The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-13

During tho winters Of le72.79 and 1924 he
studied at tho Columbia School OF Mines -
back to Montana. bought moro mines, erected
STAMP mills on HIS silver properties, and made
tho latter territory no discovered tho United
Verde copper mino, which is now ,reckoncd tho
o sS%SHs'i sn8 Mountain mtSf View S~H not Excepted. be.
sides his mining properties and his banking In
tcrcsis, Mr.. Clark, concluding thore was money
In refining sugar., built q sugar refinery. In Los
Alamos, Cal, and then, coming to the East, no
concluded to add wire making 70 his other in;
ated a system Of water works in Butte, estab.
tho cable and electric railways in Butte.
In 1884 he was elected President of the first
Arthur a delegate to tho Worlds Industrial and
received tho Democratic, nomination ;or Dele.
gate to Congress from tho Territory. but was
Union in 1855 Mr. CLARK was, elected a delegate
was chosen us the presiding officer. In 1890,
United st States Senator, MI. Clark was one Of tho
Democratic candidates. As The result Of a
were elected and tho contest was settled in
Washington by seating the Republicans.
ta Mr' p olhfs s %hen. IN MI fs srIH Helena ,E,n~ Ras 'e Chosen %omi
as the capital. Of the State. Helena and Ana
conda woro the leading candidates; Marcus
SoiA sii III tto tthVhS -NFuo p"SN " AhhlA
conda. The patriotic people of the State IA
vored Helena for many reasons, but Anaconda
money and influence back of that city. Mr..
Clark's residence was II. plain view of the Ana
condo mines nj in Butte; II u was s. thought that that he
saw how things were going. Then, that the
State might have tho most favorable site for a
and declared in favor OF Helena. He advocated
Helena's interests in his paper. the Butte Miner.
and stumped the State In tho same interest from
one end to the other. When Helena finally
won the victory and the citizens of the State
E fSa IsGe If there her od to SelSbrs Wba 1T, M Mr wa Sl SS6u wa rs
drive into tho city the people unhitched the
horses from his carriage and drew 1t into the
In 1879 MIR. Clark made his first trip to .Eu.
rope, and he then began to give his first serious
'bo Mnr1d +! to g art; h h;ot W v Srt 70 f. 0w I, s Sia n Of
xnow enough to buy them on his own judgment.
Therefore, MS nc had studied mining engineer
so he began to study art that he might know
what pictures to buy. Every year after that
or another in the art centres OF Eurepe,
enough nOpsh art ar to ot buy his ar first . p%IfStur5e;i q, This Vas a
lowed since that first purchase Mr. CLARK has
famous artists. In his collection are ono by
Rousseau 10 called a "ML1 H. in PiGardie;.",
i land "Ths sh sfs4yes. o saeh tS sh in c RTisian q Large e
the peasant artist, L'Hermittc; two by Corot,
1.-The Bacchante' and "a Landscape in Brit
tany;" two by Daubigny, two by De la Croix,
two, by Benellurie. one by Zelm and three by
Cain. One of the last, called "The Weary
Wayfarers,"' was borrowed last year by the ar
fist to be exhibited in the Paris Salon Of 1897,
The other two by Cain are Twilight in Paris"
and "The Lost Rogue" Tho collection repre-.
sents an outlay of nearly $2OO.OO
In 1869 Mr.. Clark was married to Miss Kate
Oct. 10. 1898. To Mr.. and Mrs. Clark six chill
dren were born. five of whom are living. These
are Mary c.. the eldest. married in 1891 to DR..
Z. NJ. Culver of this city; Charles W., Katha-
rine L., William A.. Jr.. and Francis Paul. The
eldest son. Charles w. Clark, after having been
graduated from Yale in 1898. became tho su-
perintendcnt of his fathers mines. He is mar:
-ied and lives at Butte. The two youngest
boys are preparing for college here. Mr..
Clark's New York residence now is in the Ma
varro flats. 175 West Fifty eighth street. Some
day he intends to build u homo for himself on
the site he owns at the northeast corner of
Seventy.seventh street and Fifth avenue; There
he will have an art gallery where his pictures
will find a permanent home.