Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1912 — George Ade Talked at Lafayette About Visit to Panama Canal. [ARTICLE]

George Ade Talked at Lafayette About Visit to Panama Canal.

George Ade, just back from Panama, where, with a party of two hundred Chicagoans, he made a trip across the isthmus and inspected the wcrk of the canal delivered an interesting lecture Wednesday morning at Purdue before two thousand people, at Fowler hall, the occasion being the weekly convocation at Purdue university. Every opportunity was given Mr. Ade by the government officials to study at close range the work that is being done and the magnitude of the great task now nearing completion. His lecture was illustrated with more than one hundred photographs, which he took himself. Mr. Ade was entertained by Colonel Goethals, and said that 88 per cent of the work had been completed, and that before the end of 1913 ships would pass through the canal from ocean to ocean.