Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1912 — ADE TELLS ABOUT CANAL. [ARTICLE]

ADE TELLS ABOUT CANAL.

Playwright Returns From Panama and Talks to Purdue Students. Lafayette, Ind., Feb. 14.—George Ade, just back from Panama, where, with a party of two hundred Chicagoans, he made a trip across the isthmus and inspected the work of •the canal, delivered an interesting lecture this morning 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 mote than one hundred photographs which he took himself. , Mr. Ade was entertained by Colonel Gothals, 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.