THE SUNDAY OREGOMAX, PORTLAND, MAY M, 1908.
AIRSHIP
TUMBL
AT FIRST ASCENT
Carries 16 Persons in Wreck
age, but Miracle Saves
Their Lives.
PILOT'S DARING EXPLOIT
Clambers Anions Higging on. Top ot
Gasbag as It Falls Aeronauts
Gave Warning Balloon
Was Too Weak.
OAKLAND. Cat.. May 23. A giant
airship, on Its trial trip In Berkeley
today, rose 300 feet from the earth be
fore J0.000 people, tilted, burst and
dropped to the ground, with Its crew
of IB men. every one of whom was
Injured. By one of those peculiar and
fortunate chains of circumstances
which sometimes attend sensational
accidents, these 16 men miraculously
escaped death. None of the injured.
with the possible exception of one. Is
expected to die. Seven of them are
seriously hurt, and nine severely
bruised and suffering from shock.
The Injured.
Following is a list of the Injured
J. A. Morrell, inventor of the air
ship; right leg broken and bruised.
55. T. Taylor, an aeronaut, known as
"Captain Penfold": broken ankle and
instep and injured spine.
Otto Olsen. one of the crew; broken
ribs and injured back.
C. A. Nelson, an engineer; fractured
pelvis and Injuries to back.
S. Whipple, engineer; broken ribs
and ankle, probable Internal Injuries.
L. V. Rodgers. engineer; fractured
right leg, contusions all over body, in
ternally Injured, will probably die.
E. C. Wallln, newspaper photograph
er, San Francisco; Injured foot, bruised
and suffering from shock.
Justin Barber, photographer, Berke
ley; ribs broken and bruised.
P. H. Goodfriend, engineer; bruised
and suffering from shock.
H. Miller, one of the crew; cut and
bruised, not serious.
John Byrne, pilot; bruised and later
ated. not serious.
Charles P. Hall, photographer, San
Francisco; bruised and suffering from
shock.
John Peterson. photographer;
bruised and lacerated, not serious.
V. J. . Fluno, engineer; cut and
bruised, not serious.
John Ahem, engineer; bruised, in
juries slight.
W. Mowrey, engineer; bruised, In
juries slight.
Airship's Spectacular Fall.
The accident was a spectacular and sen
sational one. Probably 10,000 people from
Berkeley and Oakland had gathered
around the big vacant lot wherein the
great caterpillar-shaped air-craft had been
inflated with illuminating gas. It was
just 1:30 o'clock when the stay-ropes were
cut and the airship rose slowly from the
earth. - The five gasoline engines, sus
pended beneath the big bag at intervals
of probably 50 feet, each attended by an
engineer 'Were not put in operation un
til well up into the air, when two of them
had slowly- set in motion the long pro
pellers reaching out from either .side. The
engines were suspended independent of
each other and the weight did not appear
to be equalized, for- before the, ship could
be propelled further than a few feet, the
forward end tilted downward and the
airship stood at an angle of 45 degrees,
suspended in the air.
The engineers and the other members
of the crew seemed to lose their heads,
and Instead- of running along the canvas
pathway in order to equalize the weight
and to Tight the airship, they clung des
perately to the netting and frail super
structure The rush of the gas to the
stern end of the long airship and the tre
mendous weight of the engines and crew
caused the none- too substantial envelope
to burst with a loud, ripping noise. The
release of the great quantity of gas al
lowed the airship to settle slowly toward
the earth, and for a few moments it
looked as if It would come down slowly
enough to avoid any injury to the 16
men.
Lose Heads and Jump.
Some of them, however,: lost their heads
before the big machine' could reach the
around and Jumped. These escaped- with
broken limbs or severe bruises. Nearlng
tha earth, however, the gas escaped with
a rush and allowed the engines and the
big bag to come down with great force.
Morrell, the inventor, and several of the
engineers were thus caught and injured
by tha engines. '
There wm a panic "in the big crowd
that watched the ascension when the air
ship began to tilt. As it burst and fell
toward the earth, women screamed and
ran In fright in every direction. Several
of them fainted and had to be cared for.
When the airship landed on the ground,
hundreds of men rushed forward and
with knives ripped the gasbag in a hun
dred places, cutting away the varnished
material to get out the men buried under
neath. In the excitement of cutting the
gasbag. Robert Dibble was seriously
slashed about the hands and arms.
The injured men were quickly rescued
and taken to the Roosevelt and Oakland
hospitals, where they are all doing well
tonight with the exception of Rodgers.
who. It is believed, will succumb to his
injuries.
Morrell has for a -long time been build
ing and exploiting his airship. He had
extensively advertised that today's trial
of the big airship, which was more than
X feet long and 36 feet in diameter,
was only a model of the one he Intended
to build, declaring that he would con
struct an air-craft 1S00, feet long and
capable of carrying 500 passengers. The
big airship was not unlike, in form of
construction, many of those experimented
with in different parts of the countrv.
It was a long torpedo-shaped affair, with
blunt ends, round on top and sagging
somewhat in the middle on the lower or
under part. Five engines had been sus
pended by means of heavy net work, and
a canvas runningboard connected them.
The engines were of the automobile gaso
line type, and each was attended by an
engineer.
It Is said that Morrell was warned by I
several experienced aerial navigators that
the kind of bag he had provided would
not stand the strain of the great weight
placed upon It and that It would certain
ly explode If he attempted an ascension.
Morrell was confident, however, that It
was safe enough and so were all who
made the ascension today. Including sev
eral photographers, anxious to secure
aerial photographs. The airship was not
In the air long enough to determine
whether it could be propelled and directed
by the engines and -the ten propellors,
I wo driven by each engine. ' It was built
at a cost said to be m.0rt.
One of the thrilling sights of the ac
cident was tha daring efforts of John
Kyrne. the pilot. to right the airship
when It began to tilt downward. He clung
t the rigging on top of the great gasbag
and tried to reach the slern or upper
end. Just as he got on top of the air
ship, however, the bag burst and began
to fall. The break In the bag occurred
only a few feet from where Byrne clung
to the rigging and it looked as if he
would be overcome by the escaDing gas.
He climbed upward, however, and when
the big ship reached the ground be was
clinging to the network and endeavor
ing at the same time to avoid the escaping
gas. Byrne describes the accident and his
escape as follows:
I was riding on the back of the balloon
and felt thai we were making a great
ascent, when suddenly I heard a "pouf,1
as if some one had blown a blast from i
bellows. I felt the balloon quiver, stand
still and then the gas under me began to
usu iow aru ine stern end. I knew IT
stayed where I was I would be swallowed
up In the tangle of bag and wrecked ma
chinery, so I climbed upward for life, where
tne gas was rushing out but where there
was still a foothold for me, so that I could
Keep my head In the air and keep from
v. mi. n nen we landed I was on
tne tip end ot the balloon and the bag
umue a cusnion that1 broke my fall.
SOLD STOCK IX PORTLAND
Airship Company Long on Promises,
Short on Performance.
when William Ots. agent for the
National Airship Company, was selling
stock in .Portland, the company prom
ised that the first airship would sail
from San Francisco to Portland April
1. A great deal of advertising was
done in Portland, and on the strength
of the advertising thousands of dollars
worth of stock was sold. A landing
dock and factory were promised for
Portland, but when Mr. Ots was asked
where they were to be located, he was
evasive.
The National Airship Company con
tinued to sell stock until the scheme
was reported in the newspapers as be
ing unfeasible. Some one reported the
matter to the Postoffice authorities In
Washington, and Postoffice Inspectors
of Portland and San Francisco began
to Investigate the concern. The pub
licity given in Portland stopped tha
sale of stock apd Mr. Ots closed his
offices. Since then nothing had been
heard of the airships, only that it did
not reach Portland April 1, until the
news of the disaster of yesterday.
PASTOR S WORDS RED HOT
DRAMATIC SCENE IX PROHIBI
TION CONVENTION.
licv. Mr. Kellogg Vscs Fiery Lan
guage in Denunciation of Plank
for Direct Legislation. .
SKA TT I,E, May 23. ( Special.) Rev.
W. M. Kellogg: created strife in the State
Prohibition Convention this morning
when he scathingly -denounced the advo
cates of the initia-th e and referendum.
The discussion arose over the question
of favoring the doctrine in the platform.
Its advocates were scored as traitors by
Mr. Kellogg. It was invented, he de
clared, by a "degenerate Jew." and every
man who wants to destroy the Republic
favors it with his whole soul.
"Every degenerate socialist," he shout
ed, amidst loud cries for the question,
"every murdering anarchist, and every
enemy of the flag cries aloud for the
nefarious theory. Danger threatens the
Republic and the most alarming symp
toms are to be found in the increasing
demand for what is called a pure democ
racy a democracy that will supplant
representative government and produce
political chaos." 1 -
Chairman t. i. J-uniap interrupted, tne
speaker to tell him that he had said
enough. R. J. Faussett arose to dissipate
Kellogg s ideas and had begun a wordy
fusillade when the chairman informed
him that he. too, had said enough. The
initiative " and referendum plank was
adopted.
The convention adopted a platform de
claring that local option offered no re
lief and was In Itself vicious, because
'no state, county or municipality should
have delegated to it the power to do a
manifest wrong." Woman suffrage, the
election of United States Senators. by a
direct vote of the 'people, suppression of
gambling and the prohibition of child
labor were among the things demanded.
REED AND U'REN DEBATE
Proportional Representation Is Dis
cussed at the Y. 31. C. A.
The proposed proportional representa
tion amendment to the constitution was
the subject of a debate last night in the
Y. M. C. A. between Sanderson Reed and
W. S. U'Ren, of Oregon City.
In speaking against the measure, Mr.
Reed expressed the belief that if it should
pass at the coming election, the Socialist,
Anarchist, Social -Iemocrat and other
radical parties would' be represented in
the Legislature, under the present sys
tem, the speaker said, the anarchist has
been permitted to preach his doctrine of
violence, that he has now and then been
responsible for bomb throwing, but he has
never been able to undcnnine the Gov
ernment by getting into Us lawmaking
bodies.
The speaker pointed out that even so
few radical members in the Legislature,
as would be possible under the new sys
tem, would be 'able to do immense dam
age. Mr. Keea rurtiier declared that the
system of proportional representation had
been tried, at 'different times, in the
world's history, and had been discarded;
that the framers of the . Constitution of
the United States had considered It, but
had decided that it was impractical.
In expressing his opposition to the views
of his opponent, Mr. U'Ren declared that
if Mr. Reed could produce authority to
show that the system of proportional rep
resentation had ever been tried prior to
3S40, Mr. U'Ren would present the Y. M.
C. A. with $50. He said that the system
is now successfully in operation in Japan,
Switzerland, Denmark and Tasmania.
The speaker did not think that Mr. Reed's
fears with regard to the danger of getting
anarchists and Socialists in the Legis
lature would be realized. He believed
that such people could do less harm in
that body than outside it. He was con
fident that the system would result in
securing the ablest men for the Legis
lature. Accident to Col. Frank J. Parker.
Colonel Frank J. Parker suffered a
painful but not severe accident at the
street fair and carnival being given
by the Catholic. Young Men's Club at
Williams avenue and Morris streets.
ast night. He had purchased a bot
tle of soda-water, which exploded and
pice of the flying glass struck him
between the eyes, cutting a deep gash,
which bled profusely. He was taken
to Watts & Matthieu's drugstore, a
short distance from the scene, where
his wound was dressed, after which
he was removed to his home at 53
Taylor street.
A Satisfactory Dividend.
Mr. Frank Nau says: "The dividend on
my "Oregon Life1 policy is certainly sat
isfactory, and the result shows that it
can be done at home as well, if not bet
ter, than elsewhere, and the money kept
in Oregon."
Proprietor Hotel
Portland Pharmacy.
1 FLEET AT SEATTLE
City on Elliott Bay Capitulates
to Admiral Sperry.
TURNS OVER A GOLDEN KEY
Guns and Whistles Salute as the
Flagship Arrives In Sight Jap
anese ' Discharge Fire
works at Night.
'' SEATTLE. May 23. The City of Seat
tle capitulated today to the fleet ot bat
tleships under command of Rear-Admiral
Charles S. Sperry. The gates of the city
were thrown open wide . and Admiral
Sperry was aiven the key made of Alas
kan gold. As the fleet came into sight
around Point No Point. It was caught
sight of by many thousand people as
sembled on the heights, terraces and
high buildings overlooking Elliott Bay,
aril the shore of the bay was black with
a patriotically impelled people.
The citys normal population was aug
mented by immense numbers who came
from Montana, Idaho and Oregon and
from across the Canadian border to wit
ness the unusual naval spectacle.
. Great Fleet Reassembles.
At 9 o'clock this morning the different
divisions of the fleet, which was divided
two days ago, reunited at Port Town
send. The Missouri came up from the
navy-yard at Bremerton, and from Bel
lingham came the flagship Connecticut,
Kansas, Minnesota, Vermont, Georgia,
New Jersey and Rhode Iwland. From
Port Angeles came the Louisiana, Vir
ginia and Ohio. Out of the harbor of
Port Townsend steamed the Illinois and
the Kearsarge. Forming in single - line,
the reassembled fleet began the advance
on Seattle in precision.
As the flagship arrived off West
Point, it was met by a flotilla of ex
cursion boats which turned and fol
lowed in its wake as it rounded the
forested points of jutting land under
the lee of the snow-capped Olympic
range along the channel into which
in the days primeval the wooden pad
die of the Indians' war canoe was
dipped.
Mayor Greets Admiral Sperry.
Neartng the city the steamer Una'
tilla, carrying the reception commit
tee, came abreast of the Connecticut,
turned and escorted her to the anchor
age ground, while the hundreds of
boats In the welcoming flotilla formed
into double line and escorted the re
mainder of the fleet into the harbor.
Anchors were dropped amid the firing
of salutes, blowing ' of sirens and
cheers from thousands of throats. The
reception committee, headed bv -Mayor
John F. Miller, boarded the Connecti
cut and officially assured Rear-Ad
miral Sperry that he, his officers and
men were "welcome to our city."
In the name of the city. Mayor
Miller presented Rear-Admiral Sperry
witn a golden key fashioned from
Alaskan gold. The battleships began
to receive visitors and the harbor was
soon thronged with excursion launches.
Tonight every ship is outlined from
masthead to waterline in electric lights
and the Japanese residents are dis
charging novel fireworks. The -only
official ceremony tonight was a re
ception to the officers of the fleet at
the new ashlngton Hotel, which was
brilliantly decorated for the occasion.
The fleet will remain in the hartior
until the morning of May 27.
Maine Goes Into Drydock.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 23. The bat
tleship Maine came down from the
Mare Island Navy yard today and Is
to be docked at Hunters Point for an
overhauling.
FILIBUSTER TO THE END
WILLIAMS -STILL DEMANDS AC
TIOX BY CONGRESS.
Democrats Ready to' Join Indepen
dent Republicans In Passing
Bills Roosevelt Favors.
WASHINGTON. May 23. John Sharp
Williams, minority leader of the House,
announced tonight after a recess had
been taken until Monday, that the Demo
crats proposed to continue their filibuster
ing until such legislation as President
Roosevelt had recommended should re
ceive consideration, or final adjournment
had been ordered by a vote ot the ma
jority. In his view, adjournment of Congress
will not be reached before the latter part
of next week.
4 In -a statement, Williams said:
"The Democracy is standing solid with
less division than I ever knew In its
ranks, still tendering the full Democratic
vote of the House to any 30 independent
Republicans to pass on or consider at any
rate a bill for pre-election publication of
campaign. contributions; a bill to secure
the liberty of the citizen by a modifica
tion of the powers exercised by inferior
Federal Courts in connection with injunc
tions;, a bill to safeguard the rights and
dignity of the states from the same sort
of attack: a bill to put wood pulp and
print paper on the free list.- and a bill
for a model Insurance law in the District
of Columbia. .
"The Democracy will continue to pre
sent itself for that sort of an alliance.
It will vote against a motion to fix a
date to adjourn and it announces now
as it has announced all along, and as it
will announce on the last dav of the
session, that It is ready and anxious to
continue at the post of dutv for an etxia
session to be called by the President! if
he be in earnest and reallv is desirous
to have passed the remedial legislation
Indicated in the foregoing."
STEALS COMMUNION WINE
Thirsty Seattle Burglars Loot Trin
ity Parish Church.
SEATTLE. Wash., May 23. (Special.)
Tr-in i. .- .;,k , -1 1. t - ...
. ....... wiuiui, riiguin avenue
and James street, was entered by bur
sars rxioay nignt and two decanters
full of wine Intended for communion serv
ices were stolen.
The thieves also broke Into the church
tabernacle, but there they secured noth
ing. Every nook in the structure that
might possiblj have been a hiding place
for valuables was searched.
Rev. H. H. Gowen. rector of the par
ish, believes the theft was committed by
some miscreants who on the night of May
2X broke into the basement of the church.
At that time no report was made to the
notice, as nothing of valii ... .)...
The burglars gained an entrance Friday
night by prying open the front door of
the church.
IiOWELIi ANSWERS GOVERNOR
Pendleton Man Refutes Arguments
Put Forth by Chamberlain.
EUGENE. Or.. May 33. (Special.) In a
most masterly address at the courthouse
this evening, before a large audience.
Judge Lowell, of Pendleton, answered ef
fectively every argument made by Gov
ernor Chamberlain, why he should go to
the Senate.
He showed up in a clear, logical and ef
fective manner the true conditions in the
Senatorial fight and made a plea to the
voters to stand for Oregon and the inter
ests of the great Northwest by voting
for a Republican Senator who could be
in a better position to act with the ad
ministration and majority side of com
mittees in securing appropriations. "
He was applauded to the echo and made
many friends. He also brought encourag
ing, news from the southern and eastern
parts of the state that the University
appropriation would carry by -a handsome
majority.
ASTORIA TO SEA BV TROLLEY
Organization or Electric Railway
Company Vnder Consideration.
ASTORIA, Or., May 23. (Special.) Pre
liminary steps toward the organization of
the Astoria, Seaside & Tillamook Rail
road Company, with a capital stock of
$2,000,000, were taken here at. a meeting
of local business men and property-owners
last evening. The company is being
organized by F. L. Evans, of Southern
Oregon, and it is expected to be incor
porated in a few days. The object of the
new company is to build an electric car
line from this city to Seaside and thence
to Tillamook.
M'BRIDE STATES POSITION
DECLARES HE STANDS FIRMLY
iOX" SPOKANE PLATFORM. ,
Favors Local Option Once Vetoed
Such a Bill Because Many of Its
Provisions Were Faulty.
SEATTLE, Wash., May 23. (Special.)
Ex-Governor McBride. now a candidate
for the gubernatorial nomination at the
hands of the people through the direct
primary, when requested to express his
opinion of the Republican platform re
cently adopted by the state convention
at Spokane, said: . -
"I approve the platform and will stand
squarely upon It. Common honesty and
fairness to himself, as well as to his
friends and the people at large, would
require any candidate for a state office
not in accord with his party platform,
to withdraw from the contest. But as
I have been especially requested to de
fine my position in reference to local op
tion, what I have to say at this time will
De connned to that question.
' I have been charged with having once
vetoed a local option bill. The charge
Is true.. The Legislature of 1903 passed a
local option bill, which bill I felt con
strained to disapprove."
McBride explains his veto of a former
local option measure on the ground that
it was faulty in respect to the provision
requiring the number of signatures to be
secured, and the manner In which the
County Commissioners were to determine
whether or not the petition signers were
legal voters. Elections under such pro
visions, says McBride, would have been
expensive, .and would involve many legal
contests. Furthermore, the bill, McBride
believed, was inoperative and of course
useless.
"My reasons for vetoing the bill," says
McBride, "seemed good to me at the
time, and seem equally good to me now.
Should the next Legislature pass the same
bill as that passed by the 1903 session,
I would veto it, were I Governor, for ex
actly the same reasons that I vetoeri it
before. I am not, however, opposed to
ine principle or local option. I am In fa
vor of a square. deal on thafquestion, the
same as upon any other question that
may arise. The plank of the Republican
party, relating to local option, is as fol
lows: .
We believe that the Issue of local option
Is purely a local one and this convention
records Itself in favor of a reasonable local
option bill to be enacted by the next legis
lature. "Should the Legislature enact a. local
option bill In accord with the spirit of the
piaiiorm utterance of the Republican par
ty, I would approve It."
CAN'T FIND WORK; ENDS LIFE
Seattle Man Calls Wife Over Phone,
Then Blows Out Brains.
. SRATT1.U1 Wotli . .... rn ic i, .
" - ; aj it. opciai. J
This morning Marshall Adams, 45 years
old, called up his wife and asked her
what he should get for dinner. A few
minutes later he placed a revolver to his
rifi-llt tpmnlp -ind hlon ntit i t
. .0 .. u v mo UI&MI1S.
Brooding over a mortgage on his little
home which was about to be foreclosed
i irsiruiiaiuie lur ills suicide. Adams
15-year-old daughter was alone with him
in his house at the timo nf l,A t-..
.
but knew nothing of It, as the man had
into new auumon lo tne house
frt till hlmaalf A nainKl. i .
... .'rie,fiL,iri ji?ura xne
shot and found his body. . Adams had
ucen uui vi worn an n inter and his
wiie naa ooxameu employment at a dve
works. where she was when he
self.
Business Colleges to Fix Rates.
gpoxrivc. -r .. o T ! . . .
-'' .- s-i r-m iiiH IIVCS Of
the business colleges of the State- of
asuiHg-ion auu jjrooaoiy ot the Pacific
Northwest are to meet next Monday at
Seattle for the purpose of forming an as
sociation that will fix a definite rate of
tuition.
NEGRO UNDER SUSPICION
Tries to Sell Diamond Believed to
Have Been Holmes'.
CHICAGO. May 23. The police todav
arrested Henry Long, a colored man.
on suspicion of being connected with
the murder of R. C. P. Holmes, the pur
chasing agent of the Commonwealth
Edison Company. Long endeavored to
sell a diamond to Edward Kenyon, a
grocer, but beyond this fact there is
no particular evidence against him.
The police believe the diamond may
have been stolen from Holmes, who
carried one of the same size.
CLOUDBURST ?N TEXAS
Railroad Tracks Washed Away and
lour Persons Drowned.
FORT WORTH. Tex.. May 23. Dis
patches received here today from
Wichita Falls. 100 miles north of here,
on the Denver Railroad, report a
cloudburst in that section last night,
washing away' railroad . tracks and
damaging farm property. A freight
train is reported in a creek 10 miles
from Wichita Falls, and four person
are reported drowned.
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PETER OWLEJ DEAD
Comedian Expires at Chicago,
After Brief Illness.
IN HARNESS TO THE END
Popular Actor Tlaying in Burlesque
of "The Merry W idow" W hen
Stricken by Pneumonia.
On Stage 32 Years.
CHICAGO. May 23. Peter F. Dailey,
one of the best-known comedians in the
United States, died today at the Audi-
torium Hotel. He had been sick about
a 'wetk with a combination of grip,
lumbago and pneumonia.
For the last two or three years Mr.
Iaiiey had been one of the leading
comedians of tlie Joe Weber Company.
He came here with the company, which
began an engagement in a burlesque
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srade article. SPECIAL THIS W EEK
on "The Merry Widow." which opened
at the Colonial theater last Monday.
Dr. Francis W. McNamara and Charles
Pardoek. old friends tof Dailey, were at
the bedside of the famous actor at the
time of his death.
"Dailey had been suffering from pneu
monia for fully a week," said Dr. Mc
Namara. "The death was sudden, it is
true, but in no way sensational or mys
terious." Robert Dailey of New York, brother
of the comedian, has requested that the
body be sent to New York.
Mr. Dailey was a cheerful invalid dur
ing his several days' illness. He joked
end chatted with his nurse, and his phy
sician almost up to the time of his death.
Early tills morning, however, the pa
tient's strength began to fall. Death
came peacefully, and for some time pre
viously the actor was unconscious.
Peter F. - Dailey was born in New
York in 1S5S and made his first ap
pearance on the stage In that city in
1876. He was first seen on the boards
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in a barn-door reel at the old Globe
Theater and made a decided hit with
the patrons of that playhouse. Later
he joined Whitney's circus as a clown
with a jumping act. In 1877 he was
one of the .organizers of a' vaudeville
trcupe called "The American Four,"- of
which the other members were Pet
tenglll, Hoey and Gale. The team won
great popularity and waa a star turn
for eight' years.
ID 1SS5 Mr. Dailey joined the Howard
Athenaeum Company and remained
with it three yi-ars. He then went
into the legitimate as leading corned!-'
an with Kate Castleton. After play
ing with her for a year he was joint
star with James T. Powers In "A
Straight Tip." Then he starred alone
for several years in various comedies
with May Irwin as his leading woman.
Next Mr. Dailey became a member of
the Weber & Fields Company, playing
popular parts in the well-known New
York burlesque house. . After, leaving
this playhouse he starred in musical
comedy for some years.
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