The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-03-31
DEATH COMES TO DAN
DAILY The 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.
20 Live He Drank This Toast,
and Then Lived More Than
Six Months Longer.

New YORK, March 29.-Sloan" Daily,
he comedian, died in his room in the
Vendome hotel. He had had tuberculo-
sis several years. He ct up this after
noon, and While dressing al seized
with a fit of coughing which brought on
a hemorrhage. His wife died two
weeks ago in Revere, Mass, and he
felt the loss keenly.
Last September Dan" Daily stood in
front of the Vendome hotel. where he
died tonight, and said cheerfully that
the doctor a given him six days to
live. He said to a friend: IF you will
accompany me to the booth for liquid
refreshment we will pledge confusion
to all doctors."
This is how Dan DAILY, philosopher,
comedian, entertainer-literally = of
millions, TESTED of the end which his
physicians told him would oyertake him
soon. The emaciated little comedian,
his system shatter by the blows of
neart 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 IN them. The
Joke, ike most old jokes. is about
played out now"
The corner of Broadway and Forty
hrst street, Where Hotel Vendome is
situated, was called Dan Daly's cor
ner.' Here the comedian passed his
time and told stories-some of them OF
the days when Broadway didn't know
MIN, and he was simply a struggling
variety actor, with three brothers in
the same business and a longshoreman
father in the home in Boston. All the
brothers are dead now Dan DAILY
said he never expected a long life-all
ne asked was a merry one. Daily told
d story or his fathers pertinacity in
preventing his sons paper being dis
turbed near the old longshore1nan's
home. The comedian said
Dad" Was Persistent.
hight across the street from whers
dad lived there was an open lot with a
nigh fence running all around it, OF
course, we had to have our l~ithographs
on that fence. Dad would sit for hours
at a time looking at that paper and
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. 1t is 8, good adver-
tlsement for us. Will you see that no
one covers it over with Autographs of
a rival SHOVE OF course dad promised.
We played Boston in the fall. Next
spring after my season was over. I
went back to Boston or a visit. The
hrst thing l noted about the home
neighborflood was that same paper ad-
vertising the DAILY Brothers in vaca-
ton 1t was a trifle ain soaked. but
1t was all there.
Danny said my dad, after we had
shaken hands. there's your picters,
son. But it was hard wurruk keepin'
them up. I've been arrested exactly
twinty-two times for lickin' bill pos
tiers that tried to peel 1t off or cover
it with other picteis.'"
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
a manner peculiarly his own. He had
q nasal drawl that was the funniest
thing Broadway had ever listened to.
he never smiled. He vocalized. but it
wasn't singing. 1t was just a Dalyiza-
tfon of a lyric. He was surprisingly
nlrnble and graceful, and his acrobatic
teats We're at once a marvel to the au-
ulence and a source Of fear to the COM
pany. He would be seen one minute on
the stage, and the next the audience
would see him gesticulating in an upper
box, from which he would descend to
the stage with the agility of a monke
lie Threw himself around without re-
GARD TO consequences, and once a fall
la1d him UP for several weeks. Also, he
insisted that the others in the com
pany should be equally energetic and
fearless of hurt. Once he dragged the
young woman who vas playing .'oppo-
site" him through a property window
with such violence that her knee cap
was fractured.
DAILY was featured in THE Belle of
New York I Founders, y THE New
CloWn,' The Lady Slavery "The
New Workers" and in John Henry
Dan DAILY was leading man Of
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 13, was a
Boston girl. She and DAM DAILY were
schoolmates. They had one child.
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