ROMANTIC MARRIAGE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 205, 27 August 1904, Page 13

ROMANTIC MARRIAGE.

"COP.'KB KlMf WEDS A POOI. Oil. The formal aunonnce-meTrt was maclc In month of the marriage of Senalor WiTHa Clark, the Montana 'Topper King." '.t.ss A tine I_n ("hapellf at Marseilles . M;n -" lfMi!. Although over three yea have ' 1.-i I ..->'i_ since liic (.ercmony. the fa iiss only jnsi been made public, and h • i.iisc.! widespread interest. Th" announcement r,_ the nrarriage w a.ceu:na_K(i by the news thai Mr ami M i'lark have n daughter nearly two yen old. The senator is a nmlti-n.Hlinnsi. and one of the richest men in Amerira H n'_.TinU'-viit roans-ion in rtflh svnmp is o of the BUrnts of New York. Tbe marriage i, th" c_v—linarion of . i mance -which l>°gan nine years ago. Wit visiting a small mining ijwd in -Moniat. Senator Clark witnessed a Fourth of Ju celebration, in which ihe miners and ih< wires paraded in faucv costume He w gif-aily impressed wiih the tx-auiy of yon"c giri dressc■! lo represent the go_d" ef Liberty, and learned tha; she was ; dai'zbrcr of il .-roricit Cn-oafhaii physkr. who bad died ;. few years previously. le. iirg a widow and seven i-hildreu it! stra. cued lirrim.sl allocs. Mr Ciask obtained an iutroehx -,iou e-.-i tnalry. assis-ted the family. and. ;id__ri lb.. (iunlii.e-s and inteUigcnce of Miss i Chapellc. decided to make her his wai She was sent to a fashionable seminary Washington, and afterwards completed h education in on" of the best schools l_ris. Mr Philk. who was greatly in rested ir, his talented prorege. who is t possessor of a sploDdid voice, made fi qtient trips io I'aris. and rame>urs of engagement fol)«e-ped. but were always ri nied. He rernrued from Paris last mom aud for the first time informed 1 family of the marriage Tbey were great surprised that their father had kept t secret so well, especially as tbey had rtev objected to his re-___Tyi_g. Hr Ls now 6o years of age. and Mrs Cla is about _.">. The senator, first wife di 10 years ago. _nd the family consists of f „_ozm_4 4&.vst&wi xaOr t_»- eew_.