porter on the Lafayette GndJ Daily
Cal: erstwhne writer of advertisements
for Harry L. Kramer. a~patent medicine
promoter erstwhile literary adviser of
Septamus Water. editor Of the Lafayette
md Daily Call
Mr. Ade. who. in the days when he
made the trains" at Lafayette, consid-
cred himself "saooped' II he missed
personal. John b. Sherwood went TO
the state Capitol this morning. "Dined
with Charles w Fairbanks, Vice Presi-
dent Of these United States, last night"
George Aide. the writer. the playwright,
the humorist. and the American politician
for it is said he wants 20 go 90 the
Indiana State legislatures in Washing
ton TO tell the Congress what he thinks
Of the canned music outrage. Just
what his methods Of warfare are 10 be
has not been divulged.
His Mission in City.
But 20 be serious, Mr. Ade IS IN WASH
ington with Victor Herbert 20 bring pro-
lection TO the authors Of music, whose
productions. il is contended. are purloined
by Photographic concerns. Their music is
sung into records and repeated by phono-
graphs throughout the country, it Is con-
tended without regard to the copyright
law.
John Philip Sousa, Mr.. de Koven, and
other distinguished leaders in the world
Of music are coming 10 Washington to-
day or tomorrow TO assist Mr.. AIDE in the
struggle in Congress. They all hope to be
successful.