The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-04-01
CONES TO DAE
DAILY TIVE COMEDIAN
last Joke of the Little Fun.
maker Was the One Played
on the Doctors.
CONFUSION TO THEM ALL
When They Gave Him Six More Day.
90 Live He Drank This Toast,
and Then Lived More Than
Six Months Longer.
TO THEM ALL

New York, March 29.-"Dan" Daily,
The comedian, died in his room in the
| Nendome hotel. He had had tuberculo-
sis several years. He ct up his after
noC1, While dressing was seized
With a fit of coughing which brought on
! weeks ago in Revere, Mass, and he
felt the loss keenly.
Last September Dan" DAILY stood in
front of the Nendome MOTEL. where he
died tonight, and said cheerfully thai
the doctor had given him six days to
live. He said to a friend: "If you will
accompany me to the booth for liculd
refreshment we will pledge confusion
to al! DOCTORS"
This is how Dan DAILY, philosopher,
: comedian, entertainer = literally : o.
millions, jested of the end which his
physicians told him would overtake him
soon. The emaciated little comedian,
his system shatter by the blows Of
heart disease first, and tuberculosis
later. made a Joke of life, drank with
his friends and was merry. He added:
"They have reported me dying a
dozen times, but I've generally man
aged to turn the joke on them. The
Joke. like most old jokes. is about
played out now"
first street, where Hotel Nendome is
situnted, was called Dan Days COR
ner." Here the comedian passed his
time and told stories-some OF them of
the days when.Broadway didn't know
him, and he was simply a struggling
variety actor, With three brother in
the same business and a longshoreman
father in the home in Boston. All the
brothers are lead now. Dan" DAILY
said he never expected a long life-all
he asked was a merry one. DAILY told
a story Of his fathers p%ertinacity in
preventing his sons paper" being dis
turbed near the old longshoreman's
home. The comedian aid
Dad" Was Persistent.
fright across the street from wher.
dad ived there was an open lot with a
high fence running all around it. OF
course. we had to have our autographs
on that fence. DAD would sit for hours
at a time looking at that paper II
taking his oath it was the grandest art
work to be found outside of a gallery.
This is What you can do for us,
dad, told the old gentleman, we want
that paper to stay up as long as our
engagement lasts. Ii is Il good adver-
tisement for us. Will you see that no
one covers it over with autographs of
a rival show? OF course dad promised.
We played Boston in the fall. Next
spring after my season was over. 1
went back to Boston on a visit. The
'1'S IA'iiAS l. "Doul lIlc llolIlG
neighborhood WAS that same paper adj
vertising the DAILY Brothers in Naca-
ion 1t was a trife rain soaked, but
1t was all there.
Danny said my dad, after we had
shaken hands. there's your picters,
son. But it was har wurruk keepin'
. them up. I've been arrested exactly
ters that tried to peel 1T off or cover
1t with other peters,"
His First Hit in New York.
After this Broadway came to know,
Dan DAILY. He made his first big hit
IN THE Merry World." DAILY worked in
q peculiarly his own. He had
4 nasal drawl that was the funniest
thing Broadway had ever listened to.
he never smiled. He vocalized, but it
wasn't singing. 1t vas just a Dalyiza-
ton of a lyric. He was surprisingly
nlmble and graceful, M his acrobatic
teats were at once a marvel to the au-
dience and a source of fear to the com
pany. He would be seen one minute on
the stage, n the next the audience
would see him gesticulating in an uppel
box, from which he would descend tC
the stage With the agility of a monkey
HE threw himself around without re.
gard to consequences. and one a fal
laid him up for several weeks. Also, he
Insisted that the others in the com.
pany should be equally energetic ant
fearless of hurt. Once he dragged the
young woman who was playing "oppo.
site" him through a property window
with such violence hat her knee cal
was fractured.
DAILY vas featured in 1.-THE Belle O
New York" THE Founders" THE New
Clown" The Lady Slavery" 1.-THE
New Workers" and in John Henry"
Dan" DAILY was leading man o
Lady Slavery" in Kansas City in 1897
Marie Dressler, the leading woman
was overcome by the arduous character
of her work and left the company there
Mrs. DAILY, who died March 10, was {
Boston girl. She and Dan" DAILY were
schoolmates. They had one child.