Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1915 — DESCRIBES GEORGE ADE AS FAT AND BALD [ARTICLE]

DESCRIBES GEORGE ADE AS FAT AND BALD

Attorney Dan Sims Ran Across Man Who Claimed Acquaintance With Author and Playwright. Newton County Enterprise A Attorney Dan Sims, of Lafayette, who recently made a trip from that city to the coast, writes a letter to the Lafayete Journal in which he tells of meeting a frien dos George Ade out in Colorado. Regarding this feature of the trip Mr. Sims says: “We reached Russell at high noon and put up for the day. It was here that I ran across a man in the book store who proudly announced to me that he knew George Ade. To exhibit my interest I asktd what sort of looking man Mr. Ade was when he knew him. His answer as near as I can repeat it is in the words and figures following, to-wit: ‘He is an oldish like man I judge about 58 to 65. Quite large and fat though very short. His head is as bald as a billiard ball, long chin whisktrs but no mustache, lost one arm—his right arm—in the rebel army and limps when he walks. Don’t know how he got his leg hurt. Writes left-handed very fast. Has a loud boisterous gruff voice and when he laughs you can hear him ten blocks away.’ When he had given the final deft touch to the picture I said, ‘I know him well. You have described him accurately.’ But what fiend in Newton county do you suppose has been masquerading under George’s name? Couldn’t possibly have been Judge Darroch, Bill Dowling, Hume Sammons or John Ryan, though aside from the Tom Reed characteristic either of these gentlemen might have-furnished some of the factors of the composit he gave.” •