Show F rim i wy W y t waff Wj ff 71 1 CLARKS NEW YORK HOME fineal THAN OLD WORLD PALACES ast ir we k ltv WA senator william A dark clark of montana has a grandson and the new possession will cost him 1000 1 A few years ago he offered that sum ot of money to be given to the first son in the family of any of his sons or ar daughters his daughter in law mrs william A clark jr has just given birth to a son who wins the prize senator dark clark s daughter mrs morris recently presented him with a granddaughter but the baby girl did not count senator dark clark la Is now in paris but has been notified by cable ot of bis his good fortune those persons who roll out fifth venue avenue as tar far as seventy seventh street on the padded cushions of their automobiles as well as those who are junketed lunk eted on the top ol 01 the quaint but ever popular old fifth avenue stage ire tre watching with curious interest the crowth growth of senator dark clark s great white fairy palace as inch by inch it lifts Us its shimmering turrets and towers sky ward the enormous mass of white granite is beginning to take definite form a form so beautiful that look ling at it one almost gasps at the magic power of millions never in the history of the world has there been so nearly perfect a private dwell ing as this never has there been a private house ao so marvelous in its con st ruction so astonishing in its ar ran gement nor so beautiful in its de tails the old french kings whose palaces it aims alms to surpass in their own special style would have been green with envy of this american million aire alre william A dark clark one of whose chimneys outrivals in richness and elaboration their daintiest chateaus this palace for it cannot be called a house Is a pocket edition of a world from garret to cellar it con talus every beauty every variety ever every convenience every luxury every sensation that the heart of man can desire when it is finished it will be so complete that senator clark might shut himself up within its huge white walls and never come out yet lead a normal active and even exciting life fancy it if you can one house which contains within its tour four walls three separate dwellings each corn as to drawing rooms bedrooms I 1 brailes dining rooms and even vate root roof gardens three huge public art gallei gallenes ies filled with the paintings of old masters master each orill a kings ransom a sculpture sc hall containing some of the finest stat ary iary in the world a music room twice the size of an ordinary balkoom bal lioom a grand salon of the ize and style of a french throne room a conser conservatory atory an ob atory four root roof gardens a theater complete in every detail from green room and dr dressing eEsing rooms to lights and scenery an old roman bath in pini marble a turkish bath a gymnasium a swimming pool a shampoo room a billiard room a smoking room an automobile room two running fo n talus both the work mork of famous tors a great banquet hall an all elevator furnished lighted and hung like an ordinary drawing room an electric light plant a cold storage for furs furs a wine cellar a grand marble staircase tair case like those ot of the french court a courtyard a secret passage with a secret stairway winding down from it to a secret door door and partitions that disappear at a touch like the genii in the fairy tales and electrical devices for lighting rooms galleries and thea ter that will make the palace seem like aladdin s dreams come true beside such a palace lalla latta rookh seems lesa less of a fairy tale and the stories of the arabian nights become almost common place but the most mot mo t ci r ous and I 1 leal jar i ar of 01 this Non derf I 1 palace is its division into many lo 10 0 ses bes each floor above the main floor mill be a separate house in itself having a reception room s its private dining room its own I 1 arary and its owl loot garden so that in those moments which come to all of us when we de sire solitude any member of senator C arks ark s family may i etire to his own apartments and live quite as comfort able and cozily as though each I 1 ad his separate palace the sei sel a arate rate apartments will be managed by sep rate cori corl s of sen er ants so that ea r member may I 1 beep his or her own hours in all things this is the secret of domestic happ ne neos s which the senator has grasped along with other secrets of contentment and pleas ire J AW rho library to live together er yet with that fine distinction wherein each can preserve his own individuality even a less devoted family than that of senator dark clarks s co ild manage to get along under this regime in all the palace has lour four root gardens which will be covered with blooming flowers or green plants all the year around roof gardens where one may wander mander in the sun or sit under sculptured porticos its cost has been varto vario isly estimated at from 1 to 6 5 but undoubtedly when it Is perfected and hung with art treasures its value will be beyond these figures nothing like it in the may ay of a dwelling has ever been planned or executed before it has taken the firm ot of lord hewlett hull five years to push the work on the building thus far and they expect to spend several years more in its completion the personality of this american prince of an american palace is in tensely interesting like his new home his career has been one ot of mag leal ical growth in spite of his love of art and of beautiful things senator dark clark has the simplest tastes pic tures are his one passion and his greatest extravagance he Is a hard vi today to day being the head and body of all his vast schemes and bast nesses and leaving nothing to chance or hired brains he is generous and flee ft handed sparing no expense tor for those things he wants but he can not be bunched the senator senators s eldest son charles i married marr ed a stenographer his second son william married miss mabel fos ter a pretty girl of butte without without tor for tune both his daughters married professional fess ional men to the memory of his own wife senator clark erected what is said to be the finest mausoleum in america he Is exactly 63 years old and in the best of health he started out in the world with a fortune of nothing a year the son of a poor farmer of connellsville pa he studied hard worked hard and went west today to day he Is said to be worth thirty millions with an income of five millions year ly he has done great things so quietly that the world has not heard of them whatever he does he does well and the tuil building ding of his marble palace Is his latest achievement he is just the man to enjoy it the senator senators s family consists of two sons charles A and william A jr and two daughters mrs E M cul cut senator dark clark s new ew home vei vel and mr air lewis R 11 morris all ot of hom whom are married as did the sena tor himself tor for loie new york press |