Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-03-08

Boston sets up claim to having the
most brilliantly successful business wo-
man OF the hour She Is young, She h
pretty, Is Miss Carre Clark publish
err She is as sweet and womanly and
attractive as It Is possible for true
daughter OF New England TO be.
Her right name isn't Clark. by the
way. II was clark before she was mar
ried, but she Is better known AZ Miss
Caro- lark, publisher than az Mrs.
Atkinson wife of one of 3ostOns busl-
ness men.
liy her clever advertising schemes she
has earned from $4,000 to $4,000 In
the past year In business ~ which
before that time, she didn't know the
first principle.
And IN the space Of one short year
she has given them more points ON
how to successfully launch book than
some Of them have learned in a life
time.
Miss Caro- Clark rs the founder
ana manager Of the g. NJ Clark Pub
fishing company and publisher Of Two
successful books quincy Adams Saw
yer and "BlonnerhassetL'
Just ten years ago Miss Clark, rosy
checked, plump. blue eyed, with a smll-
ing face went to Boston to seek her
fortune. She was a way down East
en-, from Unity, Me-. ANA she brought
the elastic health and sound common
sense that are the heritage of girls
born and bred IN the free air Of the Pine
Tree stale.
Through the influence Of friends she
ohtdned position on bookkeeper In an
Office Here, with Yankee quiclmess,
she soon picked up knowledge OF
tclegraphy from the operator in the
Office IL was not long before she
wanted to start In business for herself,
and once the idea of doing 80 had en-
tered her mind she was on the look
out for favorable opening.
one day she met the agent Of new
block that had Just been erected at the
corner Of Commonwealth and Massa.
chusetts avenue She was well ac.
quainted with him, but she gave him n
shock when she told him she wanted TO
rent the handsome large store on the
ground floor of the new building, II was
an unusual request 10 hear from an lS-
year-old girl and had il not been Tor
a kind fate, little Miss Clark would
have been Obliged TO look elsewhere for
her opening
AS it happened, the agent had been
rather anxious about the rental Of that
particular store, II was IN a new neigh
borhood, and nobody had been found
who was Wiling TO start In business
there. SO after considerable dellbera-
ton. he finally said TO Miss Clark II
will put I'm the fixtures IL you can get
the money to stock II WITH
\ hearted girl smiled apprecla-
tive thanks In reply and the next morn
ing Miss Caro- Clark started down
town TO see what she could do in the
mercantile line. 81 had just $780, she
says, "Rnd that would buy only very
small part Of what / needed
She went to several well known firms,
but received no encouragement Hard
headed business men were unwilling to
let an lS-year-old girl have goods on
credit, even though the gin had appeal
ing blue eyes and sweet smile At one
large iobblng house she was fairly
laughed at
Finally Miss Clark remembered an
old friend from her home town who
was a clerk in the firm of Shepard,
Norwell a CO. She went 20 him ana
stated her plight,
This friend, who knew her family and
her family history, with its splendid
traditions Of down-East integrity and
sound common sense made up his
mind to see her through, He took her
TO John Shepard, senior partner of the