The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-16
SENATOR CLARK OPERATED ON
iRSCISS or THE MIDDLE EAR
OPENED NJ THE SURGEONS.
PATIENTS Condition Critical, hut Not Con-
.Ihcred Dcsperate-Und Ether Two
Hour. -Son.;c'Law. Dr. Morris. A.
sisted DR.. j. r. Mix >rnon In Operation.


sisted DR.. j. r. MIX .rnon In Operation.
United States Senator William Andrews
Clark of Montana Is in a critical condition
a. the Lisbon apartments. 175 West Fifty
oiobth street, where he was operated on
Yesterday for an abscess OF the middle ear
IN the left side Of the head DR.. James
r McKernon of 90 West Fifty-second
street. assisted by DR.. Lewis r. Morris,
a son.ln.law OF the Senator, performed
the o,era,ion. removing a section Of the
sku one and half by two inches. Senator
clark was under ether two hours. He
was resting easily last, night and his condi-
ton, though serious. is not regarded as
desperate.
Dr. Mckernon said last night that the
recover although the recovery might be
slow. The ahsoess which was removed
had keen forming said DR.. McKenon
for about three weeks, as nearly as could
be asccrtained, and was pressing on the
base of he brain.
Senator Clark came to New York from
Montana two weeks ago when the trouble
with his ear which followed cold con-
'racted late last winter had become 80 ag-
gravated a. to cause much pain. On Friday
when the pain became acute, Dr. McKernon
was summoned in consultation with Dr.
Morris 1t was decided that an operation
was necessary, and at the Senator's request
arrangements were made for performing
it in his apartment as he did not wish
10 go to hospital.
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and took short walk. appearing to be in
good spirits The operation was per-
formed between 2 and 4 o'clock In the
afternoon. He stood the ether very we'll
The doctors discovered that an abscess
had formed at the base Of the brain, that the
bone OF the middle ear was diseased and
that the brain was menaoed.
The Senator rallied well after the opera
ton and at II o'clock last night his SON
ln-aw. DR.. Morris, said that the Senator
vas resting easily and that his condition
was promising. Two nurses are in attend
snce and DR.. Morris remains at the bedside.
The Senat or's wife ia in Paris and his daugh-
ers, Mrs. Culver and Mrs. Morris, were
out of town when the operation was per-
formed. They were not notified OF the
Senator's danger or that the operation was
to take place.
The Senator underwent an operation on
one Of his ears two years ago, but it could
not be learned whether the present trouble
was q recurrence Of the old or in any way
connected with it,
Senator Clark Is in his 9th year.
The announcement was made on July
IL. 1904. that" he had been married
three years previously at Marseilles,
France, to Anna E. La Chapelle. Of Butte.
Mon. Miss La Chapelle had until then been
known as the Senator's ward. She was the
daughter Of French Canadian physician,
and she had lived for Some time in Paris
with her mother. simultaneously with
the announcement Of the marriage came
the news that the couple had little dau gh-
ter Andree, two years old.
Senator Clark's former wife died ten years
ago. There are four children Of that mar
rage living. They are Charles Walter Clark,
W. A. Clark, Jr,. Mrs, Isabel Culver who not
long ago secured divorce from DR.. Everett
NJ. Culver, and Mrs. Lewis Rutherfurd
Morris Senator Clark has several grand
children; among these there Ia q boy, the
son of W. A. Clark, Jr., born on Dec. /, 1902,
and the reputed winner Of million dollar
premium offered by the Senator to his first
grandson on his birth.
Senator Clark was born ne ar Connellsville,
Pa, on Jan. 8, 1899. He had an academic
education and studied law at Mount Pleasant
University, Iowa He began life by teaching
school in western Missouri. In 1868 he heard
Of the discoveries of gold at Bannock City,
Mon, and organized a prospecting party.
Alter years work as q miner he invested
81 500 he had saved in provisions in Salt Lake
City and sold them at an amazing profit.
He progressed from one commercial enter
prize to another and speedily amassed a
large fortune.
He invested heavily in mining properties
and in 1872 1873 and 1874 he studied in the
Columbia School of Mines in order to 40
quire assured personal skill in appraising
properties. Returning to Montana he dis
covered many valuable silver and copper
mines, worked them, established ore mills
and became one of the principal figures In the
mining development of the region.
In 1883 he was president of the Montana
constitutional conven ton and has since
Fen continuously active in politics as a.
Democrat. He claimed election as United
States Senator in 1890. but was not seated.
he was elected for the term lo0l-o7. His
combats with F. A, Heinze, the Butte
copper mine owner, for the control of the
Montana Legislature have for several !
years been the liveliest feature OF the politics
Of that State.
Before he was known in New York he
mad gained considerable celebrity among
European artists and art dealers by his |
liberal buying of pictures and objects of |
art IN February, 1909. he sprang into
note IN night in this city by his purchase
o. fortuny's picture -The Choice OF
Model for s42 900 at an auction sale. Re- !
Gently 1t was announced that ne had paid |
about s?Soo0O for dozen Oriental rugs.
HE new house which he ia having built |