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Show HONORS MEMORY OF HIS MOTHER Former .Senator Glarlc Lays Cornerstone Cor-nerstone of .$250,000 Mary A. ' Clank Memorial Home. By International News Service. LOS 'ANGELAS. Feb. Former Senator Sena-tor W. A. Clark this afternoon laid the cornerstone of -the ?250.000 Mary Andrew Clark memorial homo on Loma drive, near Third street. The building, a memorial to his mother, moth-er, Is to be a' gift to'tho Young Women's Christian association of Los Angeles. It is to contain l.'iO rooms with all the appurtenances of modern comfort, and on Its completion next December, finished fin-ished and all ready for occupancy, it will bo transferred to the association. The ovent was celebrated with impressive im-pressive dignity, amidst an assembly of those Interested In the undertaking-. Senator Clark was accompanied by Mr. and .Mrs. J. Koss Clark, .Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Clark, .Jr.. and A. Clark III. After uppioprla'te talks by. leading ministers min-isters and .Mrs. U. K. .Edwards, president presi-dent or the Y. V. C. A., Senator Clark gave an address in which he told of the inception of tho idea of the memorial after the death of his mother In this city several years ago. -Senator Clark gavo n hrlef and Interesting- biography of his mother, showing- her to linvo.hccn a woman of the sterling American type, possessed of those Christian qualities and courage which marked the heroic women of the early years of last century, cen-tury, for Mrs. Clark was born In 1SH, |