The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-03-22

railroad He held this position unit
August II, 1871 and from that time I'm
til April 49, 1873 he was trustee Of tn
Berdell mortgage. From April 20, 1879
until February rs, 1879, Mr.. Clark wa
general manager of the New York ant
New England railroad, and from Feb
ruary 25, 1879, to September 80, 1881, HI
was vice president and general manage
of that road. 1t was at this time tina
Mr.. Clark became connected with the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
railroad. On the first day of october
1881, he was appointed second vice pres
ident, which position he held until De
cember IL, 1883, when he was made 9
director of the New York, New Haver
and Hartford railroad and president OF
the New York and New England rail-
road. From January l. 1884 to Janu-
airy /, 1886, he was receiver of the New
York and New England, and at that
date he was made president of the
same company.
He assumed the position of president
of the New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad on March II, 1887,
and held it until November IL, 1899, be-
ing obliged to give up active work on
account of his poor health.
Immediately upon Mr.. Clark'S Access
sion to the presidency of the New Ha-
Ven company in March, 1887, he adopted
the policy of broadening it's reach and
| improving it's facilities. The road was
then little more than a local concern.
1t extended from New York to New Ha-
Ven and from the latter city to New
London, Willimantic and Springfield
The manifest destiny of the New Ha
ven road was to reach Boston. Mr.
! Clark saw the necessity for expansion
and had hardly been president three
months before the company took leases,
successfully, of the New Canaan rail-
road, the Naugatuck railroad, the
Northampton railroad and the Valley
railroad. And within few years there
after the company, under Mr.. Clark's
generalship acquired the Danbury and
Norwalk railroad, the Housatonic rail-
road, the Shepaug railroad, the Ston-
ington railroad, the Old Colony railroad
and it's leased lines and finally the New
England railroad. Thus in an incredibly
short space of time, and largely through
the push and energy of one man, Mr..
Clark, the New, Haven road grew from
local road of 230 miles with a capital
of SIS, 100000 to an immense corporation
of over 1000 miles with an authorized
capital of $100,000000, controlling prac-
tically all the railroad lines in southern
New England and all the Sound lines to
Boston.
Mr.. Clarks energies were exerted all
the while in supplying the physical ia
oil hn ipn sad business
of which the expansion referred to was
one of the causes. The four tracking
of the New York division of the New
Haven road was settled upon by its
board of directors long before Mr.. Clark
became president, but the actual work
of four-tracking had by the spring of
1897 proceeded very slowly. 1t is safe
to say that at the rate it was then 60
ing on it would have taken more than
a quarter Of century to complete the
work to New Haven Mr.. Clark was
always impatient of slow progress and
he threw his Napoleonic energy into
the four-tra work with the conse-
1uence that before ten years of his ad-
had elapsed the four-track /
work to New Haven was completed I
with the exception of two miles through
which, though agreed upon, (
was delayed by unforeseen legal obsta-
,les. Nor was this ALL In addition to
he acquisition of new lines above re-
'erred to and the four-tracking of the
New York division, Mr.. Clark's busy /
,rain conceived the idea of double
racking the Shore Line division and
the terminal station in Bos-
on. which to-day stands as magniff-
,ent monument of his indominitable
Energy and wise foresight.
The accomplishment Of any one of
he objects referred to would have
axed the resources of any ordinary
nan; but Mr.. Clark was no ordinary
nan. Few had his foresight and fewer
till would have had his courage and
persistence in addressing himself to
,reat and difficult problems of railroad
ng and his success in carrying out
,lans to a triumphant conclusion. His
pleasure in life was to conceive great
deas and see them materialize. He
made a pleasure Of his business, too
eIdom throwing 1T off his mind. His
eyotion to business in all probability
hortened his life by many years.
Mr. Clark always had the respect of
is lieutenants in the business. More
han that he had their enthusiastic adj
airation. His own enthusiasm was
ontagious As a result he inspired an
spirit du corps among his men, which
, so essential an aid to supplement ex-
cutive ability and make it efficient 1t
well within the facts to say that
verybody who served under him in
he New Haven and New England
ai1roads will feel his death as per-
onal loss They will feel very much ,
s the Grand Army men felt when j..
eneral Grant died. The rank and file !
ways respect and love the man who
a real leader, and real leadership was
BILE from Mr.. Clark. :
Mr.. Clark resided in Newton, Mass, | r
afore he came to New Haven He
we'd there twenty years, and during r
lat time and before he entered Ike c
lilroad service he was a partner in t
,mmission firm In Boston. For three T
ears previous to that he was a war Of y
GER in the volunteer navy, and saw b
,rvice all through the war. Just pre- s
Gus to that he was engaged in foreign O
with the coast of Africa. He c
;ed to run vessels over to Africa and e
ok many trips himself from time to d
me in the interests of his business In s.