Romantic Marriage.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 195, 22 August 1904, Page 4

Romantic Marriage.

- "COPPER KING" WEDS A TOOR GIRL. WELL-KEPT SECRET. NEW YORK, July 12. The formal announcement was made to-day of the marriage of Senator William Clark, the Montana I "copper king," to Miss Anne Lt Chapellc a t Marseilles on May 25th, 1901. Although over three ""years has elapsed sinco tho ceremony, the fact has only just been made public and has caused widespread interest. Tlie announcement of the marriage was accompanied by the news that Mr and Mrs Clark have a daughter nearly two years old. The senator is a multi-millionaire, and one of the richest men in America. Hia magnificent mansion in Fifth Avenue is one of the sights of New York. The marriage is the culmination of a romance which began nine years ago. While visiting a small mining town in Montana, Seniator Clark witnessed a Fourth of July celebration, in which the miners and their wives paraded in fancy costume. He was greatly impressed with the beauty of a young girl dressed to represent the goddess of liberty, and he learned that she was the daughter of a 1' rench-Camiadian physician, who had died a few years previously, leaving a widow and seven children in straitened circumstances.

Mr Clark obtained an introduction eventually, assisted the family, and, admiring the oualitieS and intelligence of Miss La Chapelle, decided to make her his ward. She was sent to a fashionable seminary in Washington, and afforwards completed l her education in one of the best schools |in Paris. Mr Clark, who was iglreatly interested in his talented protegee, who is the possessor of a splendid voice, made freqjuent trips to Paris, arid rumoura of an engagement followed, but were always denied. He returned from Paris a week ago, and for the first time informed his family of the marriage. They were greatly surprised' that their father had kept the secret so well, especially as they had never ohjected to his re-marrying.

Ho is now 65 years of age, and Mrs Clark it about 25. The seniator's first wife died ten' years'ago, an|d the family consists of two married daughters and two sons. Mr Clark took a prominent part in the recent Democratic Convention at St. Louis, and is now in New York. Mrs Clark is at present in Paris.