The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-19
SUCCESSFUL IN CHICAGO.
Dan w. ScanIon, Formerly of Ander-
son, Now Corporation Lawyer.


Dan W. scanlon, formerly of Anderson.
is one of the young men from Indiana who
have gone to Chicago in recent years and
achieved in a professional way in remark
ably short time successes which other men
have labored years for and failed to at
tain. Five years ago Mr.. Scanlon was
struggling young attorney; to-day he is a
corporation lawyer in Chicago with large
offices, an office force of two or three clerks
and stenographers and an assistant and
practice that brings him in more money
in one year than he could make in two or
three terms as prosecutor in Madison
county.
Mr. Scanlon has been in Chicago a little
over four years. He was fortunate in that
he had influential friends there who had
known of his work in Anderson and be-
lieved that he had ability that would make
him valuable to them, consequently he did
not have to start at the bottom in the
Windy City and struggle for years for
recognition. He went there on guaran-
teed retainer from one firm that amounted
to a comfortable income for the average
lawyer, and he made good" from the
start. OF course his exceptional success
was due in large measure TO his excep-
tional opportunity, but IL is something for
a man to take at its ebb the tide that leads
on to fortune and fame, and Mr.. Scanlon's
friends are pointing with pride to what he
has already accomplished and are prophecy
ing great things for his future. He is very
modest about his work in Chicago and pre-
fers to talk about other things.
Mr. Scanlon has been in the city for two
or three days and last evening at the Deni-
son he was talking to a group of friends
about George AIDE. do you know" he
said that while AIDE Is as loyal Hoosier
as ever left this State, he feels that he is
being alienated by Indiana people and In
diana newspapers? That unfortunate re-
mark about bright young men coming from
this State and the brighter they are the
faster they come made by another man
and attributed to AIDE, has caused him
more trouble and more worry than anything
else i'm the world. He never said that, and
he doesn't believe ii. live at the Athletic
Club and my rooms are on the same floor
with AIDES. l see him frequently and he
has talked to me two or three times about
the way Indiana papers appear inclined to
give him the worst of Ii.
mot long since the indianapolis Journal
had an article which seemed to contain a
few digs between lines for AIDE, intimating
that he was inclined TO discredit his native
State and citing as an illustration that he
had laid the scene of his latest comic opera
at Hickoryville, this State. Now,
matter of fact, the first scene in Peggy
from Paris is laid at Hickoryville, ILL.,,
and the principals are supposed to be Illi-
nois products. not Hoosiers. Peggy is the
daughter of an Illinois farmer of the raw
hide boots, STRENGTHENING type. She has
musical talent and her father mortgages
his farm to send her to Paris to cultivate
her voice. Six years later she comes back
a prima donna. Her manager will not per-
NIT her to recognize her uncouth father
and she introduces to him instead his
daughter, a Cockney maid. There are all
sorts of complications. but to tell them
would be to spoil the opera for you The
| point I am trying to make is that AIDE is
/ proud of Indiana, and he would be the last
man TO cast disparagement on the State or
! its people. He is investing all his money
| in Indiana land and some day he may
! come back here to live.
by the way. the first rehearsals of
/ Peggy from Paris will begin next week.
! and L suppose that Indianapolis theater-
goers will have a chance to see il some
! time in the spring"