The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-10-13
Admiral Clark-An Appreciation.
BY Harry e. Parker

While wealth and title cannot com
mand love, personality wins it With
out measure and without effort. Adj
miral Clark won both title and fame
Init to his oldest friends, he was al
WAYS "Charlie" Clark; to his newer
friends, he was Capt. Charlie Clark
and perhaps to his very newest
friends, he was Admiral Clark. We
don't know about that for his friends
about here were the older FRIENDS.
But we do know that as long as he
lived. he must have made new friends
who became close to him for his per-
sonality radiated friendliness.
His simple, courtly manners, his
infectious laugh, the Fight winch
twinkled in his eyes, his sense OF falr
plav and justice, always tempered
with humor, his generosity, his frank
ness, his freedom from pretence ana
his quick appreciation of others, has
tenderness and his fearlessness, MS
merry greeting, his quick decision
, followed by decisive action and above
all his modesty and sincerity-all
these qualities combined in one man
gave us the Capt" Clark whom we
knew and loved
To have spent an evening with him,
when he was in a storytelling MOOD
was a most delightful experience
that evening ever after would STAND
out in the memory for he was Won
derful teller of tales. His expert
ence was broad, his acquaintance IN
cluded men and women in responsible
nlaces of life, his journeying took MIN
into the queer places OF the earti
and his analysis was keen and good
bumored. With such source 10
draw from, his stories were fascinat-
inc in their variety and interest.
Tho same man who stood on the
bridge of the Oregon or attended the
brilliant social functions OF the
Canital returned to his native town
for there was only one Capt" CLARK
To have seen him greet the school
friends of his youth was to read MIN
lilo an omen book. He cared little
for pomp or place but cared tremen'
dously for people and met them al
with the same spirit OF sincerity ant
Natures
have these simpler qualities .Whlcf
stand out in such startling contrast
to the very complex natures OF th'
ordinery person. We were just on'
Of his friends-one of the myriad
hut we know that we speak Tor then
all when we say that we loved MIN
respected and admired him as y"
have loved few friends.
We are copying a poem, when He'
Al Houph wrote on his first nome
coming. after the Oregon sane
around the Horn. A year ago las
August both men sat together at gu
table in happy mood; today both nav
answered the final summons hardy
month apart, and both have made IN
hest accounting of the years whic
were theirs.
The mast seventeen years OF Ao
m;ral Clarks life, since his retire
ment from the navy, have been spen
largely in Washington. He has r'
newed old acquaintance, maze SCI
oral visits to his native state, spen.
inc many summers at Lake Manshei
Club. been called into the councliS
orv of the Naval Boards and othe
wise rounded out an active career
octive leisure in which he found tln
TO do many of those things which u
exacting duties of naval othcer pr
bib;+ed His book my Fifty yea
in the Navy" written during MS +
tirement is a graphic recital OF even
in all parts of the world, in all
which he had a part. Those WI
know him realize that his own a
tivities would be subordinated to U
narrative and this is true OF u
book. Written in his charming co
versational style, the book leaves U
reader with sense of having been