The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-09
OF COURSE HE GAVE EN-
THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER
Washington Bureau of the Standard,
No. 1145 g. Street N. w.

Washington Bureau of the Standard, !
No. 1145 q. Street N. w.
Washington, April 5.-Three or four
times within ten days newspapers from
one section of the country or another
have reached the Standards Washing
ton bureau, having included in their
personals or briefs little clipping
which, in each instance, reads: "Sen-
ator Clark of Montana scared the real
estate agents of Washington by declar-
ing, upon his arrival in that city, that
he would take no house the dining room
of which would not seat 200 persons"
Late Tuesday night several men in
the Washington press gang fell to dis
cussing the Montana situation. One Of
them fired this self-same dining-room
item at the Standards correspondent,
and there was nothing within the per-
sonal knowledge Of the said correspond
ent that could be used either to affirm
or deny the story. The conclusion
reached by the group of correspond
ents was that Clark could find what he
wanted at almost any hotel or big
boarding house in Washington and that
the house agents really weren't onto
Clarks curves when he made requisi-
ton for a two-hundred capacity ban
quet hail.
But, speaking of dining rooms and
banquets and the like, there is already
a good deal better story than the one
just mentioned swinging round the
circle in reference to Mr.. Clark, and it
has furnished it's share of fun for
everybody. 1t is said that about the
time Mr.. Clark came East, after his
senatorial purchase, Mr.. Mantle's news
paper, the Butte Inter Mountain, had
an alleged funny editorial which dis
cussed Clarks ability in general, but
which remarked that the new man from
Montana really does not possess, in a
high degree, the gift of singing well. AS
the story is told here, Mr. Nantes
newspaper also remarked that Mr..
Clark is particularly not successful in
the solo rendering of 'The Star Span
.gled Banner
Now, personally the Washington bu
reau of the Standard never saw this
editorial about the relative gifts of MI
Clark in song or as to the particular
reservation, mentioned in the Inter
Mountain, in regard to THE Star
Spangled Banner" 1t is claimed, how
ever, that the Inter Mountain in fact
did print the alleged editorial. and that
it was quietly passed around among the
senate's members. In fact, the way
the whole story is told, the criticism
made by Mr.. Nantes paper on Mr.
Clark's musical talent, on the testimony
of some of the boys here, reached
the press gallery The Standards read
ers in Butte have better facilities than
the Standards Washington office for
, knowing how true or false this part of
the story is. But, in any event, and no
matter what the Inter Mountain said,
there is no doubt in the world as to
what happened a few days after the
Inter Mountains editorial is said to
have got in circulation here.
Just before the adjournment of con-
gress. a farewell banquet was rendered
to a retiring Pacific coast senator. 1t
was a "swell'' affair, and several of the
best banquet men in the senate were
present The West was literally rep
resented. Mr.. Clark of Montana was
also present. Along late in the event,
when the farewells to the guest of the
evening We're more and more frequent
and more and more mellow, Mr.. Clark
as if to point the moral for the Inter
Mountain, didn't do thing except to
take the whole company by surprise by
breaking out with 1.-THE Star Spangled
Banner" and singing it through! On
the quiet, there was good deal of talk
about it, but what the Standards