Show DAN DALY IS DEAD eccentric and popular comedian succumbs to consumption dan daly moat eccentric and one ol 01 the best beloved of comedians died suddenly marr h 26 in the hotel vendome new york he had been suf fenig a long time from consumption b it always insisted to his friends that his ailment was stomach trouble hia wife died a little more than a week ago and the comedian failed rapidly since that time he was 40 years old the daly family of chich dan was the youngest son was noted because of the theatrical successes of its mem bers dan was called the eccentric corned an because nobody could tate him although there were more imitations of his methods than of those of any other comedian cecelia loftus and fay templeton each had an imitation of dan daly in their repertoires his automatic moar ments and ane peculiarly slow and measured tones of his voice won him fame when he was a boy his brothers tom and robert were already on the stage and they gave him a small part in vacation in which he was very successful he did better in up side down and better still in the city directory under george TV Leder ers management he played in in gay new york at the herald square theater and finally in the belle ot new york in which he won his greatest success here and in lon don last summer he was the star in john henry which proved a fall ure and since then he has been la ban daly ane comedian vaudeville so great a drawing card was he in vaudeville that managers willingly paid him 1 a week foi his services |