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Show Magnificent Home of Former Senator Clark BY MARGARET WATTS DE PEYSTEE I By Leased Wire to The Tribune. NEW YORK, Fob. 12. For several days tho wondrous Clark mansion on Fifth avouuo lias had an occupant its owner, former Senator W. A. Clark, once upon a time of Montana. Mrs. Clark, who Las been living in Paris, objected to coining" to 3Scw York until Lho very last minute. She could not understand why ono should live in New York when Pnris isn't, flooded. Mrs.- Clark's bedroom bed-room is off a library purchased entire, as to ccilintr, woodwork, fireplace and andirons, from a French chateau. It is carved mahogany, carvers' signatures being dated 1533. Architecturally this is probably the most sedately beautiful library in this country. Time and the rubbings and the tone, of timo havo softened all edges nud color. But tho interior, ot which Mrs. Clark's suite is the artistic climax, was largely the result re-sult of tho senator's last nine years' study of art in different manifestations. Her parlor is in panels, satinwood from Deylon, yellowish white, with lustre, ox-qiu'sitely ox-qiu'sitely carved with flowers each rose porfectly potaled in tho stylo made popular by Louis XVL Neither lanes-tries lanes-tries nor pictures aro required in this room itself a picture no ono could tiro of, each panel having a different design, de-sign, cut with kuowlcdgo and procision. Hor .boudoir is in birdscyo maple, with satinwood carved panels; her breakfast room and reception room in plain mahogany ma-hogany paneling; her .bedroom in Circassian Cir-cassian walnut, carved; her bathroom all walled with Carrara glass. Mark Andrews, president, of tho Guild of American Organists, lias boon testing tho $30,000 pipo organ, which ho calls tho finest in America. It. was made in Los Angeles, Its music every other dajr or 5o mingles with the noiso of the .'hiscler8, joiners and cabinet makers, still busy in the corridors. Anna Gould Happy. Americans returning from Paris this week relate that tho Princess De Sagan and her husband aro living happily together to-gether tho Princess's annual income being one-half of a million doljars. But there is always the shadow of debts contracted by hor first husband, Count. Boni Do Castellnne and at lho present rate of supply and demand it will not be until the year 1010 that all of Boni's debts aro wipcYi out. Tho Princess, and of course every one knows she was once Anna-Gould, was burdened with $2,114,-S60 $2,114,-S60 of her first husband's debts whon she married Prince Do Sagan. Despite this tremendous sum Prince Do Sagan pressed his suit with trno French ardor. ar-dor. The Princess '6 annual income from tho Gould estate at this time is $500,000, Out of this requires about $225,000 a year for her and her husband hus-band to live. Despite their frugality they can really do no hotter. This leaves about $275,000 to ,bc applied to tho old debts contracted by Boni when ho was at the apex of his lavishing career. ca-reer. Sonic pcoplo who struggle along on tho paltry sum of $100,000 or $200, 000 a year wonder how tho prince and his brido managed to spend ."i2,000,000 during th6 first year of thoir jnarriod life for living noccssitios. Nevertheless, Neverthe-less, they did it. Count Boni is roport-od roport-od to becoming quito attached to another an-other American girl. Doubtless she is wealthy. Reggio Will Stay at Home. Wo arc now into the soason of Lent, with its littlo curtailments. Reggio Vnndcrbilt had planned to go to Palm Bench for Lent, leaving Now York today, to-day, but now ho has changed his mind and will remain ill town until Marcli 1, in order lo fulfill a uromiso he made to Preston Gibson, the playwright, last summer. After several expectant months of waiting Gibson's newest play "The Conflict" will bo tried out in New Haven, on Fobruary 25, and Reggie Reg-gie will tnko up a parti' of thirty men on Alfred Vandorbilt's private car. lial Parr will be the host on another private car lo be attached lo tho same train, and as Gibson himself will have a third car-party the affair promises to be as much a society as a theatrical event. Rehearsals for the show started last week and February 2S is set for tho first performance in Now York. Car-lotta Car-lotta Nilsson is to ,bo in tho cast, and tho play is a combination of love and Wall street. (Unique!) This will be tho sixth of Gibson's plays to be produced, pro-duced, and as everybody knows that he has put his whole heart into it the result re-sult will bo buzzed in his bonnet, and when a mere boy ho gave performances of "Beau Bruinmel" and other plays in tho Gibson homo in Rhode Island avenue, tho house that he sold the other day to Congressnion Parker, "Mrs. Erskine's Devotion,' ' Gibson's first play, was produced in Milwaukee in 1005, the ucxt two in Chicngo. and the latest two in Washington. This will be his metropolitan debut. Might Betray Secret. Freddy Townsend Martin has gone in for literature. It is to be called "The Passing of the Idle Rich," arid deals with those who glide through life without with-out knowing or caring why. Mr. Martin, Mar-tin, whose family is extremely wealthy and married into the nobility of England, Eng-land, is tho fire-brand of tho Four Hundred. Hun-dred. Ho is tho Infant Torrible of Now-port. Now-port. Manhnttnn and Palm Beach. Instead In-stead of blowing off steam in prolonged periods of forgotfulness or like our esteemed es-teemed Philadelphia friend, Tony Bid-die Bid-die in athletics, he is becoming the champion of the Good Millionaire. I am more than anxious to seo the book, for Frcdd3' is conversant with all the bo-crets bo-crets of the fast set and if he chooses lie could tell us soniolhing to mako the hair rise. Drosels Going to Gotham. A young clubman at the .Metropolitan .Metropoli-tan prognosticated tho other evening thai within perhaps a year lho Tony Drexels of Philadelphia and London, will lio permauontly established in Gotham. Mrs. Drexel, it hns beon whispered, whis-pered, would rather be queen hero than in London. But I do not know. Ah, ves, this happoned at tho Metropolitan. Long after every one else had como in for "11 Trovoatoro," tho Goulds arrivod with Anthony ,J. Drexel, pore. Tho junior jun-ior was there as woil, but with' all duo regard to tho lovely Marn'orio and her fiauco it appeared to bo the baldheadcd Senior Drexel who was tho most noticed mombor of the part'. He seated himself him-self back of Mrs. Gould, whoso pale lavender gown was a relief for her usual usu-al blue or green, and on.ioyed being in tho lhnolight so well that lie did not go into tho foyer during the entr'acte. Marjorio, whoso opora pose with a great ostnch-plumo fun, makes about the most fascinating picture in New York, turned in her chair with each drop of the curtain cur-tain and, until an act was on again, novel look her eyes off young Tony. Between Be-tween tho acts George Gould sat in the foyer outside the box with Paul Morton, while all tho powers that be in the financial finan-cial world stopped for a brief chat and without excoption added some pleasant remark about tho engagement. A few boxes away sat Willio Stewart, the cx-brotlicr-in-law of Tony Drcxol, nnd each appeared to bo oblivious to the prcsoncc of the other, although I imagined that through Mr. Stcwarl's brain passed fleeting thoughts of what -might have .been had his own son been the successful success-ful rival of his cousin. Tho wedding is not to bo until tho autumn, and it is sottled that Miss Vivian Gould is to make her bow next winter. Americans in Europe. Quite a number of Americans are scattered through Europe despite the lure of Now York season, Palm Beach's tropic calm and tho attraction of win-tor win-tor sports at Ottnwa and Quebec. Cables eny that the Bishop of Maryland is at Nice. Mrs. Grover Cleveland is at Lusanne, Mrs. J. M. Anderson and Mis Anderson of Nashville, Tenn., are in LuFanne; Miss Mary Leo, daughter of General Robert E. Lee, and Mrs. George McClellan, widow of the late union general gen-eral in the Civil war, are traveling together to-gether in Italy; Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Fisher, of San Francisco, are in Lit-Sanne. Lit-Sanne. Will Wed This Summor. Miss Elizabeth Morgan, daughter of Commodore "Alty" Morgan, tho best-known best-known clubman in New York, probably will bo married in the summer to De Lancey Kano Jay, an offshoot of a Pa-Iroon Pa-Iroon fnmily. Miss Morgan is at present pres-ent ahroad with her mother. De Lancey, T nm toldj spends the major portion of his time in writing letters and cablegrams. cable-grams. Now Speaks Hungarian. I saw tho Countess Szochenyi and her i mother. Mrs. Vandorbill, in the Fifth ' avenue crush lho other day and fancied " that the fair countess looked with some ! disdain upon tho slylo of tho turnouts i now that sho has become a full-fiedgcd i uicnibor of the Hungarian nobility. 1 Countess Szochenyi has como lo speak ! Hungarian fluently and when at home I near Budapest, speaks nothing olso. |