New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 3, 1925, Page 3

- FORMER SEMATOR W. A, GLARK DIE Was Indian Fighter, Art Lover and Mine Magnate . New York, March 8.—Willlam A. Clark, 86 years old, former senator from Montana and ploneer of the copper mining industry, died in his Fifth avenue home last night of pneumonia, following a cold con- tracted a tew days ago. ' Mr. Clark, who was president of the United Verde Copper company, maintained a residence in Butte, Montana, his home city, in addition to one here. Since he returned from another residence in Sacrame: Cal, last December he had been a tive in directing the United Verdo and other tompanles in which = he ‘was Interested. His assoclates sald that most of his work was done from his Fifth Avenue residence, An idea of his wealth was.given by the'fact that as far back as 1889 he refused $50,- 000,000 for one of his copper mines. This rise to wealth was during career which included the occupa- tions of farmer's helper, school teacher, law student, miner, pros- pector, banker and art collector. Mr, Clark's widow was Anna La Chapells, a Canadlan physician's daughter, whom he met in his pros- pecting days. Mr, Clark’s residence at 962 Fifth Avenue was one of the most preten- tlous structures in New York and at its completion in 1912 it was sald to have cost $5,000,000 and included a system of Turkish baths, a huge organ apd 26 servants’ rooms. In it Mr. Clark housed a great collection of art which had become a hobby with him. Among the notable paint- ings there are Remhrandt's “Portrait of a Man" Sir Henry Raeburn's “Portralt of the Artist’s Daughter,” and Carot's ‘“Dance Under The Trees,” the thrée representing more than $400,000 initlal cost to Mr. Clark, Other rare works of art are also {ncluded 1In the collections whose total value is said to run well into the millions, Mr, Clark had an aversion to trav. eling about New York in automp« biles, contending.that it was too dan- gerous, He used instead the sub. way, altholgh it resulted in his be- |ing buffeted and. crushed in the rush 'hour erowds. He was accusto! using his automoblles only for short trips, often only as far as the near- est subway station. He abandoned subway travel last Christmas, be- cause of the crowded conditions and conducted hi; from his hom: Willlam Andrews Clark was the last of the three great Montana mining magnates—Heinze, Daly and Clark. ~ Arriving in Bani in 1868 with $5 capital overlafid journey of sixty-fv in a prairle schooner, he became forty years latér, a multimillionaire and a United States senator, He wan born in Connellsville, Pa, on January 8, 1839, ‘Was, School Teacher A school téacher in central Miss. our! when, the gold rush lured him to Colorado and then to Idaho, Clark's services to that part of the territory which later became the |state of Montana—he helped to draft its constftution—were recog- nized a few years ago by the soclety of Montana Ploneers in the form of a monument “to commemorate, while he still is living,” his deeds which have contributed ' in major part to the development of the great west.” " | Upon reaching Idaho, Clark be- ‘came successively a miner, team- ster, merchant, railway bullder, cap- ftallst. In more recent years he was known as a philanthropist and art collector. He was elected to the United States senate, after a long and bitter political controversy, and served the full term from 1901 to 1907. In 1890 he had claimed that honor but was denied his seat. In 1898, having apparently won elec- | tion to the senate, his seat was con- tested and he resigned. Later his seat was declared vold by the upper house. ' A Mining War, . Sénator Clark for years was a cen- tral figure in the triangular indus- trial war between the Clark, Heinze and Daly mining interests and around this spectacular fight for premacy was woven mauch of the his- tory of Montana. It led to battles be- tween great numbers of miners un- MOTHER: § Castoria is especially pre- pared to relieve Infants in arms and Children all ages of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhea; allaying | (hildren Cty Feverishness arising therefrom, and, by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimilation of Food; giving natural sleep. To avoid imitations, always look for the signature of W Absolutely Harmless - No Opiates, A BIT OF PARIS at your very door in New Britain! 8o you'll exclalm upon beholding these modes so versatile, so ex- quisitely atyled, ot and occasion. Physicians everywhere recommend it. i 177 MAIN STREET Sma T Sd/ik TENE e S URRE 1 e NEW BRITAIN derground, occupied the courts o Montana, almost to the exclusion of All other litigation and at last estab- lished the “apex" principle as the mining law of "America, Pihse. quently the Helnze and Daly inter- (sts were merged and the confilct | came to an end. Mr. Clark's property holdings af this time extended from Montana to Southern Mexico and to France. They included the United Verde copper mine at Jerome, Arizona, a beet sugar factory, bronze factory, steam and street rallway system, mining mills, timber lands, wire fac- tory, power plants, business blocks and mercantile establishments in several cities and banks and resi-) dences in New York, Parle and Butte, Mont, First Mill at Butte, In 1876 he bullt what was sald to be .the first sllver stamp mill in| | Butte, making.the erstwhile mining |camp, for the ttme being, the great- st sllver producer In America. Thir- |ty-five years later he helped mike Butte one of the world's principal zine camps, What has been called the “magie transformation” of Butte | from a gold camp to silver camp, silver to copper and then merging to copper and zinc with its by-products of gold, silver lead and manganese, has been attributed to Clark's genius as much as to any other factor, An example of his determination and persistence was afforded when, through his friendship with the late Senator Thomas Kearns of Utah, he became interested {n the construction of the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake rallroad, a short cut line from Salt Lake Valley to Los Ange- ‘lel. Clark financed it personally and owned more than 50 per cent of the |stock. Just after the road was com- pleted, floods washed out great sec- | tions of the roadbed, entailing a loss |of $16,000,000. Realizing the possi- | | bilities of the line in building up Ne- | |vada, Utah and California, he poured | his wealth a second time into the en- terprise and reconstructed the rail- road. During the Nez Perce Indlan up- |rising of 1888, Clark organized a |battalion of, volunteers and, as its | {major, helped to quell the trouble. He. was president of the constitu- tional conventions of Montana in {1884 ‘and 1889 and was stats com- | missioner fromp Montana to the New | Orleans Cotton Exposition in 1884. | Ldrge Picture Gallery A deyotee of golf, which he learn- | ed to play after his fiftieth year, Senator Clark's other hobbies were art and philanthropy. He owned a large picture gallery including six panels of Beauvals tapestries illus- trating the principal events in the life of Joan of Arc, alone worth $700,000, « One of his gifts to the city of Butte was a public park known as “Columbia Gardens.” Another was | the Paul Clark Home, a refuge for poor and crippled children, built in memory of a son who died in child- hood. In Los Angeles, Senator Clark built the Mary Andrews Clark Home for Working Girls in honor of his mother. In New York he main- tained a kindergarten school named for one of his other children who died, early in life. In March, 1869, Senator Clark married Miss Kate L. Stauffer of | Connellsville, Pa. They had six children four of whom, Charles W. | Clark of San Mateo, Cal.; W. A. Clark, Jr., of Butte, Mont., and Mrs. | Charles King and Mrs. Dr. Morris, | both of New York, wers living in | 1919. Mrs, Clark died October 18, 1893 and several years later Senator Clark married Miss Anna LaCha- pelle. Two daughters, Andree and Huguette, were born of this mar- riage. DAY | are, not concerned in the | sams room where Lincoln bore the e, " Butte Mourns Butte, Mont,, March 3.—Nows of the death of former Senator W. A. Clark came as a shock to the city and state, Benator Clark was an outstanding figure in the Industries of this com. munity. His philanthrople worlk has left a deep impression upon his home city and state. He was espe- cially interested in children. The Paul Clark home, a memorial to his son, is an institution for orphans maintained by him, In honor of his eighty-sixth birth- day the Montana state legislature adopted a joint resolution of tribute to former Senator Clark and his last public message to the people of the state was one iy response to these felicitations last’ January. TWENTY-FOUR HRS. ANDINAUGURATION Simplicity and Economy Will Be Watchword BY The Assoclated Press. Washington, March 3.—Twenty- four hours more and Calvin Coolidge will step into the presidency of the | United States in his own right. Of | all those who have to do with the impressive ceremony which marks | an inauguration, Presldent Coolldge | 1hlmulr seems least concerned about t. It s business as usual at the White House today; a cabinet ses- slon; a conference with the White House newspaper correspondents; the usual run of congressional call- ers; tourists gathering for the in- augural ceremonies seeking a chance to shake hands with the president. The president and Mrs. Coolidge eleventh hour confusion of moving. As one wag put it; “Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Coolldge have renewed for ' four vears thelr leases on the handsome colonial mansion at No. 1600 Penn- sylvanla avenue.” For 125 years now the White House, described by a celebrated American architect as ‘a typical homdfot an American gentleman on the banks of the Potomac” has been sheltering presidents and, like every other American home, whether great or lowly, it has at the same time been sheltering success and failure, poverty and riches, happiness and sorrow. Washington Officlated Georgs Washington laid the cor- nerstone of it in 1792 but never lived H the | there. It -was finished during administration of John Adams in 1800 just in time to let Adams live there a few months ferson was the first president enter it fresh from the ceremonies of fnauguration. He was one of the oceupants who ‘“renewed his lease,” Every school boy knows how it was burned by the British troops in | 1814 and almost every visitor to Washington has had pointed out to him the house across LaFayette park to which Dolly Madison fled | with the table silver. Closer students of American history Washington himself selected the site and that the residence of the presi- dent and the seat of came to be locatad where they are as a compromise between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson on the question of how the assumption of the revolutionary debt of the colonies was to be carried out by the federal government. The president’s home, like all stately resjdences of its time it was painted white and in time it became the White House. It is kept white by being given a biennial coat of paint and an annual bath with a fire hose. Although the main stggfurs is practically the same as it was reconstructed after the fire in 1814, the White House of President Cool- idge is a more extensive establish- ment than the White House of Thomas Jefferson or even of Willilam McKinley. The executive offices which comprise the west wing were added during the administration of President Taft, as were the passages to the east which balance the archi- tecture and comprise substantially an east wing. All the presidents, up to and including Taft, 414 their work in the White House study in the trials and tribulations of a efvil war. Simplicity and Economy, But in the inaugural ceremonies of tomorrow there will be a striking reminder of the old White House as Doubly Smart rt in Coloy and Smart in Design! 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