The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-13
IN DEPARTMENT OF STATE SINCE
 TIME OF GRANT
Presidents Come and Ge But Adee Stays
 On

This is the golden jubilee year of Alvey Augustus Adee's service in the State Department in Washington and the diplomatic service. For the last thirty three years he has been Second Assistant Secretary of State, and so thoroughly has he become a part of l Washington's official life that they say in the capital that the memory of a man runneth not back to the time when he was not part of it.
 In the State Department MT. Adee 1 is considered as much of a fixture as | the safe which contains the original | draft of the Declaration of Independ- ence or the portraits of the secreta- ] ries, or the walking cane of Benjamin Franklin. Some rreverent person | once said that MT. Adee had been in
 the State Department so long that he ought not to be known as "A. D. l but as "B. e.
 When MT. Adee entered the govern 1 ment service Grant was President. Since then there have been ten Presi-
 dents, counting Cleveland twice. MT.
 Adee first served under Hamilton
 Fish as secretary, and since MT. l Fish's term there have been sixteen l Secretaries of State, all of whom have found Adee's services invaluable. | Changes in party and administrations | have made no difference-Presiden | and Secretaries of State have come
 and gone in long succession, but Adee has remained, to act as the 1 most trusted and valuable adviser of i Presidents, Secretaries of State, Am
 bassadors, Ministers and others.
 MT. Adee was born in Astoria, L.
 ri nf Yn.~lx pif 0T
 Nov. 27, 1S42, so that, while still in
 active service, he has passed his sev-
 enty-seventh birthday. The books
 record that he was privately, educat-
 ed. In 1888 Yale University, in rec
 ognition of his work in diplomacy
 made MT. Adee an honorary master
 of arts. He has never married.
 On Sept. g, 1870, MT. Adee was ap
 pointed Secretary of Legation at Ma,
 drid, and he served there at variou.
 times as Charge d'Affaires, especially
 in the interim between the terms O General Daniel E. Sickles and CaIe1 Cushing in 1873. Mr. Adee was placed
 in charge of the Diplomatic Bureal in June, 1878, and was appointed Third Assistant Secretary of State il
 July IS, 1882. Since August 8, 1886 he has been Second Assistant Secre , tary of State. Possibly search througl the records of the Government wou1, : reveal a longer term of service in on 1 office than MT. Adee's, but it Is t be greatly doubted.
 When the treaty of peace betwee1 , . Spain and the United States wa ; signed in Paris, Dec. 10, 1898, MI
 Adee was present and had an import
 ant part. But he was not a membe of the American delegation whicl went abroad to help end the grea f war and was, therefore not at Yer sailles. It was decided to keep hin , at home-that is, in the State De . | partment-possibly because of hi T age, but more probably because h was needed in Washington whil Secretary Lansing was away. MI
 l Adee was appointed acting Secretar
 of State to fill a vacancy in the of > flee from Sept. IT to Sept. '29, 1S9' between Secretaries John >Sherma and William R. Day, and he had a1s been acting Secretary many othe = times, especially during a critics u period of the troubles with Chin - in August and September, 1900.