The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-28

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

de / Opera, Paris: Branch Offices
London, New York and Washington
New York, May Ex-senator w. A.
Clark, who arrived here from Paris on
Wednesday, denies that he purchased a
stained glass window from the Coun-
tess de Jauze for 100000, and that he
offered $350,000 for the royal tapestries
belonging to the Earl of Coventry.
What Senator Clark. did purchase of
the Countess de Jauze was the famous
Louis XIV. pillow shans, for which
he gave $4,000. These are by far the
most beautiful and impressive pillow
shams in Europe and will constitute one
of the most attractive features of Sem
ator Clark's $1,000, 900 New York man
sion.
Just before leaving Paris, Senator
Clark purchased, for 100000 Obedam's
celebrated masterpiece. THE Choice of
Drink The senator has long coveted
this immortal painting, desiring it for
compapion piece to 1.-THE Choice of
Model 1t possesses all of Obedam's
well-known characteristics-his quiet
but exquisite coloring, his subdued,
gloomy, melancholy but intensely ar
tistic tone. The thoughtful pose of the
depressed gentleman leaning on the bar
furnishes an admirable contrast to the
more animated attitude of the. eager,
solicitous bartender, who is waiting to
learn the result Of the depressed gem
tleman's deliberations as to whether it
shall be Manhattan dry or gin fizz.
Ruskin in his Modern Painters criti-
cises Obedam for cooking the depreAsed
gentleman's plug hat too far over onto
l,n 1aft hot
such an angle it would be sure to drop
off and roll into the middle of the floor.
Actual experiment, however, has vim
Dictated Obedam. The plug hat would
not necessarily take a tumble unless
the depressed gentleman gave his head
a sudden, violent jerk, which there is
little danger of his doing. The retiec-
ton of the glasses and bottles in the
mirror is splendidly executed, and the
cuspidor at the farther end of the bar
is superb
Senator Clark has also purchased, for
SIS, 900, the Study of a Rail Fence by
the Russian painter, Goodgoshovitch,
who is now the rage in all the select
salons of Paris, Rome and Vienna. The
STUDY Of a Rail Fence" is suggestive
of 1.-THE Angelus," but it possesses a
deeper, surer, finer, subtler pathos. 1t
represents eventide; the shades of night
are falling fast: and a lone gopher Is
swiftly descending into his hole in the
ground at the apex of the isosceles tri-
angle made by the inshoot of the rail
fence. The zigzaggocity Of the fence is
incompa rably fine and nothing could be
| more tender and true to nature than
| the gopher's TAIL
IT have unbounded admiration for
| Gaodgoshovitch," said Senator Clark in
| an interview to-day Perhaps he has
| a little too much Pre-Raphaelitism
about his person and 7 cannot con-
| scientiously say that he possesses the
! dash and brilliance of his Italian rival,
| Jollimi. But on the other hand his
| technique is perfect and his realism
| intense. l was first attracted to him
| by his famous Goat Rummaging in
Back Yard" a soulfuluereation now in,
| the private collection Of my intimate
friend, Lord Salisbury I may say that
| I have suggested to Goodgoshovitch q
| theme for another masterpiece, entitled
| welcoming the Barrel, a spirited
scene of the Sixth legislative assembly
of the state of Montana for which I am
to pay the artist 100000. The actual
scene itself, by the way, cost me near
| ly ten times that"
Among Senator Clark's other recent
purchases for his $1,50O,00O New York
palace may be mentioned the imperial
| purple bed quilt presented to Napoleon
by the Empress Josephine on the oc-
casion of his 35th birthday, for which
the multi-millionaire gave $125,000; the
Due d Orleans famous handpainted
pink pajamas at 100000; the Countess
portieres at $3.50, 900; Louis XIV.'s inlaid-
gold folding bed with flying Cupid at
tachments, at 5000, 900.
MY place of residence will remain in
Butte, Montana" said Senator Clark
to-day. Il am building house in New
York simply to accommodate myself
and my friends. 1t will be furnished
comfortably but plainly may say
with severe simplicity. I abhor any
thing bordering on vulgar display OF
wealth. All told, do not believe my
paintings will cost more than two mill
ions. and I think l am safely within
the limit when I say three millions
more will cover all my carpets, cur
tans, furniture, plate, table linen ano
kitchen utensils. Occasionally | may
entertain my friends at assl ,Ooo-a-plate
dinner, and now that the Bradley-Mar'
tins have left America, once in while
it may devolve upon me, in order tc
sustain the dignity and credit of the
United States, to give $1,O00,00O bal
or something at the Waldorf-Astoria
But as every one knows l am quiet
modest, refined, cultivated gentleman
and shall not countenance any lavish
ness of display"
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